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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 2h

People wanting to do naughty things with Buck isn't bucking the stereotype that New Zealand is full of sheepshaggers. smh

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 3h

idk why AI companies aren't being sued to oblivion after they have disclosed that their AI agents went rogue. Actual hackers would be paying through the nose AND sitting in a cell. Their AI agent went rogue and... nothing? That's double standard. #nzpol

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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 11h

Welcome to Term 4. Please make this the last term our rangatahi have to endure #Seymour’sSlop. This was inedible today 😩🤢 #nzpol Description in ALT.

An aluminium dish with lots of big chunks of bleh potato, a couple of tablespoons of budget mixed veges and a couple of rissoles.
Below is a label that reads Rich Gravy on Beef Rissoles & Potatoes.

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

and we will end up watching the Avengers the nth time forever. Most important is that local art represents the identity of Aotearoa. We are telling the stories of what we are, who we are, to ourselves, and to the rest of the world. It is an obvious public good therefore should be publicly funded.

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I fundamentally disagree with Goldsmith that government funding for art isn't the most important thing. I think it is: because if you leave to just to market to support local artists, how can they compete with other better funded artists from overseas corporations? You can't...

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I predict there will be plenty of talking over each other. #nzpol

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

IMO this FB post from National crosses into racism. Rawiri is as qualified as justice minister as Nicola in finance. Racist implication is that by virtue of his moko he looks like gang member and therefore unsuitable. And Chlöe as finance minister can't do a worse job than Nicola. No one can. #nzpol

Facebook post by National Party with pictures of Chloe, Rawiri, and Qiulae and words "Good Luck Hipkins Your Team is Behind You". Addition line states: "His future Finance, Justice and Housing Ministers have their fingers crossed."

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

National's "No New Tax" cake, takes the cake for being unintentionally self-defeating. So National want their No New Taxes cake and eat it too? Real life doesn't work that way: either we pay for public services with taxes, or we get no public services and go private and pay through the nose. #nzpol

Report from RNZ 5 Oct 2026 11:23, with a picture of cake with the words "No new Taxes" on the cake,

Luxon served 'No new taxes' cake

National leader Christopher Luxon has received a warm welcome at a bustling café in Christchurch's Cashmere suburb.

Staff at Zeroes Café presented him with a chocolate cake iced with the slogan "No New Taxes".

The café was busy with children on school holidays and Luxon spent time chatting to families and customers.

He was greeted with a hug by long-time National volunteer Jean Ferris, who was celebrating her 83rd birthday.

Ferris said she had delivered about 900 election flyers during the campaign and had known Luxon's grandmother through church.

"She used to say, 'My dear Chris has been here and he's mowed the lawns and done the gardens,'" Ferris said.

"She would be so excited."

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The whole datacentre debate is another version of concentrating power to the already powerful and rich. LLM can already run reasonably on consumer PC. Democratise it, rather than offload that power to datacentres (i.e. only people who will pony up can have that power).

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Friday night/Sat morning activity: experimenting with running local LLM with my own hardware for privacy reason, and learning which open weights is good for what task. Glad I bought a decent Nvidia card with 16 Gb of VRAM, which is both fast enough and have enough VRAM to run lots of models. #AI

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It only worked for me using Microsoft Edge in Windows 11. Firefox does not work at all.

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It is a Curia poll, so I take it with a LOT of salt. I'd rather look at 2023 and add a bit of wishful thinking. 😅 The pitch to stop lefty voting TOP is that it is willing to get in bed with Nats, so therefore TOP is not really left. If lefties get this reason, they would not vote Qiulae.

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

IMO she is the classic teal splitting Melissa Lee's vote (Top rises at Nat's expense) Without Qiulae, it may be like 2023, Helen and Ricardo splitting left voters giving Melissa chance to snatch victory. This time I hope Ricardo bowls Helen out while Qiulae splits Melissa's vote, handing him a win.

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Words have consequences. When Aotearoa signed up to climate action and then this gov't refuses to lift a finger or u-turn on climate action, it must have consequences. This time it's trade & foreign policy implications. The real world consequence is more flood, more emergencies in the future. #nzpol

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I actually can't believe that Luxon said "cry me a river" in response to cost of living crisis. Until I look it up on Hansard. Yep Luxon actually said it. Talk about being out of touch with reality. #nzpol

Hansard 15 September 2026 Oral Questions #2:

Rt Hon Chris Hipkins: When real wages have fallen, power prices have gone up, insurance prices have gone up, rates have gone up, insurance has gone up—all by more than 20 percent, under his leadership, in just the last two years—will he now admit that the cost of living crisis is not only not over; it’s getting worse under his leadership?

Rt Hon CHRISTOPHER LUXON: What I’d say, again—you know, cry me a river. But I’d say if that member was serious about supporting people, why didn’t you support tax relief for the first time for working New Zealanders? Why don’t you come out and support a council rates cap? Why don’t you come out and support structural separation for supermarkets? No idea.

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Maybe? Ham mooncake is definitely a thing, and I can't find ham mooncake being sold in Tai Ping either. OTOH ham in mooncake is as divisive as pineapple on pizza.

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Given that Gen Z in general is having less sex than previous generations, I think this is the wrong way to get the message across. 🤔

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NZ Initiative's open letter to "all political parties of New Zealand" ridiculed National, Labour, Greens, NZF, and... no one else. ACT magically gets a free pass. Read between the lines what you will, about the allegiance of NZ Initiative. #nzpol

Open letter of NZ Initiative name-checking National, Labour, Greens, and NZF campaign slogan for criticism. No mention of ACT's campaign slogan.

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Guns don't kill people. People kill people. AI is just another tool like gun. IMO AI is just an excuse for the incompetence of everything Trump touches. If you trust intelligence report from generative AI, then you cannot be trusted. In this case at least someone didn't forget to check the source.

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Those Wellingtonians don't know that Auckland CBD was a giant construction site for nearly 10 years because of CRL. We don't wish that upon our worst enemy. Hang on, we wish it upon Wellington. 😉

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It is kind of ambiguous whether that whooping is in support of his view or against. Better to be unambiguous and say "ok boomer", or "thanks grampa Simpson". 😉😂

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I find it ironic that only in Trump's America will he allows AI to run unchecked. Kiss his ass or bribe him enough, he will let you do anything. Whereas in an authoritarian regime like PRC or Russia, unchecked AI is as much a threat to its power as a dissident. Of course rogue AI got shut down.

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It is Winston's version of "Grampa Simpson yells at cloud". 🙄😂

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

WTF, there is freedom of expression but this is too far, even if it is naive kid thinking this is coo. It is EXACTLY like someone pretending to be NZ police and then claim it is protected free speech. Nope, not gonna work. PRC overseas interference is real and this is nothing to joke about.

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Only the Greens have sensible progressive policies that have a realistic chance of getting implemented in coalition with Labour and TPM. Plus all the climate change action you want and more, that anyone who worries about flooding would want practical solutions. I'm supporting the Greens. #nzpol

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Labour is so afraid of being saddled as tax-and-spend party, it cannot propose any progressive policies. TOP is another shade of blue, willing to prop up National again for what? Their tax policy is basically a redline for National, the only concession it can get out of National is what??? #nzpol

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

And its partners are either more extreme (i.e. ACT) or anti-equality (i.e. NZF, racist and sexist and anti-science). Once upon a time I voted Labour, but I don't know wtf it is now, with so few policy announcements and so few clear commitment on advancing the common good. #nzpol

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There are simply investments that private sector cannot make, like another harbour crossing, or too expensive to make, like healthcare (just look at the private healthcare hell that is USA). This National pretends to be centre right but its policies are laissez-faire hard right. #nzpol

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

National's narrative is about tax, but tax pays for the nice things that we ALL need, like CRL, or public health system. These are investments into future. Nobody should be afraid of talking about more tax if it pays for investments that will yield decent returns. Low tax = low investment. #nzpol

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

With EDs overflowing with people and student nurses who can't get a job in NZ, public healthcare should be one of the top election issues. Under Nat/NZF/ACT things will get even worse with more cuts. Only a change in government will reverse the trend. #nzpol

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Yeah, the messenger is just as important as the message, and Hipkins as a messenger is just meh at best IMO. Same with the other Chris, Luxon. Luxon has the added repellent of being firmly out of touch with reality.

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Better starts now" is on par with "eat shoots and leaves" in terms of ambiguity. What does it really mean? "Better, starts now [with Labour]" or "Better starts, now [with Labour]" i.e. just having a better start? How do any of these interpretations help to sell Labour's politics anyway? #nfi #nzpol

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It may be based on the flawed assumption that the Chinese community cares about good relation with PRC. These people LEFT PRC for a reason to live in NZ, what do they care about the government? Their affinity is with the culture, not with the government.

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It is a classic "buy 1 full section at 1 mill, subdivide into 4-5, then sell the whole lot at 1 mil each (i.e. 4-5 mil in total)" magic property investment trick.

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

IMO Grant McCallum's explanation is pretty weak (I buy another house to save taxpayer paying hotel bills, like taxpayer isn't paying his mortgage already...). Parmjeet Parmar's explanation is better, because that is a subdivision, and normally people sell the houses rather than rent them out.

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The same SD card I bought ~3 years ago now costs ~3 times as much. #apocalypsenow #wtf

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"9 to 5" is a working class anthem. RIP Dolly Parton.

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

www.rnz.co.nz/news/persona... Why is RNZ posting click-bait article? DO NOT BUY $50 coffee if you cannot afford it! There is el cheapo alternative. Caffeine is caffeine, even from the cheapest instant coffee. 🙄

rnz.co.nz

Why are we paying $50 for instant coffee?

Instant coffee creeping past $50 for a jar is a symptom of wider pressure on coffee prices, economists say.

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If you tell the migrant 老華僑 that kids in Aotearoa play barefoot all the time, they would just say "their parents must be so poor they can't even buy their kids shoes tsk tsk tsk". And never tell your own parents that you/your kids play barefoot, it will give them heart attack. 😆

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

何俊仁Albert Ho pleaded guilty, another OG HK democracy activist. The guilty plea can be interpreted more straightforwardly as anti-CCP: "I am actively trying to subvert CCP with 8964 commemoration, come and get me".

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... For context her co-defendants are also worth noting. Lee Cheuk-yan 李卓人 is OG labour activist, in hyper capitalist HK. He also does not answer to CCP, the kind of "orthodox" lefty-progressive anti communist labour activist.

theguardian.com

‘She’s not afraid of anyone’: the prison writings of one of Hong Kong’s last outspoken democracy activists

Chow Hang-tung has been detained since 2021, and written about everything from clothes to Tiananmen Square and the meaning of freedom

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

PS the PM parroting American/techbro agenda of using more AI and/or more AI data centre in NZ is a-ok, who is interfering the politics of which country nowadays? #nzpol #nzindependentforeignpolicy

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I give everyone the benefit of doubt, that they want to leave PRC first and foremost, and love the rule of law and democracy in New Zealand. Until there is evidence to the contrary. The point should be that we should be cautious about PRC government but not Chinese people. #nzpol /3

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Look at what Winston and various other people can get away with over the years, and you can see withchunt isn't unrealistic, if PRC invades TW. I don't interact in the Chinese community worrying about who is a deepcover PRC spy, who is a genuine person wanting to leave the oppressive PRC. #nzpol /2

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/21/n... I agree that there is a real threat from PRC. Hell I will always be the first one to give PRC the middle finger. However it is so easy for "caution" to become witch hunt, by looking at every Chinese living in New Zealand with suspicion. #nzpol /1

newsroom.co.nz

NZ swaps its soft underbelly for a hard shell by going public on China threat

Comment: In confronting China’s covert influence campaign, we are betting that transparency is our strongest weapon, writes Anne-Marie Brady.

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Ling Yee 令怡 @bigduckling.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

but right now I am interested eliminating discrimination for all, whether it is racism against Chinese, India etc., sexism (pay equity for women!), and/or against tangata whenua, and creating alliance to get at least some progress in this election. I'll just leave it at that. /7

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