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Dave
@dpdiver.bsky.social
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Diver, humanist.
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dpdiver.bsky.social
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Album cover of London Calling by The Clash, 1979
November 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
dpdiver.bsky.social
Same! It was a very good year with this banger too!
Cover of The Clash 1979 album London Calling
November 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
dpdiver.bsky.social
How can anyone think he’s a liability?😲
#nzpol
Headline from The NZ Herald “PM secures $8100 rates cut on luxury Waiheke holiday home” with a picture of Chris and Amanda Luxon grinning, dressed in casual black, sitting smugly on a couch.
October 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
dpdiver.bsky.social
I wouldn’t worry, dolls are harmless and cute!
The head of a doll, coated in silt, on the wreck of the Mikhail Lermontov, hardly looking at all creepy unless she winks at you.
October 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
dpdiver.bsky.social
Hehe, the Foxy Effect is in full force!
October 15, 2025 at 4:14 AM
dpdiver.bsky.social
Willis and Luxon are firmly stuck on the lowest level of the competence development model, with no evidence that they will ever evolve past there.
Levels of competence model - Unconscious Incompetence, Conscious Incompetence, Conscious Competence, Unconscious competence.
October 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
dpdiver.bsky.social
Be nice if Radio New Zealand told the whole story. They could take some lessons from Al Jazeera.
Radio New Zealand headline "Trump tells Israel to stop bombing Gaza" Al Jazeeral headline below a picture of 2 men scrambling across the bombed out wreckage of a building: "Israel kills 55 despite Trump saying it has ‘stopped bombing’ Gaza"
October 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
dpdiver.bsky.social
To be fair, there is no better symbol of the USA to give as a gift
“AMERICA IS A GUN” by Brian Bilston England is a cup of tea. France, a wheel of ripened brie. Greece, a short, squat olive tree. America is a gun. Brazil is football on the sand. Argentina, Maradona’s hand. Germany, an oompah band. America is a gun. Holland is a wooden shoe. Hungary, a goulash stew. Australia, a kangaroo. America is a gun. Japan is a thermal spring. Scotland is a highland fling. Oh, better to be anything than America as a gun.
September 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
dpdiver.bsky.social
I'm back in AoNZ after being underground in Australia for the last 10 days - unfortunately not much has changed for the better in the world while I've been (mainly) gone 🙄
A cave i diver n a grey digital camouflage drysuit and black hood, with a white scuba cylinder attached climes out of a hatch in the ground
September 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
dpdiver.bsky.social
I’m disappearing underground for a few days. Shit on the surface is just too crazy right now.
September 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
dpdiver.bsky.social
Radio NZ are just negligently respouting CNN nonsense about the messages on the ammunition casings. Misleading headline, because a lot of the story is largely misinformed speculation, rather than what they know, as highlighted by MuellerSheWrote

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Radio NZ lead story on their website with the headline "Charlie Kirk's alleged killer - what we know"
September 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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September 12, 2025 at 7:01 AM
dpdiver.bsky.social
Nice day in the office 😎
A white SUV with the hatch up and dive gear visible in the back parked on the grass beside a concrete picnic table with a lake and trees in the background under a blue sky with a few clouds
September 5, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Yes! It can be very calm and relaxing just cruising along weightless in a cave. Like this
A cave diver moves through crystal clear water in a cave in My Gambier, South Australia
August 29, 2025 at 7:33 AM
dpdiver.bsky.social
It must be feeding time, because Harper *never* sits fully on my lap!
A tabby cat sits on the lap of a man wearing blue jeans and a black T shirt
August 28, 2025 at 6:01 AM
dpdiver.bsky.social
Stuff poll giving Nicole McKee a big thumbs down on liquor licensing changes (so far)

Not that she will care. She’s got the approval of her corporate paymasters.
#nzpol

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Stuff poll on liquor licensing changes showing 68% oppose the loosening of liquor laws
August 28, 2025 at 2:13 AM
dpdiver.bsky.social
Halp! Can’t move! Harper, the normally not very lap cat is sitting on me.
Harper, a tabby cat, is sitting looking content on Dave’s thigh clad in blue jeans, rendering him unable to move
August 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
dpdiver.bsky.social
One optimistic soul reported feeling it in the middle of the Hauraki Gulf!😂
Map from Geonet showing an earthquake report in the middle of the Hauraki Gulf
August 13, 2025 at 6:03 AM
dpdiver.bsky.social
Big tech has a long history of enabling fascists
Book cover of Edwin Black's book "IBM and the Holocaust"
August 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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This is the guy who heads the crime organisation that the AoNZ government is so keen on cosying up to. Why is Radio NZ trying to sane-wash this shit? Nothing related to the authoritarian, corrupt Trump regime is 'business as usual' #nzpol

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Photo of conspiracy theorist, defender of Jan 6 seditionists, and unqualified, toady Trump appointee as FBI Director Kash Patel between a US and NZ flag, with the text "When the Feds come to town: FBI Director Kash Patel's visit to New Zealand has been described as important, useful, and mutually beneficial - but it's also business as usual"
August 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Stoked to get my new passport today with Te Reo in its rightful place. Happy that for the next ten years it won’t be affected by CoC fuckery #nzpol
A new AoNZ passport with Uruwhenua Aotearoa first sits atop an old cancelled passport with New Zealand Passport on top
July 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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This is such BS from Seymour. The existing framework and regs already provide these things, albeit not always perfectly, but a damn site better than any law drafted by Seymour or implemented by his hand-picked ECE Czar. His reforms will diminish the health and wellbeing of kids and teachers in ECE.
This would be achieved through creating regulation that: protected the health, safety, and wellbeing of children receiving early childhood education improved educational and developmental outcomes for those children provided access and choice for whānau provided information to families to improve knowledge about the quality of early childhood education implemented a licensing and certification system that provided certainty and clarity regarding the minimum standards for quality services
July 31, 2025 at 11:49 PM
dpdiver.bsky.social
"Windmills [sic] kill birds"
July 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
dpdiver.bsky.social
No cheating:post your lock screen!

My boss
Phone lock screen showing a tabby cat looking into the camera
July 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
dpdiver.bsky.social
This is one of the first 10 year passports that I got in 2015. Just put in my renewal application, hoping I get one of the current stock with Te Reo first before the CoC’s racist bullshit takes effect. #nzpol
July 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM