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Joined August 2013
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Mark Atkinson 🇳🇿 retweeted
The True Size of New Zealand 🇳🇿
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Mark Atkinson 🇳🇿 retweeted
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Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back. Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-multimed…
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Mark Atkinson 🇳🇿 retweeted
This millennial would like Gen X to sit down. Does he understand what would happen to the world if we decided to do that?? Take a listen to this response. It is perfection! 👌🏼
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Mark Atkinson 🇳🇿 retweeted
🤣This is a hilarious montage of Chuck Norris jokes. If you think about it, he really was the first 80’s action hero and pretty much started the genre of 80’s and 90’s action movies.
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This is my favourite thing today
This is the funniest thing I’ve seen on the internet. Afroman had his house raided by Ohio Adam County deputies… who found absolutely nothing… broke his door, trashed his place, allegedly had $400 go missing… and then they refused to pay for the damages. So, like any reasonable rapper would do… He turned his home security footage into music videos, mocking them. And then, the deputies sued him for FOUR MILLION dollars… because they didn’t like being made fun of. And Afroman’s response? He dropped ANOTHER music video. In his own words: “Unconfidential informant lied to Police to get out of some trouble. Adam County Sherriff officers made a mistake by believing the lie. Raided my house, found nothing, refused to pay for the damages and filed a lawsuit against me, Afroman, for exercising my freedom of speech! This is me holding trial in one song. I hope you enjoy it.” They said his videos “ridiculed” them… so he decided to show them what that actually looks like. And the best part? A jury basically said… yeah… you don’t get to raid someone’s home, end up in their surveillance footage, and then cry because they used it to make fun of you.
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Mark Atkinson 🇳🇿 retweeted
LIFTOFF!
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The parallels between Natzi Germany and modern day America 101. Worth the watch.
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Mark Atkinson 🇳🇿 retweeted
Britain should repurchase America. After all, it was ours once, and it would enhance our North Atlantic security. If you don’t sell it to us, President Trump, we’re going to impose tariffs on the U.S. and any country who supports you in resisting this very good deal. Fair?
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Unbelievable photography....
Immense planning and technical precision was required for this absolutely preposterous (but real) view: I captured my friend @BlackGryph0n transiting the sun during a skydive. This might be the first photo of it's kind in existence. See a video of this moment in the reply 👇
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Immense planning and technical precision was required for this absolutely preposterous (but real) view: I captured my friend @BlackGryph0n transiting the sun during a skydive. This might be the first photo of it's kind in existence. See a video of this moment in the reply 👇
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Mark Atkinson 🇳🇿 retweeted
You can’t afford a coal mine. You can’t afford a gas turbine. You can’t afford an oil rig. Only fossil fuel states and billionaires can. But you can afford a solar power station on your roof. Now, ask yourself why you encounter so much anti-renewable energy propaganda.
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Awesome test!
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Splashdown confirmed! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on an exciting tenth flight test of Starship!
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Mark Atkinson 🇳🇿 retweeted
I don't think most people understand how quickly @RedwoodMat is growing & how many batteries they're recycling. In 2024 alone, Redwood recycled 20 GWh of batteries—the equivalent of 250,000 EVs. And now they are building recycled battery energy storage systems! Redwood alone represents 90% of all lithium-ion batteries and battery materials recycling in North America.
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Mark Atkinson 🇳🇿 retweeted
Exposed: Why New Zealand turned on Jacinda Ardern
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Good morning everybody! A bit of joy on the winter solstice! #Matariki stars rising!! (Pleiades/Subaru) #mthutt
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Mark Atkinson 🇳🇿 retweeted
I flew on Endeavour for 186 Earth orbits - now the original has been found, sunk off Rhode Island. It did one historic 3-year orbit, with Capt Cook in command. nypost.com/2025/06/16/scienc… @seamuseum_
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Quite interesting!
I don’t think we are allowed to talk about the HMS Endeavour in New Zealand anymore, but Australia @seamuseum_ has recently confirmed its final resting place in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, USA. Read → sea.museum/en/maritime-archa… 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🇺🇸 ⛵️
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I’m sorry. If you don’t get paid vacation from work, you live in a third world country. If you don’t get basic healthcare free, you live in a third world country. If you don’t get paid maternity and paternity leave, if you don’t get paid from work and the government when you’re off sick, then you live in a third world country. If your government doesn’t force employers to give you a contract after a trial period so your employer has certain rights to uphold when it comes to loyalty back to you as a worker, so you feel safe and secure when you work hard, then you live in a third world country. These are the very basics we come to expect In Europe and The U.K. This is the very least we will accept. This year I have 52 paid vacation days off from work. This would not include paid sick days, time for doctor’s appointments or paid time off for looking after my child or taking them to the doctors. Some employees like mine pay a little extra for working from home, for electric, for internet and aditional money for food for when I work. We have very good free education. Americans travel to Europe just for the free universities to study without drowning in debt whilst living in the most beautiful cities. These universities that for some subjects are the best in the world. It is physically illegal for my employer to contact me on my day off or outside of my contracted working hours. Some of these things which can vary country to country in Europe are the very basics of what we expect living in a European country. The very minimum. Yet we get told by MAGA that we live wrong, and we should change our values, and that America represents freedom. And we should follow what this government administration wants. What is it to be free? Just to be allowed to have guns? To protect what? To protect yourself from your government? The truth is sadly, that there is no Freedom in America. I say these things above so Americans know what you should demand from your leaders, because none of the above is taught to you. Now this is the Truth you need to hear: For education America is 13th in reading, 18th in science, 37th in math among 79 countries. College debt is over $1.7 trillion and average borrower owes $30,000 . America has the highest incarceration rate in the world…. You have around 25% of the whole world’s prisoners, but only 4% of the global population…. Over 2 million people currently incarcerated in the U.S. You have the most expensive healthcare system globally, yet it ranks #30 in overall health care. U.S. has higher infant mortality and lower life expectancy than many developed nations by far. 1 in 7 American children live in poverty. Roughly 11 million children 90% of your wealth is with 1% of people. America has over 40,000 gun-related deaths annually. And even for tech… The U.S. ranks 13th–20th in internet speed globally. Why would they tell you what you are missing? Why would they tell you what you should demand and expect as tax paying citizens… Seek Freedom, Seek Real Freedom. Not the Freedom They Sold You. The one they sold to you wasn’t free.
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Mark Atkinson 🇳🇿 retweeted
You’re telling me that 60 million buffalo and tens of millions of other wild ruminants roaming America 300 years ago had no effect on the climate, but grass-fed cattle are destroying the world?
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