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Max Johns (MxDEJ)

@maxjohns.nz
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aka MxDEJ, aka Mike Alpha Xray. Glad to be here. Disliker of billionaire saboteurs.

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Toby Gillman @tobygillman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It feels right to me. I personally got murdered far more times than that under the last Labour government.
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Jenny Nicholls @jenster.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This reminds me of the time I was entrusted with tides computation for the PN Evening Standard and was often out by quite a large factor
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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Spiders McBody, who has been murdered 5,569,700 times, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 27/09/2026
I'm no demographer nor a criminologist, but I reckon that the Herald probably has Auckland's murder rate wrong here. I reckon it's probably lower than 3.6 per person.
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 24/09/2026
The hardest thing about reviewing Jon Toogood's book, and probably every NZ rock autobiography from now until forever, is not using Shayne Carter's incomparable 'Dead People I Have Known' as a yardstick. hamiltonundergroundpress.com/features/boo...
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Book review: Home Again, by Jon Toogood - HUP!
Home Again, by Jon Toogood, is an enjoyable book written by a grounded rock star. A positive review from Hamilton Underground Press.
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 16/09/2026
Every song on Shihad's Beautiful Machine sounds like it's from the final credits of something. This take is 18 years late, but still searing hot.
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 25/08/2026
Great news for everyone making sweet sweet cash in the massive tobacco black market that NZ conjured out of good intentions and shit ideas.
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 19/08/2026
You just know that someone in that caucus meeting was all like, "well, okay, but only if you promise not say a bunch of stupid shit the very next time you're in front of an audience". I wonder how they're feeling now?
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 19/08/2026
ME: I wish there was more music news in mainstream media. *Monkey's paw curls* www.rnz.co.nz/life/music/t...
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 18/08/2026
Put this guy in charge of the Auckland Harbour crossing.
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 25/06/2026
How'd the monkey get there?
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 25/06/2026
@danxduran.bsky.social Putting out a call to people with memories of JBC/Nivara Lounge for a new HUP series. You seem like the sort of guy who might be able to throw together a few paragraphs... hamiltonundergroundpress.com/features/niv...
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Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Narcissists have a history with reflecting pools
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18/06/2026
Capitulation at Versailles (disambiguation)
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
So ... it appears US negotiators were told to sign a text of the "peace deal" in Farsi, that they could not read, and did not refer it to the Dept of State's own translators, but ran it through an AI. And they've given away everything. Presumably, to try and do it on the President's birthday. Okay.
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 17/06/2026
Ok but if you mention this very predictable fall in passenger numbers as a reason to cancel Te Huia next year, we all get to kick you in the kneecaps. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/te-huia-t...
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'Optimise fare revenue': Waikato councillors back Te Huia price hike
An adult one-way fare from Frankton to Auckland will rise to $30 with a Bee Card.
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 09/06/2026
That's...that's not what polls do.
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 09/06/2026
Well that's my reading list sorted for the next year. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 07/06/2026
Hey @danxduran.bsky.social, look what's back from the dead (again): hamiltonundergroundpress.com/features/hto...
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The Htown Wiki is BACK! - HUP!
Htown Wiki, the internet's #1 source for Hamilton music history, is back at htownwiki.hamiltonuindergroundpress.com.
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 28/05/2026
Second year in a row that the Aotearoa Music Award have had heaps of next-day news coverage, nearly none of which is about the actual awards.
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 24/05/2026
"If New Zealand’s cultural life was lacking one thing in the 1990s, it was a primetime TV series featuring two singing, strumming, yodelling, cross-dressing, wisecracking lesbian sisters." Can confirm. RIP Jools. www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainmen...
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Dame Jools Topp of the Topp Twins has died from cancer
Dame Lynda Topp announced the passing of her sister with "deep sorrow".
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 22/05/2026
Very happy to have used the phrase "OnlyFans with clothes" in this one. www.hamiltonundergroundpress.com/features/lum...
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Lume: Six quick thoughts - HUP!
New album-based music streaming app Lume looks very interesting. The range of New Zealand musicians is a plus. Can it succeed?
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 21/05/2026
Good morning
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 13/05/2026
Impeccable reporting, no notes. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...
NZ Herald screenshot of an article in which Auckland mayor Wayne Brown talks about harbour crossings in an interview with Ryan Bridge:

'"I understand bridges better than professors of bridges," he told Bridge.'
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 08/05/2026
Gee, it's such a shame that we're about to stop paying people to make important decisions like this. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/bsa-clear...
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 08/05/2026
If you don't want me to login, just say so man.
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The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The president of the Norwegian football association has called for the abolition of the FIFA Peace Prize, which was awarded to U.S. president Donald Trump, and says she supports an ethics complaint against Gianni Infantino, the president of world football’s governing body.
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Abolish FIFA Peace Prize awarded to Donald Trump, says president of Norway’s FA (Gift Article)
Lise Klaveness also said she supported an ethics complaint against FIFA President Gianni Infantino by a human rights organisation.
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 23/04/2026
Here it is, New Zealand. The ultimate achievement of our greatest musicians: A Silver Scroll, a Taite Music Prize, an Aotearoa Music Award, and a Gold record. The STAG.
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 02/04/2026
*That we know of
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 14/03/2026
Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"
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Dane Owens @owendanes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 08/03/2026
POV: 46 years after you overthrew your country's monarchy.
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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Remember this when you hear "we shouldn't charge GST on food."
Screenshot of a Tweet. "Awesome bit of data that makes intuitive sense. Finland cut VAT on haircuts in 2007 to see if cheaper prices would boost demand and jobs. But when the tax fell by 4 euro, many salons lowered prices by only 2 euro and kept the rest as profit. When VAT rose again, prices jumped by the" [full amount]. There's a graph showing this.
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 05/03/2026
*House building occurs* NIMBY: "You can't do that" Council: "Yes they can" NIMBY: "Can't" Council: "Whatever, sue me. And the developer. Go on." *Lightbulb appears above NIMBY's head* Cut to... JUDGE: "Yes they can, and you owe them tens of thousands of dollars." www.stuff.co.nz/home-propert...
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 01/03/2026
Can't tell if bug or feature
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Potato enthusiast 🇵🇸🥔 @br3nda.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
You can search the world for "possum". And you can search only New Zealand... We are not the same. 😁
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 19/02/2026
YAY
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 18/02/2026
They make it hard to find the exit on purpose.
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 29/01/2026
Reminder to all NZ musicians who released an album in 2025 that you have about 4.5 hour left to nominate yourself for the TAITE MUSIC PRIZE. You probably won't win, but you will get reviewed in The Spinoff when I do my annual thing of listening to the entire list. Do it. Do it now.
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 10/12/2025
Only the left could convince itself that very public, internal shitfights are a good way to sharpen your policies without losing votes. Galaxy-brained, 5 dimensional chess shit. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
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‘False flag’: Head of largest union calls campaign against Nicola Willis a conspiracy
Lobby group the Taxpayers’ Union has launched a brand of fudge called 'Nicola’s Fudge'.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 09/12/2025
I have never seen a tie work this hard.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
For too long, America's most powerful public figures were not Doing Shit Like This. Those days are over.
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 08/12/2025
Incredibly thin skin, no idea when he's being treated like an absolute chump. Golden combo.
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She Guevara @sheg7.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
I'd pay good money just to see her argument for these biscuits being "biologically male"
Susan Hall on twitter: look at this nonsense, NO, they are gingerbread men

Picture, Packet of 16 Morrisons Gingerbread People
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 03/12/2025
All the other people in this video look like they want to be literally anywhere else.
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 25/11/2025
Small, achievable goals?
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 25/11/2025
You know you're from Hamilton when your local MP got married in his formal Dirty Dogs.
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 20/11/2025
My 'This coalition is absolutely not falling apart' t-shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are already answered by the shirt.
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