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Ice Nine @theicenine.bsky.social · 4h

Funny they had millions to pay for no ferries, just to own the opposition

Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 9h

"we don't have any money to pay anyone" is surely not going to win over the normies who see them splashing the cash on dumb shit like weapons and their own pay rises #nzpol

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Ice Nine @theicenine.bsky.social · 7h

Particularly fond of "Internet Fund IV Pte. Ltd", based in Singapore

Just pips Jerseys "WG Orange Stripes Limited" - I hear their first album was mediocre and it's been downhill since

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Ice Nine @theicenine.bsky.social · 8h

Interesting shareholders for Crimson Consulting - seem to hit all the popular tax havens

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Ice Nine @theicenine.bsky.social · 16h

*Imagines SIS staff prowling around ship, looking for big red 'kill-switch' button*

All clear!

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Reposted by Ice Nine

Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 1d

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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area

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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction

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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it

Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…

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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely

[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over

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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat

[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster

Minister:
I understand your concerns…

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Nurse:
Are you OK love?

Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters

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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian

[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]

Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love

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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to

[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]

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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR

[woman looks baffled]

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woman:
I just want a bus service

Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]

[ends]

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Ice Nine @theicenine.bsky.social · 1d

The only car I was able to afford is literally the same price as filling it

Cost of everything is right arse

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Ice Nine @theicenine.bsky.social · 1d

I thought he had a sook because your sister *didn't* consent it 😆

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Ice Nine @theicenine.bsky.social · 1d

My 12 y.o. brain gave that heist a more anatomical nature

Ice Nine @theicenine.bsky.social · 2d

Yeh, I got an expense rejected because the mismatch

Fortunately I have a Clippy pic to jam into the system "Hi, I see there's a mismatch, have you tried accounting for the surcharge?"

Oddly this is considered acceptable - price for employing me

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Ice Nine @theicenine.bsky.social · 2d

This Government useless? Goodness, I didn't know they'd improved from being deliberately malicious.

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Ice Nine @theicenine.bsky.social · 2d

But midnight snacks! Nomnomnom!

Also sure half of suburban murder scenes on the screen require a kitchen, whether rich or poor - wait take them out and 50% lower risk of being murdered!

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Ice Nine @theicenine.bsky.social · 2d

I hate PayWave for three reasons

1. Surcharge, meh
2. Takes it from the wrong account, grr
3. Surcharge on work one, doesn't balance with GST receipt, duh

But looking forward to everything going up once surcharges removed. Also see Uber charge and takeaway prices going up to cover it

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Ice Nine @theicenine.bsky.social · 2d

I don't like the pop-culture version of Ai - y' know the likes of ChatGTP and CoPilot

Imagine my mirth when manager announces work has licenses for CoPilot, and might be able to get one for my team. Then suggests the one person in my team that loathes it more than I 😆

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Ice Nine @theicenine.bsky.social · 2d

Mine's an absolute shoker atm

Also, at a glance it looked like you'd snapped a murmuration of starlings

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Ice Nine @theicenine.bsky.social · 2d

The sharp end of Local Water Done Well

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Ice Nine @theicenine.bsky.social · 2d

I bet they were the Good Union back 2019...

www.theguardian.com/world/2019/m...

New Zealand schools hit by 'mega-strike' as 50,000 teachers walk out

‘Overwhelmed’ staff are demanding more pay, more respect and better conditions

www.theguardian.com

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Ice Nine @theicenine.bsky.social · 2d

Phwoar, this thread is getting steamy!

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Ice Nine @theicenine.bsky.social · 2d

That'd make him Mr York, right?

Anyway he can right get in one of Titan's seas

Ice Nine @theicenine.bsky.social · 2d

I missed another one?

Ice Nine @theicenine.bsky.social · 2d

Shit goes down when you hit two weeks overdue

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Ice Nine @theicenine.bsky.social · 3d

Moar cream

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Ice Nine @theicenine.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing like a good old fashioned militant librarian

"Sssshhh!"

*sound of firearm being cocked*

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Ice Nine @theicenine.bsky.social · 3d

Ah could be worse, mild intolerance, not full blown epipen allergy

Also means I don't have to learn the art of pavloving

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Ice Nine @theicenine.bsky.social · 3d

My childhood cricket will always recall him and embody what cricket was (as I was bloody useless)

Happy daft is what it was

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Ice Nine @theicenine.bsky.social · 3d

I wish I could join the battle, sadly around the tender age of 18, my body decided eggies were a no go, especially the whites

And up to then, pav was my fave

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