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The backstory is long but the plan is reading 6 Jane Austen novels in 6 months, and watching a film/TV adaptation …+ a whisky match. Welcome to the #JaneAustenBookClub. May is Sense and Sensibility. Please join us.
Just finished Persuasion. It took an extra month to do six Austens in six months (thanks to some big trips and reading distractions this year). But #JaneAustenBookClub has been a pocket of sanity in a word of chaos this year.
December 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Just finished Persuasion. It took an extra month to do six Austens in six months (thanks to some big trips and reading distractions this year). But #JaneAustenBookClub has been a pocket of sanity in a word of chaos this year.
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wife got a timer for all of our christmas lights so obviously thinking of this
December 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
wife got a timer for all of our christmas lights so obviously thinking of this
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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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I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen:
The Pixies
Dolly Parton
Grace Petrie
The New Pornographers
Billy Bragg
The Pixies
Dolly Parton
Grace Petrie
The New Pornographers
Billy Bragg
introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Sigur Rós
Radiohead
Mogwai
Sufjan Stevens
Carly Rae Jepsen
Sigur Rós
Radiohead
Mogwai
Sufjan Stevens
Carly Rae Jepsen
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Janelle Monàe
Seattle Symphony doing The Rite of Spring
Tinariwen
Abel Selaocoe
Gamelan Pacifica
Janelle Monàe
Seattle Symphony doing The Rite of Spring
Tinariwen
Abel Selaocoe
Gamelan Pacifica
November 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen:
The Pixies
Dolly Parton
Grace Petrie
The New Pornographers
Billy Bragg
The Pixies
Dolly Parton
Grace Petrie
The New Pornographers
Billy Bragg
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When you're cleaning our your cupboards and find that old sea otter you thought you'd lost years ago.
November 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
When you're cleaning our your cupboards and find that old sea otter you thought you'd lost years ago.
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I, for one, welcome the carnivorous death ball
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 AM
I, for one, welcome the carnivorous death ball
Would it be weird to celebrate your birthday by inviting your friends to come on a historical walking tour of Wellington city? One you have painstakingly prepared and will deliver yourself?
October 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Would it be weird to celebrate your birthday by inviting your friends to come on a historical walking tour of Wellington city? One you have painstakingly prepared and will deliver yourself?
Here Betsey Stevenson explains why the great challenge of AI is effective distribution of income gains. She proposes moving taxation away from labour and toward capital and consumption. We’ve always needed this critical thinking - but it has new urgency!
open.spotify.com/episode/22sB...
open.spotify.com/episode/22sB...
How AI Will Impact the Future of Work
open.spotify.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Here Betsey Stevenson explains why the great challenge of AI is effective distribution of income gains. She proposes moving taxation away from labour and toward capital and consumption. We’ve always needed this critical thinking - but it has new urgency!
open.spotify.com/episode/22sB...
open.spotify.com/episode/22sB...
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My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?
Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
October 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?
Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
This is what the US Department of Agriculture website looks like. You could, I guess, complain to their oversight body - except that their Inspector General was dragged out of office earlier this year and the USDA OIG website is down.
www.usda.gov/about-usda/g...
www.usda.gov/about-usda/g...
www.usda.gov
October 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
This is what the US Department of Agriculture website looks like. You could, I guess, complain to their oversight body - except that their Inspector General was dragged out of office earlier this year and the USDA OIG website is down.
www.usda.gov/about-usda/g...
www.usda.gov/about-usda/g...
September is the month for Northanger Abbey. A but ill timed as we should have had it in time for Halloween. But a treat on our recent cold and stormy nights. You can feel the narrator having fun and I love it! #JaneAustenBookClub
September 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
September is the month for Northanger Abbey. A but ill timed as we should have had it in time for Halloween. But a treat on our recent cold and stormy nights. You can feel the narrator having fun and I love it! #JaneAustenBookClub
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You’re think *you’re* depressed? Try being at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association right now with 5,000 political scientists presenting their work on the state of democracy, public opinion, and media.
They are also drinking heavily.
They are also drinking heavily.
September 13, 2025 at 5:47 AM
You’re think *you’re* depressed? Try being at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association right now with 5,000 political scientists presenting their work on the state of democracy, public opinion, and media.
They are also drinking heavily.
They are also drinking heavily.
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Added bonus: it's very funny
August 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Added bonus: it's very funny
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Judge Williams halted new detainees and ordered Alligator Alcatraz to close within 60 days, grounding her ruling in federal environmental laws & tribal sovereignty. By proving “irreparable harm” to the Everglades, she applied well-settled legal standards, making the injunction likely to stand.
Judge orders Alligator Alcatraz shut down in 60 days, says no more new detainees
A federal judge on Thursday barred the DeSantis and Trump administrations from bringing new detainees to Alligator Alcatraz and demanded the state close out operations at the immigration detention fac...
www.miamiherald.com
August 22, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Judge Williams halted new detainees and ordered Alligator Alcatraz to close within 60 days, grounding her ruling in federal environmental laws & tribal sovereignty. By proving “irreparable harm” to the Everglades, she applied well-settled legal standards, making the injunction likely to stand.
If you haven’t followed Peter Boshier’s YEARS of trying to sound the alarm about our prisons I suggest you read some of the Ombudman’s reports on how we actually run prisons in New Zealand. It will make you feel sick and it should.
www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...
www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...
Blistering critique slams prison bosses
Prisoners were being degraded as “collateral damage”, with Corrections not actioning the many recommendations it had received, Ombudsman says.
www.stuff.co.nz
August 22, 2025 at 5:10 AM
If you haven’t followed Peter Boshier’s YEARS of trying to sound the alarm about our prisons I suggest you read some of the Ombudman’s reports on how we actually run prisons in New Zealand. It will make you feel sick and it should.
www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...
www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...
Happily making my reading plans for South Korea! I will finally read ‘The Vegetarian’ and ‘I have a right to destroy myself’ - but not sure yet what to read in Kyushu.
August 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Happily making my reading plans for South Korea! I will finally read ‘The Vegetarian’ and ‘I have a right to destroy myself’ - but not sure yet what to read in Kyushu.
#JaneAustenBookClub made ramen from scratch and matched a Japanese whiskey for Emma. And of course, viewed the Eleanor Catton adaptation. And then Clueless.
August 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
#JaneAustenBookClub made ramen from scratch and matched a Japanese whiskey for Emma. And of course, viewed the Eleanor Catton adaptation. And then Clueless.