@psheth.bsky.social
Now living in Wellington, NZ. Previously in Richmond, VA, USA.
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The anti-cycleways talking points and spittle-flecked Facebook rants are putting cyclists at risk from aggressive car drivers. They get so angry and feel entitled to take revenge, cutting bike riders off at roundabouts, parking in bike lanes, close passing, yelling "get off the road". It's bullying.
February 17, 2026 at 3:49 AM
The anti-cycleways talking points and spittle-flecked Facebook rants are putting cyclists at risk from aggressive car drivers. They get so angry and feel entitled to take revenge, cutting bike riders off at roundabouts, parking in bike lanes, close passing, yelling "get off the road". It's bullying.
It's especially deranged in Wellington, which is easily the least car-dependent city in Australasia. Still pathetic by European standards, but miles ahead of any other city in NZ (Auckland and Christchurch both have >80% journeys by car)
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February 17, 2026 at 6:53 AM
It's especially deranged in Wellington, which is easily the least car-dependent city in Australasia. Still pathetic by European standards, but miles ahead of any other city in NZ (Auckland and Christchurch both have >80% journeys by car)
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Health NZ fired a bunch of IT staff and now there are constant IT failures making it impossible to do our jobs.
It should be really easy for Labour to keep hammering the incompetent health minister on the incredibly predictable consequences of his actions.
It should be really easy for Labour to keep hammering the incompetent health minister on the incredibly predictable consequences of his actions.
Doctors, nurses at South Island hospitals plagued by IT issues
"It's all very well to have plans, intentions and work-around but when this is a daily issue it becomes very difficult, demoralising and dangerous."
www.rnz.co.nz
February 16, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Health NZ fired a bunch of IT staff and now there are constant IT failures making it impossible to do our jobs.
It should be really easy for Labour to keep hammering the incompetent health minister on the incredibly predictable consequences of his actions.
It should be really easy for Labour to keep hammering the incompetent health minister on the incredibly predictable consequences of his actions.
Your regular reminder that the vast majority of Democratic elites are rabidly anti-immigrant.
They don't like the aesthetics of Trump's crackdown, but they are mostly okay with the policies. In fact, when they are in power, they ramp up deportations and brag about it!
They don't like the aesthetics of Trump's crackdown, but they are mostly okay with the policies. In fact, when they are in power, they ramp up deportations and brag about it!
February 16, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Your regular reminder that the vast majority of Democratic elites are rabidly anti-immigrant.
They don't like the aesthetics of Trump's crackdown, but they are mostly okay with the policies. In fact, when they are in power, they ramp up deportations and brag about it!
They don't like the aesthetics of Trump's crackdown, but they are mostly okay with the policies. In fact, when they are in power, they ramp up deportations and brag about it!
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That terrible place that had Liam in it and still has a ton of kids?
The one where the lights don't go out, the food has worms in it, where there isn't enough quality medical care?
Obama opened it and kept it full.
We can't let that happen again.
The one where the lights don't go out, the food has worms in it, where there isn't enough quality medical care?
Obama opened it and kept it full.
We can't let that happen again.
Hillary Clinton: "More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term."
February 16, 2026 at 9:48 PM
That terrible place that had Liam in it and still has a ton of kids?
The one where the lights don't go out, the food has worms in it, where there isn't enough quality medical care?
Obama opened it and kept it full.
We can't let that happen again.
The one where the lights don't go out, the food has worms in it, where there isn't enough quality medical care?
Obama opened it and kept it full.
We can't let that happen again.
The answer is that the public just doesn't like Hipkins. It's not because Luxon is popular -- he's consistently gotten very poor ratings and his party isn't polling well. But people have decisively rejected Hipkins since 2023.
If Labour keep him, they will lose again.
If Labour keep him, they will lose again.
Am I missing something that other Kiwis are seeing?
For the love of dog, how the fark are the coalition still polling with numbers to gain a second term?
#nzpol
For the love of dog, how the fark are the coalition still polling with numbers to gain a second term?
#nzpol
Poll: Hipkins, Luxon neck and neck as preferred PM – Govt gets 5/10
The results are revealed in the first 1News Verian poll of election year.
www.1news.co.nz
February 16, 2026 at 9:12 AM
The answer is that the public just doesn't like Hipkins. It's not because Luxon is popular -- he's consistently gotten very poor ratings and his party isn't polling well. But people have decisively rejected Hipkins since 2023.
If Labour keep him, they will lose again.
If Labour keep him, they will lose again.
This is a big factor in why people's vibes about the US economy since 2020 are so bad despite economic indicators looking good.
It's obvious that the gains are all being sucked up by the ultra-rich, while day-to-day affordability for most people isn't really improving
It's obvious that the gains are all being sucked up by the ultra-rich, while day-to-day affordability for most people isn't really improving
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
February 15, 2026 at 11:34 PM
This is a big factor in why people's vibes about the US economy since 2020 are so bad despite economic indicators looking good.
It's obvious that the gains are all being sucked up by the ultra-rich, while day-to-day affordability for most people isn't really improving
It's obvious that the gains are all being sucked up by the ultra-rich, while day-to-day affordability for most people isn't really improving
This is a perfect example of how Democratic leaders just fundamentally dislike immigrants. They may dislike thr aesthetics of what Trump is doing, but they don't actually object to the substance: when they are in power, they ramp up deportations and then brag about it.
Hillary Clinton: "More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term."
February 15, 2026 at 11:30 PM
This is a perfect example of how Democratic leaders just fundamentally dislike immigrants. They may dislike thr aesthetics of what Trump is doing, but they don't actually object to the substance: when they are in power, they ramp up deportations and then brag about it.
This wind is so loud that it keeps triggering the audio monitor in my toddler's room. But I don't want to turn it off because he will definitely be scared of the howling storm if he wakes up...
February 15, 2026 at 10:30 AM
This wind is so loud that it keeps triggering the audio monitor in my toddler's room. But I don't want to turn it off because he will definitely be scared of the howling storm if he wakes up...
Civ 4, 5, 6
CK3
Banished
Dota 2
WoW
CK3
Banished
Dota 2
WoW
Name a videogame you've put 500 hours into.
February 14, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Civ 4, 5, 6
CK3
Banished
Dota 2
WoW
CK3
Banished
Dota 2
WoW
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If we can’t afford to have the expertise in our councils to operate critical infrastructure, how can we pay someone else to do it?
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
Moa Point shows why critical infrastructure shouldn’t be outsourced
OPINION: Rongotai MP Julie Anne Genter argues Wellington’s sewage collapse is the predictable result of decades‑old privatisation models.
www.thepost.co.nz
February 14, 2026 at 7:01 AM
If we can’t afford to have the expertise in our councils to operate critical infrastructure, how can we pay someone else to do it?
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
This woman should go to jail for the rest of her life. You shouldn't get away with mass murder just because a car is involved.
Also CA has judicial recalls - this judge would be a great target for one.
Also CA has judicial recalls - this judge would be a great target for one.
Not taking away the driver's license of someone permanently who annihlated an entire family is...I have no words. In a city like SF too where the perpetrator could take public transit. www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...
S.F. driver accused of killing family of 4 in West Portal crash likely to avoid prison time
The woman prosecutors said killed a family of four after ramming into a bus stop with her car in San Francisco’s West Portal neighborhood will avoid jail time after changing her plea in court.
www.sfchronicle.com
February 14, 2026 at 6:36 AM
This woman should go to jail for the rest of her life. You shouldn't get away with mass murder just because a car is involved.
Also CA has judicial recalls - this judge would be a great target for one.
Also CA has judicial recalls - this judge would be a great target for one.
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ICE conducts daylight executions of civilians and uses children as bait, they are decades beyond reformable.
This is why there must be a full, independent investigation of every incident that ICE has been involved in. DHS and this administration cannot be trusted to carry out investigations on their own.
And it’s why Democrats are fighting to rein in ICE.
And it’s why Democrats are fighting to rein in ICE.
February 13, 2026 at 10:58 PM
ICE conducts daylight executions of civilians and uses children as bait, they are decades beyond reformable.
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Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.
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This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
These evil fuckers are torturing children for sport. Everyone whose work is even tangentially related to this should rot in jail for the rest of their lives.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 9:01 PM
These evil fuckers are torturing children for sport. Everyone whose work is even tangentially related to this should rot in jail for the rest of their lives.
This article is basically just a government press release with absolutely no context provided.
Stuff is helping the government parrot a big-sounding number. But only 1 billion even exists as of now, and the money can just be put into managed funds investing in large equities and bonds!
Stuff is helping the government parrot a big-sounding number. But only 1 billion even exists as of now, and the money can just be put into managed funds investing in large equities and bonds!
Government touts $3.4 billion of investment through ‘golden visa’
The Active Investor Plus visa has delivered $3.39 billion of investment for New Zealand in less than a year.
www.stuff.co.nz
February 13, 2026 at 3:10 AM
This article is basically just a government press release with absolutely no context provided.
Stuff is helping the government parrot a big-sounding number. But only 1 billion even exists as of now, and the money can just be put into managed funds investing in large equities and bonds!
Stuff is helping the government parrot a big-sounding number. But only 1 billion even exists as of now, and the money can just be put into managed funds investing in large equities and bonds!
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If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees.
This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
February 13, 2026 at 1:04 AM
If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees.
This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
So many dolphins in Wellington Harbour this evening! Came through Oriental Bay and right up to Clyde Quay
February 12, 2026 at 6:43 AM
So many dolphins in Wellington Harbour this evening! Came through Oriental Bay and right up to Clyde Quay
Yes this. Every time one of these local neighbor disputes ends up on the front page, it turns out there's something egregious going on, because normal people don't do that.
It's also a real indictment of our major media that they keep running these stories.
It's also a real indictment of our major media that they keep running these stories.
I'm also inclined not to give the benefit of the doubt to people who run to the media to complain about council doing their job.
February 11, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Yes this. Every time one of these local neighbor disputes ends up on the front page, it turns out there's something egregious going on, because normal people don't do that.
It's also a real indictment of our major media that they keep running these stories.
It's also a real indictment of our major media that they keep running these stories.
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This LNG terminal is such a bad idea that the government literally don't want their own Bad Idea Speeding Up system to look at it www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Government wants to bypass fast-track process for proposed liquefied natural gas terminal
A proposed LNG terminal will bypass even the fast-track process in order to be built in time.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 11, 2026 at 6:26 PM
This LNG terminal is such a bad idea that the government literally don't want their own Bad Idea Speeding Up system to look at it www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
All the more reason for the Labour and (especially) Greens to loudly promise they'll cancel it and tear up the contracts, especially if it goes through a rushed process
UNBELIEVABLE! 🤯
Luxon’s idiotic fossil gas terminal will bypass even the fast-track process so that construction can start before the election.
Let that sink in.
Luxon’s idiotic fossil gas terminal will bypass even the fast-track process so that construction can start before the election.
Let that sink in.
February 11, 2026 at 10:14 PM
All the more reason for the Labour and (especially) Greens to loudly promise they'll cancel it and tear up the contracts, especially if it goes through a rushed process
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Luxon is in the running for the dumbest National Party Think Big Project, with his LNG import terminal. He is competing with Muldoon's Motunui synthetic petrol plant which was obsolete before it was completed. But I reckon a $2.7 billion attempt to lock NZ into fossil fuels is in the running.
February 11, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Luxon is in the running for the dumbest National Party Think Big Project, with his LNG import terminal. He is competing with Muldoon's Motunui synthetic petrol plant which was obsolete before it was completed. But I reckon a $2.7 billion attempt to lock NZ into fossil fuels is in the running.
It's deeply funny that this is happening at the same time people are scolding us for being AI-hostile.
Like maybe people are actually right that this stuff is far less useful and far more dangerous than the hype indicates??
Like maybe people are actually right that this stuff is far less useful and far more dangerous than the hype indicates??
The AI features added to Notepad created a critical exploit vulnerable to loading a compromised txt file.
The fix is part of Patch Tuesday, so update your systems.
AI is not a feature I ever desired in Notepad. I should look into some alternatives...
The fix is part of Patch Tuesday, so update your systems.
AI is not a feature I ever desired in Notepad. I should look into some alternatives...
AI-upgraded Notepad now exposes Windows users to critical exploit
A critical remote code execution vulnerability found in the AI-upgraded Windows 11 Notepad has fueled renewed criticism of Microsoft's forced AI feature creep.
cybernews.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:47 PM
It's deeply funny that this is happening at the same time people are scolding us for being AI-hostile.
Like maybe people are actually right that this stuff is far less useful and far more dangerous than the hype indicates??
Like maybe people are actually right that this stuff is far less useful and far more dangerous than the hype indicates??