Mike
@miken.bsky.social
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This is a power grab. Shane Jones wants to reduce any hurdles - such as regional councils rejecting resource consents - to mining.
Don't let them take our democratic rights away without any opposition.
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Don't let them take our democratic rights away without any opposition.
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
‘Major shake up’: Regional councils believed to be on the chopping block
Regional councillors are expecting a major announcement about the future for regional councils.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
This is a power grab. Shane Jones wants to reduce any hurdles - such as regional councils rejecting resource consents - to mining.
Don't let them take our democratic rights away without any opposition.
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Don't let them take our democratic rights away without any opposition.
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
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Paywall now lifted: Christopher Luxon said in 2023 he would ‘draw the line at’ using AI video ads, but after National published two AI videos in the past month, his office now says that only applied to fakes of real people.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/25/n...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/25/n...
National deletes AI video of police seizing gang patches
Christopher Luxon said in 2023 he would 'draw the line at' using AI video ads, but his office now says that only applied to fakes of real people.
newsroom.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Paywall now lifted: Christopher Luxon said in 2023 he would ‘draw the line at’ using AI video ads, but after National published two AI videos in the past month, his office now says that only applied to fakes of real people.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/25/n...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/25/n...
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404, as usual, has the correct take. This is about the incentives that create the behavior - both X incentivizing the grifters, but also X's incentive to let them run wild because they have to get the engagement somewhere after tortuting everyone else off the platform.
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
404, as usual, has the correct take. This is about the incentives that create the behavior - both X incentivizing the grifters, but also X's incentive to let them run wild because they have to get the engagement somewhere after tortuting everyone else off the platform.
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Christopher Luxon said in 2023 he would 'draw the line at' using AI video ads, but his office now says that only applied to fakes of real people.
National deletes AI video of police seizing gang patches
newsroom.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Christopher Luxon said in 2023 he would 'draw the line at' using AI video ads, but his office now says that only applied to fakes of real people.
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Did a standup show yesterday that was themed around "technology".
My set was about how toilets that wash your asshole are a more useful technology and a better use of water than AI.
Big cheers from the crowd.
My set was about how toilets that wash your asshole are a more useful technology and a better use of water than AI.
Big cheers from the crowd.
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Did a standup show yesterday that was themed around "technology".
My set was about how toilets that wash your asshole are a more useful technology and a better use of water than AI.
Big cheers from the crowd.
My set was about how toilets that wash your asshole are a more useful technology and a better use of water than AI.
Big cheers from the crowd.
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Centrist waffle doesn't appeal to people. Showing that you care about something, that you want to make people's lives better, that you will listen to them and use your position to do it, and unifying "minor" issues under a coherent story about your principles and goals REALLY APPEALS TO PEOPLE
November 24, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Centrist waffle doesn't appeal to people. Showing that you care about something, that you want to make people's lives better, that you will listen to them and use your position to do it, and unifying "minor" issues under a coherent story about your principles and goals REALLY APPEALS TO PEOPLE
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I don't know what even the point of arguing with these people is anymore, but the idea that "the crime gene" had been weeded out by 19th-20th century Europe is something you have to be a genuine imbecile to believe.
November 24, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I don't know what even the point of arguing with these people is anymore, but the idea that "the crime gene" had been weeded out by 19th-20th century Europe is something you have to be a genuine imbecile to believe.
we love our housing providers don't we folks?
Tenancy Tribunal orders Auckland landlord Darren Williams to pay tenants at two properties
Darren Williams has twice appeared before the Tenancy Tribunal this year over the way he has treated tenants at Auckland properties.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 23, 2025 at 7:51 AM
we love our housing providers don't we folks?
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Politicisation of medical care. Puberty blockers: why politicians overriding doctors sets a dangerous precedent www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-...
Puberty blockers: why politicians overriding doctors sets a dangerous precedent
Analysis: The government's ban on puberty blockers for gender-affirming care prioritises politics and ideology over decades of expert clinical guidance and patient safety evidence.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Politicisation of medical care. Puberty blockers: why politicians overriding doctors sets a dangerous precedent www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-...
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I just spent the last two hours debugging the Bluetooth stack *in anger* because for the last few weeks I've had to re-pair my mouse with my laptop. Every time. Remove mouse, re-pair.
Turns out I had two identical mice in my backpack and I've been switching between them.
It was me.
Turns out I had two identical mice in my backpack and I've been switching between them.
It was me.
November 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I just spent the last two hours debugging the Bluetooth stack *in anger* because for the last few weeks I've had to re-pair my mouse with my laptop. Every time. Remove mouse, re-pair.
Turns out I had two identical mice in my backpack and I've been switching between them.
It was me.
Turns out I had two identical mice in my backpack and I've been switching between them.
It was me.
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Exactly this. This is both an act of deliberate cruelty towards a marginalised, vulnerable community and a trial balloon to see how far they can push, and how fast.
(Going by the last two years and the pace and volume of erosion, and active targeting of vulnerable people - very far, and very fast.)
(Going by the last two years and the pace and volume of erosion, and active targeting of vulnerable people - very far, and very fast.)
November 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Exactly this. This is both an act of deliberate cruelty towards a marginalised, vulnerable community and a trial balloon to see how far they can push, and how fast.
(Going by the last two years and the pace and volume of erosion, and active targeting of vulnerable people - very far, and very fast.)
(Going by the last two years and the pace and volume of erosion, and active targeting of vulnerable people - very far, and very fast.)
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Anyone buying a Tesla in 2025 gets an additional free feature: a full stereoscopic view of my middle finger anytime they drive by.
Read the comment this replies too. Tesla sent a model they've been making for 10 years to a car magazine to test, and the lug nuts came loose. The tech to perfectly tighten those critical nuts has been known since Ford's MODEL A in the 1920s. OVER 100 YEARS. Tesla is 100 years behind on mechanics.
Auto factory worker here...
LOOSE LUG NUTS AT 500 MILES ON THE ODOMETER?
EVERY major company uses very expensive "torque control" tools with fancy electric motors controlled by computers to tighten lugnuts so they DON'T come loose. OMFG.
LOOSE LUG NUTS AT 500 MILES ON THE ODOMETER?
EVERY major company uses very expensive "torque control" tools with fancy electric motors controlled by computers to tighten lugnuts so they DON'T come loose. OMFG.
November 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Anyone buying a Tesla in 2025 gets an additional free feature: a full stereoscopic view of my middle finger anytime they drive by.
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It's called Blink because you have 182 copies of it
Is it just me, or is every IDE basically VS Code and every browser basically Chrome?
October 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
It's called Blink because you have 182 copies of it
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I won't consider Starlink for the same reason I won't buy a Tesla and why I'm no longer on the former Twitter: I won't willingly give money to (or be an advertising base for) a Nazi salute-throwing fascist who actively tried to destroy our democracy
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I won't consider Starlink for the same reason I won't buy a Tesla and why I'm no longer on the former Twitter: I won't willingly give money to (or be an advertising base for) a Nazi salute-throwing fascist who actively tried to destroy our democracy
politicians are shutting off personal health care because of petty culture wars, not medicine or science. this will not stop with trans kids
NZ First are actually evil. They don't care how many lives they may ruin to get the anti-trans vote.
November 19, 2025 at 8:42 AM
politicians are shutting off personal health care because of petty culture wars, not medicine or science. this will not stop with trans kids
the future sucks!!! I hate it!!!
So Barfoot and Thompson’s “AI Assistant” (ie a fake man) called my cell to talk about the property market today. Essentially a spam call. Is that even legal in NZ?
November 19, 2025 at 8:38 AM
the future sucks!!! I hate it!!!
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Today is World Kindness Day! 🌎 At Merrymac it is our mission to treat even the most vulnerable and abused beings with kindness. Many of them, like Bonnie here, have been deemed “worthless” by the world because they have no monetary value.
November 14, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Today is World Kindness Day! 🌎 At Merrymac it is our mission to treat even the most vulnerable and abused beings with kindness. Many of them, like Bonnie here, have been deemed “worthless” by the world because they have no monetary value.
I have learned from Sarah Kendzior that I should not say what I would like to happen to the author of this article
It bears remembering that this woman, according to the IPCA report, sent at least 36 emails to media outlets, presumaby including NZME, as well as the PM, Police Minister, and police command in Dec 2023 & Jan 2024, and they did fuck-all about it too
www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heath...
www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heath...
Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: The woman in the Jevon McSkimming saga wasn't innocent here
So it turns out the woman with whom Jevon McSkimming had an affair, whose warnings police ignored and who police charged instead of investigating McSkimmin
www.newstalkzb.co.nz
November 14, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I have learned from Sarah Kendzior that I should not say what I would like to happen to the author of this article
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of all the people I expected to make excuses for pedophiles, Jesse Singal is certainly one of them
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
of all the people I expected to make excuses for pedophiles, Jesse Singal is certainly one of them
Why did @stevesi.xyz email Jeffrey Epstein an article about Bitcoin's involvement with and similarities to CSAM while boasting of his gains?
![From: Steven Sinofsk
Sent: 11/22/2013 3:48:56 PM
To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Bitcoin and DC
Importance: High
http://www.washi ngtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/21/heres-how-bitcoin-cha rmed-washington/
I'm up 50% on my BTC investment!
Here's how Bitcoin charmed Washington
BY TIMOTHY B. LEE](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ouq6b36hsncvqwn23e3a3lgy/bafkreihglzkqaxk4hvbb2vztxjpf6ehruf3ypl24tns7a2xo5ix4kp6a5a@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Why did @stevesi.xyz email Jeffrey Epstein an article about Bitcoin's involvement with and similarities to CSAM while boasting of his gains?
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Imagine spending years being gaslit so brutally that your only recourse is to accuse them again and again and again, being arrested for accusing them of What They Actually Did, eventually being vindicated, but still charged?
And they wonder why victims don't come to them for help...
And they wonder why victims don't come to them for help...
It's interesting that NZ Police can be so proactive and decisive about pursuing charges for digital harm and harassment of a senior male police officer, yet find pressing charges when the victim is a woman almost impossible...
November 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Imagine spending years being gaslit so brutally that your only recourse is to accuse them again and again and again, being arrested for accusing them of What They Actually Did, eventually being vindicated, but still charged?
And they wonder why victims don't come to them for help...
And they wonder why victims don't come to them for help...
Ten years ago we had Steve Jobs, Bob Hope, and Johnny Cash. Now we have no jobs, no hope, and no cash.
The account owner of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was suspended for 72 hours for expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article. The post, made 11/10, stated: "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die." 1/2
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Ten years ago we had Steve Jobs, Bob Hope, and Johnny Cash. Now we have no jobs, no hope, and no cash.
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Everything about this is broken. The people who make and like it, the technology that powers it, the website that promotes it, everything.
The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from a single account. First spotted by @chadloder.bsky.social
www.404media.co/ai-generated...
www.404media.co/ai-generated...
AI-Generated Videos of ICE Raids Are Wildly Viral on Facebook
An account is spamming horrific, dehumanizing videos of immigration enforcement because the Facebook algorithm is rewarding them for it.
www.404media.co
November 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Everything about this is broken. The people who make and like it, the technology that powers it, the website that promotes it, everything.
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Leper's colony on Something Awful was so far ahead of its time as far as mod accountability. Also showing other posters what NOT to do
November 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Leper's colony on Something Awful was so far ahead of its time as far as mod accountability. Also showing other posters what NOT to do