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Phil
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New Zealand based Engineering Manager and recovering web developer, trying to learn as much as possible about languages, cricket, drums and parenthood. Music teacher (drums […]

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[NZPol the (lack of) wisdom of crowds]

@lightweight That's the problem: they're not.
"Different" comic by Alex Norris at Web Comic Name https://webcomicname.com/post/152958755984
January 26, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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@phil_stevens
January 21, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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How it started: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/581699/parliament-debates-climate-targets-under-urgency

How it's going:
Man on a kayak on flood waters next to a road sign reading Hot Water Beach 9km Hahei 10 km Cooks beach 10 km The rest of the sign is submerged in brown flood water. The man is looking at the camera and smiling slightly. The edge of a second kayak, presumably the photographer's, can be seen near the edge of the frame.
January 21, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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Easy: "stay the fuck away from Australian beaches".
January 20, 2026 at 6:39 AM
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Scott Adams has died?
January 13, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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I've seen some incredibly disgusting anti-patterns from companies pretending to give a shit about GDPR but this is a new low.
Screenshot of an ad blocker complaint modal trying to argue for users to disable their ad blocker without proper justification or explanation, with a button that simply says "press & hold".
January 11, 2026 at 6:52 AM
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One day, US-based tech product companies will realise there are countries outside the United States that exist _below the equator_ and have....
DIFFERENT SEASONS!! 🤯

But it is not this day.
Screenshot of the Slack status update screen with "seasonal" options all centred on northern hemisphere winters.
January 4, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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Dunedin's most reliable conspiracy cooker sympathiser and malcontent rabble-rouser, Lee Vandervis, is summoning his frothing-mouthed flying monkeys again.
This time over this article […]

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Unfiltered brain-fart from Lee Vandervis socials: " Scenic Drive, Queens Drive and the pleasure of driving in Dunedin have long been eroded by our car-cancelling Council evidenced by the planet-saving ‘transport’ staff the previous head of which said ‘We have got to get people out of their cars otherwise the planet will burn’. The pious planet-savers and selfish cyclists have cost us hundreds of millions with their virtue-signalling projects that have done nothing to save the planet or make any difference to transportation safety that better technology was not making anyway. The systematic spreading of speed humps and sidelining of our most-used car transportation mode in favour of cycling has been a financial failure as well as failing to increase cycleway use as DCC data shows below. Map showing the 600m stretch of Dunedin side-street that is affected by a temporary street closure.
December 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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[Politics - NZ]

What basics are fixed? What parts of those basics were broken and what were the demonstrated impacts of those broken basics?
By what measure or sets of measures is the economy rebuilt?
Banner ad for National from their party website: "Rebuilding the Economy" "Fixing the basics"
December 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Argument to substantiate claims: "Is so true! 'Cos I said so!"

I'm so fucking tempted to OIA this prick if I thought it would actually be actioned.
"This is such a disappointing and inflammatory statement to be making, and is absolutely not true." Sam Uffindell MP " it is a true statement so | guess your disappointment should sit with the unions"
November 27, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Bedpost Uffindell making wildly inaccurate, unsubstantiated claims about schools' positions on Te Tiriti.

What's "frankly disgusting" is the deliberate, conscious choice to knowingly misrepresent an argument because you're too defensive and fragile to accept your […]

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Sam Uffindell MP post captured from Facebook Unions are standing over principals and school boards pressuring them to sign their anti-govt pledge. Frankly disgusting.
November 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Got a little bike ride in today.
https://strava.app.link/n2TLV2qGuYb
November 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Those priorities include:
* Quality teaching and leadership
* Learners at the centre
* Inclusive public education

You can read the full text in the link I added in the previous post. This forms part of teachers' registration.
November 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM