Ultra slow ultra runner; Election loser; Eating contest winner; Doting father; Sometime: Podcaster; Filmmaker; Biz starter.
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Which is all that was ultimately announced today isn't it? They're not building shit, just putting stuff in someone else's DC. You know, usually when I see people claim work they didn't do it's when they're fucked and trying to hide it. Hooton said Luxon is too stupid for the job and he was right.
what I want to know is what the fuck is this. they appear to claim an NZ region when they don't have one? we'd use an NZ region for data location regulations/reasons, so it actually fuckin matters. but i note we haven't enabled it on our account (we mainly use sydney) so maybe we knew it was bogus
Absolutely wild to have appointed a director who can't have access to certain board documents, must receive a separate vetted board agenda pack and can't be present for some board discussions. And his company's donation to NZ First has, apparently, nothing to do with his appointment.
To my young followers: you can swallow gum. It's okay. Not a big deal at all.
what the fuck
This is the fundamental thing that people who spout on about private enterprise being more efficient ignore: the need to extract profit is a fundamental, built-in, inefficiency. All else being equal public sector can operate _more efficiently_. The only problem usually is management quality.
Ahahahahahaha nice one y'all #nzpol
We’ve found the children (and adults) that the Govt celebrated removing from emergency housing. They’re now living on the streets, after emergency housing grant criteria were tightened. Take a bow Chris Bishop, Minister of Homelessness.
Telling voters they’re wrong is a proven successful political strategy. Luxo is a bona fide political maestro.
Cyclists, don't forget to wear hi viz!
Friday afternoon school run in my bike-enabled burb: a dad (with baby on the back) and two kids on bikes, trundling homeward down our recently rebuilt main street via the dedicated bike paths. A nice, normal, and neighbourly scene. It’s just so weird that this could be seen as in any way political.🤷
This week's comic, inspired by a study showing that AI summaries on top of search results are dramatically cutting traffic to websites.
Joe Biden outliving him would be objectively hilarious.
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
any body want to help me plan sneaking around and raising all the flags back up to full mast
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
How the hell is New Zealand being run by a pile of incompetents and failed businessmen? What sort of moron voted these people in? And now they’re destroying all of the good things that made New Zealand a great place. #nzpol
Fascinating. NZ well past peak car. So why are we spending so much more on new roads?
"hes probably not dead" yeah no shit! shut the fuck up! im gonna spray you with a fucking water bottle!
worth remembering that any time i say 'it is happening!' taiga and kenta are licking the beaters
nobody has seen the president in three days [burping and rubbing my president shaped tummy] that’s crazy
Very interesting data that shows that bikes are twice as fast compared to motor vehicles in London city. The average speeds of cars around London City is 10kmh (15kmh in Greater London). 74% of car trips are less than 10km. #builditandtheywillcome Source: www.linkedin.com/posts/karimt...
Definitely true, now I'm trying to figure out why I had come to expect them to be more sophisticated than us, not less.
I don't think this is because of AI, & tbh I kinda agree with it. Three reports means your job/skill set/focus aren't just on your people. I have two teams of 7, they're my whole focus, so I have time when anyone needs me. Last year for a while I had 4 teams and 30 people, and it was fuckin _fun_.
Doors open, I step out, two dudes in suits come around the corner and hold the doors open, followed ten seconds later by John Key and a staffer, having just finished an interview on TVNZ Breakfast. They all get in, doors close. They are trapped with my fart. It was a good day.
Jesus christ who knew German police were so embarrassing? I don't know why I expected different, but what moron behaviour. Wouldn't you just be totally ashamed to be any of the others there? Imagine being on a team with someone who punches a woman in the face like that. I would end him.
Mom, Plrrrrrgowowow Don’t distract me During this Sacred and Oooozawoozah Terrible Time With a side-trip To the laminate flooring...
What people think they 80s were like versus what the 80s was actually like.
Given enough time I bet I could find a vulnerability in this seemingly foolproof security system
arstechnica.com/science/2025... Blu Esky the platform of choice for the science community now.
The most National party thing ever is happening, and captured perfectly in this headline.
#ThrowbackThursday: In 1980 the 🌍🌎🌏 was declared #smallpox free, thanks to mass vaccination efforts. Smallpox was an acute contagious disease caused by the variola virus. It was one of the most devastating diseases known to humanity. #VaccinesWork
Well, South Korea is not alone. This is North Korea-levels of purposeful self-isolation.
via https://queenoliviastredfern.tumblr.com/post/792755234065743872
my hunch is they thought they'd be faster with ai versions of a bunch of shit so stopped development on the reliable human made stuff
I must say that is gob-smacking to me after the years I had of workmates telling me how fabulous this was going to be since it was a private firm. It's got water damage, in Wellington...Who could have foreseen that it might get rained on, eh.
My body is not cut out to be this furious all the time. I am built for naming dogs Doctor Reginald Pancakes and telling people about the time two bees stung me while I was on the toilet
Well-behaved sandwiches rarely make history
I've always known Nicola Willis is economically illiterate and innumerate, as well as a pathological liar, but I really had no idea reality had taken out a restraining order on her. Costco's bulk-buying business model is NOT designed for two-person households like ours.
The Times just here musing about the logistics of putting people in detention camps. What is going on in the UK right now?
Quick question, is it bad when the dictator gets to decide who is a Jew? I’m not familiar with history, how does that usually work out for us?
the obligatory second tweet after "monitoring and praying" to show you are very concerned. then maybe a third tweet before going back to talking about how some restaurant changed its logo or an M&M no longer wears sexy boots
holy shit mrbeast's company loses $100m a year?! you really don't want to be in the wrong place when that game of musical chairs comes to an end
We've made gambling, alcohol and smoking easier and more accessible We've made the workplace and roads less safe We've made our schools worse, our health system dysfunctional Time to vote these cunts out #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
One hit of sugar versus income forever. I think it's an easy choice even before you get into it being rather important for our democratic bodies to have ongoing influence/control over large infrastructure that we paid for in the first place.
And this is why councils should *not* sell their assets. #nzpol
What I'd say to you is, don't listen to a word Rod Duke has to say. We all know, as I promised lawlessness ended the day we were elected. The 23 cops we've added in the last 2 years have seen to that. #LyinLuxon #WorstPMEver #WorstGovernmentEver #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
You know that Nicola Willis has fucked-up real bad when even the piss pushers in a nation of functioning alcoholics are going out of business.💩 #OneTermGovernment #nzpol
Dual Roomba xkcd.com/3133/
![4-panel comic. (1) [Roomba next to two people] PERSON 1 to Person 2 with white hat: The Roomba keeps my floor clean. But what do I do when the *Roomba* gets dirty? (2) PERSON 1: Simple: I got a second Roomba and a ramp, so they can clean each other. [a second Roomba takes ramp to be on top of first Roomba] (3) PERSON 1: After the tops are clean, I flip one of them over so they can clean each others’ undersides. [flips Roomba upside down] (4) [stacked Roombas vibrating] PERSON 2: There’s nothing NSFW about this, and yet it’s the most NSFW thing I’ve ever seen. PERSON 1: Yeah, my YouTube DIY video about it got demonetized.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicowxulcoikrb7a7datbtfucl3yb2kfxjuoknszcvbrhjanpek7f4@jpeg "Click to view full size")
70 people were killed at work in NZ last years, thousands injured and the Minister wants to make it less safe for workers. As she also says it’s okay for workers to lose human rights if it means more profit for businesses and apparently even their lives. #NZpol
Sure, that increase seems bad, but when you consider it is measured over 183 years, it's hard to really draw a conclusion.
before I go to bed, I ask Claude to find a good venue for my child's birthday party, book it, and then pay for it by doing a bunch of ransomware attacks
Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem. Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.
Solar panel exports from China to Africa surged 60 per cent over the past year, says @ember-energy.org. Unlike previous jumps, this upward trend was spread across the continent – with 20 countries seeing import records and 25 countries importing more than 100 megawatts worth of panels.🔌💡
This truly horrible disease killed our 8 year old boy. Please be aware of the signs & symptoms. It strikes so quickly. #Meningitis
Costco's groceries are for people who can afford to buy in bulk to save longterm. People who have extra freezers. People who have big cars. People who can do a big outlay one week a month that's wildly different from the others. That isn't what NZ's grocery price problems require!
Focusing on supermarket competition to solve rising costs and inequality is like making recycling a priority in fighting climate change. It’s not completely pointless, but it’s primarily a distraction from structural problems that require political courage and bold action.
easy to forget this sucker is over 50 metres tall. what a hugely successful test. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5EY...
The absolute audacity of this woman blaming “local leadership” and cycleways for the flailing economy after firing our public servants. You’re the Minister of Finance AND Economic Growth. Take a hard look at yourself, your lack of plan and your missing boats before coming at us. #nzpol
I got a fucking moko I was so mad and I have never been tattooed before at all
The biggest problem we have as a society is that we haven't done enough for businesses.
$1 of PV imported into Africa today can displace ~$50 of imported fuel over its operating life. "In Nigeria, a 420 Watt solar panel retails for ~$60 USD and would produce 550 KWh in a year. [...] $60 USD of diesel would make only 275 KWh of electricity, implying a payback time of just six months."
5 years ago today the chch mosque murderer was sentenced to life without parole. I have never said his name and I never will. rot in hell you fucking maggot
Normalise sharing your plex with people who can't sail the high seas themselves
The Israeli government has adopted the double-strike tactic used by Bashar al-Assad in Syria: target a hospital or heavily populated area, then hit it again when rescue workers, reporters and medics turn up, to kill or maim them too. Hideous war crimes piled one upon another.
It'd be one thing for evil genius titans of capital to replace us all with robots that do our jobs better. But the mooted replacement is a frequently wrong, truth agnostic by design, suicide abetting pile of technically very impressive but practically disastrous crap.
"Styles said, for insurance to be affordable and remain available, the industry wanted effective climate adaptation legislation and a related framework." Does anyone from our NAF government read articles like this? (sorry, dumb question really) #nzpol
It is deeply frustrating to see the Ministries for Women and Pacific Peoples positioned as expendable. Equity ministries exist because the system does not treat us equally. Calling their erasure “efficiency” is structural misogyny and racism #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
This is the machine that, a few short years after it's increasingly obviously irresponsible release, a big section of our elites wants run our institutions. Complete madness.
The violence I expected. I knew fascism would be cruel and violent. But nobody told me there would be this much dementia.
Job lay-offs and job-hunting. Unemployment by design. My Stuff #cartoon today. #NZpol #Jobs #Unemployment The #PublicService amongst others.
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
In no other conflict would an event like this be excused, but this keeps happening without consequence. It's so far beyond acceptable that it's just impossible to even contextualise anymore. This report is strong, direct and important. youtu.be/LM21IDo-3Eo
Margaret Cho on Dean Cain joining ICE: “I know you & you're not white. You have never been white & no matter how many white activities you participate in, you're never going to be white. No matter how racist or how wrong you act, you're always ‘Wong’ never white. Dumbass.” 🔥 #ProudBlue
Can't even build death star anymore, because of ewok
Turns out studying philosophy is actually valuable. Philosophy majors don’t just argue well, they actually become better thinkers and do better on tests. Data from 600k students shows they outscore every other major on reasoning, curiosity and open-mindedness.
Fuck it really is going full 1984 😳😳😳
Just received this statement from Lisa Cook: "President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."
Tony Schwartz was very public about the extreme effort it took working with such a manbaby and deep regret he has over writing Art of the Deal. What's clear is that Trump was always hopeless, it's not just since he's started developing age related stuff. www.npr.org/2016/07/21/4...
Great article from Lucianne Tonti ⤵️ "In addition to parental leave, Norway’s welfare system provides a long list of significantly more substantial perks, including free university and healthcare, and subsidised childcare (kindergarten is capped at $180 a month; in Aus it costs $70 to $180 a day)."
👀 at how YouTube goes out of its way to describe this terrible practice as "traditional" machine learning—a further suggestion that "AI" is a term that repulses people, and Big Tech knows it
When the Supergroove lads—who are not generally very stationary even at the age of 95—circled up around Ché with samplers, drum pads, and keyboards to play Machine Talker it was pretty fuckin cool
Lack of executive function makes it sound like I am bad at wearing suits and firing people instead of like cleaning up and making appointments which sucks because I am great at wearing suits and firing people
I will update my view, I accept that individual keytarists can be very cool while still thinking the keytar itself is profoundly and permanently uncool. Some musicians are just like that. It doesn't matter what they play.
Or perhaps the term is only relevant on a certain timeline and it gets a bit incoherent to try to push it further, like yeah if you want a bit of perspective the planet used to be a dust cloud but that doesn't mean regional cultures don't have meaningful local connections.
To be fair this was November Rain era so maybe people were primed for piano to be cool. And yeah of course he could play November Rain.
Not true, keytars suck, keep it on the stand. But if my mate Paul was anything to go by, boys who can play piano get girls like _absolute crazy_ in their mid teens, if they have any social skills at all. He was practically beating them off with a stick and they were just beating him off.
Sorry, economy, the liquor thing is probably my fault. I was probably drinking just about enough to prop up the entire industry, but now I mostly only drink on weekends.
We only rate dogs. This is an albino Snuffleupagus. Please have some respect for this institution and only send dogs. Thank you… 13/10 (IG: georgietheafghan)
Population numbers can be tricky to visualise, so we reach for comparisons to a school, a stadium, a town, etc. But boy oh boy, "New Zealand's Covid-19 response saved the equivalent of the Epsom electorate" is an instant classic of the genre! A particularly piquant measure of our success 🤌🌶️ 😈#nzpol
🤔 #nzpol
I remember, what, fifteen years ago the issue of pumping fucking heaps of fertilizer and growth shit into paddocks was cited as making waterways unswimmable and water undrinkable by the Greens and this was dismissed as alarmist radical left nonsense WELL GUESS WHAT MOTHERFUCKERS
The nitrate water is slowly migrating under the gravel of the plains and will eventually reach the large urban aquifers that supply Christchurch whereupon infrastructure hell will break loose. Because we don’t do anything in this country in advance, just reactive response once it’s too late to stop.