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James Tinged Words
@jameswords.bsky.social
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Thinking about my dog 🐶, nerdy ways to have fun, and occasionally tech policy from Aotearoa New Zealand. Views my own.
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Huh
Ireland digital sovereignty index 22.03 Funland digital sovereignty index 64.30 Australia digital sovereignty index 9.69 New Zealand digital sovereignty index 4.23
August 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Much more effective than any digital “walk. Now.” reminder
Photo: Toto the dog, black and white with mask markings, stares intently at the viewer
July 28, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Correct
Toto the black and white dog stretched out in the back of a car, with paws tucked under her snoot
July 26, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Eg “Cookie FOMO” / “The cookie gambit” ?
Facebook screenshot. Painted cartoon with three people at a table: a darker skinned man looking down, an older white man in a suit, and a white man in a hard hat and high-viz vest facing the older man. The older man has a plate of many cookies in front of him. The white man has one cookie in front of him. The darker skinned man has no cookie. With a speech bubble, the older Erie man is telling the other white man “careful mate… that foreigner wants your cookie!” Credit Denis Lushch Dec 26 2019 ‘The Bullshit Weaver’ Oils on gessoed paper
July 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh!
XKCD cartoon with Gandalf on a horse. Gandalf: “THIS IS SHADOWFACTS, LORD OF ALL HORSES, AND HE” Horse: “THE OUTER PART OF A SHADOW IS CALLED THE PENUMBRA!” Gandalf: “SHUT UP.”
June 26, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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If not a hominid-shaped future, I guess that would be a homicidal one?
I'm guessing you do not have kids. Faggella: No, I don't. If you think about timelines the way I do, you probably don't. When people have children, that's an investment in a very hominid-shaped future. It might make them even more head-in-the-sand about the transformative and destructive powers. It's like, I bought the lake house so my grandkids could go water skiing. I'm not going to even think of a future where they're not doing that.
June 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Last year was alright though eh
The spiky silhouette of a tī tree against a pinkish sky, view from the Waitakere ranges in May 2024 (I’m not good with colours sorry!)
June 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Toto in motion and at rest
Toto the dog grinning on grass Toto blurred in motion Toto monch watermelon Toto grinning in long grass
April 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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This “travel style” is just travel, right?
Why U.S. border officials flagged their travel plans. Charlotte Pohl, 19, and Maria Lepere, 18, arrived in Honolulu from Auckland with plans to explore Hawaii before continuing to California and Costa Rica. However, their flexible travel style - including a lack of pre- booked lodging for their planned five-week Hawaii stay - raised red flags for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (СВР).
April 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Happy Birthday Toto! 🇳🇿🐶
Toto (short for Totoro) the black and white dog plopped on a green grass field, grinning with her tongue lolled out, and a ball between her paws.
April 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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A film that takes place where you’re from
Poster for the Toa Fraser movie No. 2 A bright hibiscus flower sits alongside images of young adults dancing, overseen by nanny in a floral dress and brimmed hat
April 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Serious Risk vibes fr
Map of Auckland north and west with proposed electoral boundary changes marked by arrows, akin to maps of troop movements
March 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Post a warning
A tree trunk lies across a forest path at about eye level. It bears a hand painted orange sign with a ! and a drawing of a duck that has bumped its head.
March 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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If you see this and are in the mood, post a beach pic
Headstock of ukulele in the foreground of a white sand beach on Rarotonga. Local dog approaches from a distance.
March 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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A classic for Internet policy and privacy stuff. With dogs.
1993 New Yorker cartoon: a dog at a computer desk tells another dog “on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog”
March 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Post a pic of when your pet was little 🇳🇿🐶
Smol Toto. A black and white puppy with mask markings chews the cardboard box she is lying in, looking up at the camera.
March 16, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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March 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Describe your account in one Simpsons image
Adult Bart from episode “Lisa’s Wedding”, captioned “basically I’m getting out all my aggression till I go to law school”
March 1, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Here’s one of them
A headstone reads: TO THE MEMORY OF THE VICTIMS OF THE 1918 INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC This memorial marks the final resting place of many of the 1,128 men, women and children of Auckland who died as a result of New Zealand's worst epidemic which peaked in November 1918 killing a total of 8,573 New Zealanders. Particular respect is paid to doctors, nurses and citizen volunteers whose selfless efforts to aid the sick resulted in their own untimely deaths. DONATED a ERECTED BY R. G. THOMPSON. LIMITED & TRETHEWEY STONE INDUSTRIES. 25TH SEPT. 1988
December 5, 2024 at 12:21 AM
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Who is this? James and Toto from NZ would like to know!
Toto, a black and white dog, smiles and pants as she sprawls in the grass. Behind her, trees and a grey sky.
December 4, 2024 at 8:05 AM
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It’s not all bad. Timeline cleanse!
Overlooking a shallow river, large fern fronds in the foreground. A black and white dog sniffs the water.
November 21, 2024 at 9:11 AM
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If you see this post with a beach photo!
My feet stretched out, as the sun sets behind coconut palms on a white sand beach on Rarotonga
November 10, 2024 at 7:46 AM
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Geez, read the room!
November 6, 2024 at 7:32 AM
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STOP
THIS IS A CUTE ANIMAL PIC CHECKPOINT. PLEASE SHARE A MINIMUM OF ONE (1) CUTE ANIMAL PIC BEFORE PROCEEDING.
THIS IS A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE TO PRESERVE THE MENTAL HEALTH OF THIS SITE. WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION.
A dog stretched out and sleeping in the sun. Toto is a short-haired black and white border collie cross (we guess!)
November 5, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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Eg
A post decorated as the Lorax Posts decorated as the Simpsons A post decorated as a minion A dog about to swim in a river
November 5, 2024 at 9:00 AM