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Thanks for the heads up, TikTok.

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One of the funnest bits of copywriting has to be coming up with all the euphemisms for 'buy thing with money'. Gain access, activate, support, enable, level up, upgrade...

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In our final report we expressly warned against cherry picking our recommendations and said that they should be a package or nothing …

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Irrationally worked up about the changes to the Marsden Fund. It is good to know things just to know them.

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Why is Britain always colour-graded blue?

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Big fan of this promo shot on the School Lunch Collective's official website that has the real vibe of "finding gristle in your pie."

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

I feel like compared to the last time I was applying for jobs, a lot more of them feel... sort of made up and scammy?

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Video games are the perfect analogy for rich white dudes who think they achieved something extraordinary, when in reality people carefully built the entire system so that your journey could be an achievable fun lightly challenging romp.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Had tried sneaking "Thiel: Deregistration the better part of Valar" past the subs but no dice. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/us-...

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

I honestly don’t think these people understand that videogames are designed to be beaten. Like a team of people worked together to make it satisfying but not frustrating to beat Assassins Creed Syndicate. Overcoming the odds would be if Hideo Kojima sent you a grape and said “end nuclear war”

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Like much of New Zealand I am currently going through a 'Ben Wyatt making claymation' phase.

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Wild to walk away from Netflix with your headphones on and discover that you can't speak Korean.

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What if the centre left parties pivoted their message from 'We're less corrupt' to 'We're going to end corruption'? Is that maybe worth a shot?

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"'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department,' says Wernher Von Braun."

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Rocket Lab 'ready to serve' Pentagon

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I have been so deeply disillusioned by this since it's happened and am kind of glad the story has been published now. It's bloody grim. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Something to submit on in a broadly supportive manner?? I never thought I’d see the day! www.mch.govt.nz/sites/defaul...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

My latest.

submitted 15 days ago • 10 comments

For the good of my city I am ready to begin testing the trains. (As long as they're going where I was already planning to go.) www.1news.co.nz/2025/02/12/e...

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Does anyone know if there's a piece out there about what the Te Whatu Ora data team does/what 1000 job losses would mean?

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Oh, hi

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

All of this by @jameeljaffer.bsky.social but especially this: "The 1st Am. is just words on a page. Giving those words meaning—sustaining their promise, generation after generation—depends on a civic courage that seems, right now, to be in ominously short supply" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...

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Van Velden turns down union meetings in ‘unprecedented’ lack of engagement Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety shuns typical monthly meetings but makes time for ‘fake unions’ linked to anti-vax movement #nzpol

submitted 24 days ago • 13 comments

Christ. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

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If people think that Musk is not legally allowed to be somewhere, has anyone considered just, like, standing in the doorway? Might be more efficient than a lawsuit.

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Bunch of kids who read the first half of Gatsby and thought it sounded cool.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

mind you, this "doge official" IS A FRESHMAN AT NORTHEASTERN

submitted 24 days ago • 459 comments

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

submitted 24 days ago • 505 comments

Crying at Chappell Roan's Grammy's performance so in a really good place mentally.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Nerds like this can only have access to the internet for short amounts of time now. Little bursts and then they have to go to parties and learn to talk to normal people. Then they can have a little more internet.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment