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Writer, columnist. Portuguese in Aotearoa New Zealand 🇵🇹🇳🇿. Never knowingly under-caffeinated. Permanently tired. Views all mine, you get your own. She/her

New Zealand
Joined August 2007
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And all this is why you NEVER listen when they try to tell you that your voice doesn't matter. Because fascism thrives on apathy and helplessness. Change may be difficult, and justice may be delayed, but both are always possible.
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Can't wait to fall asleep watching a YouTube video and randomly wake up to whatever Heather Cox Richardson thinks of this.
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stop it US we can't like tweets fast enough
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using starlink on my flight to check just how badly elon and his kind failed today
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god i love voting
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Kylie Jenner is ragebait from Victoria Secret. They knew they had to pull off a stunt to cut through the noise in the zeitgeist... and sadly it appears to have worked.
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O rapaz que não foi ao funeral de um colega de equipa para "não ser o centro das atenções" aproveita o dia de hoje, o da despedida de Leonel Messi da Seleção Argentina, para libertar um comunicado onde, pasme-se, se compara a Pelé e Maradona...
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This is ragebait
The New York Times’ final list of the 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century is now complete. What do you make of the final ranking? Which placements surprised you the most?
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Wrote about not giving out my rage freely for other people's benefit. soupforbreakfast.substack.co…
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Na minha casinha à beira do lago em Wānaka, no fim do fim do Mundo na Nova Zelândia, na terra dos sonhos, hoje toca Jorge Palma.
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Hello fellow kids, how do you do? Time to lock in and start electionmaxxing.
Generation Doom Scroll, or whatever they're called, ain't participating elections.nz/stats-and-resea…
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Notes on trying to deshittify my brain soupforbreakfast.substack.co…
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The internet is no fun so I’m trying to get my attention span back soupforbreakfast.substack.co…
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Next Year and Can't Hold Us are absolute unmatched running playlist bangers.
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no shit, me too
JUST IN: Anthropic says they’re highly profitable if you take out some of their biggest expenses.
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"Wow everyone's saying..." No they're not, babe, that's just your algorithm.
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this is has got to be some kind of mass delusion event, wtf is wrong with you people
AI-generated “actor,” Tilly Norwood talks to CNN for her first on-camera interview. How does she respond to the outrage she’s causing across Hollywood?
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Family movie night tonight: The Mitchells vs the Machines. Why? Oh, no reason.
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Something about the author's surname in this piece just really ties it all together.
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