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Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿
@auntbenjy.bsky.social
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Sci tech person.
TTRPG player.
“Fuck every cause that ended in murder and a child screaming.” ~ Iain M. Banks
Ace, ally, Pākehā, Tangata Tiriti.
Toitū te Tiriti
She/Her
Don't do DMs
#AoNZ
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🤣 Yep
Image of Dull Boot the Giant, as drawn by Spike Milligan in Bad Jelly the Witch. He has huge ears, bad teeth, needs a shave, and has eyes that go all round his head so he can see the pimples on his back. He probably also has a continuous monobrow...
November 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Not sure if I'm in trouble, or you are...
Image of a path through the woods. The sign in the middle reads: "You deserve a break. Stop healing. Choose violence. Go batshit insane. Do it for the plot."
November 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Today's mood...

(I'm OK, still in the premeditating phase)
Image of a woman in an old fashioned dress with blue bodice and white skirts. She has long, flying, red hair. She is in a field in front of a pole of cut wood. She has an angry look on her face and looks like she is winding up to punch someone. The text reads: "Counting to ten only makes it premeditated."
November 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Would you please stop putting me in your cartoons?
Image with a yellow background by inotternews.co.uk The image is a cute head-and-shoulders drawing of an otter wearing a tie and a nametag with "Steve" written on it. The text reads: "Steve is not getting smarter as he gets older. He is just running out of stupid things to do."
November 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Jerry Uelsmann before photoshop was ever a thing:
Darkroom manipulated image (photomontage) by Jerry Uelsmann: A cupped pair of hands holding a surreal image of clouds, ocean, beach and a rowboat.
October 29, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Sometimes you just have to appreciate the Aussies 😆
Five screenshots from the movie Spartacus. The first has Trumps head superimposed on a Roman (?) commander. Text reads "Which one of you Aussies called me 'dumb as fuck'?" Second panel: person standing: "I'm Kevin Rudd" Third panel: person standing: "I'm Kevin Rudd" Fourth panel: two people standing "I'm Kevin Rudd" Fifth panel: entire group seated "I don't even like Kevin Rudd, but I'm Kevin Rudd"
October 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Interesting blocking trends from Clearsky for the last 24 hours
top 20 accounts blocked in the last 24 hours. All new USA accounts spamming hate about No Kings. Data follows: last 24h @whitehouse-47.bsky.social 76,129 @homelandgov.bsky.social 60,695 @deptofwar.bsky.social 39,007 @hhsofficial.bsky.social 36,520 @state-department.bsky.social 36,336 @commerce-gov.bsky.social 35,248 @us-dot.bsky.social 34,770 @dol.gov 33,992 @homelandcbp.bsky.social 32,337 @departmentofenergy.bsky.social 32,114 @usdagov.bsky.social 31,285 @sba-gov.bsky.social 30,954 @usdeptofed.bsky.social 30,735 @deptofinterior.bsky.social 29,458 @treasurydept.bsky.social 29,456 @deptvetaffairs.bsky.social 28,503 @usenvironment.bsky.social 27,064 @tsa.gov 25,297 @odnigov.bsky.social 25,258 @fda.gov 22,433
October 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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But...what do I do with this now?
Image of an RPG Trident: Name: Non-fungible trident Weapon (trident), artifact (requires attunement) You gain +3 to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapn. Whenever you score a critical hit on a creature with this weapon, they instantly die. In addition, the Non-Fungible trident can be used to cast the Wish spell 3 times per day. Curse: You may never actually wield the trident in a physical sense. You may never touch the trident or attune to it at all. Yes, you may have purchased it, and you do *own* it, however it must stay sealed within the ancient vaults of Tyr'Ygsol. Instead of wielding it, you may carry a fine painting of the trident* and official papers of authentication to confirm that you do technically own the trident, and show how special you are. *other creatures can make a convincing copy of this painting with a DC 10 tool check. Image credit: Unknown, but I'd love to know.
October 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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share a cartoon from the past that kids today probably never heard of
He's the crime fighting werewolf, he's FANGFACE
October 14, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Image of live-action character The Tick getting up from a broken concrete footpath. The text reads "Gravity...is a harsh mistress"
October 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Unsolicited Dik dik pic
Image of a tiny antelope with huge eyes, amazing eyelashes, and teeny-tiny wee prong horns
October 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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National day of Action (NZ)

#nzpol #AoNZ
Union flyer for Raa Whakamana on 28 October. A national day of action to reaffirm the tino rangatiratanga of Tangata Whanua and protest the Government's attacks on the cultural health and safety of Maaori workers (sorry, macron doesn't work on my stupid keyboard)
September 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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If u see this quote with the energy u bring to Bluesky
Handwritten table titled "Being an Adult" In the pros column: I can eat 28 Easter eggs and nobody can stop me In the cons column: I ate 28 Easter eggs and nobody stopped me
September 16, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Have you forgotten about this?
Right wing mob carrying Trump 2021 flags clashing with police at the Capitol barriers on Jan 6
September 13, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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AoNZ voting campaign character Orange Man is walking his orange dog. The text reads: Vote now in the General Election.
September 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Two old ladies are walking along and talking. One is smoking and wearing a half-undone cardie. The other is wearing a sloppy sweat-shirt and dark glasses. First Woman: My joints are stiff. Second woman: You're rolling them too tight
September 2, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September
Image of a raccoon walking along a jungle riverbank on its hind legs. It is wearing a pink tutu and a pink bow over its left ear. The text reads: The horrors persist, but so do I.
September 1, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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OK, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking The One Ring to Mordor:
Officer Andy (Oscar Keightly) and Paula Hall (Rachel House), hilariously inept antagonist characters from Hunt For the Wilderpeople.
August 31, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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I have to admit to being somewhat squiffy when I wrote this last night...
Post by me on a now deleted account (Yuss!). Reads: The level of eloquence in your posts belies the assertion that you are, in fact, a lawyer. May I suggest that you stop drunk-posting before you get yourself banned?
August 30, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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from www.jefftiedrich.com/p/shove-your...
Republicans don't give a fuck about children Republicans were so busy protecting children from learning that Rosa Parks was black that they forgot to protect them from being murdered in their classrooms. Republicans were so busy protecting children from seeing that Michelangelo’s David has a penis that they forgot to protect them from being murdered in their classrooms. Republicans were so busy protecting children from finding out that men can love men and women can love women that they forgot to protect them from being murdered in their classrooms. Republicans were so busy protecting children from being read to by grownups wearing costumes that they forgot to protect them from being murdered in their classrooms. Republicans were so busy protecting children from eating a subsidized school lunch that they forgot to protect them from being murdered in their classrooms. Republicans were so busy protecting children from reading that Roberto Clemente experienced discrimination that they forgot to protect them from being murdered in their classrooms. Republicans were so busy protecting children from discovering why Anne Frank had to hide that they forgot to protect them from being murdered in their classrooms. Republicans were so busy protecting children from knowing how their own bodies work that they forgot to protect them from being murdered in their classrooms. Republicans were so busy protecting children from having access to healthcare that they forgot to protect them from being murdered in their classrooms. oopsies!
August 30, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally
Image of Bodie (Lewis Collins) from the TV show The Professionals. Text reads "Scepticism: Bodie understands, but Bodie is unconvinced".
August 26, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Sad looking calico kitty sitting on a laptop keyboard. The text reads "If not for sits, why is it made of warm?"
August 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Twitter at the occupation. It was a strange time.
Image of a grubby ute with hand painted anti-jewish and anti-vaccine messages. The first tweet from DefendFreedomInNZ reads "We are a broad church, all are welcome in peace and loveas we fight for our freedom. There are even anti-semite brothers and sisters; we don't necessarily agree on everything, that's not the point. Cindy must go! #EndTheMandatesNow #convoynz2022 #Convoy2022NZ #EndTheForcedVaccines. The follow-up tweet reads: We have received pushback regarding the messages on Bruce's truck. We want to make it clear that we do not support Holocaust denial. We respect the views of all our freedom warriors, there are very fine people on both sides. #EndTheMandatesNow #convoynz2022 #Convoy2022NZ A tweet from DefendFreedomInNZ: Three people are sitting around a fold-upp table covered in powerboards and phones charging. They are in the shelter of a blue tarpaulin. Text reads "SAFETY ALERT: Some freedom warriors are not wearing tin foil hats in the recharging tent where we are most vulnerable to government EMR (Electro Magnetic Radiation) attacks. It is a mandate to wear foil in that tent. #EndTheMandatesNow #convoynz2022 #Convoy2022NZ"
August 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Help us Kyle, you're our only chance...
Photo of that little shit Kyle Rittenhouse at the demonstration where he shot and killed 2 people and wounded another. He is wearing a backwards ball cap (ooooh edgy) mauve coloured nitrile gloves, and carrying an AR15 automatic rifle. He shouldn't have been there, and he should be in prison.
August 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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I don't often post poetry...
no man,if men are gods;but if gods must be men,the sometimes only man is this (most common, for each anguish is his grief; and,for his joy is more than joy, most rare) a fiend,if fiends speak truth;if angels burn by their own generous completely light, an angel;or(as various worlds he'll spurn rather than fail immeasureable fate) coward,clown,traitor,idiot,dreamer,beast--- such was a poet and shall be and is ---who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand ~ e.e. cummings
August 17, 2025 at 6:36 AM