I would also hope the Green MP would know his place. Which is here in New Zealand, in the country that is his home.
Mōrena Tāmakimakaurau! Fog. Beautiful? Yes A commuter’s nightmare? Also yes. We are starting the commute 15 minutes late and will arrive even more behind schedule. Do I need to be at work by 8.30? Yes. On the upside, the crew says it is quite localised, ending around Kauri Point.
Mōrena Tāmakimakaurau! No competition for the seats on the outside deck of the ferry this morning 🥶 I am wearing: a thermal top, a blouse, a knitted vest, a heavy coat, gloves hat and scarf, thick stockings and a long skirt. It would be wrong to say I am toasty, though.
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Split the white supremacy-Farage vote and let Binface come through the middle? Excellent strategy 😂
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 4w agoKai Stephens is running for the British Democrats in Clacton. He was radicalised into far right politics when a teenager & has been active in Patriotic Alternative & Homeland. He promotes violence, such as posting that he wants to see "killing fields" of migrants & minorities, not deportations
When my vegan partner was in North Shore Hospital for emergency surgery the meals were a joke: dairy yoghurt and a rock hard kiwifruit for breakfast with no way of cutting the fruit open. I resorted to bringing him meals. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/hospital-...
'Lightest I’d ever been': Coeliac stroke victim served hospital gluten 'slop'
Nursing student Adele Blake, 20, is concerned about the state of NZ's hospital food.
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No, not the sun but the full moon. 7am over Catalina Bay, Hobsonville Point.
For those of you not watching the football: behold, the first daffodil of spring! After a few days of messy weather, we get calm and sun for the weekend in Tāmakimakaurau
Red sky morning, Tāmakimakaurau. Might be a more dramatic commute home this evening.
Why are there no comments on the unreliability of generative AI like ChatGPT and what this might mean for people caught in a “computer says no” nightmare? #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
New law allowing AI to make benefit decisions to modernise welfare system, government says
The Social Security (Modernisation) Amendment Bill was rushed through Parliament on Friday under urgency.
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Punching down …
Dr Bex@drbex.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Govt wants to give itself more power over disabled people’s medical information. Buried in a new welfare “modernisation” Bill are provisions allowing MSD to require medical examinations “at any time” while expanding automated decision-making #nzpol Read more: open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...
Aries: You don't have a haunted doll in your collection because you are the haunted doll.
Recommendations for a central-ish Auckland dermatologist to check a possible skin cancer (not a mole) My dermatologist charges $450 for a consultation, even if it takes 5mins. I know she is excellent but this is outrageous!
Bit of a pea souper on the upper Waitematā this morning. Checked the motorway traffic cameras for a look around the city and it seems to be fairly localised. Can hear the ferry horn as it comes in from Beach Haven but cannot see it …
Aries: Please stop touching the Amulet of Unceasing Regret. It’s not a toy.
How are we supposed to get to know him if he wont answer questions!? #NZPol
Anyone else having trouble with the rebooted TVNZ+? New sign-in was straightforward but now it won’t load the shows we want to see
I jumped out of an aeroplane once. It was okay because I WAS WEARING A PARACHUTE
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoJD Vance: "You know what? My wife has the right to skydive, but she doesn't jump out of an airplane because she and I have an agreement she's not gonna do that, because I don't want my wife jumping out of an airplane."
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted
My phone camera does not capture the Red Sky In The Morning-ness of today’s sunrise over Sunset Bay (Beach Haven)
Watching the tv series Twisted Metal Based on the violent video game And all the ads on TVNZ + Are about luxury retirement villages What algorithm matches that programme with those ads with us?
No traffic outside because fuel prices too high …
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5mo agoIf you think he cares about gas prices, housing costs, home electricity costs, inflation, no jobs, troops getting killed, grocery prices, health care costs, or anything else that would improve the lives of most Americans, you are wrong.
Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.
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