Hamish
@polemic.nz
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Avondalian code-wrangler-wrangler • maps / data / product • 63D3 ADE1 5625 3865 • Engineering Manager • Opiskellen suomea • Ex @polemic on the bird app
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Email us at [email protected] and we'll sort it out
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:O where in NZ?
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He should also consider voting in his own electorate instead of casting a special. Didn't stop him declaring victory on the night so we all know what this is really about.
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I find it interesting that the majority of GIS innovation happens outside of the USA. Tell me I'm wrong. #gischat
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Workshops are only $NZ 50 and similarly available, the best value 3-hour training by industry experts you'll ever get.
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Also proud to be providing childcare & travel grant assistance.

If you're in New Zealand and you just want to network, the Business 2 Business event is on $NZ 25 and open to everyone. Come along for an afternoon and find out what the OSGeo community is all about.
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Hey #gischat don't forget to register for FOSS4G 2025. The schedule is up at 2025.foss4g.org. Just a few highlights:

- 4 amazing keynotes
- 44 workshops, 140 presentations, 50 lightning talks, 2 community days
- business 2 business, geochicas and gala dinner events
- movie screening
+ much more
FOSS4G Auckland 2025
FOSS4G stands for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, a conference hosted in partnership with OSGeo.
2025.foss4g.org
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And according to the government of personal responsibility, it's everybody else's fault.
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They want her fired because hasn't gone far enough cutting services, not because she's trashed the economy.
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Oh that's a very nice combo of technologies. 👏
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This was very effective, A+ planning by the organisers. They were a sad little group in the end.
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This is... massive. I thought it would be big but this is off the chart. RNZs "10,000" and highlighting the literal handful of counterprotests is very silly.
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Looking back... this has to be the largest march we've seen by a fair margin
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We should close Fanshaw St more often
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And behind us.
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Haven't really moved in half an hour as people filter onto the route
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Auckland is showing up
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It's only a constitutional crisis if one or more branches actually dissented. No, the USA has a constitutional conspiracy.
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The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued.
"If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"
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Hamish @polemic.nz · Sep 1
The people running definitely achieve their goals of putting it on their CV.
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Hamish @polemic.nz · Aug 28
Bit tired of the sci-fi fever dreams from people who don't have to fold their own damn laundry.
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Hamish @polemic.nz · Aug 15
Of course not. Auckland Council as a whole is actually well run. Something that seems to annoy the snot out of central govt.
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Hamish @polemic.nz · Aug 14
Well, if you read the article, the point is that Auckland is not like other local authorities, so that would be the wrong message to take eh.
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Hamish @polemic.nz · Aug 10
Yup, ~$500 more per year here.