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Dan Slevin

@danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net

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Gentleman of Silverstream. Writer, broadcaster and sometime CEO. Reviewer of films at substack.funeralsandsnakes.net and RNZ.

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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · Nov 10

Here's a quick pinned intro post for all those welcome new arrivals. I'm a film and tv critic for RNZ in Aotearoa New Zealand, broadcasting every Friday on Nights with @emiledonovan.bsky.social, and occasionally as a reliever on At the Movies.

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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 21h

The AWS outage means the automated offside VAR isn’t operating at West Ham today.

Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 4d

That retention fee really paid off.

Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 4d

Like lol

Air New Zealand's CEO, Greg Foran, was NZ$4.19 million in 2024, which included a NZ$900,000 retention payment. This was a 34% increase from the previous year, boosted by incentives and benefits. The previous CEO, Christopher Luxon, earned NZ$4.2 million in his final year.

Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 4d

This is the plot of HERETIC.

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Justin Morgenroth @jamorgenroth.bsky.social · 4d

Is it silly to think that New Zealand's science funding changes may yield too much influence to one person?

newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/16/f...

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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 4d

If it’s the difference between a change of govt or not? I think I know what your answer would be but I’m not sure about mine.

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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 4d

We’ve changed the law for less.

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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 4d

And the volunteers have their flag at half mast.

Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 4d

Isn’t that the right line, though? Fonterra shouldn’t be allowed to destroy value like that. That NZ invested in and paid for.

Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 5d

Didn’t Nicola Willis weigh in on this before Acacia was dropped?

Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 5d

Watching the Acacia-less ad for that mobile phone company and it’s such a dog’s breakfast. They should be boycotted on the basis of taste let alone political squeamishness.

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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 6d

Finally caught up with the All Whites superb draw with Norway this morning. Bazely has us headed in the right direction and the years of Phoenix Academy etc players learning skills mean we can stand against the best now. Any team below 40 in the rankings should be concerned playing against us.

Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 6d

At the pictures the other day, I thought SP was there to learn what it was like to be a Prime Minister but instead he turned out to be a Downton Abbey man.

Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 6d

Thoughts and prayers to Sean Plunket who, it seems, is entering the "Find Out" stage of broadcasting.

NZ Herald article preview with the headline:
'We're going to war': Broadcasting watchdog claims authority over The Platform; Sean Plunket hits out

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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 6d

Terrifying.

Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 6d

Conway’s a good dude.

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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 6d

I miss Tweetbot so much.

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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 6d

My annual request to the @bsky.app powers to make an app that remembers where I am in the timeline when I … take a photo, add a film to my watchlist, respond to a message, you know NORMAL stuff like that.