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Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m on a cross city mission today to find the last XS of a One Piece tshirt my daughter NEEDS for her birthday.

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Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Dilemma - can hear the kids volleyball sporadically smacking into neighbour’s car (a Porsche of all things, only non Japanese import on our street…) BUT 16y/o is being active for first time in months. Say nothing I think.

Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Updating my phone while travelling turned off airplane mode. Hello roaming fees.

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Perhaps a new police force dedicated to such crimes?

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lol will do! Now just need an excuse to go into town.

I agree “inextricably tied to”. But on first read I had a small alarm bell as it sounded a bit like China’s preferred re-definition of human rights as about economic and social progress (owned by the majority / the state), rather than inviolable rights of individuals (for the state to protect).

Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Damn, now I have to get one. Probably Maungawhau, given I used to get off there when it was a little timber station.

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AKL airport - “our business model is more than just car parking, we love pedestrians and public transport”. AKL airport long term parking - razor topped fences and no way to leave on foot without jogging after a vehicle before the gate slams shut.

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Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is cute - Auckland train network now big enough that some passengers have to transfer lines. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...

nzherald.co.nz

CRL opening adds up to 10 minutes to some Auckland commutes

Here's what commuters need to know about routes, timetables and opening day.

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Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I think it picks a year first, not a person. Probably for exactly that reason!

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Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Data schmata. Dunedin rain is soul sapping, Wellington rain is physically painful, and Auckland rain is soothing.

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Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

100% Also, good medical advice to get a sense of what’s causing what can help map this out. I’m just done a second round of adding a nasty to my fortnightly treatment, this approach got me through.

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Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

No watersides at the new Waiwera. Devastated.

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Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Our 11 y/o pulled a reverse version of this, saying she didn’t need to tell us when she went to hang with mates because we could just track her

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Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Might be interested in the Kaimanawa horses in Aotearoa NZ - 1990s extensive public consultations to land balance between muster and cull. My impression is this is still relatively high public interest but overall accepted? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaimana...

en.wikipedia.org

Kaimanawa horse - Wikipedia

Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

To the kids: “We only use find my for emergencies.” Lying in bed: “Ugh why can’t it tell me whether you’re in the kitchen or upstairs.”

Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Appreciate TVNZ breakfast saying the full phrase “bomb the shit” out of Oman. Reporters shouldn’t rephrase just because of a swear.

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Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Frozen nato are an absolute game changer.

A 30g cup of frozen nato with chopsticks on top.

Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The “girls clean; boys dirty” crowd have had very few flatmates / siblings / kids. Maybe there’s some gender difference but those are pretty wide and overlapping bell curves.

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Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Plus France is buying some which will help with their continued development. Is this like Hegseth on hybrid electric tanks, assuming it’s woke rather than just better tech?

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Tying human rights to citizenship is one of the gravest sins of the contemporary global order.

The deportations bring up serious legal questions that have been the subject of multiple federal lawsuits. The removals — whether they involve immigrants with criminal histories or not — often happen before deportees can argue their cases before a judge. Some of the countries selected by the Trump administration don’t offer the basic legal protections to which the deportees would be entitled in the United States, such as access to a lawyer. And because they are foreign nationals, with no legal status in the countries to which they have been sent, the deportees generally remain under indefinite detention abroad, without charges and with little or no recourse in American courts. In a written statement to The Times, the Department of Homeland Security maintained that anyone who was deported received due process: “These third-country agreements, which ensure due process under the U.S. Constitution, are essential to the safety of our homeland and the American people.”

But some never get out. They remain in the third countries to which they are sent, stuck in a kind of purgatory — a new class of prisoner created by America’s widening crackdown on immigration.

Human rights lawyers I spoke to have identified at least two dozen cases in which people have been in long-term detention: the 19 men imprisoned in Eswatini and another six or seven in South Sudan. Some were convicted of assault and murder decades ago and had completed their sentences. Some were living in the United States legally; others were not. Many of the cases had additional complicating factors. Mosquera is caught in a diplomatic quagmire that began with Cuba’s 1959 revolution. Others come from countries without a functioning government or with no diplomatic ties to the country where they are being detained. None of the detainees I interviewed had been allowed to collect passports or any other documents that could serve as identification before they were deported.

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Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Noooo! And played the Powerstation no less :( In that case, thank you for your service.

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Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Confirmed. Two Aotearoa replies means you have to tour here quick soon, Sir.

Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

That’s a missed teachable segue into how President Xi made Beijing’s skies blue again. Back to the 学习强国 app for you mister.

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Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Thank you, crazy Korean church, for being there when I needed you (emergency tissues).

A pack of tissues, with Korean and English text:

“Believe in Jesus and be saved Hell if you get a verification chip”

“예수님 믿으면 구원 집승의 표 (666, 베리칩) 받으면 지옥.”

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Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

AT Hop card for the windscreen scrape win.

Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

“High mountain” - mostly applies to Korean food (meaning random as veges with unexpected flavours)

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Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Wow, kiwis really don’t own proper winter clothing from news coverage of today’s snow. Ignore Icebreaker/Macpac propaganda about layering and buy a heavy coat that goes as far below your bum as you can afford!

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Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

We had a great flat with a view of a road coming out of the town belt. Icy days we’d sit with coffee watching slo-mo crashes. Buses were the best. Also my dad claimed Stuart St was so steep that on his 1960s lemonade truck route he used to go up in reverse (lower than first gear ⚙️ ).

Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Having the New Yorker on Libby is alternately a joy and an immense burden.

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Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

AoNZ also has sectoral differences with Aus (eg TICSA approach). On electricity spotted this: “the impending ‘one size fits all’ regulatory approach, as applied in Australia, would <have problems here>” www.ea.govt.nz/documents/10...

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Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

There are lots of ways to slice this - building in everyday resilience and security sometimes preferable to jumping straight to worst case scenario planning “what if there’s a war”. Eg using Standards for equipment and procedures to address cybersecurity and operator control.

Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Nitpicking, but these Belt and Road headlines are really just about Chinese investment to a large group of ~150 countries. Lots of fascinating details (eg private ⬆️ SOEs ⬇️) but maximalist approach washes out analysis of what BRI might actually be. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

giftarticle.ft.com

China pours funding into green energy deals as Iran war hits oil demand

Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative takes advantage of rise in appetite for renewables as Middle East conflict drags on

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Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I feel like both 1 and 3 really drag out a small number of stories over the hour with minimal original content (eg screenshots rather than on the spot footage). Sports events are mana from heaven for the model.

Lentil beans @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I foolishly decided to try and understand Bitmex with news of it closing down. Anyone understand it more deeply, or was the basic offering (not BMEX) really as basic as just a self-contained ecosystem for gambling on future crypto prices?

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My partner is getting a bit slammed on this. Two older males* struggle with the technical basics but jump on perceived errors by women (often mistakenly, and only when the boss is away). End result is they look stupid but what a grind. (*Do I add? From two cultures both correlated with male ego.)

Kickstarter is a term there I know! Will keep an eye out. I will be visualising the Cones of Dunshire until corrected. Thank you for your service.

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And bad jokes. But yeah, trying to be masculine for its own sake immediately undermines those immediately indicators of being a decent man. The big muscles are for fixing shit (ideally for others) and obscure hobbies or professions that make the world better.

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We’ve seen in #AoNZpol too. Conflates tech and science. Tech is a decision: does it deliver for $, national competitiveness, society, environment, new innovation etc. Feels masculine. Science is building knowledge and is vast. Unlocks tech, ideally open, can criticise. A short pause in 💰 can kill.

No idea what “Mesopotamian rpg” means but loving the energy and process so along for the ride.

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