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Law student (New Zealand), debt collector, semi-former fraud investigator, huge nerd for all things story related (but also super cool), a man of semi-reasonable means and taste.
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Heh. Nice. 😏

#BHN Tonight at 9pm - Tory Whanau on Seymour's online behaviour and breaches of the Cabinet Manual - Robert Patman on Trump and Israel v Iran - Chloe Swarbrick on The Bradbury Group on Iran #nzpol #nzpolitics youtube.com/live/CbM4pFu...

And they want the marines to protect these clowns.

Got RNZ The Panel on in the car and they did a piece with Dame Anne Salmond about Seymour's online harassment; Wallace Chapman asks, twice, whether it ought to be framed as satire. No it shouldn't. It's targeted harassment based upon political bias by our DPM using parliamentary signage.

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The link to their submission is unfortunately broken atm, but the article looks good. Well done, HRC. tikatangata.org.nz/news/regulat...

Bless us, oh Lord, for this bounty you have lain before us

“PLEASE DO NOT VIOLATE IT!”

This is why I have absolutely zero tolerance for anyone supporting the sudden execution of USAID by Elon Musk:

New Yorkers: if you're voting tomorrow, make sure to RANK FIVE CANDIDATES WHO ARE NOT CUOMO. For the best chance to wreck his shit, you need to NOT leave any slots empty.

An excellent analysis of why Substack is probably about to go off a financial cliff, leaving independent journalists holding the bag

I feel like this is not the peace we were all promised...

I feel Chuck is right to assume that his accountant may not be ready for the powerful revelations that would follow knowing the secrets of his clients. Barbers are a special kind of people like that.

taking 5 #art #oc #fashion

This is a very disingenuous post from the Free Speech Union. David Seymour did not attempt to engage with the academics. He just abused them and encouraged hate towards them in contravention of the Cabinet Manual. Tory said academics should be kept safe from abuse and targeted harassment.

It's Seymour who cannot handle his ideas being called out in public discourse by academics who disagree with them. That's why he chose to personally attack them and indirectly cause online harassment against them. That's the danger "free speech" here.

You'll see NZFSU and Seymour try to downplay what he said and the rest of us seem hysterical/uptight while not being democratic. As said below, Seymour enabled the online abuse of our academics by personally harassing them as acting Prime Minister. It is wrong and must be challenged. #nzpol

Last night I read a bunch of posts from women with LLM boyfriends and it made me think of this section from Computers as Theatre

I'm not going to dignify David Seymour with more attention, but I'm not sitting, standing or lying down for his ableist mental health slurs whenever he doesn't get his own way. I know you can't shame the shameless, or appeal to the decency of the indecent. But still.... #nzpol

@flotisserie.bsky.social sums it up well here. Have to build a whole ideology to justify women’s unpaid & coerced labor as the “natural way of things” like they did with slavery (& like they do w/ ongoing forced prison labor).

A few hours post embargo, here's my thoughts on Death Stranding 2, with some light spoiler discussion of the game's opening hours and broader themes. The discussion starts as spoiler light as possible, and goes into more depth later into the discussion. open.spotify.com/episode/3SJi...

Just like Obama death panels and the white obsession with free speech when it comes to r slurs and dehumanization. It’s okay when THEY do it

Weird her examples are the Middle East where news continue to live in countries like Iran. Not say 1940s Germany...

#BREAKING: Over a (sharp) public dissent from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS clears the way for the Trump administration to remove migrants to third countries *without* giving them an additional opportunity to contest whether they face persecution or other forms of mistreatment there:

It is worth reminding every American today that the people who hid Anne Frank were outlaws. The people who sent her to die in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp were law-abiding citizens.

Skill issue. People will argue that Fahrenheit is how it "feels" but forget it's how it felt to Europeans who looked forward to snow. Celsius 0 = freezing, objectively superior

If I have to choose a single post to convince people of the value of David Gerard's #AI journalism this year, as of right now this is the one. Generative AI runs on gambling addiction — just one more prompt, bro! pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/g...

Thrilled that my talk about writing asexual romances in video games (using my game Redjackets as a case study) was accepted to the QGCon (The Queerness and Games Conference) happening in Montreal later this fall (though I'll be speaking virtually). HAPPY PRIDE. 💜🤍🖤

The consistency of where Seymour's "jokes" are aimed and how easily they can be quote-unquote "misunderstood" as threats is extremely visible. The media landscape could dig into that regarding how 'civility' gets applied in these kind of discussions, and by who. They could have at any time. #nzpol

Remember when ACT were all allegedly deeply-threatened by a haka? Hmm. #nzpol

I know this makes me sound boomer as hell but I feel so bad for kids these days. This is evil

From post Cab Q&A: When Seymour targets individual academics he says he's being "playful", that there's no breach of the Cabinet Manual. He sneers about @misswhanau.bsky.social's concerns. A totally predictable response. But this is not just being playful. It's about silencing dissent.

It's one of those things like "the velvet underground only sold 6,000 records but everyone who bought it started their own band" but for everyone who answered "yes" to this being given a national newspaper column

scrawny 18-year-old about to fall out of an army helicopter over tehran: this is so epic. this is totally sigma, right babe? AI e-girl operated by a balding intelligence officer in virginia: that's right baby, Iran is totally cringe

you know what's an even more overwhelmingly difficult ratio to refute? trans treatment and procedure satisfaction, and yet it's funny that dems say they are ruled by polls but they've been ignoring them as much as the gop, who simply don't seem to be planning on elections anymore

Rowling is advocating taking photos of strangers in toilets and disseminating them. Yet she actually sued someone twenty years ago for taking a photo of her kid. globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/murray...

regular reminder that rowling constantly links 'reduxx', a site dedicated to doxxing & inciting harassment of trans ppl, a site that sold literal *bladed weapons*. she endorses a site that advocates for violence against trans ppl. she is a dangerous psychopath & GCism is a pro-violence hate group.

important life hack for video games

Insane ChatGPT message

I constantly have absolutely no idea whatsoever why I don't get a call back for an interview, and companies just ghost all the time. How could you possibly know if you lost job opportunities due to your race and gender unless they said "sorry we're gonna do some unlawful discrimination on you."

listening to a podcast where someone recounts their crippling addiction to sissy hypno, and the demons and mental illness it summoned. give me a whole podcast of just this.