Nick Phillips

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When the government talks about getting tough on gangs I think about the lives so many of them have led. When has the government been anything but tough on them? What actual fucking chance did they have. Shame on the government and all those who went before them

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Lessons I've learned from the LLM era (list to be expanded, probably): 1. Sufficiently advanced autocomplete is indistinguishable from an impossibly well-read toddler on peyote. 2. Almost any decision has the potential to be a life-or-death decision, if you're bad enough at it.

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"I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead" Happy birthday to TOM STOPPARD, born Tomáš Straussler this day (July 3) in 1937

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Lol. Facts: Government forced to boost pharmac funding after sustained outcry from the public and appalling optics that they believed damaged their expensively wrought facade. They’re wrong, there is no facade we know they’re venal, self-serving incompetent economic managers and bad for NZ.

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Werner Herzog directing a Maybelline ad: Perhaps she is born with it. What a frightful notion, to be imbued with the fetters of capitalist commodification from birth. It suggests God Himself is a part of our dreadful pattern instead of a refuge from it.

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I saw the pizza oven I was going to buy described as the Tesla of pizza ovens but I figured in that case it is supposed to catch fire

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I know it's a controversial take, especially because so much effort went into stealing him, but if world events keep escalating I think we should return Timothee Chalamet to the Fae. They're obviously still super angry

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Kids (0 to 9 age) have not seen the same reduction in risk from hospitalisation due to covid as older age groups, because there are a constant supply of infants added to this cohort who are meeting covid for the first time with untrained immune systems.

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Smells like corruption, should have an independent investigation into why a Minister is having off the books meetings with anyone. Especially the Minister parading himself around as the free pass to fast track approvals #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Shane Jones defends links to industry and diary omissionwww.rnz.co.nz Resources Minister Shane Jones says accusations that he may be too close to industry executives are minor details and political games.

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i think i speak for everyone around the world when i say FINALLY

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This is true. Around 1300 BCE

TIL an ancient Egyptian pregnancy test was pissing in a sack of wheat and seeing if it sprouted and apparently 1) it’s about 70-85% accurate and 2) it tests for the exact same hormones that ClearBlue is testing for

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I’ll just leave this here again. #nzpol New ferries “The two new ferries would have meant double the passenger and vehicle capacity and triple rail capacity, while reducing the carbon footprint by about 40 percent.”

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The Cambridgeshire branch of the Ever Given Reenactment Society is at it again.

Cargo ship has grounded in the River Nene, Cambridgeshirewww.bbc.co.uk

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Don’t let the facts get in the way Nicola www.kiwirail.co.nz/media/new-fe... The new ships were to be MORE manoeuvrable And the first one was due in 2025 #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Finance Minister Nicola Willis responds to ferry decision criticism after ship runs agroundwww.rnz.co.nz One of the KiwiRail shareholding ministers says there are good reasons for the InterIslander ferry service to stay in government hands.

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Dearest NZ Labour. Please for the love of queer Winnie the Pooh do not take a centrist line. You lost the last election because your centrist bullshit broke your MPs. There were own goals, but effectively you lost the public’s trust. Fight for workers and start drafting an omnibus repeal bill!

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a ruthless predator, alligators will sometimes use jazz hands to lure musical theatre people to their deaths

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I dunno but a govt that spent 100 days cancelling the previous govt’s legislation & initiatives, and is pushing through a bill that will allow fast track private enterprise projects with little public scrutiny has got a nerve being “incredibly disappointed” with anyone else’s “asset management”.

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Over 22 years of a career in social media T&S I have seen every single possible attempted abuse of a "parental authority" doctrine possible, even without it being enshrined into law. Some highlights, or should that be lowlights:

Bugger.

RIP Donald Sutherland. Absolutely brilliant. variety.com/2024/film/ne...

Donald Sutherland, Star of ‘MASH,’ ‘Klute’ and ‘Hunger Games,’ Dies at 88variety.com Donald Sutherland, who starred in 'MASH,' 'Klute' and 'The Hunger Games' franchise, has died. He was 88.

For the supposed "party of business", National are fucking shit at understanding business, economics, investment etc etc.

Maybe, you wet wipe, Kiwirail was anticipating the END OF USE LIFE FOR THE FERRIES AS PLANNED AND THEIR REPLACEMENTS THAT YOU CANCELLED www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/governmen...

Government 'highly unimpressed' with KiwiRail's maintenance of Cook Strait ferrieswww.nzherald.co.nz Ministers say they expect KiwiRail to maintain its ferries to the appropriate standard.

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Back in 2017, when Maggie Barry was the conservation minister, DOC launched its Threatened Species Strategy which listed 150 "priority threatened and at-risk species. They also published the code (in R, I think) that they used to determine the critters that made the list of 150 species 1/n

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Next up: "Women getting too uppity", says Minister for Women

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Just to be clear: The ACT Party’s decision to bully a university on social media for having a dedicated space on campus for Māori and Pacifica students, resulted in those students and staff receiving death threats. www.nzherald.co.nz/talanoa/auck...

Auckland Uni staff faced death threats after segregation claimswww.nzherald.co.nz Auckland University stands by its decision to support diversity on campus.

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Agencies can consult Ministers before deciding an OIA request. But the responsibility remains with the agency. DOC let Ministers take control to delay release and frustrate public participation in Fast-track Bill consultation. It was unlawful.

Fast-track legislation: DOC's OIA refusal was unlawful - Ombudsmanwww.rnz.co.nz The Ombudsman found the Department of Conservation was both unlawful and unreasonable in its refusal to provide copies of its advice to ministers regarding the proposed Fast-track Approvals Bill.

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8/ Stafford Beer, in The Heart of Enterprise, tells a story about a British factory where all the shop foremen would have tea together every Tuesday and compare notes and decide how best to use shared resources. Management found out and barred them from having tea together and talking business.

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Putting this in your feed, and please know that I am incredibly interested in how the Department will be assessing "high value" species, because they have form in doing this badly. newsroom.co.nz/2024/06/12/m...

Minister foreshadows hard choices for conservation departmentnewsroom.co.nz DoC will pull back from some areas but focus more keenly on others, the minister says, while seeking external partners and investors

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Here's a stat to share with traffic engineers who claim there's no tradeoff btw vehicle speed and safety: In Wales, car insurance claims fell 20% following the introduction of 20 mph speed limits across urban areas. www.theguardian.com/business/art...

Vehicle damage claims in Wales fall 20% since speed limit cut to 20mph, says insurerwww.theguardian.com Campaigners say lower speeds reduce casualties but scheme has since been amended to give people more choice to rescind limits