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New Zealand based Engineering Manager and recovering web developer, trying to learn as much as possible about languages, cricket, drums and parenthood. Music teacher (drums […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mstdn.io/@paw, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 5h
Sometimes the metaphors are just a bit too on the nose aren't they.
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
NZ Firefighters are about to go on strike for one hour today at 12pm. www.fireandemergency.nz/nzpfu-colle…
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Great idea. Put RFK Jr on that and we should see them surrendering to Ukraine within weeks.
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Sure, part of the story here is why the Minister for Shitty Lunches and Truancy Crackdowns doesn't know it's the school holidays, but for me the crucial detail is, when told by kids how embarrassingly wrong he is, his instinct is still to contrive a way to be "right" rather than admit fault […]
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
This is the future NZFirst and National's evangelical right want: www.tickaroo.com/e/GYmytvXNZXCZ4c40
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Winston's cafe arrival prompts diner with trans-son to stand up and leave
Winston's cafe arrival prompts diner with trans-son to stand up and leaveGreta Anderson was sitting at Takapuna Beach Cafe with some friends about to enjoy a cup of tea when Winston Peters and his entourage walked in and parked up at a table near her. "I turned around and, oh," she says. "I've been extremely upset about what he's done about trans people in this country, and the way he's kicked down". "Personally, the way it affects me the most is his anti-trans, define a woman bill. I have a trans-son. I teach trans-children. My friends have got trans-children. Trans-children are everywhere. "It's just so upsetting what he's done," Anderson says. She left the cafe and walked her dog along the beach.
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Wtaf?! Elon Musk is a literal Bond villain. He has got to be stopped.
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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
So, uh, job search update: About a month ago now, I pleaded on mastodon for help. I didn’t really have a goal in mind. I was just miserable at work, not getting paid enough to do too much work. I posted a big long, rambling post that ended with, effectively, “will someone please help me” A […]
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
And so the intergenerational trauma and abuse cycle continues as Israel becomes the very thing its people fled in the 1930s and 40s.
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
I wonder if this is behind all the "Vote Trains" signs I've been seeing popping up in random places around town. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics_electio…
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Green Party announces plan for passenger rail between major NZ cities
The Green Party says it will connect the country with intercity passenger rail services, if elected.
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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
ThisIsFine.gif :fine: Greenhouse gases hit record levels in New Zealand's atmosphere, new data shows www.rnz.co.nz/news/environment_clim… #tooManyCows #dirtyDairy #climateChange #EndFossilFuels
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Greenhouse gases hit record levels in New Zealand's atmosphere, new data shows
The greenhouse gases that cause global warming have increased to new record levels in New Zealand's atmosphere, new data shows.
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
"too Nazi for contemporary Russia!" #KanyeWest #Russia #Nazis
Kanye West's sold-out Russia concerts
cancelled, organisers confirm

Russia's foreign ministry had called planned shows
unacceptable due to rapper's ‘glorification’ of Adolf Hitler
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essjax @essjax.m.essjax.com.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
These folks had the corner of their wall blasted off by a bolt of lightning, and they fixed it beautifully. #Kintsugi
A corner of a brick wall has been blasted away. The owners have filled in it with something like concrete, but with a beautiful golden flash of lightning.
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Can someone help me understand the implied messaging in that racist ad from renowned racism group, Hobson's Pledge, in all the papers?
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
RE: spacey.space/@spaceflight/117362546… Surprised they have any time and capability at all what with their intensive efforts to alienate themselves from their entire supply chain, any cooperation efforts from its neighbours and the bottomless pit of money they're continuing to […]
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
RE: techhub.social/@Techmeme/1173616714… So Reddit isn't killing RSS feeds as the headline suggests, AI is killing RSS feeds because companies are choosing not to let ravenous AI agents eat up all their data and sell it on under their own services.
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
If Nicola Willis is arguing that she can't afford to apply income tax cuts before the books are back in surplus this year, how was that argument different in their last term when it was a pre-election pledge they made before even seeing the PREFU? […]
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Amber :neodog_box: @puppygirlhornypost2.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
real. ​:overjoyed:​
a person wearing sunglasses in an open office environment looking at the viewer captioned "I'M THE OPPOSITE OF AI. IT TOOK ME AN HOUR TO WRITE ONE EMAIL AND I HAVEN'T HAD ANY WATER TODAY."
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theseege @theseege.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
COVID may worsen existing health problems long-term, study suggests | CIDRAP www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covid-m…
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
RE: pouet.chapril.org/@dallo/1173511374… When you decide you don't want to be part of the ICC then your war crimes can go unpunished. Countries like Russia and the USA who don't want to be held to account in their global citizenship should be disregarded within the global […]
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coffe☕ @coffe.social.piewpiew.se.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
enshittification and death #enshittification #microblog
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
We need to call this government what it is: a government of deprivation in favour of corporate interest and greed. There's no provable growth here; just an entrenchment of the same "rich get richer" entitlement. We deserve so much better and people need to learn how economies actually work.
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
Let's be absolutely clear here: government spending is a *choice*. Governments cannot run out of money and the government budget is NOT a household budget. Cutting taxes AND cutting spending is just a race to the bottom.
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
This is not fixing things or building an aspirational vision for the future. It's a blind continuation of the cruelty and pointless starvation of basic public services every New Zealander deserves to expect from its government […]
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
So let me get this right... SpaceX's "successful" orbital launch of Starship lost an engine in flight, was cut from a planned six orbits to two (and SpaceX isn't saying why), neither part is reusable, and the top part blew up on splashdown.
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
@phil_stevens @davemosk Yeah definitely. I'm not sure how easily that can be done at the legislature level but your argument that things must be independent is definitely valid.
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
@phil_stevens @davemosk Sure - in theory. Except we've already seen the right's willingness to interfere with those commissions in pursuit of their own ideology: Waitangi Tribunal, Teachers Council, local government, Maori Health Authority... there would need to be much stronger legal bars to […]
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Dave Moskovitz (((❤️))) @davemosk.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
EDUCATORS CALL FOR ELECTION TRUCE ON CONSTANT CURRICULUM CHANGE - Waatea News: Māori Radio Station waateanews.com/2026/09/28/educators… The Aotearoa Educators Collective is calling on political parties to stop rebuilding the […]
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@byroncclark/117345… If this is their thinking, perhaps they should've had better leadership from the get-go that was able to assert some semblance of competent authority instead of having the country's direction driven by those smaller parties. Costello […]
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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
True this.
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
RE: fediscience.org/@petergleick/117344… See also: New Zealand First / National
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Yeah awesome. Go get yourself on the central government ballot and out of regional council politics forever you absolute clown car wreck of a human. Nobody in their right mind will vote for you ever again. Ong has been nothing but disruption, grandstanding and hysterical diatribes since the day […]
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
In case people didn't already see the full scale of hostile ideology progressed by this government, here's a comprehensive list of every legislative attack on Māori over the last 3 years: www.emilywrites.co.nz/te-tiriti
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
To quote Dr. Hicks: "[Threat] drains cognitive resources and attention" and this increases vigilance and uncertainty, which (in the author's professional opinion) could be a factor in why people feel so tired. Those depleted cognitive resources impact our Window of Tolerance (my opinion here) […]
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
I'm reading the latest Fight For The Future post from @grimalkina where she talks about identity threat. I feel there's a deeper dimension to this feeling of threat beyond simply the identity crisis presented by AI. A theme I'm hearing frequently from colleagues is the level of fatigue they feel […]
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
(I am very on board with these scientific endeavours despite only learning of them yesterday afternoon)
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
My barista has been quietly experimenting on me by adding more and more shots over the course of this week and I think by Friday I will be able to see the subatomic fabric of the universe.
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mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Flooding in Chiba again. This report shows the Takasaki River overflowing into Sakura City. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIhh...
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千葉・佐倉市で高崎川が氾濫 広範囲で冠水 土砂崩れなど通報も(2026年9月22日)
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
That's my boy (in the background, quietly working away). Seems he's the only one holding a shovel. Wonder what the rest of that crowd was up to! :-p www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/dunedin-…
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Dunedin students serve up community hāngi for cultural trip fundraiser
Dunedin students serve up community hāngi for cultural trip fundraiser
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
Ah yep. That'll be the cold front coming through then... 😅
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
Traffic blocked in Dunedin at Princes St. www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/princes-…
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Princes St hotel evacuated due to ‘toxic’ gas
Princes St hotel evacuated due to ‘toxic’ gas
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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
Remember when every new product being launched in the early 2020s was called "lightning"? These days everything's being acronymed "SMART". Running your airport on AI is probably totally fine and super safe, right? […]
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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 · 21/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/1173… We should absolutely be paying attention to our indigenous communities overseas for signals on how our own might shortly be impacted as well.
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Bunneh Usagi-Chan @bunnehusagichan.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
Atheist Cat sleeps in on Sunday, but not #Caturday !
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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 · 19/09/2026
RE: io.mwl.io/@mwl/117297385172262474 Largely agree with this. Good, fair argument.
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026
Oof, just deleting all of that data with seemingly no way for some of the affected orgs to get their data back is just horrible. Microsoft made a quiet change to a popular software grant. Small nonprofits lost everything […]
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eff. @fabjx.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
anyone can gaze these days
Closed metal lid with a plaque saying "Accessible Void".
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