Johnny Silverpatch
@johnnyredlives.bsky.social
Scruffy-looking. Not sure where I get my delusions from. I love a girl with spirit.
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Well at least Australia is famously blessed with lots of fresh water and isn't, say, our planet's driest populated continent, with a only thin reliably habitable zone around the coast, and permanent water restrictions even in their biggest city.
December 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Well at least Australia is famously blessed with lots of fresh water and isn't, say, our planet's driest populated continent, with a only thin reliably habitable zone around the coast, and permanent water restrictions even in their biggest city.
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Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
December 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
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Men don’t have to “pretend to be women” to enter women’s locker rooms, changing rooms, and bathrooms. Famously, Donald Trump just strolled right in
December 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Men don’t have to “pretend to be women” to enter women’s locker rooms, changing rooms, and bathrooms. Famously, Donald Trump just strolled right in
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This is not true. This is argument that pro-gun people use to discount red flag and waiting period laws. Ease of access and lethality (let alone cheerful instruction in the best method!) is the #1 predictor of attempts leading actual completion. The more barriers, the more people live.
I think it's fine Chat GPT is telling people how to kill themselves. They'll figure it out one way or another if they're serious.
December 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This is not true. This is argument that pro-gun people use to discount red flag and waiting period laws. Ease of access and lethality (let alone cheerful instruction in the best method!) is the #1 predictor of attempts leading actual completion. The more barriers, the more people live.
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I endorse these messages from staff at North Shore Hospital
December 2, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I endorse these messages from staff at North Shore Hospital
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a question worth periodically reflecting on is why organisms have fat in the first place
December 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
a question worth periodically reflecting on is why organisms have fat in the first place
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Numbers are fun.
427 students at 8 charter schools is an average of 54 students per school.
$10.9 million divided by 8 charter schools is $1.362 million per school.
Or about $25.5k per student.
State schools are 9k per student.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
427 students at 8 charter schools is an average of 54 students per school.
$10.9 million divided by 8 charter schools is $1.362 million per school.
Or about $25.5k per student.
State schools are 9k per student.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Charter School Agency reveals enrolment numbers after telling schools to keep figures under wraps
The number of enrolments had been kept under wraps after the agency told the privately-run, state-funded schools not to reveal their numbers while still setting up.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Numbers are fun.
427 students at 8 charter schools is an average of 54 students per school.
$10.9 million divided by 8 charter schools is $1.362 million per school.
Or about $25.5k per student.
State schools are 9k per student.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
427 students at 8 charter schools is an average of 54 students per school.
$10.9 million divided by 8 charter schools is $1.362 million per school.
Or about $25.5k per student.
State schools are 9k per student.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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For those wanting to have sensible conversations about the cost of building and maintaining things, use the capital goods index in infoshare not the CPI if you want CPI equivalent discussions about how prices have risen.
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
For those wanting to have sensible conversations about the cost of building and maintaining things, use the capital goods index in infoshare not the CPI if you want CPI equivalent discussions about how prices have risen.
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This is a legitimate scientific revolution in meteorology.
Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting. n.pr/49MFa1M
As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season ends, the future of forecasting is AI
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting.
n.pr
November 30, 2025 at 5:55 AM
This is a legitimate scientific revolution in meteorology.
Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
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This Bill could invalidate the votes of enough people to swing the next election in favour of the current government for no reason other than that they failed to fill out the correct piece of paper by the "proper" time (as defined by the people who benefit from the rule change).
Justice Committee recommends passing Electoral Amendment Bill with some amendments
The bill would prevent same-day enrolments, ban prisoners from voting, and tighten up the rules around treating.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This Bill could invalidate the votes of enough people to swing the next election in favour of the current government for no reason other than that they failed to fill out the correct piece of paper by the "proper" time (as defined by the people who benefit from the rule change).
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The face of someone who is being relentlessly teased by a sparrow.
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The face of someone who is being relentlessly teased by a sparrow.
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He rescued 9 cats and 1 dog from the Hong Kong fire 🥺
November 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
He rescued 9 cats and 1 dog from the Hong Kong fire 🥺
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A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
1. Peter Gabriel
2. Echo & the Bunnymen (at Radio City Hall!)
3. Chvrches
4. The National
5. Paramore
1. Peter Gabriel
2. Echo & the Bunnymen (at Radio City Hall!)
3. Chvrches
4. The National
5. Paramore
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
1. Leonard Cohen
2. The Beths
3. Laura Marling
4. Tiny Ruins
5. Belle & Sebastian
1. Leonard Cohen
2. The Beths
3. Laura Marling
4. Tiny Ruins
5. Belle & Sebastian
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
A random selection
- Elton John
- Adele
- Pink
- Ed Sheeran
- James Blunt
A random selection
- Elton John
- Adele
- Pink
- Ed Sheeran
- James Blunt
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
1. Peter Gabriel
2. Echo & the Bunnymen (at Radio City Hall!)
3. Chvrches
4. The National
5. Paramore
1. Peter Gabriel
2. Echo & the Bunnymen (at Radio City Hall!)
3. Chvrches
4. The National
5. Paramore
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Krugman nails it on collapsing bubbles, beats me to the punch. The collapse of the tech bubble in the 00s was not a single slide, but had many partial reversals. Look for the same with the AI bubble paulkrugman.substack.com/p/warning-th...
Warning: The Fed Can’t Rescue AI
Lessons from the dotcom crash
paulkrugman.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Krugman nails it on collapsing bubbles, beats me to the punch. The collapse of the tech bubble in the 00s was not a single slide, but had many partial reversals. Look for the same with the AI bubble paulkrugman.substack.com/p/warning-th...
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Vaccinating boys and girls. It works bitches.
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Vaccinating boys and girls. It works bitches.
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My actual food discourse take is that the problem with low stakes Internet discourse like the food stuff isn’t the people with opinions, it’s the people who act like you kicked their dog if you say you don’t like something they do. Learn how to not take other people’s opinions personally.
my take on Food Discourse is that it's always ridiculous but it's also nice to be fighting about dumb internet shit again instead of dealing with Oppressive Despair all the time so please keep posting your bad takes
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
My actual food discourse take is that the problem with low stakes Internet discourse like the food stuff isn’t the people with opinions, it’s the people who act like you kicked their dog if you say you don’t like something they do. Learn how to not take other people’s opinions personally.
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3/ Everybody wants privacy in the bathroom.
There's even a whole #BringBackDoors campaign.
Yet I keep accidentally booking into hotel rooms that seem determined to reject this basic human comfort.
Great video by @kendragaylord.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFPG...
There's even a whole #BringBackDoors campaign.
Yet I keep accidentally booking into hotel rooms that seem determined to reject this basic human comfort.
Great video by @kendragaylord.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFPG...
What happened to bathroom doors?
YouTube video by Kendra Gaylord
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
3/ Everybody wants privacy in the bathroom.
There's even a whole #BringBackDoors campaign.
Yet I keep accidentally booking into hotel rooms that seem determined to reject this basic human comfort.
Great video by @kendragaylord.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFPG...
There's even a whole #BringBackDoors campaign.
Yet I keep accidentally booking into hotel rooms that seem determined to reject this basic human comfort.
Great video by @kendragaylord.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFPG...
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i have agreed with stancil and i have disagreed with stancil. he has sharp elbows. but the accusation that he is a raging transphobe is not connected to reality. and the weaponization of "i'm listening to trans people" to smear someone because you disagree about fucking econ polling is disgusting
No, I do not “pick on” trans people, I have never done anything like this. And frankly, I think the willingness of some people to completely invent accusations of transphobia in the desperate search for a cudgel against ideological opponents suggests they don’t really care about transphobia
Listen dude, you can try and ride for this guy all you want, but the trans userbase of this platform fucking hates him because he picks on them. I'm going to listen to the trans people I know who are telling me he's bad. Plus I've been in these threads and seen it
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
i have agreed with stancil and i have disagreed with stancil. he has sharp elbows. but the accusation that he is a raging transphobe is not connected to reality. and the weaponization of "i'm listening to trans people" to smear someone because you disagree about fucking econ polling is disgusting
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NZ has had two major reforms of subnational government so far: 1876 and 1989
As the guy who literally wrote a book on the demise of that first system, *and* as someone who generally supports more unitary authorities, my considered opinion is that this proposal is completely insane
As the guy who literally wrote a book on the demise of that first system, *and* as someone who generally supports more unitary authorities, my considered opinion is that this proposal is completely insane
No more regional councils - major shake-up of local government announced
The government says it is not a power grab, but about "making local government fit for purpose".
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
NZ has had two major reforms of subnational government so far: 1876 and 1989
As the guy who literally wrote a book on the demise of that first system, *and* as someone who generally supports more unitary authorities, my considered opinion is that this proposal is completely insane
As the guy who literally wrote a book on the demise of that first system, *and* as someone who generally supports more unitary authorities, my considered opinion is that this proposal is completely insane
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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This seems to me blindingly obvious. And it's why it's *so* disappointing to me that some of my colleagues in tertiary education - and in primary and secondary - have turned to LLMs as a salve for our undoubtedly pressing workloads. Pushing these on students is a betrayal of our most basic mission.
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This seems to me blindingly obvious. And it's why it's *so* disappointing to me that some of my colleagues in tertiary education - and in primary and secondary - have turned to LLMs as a salve for our undoubtedly pressing workloads. Pushing these on students is a betrayal of our most basic mission.
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Going to be very specific in what I say here because I assume people are going to misinterpret and think I'm saying more than I am, so please read the whole 🧵.
But: I would be VERY skeptical of the framing of this story that is getting passed around widely.
But: I would be VERY skeptical of the framing of this story that is getting passed around widely.
Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being Vaishnavi Jayakumar testified the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the trafficking of humans for sex.
“You could incur 16 violations and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended"
time.com/7336204/meta...
“You could incur 16 violations and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended"
time.com/7336204/meta...
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Going to be very specific in what I say here because I assume people are going to misinterpret and think I'm saying more than I am, so please read the whole 🧵.
But: I would be VERY skeptical of the framing of this story that is getting passed around widely.
But: I would be VERY skeptical of the framing of this story that is getting passed around widely.