cleverhansel.bsky.social
Cabaret reprobate, civic participation nerd, digital wonk, crochet aficionado, several neuroses in a trenchcoat. Pronouns he/they/ia. Based in Wellington & Lower Hutt, Aotearoa New Zealand. Views are my own and not my employers'.
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And #PAHouse, so... Pennsylvania??
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20 minutes of being gently called in by one of NZ's foremost public law experts and he folds like a cheap suit
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A good old-fashioned political defenestration, by gum!
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Hark! A Vagrant for English lit
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Don't do this to me. I need to know.
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It has been immediately brought to my attention that this model neglects to include Calvin & Hobbes; this is a separate axis, plotting childlike wonder and joy
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I feel like the worst kind of cliché killjoy because I love this concept but my first thought was to worry whether they left enough space on the footpath for wheelchairs to go around it...
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This is a very cool artwork even if it's not a courtroom sketch as I first thought when I saw it in my Discover feed.
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It's not what politics is about - and the executive gatekeeping your participation in a *parliamentary* association seems pretty shocking. Is the CWP/CPA secretariat aware of this? Are they acting?
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[Tony Blair busting through the wall like the Kool-Aid man] ACTUALLY —
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Son of a— sorry, *degrowth. Ugh, it's way too early here and I already deleted a previous version with an entirely different typo. Let the supercilious angry commenters strip my flesh from my bones like piranhas, it's what I deserve.
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True but frustrating - saying this online tends to summon a flock of regrowth guys who become madder and more condescending than I would have believed possible.
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I'm trying to wrap my head around this - can you explain how increasing supply at the low end of the market would increase rents/prices? Google was not helpful
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Update: just did a small muffled scream without moving my lips before realising that I was not, in fact, muted.
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Oh good, this has now devolved into the facilitator googling the answer to our questions in real time while she shares her screen
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To expand: every mandatory resilience training I have been forced to attend has at some stage included a chortling admonition to 'spend less time online,' - which, being Literally My Job, and given that my biggest resilience challenge is invariably workload and burnout, has been JUST DANDY TO HEAR
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Second fave is obviously making myself a Marie Antoinette wig out of the bubbles
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It's shatteringly incompetent as a piece of drafting. Can only be because the law itself is not expected to pass if it is drawn; it's purpose is to centre NZF in parliamentary anti trans action for the benefit of the saddest corner of its not particularly large base.
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Now THAT's a destination shop.
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That block of shops is at the quieter end of one of Wellington's worst stretches of 'stroad'. The shops that have gone bust there are all 'street' type businesses. On-road parking there has always been quite shit and I'd be surprised if anyone considered The Axe a destination shop.
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Sorry to be unclear, I do not think that - rather that it was a choice by the showrunners to indicate that the Gilead movement think this. By Levitical I was referring to the 'eye for an eye' punishments which specifically play out in the show (I now see that was Exodus, oops)
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I'd noticed the same thing but drew the opposite conclusion: that the ideology of Gilead had intentionally rejected - and banned - the New Testament framings of redemptive forgiveness and love, in favour of Levitical restriction, vengeance and punishment. Theistic but intentionally not Christian.
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Glad to see someone else in the same boat - I think '08 was maybe my least-online year in a 20+ year period. Fair bit of Facebook, back when it was sit-down browsin'. Stoned "YouTube parties". Indie music blogs. It was my first real stint of full-time work, so not much time for it, pre-smartphones.
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One thing is certain: I cannot inflict my actual running music on my unsuspecting colleagues, which is either incredibly gay hyperpop, Amyl and the Sniffers, or, uh, King of the Slugs by Fat Dog on repeat youtu.be/BHQHYuiRPcQ?...
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Or end it! Or both! Filing this under 'probably diagnostic criteria for something I can't afford to do anything about' 😅
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That also goes to the secretariat, not directly to committee members.
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bsky.app/profile/clev...
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(and I'm not always good with social context cues, so if you're politely declining to answer then aua atu rā - thanks anyway, and feel free to ignore me 😊)