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bill
@wiremu.bsky.social
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the tory leader has conceded defeat. to the new tory leader
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ardrigh@ardrigh.bsky.social |
116 followers 81 following 894 posts
IT guy, opinions for free
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bill
@wiremu.bsky.social
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the tory leader has conceded defeat. to the new tory leader
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa
@sanjanah.bsky.social
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Quick list of issues Govt will have to think through if what Collins really means is adoption/adaptation of LLMs in government services, & touch points. Can NZ Govt do it? Last I heard, MFAT wasted millions of $'s, & was struggling to just get MS Office working. businessdesk.co.nz/article/tech...
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ardrigh
@ardrigh.bsky.social
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ardrigh
@ardrigh.bsky.social
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"outside of local government"? I should have specified regional councils as well to be clear. "Councils will also be barred from imposing urban limits" Unclear how having land as 'rural' will help if the government says all land in the country is 'urban'.
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Katya
@nzkatya.bsky.social
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Serves them right.
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Grant❤️🔥Buist
@grantbuist.com
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the FSU is really doing us a service by gathering together the absolutely worst people in the country and giving them a logo
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ardrigh
@ardrigh.bsky.social
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I think this land needs a special category outside of the local government. Which Labour should have pushed through. It's a huge political no-brainer in a cost of living crisis to specially protect food growing land
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Foxy esquire
@foxylustygrover.bsky.social
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Look sorry, it's true I am really anti sprawl but when Labour where the government there was a massive push from horticulture/farming to preserve the good arable growing soil/land for food production going into the future. Where are those voices now that Nats wanna do a fucking free for all? #NZPol
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Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social
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Corbyn gains/holds Islington North with a big majority #UKGE2024
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Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social
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Plaid Cymru GAIN Ynys Môn from the Conservatives. Was a Labour target #UKGE2024
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Idiot/Savant
@norightturnnz.bsky.social
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Yes, once you recognise that their purpose is to generate positive headlines for ministers by giving the impression that they're Doing Something www.rnz.co.nz/news/what-yo...
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A.J. Ponder
@ajponder.bsky.social
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He's kicked out a lot of the left.
And a lot of the left organisers.
England's voted for a RW govt and they don't even know it.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/keir-...
www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
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Craig M. Ranapia
@craigmranapia.bsky.social
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So how's the decapitation of Jeremy Corbyn going, chaps?
#UKGE2024
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Jolisa Gracewood
@nzdodo.bsky.social
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"Butt out, Wellington" (said the Mayor of Auckland, to the Minister for Auckland, who lives in Auckland).
Also iconic: the moment when Councillor Alf Filipaina asked, “What is the problem the Government is trying to fix?” and basically the entire room shrugged. 🤷♀️ www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-...
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Chris Slane
@slanecartoon.bsky.social
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'This time it will be different'
#yeahright same old vibe-based solutions from National etc -this cartoon from 2008 #nzpol #cartoon @nzlistenermag
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Idiot/Savant
@norightturnnz.bsky.social
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When 36% is a landslide, and a 4% increase in vote share gives you 200 more seats (and twice as many as last time), something is fucked with your electoral system. And then the media establishment paints this is _voters_ being volatile. The UK needs proportional representation.
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Jolisa Gracewood
@nzdodo.bsky.social
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In great news: heroic scenes at Auckland Council, with a near-unanimous pushback against this indefensible government overreach on local streets. 🙌 Including a strengthened response on safe speeds around schools (carried by a casting vote!). Very very grateful for the integrity on display today. 🙏🥰
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Extremely frustrating to hear legal experts analyzing the SCOTUS ruling on immunity like just another case - it's an inherently normalizing act. People need to stop playing constitutional Calvinball and treat them like political actors.
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Craig M. Ranapia
@craigmranapia.bsky.social
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ABSO-FRAGGING-LOUTELY THIS. Every three months or so, my GP sends me off for blood tests to make sure my meds are working with no rare but potentially serious side effects. That requires a lot of "back office" work which both my GP and I need to be done efficiently and quickly.
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Idiot/Savant
@norightturnnz.bsky.social
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Looking forward to the #OIA s around boot camp contracting. How far will the government bend normal rules and ignore red flags in order to meet a self-imposed, entirely arbitrary deadline for their fucking terrible idea?
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Iron Spike
@ironspike.bsky.social
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Didn’t even need to click through to guess the author’s race an gender. Do you what you want, fucker. But too many people got savaged by dogs, blasted with fire hoses, and hung from trees to get me into the voting booth for me to ever opt out.
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David Dayen
@ddayen.bsky.social
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Happy Fourth! As a public service, @ryanlcooper will help you update your Constitution by showing you all of the various sections that the Supreme Court has rendered inoperative.
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Hamo
@hamo.bsky.social
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Bish bash botch
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Idiot/Savant
@norightturnnz.bsky.social
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But I guess the fallback is they'll find some Destiny Church member who was sacked from the army for sadism to do it, and then say "we had no idea!" when it turns into an entirely predictable abuse-fest and shitshow
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Idiot/Savant
@norightturnnz.bsky.social
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So now that NZDF has said "fuck, no!", Oranga Tamariki is begging NGOs to run its cruel and vicious boot camps. Be hilarious if nobody wants to do it www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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M.P. Broache
@mpbroache.bsky.social
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I study this s—t for my job, and I do not think that it is good or healthy for ordinary citizens to have to vote, act, etc., like their rights and perhaps lives are on the line in every election
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M.P. Broache
@mpbroache.bsky.social
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“Politics would be interesting again,” no politics should not be interesting, normal people should not have to invest time and energy into saving democracy because our institutions are collapsing, give me boring, mundane politics any day
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Craig M. Ranapia
@craigmranapia.bsky.social
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THIS THIS MFING THIS WITH SPRINKLES AND HOT BUTTERSCOTCH SAUCE ON TOP! You want to be entertained? Learn to knit. Take in a show. Buy a dangerously grunty vibrator. But please stop treating politics like a parlour game where there are real stakes for real people on the line here.
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Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara
@taipo.bsky.social
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Let’s look at that again then in light of them dropping in entire buildings full of hundreds of people in Gaza in order to kill one or two alleged Palestinian militants
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Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara
@taipo.bsky.social
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IDF killed another Hizbullah military leader yesterday in a targeted attack, proving that they actually can when they want to, target specifically with a little collateral damage…
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ardrigh
@ardrigh.bsky.social
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Get an email with the subject "Mushrooms in your bathroom?" and my first thought was that's a good way to help with the cost of living. It's been a busy week.
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Hayden Donnell
@haydendonnell.bsky.social
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It turns out the problem with the cancer drugs was that National didn't know about Pharmac so I've suggested a few other existing processes and pieces of legislation the government could also look into. Nobody can suggest I'm not helpful thespinoff.co.nz/politics/02-...
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Winifred Burton Updates
@authorwinifred.bsky.social
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I know I hurt some feelings earlier but only part of my family left the lynching capital of the US (still some there), and I'm the oldest of the first generation born after the VRA so I literally can't help but laugh. The Great Migration was a refugee response to socially acceptable terrorism.
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Sean
@publichealth.bsky.social
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okay now i'm really logging off
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
@thielman.bsky.social
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if you took every billionaire on earth and stacked them on top of each other starting at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, that would be great
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Idiot/Savant
@norightturnnz.bsky.social
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Charge first: clearly illegal under MoJ charging guidelines, and no consideration of remission. But: someone like Stuff could file their own request, get the same offer, and simply pay to find out (and see if the Ombudsman will force a refund) www.justice.govt.nz/about/offici...
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Idiot/Savant
@norightturnnz.bsky.social
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Kiwirail refuses #OIA request for iReX contract under s9(2)(j) (ongoing negotiations). But also, they'll release a redacted version for $1000, because they need external counsel to redact it #ToTheOmbudsman
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BSanya
@msfitnz.bsky.social
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So now what we figured "controlling debt" at Kainga Ora meant, is out in the open: "The future is for no net housing growth." "The government has been very clear. They want it to go back predominantly to its 'core role' [my emphasis] as a landlord." Good on Kāinga Ora new chair for speaking truth.
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Mike Masnick
@mmasnick.bsky.social
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Callback to four months ago...
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Avi
@cricketmice.bsky.social
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George Lucas in 1999 making a movie about how the senate and Supreme Court are hopelessly corrupt:
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ardrigh
@ardrigh.bsky.social
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history lessons on how kings have died might be a good subject for schools in the USA 🤔
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
@gothamgirlblue.com
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The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
@theradr.bsky.social
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And remember, the Christian Right only took up abortion as a topic after they lost school segregation for good when the IRS went after Bob Jones’ U status, & needed a new issue to rally the troops. 1/x all our issues are intertwined. 🧵
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Jeffrey Vagle
@jvagle.me
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Jackie LeezartTime
@leezartti.me
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“I will not use my office to the fullest extent allowable but my opponent will” is a really bad takeaway actually. Just pack the court man.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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many things make me angry about the supreme court but one of the biggest things is just that none of those cowards in the gang of six will ever take real questions from the public
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Kandy
@kandyelmo.com
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bringing this here because i've had it
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ardrigh
@ardrigh.bsky.social
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The rot of America into a dictatorship enabled by corruption of SCOTUS has begun
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Mike Masnick
@mmasnick.bsky.social
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Um, which part of sleeping with an adult film actress and then paying her off to be quiet during your presidential election (both of which happened before you were President), and then falsifying the business records is an official presidential act? www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/n...
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