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David Palmer

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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 15h
Tennessee attempts to execute a woman for the first time in 200 years, she takes two lethal hits of pentobarbital and just snores through it. Totally insane to allow state sanctioned murder when they can't even murder properly. www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...
stuff.co.nz
Executions halted after Tennessee inmate survives lethal injection attempt
Tennessee governor orders outside investigation and halts executions after inmate survives lethal injection attempt.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 30/09/2026
Incredibly low sentence for such a serious assault. Being a trained soldier should be an aggravating factor at sentencing, rather than mitigating. www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a...
rnz.co.nz
Army intelligence specialist Arthur Finegan ordered to pay $1500 for assaulting Queenstown taxi driver
New Zealand Army intelligence specialist Arthur Finegan denied a "nasty" assault - until he was confronted with CCTV footage showing an attack that left a taxi driver unconscious.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 30/09/2026
They’re warming up to me. Sunflower seeds and nutella are basically crack for a rodent.
Two tiny brown mice. They are looking at the camera. Straw is on the floor under them. One is half on top of the other
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 28/09/2026
Fledgling magpie just chilling on a fence in the park. Mum nearby.
A fluffy fledgling magpie sitting on a fence
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 20/09/2026
If you up the wahs you might be interested in buying this, proceeds go to a good cause! www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplac...
trademe.co.nz
Signed & Framed 2026 Warriors Jersey | Trade Me Marketplace
?? WARRIORS FANS – THIS ONE IS PRETTY SPECIAL! ?????? We’re auctioning an incredible piece of Warriors memorabilia to raise funds for new kapa haka uniforms ...
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 20/09/2026
Aww look at the cute wee secessionist racists, its so quaint and quirky uwu www.thepress.co.nz/world-news/3... Appalling pro-fascism drivel from The Times
thepress.co.nz
The people have spoken so that’s the end of that...
The residents of Piddington in rural Oxfordshire had gathered in the dawn light outside the village hall.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 06/09/2026
Chippy on the news last night reacting to National policy announcements. “It’s a good policy.” ”We’ll probably do something similar.” Dude.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 06/09/2026
Incredible review for Flight Simulator 2024: “crashed six times and I haven’t even got in a plane yet”
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 05/09/2026
The Crusbler. Baked fruit mixed with pancake batter, topped with rolled oats, sugar and crumble. Next time I’ll put in cubed bread to make a Betty Crusbler, and add pastry on top to make a Grunting Betty Crusbler Pandowdy. Where is your god now?
A glass baking dish full of hot bubbling fruit
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 05/09/2026
The new Animaniacs is really extremely good.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 03/09/2026
I’d rather have MPs knitting in parliament than doing the sorts of things ACT MPs do for fun. Inherently misogynistic “outrage”. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
stuff.co.nz
MP defends knitting in Parliament: ‘I find it calming and makes it easier to concentrate’
Labour’s Deborah Russell was spotted knitting in the background during Parliament’s Question Time on Wednesday. Some Stuff readers were outraged - are they right to be?
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 31/08/2026
Appalling (but unsurprising) to see people celebrating Ratko Mladić as a war hero. I presume we'll see the same when Karadžić dies. Can't come soon enough.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 30/08/2026
Sky TV is honestly one of the worst possible businesses in New Zealand. Just horrible.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 26/08/2026
English is such a beautiful language
A tweet from “Clavicular Updates” that reads “Clavicular started ranting to a girl about how he was TIRED of hypergamy and says he's considering the "JBG pill" (Just be gay pill)

"Sh-t doesn't make sense. I'm literally HTN+, millionaire, giga statusmaxxed, and I can't get a slay. Hypergamy is finished. I might take the JBGpill"
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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Please know I used several expletives this morning when reading that Labour will support the rates capping through to select committee. Cowardice, and continuing to screw over local government. We need CHANGE, not more of the same unfunded mandates and chaos.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 25/08/2026
Labour supporting the under-16 social media ban and rates caps through first reading. Seriously, what is the point of the NZ Labour Party? They have presented no effective opposition this term, which is a major reason so much horrible shit has gone through. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
rnz.co.nz
National, Labour agree to disagree over two policies they agree on
Having agreed to join forces on a social media ban for under-16s, National and Labour are squabbling over the process and time taken.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 23/08/2026
Labour just declared themselves obsolete.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 18/08/2026
TWO TANGOS DOWN. Bonny and Clyde are back in confinement I was curious so I hand caught one and let it bite me. Sharp teeth but they can’t do a lot of damage. Now, I truly have no fear of them.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 18/08/2026
This is what happens when you abuse urgency. Mistakes get made. Shameful stuff. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
stuff.co.nz
Ministers apologise for accidentally stopping pensioners’ winter energy payments
An urgent law changed rushed through Parliament last year has accidentally cut the Winter Energy Payment to thousands of pensioners and veterans.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 17/08/2026
Mouse escape! Mouse #2 was more determined than mouse #1 and chewed open an airhole in their plastic container. New traps have been deployed and a new enclosure prepared that will not be so easy to escape.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 16/08/2026
After a weekend of licking peanut butter off my traps, mouse #2 got a bit too excited when I introduced some apple to the traps. 🪤 He was also unaware I had set it to be much more sensitive. More to come.
A mouse in a plastic box. Behind it is a DIY habitat. It is stretching up the walls sniffing for fresh air and possible escape routes.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 15/08/2026
“Goldsmith wears suit made from Chris Penk’s skin, moves in with his wife and kids” www.thepress.co.nz/politics/361...
thepress.co.nz
Paul Goldsmith flirts with running in Chris Penk's seat
National MP Paul Goldsmith is deciding if he will run in Chris Penk’s electorate after his colleague was stripped of his ministerial portfolios and announced he would quit politics.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 15/08/2026
Impossible not to edit this photo in the news
Screenshot of an article in The Press. The headline is “The age of outrage: Are we becoming more polarised?”. There is a photo captioned “Minister for Rail Winston Peters announcing last month that the two new Interislander ferries will be called Kupe and Cook.” Winston is standing at a lectern in front a blue projector with the name of a new Ferry “Cook” that has been edited to say “Cooker”
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 13/08/2026
The hypocrisy www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
stuff.co.nz
Free Speech Union board member revealed as complainant in ‘censorship’ court case
Ani O’Brien accepts people may call her hypocritical, but says the case was never about stopping criticism of her politics
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 13/08/2026
The soft boring tones of the InternetNZ AGM are lulling my children into a deep sleep. I will surely not be far behind.
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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
On NRT: Why I'm not voting for Opportunity - norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/08/why-...
norightturn.blogspot.com
Why I'm not voting for Opportunity
This morning one of my bleeps took one for the team and asked to be convinced not to vote for Opportunity . Like me, they're a long-time Gre...
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 12/08/2026
A SECOND MOUSE HAS ENTERED THE BATTLEFIELD
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 12/08/2026
Victory has been achieved over the invading forces of mousedom. Their sentence is incarceration in a 5-star mouse hotel.
A tiny mouse poking its nose out of a toilet paper roll inside a hastily hacked together mouse enclosure.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 12/08/2026
Oh so he’ll strip portfolios for challenging his “leadership” but not for outright racism? What a loser.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 12/08/2026
The BSA is important and should not be abolished. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
stuff.co.nz
Broadcaster censured after anti-Semitic text read aloud on Newstalk ZB
Broadcaster NZME has been censured after a Newstalk ZB host read out a listener text containing antisemitic tropes without offering any rebuttal.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 11/08/2026
Just a normal day in NZ politics
Headline that reads “Erica Stanford isn’t capable of being PM, says Minister for Women”
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Jonathan Brewer @kiwibrew.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I proposed an amendment to the Internet NZ Constitution that's up for vote at the AGM this Thursday. I proposed a Nominating Committee, or a NomCom, a standard practice across the world's Internet Governance structures. Members can register for the AGM here: internetnz.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
internetnz.zoom.us
Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing
Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom ...
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 09/08/2026
I love this policy because it will benefit EVERYONE. After the Kaikōura earthquake, Takahanga Marae fed and housed hundreds of displaced people as well as critical response personnel. Marae are critical social infrastructure and should be funded as such. www.greens.org.nz/te_waonui_a_...
greens.org.nz
For people and planet
We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 07/08/2026
Elbow - The Birds youtu.be/72KxDLP6V8E #JukeboxFridayNight #Birds
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The Birds - Elbow - Manchester Cathedral 27/10/11 (Part 1/14)
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 07/08/2026
Bike trailer guillotine sounds like a fun summer project
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 05/08/2026
Inb4 “Government announces dissolution of Commerce Commission” www.thepress.co.nz/business/361...
thepress.co.nz
Pak‘nSave prosecution for ‘far reaching anti-competitive conduct depriving customers of cheaper prices’
The regulator called the activity, which is illegal and known as “resale price maintenance’ as ”far-reaching anti-competitive conduct that deprived customers of cheaper prices“.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 05/08/2026
These would be better utilised monitoring illegal fishing in our EEZ. newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/04/d...
newsroom.co.nz
Defence Force eyes long-range drones to watch foreign forces in Pacific
Commercial operators would fly six-hour surveillance missions up to 1400 nautical miles to shadow foreign forces near NZ waters
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 03/08/2026
Just wanna say Lawrence Xu-Nan is one of the kindest, humblest, gentlest, hardest-working people I have ever met and I have nothing but aroha for him. Winston’s comments are totally despicable. Same is true for Benjamin btw
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 03/08/2026
Cervix-havers: go get a smear, screening notifications have not been getting sent out www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/...
rnz.co.nz
Almost a million cervical cancer screening notifications not sent out, review finds
Almost a million notifications did not get sent to people eligible for cancer screening due to flaws in the national cervical cancer screening programme, a review has found.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 03/08/2026
Charlie Mitchell is so, so good. An absolutely incredible journalist.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 02/08/2026
Just absolutely muph’d myself by spelling “copyedit” wrong. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%...
en.wikipedia.org
Muphry's law - Wikipedia
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 02/08/2026
ACT have announced a policy to let teachers restrain children. Given their party president’s prison sentence you’d think they’d have learned to stop touching kids.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 02/08/2026
Catchy
Shane Jones, the New Zealand Minister for Pornography, wearing a black hate with text that reads “Make Extractives Great Again”
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 31/07/2026
“Send a text as we're touching down But she's already circlin' round on the ground Waiting She's waiting just for me I love my baby, she's the best She picks me up at LAX” Vulfpeck - LAX youtu.be/NzxW8nxgENA #JukeboxFridayNight #Waiting
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VULFPECK /// LAX (feat. Joey Dosik)
Joey Dosik — vocals, alto sax, composerJack Stratton — piano, overdubs, mixing, composerWoody Goss — pianoTheo Katzman — drumsCory Wong — guitarJoe Dart — fe...
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 31/07/2026
youtu.be/xc1Uld0k4W4 Green Day - Waiting Sorry to ruin your playlist #JukeboxFridayNight #Waiting
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Green Day - Waiting (HD Upscale) [Official Music Video]
Warning (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) available now: https://greenday.lnk.to/warning25thanniversarydeluxeWebsite https://greenday.com/ Tour Dates https:/...
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 31/07/2026
When Don Brash—a certified racism expert—says you're being too racist, it's probably time to resign. #nzpol
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 25/07/2026
Just took the kids swimming at the pool. On my bike. In -5°C. First time I’ve had genuinely blue fingertips. Might need to buy some gloves.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 25/07/2026
How tired were you last night?
A photo of the inside of a fridge full of cheese, garlic, bacon, donuts, etc. 

And also a roll of baking paper for some reason.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 25/07/2026
A rapist moderating a conversation between a crackhead and a nazi is the peak of US political discourse today. America is doomed.
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