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Jason Kemp
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WordPress guy. Was Auckland, NZ - now in North Otago. B/g pic at the back of the Lindis Pass. Topics incl. music, film, biking, renewable energy, climate, tech, coffee, architecture, & the dog. Quals in law, arts & marketing. Barista. https://dialogcrm.com
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Seal of the day. Every year around this time a few seals come to this beach and hang out. #NorthOtago #Seal
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They have seen the reality of and the effects of climate change.. wake up the so called "developed" nations..
November 13, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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I have gone to 2 dif concerts at dif venues 2 nights in a row that were bands from out of town (Greensboro, North Carolina and Melbourne, Australia) congratulating New York for Zohran Mamdani and saying NYC politics contributed to people paying attention to their local politics
November 13, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Labour will repeal the Regulatory Standards bill.
November 13, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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He also only gets half of it. “I am a man; I hold nothing human as alien to me.” It’s also iirc from a play, it’s not a poet just spilling his guts it’s a busybody justifying his meddling
November 13, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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I know I have said it a few times before, but it's important.

Local elections matter at a global level. When world leaders have abandoned us to serve corporate masters, those who are leading from the trenches become our last line of global defense.
“Globally, despite extreme heat, floods and devastating wildfires, populist leaders, some sceptical but others in outright denial about the science, are talking up the costs of action rather than the consequences of inaction.”

6 global mayors defying climate denying populists
‘Politicians actually taking action’: six world mayors defying climate-sceptic populist leaders
From Sierra Leone to Milan, cities are crafting their own rules and innovations in the face of rising temperatures
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Nice to see Research, Science, Innovation and Technology getting a little airtime with two oral questions, and subsequent supplementary exchanges, in Parliament today. There are some extreme snippets on socials but here is full session (7 min). youtu.be/s2rz84uo2JQ
Parliament Oral Questions 10 and 11 on 13 Nov 2025
YouTube video by New Zealand Association of Scientists
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 6:19 AM
The view especially for Mike. The kitchen closes at 7pm which is so difficult when there is still 2 hrs of riding time :)

Zero alcohol beer because big rides this weekend.
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I like this new much better. In Melbourne about Feb so love seeing this kind of progress even if it is a bit slow in coming.
November 13, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Fuck this fucking government.
November 13, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Only once in the previous Solar Cycle (some 13 years ago) did I capture the #Aurora in the due east sky off the Otago coast. but certainly not with dusk still glowing in the south (right) and certainly not this colourful.

#Nikon #NZ
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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This monster 80° vertical x 170° wide panorama of the South Otago coast at Chrystalls Beach just as the aurora was becoming visible gives a hint at the scale of what was about to happen (all hell broke loose). You can see it's still dusk in the SW sky!

#Nikon #Aurora #NZ
November 13, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Shout out to everyone completely demoralized about the state of the world who still manages to get out of bed each morning.

And shout out to you, too if you’re still in bed. This shit is hard. Talk to your friends and neighbors. They’re going though it too, which is both terrifying and comforting.
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
It’s official. I’m moving North in January. Have been in Otago sorting out a family property. Very complicated :) but just went unconditional.

I met the new owners a few weeks before it went on market and made them a coffee. Coffee diplomacy works.

On my farewell tour of A2O then Lake Dunstan.
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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This is so gross

Luxon wont even show his face

98.7% of submissions were against it

Where is our mature adult convo on this now Luxon?

#nzpol
Unless things change between now and ~midday, it looks like the Regulatory Standards Bill will have its third reading this afternoon, starting at around 3.00, and then be passed into law in the coming days. Because it's a Thursday, the Prime Minister almost certainly won't be there for it. #NPZOL
November 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Now here's something you don't normally see 45°S in the mid latitudes, there's red aurora glow in the sky FACING NORTH! That glow is Ōtepoti Dunedin some 45km away.

#Aurora #NZ #Nikon
November 13, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Hopefully this gets results but not holding my breath.>

"Police Commissioner Richard Chambers has appointed an independent King’s Counsel to conduct an employment investigation. Newsroom understands veteran King’s Counsel Kristy McDonald has been retained."

newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/13/t...
Top lawyer to lead employment probe into three serving police leaders
The Independent Police Conduct Authority criticises an assistant commissioner, firearms boss and detective superintendent for their part in the Jevon McSkimming failings. Jonathan Milne reports.
newsroom.co.nz
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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A lovely 🧵 about Sir Ashley talking about leadership - kindness, community, and trust.
I miss him. And I miss smart, thoughtful, values driven leadership.
#nzpol
Sir Ashley Bloomfield is the first keynote speaker at the Community Waikato conference. Have already spied several folk getting in a quick selfie during the coffee break 😁 might do the same myself 🤣 I remain a big fan of his 🎊

#nz #nzpol #waikato
November 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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A country with higher taxation and CGT
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Timaruvians. I’m there passing through. While waiting for my car to charge i thought id do a short ride on my bike. Any ideas. Also any cafes or other places of note i should check out.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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In 2007-2008 David Cunliffe, as New Zealand's Minister for Communications in the Labour government initiated the forced operational separation of Telecom (now Spark)

This is the political bravery we need to deal with the Supermarket Duopoly
#NZPol
November 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Guten Morgen aus Berlin
November 12, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Views of the Aurora Borealis from NWS Seattle!
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Tracey Tawhiao, Māori artist, writer and poet who is part of the Māori art revival movement in Aotearoa/New Zealand #womensart
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 AM