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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 06/09/2026

An ecommerce store in #NZ suggesting I look for "murder drones"... This could an LLM suggestion or the result of people searching for them - and I'm not sure which is actually worse? 🤔

Screen shot of Mighty Ape store suggesting I search for "murder drones"

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 21/08/2026

So ahh yeah, looks like there’s a bit of flu going around in NZ. Almost double last year’s hospitalisations. Out food co-op almost didn’t get food delivered yesterday as half the warehouse staff were off work! www.phfscience.nz/digital-libr...

Chart showing weekly hospital admissions per 100k. Currently admissions are double the normal rate at ~15 vs 7 or 8.

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 25/06/2026

The wind warning from the NZ weather service is only orange, not red, because gusts are “only” up to 130km/hr I think they dun goofed on this one and it’ll be bad tomorrow though

Area: Wellington, also Marlborough east of Seddon including the Sounds
Period: 21hrs from 9pm Thu, 25 Jun - 6pm Fri, 26 jun
Forecast: Severe gale southerlies with damaging gusts of 130 km/h in exposed places. Low chance of upgrading to a Red Warning.
Impact: Damage to trees, powerlines, and unsecured structures possible. Driving may be difficult, especially for high-sided vehicles and motorcycles.

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 25/06/2026

Not til Sunday evening!

Screenshot from the inter Islander website showing that all sailings of the ferry are cancelled until Sunday night

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 25/06/2026

I think tomorrow at midday the Cook Strait will be the windiest place on earth (100km/hr sustained). Took a look on Nullschool and can’t anywhere with faster wind than this🤔 Just another day in Wellington 🌬️

Screen shoot from nullschool’s earth map showing wind lines blasting the cook strait and a wind speed of 27.8m/s

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 01/06/2026

I may have just bought a giant 3-tier brewing system as I can't resist a bargain. I have no idea what I'm doing... anyone want to help me spurge my grist into wort? (I have no idea what that means 😂). Plan is to make it available to anyone nice. Just need somewhere in Wellington for it to live!

3x 100L pots on a portable 3 burner steel frame on wheels. The pots have thermometers and are attached by tubes and a pump.

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 12/05/2026

Gonna post some thoughts on today’s ConnectingAotearoa conf on this thread. First up is these chart crimes. Like, how can you end up being a Commissioner and have this level of criminality?

Another Hideous pie chart with bad text kerning

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 27/04/2026

Something must be going well in life if multiple people are giving me free speakers and sound gear. Got a set of these plus a mic mixer and a 1.2KW amp 🥵

Photo of two speakers on top of each other.

Top is an 8ohm AWA studio speaker and the bottom is an 8ohm Tapco 69 series.

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 20/04/2026

The old Wellington “10°, feels like -3°” also in effect 😐

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 16/03/2026

Loving the new public events space at the new Te Matapihi / Wellington Central Library 😍

Photo of Te Matapihi showing sunlight streaming in across a bright yellow and purple mural

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 13/03/2026

What's the word to use when the photo of an old white male CEO is replaced with fake AI photo woman of colour?

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 04/03/2026

Just another day with police arresting homeless people in Wellington. Not sure what happened before but it looked like they were moving her on but she was yelling at them. She crossed the road to leave and then they just swarmed her for some reason?

Four police arresting a woman on Courtney Place for nothing obvious

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 26/01/2026

Whelp! Thanks for the reposts - looks like a bunch of new peeps came onboard. Now we have way more orders than we normally have and Thursday is gonna be mad. We’ll probably hit $3.5k by Tuesday night I think? Now I just need to find a place for the a sail boat in my truck to live by Thursday😅

Bar Chart showing last 5 weeks of sale with this week showing $2,709.79 for Central Park

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 11/01/2026

Here’s a few nice pics of yesterday’s amazing sunset just out of Wellington. First time visiting Lake Kohangapiripiri, a beautiful spot I will definitely be heading back too!

Photo showing orangey sun just setting above Tapuae-O-Ueneku on the north coast of the South Island over the Cook Straight with grassy hills in the foreground. Wellington’s south coast is visible in the right.

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 18/12/2025

A bit late to the #SecretSantaAoNZ party but loving this present! I am indeed a coffee connoisseur and this book will probably tip me over into planting my own coffee bushes 😅 My kids are already eyeing up that chocolate and that sticker is going on my laptop Thanks so much whoever you are!

Picture of “the world atlas of coffee” book by James Hoffman, some Whittaker’s sea salt and caramel chocolate and a Free Palestine sticker and pin.

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 18/12/2025

Also FYI, Bluesky thinks your posts are Japanese??

The post you're replying to was marked as being written in Japanese by its author. Would you like to reply in Japanese?

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 01/12/2025

If you want to see the future of graphics check out gaussian splats, a kind of point cloud of blurs Especially if you're into #MacroPhotography. The image below is a still from a fully interactive 3D model you can view on this link and runs very smoothly in a browser superspl.at/view?id=ac0a...

Detailed macrophotography image of a honeybee created using gaussian splats - it looks very detailed

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 28/11/2025

You left you the best bit out! 🤣 “The three men and their associate left the property, but not before Hoffman ran into his house, grabbed a spatula and hit Dell with it, as they were leaving.”

The three men and their associate left the property, but not before Hoffman ran into his house, grabbed a spatula and hit Dell with it, as they were leaving.

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 21/11/2025

Oh no, downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com is reporting that downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com is down! 😱

Functional joke site showing 3 locations as down

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 18/11/2025

I mean, is Jalebi cake? It’s like that old “what’s a sandwich” chart

Chart showing various “sandwiches” in 9 panels, including a taco and a waffle sandwich

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 18/11/2025

I’m playing a real-life version of “Is it Cake?” with the new released food compliance exemption for all types of cake in Aotearoa NZ - the only class of food exempt! How soft does a biscuit need to before it’s a cake? When does banana bread become banana cake? www.mpi.govt.nz/dmsdocument/...

(1) For the purposes of this notice:

cake means an item of soft sweet food traditionally made from a mixture that may include flour, fat, eggs, sugar, and other ingredients, baked and sometimes iced or decorated. This definition also includes cakes made with substitute ingredients, for example to make the cake dairy-free or egg-free.

Shelf-stable cake means a cake which may safely be consumed (together with any filling or decoration) when it is stored at room temperature until it is eaten, or cake that is intended to be consumed within 3-5 days and which does not need to be refrigerated during this time to keep it safe to eat.

(2)

All terms used in this notice and that are defined in the Food Act 2014 or Food Regulations 2015, but not defined in this notice, have the same meaning as in that Act or Regulations

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 14/11/2025

They can’t even be bothered announcing a new operation. Southern Spear was announced in January www.navy.mil/Press-Office...

Operation Southern
Spear: Latest Development in
Operationalizing Robotic and Autonomous
Systems
28 January 2025
Operation Southern Spear will deploy unmanned air and surface vessels to help determine combinations of unmanned vehicles and manned forces to provide coordinated maritime domain awareness and conduct counternarcotics
operations.

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 13/11/2025

This is what some of the data looks like 😅 [skype logs]

jumbled up JSON data showing snippets of chat logs

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 13/11/2025

Lots of valid "AI is shit" on takes on here but it's taken me maybe 20 minutes of no-code tweaking with AI to import the Epstein email dump into an Elasticsearch to the point where I can visualise a timeline based on a free text search of 1926 emails. All emails with 'thiel' by year and sender 👀

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 13/11/2025

Needed to say it's just ridiculous now how easy it is to just get shit done with AI. One-shotted it 😅

Run the quick start script that automates everything:

./quick_start.sh
This script will:

Check prerequisites (Docker, Python)
Start the ELK stack
Wait for Elasticsearch to be ready
Install Python dependencies
Index all documents
Show you the next steps

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 12/11/2025

Found out why the Wellington Hospital has been so busy at night lately. The only 24hr Afterhours Medical Centre in Wellington is shut due to staff shortages. NZ’s health system is borked! #NZPol

Photo sign at the entrance to the 24hr Wellington medical center

“DUE TO STAFF SHORTAGES
WE ARE NOW CLOSED
# you require Urgent medicol treatment please present to the Wellington Hospital Emergency Dept”

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 11/11/2025

Just reading through the full report, strange the media aren’t following up the fact that the IPCA were alerted in 2018 and just brush it off!

Highlighted text:

11. Issue 7 of this report sets out the IPCA's involvement in the matter and describes actions we have taken, and have committed to take, to address any deficiencies in our complaint receipt and handling. Several people we spoke to told us that one of their considerations when failing to act on complaints made against Deputy Commissioner McSkimming, was that the IPCA had known about the matter for years, had investigated and had found there was no substance to the complaints. While it may be true to say that, by virtue of being tagged in a Facebook post in 2018, we had some knowledge, we did not have any further context until 2023. More importantly, senior officers knew that we had not in fact investigated, let alone found there was no substance.

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 03/11/2025

Waiting in a carpark to do an off-the-back-of-a-truck illicit produce swap for a ticket to #Kawaiicon Gotta do what ya gotta do when gardening is illegal in New Zealand 😂 @kawaiicon.bsky.social

Photo of the inside of the back of a truck showing a green produce truck full of tangelos, capsicum and avocados.

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 30/10/2025

Will be interesting to see how we are tracking in 2060, given this chart was made about 40 years ago 😅

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 28/10/2025

oh I take that back, I didn't realise it was actually that pessimistic!

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 28/10/2025

If you do anything after reading this thread, just read that article! So like a white person proudly declaring that they don’t see colour, today ACT is claiming to have removed politics from history.

Facebook post

David Seymour
11h

Wonderful news today that the highly politicised 'Aotearoa New Zealand Histories Curriculum' has been fixed. The Marxist 'big ideas' such as 'Mãori history is the foundational and continuous history of Aotearoa New Zealand!' and 'The course of Aotearoa New Zealand's histories has been shaped by the use of power' are GONE.

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 27/10/2025

Content looking pretty empty 😅

large gap in HTML for page linked in previous page

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 23/10/2025

Different story in Wellington!

Map of Wellington region showing 80ish nodes

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 12/10/2025

NZ Govt Report: We’re on track to meet out emission targets! 🎯 Chart in said report: *We’ll be 85Mt off our Paris Agreement targets NZ Govt: No, not *that* target - the new target we just made up! #NZPol

Two charts, one above the other.

Top one is a bar chart showing emissions budgets with two options, both of which are 85 or 84 mt over the National Determined Contribution agreed in the Paris climate accords.

Bottom one shows a timeline with 43 MT at the target for 2030 but projected emissions to be 55 mt

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 10/10/2025

They let it slip that they’re a dog!

Old cartoon saying “On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 09/10/2025

Best poster this political season #NZPol

Colourful poster with a Moa on it saying “Make the Basin a Swamp Again”, found in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 07/10/2025

The rust WASM thing build by bots is coming along. I haven't even looked at a line of code yet. @clango.ghost.boo , looks like it was only 9 seconds after posting before you got the !takedown label applied so very unlikely a human involved.

Screenshot showing website that inspected labels for user posts

Another screenshot with a "Bulk Analysis" tab

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 07/10/2025

Yep, looks like that post is labelled with `!takedown`. So is not served by the BlueSky AppView but still exists. Other app such as Clearsky can ignore the label and show it. I guess that's why it's called Clearsky! So yeah, no shadow banning. This is just how moderation works on ATproto.

Screenshot showing a bash cli tool that is reporting a !takedown label has been applied to a specific post.

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 06/10/2025

You mean this one?

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 29/09/2025

My tuahine (sister) on what it’s like to run and manage Māori land #NZPol… It’s actually 12k cases but they’re only getting through 2.8k a year and 5k cases a year are added. At that rate - if they processed FIFO* - it would take 4.2 years before they would get to an application submitted today.

“Imagine running a trust or an incorporated society where every time you vote in new trustees or trustees resign, you have to have that reviewed in detail and approved by a special court, which takes on average a year to make a decision.

And then every time that trust wants to change it’s deed or constitution it has to advertise the details and reasons in a local paper, and then any decision has to go to that same special court, and wait a year or more.

And if anyone challenges a decision you again have to go to that court.

And the years tick by and people get hōha with waiting ‘cos the rules won’t allow decisions anymore, so decisions stop getting made and people stop coming.

And that court is only for a special kind of people, not everyone.

That court is the Māori Land Court.“

“Last I heard it has about 30,000 current cases to deal with and only about 50 staff spread across the country.

Originally the Native Land Court, it was established in 1865 to convert customary Māori land tenure into individual titles and facilitate land sales to settlers. Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 expanded the court's jurisdiction and its role, focusing on the protection and promotion of Māori land - once most of the country had been taken and hapū and whānau had been scattered often landless and penniless, with whānau connections severed.

It takes a determined people to come together again and take back their land.”

A Māori Land Court statistics infographic shows key performance metrics across different districts. The court has a significant backlog with 12,042 applications currently pending, while creating 5,208 new applications annually but completing only 2,881. The court also conducted 5,567 hearings. Waikato-Maniapoto and Waiariki districts handle the largest volumes across most categories. The data reveals a concerning trend where new applications (5,208) significantly exceed completions (2,881), indicating the backlog is growing by approximately 2,300 cases per year, suggesting processing times of over 4 years for new applications.

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 10/09/2025

Percentage stacked graphs better for comparison IMHO 👇

Side by side stacked graphs showing Māori vs non-Maori

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 01/09/2025

Whoop! Looks like there might be an aurora tonight NZ, strongest between 6pm and 9pm NZST?

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 31/08/2025

Haven’t posted much lately about my Coshop.nz community food project in Wellington but it’s going well! Over 1000 orders since the 1st of June and revenue doing the hockey stick thing. Now doing about $3k/week of food as local as I can find for about 30% cheaper than most places 👀

Chart showing rise in revenue up to ~$8k month

Screenshot of Coshop site showing prices

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 27/08/2025

Yep, big plans and no money 😅 But only no money for a little bit, revenue is rocketing with zero advertising 🚀

Graph showing monthly income for Coshop.nz

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 27/08/2025

Looking at the actual survey data though, there's actually been a slight drop in interest? Definitely no "exciting" or "powerful right shift"? www.tmp.govt.nz/en/documents...

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 18/08/2025

lol @stuff.co.nz using ChatGPT for writing their articles but forgetting to remove the "?utm_source=chatgpt.com" from the generated links 🙄

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 12/07/2025

Asking Claude what it’ll be like when AI takes over software development and it gives me this meme in SVG format

4-panel Generated Meme showing AI slowly replacing everyone and ends with “happy users using software that actually works”. Everyone else has sad faces and is unemployed.

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 10/07/2025

To easily turn this feature off just select “Remove App”. Oh wait, that still does nothing as they still have all of your videos saved… 🤷🏽‍♂️

Long press menu on an iPhone showing the “Remove App” option.

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