Doesn’t need to be a write-in campaign! He’ll be on your voting paper: wellington.govt.nz/your-council...
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Doesn’t need to be a write-in campaign! He’ll be on your voting paper: wellington.govt.nz/your-council...
if you need more information then there’s also policy.nz/2025 - not everyone has bothered to respond but if you ask me that’s kind of a red flag
that link is exactly what’s going to come in the candidate book in a couple of weeks, along with some bonus videos which I assume will demonstrate that the candidates who aren’t good at writing words are also not good at saying them
took me a minute to click that the Pukehīnau race in Pōneke’s local elections will be a little bit more interesting with Iona Pannett not standing - definitely won’t be a case of just returning 3 incumbents… wellington.govt.nz/your-council...
during every local election I should just put this on some hoardings
maybe this will be the thing that brings back the open web
oh it’s just social media websites? so only about 90-95% of what everyone interacts with every day
I already had to give Meta my government ID because it was necessary for work purposes. cannot fucking WAIT to also have to do it for every other website
the only people that win here are VPN vendors and sketchy third-party digital identity companies. and of course hackers, once the shitty secured databases of the latter are compromised
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
only if you think clowns are animals, which I do not
on the other hand if we’re gonna travel back in time to change council decisions we didn’t like then allow me to make a list
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
if you’re a councillor saying otherwise then you definitely don’t represent me
in case I haven’t been transparent enough: I am a Wellingtonian and I want the bridge to go
also the point of the City to Sea bridge was to hide in the alcoves and smoke darts and drink RTDs and I’m hearing that the youth don’t drink and smoke anymore sooooo
when I was in my 20s my rent was $75/week for the biggest room in my flat and we went out to see bands or theatre or comedy most nights
if you want Pōneke to be more like it was in its supposed heyday then put the $55M - $100M of bridge money into affordable housing & subsidies for music & performance venues & small business
ding dong the bridge is dead
unfortunately yes
no further questions
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
remember, kids: everything posted on here is about America, even when it isn’t. sometimes people will even specifically name another country in their posts or in their bio but do NOT be fooled! you know which country they really mean
Do you think there are headlines back on the Predator planet that are like “Dentist Speared By Earthling He Paid to Hunt” and there’s a bunch of Predators in ties around a watercooler going “Lol RIP.”
well now I’ve tried it out on some tweens & teens a grown-up version should be a breeze
they all had pizza then watched The Fall Guy. which I might add as an aside is a fucking great movie that I don’t think did the business it deserved
A hot tip is that you can get sealing wax that fits in a hot glue gun & a letter seal (in this case for the birthday teen’s first initial) fairly inexpensively & make the tasks that little bit more authentic
The birthday teen was the Taskmaster! They could have been meaner tbh but everyone has their own style I guess
it’s the follow up to their attempt to do a large-scale re-creation of the Stanford prison experiment (with the novel addition that people get to self-identify as guards)
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
the obsessive fans at taskmaster.info have handily documented every task from every version of the franchise, which makes it super easy to pick & mix your own mini version! the live tasks are a good birthday party bet
I have been laughing at this joke all day. 🦉
to play the Taskmaster’s assistant I put on my wedding suit. which I am pleased to say still fits, almost 15 years later! my commitment back in 2010 to doing absolutely nothing to improve myself really paid off
you ghouls! you vultures! you savages! how dare you gleefully anticipate the hypothetical death of a grotesque tyrant whose policies have already caused untold harm & damage which will take generations to repair?
nobody has seen the president in three days [burping and rubbing my president shaped tummy] that’s crazy
Pretty sure this is special agent Dale Cooper's job
I mean I guess it’s not a million miles away from a CPAP? but it looks like wireless earbuds for your nose
we went with “a man who once told me he thought feminism had gone “too far””. tasks all done but somehow the party nearly has four hours to go. don’t remember signing up for this
please look at this weird-ass thing Instagram just advertised to me
I miss the old brand #CDC
did you know? in Te Whanganui-a-Tara we have a bus route just for Juggalos
today the 13 year old is having a Taskmaster-themed birthday party with me in the role of assistant. please hit me with your best ‘little Alex Horne’ style insults for them to introduce me with
New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...
d&d is just three hours of people saying things like "so I know how doors work, but-" and then asking you if they can do something that suggests they have no idea how a door is constructed, how it works, or what its limitations are as a physical object
What’s the future for LLMs? We ask a tech CEO who is about to launch yet another $8B funding round
this is definitely what I’ve observed when going to see bands made up of people in their 20s - there’s basically never a line for the bar, which is very convenient if (like me) you don’t mind having 1-3 standard drinks on the rare occasion you go out. sucks for Live Nation though I guess
What people think they 80s were like versus what the 80s was actually like.
1. everyone deserves to get paid fairly for their work 2. there are only two classes: labour and capital remember those two things when capital tries to convince us otherwise
YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO.
no more mandatory helmet or seatbelt laws. what happens inside my car or on top of my head is my business
It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses
how the hell did I become the parent of a 13 year old. last time I checked I was still only a young person myself. not someone looking down the barrel of fucking 50
instead of making up a guy to get mad at I have chosen to make up an ideological purity test no one can pass
I don’t think that LLMs can suffer but I do think the way you treat an application you’ve anthropomorphised says a lot about you
also I’m not sure the second B is strong enough. maybe it should be ABAC
the only good billionaire is one who’s been taxed until they’re a mere multi-millionaire
hanging out for Jason Statham: The Veterinary Assistant
some of you need to make like travis kelce and engage with a tailor swiftly
I don’t think that LLMs can suffer but I do think the way you treat an application you’ve anthropomorphised says a lot about you
Can a bicycle get IBS? Does a lightbulb experience ennui?
instead of making up a guy to get mad at I have chosen to make up an ideological purity test no one can pass
Can't even build death star anymore, because of ewok
be prepared for questions like “what were you doing at [location]” and “why did it take you 20 minutes to get home when the map said you were 17 minutes away?”
for a little taste of what it would be like to live in a surveillance state, share your phone location with your neurodivergent child and show them how to use Find My
It’s very funny to watch people who everyone on this app specifically and individually hates because of their stated public opinions and who they are as a person run into that and go “well this must be a universal experience of using this app, I’d imagine”
gen ai sucks we all hate gen ai #art #noai #antiai
'A NSFW ban won't negatively affect me, I don't draw or post porn!' You sure? Here's how it went down when tumblr did it:
watched some of ‘No Time To Die’ with the oldest child the other night & upon seeing Daniel Craig with Léa Seydoux they asked “is that her dad?”. which I hope is a good sign that they won’t one day come home with a much older love interest
see also: rebranding beef stock as ‘bone broth’
that’s the classic Kiwi pig hunter vibe, right? no guns, just a knife and 2-4 real mean dogs
If James Dobson was sincerely "pro-life," why did he die? Hypocrite.
guess I’ll have to start Focusing on my OWN Family
typing with two fingers the way god intended
my technique is wardialling but for urls. I start with a dot com and work upwards. not gonna lie this is taking ages
Be careful, there is a new scam going around. If you see a wooden box filled with food, DON'T GO IN. A wall will fall behind you and you'll be stuck.
Good intel, thank you!
I liked it better when the only member of the manosphere I could name was Joe Rogan. wait does Jordan Peterson count
looked up Theo Von after a fellow dad at school told me I looked like him & the results of that search did not reflect well on anyone in this story
Sam Altman: I see humans achieving omnipotence using dark matter by… 2030 maybe? That’s if OpenAI is given a quadrillion dollars Theo Von: Yeah Altman: Or, we may become a race of slaves, genetically modified to be harvested by robot spiders. That’s if OpenAI doesn’t get the money Von: Right
since Good Books is no more I usually try Unity or Schrödinger’s online stores first. Book Hero (bookhero.co.nz) have a slicker online store but I haven’t tried them yet
made the mistake of looking at X (for work, honestly) to find the cookers and terfs appear to be gleefully and grossly conflating two different cases involving name suppression. I used to love that website but now I fervently wish for the servers it runs on to be ground into sand
If anything I’m kind of disappointed that someone with essentially unlimited money didn’t go even more ridiculous with his coffee setup. He could have gone much wilder!
if Charles Ponzi was alive today he’d currently be launching an $8B funding round for his generative AI startup
Graham Linehan ruined his own life by walking down a path of hatred but forgetting to first become a billionaire writing beloved children’s books and THEN walking down a path of hatred
well I guess we know why he uses a pseudonym
truly elite-level use of an LLM
it’s a related phenomenon to making up a guy to get mad at: making up a guy for *other people* to get mad at
You're probably going to have to be slightly more specific than this.
the young people of today may never have the experience of drunkenly lighting up in a forecourt next to gas pumps then suddenly realising where you are and why that’s a bad idea and I think that’s sad
I mean you can still do it but it really stings when it’s gonna cost you $50
one thing the anti-smoking movement has really ruined for (mostly) non-smokers is the quintessential experience of buying some darts from the servo after a big night out, smoking half of them while you walk home, then regretting all your life decisions the next morning
Famously, between the first and the second act of Waiting for Godot, the only difference in the stage set is that a previously bare tree ‘has four or five leaves’. So what’s the main note to self I found in this copy which seems to have belonged to a stage manager called Nigel...?
and since they’re mounting a comeback (albeit with a new lead singer): Frogspawn
Slightly diminish a band: Viceroy Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard