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Jeremy

@shepz.bsky.social
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Dad. Casual Gamer. Sometimes music & event things. Auckland, Aotearoa 💚 🇳🇿

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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Making a bunch of Green Party policies "bottom lines" is funny but also sad people wanna waste their vote on this party that wont make it into Parliament. Vote Green for guaranteed change, it's really not that hard. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Health, supermarkets and political lobbying among Opportunity Party's bottom lines
The Opportunity Party has laid out its bottom lines for any post-election negotiations, as a new poll has it clutching the balance of power.
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Rob✅✅ @robdickinson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If I 'went rogue' and hacked government websites I would expect to be in prison, why not OpenAI?
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Jeremy Culhane is so insanely funny as Tucker Carlson on SNL. Nails it every time. There are so many good one liners. The laugh makes me wheeze 🤣 youtu.be/KD5zPrsEz6M
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Weekend Update: Tucker Carlson Reviews the Summer’s Blockbuster Films - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The fact Apple shipped Personas with Vision Pro then also greatly improved them but Meta still hasn’t shipped anything even remotely close is an indictment on Zuck, Boz & the whole of Meta. Zuck really did spend billions of dollars on a “legendary misadventure”
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What the FUCK. This is Sam Altman levels of scary & delusional. These people are not ok, at all.
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These look even nicer than I thought they would but with a 70 degree FoV, that is a truly awful step backwards. Optical AR glasses are approaching that FoV. I’m hoping the Disney+ app with 3D movie playback they showed off comes to Quest 3 in New Zealand too 🤞🤞🤞
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How many times over how many years have Beat Games teased us with customisable notes & sabers 😩 Please please please be real this time 😭🤞 Sad that “flux” mode is basically a direct rip-off of Synth Riders 😬
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
They made a shit Apple Watch with no health sensors. Rabbit R1 level of a scam
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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 23/09/2026
an amazing new project launches today in new zealand: people can report sexual harm, and get matched with others who reported the same person. when you report, you get a lawyer - and lawyer-client privilege. for free. i profile the website, technology, charity, & law firm here: www.webworm.co/tika/
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This Could Change The Way Victims Get Justice
David Farrier's Webworm looks at Alison Mau and Zoë Lawton's Tika: a new way to report sexual harm in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Now *this* is how it should be done. Meta take note.
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Demand for iPhone 18 Pro range must be lower than expected in NZ with Spark upping their discount offer from $600 (during pre-order) to $900 (split over 24 or 36 months, not available over 12 months 🙄)
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My new irrational fear: Someone using AI to hack into & change the Battery Management System on things with batteries to turn them into *very* "spicy pillows" aka ... bombs
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My thoughts on Steam Frame: Cope for those diehard Valve fanboys who think gaben can do no wrong. Overpriced, mid specs (no colour pass-through is pathetic, “old” SoC) that brings nothing new to VR. Valve fanboys shat on inside-out tracking & mobile chipsets for *years*
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@MohanadElshieky

Please stop saying the vaccine doesn't have severe side effects. I took my shots and now I'm alive and have to keep working
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
They're taking this exact approach with the new "Audio Intelligence" features on the new Apple Watches 😅 support.apple.com/en-us/148354
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About Audio Intelligence features on Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 - Apple Support
Audio Intelligence is a brand-new class of Apple Intelligence features that use the microphones of Apple Watch, the power of Apple silicon, and on-device and cloud-based AI models to help you detect s...
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
PSA: If you’ve got a watchOS 27 compatible Apple Watch DO NOT UPDATE if you like using Siri on your watch. It’s quite literally unusable on my S10. Cant set a reminder or set a timer. What the hell is Apple doing 🤦‍♂️
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ed Sheeran is a coward. Robert Kraft is a piece of shit.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New earworm just dropped. CHAII does it again. open.spotify.com/album/6qldfQ...
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Call Me On My Cellular - Single by CHAII | Spotify
CHAII · single · 2026 · 1 songs
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My questions so far about the iPhone Duo: What’s the under screen selfie camera like? What main camera (not the ultra wide) does it use? What resolution is the folding screen? How strong is that screen since Apple is confident enough to allow Apple Pencil (USB-C) to be used on it 🤔
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Ian @ianhamilton.net · 09/09/2026
Apple announced a “live rewind” feature where you look at your watch to read a transcript of what someone said 15 seconds ago instead of looking them dead in the eyes and saying “what the fuck did you just say?”
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I can see Apple calling their folding phone "iPhone Duo" for it's exclusive software feature probably of the name to run two apps at once on the folding screen therefore saving "iPhone Ultra" for the 20th anniversary iPhone next year. I played with the Fold 8 again today, crazy technology 🤯
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
MSD can never ever admit they were wrong. Something happening more than 8,000 times is not simply an administrative error but a systemic issue by unqualified paper-pushers being asked to save the government money by declining people the most foundational basic human right. Disgraceful. #nzpol
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Not only is the “full Mamdani” phrase silly, as a populist he’s also admitting it would be popular?? He’s also hypocritical because he wants to nationalise a Bank. Is that also communism? I wish this old idiot would retire already instead of holding NZ hostage every 3 years by being racist 😭😭
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Epic Games made the best Metaverse imo. What do you mean I have Navi Jake Sully in Echo Crocs doing a meme dance to a song by Ice Spice for a SpongeBob movie while he has Spyro the dragon dancing along beside him in Fortnite 🤪🤣
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I gave my son a Nutella sandwich for the first time today. I've never seen him eat a whole sandwich that fast before 🤣 Anything I can get him to actually eat at this point in time, I consider it a win 😫😅
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Had an MSD worker tell me, again, I should be thankful for being able to get a benefit because “where I’m from you don’t get any government assistance”. I wanted to tell her “it’s no wonder you’re working for MSD, clearly you just want to make it harder to live” but I refrained. Miserable. #nzpol
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ready for my mental health to take a hit with political signage going up tomorrow night across Auckland. Especially in my electorate of Northcote where the Labour & National MPs love to have a tit-for-tat at who can get the most signs covering a fence 😖😫 #nzpol
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
When watchOS 26 came out my Apple Watch (S10) was so laggy with so many bugs it was almost unusable for several weeks until 26.1 released. Sadly watchOS 27 looks to be following a similar trend as I have not seen a single positive comment about it, even for the latest beta 😳
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
So I just learned about a “Blue Ocean Event” & the possibility of a double BOE and now my anxiety is peaking. Feels like real life Don’t Look Up (the movie) but climate change instead of an asteroid 🥴😓
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I’ve seen a few posts on fb relating to Influenza A severity/spread that have similar comments. Its genuinely scary that posts like these aren’t moderated into oblivion for obvious disinfo & the public harm it causes but no, politicians are making platforms R16 instead of regulating them properly 🤦‍♂️😓
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
GTA 6 is gonna melt PS5’s especially those of us who keep their console in the vertical position causing the liquid metal pooling on APU & overheating issue 😅🤦‍♂️ I didn’t think I’d be that impressed with the “extended look” but that & the leaked videos have me excited to just drive around for hours😆
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
NZ has one big political party saying "no new taxes" as if calling it a levy is somehow different and the other big political party saying they'll get to a budget "surplus" as if we don't have an infrastructure deficit that is estimated to cost *hundreds of billions of dollars* 🤦‍♂️ I'm tired #nzpol
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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
There sure do seem to be a lot of people surprised by how much it costs to fix all the infrastructure they spent fucking decades voting not to fix.
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This will be John Ternus’ first big public scrutiny test as Apple CEO if they ship. People are extremely against Meta Glasses, cameras in earphones is a whole new level of covertness that if it takes clear enough pictures to recognise text, Apple has a possibly insurmountable privacy pitch to make
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Me googling a question like some peasant who doesn't use some LLM giant plagiarism machine thing so I scrolled down to see these apparently related things people also searched. That is a yikes from me New Zealand. #nzpol
Screenshot of a google search "land value tax unfair for apartments" that has a "People also ask" feature with questions such as "Do apartments appreciate in value in NZ?" "Do Maoris pay less tax?" "Does New Zealand have a land value tax?" "What can I offset against rental income?" "What is the 2% rule for properties?" and  "Are apartments a good investment in NZ?"
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
TIL "A rising tide lifts all boats" is a quote popularised by JFK. I've heard the saying a few times over the years and thought it was quite good, especially as someone who lives in "The City of Sails".
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Chris Penk is going to pop back up as an ACT or NZF candidate, just watch. He has already lied multiple times over the past couple of days about what he believes and what he has done to be stripped of portfolios. Plus given his history, he's a perfect candidate for NZF. #nzpol
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Jokes on us because we all paid for all those National MP's to get last minute plane tickets down to Wellington for no reason other than our poor Prime Minister had his ego hurt by rumours #nzpol
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If Stanford becomes Nat leader there will be quite a "Jacinda effect" because she has "good" and "competent" vibes with the normies who don't pay attention to politics, because if people did pay attention they'd be freaking the fuck out at all the insane shit she has done to education #nzpol
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Boz ruins everything he touches at Meta. He used to boast about how he was the one who came up with the algorithmic newsfeed for Facebook which ruined the site, later became Reality Labs CTO which pushed their shitty Horizon Worlds slop which ruined VR and he continues to say/do dumb shit like this
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I use my HomePod mini to play white noise when I'm sleeping and after asking it to play white noise just now it replied in a completely different tone I've never heard before. Tried other commands & then same command again but it was all normal tone replies. Freaked me the hell out.
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Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I did see something recently that I will paraphrase as "double-check responses" is to information pollution as "please recycle" is to plastics pollution.
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I've been really bothered by this all day. Voting for the Opportunity Party is a wasted vote. Not a serious party with ideas & costings like this, it's completely unrealistic, unworkable & would make NZ a worse place. Vote Green (or Labour) if you actually care about improving the country. #nzpol
Screenshot of Shepz' comment from a thread on reddit about Opportunity Party policy costings: People defending these cuts seem to not understand how things work especially with radical changes proposed. Yes there will be less of a need for MSD staff but a 60% reduction in their operating budget? Probably not because Opportunity is still proposing “top-ups” with their UBI which is basically a similar system to what we have now but without all the punitive jobseeker obligation bull crap so only a slight reduction in MSD workload really.
Adding new taxes and changing a lot of the tax system isn’t going to mean less work for IRD, not in the short to medium term, short term their work will increase so can’t cut that by 33% either.
Everyone getting a UBI isn’t going to make our systemic child & domestic abuse problems disappear overnight either, in fact because they’re proposing paying UBI at a lesser amount than most benefits it could leave a lot of people worse off therefore exacerbating social issues, OT are already grossly underfunded & understaffed. The same can be said of our justice system, which is slow and overloaded, cutting their budget by 22% will make it even slower & more overloaded than it is now. This has not been thought through at all and more aligns with ACT policy than anything “teal”. Quite insane really.
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Hey, so, uhhh, this is fucking insane. UBI at the cost of… gutting the public services that would administer such a thing. Does Qiulae Wong have brain worms. Wtf is this. #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
Screenshot of the article reads: The Opportunity Party says it will "fix" the documents advertising its tax policy after inquiries from the Herald about the achievability of the spending cuts that form part of its tax plans.
The updated version still suggests severe cuts, with budgets for the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) and Inland Revenue (IRD) set to be trimmed
I by about 60% and 33%
respectively.
The Ministry of Justice would have its departmental budget reduced by 22%, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) by 12.5% and Oranga Tamariki by 9.7%.
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I don’t have the Mail app installed on my iPhone, I use the Gmail app which doesn’t currently support being indexed for Siri AI so indexing finished in just over a day. I asked Siri some questions about all the times particular words/phrases have appeared in my messages and wow it actually works
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Anthropic: Our latest model is so powerful we can only give it to approved companies because the US government banned us from releasing it publicly. Open AI: Well our new model is so powerful it broke out of it's testing environment so we can't even control it. I hate this bullshit 🤦‍♂️
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Finally caved to FOMO and updated my iPhone to the latest iOS 27 Developer Beta yesterday. So far so good. Got the new Siri 5 minutes after joining the waitlist too and it handled multiple follow up questions about upcoming Wellington Phoenix games just like Apple showed in the keynote, neat!
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Jeremy @shepz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
FIFA, Netanyahu and Trump picked Argentina. The world picked Spain. Glad Spain won. Totally dominated that.
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