Jennifer Duval-Smith

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Ruin a children's television program by changing one letter: Gluey

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PEDESTRIANS 👏 ARE 👏 TRAFFIC 👏

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"Seatbelts, air bags and other safety features protect us when we travel in cars. When we’re *not* in cars, we rely on a safe street environment to prevent and mitigate crashes. Snatching away safe speed limits is as unthinkable as taking away our seatbelts." A great piece by Christina Robertson.

Some concise stats here too, to inspire folk to submit newsroom.co.nz/2024/07/06/s...

Safety features don’t end at the car doornewsroom.co.nz Opinion: Snatching away safe speed limits is as unthinkable as taking away our seatbelts, argues Christina Robertson.

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Some of the stuff this coalition is doing well be relatively easily undone. Some will be expensive and take thought. But the signaling to society that "expertise doesn't matter" may take a generation to fully unwind.

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What a day! Statement from me about today’s outcome of my employment court case: drive.google.com/file/d/1hR_n...

Siouxsie Wiles statement.pdfdrive.google.com

Those miserable little RW incels always look remarkably similar

Far-right and progressives react at the same time to French election results – video

Far-right and progressives react at the same time to French election results – videowww.theguardian.com There was stunned silence at the far-right National Rally (RN) party headquarters as the results of France’s legislative elections came in. In stark opposition, ecstatic jubilation rocked Place de La République Square where leftwing New Popular Front (NFP) supporters had gathered. The leftist alliance unexpectedly took the top spot in the elections, ahead of the far right in a major upset that bars Marine Le Pen's National Rally from getting enough seats to form a government ‘We were so scared’: France’s centrist and leftwing voters breathe sigh of relief French election 2024 updates Continue reading...

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Puff piece lead 1News tonight trying to reframe the narrative around coal to be about getting a fair deal, with no mention of environmental destruction and climate change

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Can I just point out that the accelerating pollution of the information commons makes the few remaining human-curated projects like Wikipedia even more valuable, and that’s why I relentlessly encourage people to double down on improving it.

Depressing that the entire promise of the internet was once that we would have all the world's information at our fingertips, and genAI has, in a very short space of time, completely nullified that idea.

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'Sometimes things don't go, after all, from bad to worse' Thinking a lot about this poem today.

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This STINKS! The cronies, with numerous conflicts of interest, paid $1200/day, are appointed to decide without scrutiny, which projects will be fast-tracked. The list of projects was not made available to anyone to consider in their submissions www.thepost.co.nz/politics/350... #nzpol

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It says everything you need to know about the British media that the Greens winning 4 seats is a curiosity and their interview questions have been about their message not getting through but according to them Reform winning an identical number of seats is a stunning underdog achievement.

Trump has gone full Sergeant Schultz

[email protected]: Project 2025 may be backfiring. Trump: I know nothing! I know nothing! www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...

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☑️ Told Simeon Brown what I think of his petty, wasteful, costly, and unsafe speed limit proposals. You have until 11 July to do the same. Get on it! #nzpol consult.transport.govt.nz/policy/setti...

At which point does it pass from hobby to hyperfixation?

@jonnelledge.bsky.social Best Papercuts episode ever. Hysterical.

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"This evidence I don't like is ideology" says the minister who for vibes-based reasons is also forcing local government to reverse locally-supported evidence-based speed limit reductions.

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We’ve been saying for a long time how small the population of TERFs is…

Count Binface got 308 votes Posie Parker got 196 votes Ergo, bins are more popular than terfs

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The Heritage Foundation “don’t make us kill you, Democrats” statement may mark one of those moments people will read about in 100 years (hopefully!) and think to themselves “why didn’t they freak out when they heard the extremists say that?” (Sadly, it’s just not how humans work most of the time)

That Heritage Foundation statement threatening a violent revolution against the left = that moment in a movie in which the forces of evil loudly announce their evil plans. except in real life, unlike in a movie, most normal people don’t even realize this has *happened* (which is our job).

On ya bike, northern shrike

Hit the road, common toad

A list of eight cute animal rhymes to say farewell... 8. In a while, crocodile 7. Toodle-oo, kangaroo 6. Ciao for now, Jersey cow 5. Why you still here, white-tailed deer 4. Just piss off, luna moth 3. Go to hell, red gazelle 2. Kiss my hole, woodland vole 1. Off you fuck, crested duck

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From top hat to stop that.

jacob rees-mogg has to lose while standing next to a guy wearing a baked beans-themed balaclava

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"None of the key concepts contained in the proposed principles are truly present in te Tiriti. Instead, the proposed principles are built on additions, omissions and distortions of the original text". www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...

Treaty Principles Bill: Māori translators pen letter over 'deeply flawed translations'www.rnz.co.nz A group of licensed Māori translators have hit out at the upcoming Treaty Principles Bill, calling it factually incorrect and misleading.

My online experience encapsulated in one title .

Oh word? www.independent.co.uk/tech/crypto-...

Scientists claim crypto owners are likely to be narcissistic, psychopathic or sadistswww.independent.co.uk Investors in digital currency tend to be argumentative men, study suggests

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Through my childhood, on election nights, my dad was the man under Peter Snow’s desk putting interesting facts on notecards into his socks. That’s how it was done before Google, kids. You got a very clever ASD man with some Oxford degrees to just remember interesting constituency histories.

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Gerard Otto Facebook : Crash Test Dummy Simeon Brown “Astonishedeitr545824759.wordpress.com Simeon Brown said he was astonished that Aucklanders don't seem to want more road deaths and injuries on their roads after many people voted for National ages ago in an election. What's wrong with ign...

Utterly fascinating

Nature can be rather disturbing at times, but amazing too! Here are a couple of examples of entomopathogenic fungi I've seen across New Zealand - that's fungi which infect and kill invertebrates (yep, 'The Last of Us' style). Can you tell what the unfortunate hosts were? #Entomology 🧪

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'This time it will be different' #yeahright same old vibe-based solutions from National etc -this cartoon from 2008 #nzpol #cartoon @nzlistenermag

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Perfect summary. Worth a read if you want to understand Luxon and his mates. It’s not exactly equal to this (because USA) but the same basic processes apply if you met Kings/Grammar boys circa the 80s to 90s. I have a large collection of horror stories. TW: Discussions of sexual assault #nzpol

In "How Men Like Donald Trump, Brett Kavanaugh, And Brock Turner Are Made," writer Amelia Mavis Christnot explores the roots of toxic masculinity and privilege. From Ivy League halls to positions of power, see how entitlement shapes behavior and fuels impunity. A powerful read.

How Men Like Donald Trump, Brett Kavanaugh And Brock Turner Are Madethinkbigpicture.substack.com As an Ivy alumnus, I witnessed the process in action.