RedBridge
@redbridge49.bsky.social
Left-wing, grumpy, old - in that order.
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December 9, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air.
The USDA didn’t test the theory after a disastrous Midwestern outbreak.
Here’s how we did.
By @natlash.bsky.social
The USDA didn’t test the theory after a disastrous Midwestern outbreak.
Here’s how we did.
By @natlash.bsky.social
How ProPublica Investigated a Bird Flu Outbreak in America’s Heartland
Early this year, bird flu ripped through 80 farms in Ohio and Indiana. Using genetic markers, wind simulations, satellite imagery, property records and more, we found that the virus could’ve been airb...
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air.
The USDA didn’t test the theory after a disastrous Midwestern outbreak.
Here’s how we did.
By @natlash.bsky.social
The USDA didn’t test the theory after a disastrous Midwestern outbreak.
Here’s how we did.
By @natlash.bsky.social
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I assumed that whole "men think about the Roman Empire every day" kerfuffle a few years ago was just more social media nonsense but apparently some men literally will start a charter school rather than confront just how weird it is to do that ...
A new school built on ‘western civilisation’ is coming to Wellington
The former Free Speech union boss says he’s excited to have a school that could “remember the virtue of civilisation that has come from the West”.
www.stuff.co.nz
October 31, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I assumed that whole "men think about the Roman Empire every day" kerfuffle a few years ago was just more social media nonsense but apparently some men literally will start a charter school rather than confront just how weird it is to do that ...
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📣 IPI and International Media Support are proud to name Hungary’s independent media as the 2025 Free Media Pioneer.
Despite an increasingly hostile environment, Hungary’s independent media have displayed remarkable resilience, innovation, and endurance.
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Despite an increasingly hostile environment, Hungary’s independent media have displayed remarkable resilience, innovation, and endurance.
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October 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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All the usual caveats about generative AI notwithstanding, this is incredible stuff. youtu.be/uRzNHSBDdgU?...
Kraftwerk - Metropolis ( 2009 Remaster ) | ALFfx'' Gems Visual AI Treatment
YouTube video by ALFfx Visual DJ
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September 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
All the usual caveats about generative AI notwithstanding, this is incredible stuff. youtu.be/uRzNHSBDdgU?...
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Bomb threats against the Maryland General Assembly.
Bomb threats against the Michigan lieutenant governor and his family.
Bomb threats against 5 HBCUs.
Two arrests for violent assaults in Idaho.
In 24 hours.
All Democratic or left-leaning victims.
All suspected MAGA perpetrators.
Bomb threats against the Michigan lieutenant governor and his family.
Bomb threats against 5 HBCUs.
Two arrests for violent assaults in Idaho.
In 24 hours.
All Democratic or left-leaning victims.
All suspected MAGA perpetrators.
September 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Bomb threats against the Maryland General Assembly.
Bomb threats against the Michigan lieutenant governor and his family.
Bomb threats against 5 HBCUs.
Two arrests for violent assaults in Idaho.
In 24 hours.
All Democratic or left-leaning victims.
All suspected MAGA perpetrators.
Bomb threats against the Michigan lieutenant governor and his family.
Bomb threats against 5 HBCUs.
Two arrests for violent assaults in Idaho.
In 24 hours.
All Democratic or left-leaning victims.
All suspected MAGA perpetrators.
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Oh this lifts my heart 🥹🥹🥹 bless you John
John Campbell: The Māori Queen speaks and it's a new, vital voice for NZ
TVNZ's Chief Correspondent reports from Tūrangawaewae where the energy of a future generation was on display.
www.1news.co.nz
September 6, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Oh this lifts my heart 🥹🥹🥹 bless you John
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Just casually laying the groundwork for violent repression of the opposition
August 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Just casually laying the groundwork for violent repression of the opposition
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The New Zealand Election Study data for the 2023 general election is now out, and available publicly at dataverse.
I have remade my Treaty graph, replacing 2020 with 2023. The long term trend towards Toitū Te Tiriti is unchanged.
I have remade my Treaty graph, replacing 2020 with 2023. The long term trend towards Toitū Te Tiriti is unchanged.
August 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
The New Zealand Election Study data for the 2023 general election is now out, and available publicly at dataverse.
I have remade my Treaty graph, replacing 2020 with 2023. The long term trend towards Toitū Te Tiriti is unchanged.
I have remade my Treaty graph, replacing 2020 with 2023. The long term trend towards Toitū Te Tiriti is unchanged.
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Vandalism daily.
Seems mildly fitting that the Ministry of Culture and Heritage's former history website nzhistory.net.nz is now promoting online gambling.
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August 18, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Vandalism daily.
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The $300m tax break Luxon is giving to Philip Morris tobacco is almost matched by the $200m subsidy to fossil fuel companies for exploration. They sure have a strong affinity for companies trying to make money out of killing people.
July 29, 2025 at 3:23 AM
The $300m tax break Luxon is giving to Philip Morris tobacco is almost matched by the $200m subsidy to fossil fuel companies for exploration. They sure have a strong affinity for companies trying to make money out of killing people.
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But he demands free water and free methane and the right to freely shit in our lakes and rivers and poison the ecosystem and people...
End Fonterra's free ride!
End Fonterra's free ride!
Fonterra boss rejects idea of discounted butter prices for New Zealanders
Fonterra boss rejects idea of discounted butter prices for New Zealanders
The head of of the dairy giant says the co-operative cannot and will not have different butter prices for local and overseas customers.
www.rnz.co.nz
July 24, 2025 at 4:20 AM
But he demands free water and free methane and the right to freely shit in our lakes and rivers and poison the ecosystem and people...
End Fonterra's free ride!
End Fonterra's free ride!
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I feel every story about what Nicola Willis thinks about Fonterra prices should refer to her as "Former Fonterra lobbyist Nicola Willis."
July 23, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I feel every story about what Nicola Willis thinks about Fonterra prices should refer to her as "Former Fonterra lobbyist Nicola Willis."
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Eleven months ago, the NZ Herald Political Editor told us the rock star economy was back. How’s that going?
July 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Eleven months ago, the NZ Herald Political Editor told us the rock star economy was back. How’s that going?
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Look, I'm no Ardern acolyte, but there's no denying that she had the toughest session as PM since WW2 and got most of us through it alive.
Luxon, Seymour, and Peters are just pissing on us and telling us how hard it is being in charge when it's raining.
Luxon, Seymour, and Peters are just pissing on us and telling us how hard it is being in charge when it's raining.
June 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Look, I'm no Ardern acolyte, but there's no denying that she had the toughest session as PM since WW2 and got most of us through it alive.
Luxon, Seymour, and Peters are just pissing on us and telling us how hard it is being in charge when it's raining.
Luxon, Seymour, and Peters are just pissing on us and telling us how hard it is being in charge when it's raining.
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It's basic science.
June 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
It's basic science.
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These Ministers aren’t fixing the housing crisis they’re cashing it in.
Selling off state land while our people sleep in cars isn’t policy. It’s a political hit job on vulnerable whānau.
You don’t build homes by gutting the agency that builds them.
#HousingCrisis #TePātiMāori
#NZPol
Selling off state land while our people sleep in cars isn’t policy. It’s a political hit job on vulnerable whānau.
You don’t build homes by gutting the agency that builds them.
#HousingCrisis #TePātiMāori
#NZPol
Kāinga Ora halts hundreds of housing developments, sells vacant land
The projects would have included 3500 homes, as the state housing provider also sells a fifth of its vacant land.
www.rnz.co.nz
June 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
These Ministers aren’t fixing the housing crisis they’re cashing it in.
Selling off state land while our people sleep in cars isn’t policy. It’s a political hit job on vulnerable whānau.
You don’t build homes by gutting the agency that builds them.
#HousingCrisis #TePātiMāori
#NZPol
Selling off state land while our people sleep in cars isn’t policy. It’s a political hit job on vulnerable whānau.
You don’t build homes by gutting the agency that builds them.
#HousingCrisis #TePātiMāori
#NZPol
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Oh nooo :( May he rest in peace, his influence reached farther than he might've assumed... Every Hungarian my age knew (and was terrified by) the TV adaptation of Under the Mountain. It was the first live-action TV series I ever watched, I was in elementary school.
Farewell to the great Maurice Gee. His novels go on looking clearly at the world and introducing us to ourselves.
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
Writer Maurice Gee has died
The prolific and unassuming writer died in Nelson.
www.stuff.co.nz
June 15, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Oh nooo :( May he rest in peace, his influence reached farther than he might've assumed... Every Hungarian my age knew (and was terrified by) the TV adaptation of Under the Mountain. It was the first live-action TV series I ever watched, I was in elementary school.
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A partisan majority forcing a matter of privilege with no support from across the house - when support *was* available if they'd been open to a very reasonable compromise - to impose a penalty orders of magnitude worse than anything the NZ Parliament has seen sets an incredibly grim precedent.
June 5, 2025 at 6:29 AM
A partisan majority forcing a matter of privilege with no support from across the house - when support *was* available if they'd been open to a very reasonable compromise - to impose a penalty orders of magnitude worse than anything the NZ Parliament has seen sets an incredibly grim precedent.
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Here’s some more fallout of Covid. Fabric shops in “conservative” areas have lost 20% of their customer base because they died during the pandemic.
May 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Here’s some more fallout of Covid. Fabric shops in “conservative” areas have lost 20% of their customer base because they died during the pandemic.
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