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Looks like a steady trickle of voters at Miramar Community center. About 2 people ahead of me when I joined the queue. #nzpol

I feel that Labour is not getting enough credit for introducing a tongue twister into election policy debate. #nzpol

Relevant to our interests #nzpol

Man steals bus - but TAKES UNSUSPECTING PASSENGERS WHERE THEY WANT TO GO. Also, sex toys nicked “still in their packaging”. I love Waiheke police reports

Saints preserve me from low code/no code solutions. They are invariably trash. To get them to do anything worthwhile you have to be able to write the damn code anyway, only in some poorly conceived ticky-boxy opaque UI.

NZ: pure shitfuckery. Great new content by @thejuicemedia.com Thanks legends #nzpol

Pols journos sneering that “everyone knows about the Taxpayers Union” and ”it’s just lobbying” are telling on themselves; the fact is that the public *doesn’t* know about the TPU‘s antics and that is because of the failure of mainstream journalists

They may think they’re winning. But they can’t stop us baby.

Make a band edible: The Muttonbirds, but you have to change the water like three times to get rid of the excess salt and grease.

Happy labor day (USA). What's one of the oddest paid job you've had? For a couple of years, I was the Official Observer at the Townsend Observatory, showing randoms off the street the marvels of the universe on clear winter Fridays. This was before it suffered from a bad case of Earthquake.

Americans discovering the magic of orange guy. #nzpol

What a diplomat.

You've min'd your last uit.

You've blamblamed your last blam.

If you’ve never seen The Death of Stalin, you need to do that ASAP. Don’t wait until after Orange Caligula kicks the bucket because you won’t enjoy either event nearly as much.

Biggest comeback in history? 999: Icelanders convert to Christianity & ditch Norse myth↩️ 1200's: Snorri Sturluson uses the power of euhemerism to make Norse myth biblical↩️ 1930's: a very Catholic Norse scholar pilfers the edda for character names↩️ 2026: Pope quotes a character called Gandalf 🇮🇸👑

Job-searching was making me depressed. Then I saw an ad for an "End of the World Library" curator. I'm applying.

All I gotta say is that people who are criticizing any staff of a website for blocking users of the website need to spend a few years as staff of a social website and experiencing the unhinged abuse you get for it and see how fast you resort to mass blocking too

Mogmaxxing:

"Finally! An international crisis!" "A chance to become as popular as Jacinda was... ...while carefully not doing any of the things Jacinda did..." #nzpol

A year ago, ministers met to consider tightening NZ’s pay equity law. Their decisions went further than officials had advised, hardening the policy to the point some groups were cut out from ever making a claim. Why? And on what evidence? They won’t show us. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

On 8th Oct 1952 the worst civilian rail disaster in UK history happened in London. 112 deaths. 340 wounded. That accident, and the actions of one woman from Florida have saved THOUSANDS of lives since. That disaster helped lead to the creation of paramedics. /1 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU60...

Cutting dialysis just to save a couple of dollars is truly toxic behaviour. But let's ask ourselves the question: where did the money that used to be available to keep people alive actually go? A short thread. #nzpol

It all starts with a short visit to the lovely folks at IRD, who in 2021 started a research project about high-wealth individuals and how much tax they actually pay. One of the outputs from that work was a report in 2023, that was pretty damning www.ird.govt.nz/hwi-research...

What, exactly does Shane Jones really think "desexing" means here? www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

My wife and I were on a beach in the Wellington area and found this at a car park, in the grass. It is approximately the size of a person's hand,made of bone, and intricately carved. I've masked the lower half,as only the legitimate owner will be able to fully describe it. Please share this...(1)

8. Weiss's project is creating an Operation Paperclip for Epstein's cronies. Taking a group of discredited men and rehabilitating them as necessary pillars of system. Dershowitz and Peter Attia are the Wernher von Brauns of reactionary centrism.

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

🧵“How do seemingly ordinary people become agents of state murder?” This is one of the guiding questions I ask students in my graduate class on genocide/state violence. With recent events, it is a question many Americans are asking. I do not have a definitive answer, but here is a reading list: 1/

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy. www.tiktok.com/@geekerynz/v... #Subscribe

First mating of the 2026 #kakapo breeding season! True to form, it was Pearl and Boss on Whenua Hou, who mated on the night of 28th Dec. They were also the first two to mate in the last two breeding seasons. We're expecting a bumper year, so follow for updates! #conservation #parrots

A rat done bit my sister Nell And whitey's on the moon

Not enough coastal grass? Problematic sedge gap.

Vibe coding to make slop-of-the-line software

Honestly, the IPCA report into the police (mis)handling of the McSkimming case makes for jaw-dropping reading. But it’s 135 pages long so I’ve read it for you. Here’s my report on one of the most serious failures of integrity in modern policing history⬇️⬇️

Feels a bit trashy to self promote but if you are looking at the govts announcements and are wanting to learn NZ history that isn’t beholden to the whims of whoever happens to be in the Beehive, I do a podcast that might help with that Find it wherever you get podcasts etc historyaotearoa.com

All this Auntie discourse reminded me of ...

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵