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				<title>mark taslov</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2017 18:09:22 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Katharine Moody</title>
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						Making the rounds.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2017 12:59:30 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Hugh Wilson</title>
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						<p>There's a cracking rocksteady song called 'little things' </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB2Zz1AzWcQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB2Zz1AzWcQ</a></p>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2017 11:40:13 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Susannah Shepherd</title>
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						Maisie is only an arsehole if you are a mouse (as illustrated), sparrow, or lost kitten crying piteously in the street. She is, however, stupid. So very stupid. It took her over a month to master the cat door and, even now, five years on, she occasionally forgets how it…
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				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2017 21:52:12 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Bart Janssen</title>
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						<p><q>To put Trump in perspective:</q></p><p>Rejected due to absence of cat references or photos</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2017 14:55:05 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Rich of Observationz</title>
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						<p>To put Trump in perspective:</p><p>&ndash; there are 167 countries in the world, excluding microstates<br />&ndash; 51 (31%) of these are full on dictatorships<br />&ndash; 97 (58%) are authoritarian states that have some semblance of (manufactured) popular consent<br />&ndash; 15 (9%) are liberal capitalist states with regular elections and some…</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2017 13:27:44 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Emma Hart</title>
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						<p><q>DO NOT let the cats use the internet.</q></p><p>This is basically my top answer to 'what do our cats do while we're asleep?'</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2017 08:51:15 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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						<p><q>I’m pretty sure our Min learned his ‘lounging around between the keyboard and monitor’ trick from your Colin.</q></p><p>DO NOT let the cats use the internet.</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2017 00:18:58 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Paul Campbell</title>
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						<p>Even though I don’t live in Chch I’ve been having mild flashbacks of living in Berkeley/Oakland in  ’89 (Loma Preita earthquake) and ’91 (Oakland Hills fire) watching (and smelling) the hills burn, people’s lives, cookbooks etc falling as ash around us</p><p>We used to love walking in the Hills ….…</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2017 20:11:19 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Katharine Moody</title>
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						Our Pudcat (her name) has this special Youtube viewing platform. Cockatoos singing and dancing are her favorite. I feel it really deep for Christchurch... can so understand screaming at the word "resilient". We should teach cats to attack on that command.
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2017 19:18:16 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Soon Lee</title>
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						<p><em>P.S. An all-black cat is not the easiest thing in the world to photograph.</em></p><p>In case you hadn't already seen it, turns out black cats are less popular for <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/black-cats-being-rejected-because-they-dont-look-good-in-selfies-says-rspca-9637202.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">that reason</a>. (At least amongst the selfie generation.)</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2017 17:49:14 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Emma Hart</title>
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						<p>This is what he's doing right now. That thing he's trying to kill? Is a concrete statue of a cat.</p><p>P.S. An all-black cat is not the easiest thing in the world to photograph.</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2017 17:16:56 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Soon Lee</title>
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						<p><em>He’s going to continue to be a murdery disaster his whole life, but at least he’ll never learn to use matches.</em></p><p>Tempting fate...</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2017 17:05:25 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Ian Dalziel</title>
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						<p><q>by our new Ikea shelves</q><br />They <a href="https://www.dezeen.com/2017/02/03/ikea-mexico-border-wall-provides-donald-trump-affordable-construction-option/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">built a wall!!</a></p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2017 17:01:17 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Nat Websta</title>
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						<p>This is Rufus.  Rufus is an arsehole.  And unfathomably stupid.  In this picture, he is attacking one of his primary nemeses, the potatoes.  Other arsehole things Rufus does:</p><p>&ndash; pees in the hallway<br />&ndash; shreds the armchairs<br />&ndash; attacks the children (for no reason)<br />&ndash; bites the dogs on the…</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2017 16:55:28 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Ross Mason</title>
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						<p>Our cat is dead.<br />Life is heaven.<br />No cat hair.<br />No cat food.<br />No baby &ndash; er- cat sitters required<br />We own the house again.<br />No shit.</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2017 16:32:34 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Hebe</title>
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						<p><q>Here’s Colin sitting in the cubbyhole by our new Ikea shelves last week.</q><br />I’m envious of those shelves. You’ve stacked shelf stuff any old how.  <br />Like a quake virgin.</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2017 16:19:08 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Bart Janssen</title>
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						<p><q>Even mature cats do odd things. Here's Colin sitting in the cubbyhole by our new Ikea shelves last week.</q></p><p>Apollo has decided the place to sleep is on top of my rucksack which I put down on the workbench in the garage.</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2017 16:02:40 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Emma Hart</title>
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						<p><q>Min's brother, Killigula, is an arsehole.</q></p><p>Crikey they look alike. I tried to get Min to come look (he can see 'the cat in the mirror' and watches bird videos and stuff), but he's too busy outside seeing how many foxgloves he can eat before he dies.</p><p><q>Colin</q></p><p>I'm pretty…</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:44:43 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Bart Janssen</title>
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						Apollo is our evil cat. At random times for no discernible reason he will savagely attack our arms &ndash; full on death claw and bite to the bone mode. We don't know why. For the rest of the time he's lovely, last night he wanted cuddles so came and lay…
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:42:24 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Hebe</title>
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						<p>Min’s brother, Killigula, is  an arsehole. The scratchiest bitiest – but smartest – cat we’ve ever had.  He watches, intently as we do anything. He opens doors to let the dog through,  he switches on lights (yep), and he runs inside and climbs people and nests in their hair.</p><p>I’m…</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:36:49 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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						Even mature cats do odd things. Here's Colin sitting in the cubbyhole by our new Ikea shelves last week.
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2017 14:18:52 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Ian Dalziel</title>
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						<p><q> He’s going to continue to be a murdery disaster his whole life</q><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-75sde6YYg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-75sde6YYg</a></p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:43:14 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Brent Jackson</title>
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						<p>Love this paragraph.<br /><q>To be fair, I’ve recently realised he’s not as stupid as I thought he was. Not ‘driving up the hill to look at the fires getting in the way of emergency services’ stupid. He’s just reckless. ‘Being the Prime Minister on TV suggesting both fires might be…</q></p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:18:13 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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						<p><q>To be fair, I have slept with people with less respect for my boundaries.</q></p><p>Hahaha.</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2017 11:49:54 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Public Address</title>
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						<p>Discussion from blog post.</p>
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