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James @jsiddle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Everyone: The Arsenal app is really shit Me: OK. Surely not but OK Downloads App, first thing i see

James @jsiddle.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

@arsenalvisionpodcast.com Great chat re "Primer" on the pod, I had never made the connection before but we used to call the first year of school "Primmer(sic) one" (I never knew why) but turns out...it was actually "Primer". Every day is a school day 🤓

Explanation of why Primer is actually what we used to call "primmer one" in the NZ school system

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James @jsiddle.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

From Zitron's latest missive..sound like someone we know? #nzpol

Screenshot that says "Generative AI is catnip for hall monitors, snitches, toadies, and any other group that hates work and loves talking down to others. Put another way, it ingratiates losers who believe that learning to do or being good at something is a waste of time, because they deserve to just do what they want without any of that messy “effort.”

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James @jsiddle.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19.

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James @jsiddle.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Re Dead Poets Society - first few months of Gyokeres I had a nagging feeling of familiarity. Then it hit me watching it recently, he's like Ethan Hawke as Todd Anderson. Here's hoping there's a Oh Captain My Captain moment this season (or 5)

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James @jsiddle.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Yes this. I almost never finish them (but do enjoy what I do get through). I think he does have an editor though? see screenshot from his last one re NVIDIA

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James @jsiddle.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Feels like it's going to be a banger for the pohutukawas this year where we are

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James @jsiddle.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I imagine it's no longer there, but I had a season ticket for 2 or 3 seasons around 2010-2014, and used to stop religiously at a hole in the wall place (literally) that served hot salt beef Bagels and rye sandwiches around here I think. Does anyone else remember it? Fuck they were good

Location (I think) of a hot salt beef hole in the wall place by The Emirates

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James @jsiddle.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I'm from before the internet

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James @jsiddle.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Oh piss off, nothing to do with the primary reason cited by the quoted person above I.e. too much hospo businesses tipping the balance? No no..it must be the lack of parking..led with an image of an empty road and on street parking. FFS

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James @jsiddle.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Lol, always worth a picture when it happens

Empty bread shelves at waiheke Woolworths

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James @jsiddle.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Confused. Reading a paperback copy from the library here on Waiheke Island (NZ) at this very moment? Paperback just released in the UK?

A history of the world in 47 borders, and some wine

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James @jsiddle.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Fishy. What's wrong with it. What happened in 2019

Something weird with the CVs of this house

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James @jsiddle.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Whitebait fritters for xmas breakfast

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James @jsiddle.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Had a license and driven for a decade previous, but never actually owned a car until we lived in the UK, here is Trotter, 1981 (I think) VW T25 on her maiden trip (with us) to Scotland in 2006. Sold her to some banker a couple of years later in London

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James @jsiddle.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I know I know, probably one of Liams more magnanimous opinion pieces, and i only saw it through bernard hickeys post on substack, but this made me 😃, I mean...isn't that was a conservative is?

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James @jsiddle.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Man he's so tedious. And this lineup would have Benaud turning in his grave

Quote possibly the 3 worst cricket commentators of all time. Howie, Davie dumb dumb and Kerry O'Keefe

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James @jsiddle.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

What I'm drinking (and eating) tonight. Black Estate (Waipara) 2022 Damsteep Dry Riesling; scallops w/ black pudding and pea puree; whitebait fritters in shit white bread 🤌

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James @jsiddle.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

My bio includes #Wine so it's about time I posted about it. It's been like 5 weeks since the Vietti tasting at Caros Wines in Grey Lynn, but I'm still thinking about it Fantastic range across whites and reds, the Lazzarito Barolo the star for me, unfortunately taking one home was out of my range..

Vietti wine tasting range at Caros Wines, Grey Lynn

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James @jsiddle.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Great talk about Electrifying Everything with Mike Casey of Rewiring Aotearoa at the Waiheke Resources Trust tonight. Huge opportunities ahead for everyone if we can electrify. #Rewiring #Aotearoa #Waiheke www.rewiring.nz / www.wrt.org.nz

Mike Casey of Rewiring Aotearoa talks at the Waiheke Resources Trust

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James @jsiddle.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

My local. If you see this post a beach picture from your gallery

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James @jsiddle.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Arsenal-ing in the early mornings from NZ these days. The two games which bookended my life in the UK. Wigan away 2005 (the Henry free kick one), and the 2014 cup final v Hull. So much shit (and tbf some good stuff) in between 🤣

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