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I can only imagine how despondent professors at other academics at the University of Otago Law School must be that the most prominent legal scholar from their university is a psychology lecturer who has no idea what he's talking about. e-tangata.co.nz/uncategorise...

The Regulatory Standards Bill is to the left, as the UN Migration compact was to right.

This is why "you're right, it isn't what you voted for, because your values aren't shared by the Republican Party" is a much more effective message to help build a better America than "yes you did vote for this, you bad person" which fails to take advantage of this once-in-a-generation opportunity

Yeeeah we did this for ambulance training and it was, I think, the fifth person who saw patient 1, patient 2, and ambulance officers 1-4 who decided... yeeeah, that's a *pile* and I ain't going in there.

This is honestly the only way I intend to watch this teaser.

One of the similarities between supporters of the IDF and the RUAF is that they both believe targeting their uniformed soldiers is a war crime

I did an informal poll of local elected officials, local govt agencies, and their staff about Bluesky adoption. The main barrier to officials and agencies adopting a Bluesky presence wasn't "angry constituents yelling at them." It's the lack of Bluesky support in their records archiving software.

Aside from my naive academic concern for accuracy in discussing the law, this is my big concern with the disproportionate escalation of the RSB. If everything is an emergency nothing is, & given the state of the state & a govt addicted to the bad process there will be emergencies incoming.

I miss the days when if a TV character mentioned a website, even in passing, somebody at the studio or network would have dedicated minutes if not hours to buying the URL and putting up the most rudimentary dummy website possible. I feel like we lost something integral to our culture.

A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work 🧵

Heron J to the Attorney-General during his speech to mark the retirement of Henry and Penlington JJ in 2000.

This is true about so many things, in some many countries.

This isn't the FIRST "well, the millennials all have kids now, so let's hope they want to replicate their own childhoods!" project, but it feels like the definitive proof that the next ten years of our lives are going to have a lot of this going on.