Ricky Sixpillows

Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:37 UTC

A bunch of us nerds worked with lawyers and community agencies to make this a couple years ago.
it's just been updated. It's neutral interpretation of the rules around benefits, such as job seeker and more

No AI, just the rules, based on answering some questions.
benefitme.nz

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Ricky Sixpillows @fauxmosapien.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:26 UTC

Today's therapy session was the most needed and dreaded one in months, was up half the night anxious about it, so of course it is the one where my therapist takes a sick day. I'm taking this one personally and will do no further self-improvement in protest.

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Ricky Sixpillows @fauxmosapien.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:24 UTC

I like the spaceship one at escape mate, up to 16 people in a big space that worked really well as a work team function.

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Ricky Sixpillows @fauxmosapien.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 12:44 UTC

It's weird I've been with my therapist for three years nearly and I'm still anxious about showing up in an unwell state. I don't want to appear mentally ill at my mental illness treatment in case I'm just faking being unwell for the attention of the person whose job is literally to give me attention

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Ricky Sixpillows @fauxmosapien.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 07:12 UTC

I too am mid spinout, except from ceasing SSRIs and in a more clinging to manic denial of my current depressive phase. Therapy tomorrow and session will start 'so hey you know how I've spent the last three sessions claiming everything is fine and under control...' so that's cool also

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Ricky Sixpillows @fauxmosapien.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 04:40 UTC

I have heard though about a rather less formal handover of intellectual assets (sorry, "cooperation with external consultants") from SIA snr. to the Bill English - owned Impact Lab. I wonder how long it will be until we see Impact Lab assessments used to justify defunding the public service?

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Ricky Sixpillows @fauxmosapien.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 01:45 UTC

Maths*

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Ricky Sixpillows @fauxmosapien.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 01:45 UTC

I did this too, and the more people told me to stop the more I did it. I ate a few pages of my first form match's exercise book out of pure contrariness.

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Ricky Sixpillows @fauxmosapien.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 06:50 UTC

I've only met the rangitoto college boys who have diaspora'd to wellington and are outside of their critical mass. They all (n=2) have a reformed christian vibe to them when you separate them from their pack and force them to adapt to a new environment

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Ricky Sixpillows @fauxmosapien.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 06:46 UTC

I went to school with Anthony Starr except it was a completely different Anthony Starr.

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Ricky Sixpillows @fauxmosapien.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 06:32 UTC

It's so bad I honestly expected his fake accent to be a deliberate set up for a reveal that he wasn't really British. Nope, he's just like that. Meanwhile I was very far into the first season before I even recognised Antony Starr, he was just too perfectly American!

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Ricky Sixpillows @fauxmosapien.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 04:20 UTC

If she had gone to RNZ because her meta requests had shown the OIA had been processed improperly because of bias towards her personally I would be outraged too, but that just isn't what happened here. RNZ ran a story because someone was grumpy about doing a meta request and was unprofessional. Yawn.

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Ricky Sixpillows @fauxmosapien.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 01:06 UTC

There's something particularly irritating at someone, who has been the beneficiary of a whole lot of work done on their behalf for free, then sending a further OIA fishing to get someone in trouble for having a whinge.

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Ricky Sixpillows @fauxmosapien.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 23:50 UTC

People are going to have a whinge about their work and demanding customers, public servants are no different. It's a bad look to be doing on an OIAable work platform but cracking down on this behaviour just means the whinging happens on a different platform.

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