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High country fish-botherer, grandfather, old guy doing IT stuff.
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You know, I have watched this vid a few times. youtu.be/j5oCFVBjpzE?... And yes, it is a shit show. But, all power to Pres Zelensky, I can’t help but think that the thumbs up at 10min 50sec was him agreeing that the trap had been well and truely sprung. Ahhh, the art of the deal.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

JC is far more patient and erudite than I am. The best thing I can say to his reply is boom shanka!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

FFS, this cracks me up. and why not. It's not like they haven't got a couple of part completed ones from a stupidly canceled order just laying about.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I heard that someone said that they heard from somebody else that they heard CP humming this tune a week or 2 back. Now, not so much. youtu.be/vYtpKBNTCB8?...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This is the bait part of bait and switch. Very similar to the fuck around stage, just prior to the find out bit. Decisions will be made on the basis that troops remain, until they leave.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I am at the NATO meetings in Brussels. Trump and Putin are plunging the world into dark chaos. Here is my dispatch from day one of the meetings. I decided that it was time to go over the boards for Canada. Please read and share. substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 13 days ago • 251 comments

At a time when Kiwis deserve a government focussed on creating jobs, increasing incomes, building homes and fixing healthcare they instead have to suffer a government that is at war with itself and a weak PM who won’t enforce basic standards of ministerial accountability. #nzpol

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

Willow, from Google. This pw Qdm9%0B wp$),26J2jnd* was tested @ www.security.org/how-secure-i... - 32 septillion years. Willow - 5min. This does require a system able to take 32 Septillion years of pw tries in 5min. but anyway, don't worry. Temu has the solution. Deja-vu all over again.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

This was all quite the hit. Made a splash in the news. Became a bit of a rod for the back of this particular parliamentarian, reducing him to a meme, even before we really have Internet memes.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

A discussion of the background to the brouhaha around Trump drive to takeover of Greenland - to open the door to tech moguls’ mineral interests and their utopian aspirations. www.levernews.com/trumps-tech-... Fuck's sake, springs to mind

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Shane Jones just needs to go find himself a quiet motel room somewhere and relieve some of his inner tension.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

The underlying misogyny and racism in Aotearoa which means a privileged white man in politics gets a pass when news breaks about being a convicted sex offender yet women in politics get weeks of coverage for daring to exist in public has to be addressed and changed …if we had willing media leaders 🫠

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

I won’t trust a single word from this administration. This doubling down on the lies nonsense is disguising. His decision killed young kids.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Hmmm. "Computer" litterally saying no?

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submitted 39 days ago • 915 comments

The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire

submitted 40 days ago • 1181 comments

It’s over 1,000km from Berlin to Paris There’s now a direct daytime train between them, that takes 8 hours and costs just €59. Leave at 10am, arrive 6pm. And… it’s just 1% the carbon emissions of the equivalent flight www.euronews.com/travel/2024/...

submitted 60 days ago • 175 comments

This article is 109 years old. And we still aren't doing enough to act on climate change.

submitted 60 days ago • 775 comments

Copied (with permission) from a discworld group I’m in if anyone can help even if it’s just a share

submitted 61 days ago • 27 comments

There's a reason why the people will not see Luigi Mangione as a villain, no matter how hard the cops and the press try to distract & divide us. The truth is too obvious, and too ugly.

submitted 61 days ago • 32 comments

NEW: I think Congress should object to Trump's electors, and bring a bill to the floor to disqualify him under the Supreme Court's new rules for Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Here's why: www.muellershewrote.com/p/congress-s...

submitted 61 days ago • 509 comments

#ToitūTeTiriti By 7 January ⭐ Treaty Principles Bill 1) Tools (developed by Māori) that'll help you write a submission in a few mins - tukukorero.com - ourtuhono.nz 2) Can you help your kids/moko/nieces/nephews to submit? Yes! 3) Thread below of other people's Submissions, articles & Sub guides

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Santa brought me a metal detector for Christmas. Went detectoring at a local beach yesterday. Didn't so much come home with treasure, more like just doing my bit to clean up a beach 1 bottle top and bit of old beer can at a time. Nice day out though.

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

"Pollution is so extensive it can be observed on Google Maps, with satellite images revealing substantial waste being discharged into coastal waters". Nitrogen, phosphorus, blood, shit. Silver Fern Farms’ Pareora slaughterhouse near Te Tihi-o-Maru/Timaru. No words. www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/12/27/s...

submitted 65 days ago • 5 comments