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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 10h

for anyone curious i'm just reformatting the election boxes as well as adding the turnout %s

Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 10h

lol apparently just me is making Results of the 2025 New Zealand territorial authority elections in the Waikato the second most edited NZ article on wikipedia in the past week (month?) hadnt seen this report before on the WPNZ page i thinks its neat

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 11h

the fact that people often have memories they are super sure are correct but are demonstrably false is evidence to this i feel like

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 11h

its not clear to me that the sense of continuity we experience isnt just a figment of a brain with access to stored memories like how you can go out side and see a road and deduce that was built by someone, maybe your brain is looking at its memories and deducing that you experienced that

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

bsky has search filters now yay can finally narrow search to just the past week rather than forever

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

crazy we have an electorate that is over 50% of the country's land area ig we would need like 200 MPs to even have 2 seats under current enrollment

Map of Te Tai Tonga Māori electorate. It consists of the South Island, Wellington, and the Chatham Islands

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a farce to still be having these 1 vs 1 leader debates, about half of the voting public isnt potentially represented #nzpol

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

nah i had just done this in inkscape with the windows powertoys color picker

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

made a little chart of the main colour used on political party websites because I was interested #nzpol

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Working on the equal-area 2026 NZ electorate map template I made Consolidated the insets so just Auckland has a pop-out. Changed things so the shapes were better. Added a section for list seats.

Equal-area map template showing 2026 New Zealand seats

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2026_New_Zealand_election_equal-area_electorate_diagram.svg

CC BY 4.0

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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

i feel like biggest previous example is probably what happened after the printing press was invented in Europe, and that took centuries to shake out vs what its been like 2 decades at most of the world broadly being online

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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 · 30/09/2026

Colour legend: Red is Labour Blue is National Green is Green Yellow is ACT Brown is Te Pāti Māori

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i regularly see threads on various websites that are like "everyone post how they're faring in todays fucked up world" and no one wants to be the guy who posts "mostly fine"

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i like how several times people slip up and still assign agency to the AI because of course i dont even get the point its not like the people who created it arent responsible even if it is acting independently in ways they didnt intend

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

Hello Future Me did an interesting video on this recently

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I feel like this is survivorship bias, the only places constitutional monarchy could survive were stable and prosperous, when states fail they don't tend to keep the previous guys and in the modern era that means presidential dictatorship

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

this very directly leads to the conspiracy theories you see where the conclusion is the government/local council *must* be spending millions/billions on <nebulous thing I don't like> and that if they just cut that we could reduce taxes/rates to 0.1% or something

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

im often just chilling and struck by the fact that everything i can see (at that moment) is made by man and not only by man but his machines located continents away

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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 · 19/09/2026

someones gonna discover that if you use some niche Austranesian language it works 2% better

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

... think the line of ability will just plateau going forward and there's a 0% chance of anything bad happening

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In high school comp sci what is called AI now came up a few times and it was always in the near but distant future (like 2030s) and then like 2 years after high school the first public products came out and it's been what like 5 years and they're way better now but I'm supposed to ...

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One time I was crossing the street and for no reason at all happened to turn my head and take a step back before I even consciously processed a car had just passed within like a foot of me definitely the biggest "maybe quantum immortality is real" event to me

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Built-up area was based on LINZ's buildings dataset which I buffered so that nearby buildings merged together

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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

a lot of people think he's probably lying but its like buying a lottery ticket – imagine he's not

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

before musk bought twitter at least it was two horses so when one made a dent the other kicked it back the other way

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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 · 03/09/2026

imagine talking like this as a grown man with a child

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

the local anti-data centre groups are full of the anti-solar anti-wind anti-apartments farms-are-nature nimby pro-cars-everywhere anti-speed-limit anti-development anti-immigrant people it just seems naïve to believe these people suddenly have developed a progressive world view on this one issue

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

its crazy how he didnt say any of what you just said

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I think this poll is probably an outlier, you take the past 3 polls other than that and it's lab ~30, greens ~10, top ~6 which makes labour have almost doubled the support

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Interesting poll hadn't seen that. Crazy that TOP is almost on 10%

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Which poll has labour < Greens + TPM?

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's like how all crime stats are fake and actually lived experience says 20-30 criminals are outside my door right this second, something chart nerds don't understand

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Jakob | TheLoyalOrder @theloyalorder.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

honestly wouldn't surprise me if of "who is the president of the us" and "who is the prime minister" more kiwis knew the former

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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 · 27/08/2026

qr code in the bottom might be some sort of identification thing might want to censor it

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

could do with a copyedit, several grammar errors that make it annoying to read

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