ThingThree
@thingthree.bsky.social
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BREAKING: A Chinese VLCC tanker, carrying 1.8 million barrels of Venezuela's highest-grade Merey 16 crude, has departed from Jose Terminal, Venezuela, towards China.
The shadow vessel is receiving an escort by the Venezuelan navy.
Via t.me/rnintel (Telegram)
The shadow vessel is receiving an escort by the Venezuelan navy.
Via t.me/rnintel (Telegram)
December 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
BREAKING: A Chinese VLCC tanker, carrying 1.8 million barrels of Venezuela's highest-grade Merey 16 crude, has departed from Jose Terminal, Venezuela, towards China.
The shadow vessel is receiving an escort by the Venezuelan navy.
Via t.me/rnintel (Telegram)
The shadow vessel is receiving an escort by the Venezuelan navy.
Via t.me/rnintel (Telegram)
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Meanwhile in Infectious Diseases Clinic…
December 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Meanwhile in Infectious Diseases Clinic…
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Min of Health has decided not to continue with the FluTracking survey each week from next year.
What a ridiculous decision. The cost savings must be minimal
What are our taxes actually used for if not things like public health?
What a ridiculous decision. The cost savings must be minimal
What are our taxes actually used for if not things like public health?
December 16, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Min of Health has decided not to continue with the FluTracking survey each week from next year.
What a ridiculous decision. The cost savings must be minimal
What are our taxes actually used for if not things like public health?
What a ridiculous decision. The cost savings must be minimal
What are our taxes actually used for if not things like public health?
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Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
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People pulling own teeth due to lack of urgent NHS dental care in England, watchdog finds
People pulling own teeth due to lack of urgent NHS dental care in England, watchdog finds
Emergency help should be available, but some being forced to travel 100 miles or go private, says Healthwatch England
People needing emergency dental care in England are being denied help from the NHS despite guidance saying that it should be available, in some cases resorting to risky self-treatment such as pulling out their own teeth, the patient watchdog has found.
Patients who experience a sudden dental crisis such as a broken tooth, abscess or severe tooth pain are meant to be able to get help from their dentist or by calling NHS 111. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:08 AM
People pulling own teeth due to lack of urgent NHS dental care in England, watchdog finds
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
Bondi: A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice.
Australia has a new hero
Australia has a new hero
December 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Bondi: A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice.
Australia has a new hero
Australia has a new hero
Oof. Liam Neeson is an anti-vaxxer. www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
Liam Neeson Narrates Anti-Vax, Pro-RFK Documentary
The Taken actor can be heard calling COVID vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news
December 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Oof. Liam Neeson is an anti-vaxxer. www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
You’ve come across super smart & productive people, right? Wanna know how far that goes? Leonard Euler is estimated to have authored > 25% of *all* 18th century work in mathematics, physics, mechanics, astronomy, and navigation.
December 8, 2025 at 7:33 AM
You’ve come across super smart & productive people, right? Wanna know how far that goes? Leonard Euler is estimated to have authored > 25% of *all* 18th century work in mathematics, physics, mechanics, astronomy, and navigation.
Author? Check if your work was stolen by Anthropic: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
Submit a Claim
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December 5, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Author? Check if your work was stolen by Anthropic: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
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My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
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Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
Fellowship
theonion.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
Another research into *excess* Covid deaths: NZ had lowest %.
Kudos to @jacindaardern.bsky.social and her crew. Those PJ videos - literally, had me in tears thinking "oh thank gawd I actually live in this country"
Kudos to @jacindaardern.bsky.social and her crew. Those PJ videos - literally, had me in tears thinking "oh thank gawd I actually live in this country"
Bookmark this, screen shot it, share it & air drop it to your drunk uncle this Xmas when you have him cornered around the dining table with sane people.
Worldwide mortality experience since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2024) shows excess deaths over that period in almost every country measured. Australia (+6%) was below average, and New Zealand (+0.1%) the lowest we measured.
December 3, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Another research into *excess* Covid deaths: NZ had lowest %.
Kudos to @jacindaardern.bsky.social and her crew. Those PJ videos - literally, had me in tears thinking "oh thank gawd I actually live in this country"
Kudos to @jacindaardern.bsky.social and her crew. Those PJ videos - literally, had me in tears thinking "oh thank gawd I actually live in this country"
Got a dog in NZ? Their noses get a lot of sun and are at risk for cancer. This might help!
snoutcover.com/billie-story
snoutcover.com/billie-story
How I Designed and printed a Custom Nose Guard to Help My Dog with DLE | SnoutCover
Discover how our pitbull Billie's struggle with Discoid Lupus led to creating SnoutCover - a 3D-printed nose protector that helped her nose fully recover in 5 months.
snoutcover.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Got a dog in NZ? Their noses get a lot of sun and are at risk for cancer. This might help!
snoutcover.com/billie-story
snoutcover.com/billie-story
I now understand why my grandparents were so vehement about never buying or accepting anything German made.
The moment an Israeli missile hit a tent in Gaza was caught on camera when a Palestinian girl filmed herself showing her hair clips.
December 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I now understand why my grandparents were so vehement about never buying or accepting anything German made.
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Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.
www.cnbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
WTF is wrong with Epsom electing this ghoul.
#nzpol
Fuck this smarmy, nasty little prick, he obviously has a sadism fetish and shouldn’t be allowed within 500 metres of children or policies affecting children 😡
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
Fuck this smarmy, nasty little prick, he obviously has a sadism fetish and shouldn’t be allowed within 500 metres of children or policies affecting children 😡
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
Lunch funding to be tied to attendance for hundreds more schools
Next year funding for school lunches delivered through the internal model will be tied to attendance.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 5:52 AM
WTF is wrong with Epsom electing this ghoul.
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Mayors welcome law to combat 'vicious, sinister' harassment
Some could follow up the welcome by not promoting any blokes that did vicious harassment. Join the dots. #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Some could follow up the welcome by not promoting any blokes that did vicious harassment. Join the dots. #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Mayors welcome law to combat 'vicious, sinister' harassment
"Our elected members come from the community and should be able to carry out our roles without fear of personal attacks or harassment," Carterton's mayor says.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Mayors welcome law to combat 'vicious, sinister' harassment
Some could follow up the welcome by not promoting any blokes that did vicious harassment. Join the dots. #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Some could follow up the welcome by not promoting any blokes that did vicious harassment. Join the dots. #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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I wonder if they include the confidence of the businesses that don't exist any more 🤔
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I wonder if they include the confidence of the businesses that don't exist any more 🤔
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Wow. We need more boxes.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Wow. We need more boxes.
Oof. National explained in terms national voters can grasp? Will test in the office!
If you have a dairy that got ramraided six times by the same kids and then they turned up one day outside asking everyone to contribute to “help make the dairy good again” then you’ll know what it feels like to hear National pledge to make our super savings as good as Australia’s
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Oof. National explained in terms national voters can grasp? Will test in the office!
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Flip Grater has nailed it.
“This Government’s decisions - in a shockingly apparent and unapologetic way - are focused entirely on short-term gain and greed. And the result is an economy in tatters and an environment in grave danger.”
#nzpol
“This Government’s decisions - in a shockingly apparent and unapologetic way - are focused entirely on short-term gain and greed. And the result is an economy in tatters and an environment in grave danger.”
#nzpol
OPINION: The hardest part honestly hasn’t been the headlines, or the armchair analysts, or the carnivorous trolls eager for a schadenfreude snack.
Why my business collapsed - and the myth about plant-based food
OPINION: The hardest part honestly hasn’t been the headlines, or the armchair analysts, or the carnivorous trolls eager for a schadenfreude snack.
dlvr.it
November 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Flip Grater has nailed it.
“This Government’s decisions - in a shockingly apparent and unapologetic way - are focused entirely on short-term gain and greed. And the result is an economy in tatters and an environment in grave danger.”
#nzpol
“This Government’s decisions - in a shockingly apparent and unapologetic way - are focused entirely on short-term gain and greed. And the result is an economy in tatters and an environment in grave danger.”
#nzpol
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Who cut the $1000 Kickstarter? National
Who reduced the minimum contribution to 3%? National
Who reduced the member tax credit from $1040 to $521? National
Who then reduced the same member tax credit from $521 to $260.72? National.
Don't believe National on Kiwisaver.
#nzpol
Who reduced the minimum contribution to 3%? National
Who reduced the member tax credit from $1040 to $521? National
Who then reduced the same member tax credit from $521 to $260.72? National.
Don't believe National on Kiwisaver.
#nzpol
November 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Who cut the $1000 Kickstarter? National
Who reduced the minimum contribution to 3%? National
Who reduced the member tax credit from $1040 to $521? National
Who then reduced the same member tax credit from $521 to $260.72? National.
Don't believe National on Kiwisaver.
#nzpol
Who reduced the minimum contribution to 3%? National
Who reduced the member tax credit from $1040 to $521? National
Who then reduced the same member tax credit from $521 to $260.72? National.
Don't believe National on Kiwisaver.
#nzpol