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Byron C Clark
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Author of 'Fear: New Zealand's Hostile Underworld of Extremists, but I seem to mostly post about movies

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Christchurch's playground elephant: demure, unassuming, shaped like a friend

Oamaru's playground elephant: ready for the next Punic war
The rotund Canterbury elephant The battle-ready North Otago packaderm
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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One of the kids here asked for Nu Delhi by Bloodywood, which is a terror choice for karaoke but also, that kid has good taste 🤘
A TV screen showing the begining of the lyric video for Nu Delhi by Bloodywood
November 8, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Karaoke has just began at a party I'm at so I'm now playing a game of bingo using this as my card
Alt text: A Spotify playlist titled “songs that excite the white folks” by a user named Dion, described as “A Playlist That Never Fails To Get White Folks Beyond Turnt,” with 84,734 saves. The playlist includes songs such as “Stacy’s Mom” by Fountains of Wayne, “Piano Man” by Billy Joel, “Don’t Stop Believin’” by Journey, “Ice Ice Baby” by Vanilla Ice, “Mr. Brightside” by The Killers, “Sweet Home Alabama” by Lynyrd Skynyrd, “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen, “Dancing Queen” by ABBA, “Eye of the Tiger” by Survivor, “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” by The Proclaimers, “Hey There Delilah” by Plain White T’s, “All Star” by Smash Mouth, “Take on Me” by a-ha, and more. The playlist screen shows album covers and track details in Spotify’s dark-themed interface.
November 8, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Share this to scare Brian Tamaki
A building with faded yellow walls and pink trim displays three flags on a balcony — the Māori flag on the left, the transgender pride flag in the middle, and the Palestinian flag on the right. Below the balcony is a sign for “Middle Eastern Market” written in English and Arabic, with an image of a coffee pot and spices. The shopfront has glass doors and signage that also reads “Welcome Middle Eastern Market” in both languages.
November 8, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Ha
Facebook post from Brian Tamaki reading Unbelievable R.I.P New York
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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NBC are calling the New York City Mayoral election for Mandami. 60% of the vote counted, question now is will be manage to get over 50% and have a decisive victory showing a majority of NYC voters are backing him
screenshot showing New York City election results with 60% counted. 49.9% Mandami, 41.6% Cuomo, 7.9% Silwa
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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The Collins Childrens World Map recognizes an independent Kosovo

(Hard to see in this photo but it also shows the occupied Palestinian territories)
Alt text: A colorful illustrated world map showing parts of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Each country is labeled with its name and decorated with cartoon images representing local culture, animals, or landmarks. For example, an elephant is drawn over Sudan and Chad, a camel over Saudi Arabia, the pyramids over Egypt, and a stork over Ukraine. Surrounding seas are bright blue with drawings of boats and submarines.
November 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Texleigh "Tex" Richman has endorsed Andrew Cuomo.

Maniacal laugh. Maniacal laugh. Maniacal laugh.
Chris Cooper portraying Texleigh "Tex" Richman in The Muppets (2011)
November 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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turns out the revolution was televised, just at an ungodly hour of the morning so most of us missed it
a CRT TV screen showing an electronic programme guide, a programme called 'revolution' is airing at 3:45am
November 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Mr Robot is one of the most accurate depictions of hacking on television, but it does make infosec look more exciting than it is
Watching Mr Robot so I can enjoy the escapist fantasy of hackers changing the world, as opposed to the hacking I deal with at work, which has a lot more explaining to florists and plumbers that I had to suspend their website because someone was running malware on it that was sending spam for penis enlargement pills. That's the side of information security you never see on TV
November 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Saw Phantom Menace themed Coca-Cola at the supermarket and thought I'd time tracelled
A supermarket display of Coca-Cola with characters from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace characters on the box
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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I've been watching 'Mussolini Son of the Century' a biographical drama on the Italian fascist leader and his rise to power.

Just got to the episode where Mussolini opens his fascist party to others to people from other parties to ensure electoral victory, and a number of them do switch. Topical.
Headline: All the Tory MPs who have defected to Reform UK Headline: Young Tories are fed up: The Students switching to reform in big numbers
November 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Megan Thee Stallion flabbergasts and bewilders with look inspired by Greta from Gremlins II
Megan Thee Stallion dressed as Greta from Gremlins II
October 31, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Starring a bearded Tom Baker
A bearded Tom Baker
October 30, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Tonight's spooky season watch is Vault of Horror (1973)
Poster for Vault of Horror
October 30, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Agreed, as weird as it felt being happy about Van Velden winning the seat
A screen from The Simpsons captioned "this time she's the lesser of two evils" with a Brooke. van Velden campaign poster
October 30, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Former National MP Simon O'Conner celebrating the launch of Elon Musks far-right alternative to Wikipedia
The image shows a Facebook post by a user named **Simon O'Con...**, who shared a message that says: > “So long Wikipedia! This now left-wing and activist compromised site is finished with X launching Grokipedia (link below)” Below the text is a screenshot of a dark-themed webpage titled **“Grokipedia v0.1”**, featuring a centered search bar with a small sparkle icon beside it. At the bottom, it says **“Articles Available 885,279”**.
October 30, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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A screenshot from Flight of the Concords captioned 'leave those poor sick moneys alone
October 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Tonight's spooky season watch is Twins of Evil (1971)
Poster for Twins of Evil
October 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Facebook memories reminding me how much food I used to grow from seed
Shelves in a greenhouse with trays of plants in various stages of growth
October 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Tonight's spooky season watch is 'A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child' (1989)
Poster for A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
October 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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After New Zealand announced it would not recognise a Palestinian state, Israeli deputy foreign minister Sharren Haskell visited the country. While here she met with Christian Zionist leaders

Brian Tamaki (Destiny Church)
Alfred Ngaro (leader of the NewZeal party)
Nigel Woodley (Flaxmere Fellowship)
A Facebook post by Yifat Goddard shows a photo of four people standing together indoors. From left to right, a woman in a black floral dress, a man in a dark long-sleeved shirt, another man in a dark suit with glasses, and a man in a pinstriped suit. The caption mentions Brian Tamaki, Alfred Ngaro, and Nigel Woodley, noting that it was an important meeting with the deputy of the minister of foreign affairs in Israel.
October 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Tonight's spooky season watch is 'All You Need is Death' (2023)

You can find this one on Shudder
Poster for All You Need is Death
October 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Tonight's spooky season watch is 'All You Need is Death' (2023)

You can find this one on Shudder
Poster for All You Need is Death
October 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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One day you ate a Swiss Made Dairy Food for the last time
A cup of Swiss Maid Dairy Food, chocolate flavoured, with a partially opened foil lid. The lid features a promotion for “The Lost World: Jurassic Park” movie, showing the logo with a dinosaur skeleton emblem and promotional text. The container is brown with yellow and white text, sitting on a white surface.
October 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM