Andrew Drake
@andrew.drake.nz
Full stack hybrid app developer
Ngāi Tahu
Ōtautahi / Christchurch
Aotearoa / New Zealand
https://andrew.drake.nz
Ngāi Tahu
Ōtautahi / Christchurch
Aotearoa / New Zealand
https://andrew.drake.nz
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How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy
HEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.
November 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy
The inside of a violin as imagined by chat gpt...
October 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
The inside of a violin as imagined by chat gpt...
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📢 Meet Jacob Smith, the 21-year-old turning wool and veggie scraps into fashion-forward biodegradable shoelaces.
Country Life: The young entrepreneur lacing up a future for NZ wool
www.rnz.co.nz
September 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This is pretty poor form from the govt.
📢 Erica Stanford has overstepped by excluding te reo Māori from future books in a series for learner readers, says the Principals' Federation.
Education minister over-reached on te reo in books, say principals
www.rnz.co.nz
August 13, 2025 at 6:45 AM
This is pretty poor form from the govt.
Jellyfish. The new enemy of AI.
News from the future: ‘Rampant jellyfish cause AI outage by taking datacenter offline'
News from the future: ‘Rampant jellyfish cause AI outage by taking datacenter offline'
Don’t laugh, a nuclear power plant just shut down due to invertebrates overwhelming its intakes
Proponents of increased use of nuclear energy to power datacenters have a new foe: Jellyfish.…
dlvr.it
August 12, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Jellyfish. The new enemy of AI.
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In reality, everyone keeping an eye on the defence of reason knew that there would be an upsurge in impossible claims during the 2nd covid enquiry. Which is why I wrote the explainer on the general principles of how mortality is measured in Sep 2024. Kindly published by @newsroom.co.nz
July 9, 2025 at 6:06 AM
In reality, everyone keeping an eye on the defence of reason knew that there would be an upsurge in impossible claims during the 2nd covid enquiry. Which is why I wrote the explainer on the general principles of how mortality is measured in Sep 2024. Kindly published by @newsroom.co.nz
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Super useful NZ study here for people who, like me, think solar panels would be cool but don't want to lose money on them. Heaps of detail confirming that, yes, they can be a very good investment... And how to make sure.
How to get the best payoff from solar panels www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...
How to get the best payoff from solar panels www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...
How to get the best payoff from solar panels
Solar now stacks up financially in all three of our biggest cities - but there are exceptions, according to a new study.
www.rnz.co.nz
June 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Super useful NZ study here for people who, like me, think solar panels would be cool but don't want to lose money on them. Heaps of detail confirming that, yes, they can be a very good investment... And how to make sure.
How to get the best payoff from solar panels www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...
How to get the best payoff from solar panels www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...
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The Ministry of Health is now posting on Bluesky. Follow us to be alerted to our consultations, news and announcements. We welcome your respectful and relevant comments and reserve the right to take action against posts that violate our community guidelines:
Social media community guidelines | Ministry of Health NZ
The Ministry engages with the community and provides important safety and public health information through accounts on Facebook, X, and LinkedIn.
www.health.govt.nz
May 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The Ministry of Health is now posting on Bluesky. Follow us to be alerted to our consultations, news and announcements. We welcome your respectful and relevant comments and reserve the right to take action against posts that violate our community guidelines:
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Wow. They very consciously hid what they were doing in order to mislead the public. That’s what this says.
This is an incredible piece of investigative reporting from @glennmccnz.bsky.social www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Here’s when the pay equity changes started, and why you weren’t told about them earlier
Piecing together information from redacted documents and interviews, Stuff has a timeline for how the controversial pay equity changes came to be.
www.stuff.co.nz
May 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Wow. They very consciously hid what they were doing in order to mislead the public. That’s what this says.
A key difference between a senior dev and a junior dev using AI-generated code appears to be whether or not they "own" the code written. A junior assumes the AI knows best, so commits the code blindly.
April 4, 2025 at 5:20 AM
A key difference between a senior dev and a junior dev using AI-generated code appears to be whether or not they "own" the code written. A junior assumes the AI knows best, so commits the code blindly.
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The murder of Palestinian journalist, based in north Gaza, Hossam Shabat by israel is devastating. Make sure you read this piece, his last filed story. Make sure you stand up and fight against this genocide.
NEW: Hossam Shabat’s Last Article
Filed hours before his killing in an Israeli airstrike, journalist
Hossam Shabat describes the resumption of Israel's scorched earth campaign in his hometown of Beit Hanoun.
Translated through tears by Sharif Kouddous
dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-sha...
Filed hours before his killing in an Israeli airstrike, journalist
Hossam Shabat describes the resumption of Israel's scorched earth campaign in his hometown of Beit Hanoun.
Translated through tears by Sharif Kouddous
dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-sha...
Hossam Shabat’s Last Article
Filed hours before his killing in an Israeli airstrike, journalist Hossam Shabat describes the resumption of Israel's scorched earth campaign in his hometown of Beit Hanoun.
dropsitenews.com
March 25, 2025 at 5:23 AM
The murder of Palestinian journalist, based in north Gaza, Hossam Shabat by israel is devastating. Make sure you read this piece, his last filed story. Make sure you stand up and fight against this genocide.
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every person involved in this needs to be in prison
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
This is awesome. blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-...
Reaffirming our commitment to free
We want to make abundantly clear: our free plan is here to stay, and we reaffirmed that commitment this week with 15 releases across our product portfolio that make the Free plan even better.
blog.cloudflare.com
January 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This is awesome. blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-...
You know Summer’s not going well when the trees think it’s now Autumn
January 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
You know Summer’s not going well when the trees think it’s now Autumn
@slyall.bsky.social Looks like the hashtag works :)
QUAKE: Mag 4.4, Mon, Jan 06 2025, 07:46:16 AM, 115 km east of Te Araroa. Depth: 33 km #eqnz https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/2025p012924
GeoNet: Quake - 2025p012924
The quake may have been felt in Ruatoria, Te Araroa, Tokomaru Bay, and surrounding localities.
www.geonet.org.nz
January 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
@slyall.bsky.social Looks like the hashtag works :)
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Seymour's iwi:
"After meeting with personally to tell him that his hapū do not support what he is doing, that his Bill goes against everything his hapū stand for and have fought for mai rāno..."
"...Ngāti Rehia oppose David Seymour and his efforts to marginalise our people on our own whenua"
"After meeting with personally to tell him that his hapū do not support what he is doing, that his Bill goes against everything his hapū stand for and have fought for mai rāno..."
"...Ngāti Rehia oppose David Seymour and his efforts to marginalise our people on our own whenua"
November 19, 2024 at 2:35 AM
Seymour's iwi:
"After meeting with personally to tell him that his hapū do not support what he is doing, that his Bill goes against everything his hapū stand for and have fought for mai rāno..."
"...Ngāti Rehia oppose David Seymour and his efforts to marginalise our people on our own whenua"
"After meeting with personally to tell him that his hapū do not support what he is doing, that his Bill goes against everything his hapū stand for and have fought for mai rāno..."
"...Ngāti Rehia oppose David Seymour and his efforts to marginalise our people on our own whenua"
Today I updated eqnz.nz to fetch bsky #EQNZ hashtag posts (replacing the Twitter/X integration). Nice to have it back up and running!
eqnz - Earthquake New Zealand Information Page
NZ Earthquake Post Monitor - Live feed of #eqnz tweets
eqnz.nz
December 29, 2024 at 11:31 PM
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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...
December 17, 2024 at 8:07 AM
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