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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 4h

ourauckland.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/media-centre... Dream is this leads to polling place data for a local election 🙏 Most councils give the barest amount of data it sucks for election nerds #nzpol

ourauckland.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

Auckland to move to booth voting for 2028 elections

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

2026 NZ election equal-area electorate diagram showing incumbent party going into the election #nzpol #electionmaps

A diagram showing equal-area electorates coloured by incumbent party going into the 2026 New Zealand general election

CC BY 4.0 Jakob | TheLoyalOrder

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Craziest nz election outcome is if some insane shit happens following the us midterms and there's a swing towards national (and probably also labour but less so) for stability reasons

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“It didn’t ‘mean’ to hack that nuclear power plant control rod system. Meaning implies intent, which it can’t have.” ok dude but it still *did* it, you still have cancer now

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

why is maoriparty.com a chinese language online store that sells windows

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

what do you mean The Proclaimers are transphobes 😵

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Because of NZ's freedom of panorama laws 3D works of art situated permanently on public display can be photographed and then said photographs can be uploaded to #WikimediaCommons Check out this cool owl mosaic on a bach in Haumoana near Napier More here: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor...

Owl mosaic found on a bach (vacation home) in Haumoana near Napier, New Zealand

Unknown author (presumably the owner of the bach)
Photograph CC BY 4.0 Jakob | TheLoyalOrder

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

its dumb the body of water is called "Hawke Bay" instead of "Hawke's Bay"

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Photography this morning in #Napier, both as a hobby and to improve available photos on #WikimediaCommons See other photos I took today here: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor...

T & G building and Masonic Hotel in Napier, New Zealand

CC BY 4.0 Jakob | TheLoyalOrder

New Zealand flag billowing in the wind in Napier, New Zealand

CC BY 4.0 Jakob | TheLoyalOrder

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

2017 Mount Albert by-election result by suburb Jacinda Ardern (LAB🔴) defeated Julie Anne Genter (GRN🟢) 77% to 11% #nzpol #electionmaps

Map of Mount Albert electorate showing the vote share in each suburb of the candidate that got the most votes in said suburb. The map is mostly a bright red, indicating Jacinda Ardern got over 70% support in most suburbs.

On the right is a screenshot of the infobox of the relevant Wikipedia Artilce

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You see this outside America, I see people act like they're from the rural American South in my regional New Zealand town, for some reason pop country is increasingly popular on local radio

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

someone need to invent a drug that makes hyperbole less emotionally resonant

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

labour isnt the party for progressives but like should they be? the further left parties are less popular

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Diagram of 2017 election if every party used the strategy at 100% efficiency (assuming no change in party vote/electorates won)

Parliament diagram with 190 seats visible. Red and blue dominate

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

One problem with trying to exploit the rules of a proportional electoral system to get a beneficially disproportionate result is that the more popular side can more easily do that like if everyone did this strategy it would break the system

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

feel like the nz people i dont follow that bsky recommends are always angry

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

2023 Tāmaki Makaurau election - result by suburb or locality #nzpol #auckland

Map showing the result of the 2023 Tāmaki Makaurau election broken down by suburb

CC BY 4.0 Jakob | TheLoyalOrder – Boundaries CC BY 4.0 Stats NZ and LINZ. Results from the Electoral Commission

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2023_T%C4%81maki_Makaurau_election_-_result_by_suburb_or_locality.svg

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

watching only connect and the teams always gotta overcomplicate what the category is even after already saying it in simple words

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

why is this the picture that comes up when you search hipkins on google

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

councillors keep posting these ai generated maps of hawke's bay they're so bad!

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

i deeply resent that the aesthetic of the 2020s is gonna be this non-human garbage

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

genuinely concerning how quickly data center hysteria popped up people posting and liking 4G towers give you cancer tier "news articles"

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

western bay of plenty district council couldn't handle only have a ridiculously long english name so they also have a ridiculously long te reo name

Screenshot of the top of the infobox on the Wikipedia article on WBOPDC

"Western Bay of Plenty District Council

Te Kaunihera a rohe mai i Ngā Kuri-a-Whārei ki Otamarakau ki te Uru"

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

wanted to root for the underdog but paraguay deserved to lose the way there were playing, karma it was off a penalty

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I’m becoming more and more convinced that nobody knows what a data center even is at this point.

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

One united Hawkes bay is obviously better than two hawkes bay councils divided by the tutaekuri Dividing the main population centre in half for dumb parochial bs, defeats the point of amalgamation #hawkesbay

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

ai poster telling people not to use ai posters lmao

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

they shouldn't do this, if a left coalition cant get a majority of votes it shouldnt form government and getting there anyway through purposeful electoral fuckery is just a bad path to go down

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

anyone in #Wellington got a good photo of the WCC building they'd be cool licensing under Creative Commons? trynna find a better photo of it for the WCC #wikipedia article, currently using this one with a weird angle from the WCC website

Photo currently in use on the Wellington City Council Wikipedia article

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

just sick of every (literally every) local business/community event/etc using ai posters

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

kinda liked how barebones the previous one was ngl

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The New Zealand Gazette Index is a real gamechanger that is going to open up this important resource for a whole range of people doing research on anything from genealogy through to Treaty claims, theses, or whatever. A bit like Papers Past has done for newspapers. buttondown.com/unsettling/a...

buttondown.com

New Zealand Gazette Index

Back in 2022, when Archives New Zealand released its disastrous Collections search tool, many researchers despaired (or called for an inquiry). Collections...

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Map I made for #Wikipedia in the wild on Facebook! (Bottom right)

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

DIA finally released their Local Authority Election Statistics report for 2025 so gonna be busy adding turnout numbers to the election articles

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

look at this insane AI generated council amalgamation map lol #nzpol

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Got around to making the map in preparation for the 2026 election. Layout based on maps from previous years, with more detailed base map #Wikipedia #nzpol

2026 New Zealand general election - map that will show the results by electorate

CC BY 4.0 Jakob (TheLoyalOrder) | Boundaries CC BY 4.0 Stats NZ and LINZ, respectively

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

updated the #map I made for the 2025 regional council elections for #Wikipedia again have greatly improved the base map, it now doesn't completely lag out inkscape when i try to change anything part of improving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results... recently #nzpol #electionmaps