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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

But yeah if shops are gonna use an AI slop sign they should at least check what it says they're offering

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Surely that's AI slop? The word below "Alternative" is messed up

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Also why I have an air horn on my bike. Honk honk

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Yeah I've seen a small number of motorbikes, but at least some (maybe most) of them were petrol.

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

FWIW loads of acoustic bikes (mostly dockless bike share) but hardly any e-bikes at all, but maybe because we've not been in hilly cities.

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So pretty! I'm in China currently, and there's *so* many e-mopeds, though I didn't notice many e-motorbikes.

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Bust Up is dark in some places but is fun & worth a watch.

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Also (my kiwi wife points out) only the ball carrier can be tackled in rugby, so presumably there's a lot more tackles per game in American football than rugby.

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Yeah I'm just saying as far as "problems that are hard for computers to solve" computation of trajectories isn't a very tough one. E.g. it's pretty much the first thing computers were used for.

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Yeah I think the second is the key point - it wasn't colonised in the normal sense, there was noone living there.

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ah, I'd assumed it was someone with their geo location hardcoded to Auckland by mistake. E.g. set manually on a desktop.

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Worth noting a review of the SH6 speed limit in Paroa just closed. Not sure if this is one that Simeon previously increased or not. nzta.mysocialpinpoint.com/targeted-spe... www.facebook.com/share/1CFxDc...

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Targeted speed limit reviews – West Coast

NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi speed limit review

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I can see how that'd work at local level - solar panels in rural areas -> urban heat pumps, though not sure how it'd be an issue at global scale? Maybe solar panels effectively reducing earth's albedo I guess? Surely you'd need a decent % of the surface to be solar panels for that to be an issue?

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Wow, GW's legal strike force must be getting slow.

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I honestly don't really think they have much in common in gameplay, but maybe have to agree to disagree.

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Nah, I love TBW & XCom but they are nothing alike in gameplay. TBW is a puzzle game.

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Liam Boardman @liamjboardman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Pretty goddamn telling how Chris Penk fucking over his own political career and having to leave politics as a result is being hyped up as this great tragedy, when NZ's first non-binary MP having to leave politics due to threats to their and their family's lives was just the price of doing business m

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Have you read Iain M Banks? Consider Phlebas, The Player of Games, Use of Weapons etc.

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Yeah, I feel I heard it in the 90s in UK only from Aussie soaps.

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

A classic tweet, but the reply is a spoof account, not Izzard

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My take is electorate votes are irrelevant 90% of the time anyway 😄, but good to keep for local representation/non-party candidates

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I'd really like STV for Auckland mayor, but I think STV for MMP electorate would be too much extra complexity (both to voters understanding & to administration). MMP is fairly complex to understand already, and the party vote handles proportionality.

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Takes some very unusual circumstances to be able to get this in place of course. WWII in the case of Germany, devolution from UK for Wales and Scotland. In NZ I don't entirely understand how, but I think it was some blunders by existing 2 parties (Labour/National) railroading themselves into it.

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I like MMP in NZ (& Germany, Scotland & Wales have similar) - 50:50 proportional representation & first past the post, so you still have local constituencies. I honestly think Brexit wouldn't have happened if Cameron/Clegg coalition in 2010 had managed to deliver something like this.

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ⓘ Kaiwhiu ⓘ @aotearoa-nz.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This could be us, but this govt isn't serious #NZPol

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

To be fair, I think NZ$5k would cover the vast majority of commuter ebikes (beyond entry level), though yes not most eMTBs or cargo bikes.

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I'm off to Spain in a couple of weeks (partly) for the eclipse, rather better chance of clear skies 😅

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Hah yeah I was checking that out on shademap a while ago. Seems like the eclipse should be just over Mitre peak from the dock, but quite a gamble.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 21/07/2026

Auckland sprawls worse than LA or Toronto and yet a modest change to zoning enabling a few medium-density apartment buildings (GASP!!!!) has been an endless contentious shitshow when kiwis complain about brain drain to other places they should consider the default NIMBYism of our biggest city

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⚸ Gingersnapped 🐺🌕🎃 @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Nitpick - that's Stoppage Time Extra time is the 30 mins added in knockout matches if there's a draw at the end of the 90 mins (+ stoppage).

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Live your life so that when you pass, the world reacts like they did for Sam Neill.

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

anti-trust enforcement would seem to be the answer (it's been a little while since that was a thing).

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Absolutely not, but the US president openly boasting about it makes it a hell of a lot less deniable.

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Tom Bagatelle @tombagatelle.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I think we should start measuring government programmes in Hayden Donnell's 'metres of roading'. Lowering the age of bowel cancer screening to 45? 5 metres of road. A year of Three Waters? 63 metres of road. Reading recovery? 13mm of road.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Also an immigrant here, but most of the NZ team nicknames are plays on All Blacks - Black Caps for cricket, Silver Ferns for netball. The basketball team are the Tall Blacks 🤷

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

Jill Tucker
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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
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And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
CABO VERDE
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And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

Jill Tucker
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You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
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Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I haven't been that invested in a 0:0 draw in a while. Fantastic work by the Curacao keeper

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I genuinely don't hate Labour's public transport fare cap, but the response is illustrative of a lesson I wish they'd learn: if you're going to get unhinged doomer naysaying backlash from your opponents and the media anyway, might as well announce something that gets your base hyped as fuck instead

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 17/06/2026

You're right—I shouldn't have flipped the turtle onto its back. That's on me.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

there were already many reasons to do this but Elon Musk actively encouraging racist violence in Belfast should be the final straw for every UK government institution to stop doing business - including being on X - with him in any way, and for him to be barred from entry to the country.

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therefromhere.bsky.social @therefromhere.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

& the article does cover that. So OP probably could ease off on the outrage a bit.

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