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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 6h

I applied for a different role with Antifa but they went with an internal candidate. Which honestly was probably their plan all along but rules are rules I guess

Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 10h

I applied to join Antifa but they gave the job to “a candidate whose experience more closely met the requirements of the position”

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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 6h

okay we’re at 30.36% after today - with only a day & a half left to get your votes in! if you’re still not sure who to vote for then check out policy.nz and remember you don’t need to rank everyone (and arguably shouldn’t rank anyone you don’t want your vote to potentially go to)

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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 10h

I applied to join Antifa but they gave the job to “a candidate whose experience more closely met the requirements of the position”

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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 15h

as of yesterday (Wednesday) 27.52% of eligible voters have sent in voting papers for the Wellington City Council elections. we’re ahead of 2022 and 2019, but have fallen behind 2016, the year bookended by the deaths of David Bowie & Carrie Fisher - a.k.a. where everything started going wrong

A snip from electionz.com showing that 44,397 people out of a possible 161,318 have voted in the Wellington City Council elections - or 27.52%

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 17h

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 2d

Microsoft is increasing the monthly price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate from NZ $28.95 to $45.95 but when I cancel my subscription I’m going to say it’s for ethical reasons

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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 2d

my most offensive burrito was probably the one that included both leftover pizza and leftover KFC

Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 2d

my go-to depression meal is an instant-ramen burrito, usually featuring kewpie mayo, American cheese and hot sauce of some kind. if I’m feeling fancy I’ll add tater tots

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 2d

how to deactivate torment nexus

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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 2d

today (Tuesday) is the last day to mail your local election voting papers, team! after today you’ve got to hand-deliver it. here’s where you can do that in Pōneke: wellington.govt.nz/your-council...

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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve never seen Titanic. Or Avatar. And I’ve only seen the first episode of Breaking Bad.

Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 3d

I have not seen an episode of The Wire or of either version of The Office

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 4d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 4d

although if software can be sentient then I may have created and destroyed countless intelligences during my lifetime. all those floppy disks, CD-ROMs and hard drives consigned to history’s trash heap

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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 4d

before you laugh at anyone who thinks an LLM might be alive just remember how many of us had Tamagotchi at some point

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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 4d

look I’m optimising for uptime, availability and redundancy. always gotta have a romance BCP strategy

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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 4d

you wouldn’t have met my girlfriend, she lives in a different server cluster

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 4d

Do I have it right that people who are trying to create digital slaves are telling other people not to use "eugenics language" toward computer programs

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beth @bethbourdon.bsky.social · 4d

did an uno reverse on my children

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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 4d

it is the future. the Large Language Model is my ghostwriter, the Large Driving Model is my chauffeur, and I am cuckolded by the Large Intercourse Model

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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 4d

another reason to go with Aotearoa

tinybaby @tiny.baby · 4d

wait shouldn't they be calling it new zedland

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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 5d

is this something you can request now. can some large, beefy agents please come and, uh, “arrest” me

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5d

“The source told CBS News that [Kash Patel and Dan Bongino] asked for "large, beefy" agents to conduct an arrest of Comey "in full kit," including Kevlar vests and exterior wear emblazoned with the FBI logo.” The leadership of the FBI is now in the hands of infantile psychopaths.

The FBI is weighing an arrest and perp walk for Comey — and suspended an agent for refusing to help, sources say

The FBI is considering carrying out a "showy" arrest and perp walk of the agency's now-indicted ex-Director James Comey, sources tell CBS News.

www.cbsnews.com

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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 5d

anyway remember whenever you are in the country you only have until Tuesday (!) to get your voting papers in the mail - otherwise you’ll have to find an orange bin or your local equivalent before midday next Saturday

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 6d

@dystopiabreaker.xyz
i'm completely serious when i say that much of the dismissive ai discourse on here fires the bigotry neuron

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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 5d

20.81% could easily mean that the only people you know who have voted so far are your workmate who calls women “females” and your old schoolmate who you only see every couple of years when they’re trying to sign you up to a new MLM scheme. imagine who they voted for

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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 5d

okay Wellington we are now at 20.81% of votes returned, which is actually ahead of where we were at this time in 2022! but that’s a fucking low bar: in 2022 only 43% of those eligible actually voted. you’ve got a week left - you know what you need to do.

A screenshot from the electionz.com website showing that 33,574 votes have been received of a possible 161,318 in the Wellington City Council elections, or 20.81%

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Jarrod Baker @jarrodbaker.bsky.social · 7d

is this still about naan or have we moved on to workshopping potential dating app bios

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