Dillon Pentz
@hatetosayit.com
NZ person now living in Australia. "Professionally Gamer Adjacent".
Developer for @supportclass.net, @gamesdonequick.com and @vodbox.co. Maintain https://policepolicy.nz with @curly.kiwi. Formerly @obsproject.com.
AuDHD. Somewhat obnoxious. Sorry. he/him
Developer for @supportclass.net, @gamesdonequick.com and @vodbox.co. Maintain https://policepolicy.nz with @curly.kiwi. Formerly @obsproject.com.
AuDHD. Somewhat obnoxious. Sorry. he/him
"(excitedly) Thank you street shitters!" - @cloudcuckoocountry.bsky.social out of context during Jackbox
December 27, 2025 at 9:16 AM
"(excitedly) Thank you street shitters!" - @cloudcuckoocountry.bsky.social out of context during Jackbox
Happy "Almost Christmas means it wasn't Christmas" day to all those who celebrate
December 24, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Happy "Almost Christmas means it wasn't Christmas" day to all those who celebrate
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Farkin hell
a) McHerron J is in the handful of most able judicial review judges across all benches in NZ.
b) The orders here are, in judicial terms, worded extremely strongly. Clear implication that corrections cannot be trusted to follow the court's interpretation of the law w/o mandatory orders.
a) McHerron J is in the handful of most able judicial review judges across all benches in NZ.
b) The orders here are, in judicial terms, worded extremely strongly. Clear implication that corrections cannot be trusted to follow the court's interpretation of the law w/o mandatory orders.
December 16, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Farkin hell
a) McHerron J is in the handful of most able judicial review judges across all benches in NZ.
b) The orders here are, in judicial terms, worded extremely strongly. Clear implication that corrections cannot be trusted to follow the court's interpretation of the law w/o mandatory orders.
a) McHerron J is in the handful of most able judicial review judges across all benches in NZ.
b) The orders here are, in judicial terms, worded extremely strongly. Clear implication that corrections cannot be trusted to follow the court's interpretation of the law w/o mandatory orders.
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I enjoy a good judicial ruling where the judge is clearly unwilling to tolerate any more fucking nonsense.
December 16, 2025 at 5:32 AM
I enjoy a good judicial ruling where the judge is clearly unwilling to tolerate any more fucking nonsense.
Seeing basically no news about the Bondi shooting on BlueSky without going into trending feeds, and even logging into X for the first time in a while, it's tumbleweeds.
Elon's systematic destruction of Twitter has truly dismantled and eliminated a key way to actually keep up with live news.
Elon's systematic destruction of Twitter has truly dismantled and eliminated a key way to actually keep up with live news.
December 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Seeing basically no news about the Bondi shooting on BlueSky without going into trending feeds, and even logging into X for the first time in a while, it's tumbleweeds.
Elon's systematic destruction of Twitter has truly dismantled and eliminated a key way to actually keep up with live news.
Elon's systematic destruction of Twitter has truly dismantled and eliminated a key way to actually keep up with live news.
A thing about defeatist politics I sometimes think about is, while the much more obvious effect is making people believe achievable things are impossible, a more subtle poison it provides is making actually impossible things seem like they're still up for debate, which just wastes everyone's time.
December 14, 2025 at 5:07 AM
A thing about defeatist politics I sometimes think about is, while the much more obvious effect is making people believe achievable things are impossible, a more subtle poison it provides is making actually impossible things seem like they're still up for debate, which just wastes everyone's time.
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You didn't lose because you promised too much, you lost because you spent the first term setting up working groups who you fucking ignored and then despite a historic majority you entered a flow state of DOING NOTHING WILL KEEP VOTERS HAPPY that ran from Ardern to Hipkins and lost the 2023 election.
December 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
You didn't lose because you promised too much, you lost because you spent the first term setting up working groups who you fucking ignored and then despite a historic majority you entered a flow state of DOING NOTHING WILL KEEP VOTERS HAPPY that ran from Ardern to Hipkins and lost the 2023 election.
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Chris Hipkins strategies are looking at Keir Starmer and Kamala Harris and going "yes, what I need to do is be like them and not scare people because the right wing will attack us if we promise anything good so we must promise managed decline and continuity" which is so fucking stupid I could cry.
December 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Chris Hipkins strategies are looking at Keir Starmer and Kamala Harris and going "yes, what I need to do is be like them and not scare people because the right wing will attack us if we promise anything good so we must promise managed decline and continuity" which is so fucking stupid I could cry.
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Wow. Just absolutely pitch perfect cold porridge no salt or sugar politics. 2026 is going to be National going "let us finish the reforms we started..." and Labour going "no let us finish the reforms they started". Dog shit politics, absolutely terrible.
"We've had a series of governments now who have encouraged people to be aspirational for New Zealand and have promised things that have been completely unrealistic. ... I'm not going to fall into that trap."
#NzPol
#NzPol
'Opportunity to stamp my own mark': Chris Hipkins promises a different Labour
The last election saw Labour's six years in government come to an end, and Hipkins returning to the opposition benches just 10 months after becoming prime minister.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Wow. Just absolutely pitch perfect cold porridge no salt or sugar politics. 2026 is going to be National going "let us finish the reforms we started..." and Labour going "no let us finish the reforms they started". Dog shit politics, absolutely terrible.
With the news that Calibri is woke, and Times New Roman is MAGA, it's time we determine once and for all the political leanings of all typefaces.
December 10, 2025 at 6:59 AM
With the news that Calibri is woke, and Times New Roman is MAGA, it's time we determine once and for all the political leanings of all typefaces.
This puts a lot better a lot of the frustrations I've been having with how Labour and its party staff approach politics and progressivism.
Like, it's not *just* that their position is weaker than I'd like. So much of it is just being straight up bad at politics.
Like, it's not *just* that their position is weaker than I'd like. So much of it is just being straight up bad at politics.
I really think a lot of centre-left Labour-supporting people, if they truly want to change the government *and* get genuine progressive/left policies over the line, need to brush up on the history of the ACT Party
I'm quite serious
I'm quite serious
December 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This puts a lot better a lot of the frustrations I've been having with how Labour and its party staff approach politics and progressivism.
Like, it's not *just* that their position is weaker than I'd like. So much of it is just being straight up bad at politics.
Like, it's not *just* that their position is weaker than I'd like. So much of it is just being straight up bad at politics.
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Hey, so guess what I did? 🧵
Can I prove Deloitte used AI to write this report? No. But that would honestly be the less embarrassing option. The research in this report is below par for a 1st year undergrad, where they even bother to show research.
Let's unpack some of the mistakes I found.
#nzpol
Can I prove Deloitte used AI to write this report? No. But that would honestly be the less embarrassing option. The research in this report is below par for a 1st year undergrad, where they even bother to show research.
Let's unpack some of the mistakes I found.
#nzpol
Just noting which consultancy wrote this report and the history of their reports for public agencies internationally. Anyone check the footnotes of this one?
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Hundreds of job cuts proposed in new report to Wellington City Council
Wellington City Council could save tens of millions of dollars through cost-cutting, such as reducing staff, according to a new report.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Hey, so guess what I did? 🧵
Can I prove Deloitte used AI to write this report? No. But that would honestly be the less embarrassing option. The research in this report is below par for a 1st year undergrad, where they even bother to show research.
Let's unpack some of the mistakes I found.
#nzpol
Can I prove Deloitte used AI to write this report? No. But that would honestly be the less embarrassing option. The research in this report is below par for a 1st year undergrad, where they even bother to show research.
Let's unpack some of the mistakes I found.
#nzpol
Four week battery life? I prefer my things stand four strong battery life.
December 8, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Four week battery life? I prefer my things stand four strong battery life.
On the train to work today, school kids were quoting Charlie the Unicorn, and using the r slur, what year is it
November 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
On the train to work today, school kids were quoting Charlie the Unicorn, and using the r slur, what year is it
Incredibly minor software design complaint: if a button in your desktop application doesn't look like a link, or it doesn't specify it will open a browser with text or a modal, then it shouldn't fucking open a browser.
November 30, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Incredibly minor software design complaint: if a button in your desktop application doesn't look like a link, or it doesn't specify it will open a browser with text or a modal, then it shouldn't fucking open a browser.
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Some scientist believes this machine is sentient and capable of feeling hope; critics disagree
November 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Some scientist believes this machine is sentient and capable of feeling hope; critics disagree
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What is the charge? Eating a pie? A succulent handheld meat pie? This is Democracy manifest!
* New Zealand takes pies (namely, handheld meat pies) so seriously that there are National Pie Awards that get major media coverage. The New Zealand National Library has a whole dedicated category for “Pies — Competitions.”
Pie.
Pie.
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
What is the charge? Eating a pie? A succulent handheld meat pie? This is Democracy manifest!
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In the US they only have fruit pies, served by the slice. It's likely one of the reasons they are failing as a state.
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
In the US they only have fruit pies, served by the slice. It's likely one of the reasons they are failing as a state.
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In The Labyrinth of Time, entering the Ziggurat without a lantern is supposed to show a black screen. However, the developers put in the wrong filename for the black screen, so it fails to render, showing a black screen instead
November 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
In The Labyrinth of Time, entering the Ziggurat without a lantern is supposed to show a black screen. However, the developers put in the wrong filename for the black screen, so it fails to render, showing a black screen instead
I am begging the people posting about nzpol on my timeline, to please understand how MMP works.
November 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I am begging the people posting about nzpol on my timeline, to please understand how MMP works.
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Okay I just need to get these things out of my system:
"Labour are splitting the vote by running against Green candidates!!!" no they aren't, you KNOW how MMP works, and this is a shit argument when it's the other way around, so it's also a shit argument now
"Labour are splitting the vote by running against Green candidates!!!" no they aren't, you KNOW how MMP works, and this is a shit argument when it's the other way around, so it's also a shit argument now
November 23, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Okay I just need to get these things out of my system:
"Labour are splitting the vote by running against Green candidates!!!" no they aren't, you KNOW how MMP works, and this is a shit argument when it's the other way around, so it's also a shit argument now
"Labour are splitting the vote by running against Green candidates!!!" no they aren't, you KNOW how MMP works, and this is a shit argument when it's the other way around, so it's also a shit argument now
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Oh, so I should stop using em dashes because of AI since LLMs are DESIGNED to emulate well-structured professional writing LIKE MINE?
I gave up my addiction to inappropriate use of semi-colons & ellipses. Em dashes are my approved therapeutic alternative. They'll pry them from my cold, dead fingers
I gave up my addiction to inappropriate use of semi-colons & ellipses. Em dashes are my approved therapeutic alternative. They'll pry them from my cold, dead fingers
November 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Oh, so I should stop using em dashes because of AI since LLMs are DESIGNED to emulate well-structured professional writing LIKE MINE?
I gave up my addiction to inappropriate use of semi-colons & ellipses. Em dashes are my approved therapeutic alternative. They'll pry them from my cold, dead fingers
I gave up my addiction to inappropriate use of semi-colons & ellipses. Em dashes are my approved therapeutic alternative. They'll pry them from my cold, dead fingers
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Duncan Garner may just be some bus stop drunk with a podcast these days, but it's good to see he hasn't lost his journalism skills, particularly the act of just shitting a few numbers and coloured rectangles over a stock image of the beehive.
November 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Duncan Garner may just be some bus stop drunk with a podcast these days, but it's good to see he hasn't lost his journalism skills, particularly the act of just shitting a few numbers and coloured rectangles over a stock image of the beehive.