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absenthog.bsky.social
Law nerd, policy wonk, housing tragic, politics shitposter Last political constitutionalist left in NZ
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i posted a couple of threads elsewhere, but i think this site is quiet enough that I can say to the few nz public lawyers that the NIMBY case on that JR today is traaaaaaash

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

internet isn't all that important but AI might mean there's a bit of automation of lower bits of the email job services market, which is good for productivity growth ig?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

We should bowl one heritage building a year just to put some skin in the game

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

one day ill be grumpy and old and think kids these days don't even know about CHERUB: Mad Dogs and at that point ignore my views on rates and carparks

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

girlfriends mum apparently thought my blogs were funny

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I wanna move countries in 3 months, Melbourne or London?

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Carparks should be bigger enough for Kei cars, hatchbacks, a sensible sized sedan Nothing bigger. If you want to drive a massive truck go live on a farm

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Bish did a pretty good speech on housing I did a whole thing being like "auckland should be like hk/singapore". He mostly raised Scandinavian peers but did namedrop hong kong - much respect

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Wayne Brown ran a campaign being grumpy about rates and AC governance He found out that mainly moderate to center left councilors would vote to reform stuff and conservatives just whinge and say no He has no serious left opposition for reelection This is a skeet about vision for Wellington

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

So true queen

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This - one of the weirder things about politics now is the Green scandals get coverage but no polling hit, while TPM mostly dodges both for some shocking stuff

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

did a pile of rants about tamaki regen company elsewhere but the single most amusing bit is the statement of expectations opening paras before / after the minister popped off at them for not fucking building anything - adding housing-led and extirpating other side-goals

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

just lost 800 tabs fml

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Mega Auckland 2050 - why we should have 5 million JAFAs in 25 years and what we should focus on to make that happen rebuildingnz.blogspot.com/2025/02/mega...

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

You're always bound by popular opinion, if you purge legal constitutional limits you get political ones This includes the CCP (who suddenly and rapidly ended zero covid rules) and the ostensibly absolute Byzantine Emperor

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

luxon was so dumb and just didnt get it on his housing allowance and Premier House refurb now i think the entitlement and weird view of property has fucked his premiership

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

conclave needed a better ending to get that much clout

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Great example of people that matter treating greetings and sign-offs of letters and emails as v important These can be skillfully used to convey a lot with a slight, deliberate decision

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I was once troubled that I was unable to find any adequate evidence against letby, now I just stew on the arrogance of seemingly everyone in the English system - judges, jury, prosecutor and experts got it wrong orld-news/360572497/how-uk-nurse-lucy-letby-can-walk-free

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment