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Robin Capper
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A #Kiwi, but not a flightless bird or brown fuzzy skin green centred fruit. Humanist, Skeptic, Cyclist, Car Enthusiast, Westie Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand | he/him | https://www.robincapper.net/
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Coming soon: Elon announces that anyone valuing SpaceX as a rocket company instead of a robotics & AI company is making a mistake.

techcrunch.com/2025/11/21/s...
SpaceX's upgraded Starship suffers explosion during testing | TechCrunch
It may not have been a massive fireball, but SpaceX now has more work to do before it can kick off this next-generation version of Starship.
techcrunch.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Some amazing numbers, both international and local, in the growth and impact of the data centres that run our world

The scale of AI www.robincapper.net/the-scale-of...
The scale of AI
The cloud, it's just someone else's computer...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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The writers have done a spectacular job this season revamping their fascinating "Marjorie Taylor Greene" character. The suspense over what she will do next is compelling. A lot of things are going on with MTG, maybe some good, others bad, and we won't know exactly what for two or more seasons.
November 22, 2025 at 5:09 AM
The price of 'friendship'...
“A third of Australian families are food insecure. NDIS is being pared back to the bone. Welfare recipients face punitive new laws. Meanwhile, we have committed up to $368 billion to buy nuclear submarines that will be built in the United States.”

theaimn.net/asset-stripp...
Asset-Stripping a Nation: How Australia's Government is Trading Your Future for Empire
A third of Australian families are food insecure. The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is being pared back to the bone. Welfare recipients face punitive new laws. Meanwhile, the government ...
theaimn.net
November 22, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Imo this is on the same spectrum as the PoliceNZ scandal. Attacking women should be a disqualifier for any role and definitely an sppoitment that gives you power over others #nzpol 1/2

Women’s lives, our reputations, our safety are discounted. Misogny in action.

www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Remember sitting in history, thinking “If I was alive then, I would’ve…”

You’re alive now. Whatever you’re doing is what you would’ve done.
July 3, 2023 at 5:20 AM
Hey #nzpol, guess who this is appropriate for...
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”

“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath

Some costs aren’t costs.
One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
grist.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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The Queensland Government found the economic benefit even higher, at $0.67 per kilometre. And the ROI for every $1 of investment in cycling as $5. And yet they still spend less than 1% of the transport budget on cycling.
November 21, 2025 at 4:47 AM
The story of how a special driver and a lack of constraints created the best F1 car ever made. #f1

Ferrari's 2004 Formula 1 Masterpiece www.robincapper.net/ferraris-200...
Ferrari's 2004 Formula 1 Masterpiece
An amazing insight into the best F1 car ever made
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November 21, 2025 at 5:44 AM
A fantastic audiobook tribute to Douglas Adams www.robincapper.net/a-fantastic-...
A fantastic audiobook tribute to Douglas Adams
Get this audiobook!
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November 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Save time on mindfulness podcasts by listening to them at double speed.
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Don’t kill my dream of having a robot that does my laundry and removes my appendix.
November 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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More than 12,000 bikes have been distributed since 2015 and are estimated to have delivered an average return of £11.80 for every £1 invested road.cc/content/news...
Free bike schemes in deprived communities improve people's health, wellbeing and social mobility, report shows
The trial took place in three areas across the UK and found the scheme also resulted in healthcare savings in relation to preventable deaths and disease
road.cc
November 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This YouTube took me back to the 80s!

John Mauriello's Design Theory, Colani, and me! www.robincapper.net/john-mauriel...
John Mauriello's Design Theory, Colani, and me!
Colani: Odd exceptional designer. Me: Odd unexceptional design student!
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November 15, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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So we've had an explanation for how the McSkimming's emails did not reach the police minister Mark Mitchell, but how was it that the McSkimming's emails did not reach Christopher Luxon, allegedly prime minster? Oh I l see, it's "nothing and that's normal" #NZPol
November 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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NIH scientist Dr. Jenna Norton was just placed on nondisciplinary leave.

She led a team who wrote a sign-on letter critical of The Regime.

A person at NIH asked to give a reason for her leave called her “radical leftist”; while the NIH Director has claimed that “dissent is productive”.
N.I.H. Worker Who Criticized Trump Health Policies Says She Is on Administrative Leave
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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This perfectly encapsulates why we need the BBC
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
More MAGA'fuckation from the Hon Shane Jones, Minister of Regional Environmental Destruction. #nzpol

Fast Track Mining threatens Golden Bay, Tākaka, & Te Waikoropupū Springs www.robincapper.net/fast-track-m...
Fast Track Mining threatens Golden Bay, Tākaka, & Te Waikoropupū Springs
Yet more MAGA'fuckation from Hon Shane Jones, Minister of Regional Environmental Destruction
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November 14, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Absolute pricks. Seymour is the worst person in the country
📢 National and New Zealand First agreed to pass the bill into law despite its facing fierce pushback from the public, with more than 98% of public submissions opposed.
Controversial Regulatory Standards Bill passes third reading
www.1news.co.nz
November 13, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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What a betrayal!

Winston Peters has handed victory to ACT by supporting the Corporate Bill of Rights that is the Regulatory Standards Bill

Like ACT and National, NZ First is putting corporate interests ahead of everyone else.
#nzpol
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
Winston Peters and NZ First Hand Victory to ACT over Corporate Bill of Rights - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Despite ACT failing to pass three earlier versions of the Regulatory Standards bill, they have succeeded passing it into law today, due to the backing of NZ First and the…
www.greenpeace.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:04 AM