Craziest nz election outcome is if some insane shit happens following the us midterms and there's a swing towards national (and probably also labour but less so) for stability reasons
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“It didn’t ‘mean’ to hack that nuclear power plant control rod system. Meaning implies intent, which it can’t have.” ok dude but it still *did* it, you still have cancer now
what do you mean The Proclaimers are transphobes 😵
Because of NZ's freedom of panorama laws 3D works of art situated permanently on public display can be photographed and then said photographs can be uploaded to #WikimediaCommons Check out this cool owl mosaic on a bach in Haumoana near Napier More here: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor...
its dumb the body of water is called "Hawke Bay" instead of "Hawke's Bay"
Photography this morning in #Napier, both as a hobby and to improve available photos on #WikimediaCommons See other photos I took today here: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor...
2017 Mount Albert by-election result by suburb Jacinda Ardern (LAB🔴) defeated Julie Anne Genter (GRN🟢) 77% to 11% #nzpol #electionmaps
You see this outside America, I see people act like they're from the rural American South in my regional New Zealand town, for some reason pop country is increasingly popular on local radio
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · last mo.A really weird irony about the "authenticity" debate wrt rural volk vs cosmopolitan elites is that the actual culture of rural red state America in the 2020s is not actually authentic in any meaningful way?
someone need to invent a drug that makes hyperbole less emotionally resonant
labour isnt the party for progressives but like should they be? the further left parties are less popular
Diagram of 2017 election if every party used the strategy at 100% efficiency (assuming no change in party vote/electorates won)
Jakob | TheLoyalOrder@theloyalorder.bsky.social · last mo.One problem with trying to exploit the rules of a proportional electoral system to get a beneficially disproportionate result is that the more popular side can more easily do that like if everyone did this strategy it would break the system
One problem with trying to exploit the rules of a proportional electoral system to get a beneficially disproportionate result is that the more popular side can more easily do that like if everyone did this strategy it would break the system
feel like the nz people i dont follow that bsky recommends are always angry
watching only connect and the teams always gotta overcomplicate what the category is even after already saying it in simple words
why is this the picture that comes up when you search hipkins on google
councillors keep posting these ai generated maps of hawke's bay they're so bad!
i deeply resent that the aesthetic of the 2020s is gonna be this non-human garbage
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3mo agoChatGPT posters and flyers are polluting real life and driving me insane. Please respond to this with the worst ones you've seen irl. I'll post some in the thread www.404media.co/we-are-livin...
genuinely concerning how quickly data center hysteria popped up people posting and liking 4G towers give you cancer tier "news articles"
western bay of plenty district council couldn't handle only have a ridiculously long english name so they also have a ridiculously long te reo name
wanted to root for the underdog but paraguay deserved to lose the way there were playing, karma it was off a penalty
I’m becoming more and more convinced that nobody knows what a data center even is at this point.
One united Hawkes bay is obviously better than two hawkes bay councils divided by the tutaekuri Dividing the main population centre in half for dumb parochial bs, defeats the point of amalgamation #hawkesbay