Peter Sime

Hello darkness my old friend

Well, that's a wrap.

Lula reelected! www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/eleico...

Well, that's it. Voter suppression is now in effect. #nzpol

BHN mentioned in dispatches. #nzpol

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

*waves generally at one party state, huge fines for petty crimes, cultural norms*

An island oil refinery with 80% of the population in public housing i mean

Winston exclaiming "Communism!" like Father Jack shouting "Drink!" #nzpol

I was out by 20 years, Lee Kuan Yew died in 2015. Apologies for the misinformation. #nzpol

The thing about Singapore is that it's the major port on one of the world's most important trade routes. You can't model your country on that. #nzpol

Chloe is cooking. #nzpol

Of course, not all cookers and shitposters are Russian - human or bots - but it's clear that a lot of them are.

SCOOP: A majority of Cabinet wanted New Zealand to back a vote on a new UN pandemic treaty but Winston Peters made the call not to, @samsachdeva.bsky.social reports. NZ and Paraguay were only countries to abstain, US, Israel and Argentina voted against. newsroom.co.nz/2026/10/13/p...

I have, in fact, decided there *are* stupid questions. And so I have unsubbed from r/nostupidquestions #reddit

The US crossed the moral event horizon long ago and now approaches a singularity of depravity. A public execution only serves as a demonstration of state power. It is not justice, it's fascism. Our own government is far too obsequious in pandering to merchants of filth and death like this. #nzpol

We'll take all the caveats about polls as read, but I like how things are firming up. #nzpol

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A sobering update on the global clusterfuck. Vote accordingly, NZ. #nzpol

I'm through the worst of what I think is a case of norovirus. 0/10 folks. Not recommended.

Oh, this is gonna be bad for NZ. I don't think we buy diesel from the US, but if they institute an export ban prices are going to get even worse #nzpol

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I've just gone and topped up my petrol. Might be wise for folks to find a 24 hour station and do the same before tomorrow morning. #nzpol

As this break draws to an end, it's been nice. The competing supermarkets policies made it past my proverbial filter along with skyrocketing fuel prices and the Ed Sheeran thing, but otherwise I feel the inconsequential noise has largely been avoided. Not bad for a political tragic. #nzpol

A year ago on 10 September 2025, I bought this exact 2 TB SATA SSD for NZ $189. Today, it's more than twice the price. Its effect on memory costs has been observed for months now, but #fuckAI

I'm checking out of following politics for the next week. I feel like I need a break from it. #nzpol

I have voted for the sea bird/tree bird coalition. #BotY #nzpol

This would sound reassuring except for the fact in the last 24 hours the Houthis gained control of the strait leading from the Red Sea into the Indian Ocean *and* they have attacked the Saudi East-West Pipeline in multiple locations, disabling it. I'm more pessimistic than a week ago. #NZpol

Sigh. #Ōtepoti #Dunedin #BOng #NZpol

So it turns out the Iran War is still a thing and oil prices are shooting up yet again. But now all the safeguards like China's switch to its strategic reserves have now been exhausted. The El Niño food crisis will be exacerbated by diesel prices. #nzpol

Jesse Welles as good as ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwz1...

Dunedin Public Libraries now offers access to a database called NewsBank. Which looks like a successor to Newztext. With fulltext access across the major dailies, regional, and community newspapers from 1994 to today. Ideal if you want to check the political receipts, so to speak. #nzpol

It's probably too late on a Sunday evening to dive into a scholarly article on technofascism, but it's worthy of reading if you want to contextualise *gestures broadly* #nzpol link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Farewell Tim Curry. youtu.be/j8bmjDoziaQ?...

Disappointed but not surprised at Labour's capitulation. I suspect they want to remove a potential avenue of attack from National. I still maintain mandating points of friction like ending the infinite scroll and defaulting to subscribed feeds would be better. BTW I like Mullvad VPN #nzpol

I think @mozilla.org goofed with @firefox.com and their latest update. I'm getting "storage full" alerts on both my Android tablet and my Windows PC. Hoping they squash this bug quickly, it's the kind of thing that can drive a user away. #browsers

So National can't afford to build new Dunedin Hospital to its original planned scale, but three months before an election suddenly find $100m for (checks notes), a gondola in Queenstown ? Utterly incompetent. #nzpol #NationalNotFitToGovern #onetermgovernment #CoC #LuxonOut

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Notably, #3 ranked Chris Bishop was absent behind Luxon in that press conference #nzpol

It's been fun, team. Lame-duck Luxon waddles on. Let's all do this again in a month or so. #nzpol

This is the best result for the left for the election. #nzpol #spill #spull

He's staying. #nzpol #spill #spull

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