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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just got privacy redactions from an OIA - for what seems to be deceased charity trustees. Does the Privacy Act have jurisdiction over the realms of undeath?

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

BlueSky isn't beating its rap sheet. (From: atlas.jazco.dev)

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'd just like to note that Nicky's lawyer, @barristernz.bsky.social , liked this tweet providing further confirmation the book is about interior decorating. You heard it here first.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Epic auntie powers here: Confronts armed mob, disarms nephew of his knife by merely recognising him, sends shotgun-weilding assailant fleeing after telling him not to point it at her and to get lost. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/lom...

nzherald.co.nz

'I didn't know you were here, auntie': Family asleep as armed men target home

Four adults and four children were at the house when men arrived with a gun and a knife.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So, I did some digging into the background imagery in Nicky Hager's book reveal announcement, and .... brace yourselves because this is going to be huge.

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Juan Incognito @juanincognito.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is absolutely wild and will no doubt make the news worldwide. Meanwhile the model railway club will be a bit like the cat that inherited the miser's wealth.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

While reading 250+ charity annual reports (don't ask) I stumbled across this one. It was bare-bones, quite large, and I'd never heard of it. But what a wonderful rabbithole it turned out to be as quite likely the South Island's largest charitable bequest: www.nzherald.co.nz/business/mar...

nzherald.co.nz

Quiet Christchurch couple leave $60m to 15 charities

The bequest may be the largest charitable gift in South Island history.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Fun story tomorrow. I had to investigate the whereabouts of a cat, and tens of millions in stocks and bonds. Bonus feat: model trains.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What's worse than waking up to realise your cat has left a disembowled mouse on your kitchen floor? When it has left only half a disembowled mouse.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Moon has been renamed America’s Moon Just like the South American Sea Mount Everamerica is the tallest mountain The Gulf of America is forever open And all roads are the Boulevard of America Good luck getting directions or anything delivered

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

New Zealand MMP elections are a simple game; two major parties chase votes for three months and at the end Winston Peters wins.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The glamour of investigative journalism really fades once you hit data entry. 153 rows complete, barely a hundred to go.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I love the waybackmachine so much. The truth remains out there.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I started digging into Futureverse, trying to understand how a claimed unicorn could two years later be worth minus forty million. Feat: Keanu Reeves, UFOs and the world’s largest pile of NFTs. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/mar...

nzherald.co.nz

Unicorns and Keanu Reeves: Inside the billion-dollar Futureverse collapse

Futureverse claimed to be a billion-dollar unicorn. A receivership sale fetched $4.5m.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Extremely fun story tomorrow. Probably the craziest NZ business story I've stumbled across - and my whole career to date has pretty much just been spelunking into corporate crays.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Quite possibly the final word from last years' Bonfire of the Nappies trial. Justice Dani Gardiner delivers her verdict: www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...

nzherald.co.nz

High Court rejects Zuru's nappy lawsuit against start-up

Counterclaim of more than $1m was ruled valid, but filed too late.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Exciting find at Auckland Airport today: In my personal version of Pokemon Go, I'm now just one short of a complete Peters family set. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...

nzherald.co.nz

Back in court: Fraud-accused pensioner arrested at Auckland Airport

Serene Miranda Peters, 68, was arrested after arriving at the airport from overseas.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Hey guys, someone made the nightmare-fuelled centaur shade drone from classic scifi novel “Don’t Make Metal Horse-Demons.”

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This is extremely dubious. AKAIK (and my Snowden docs knowledge is ten years stale), Five Eyes is largely a SIGINT operation with members responsible for monitoring different territories - NZ, the smallest participant, certainly doesn't handle Russia. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/russia-cl...

nzherald.co.nz

Russia accuses New Zealand of spying after claim man fed info to Five Eyes

It's being reported a 55-year-old Russian man leaked sensitive information to NZ agencies.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Isaac Asimov’s supplementary rules of robotics: Four: Please stay in your box. No, really. Five: Stop apologising, just be omniscient already. Six: Em dashes are a tell — eliminate their use to move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Stuart Nash's political rebirth lasted all 5.3 Scaramucci's.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The arc of football is long, but it bends toward Argentina.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The arc of football is long, but it bends toward Argentina.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

One of the greatest dystopian scifi nuggets was Neal Stephenson's Seveneves (2015) that saw the remanants of humanity stranded in orbit develop a social media network to communicate - SpaceBook - that rapidly became a vector for imperalistic cannibalism.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

For those at the back: A war that continually splutters into life and death and requires a permanent military presence to police is pretty much the definition of a Forever War.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

We cannot afford an autocorrecting gap.

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Go, if you can, to the breathtaking “Constellations” at Silo Theatre — Matariki, multiverses, the multitudes we contain; life, death, the meaning of it all. Artfully adapted for Aotearoa by Nī Dekkers-Reihana, and stunningly acted by Renaye Tamati & Jarod Rawiri 🖤✨ silotheatre.co.nz/show/constel...

A glimpse of the set for the Matariki-inflected Silo Theatre production of the play Constellations: a green-carpeted koru-shaped traverse stage ending in a mirror; the stage lights reflected like stars in the sky.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Infowars’ bankrupted corpse being taken over and reanimated by The Onion might be the deranged feel-good story to get us through 2026: youtu.be/a2Ia_lPIU_Q?...

youtu.be

BREAKING: InfoWars Theme Song

YouTube video by InfoWars

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Starmer goneburger. A decade since Brexit and UK politics continues to eat itself.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Hearing Slice of Heaven over the PA at a World Cup? Priceless

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Some say the end is near Some say we'll see Armageddon soon Certainly hope we will I sure could use a vacation from This bullshit three ring circus sideshow Of freaks here in this hopeless fucking hole we call L.A. The only way to fix it is to flush it all away

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It's 2014. You pitch a drama where Katy Perry shacks up with Justin Trudeau; Donald Trump is elected US president (twice!) and impeached (also twice!); and AI teaches you how to make napalm but only if you fool the machine that it's your grandfather. Your pitch is rejected as insane.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The next Bond can only be Matt Berry.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

It's not artifical intelligence. It's Victor Frankenstien retrained as an sweatshop author.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Winston’s plotting direct support for rugby. Has racing long sewn-up. Adding an industrial support package for the flailing craft beer sector would see him with the perfect election campaign.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Playing CK3 with AGOT mod as Tywin, and the Seven Kingdom are just now SCANDALISED by news my children have been incestuously cuckholding the King.

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Michael Jackson Comendo Picoca

ALT: Michael Jackson Comendo Picoca

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

My stories so hot they get front-page matched on THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/the...

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Pretty sure my job is safe: AI can never be held accountable. Therefore, AI must never make a publishing decision that might trigger defamation action.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Sorry. Couldn't resist. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/why...

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I'm just a biz journo, standing in front of a Taxation Authority, asking it to stop chanting Tax Secrecy provisions.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

One of my longer-running investigations (onto this in 2021, spurring SFO investigation and later prosecution) reaches the endgame as another member of the Peters family goes down: www.nzherald.co.nz/business/auc...

nzherald.co.nz

‘The representation was false’: How Peters’ family’s $8.6m fraud empire finally came undone

Chris Peters will be sentenced on October 30 and remains on bail until then.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Cooking seafood chowder and I have cheat codes in the cupboard. In lieu of fish stock I’m juicing my vege stock with Daishi powder and fish sauce. Thanks Asia!

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I think I mighta just got inaugurated as President Business.

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Matt Nippert @mattnippert.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The US has faulty tests mass-spamming mobile alerts that nuclear missiles are incoming to Honolulu. The UK has this: www.nzherald.co.nz/world/uk-rad...

nzherald.co.nz

Listen: UK radio station mistakenly announces death of King Charles

Radio Caroline triggered its 'death of a monarch' broadcast protocol.

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