Brett Tamahori
@tamahori.bsky.social
He/Him, Straight, Cis, Pākehā/Māori, Gen-X, mostly proud New Zealander, Green Voter.
Love is love, trans rights are human rights, black lives matter.
Love is love, trans rights are human rights, black lives matter.
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Honduran Authorities Issue Arrest Warrant for Ex-President Pardoned by Trump
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
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Ah, but there's a critical legal distinction: Lisa Cook is a Black woman in a job where Trump wants to put some white guy crony. So it's a crime worthy of prosecution for her, but not for <looks at list> oh hey every Trump official and Trump himself, all of whom have done it.
NEW: The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Ah, but there's a critical legal distinction: Lisa Cook is a Black woman in a job where Trump wants to put some white guy crony. So it's a crime worthy of prosecution for her, but not for <looks at list> oh hey every Trump official and Trump himself, all of whom have done it.
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A WAR THAT NEVER ENDED DESPITE REPEATED CLAIMS OF FIFA PEACE PRIZE HOLDER
Thailand said it used F-16 fighter jets to bomb Cambodian military targets on Monday to retaliate against cross-border firing that killed at least one Thai soldier, in a sharp escalation of a dispute between the two nations that President Trump claimed to have ended.
Thailand Launches Airstrikes on Cambodia in New Wave of Violence
Each side accused the other of firing first. The fighting came weeks after President Trump had cast himself as a peacemaker in the decades-old border dispute.
nyti.ms
December 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
A WAR THAT NEVER ENDED DESPITE REPEATED CLAIMS OF FIFA PEACE PRIZE HOLDER
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I can’t believe that in this day and age, people are still wearing fir.
December 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I can’t believe that in this day and age, people are still wearing fir.
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So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
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it really does crystallize now. they believe that there is one human behavioral template and anything that diverges from it is the creation of online activists, postmodernists, and other bogeymen
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
it really does crystallize now. they believe that there is one human behavioral template and anything that diverges from it is the creation of online activists, postmodernists, and other bogeymen
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Very shitty people who become opposed to other very shitty people are still very shitty people
LESLEY STAHL: You contributed to the toxic culture. You were out there pounding, insulting people
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: You've contributed to it as well
STAHL: I want you to respond to what you have done in terms of insulting people
MTG: I'd like for you to respond to that
December 8, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Very shitty people who become opposed to other very shitty people are still very shitty people
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and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you
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"My child was perfect and has been replaced by a changeling baby," but in the year 2025.
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
December 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"My child was perfect and has been replaced by a changeling baby," but in the year 2025.
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too many people want to have kids but don't want to parent
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
December 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
too many people want to have kids but don't want to parent
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It's this type of "we'll let the market rule" decision that has led to the current ensh*ttification of everything. Why are the people responsible for distributing art so adamant about ruining it? Maybe instead of frontlining AI they could champion human-created works.
How is this not a red line for a book retailer? That Daunt isn't prepared to make a principled stand on this rather than weasel away about the market is ludicrous (tho' not entirely unsurprising). It's also a massive Public foot in the Relations mouth.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Waterstones would sell books written by AI, says chain's boss
James Daunt says booksellers instinctively have
www.bbc.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
It's this type of "we'll let the market rule" decision that has led to the current ensh*ttification of everything. Why are the people responsible for distributing art so adamant about ruining it? Maybe instead of frontlining AI they could champion human-created works.
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Good to know that the Supreme Court is now in the business of protecting our souls
Full orders list: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
Cert petition: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
Religious anti-vaxers have had a very encouraging day at the Supreme Court.
Cert petition: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
Religious anti-vaxers have had a very encouraging day at the Supreme Court.
December 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Good to know that the Supreme Court is now in the business of protecting our souls
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remember that time john roberts said the ACA couldn’t use federal dollars to compel red states to expand medicaid? yeah, me too
NEW: Rural health is in crisis. Congress created a $50B rescue package and gave states just weeks to compete for a slice of it.
$3.75B hinges on whether states pass a series of Trump-approved policies, including restrictions on SNAP.
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
$3.75B hinges on whether states pass a series of Trump-approved policies, including restrictions on SNAP.
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
‘Sort of blackmail’: Billions in rural health funding hinge on states passing Trump-backed policies
Democrats and health advocates described the strategy as highly unusual, and some fear it could be wielded to favor political allies.
www.politico.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
remember that time john roberts said the ACA couldn’t use federal dollars to compel red states to expand medicaid? yeah, me too
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We know this isn’t true because if the EU was Nazi-like, Musk wouldn’t be fighting it. He’d be saluting it.
The EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent.
It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.
It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.
December 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
We know this isn’t true because if the EU was Nazi-like, Musk wouldn’t be fighting it. He’d be saluting it.
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Some people asked why farmers supported Trump in 2024 after he fucked them over so badly with tariffs in 2017-20.
Answer: he didn't fuck them over! He mailed them all checks!
Answer: he didn't fuck them over! He mailed them all checks!
1) Impose massive tariffs on China
2) China retaliates by ending its soybean imports
3) Cut deal w/ China so they'll buy our soybeans
4) China buys only 20%, so far, of what it agreed to purchase
5) Offer $12 billion to US farmers so they don't go bankrupt
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
2) China retaliates by ending its soybean imports
3) Cut deal w/ China so they'll buy our soybeans
4) China buys only 20%, so far, of what it agreed to purchase
5) Offer $12 billion to US farmers so they don't go bankrupt
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump to Unveil $12 Billion Bailout for Farmers
The financial aid comes as the agriculture sector grapples with the fallout from the president’s tariffs.
www.wsj.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Some people asked why farmers supported Trump in 2024 after he fucked them over so badly with tariffs in 2017-20.
Answer: he didn't fuck them over! He mailed them all checks!
Answer: he didn't fuck them over! He mailed them all checks!
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The “efficiency” in this case is entirely to benefit the company, providing a ruling with no chance to appeal. Your human eyes don’t see a scrape? Who are you to challenge the machine?
Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster
Hertz' new AI damage scanners are dead on arrival — and unfortunately, it's not the only company deploying the shoddy tech.
futurism.com
July 29, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The “efficiency” in this case is entirely to benefit the company, providing a ruling with no chance to appeal. Your human eyes don’t see a scrape? Who are you to challenge the machine?
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The first amendment is being twisted by the stolen Supreme Court into an instrument of oppression and censorship, the same way they're twisting the Civil Rights Act into an instrument of Jim Crow Apartheid and bigotry. Useless for defending free speech but somehow mandates destroying schools.
The U.S. Supreme Court in a free speech case on Monday opted not to hear an appeal by a group of residents of a rural Texas county of a judicial decision allowing local officials to remove 17 books that these officials deemed objectionable from public libraries.
US Supreme Court turns away appeal of Texas library book ban
The U.S. Supreme Court in a free speech case on Monday opted not to hear an appeal by a group of residents of a rural Texas county of a judicial decision allowing local officials to remove 17 books that these officials deemed objectionable from public libraries.
reut.rs
December 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The first amendment is being twisted by the stolen Supreme Court into an instrument of oppression and censorship, the same way they're twisting the Civil Rights Act into an instrument of Jim Crow Apartheid and bigotry. Useless for defending free speech but somehow mandates destroying schools.
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Today’s Germans didn’t murder Jews, today’s Japanese didn’t bomb Pearl Harbor, and today’s Americans didn’t land on D-Day. Of course we all inherit the world made by those who did, but we can’t take personal credit or blame for it.
December 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Today’s Germans didn’t murder Jews, today’s Japanese didn’t bomb Pearl Harbor, and today’s Americans didn’t land on D-Day. Of course we all inherit the world made by those who did, but we can’t take personal credit or blame for it.
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It’s also important to note that “white” as a category of people did not exist before the 17th century, and came into existence as a social construct largely as a way to justify why some people could be enslaved for life while others couldn’t.
December 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
It’s also important to note that “white” as a category of people did not exist before the 17th century, and came into existence as a social construct largely as a way to justify why some people could be enslaved for life while others couldn’t.
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Elon logic:
The majority of people who voted to pass the Violence against Women Act were men, so really, it’s men who should be proud they ended violence against women
The majority of people who voted for the Civil Rights Act were white, so while people should get the credit for ending segregation
The majority of people who voted to pass the Violence against Women Act were men, so really, it’s men who should be proud they ended violence against women
The majority of people who voted for the Civil Rights Act were white, so while people should get the credit for ending segregation
December 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Elon logic:
The majority of people who voted to pass the Violence against Women Act were men, so really, it’s men who should be proud they ended violence against women
The majority of people who voted for the Civil Rights Act were white, so while people should get the credit for ending segregation
The majority of people who voted to pass the Violence against Women Act were men, so really, it’s men who should be proud they ended violence against women
The majority of people who voted for the Civil Rights Act were white, so while people should get the credit for ending segregation
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Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
Important notice: AI-generated archival references
www.icrc.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
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When I was twelve or thirteen my parents and I went to a steak restaurant. I ordered the "king cut" of prime rib.
"The princess cut?" the waiter asked my dad.
"She ordered the king cut," my dad said, firmly.
Then the waiter was astonished that I ate mine and half of my dad's but didn't apologize
"The princess cut?" the waiter asked my dad.
"She ordered the king cut," my dad said, firmly.
Then the waiter was astonished that I ate mine and half of my dad's but didn't apologize
December 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
When I was twelve or thirteen my parents and I went to a steak restaurant. I ordered the "king cut" of prime rib.
"The princess cut?" the waiter asked my dad.
"She ordered the king cut," my dad said, firmly.
Then the waiter was astonished that I ate mine and half of my dad's but didn't apologize
"The princess cut?" the waiter asked my dad.
"She ordered the king cut," my dad said, firmly.
Then the waiter was astonished that I ate mine and half of my dad's but didn't apologize