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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 · 09/06/2026

That's...that's not what polls do.

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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

If you don't want me to login, just say so man.

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 23/04/2026

Reply on the same 2016 FB post

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 23/04/2026

85% of Apple Pie Bed's audience? Quite possibly. I'm guessing that Spotify chucked it on 'Upbeat Coffeeshop Afternoon' or whatever curated playlist it was throwing at everyone in 2016.

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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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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 01/03/2026

Can't tell if bug or feature

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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 · 15/12/2025

While we're all here, let me share with you this ingenious song title. Finely-tuned algorithm juice.

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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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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 · 06/11/2025

Also from the Economist (December 2007): better-looking people earn more. I wonder if the pancy-pants AI is just confirming human biases by picking out good looks.

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 05/11/2025

Two equally valid ways to explain Wesley College's historical and cultural importance.

In the Herald, news about "NZ's oldest school". In Stuff, "Jonah Lomu's old school".

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 05/11/2025

TFW your edgy sports opinion article creates one of the most predicatable jinxes ever.

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 27/10/2025

A lot can happen in half a sentence.

Screenshot of a context-free paragraph, from a news article. "Salis, who garnered half a million followers on the social media app TikTok after his sheep shearing videos evolved into travel content, was recorded making threats to decapitate his mother..."

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 08/10/2025

TFW you're really good at writing clickbait headlines, but the bastards in charge of news article categorisation don't care for your talents.

From the home page of stuff.co.nz, a link to a news article. The photo is fuzzy, showing a bearded man of average build with long blond hair and a tight leopard-print top. The headline is, "Can you recognise this A-list star?". The article category, appearing above the headline, says "Jonah Hill".

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 26/09/2025

Spotify's weekly 'Release Radar' has serving up hot new music from Bowie, Nina Simone, Chet Baker, Brahms, Coltrane...

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 26/09/2025

Today on the Herald: Everything that New Zealanders think or do is wrong.

Three consecutiove NZ Herald headlines: "Kiwis are cooking their sausages wrong", "Your coffee habit could be ruining your health", "Moving to Australia? Why Kiwis are being warned to rethink their plans."

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 25/09/2025

Nah man, no need for embarrassment. Kurt was just accelerating a bunch of us teenagers into the Lucky Ten Thousand ahead of whatver schedule we would have been on without him.

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 24/09/2025

Not every piece of news has to be about him. And yet every piece of news somehow is.

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 16/09/2025

TFW when you see the parenthisised clarification before you see the take, and it's impossible to tell what sort of horrifying thing people are posting about today.

A Bluesky user self-replying: "(Not necessarily re children specially but expanding the market in off-label/untested ways before the first wave has even been properyl understood yet)".

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 08/09/2025

Headline writer really clears things up in the case of Murdoch vs Murdoch.

"Murdoch wins case in family succession feud."

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 08/08/2025

Opp Education Spokesperson won't meet with Minister as govt forms new policy, seeks "expert" views from people who either don't know what's happening or can't tell her. Complains that the government - whose meetings she declined - are "secretive". Just give up now. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 05/08/2025

1. There was nothing in yesterday's announcement about removing support. 2. Neurodiversity is not an insult, but it's not something that any teacher should be posting about when they literally identify the kid. Looks like a breach of professional standards.

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 01/08/2025

Daughter #2 has been requesting an extra pigtail each day. Her school friends are taking bets on how long it will last. This dad ain't quitting for at least another fortnight.

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 21/07/2025

Bluesky is a grievance machine that feeds on your joy.

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 27/05/2025

Hey NZers! Help our Ministry of Health get away from the bad place by adding yourself to the follower count here: @health.govt.nz

News article headline: Health Minister Simeon Brown intervenes as Ministry of Health reduces posting on social site X

Brown, the Health Minister has intervened, questioning why the agency he is responsible for would step away from X, as it has 48,000 followers.

The agency’s BlueSky account, launched this week, has 972 followers and one post, which reads: “The Ministry of Health is now posting on Bluesky. Follow us to be alerted to our consultations, news and announcements”, linking followers to community guidelines.

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 21/05/2025

If Spotify really cared, they'd automatically switch this option on for everyone who listens to Sleep Token.

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 21/05/2025

Just learned that Spotify hates me, and Spotify hates rock.

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 19/05/2025

How it's starting | How it will go

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 15/05/2025

The coolest thing about my job is having competitors who straight up lie about how cheap they are. Never ever ever trust Freeparking, kids.

Freeparking's "Buy and register domain names" page, showing a .nz price of $22.48.

Same Freeparking page after searching for a .nz domain, showing a price of $27.47.

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 07/05/2025

Gregor Paul's written about on-field TV interviews of rugby captains in the Herald today. Makes some good points, but when an article is mostly about "F-bombs", the term "C-suite" suddenly looks quite rude.

Two paragraphs of text from a Herald article. The first contains the term "F-bomb". The second contains "C-suite". Only one of them is meant to be a shortened version of a rude word, but come on.

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 05/05/2025

The Herald's article contains this graph, which looks pretty good on the surface.

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 11/04/2025

Observation from New Zealand: The Blue place is getting closer and closer to bringing back the best days of the other place.

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 11/04/2025

The Herald home page right now

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 09/04/2025

Does no-one else remember that @paranoidadnoid.bsky.social was onto this exact problem six years ago?

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 31/03/2025

Brutal use of quote marks from the Herald. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Minister for Rail Winston Peters has announced a quote-plan-unquote.

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 27/03/2025

This week's Economist cover is so good.

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 11/03/2025

It's a thing here. That doesn't mean it's a thing worth grandstanding about, but it exists.

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 02/03/2025

How it started (two weeks ago) | How it's going

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 02/03/2025

The answer, which is "no", can be found by scrolling down the first article.

Despite a string of record-breaking drug busts, the local market has been flooded with methamphetamine supplied by Mexican cartels and Asian crime syndicates working with outlaw motorcycle gangs.

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 26/02/2025

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me eight times, shame on Musk.

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 25/02/2025

Not normally a Mike Hosking fan, but "Count how many words you’re using to explain this" is just such a devastating line. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/med...

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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 31/01/2025

Just want to make it very clear that none of you are allowed to invest in my flying pigs.

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