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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

The double standard between barely mediocre middle-aged white dudes and literally any woman with far greater credentials would be comical if it wasn't so blindingly and consistently reinforced. Cry him a river I guess.

Screengrab of Stuff's headline article that quotes Luxon saying "I've got no idea" with a simultaneously vacuous and smugly indifferent look on his face.

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Evil corporation intent on adding as much microplastic and corporate misery into the environment as possible advertising for an engineering lead. There is no amount of money in the world that would compromise my morals enough to want to make the utterly evil Nick […] [Original post on mstdn.io]

LinkedIn job ad for Zuru, the environment-destroying corporate trash panda owned by New Zealand's own discount super villain Nick Mowbray and family. 14 soulless ghouls have already applied apparently.

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Campaign to wind up ACT party propaganda pieces ending up in mainstream media 2026. It's just racist media manipulation to get their name in the paper every day. Any party could do this if they were wanting to be as cynical and unprincipled. What exactly is […] [Original post on mstdn.io]

Screen grab from RNZ website that reads:

Election 2026

ACT sets out plan to wind up Waitangi Tribunal

The party is campaigning on four reforms that it says will end the tribunal's contemporary jurisdiction, and move the country on.

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

What is the point of this? In what way is such an pedestrian, benign and dull piece of information of any value whatsoever? Who's being conditioned by seeing the McCaw name in the media so regularly and why? It's just so incredibly weird.

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Ah yes - the four known web browsers. This is the lazy design approach that looks at the user agent rather than detecting the capabilities supported by the browser. The HTML5 spec has APIs available for checking your required functionality that doesn't rely on […] [Original post on mstdn.io]

Screenshot from the Slack support page describing browser support life cycles that show only options for Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari.

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

This is not how GDPR works, corporations!! Stop being so fucking hostile to good design and user autonomy.

Cookie / privacy warning footer on Gartner's website saying "we use cookies to improve your experience" with only an "Accept" button available to click.

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

Rehearsal for the DSO International II tonight at the Town Hall. Beethoven and Brahms!

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Yay! @grimalkina's book has arrived in Aotearoa at last! Can't wait to crack into this. I like to go to the index to explore ideas that suggest interesting complexity. Looking forward to understanding pluralistic ignorance in change management and social identity theory in groups!

Hardcover copy of Dr. Cat Hicks' new book, The Psychology of Software Teams

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

How's everyone else's week been?

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

A large group of planes around London Gatwick have all declared emergencies.

Screenshot from Flightradar24 showing 9 planes squawking 7700.

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

Today, June 27, is Natural Light Rights day (日照権の日) in Japan - commemorating the signing in 1972 of people's right to enjoy unobstructed sunlight in zoning laws. Seems like a pretty specific thing to be excited about but there's a pretty big story behind such a […] [Original post on mstdn.io]

Photo of a Japanese newspaper (source unknown) covering the story of petitioners signing to ask parliament to pass natural sunlight regulations.

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

I wonder who pushed for the use of "mayoral runner up" to describe wealthy conservative mayoral race loser Andrew Simms. I would be highly unsurprised if he had not at least been asked if it was ok. This is deliberate framing to undermine Sophie Barker.

ODT article presenting failed mayoral candidate Cr Andrew Simms as "mayoral runner up".

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026

Rehearsal time!! Very excited for this performance, despite how little I'm playing in. 😅

A very comprehensive percussion section sits at the back of a town hall stage, looking across as-yet empty chairs.

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

I love that this has hit the international consciousness and is being interpreted for speakers of foreign languages so everyone knows the sort of authoritarianism being imposed on the US right now. (Japanese translation: トランプはいつもビビって逃げる) Lit: Trump always loses his nerve and flees.

A Japanese teacher explains the meaning of TACO - Trump Always Chickens Out. In Japanese, the translation reads:
トランプは
いつも
ビビって逃げる

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

This got very repetitive very quickly.

A Lego tower of industrial framing. Or something.

A top landing for a tall tower. An elevator enclosure is situated at the back.

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

Bit more progress since last night. #Lego A few people worked out what I'm building pretty quickly.

A box-like Lego model with a beige top deck.

A box-shaped Lego model with an almost Star Wars like protrusion emerging on the right top side.

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026

There's a lot of holes in this platform. Mind your step!

A partially-constructed Lego model. Beige plates of a platform in the foreground with a construction manual in the background.

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026

Any good Lego model needs a good platform to start from. This could take a while.

A partially-constructed Lego model, with some obscured instructions on the bottom left corner.

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026

Seems like exactly the right time to do something indulgent. #Lego #Milestones #50Years Wonder if any real Lego nerds can figure out what I'm going to build.

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026

Do we honestly need the scare banner for this sort of shit, NZ Stuff? Sorry - I mean RNZ. Got confused there for a moment.

Breaking news banner from RNZ website screenshot that reads "Food prices stressing you out? How to save money at the supermarket".

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026

Zimbabwe playing with a lethargy and reluctant resignation of a team that's already accepted defeat 20 overs in. Runs leaking to deep fielders as the inner ring just assume they'll have that backup.

White Ferns women are batting at the Otago University Oval against the Zimbabwe women, who are dressed in all red uniforms. An uncharacteristically blue and cloudless sky backdrops the trees against the hillside.

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026

Andrew Little trying to do a Harold Holt to keep businesses happy. Good thing mask mandates were such a successful learning moment for the country...

Headline screenshot from Radio NZ website: "Watch live: Mayor goes for swim as Wellington beaches reopen".

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026

[NZPol the (lack of) wisdom of crowds] @lightweight That's the problem: they're not.

"Different" comic by Alex Norris at Web Comic Name

https://webcomicname.com/post/152958755984

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026

Easy: "stay the fuck away from Australian beaches".

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026

I've seen some incredibly disgusting anti-patterns from companies pretending to give a shit about GDPR but this is a new low.

Screenshot of an ad blocker complaint modal trying to argue for users to disable their ad blocker without proper justification or explanation, with a button that simply says "press & hold".

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/01/2026

One day, US-based tech product companies will realise there are countries outside the United States that exist _below the equator_ and have.... DIFFERENT SEASONS!! 🤯 But it is not this day.

Screenshot of the Slack status update screen with "seasonal" options all centred on northern hemisphere winters.

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2025

Dunedin's most reliable conspiracy cooker sympathiser and malcontent rabble-rouser, Lee Vandervis, is summoning his frothing-mouthed flying monkeys again. This time over this article […] [Original post on mstdn.io]

Unfiltered brain-fart from Lee Vandervis socials:
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Scenic Drive, Queens Drive and the pleasure of driving in Dunedin have long been eroded by our car-cancelling Council evidenced by the planet-saving ‘transport’ staff the previous head of which said ‘We have got to get people out of their cars otherwise the planet will burn’. The pious planet-savers and selfish cyclists have cost us hundreds of millions with their virtue-signalling projects that have done nothing to save the planet or make any difference to transportation safety that better technology was not making anyway. The systematic spreading of speed humps and sidelining of our most-used car transportation mode in favour of cycling has been a financial failure as well as failing to increase cycleway use as DCC data shows below.

Map showing the 600m stretch of Dunedin side-street that is affected by a temporary street closure.

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025

[Politics - NZ] What basics are fixed? What parts of those basics were broken and what were the demonstrated impacts of those broken basics? By what measure or sets of measures is the economy rebuilt?

Banner ad for National from their party website:
"Rebuilding the Economy"
"Fixing the basics"

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025

Argument to substantiate claims: "Is so true! 'Cos I said so!" I'm so fucking tempted to OIA this prick if I thought it would actually be actioned.

"This is such a disappointing and inflammatory statement to be making, and is absolutely not true."

Sam Uffindell MP " it is a true statement so | guess your disappointment should sit with the unions"

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025

Bedpost Uffindell making wildly inaccurate, unsubstantiated claims about schools' positions on Te Tiriti. What's "frankly disgusting" is the deliberate, conscious choice to knowingly misrepresent an argument because you're too defensive and fragile to accept your […] [Original post on mstdn.io]

Sam Uffindell MP post captured from Facebook

Unions are standing over principals and school boards pressuring them to sign their anti-govt pledge.
Frankly disgusting.

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/11/2025

Those priorities include: * Quality teaching and leadership * Learners at the centre * Inclusive public education You can read the full text in the link I added in the previous post. This forms part of teachers' registration.

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