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Paul Brislen

@brislen.nz

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Kiwi telco guy. No I don’t know how that happened either. I shall bind him to me, with promises. 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Cymro o ddewis (Welsh by choice) "We consider that Mr Brislen is an authoritative source." (BSA decision, March 2020) Aotearoa he/him

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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 6h

Ha!

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 9h

Excellent piece by @mountaintui.bsky.social

The most telling quote: "Luxon sold the lucrative Heathrow slot for $27 million in 2019, stopping the 40 year London service, but only 4 years earlier, another airline purchased the Heathrow slot for $75 million. Today Air NZ can't get it back."
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Prime Minister, Unions ARE Workers

Chris Luxon, Erica Stanford and Simeon Brown continue to gaslight Kiwi workers, in their latest instalment of divide and conquer

mountaintui.substack.com

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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 8h

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today probably never heard of.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14h

Woody Guthrie wrote a song called "Old Man Trump" that, shall we say, resonates today

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man...

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 11h

Re-upping this thread in light of @ben.gracewood.nz uncovering that there is no record of David Seymour ever being told (as he had claimed) that alcohol warning labels hamper craft brewers ... a non-issue that would require us to break from our international agreements to fix ...

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Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

To sum up we're likely spending ~$700m per ferry to get worse ferries than the two we ordered for $550m total

Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 12h

So-orig it was $551m for 2 top of the line Korean rail ferries delivered this year & next. It cost National $671m to cancel them. We don’t know the added price for these Chinese Ferries-hopefully they won’t be full of asbestos like the rail carriages were #nzpol www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/14/g...

Govt confirms shipyard for new Cook Strait ferries

The shipbuilder was the "largest modern integrated shipbuilding enterprise in Southern China," Peters said in his media release.

www.1news.co.nz

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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 11h

Ahhahahahahahaaaa we've gone to the Chinese for the ferries because of course that's totally in line with all the other rhetoric they've been spouting.

You could not make this up.

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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 11h

Too bloody right.

The seven stages of your workplace getting obsessed with AI then realising it's bollocks

ANYONE with a job is likely to have witnessed managers gushing about AI then quietly ditching the idea. See where your employer is in the cycle of AI hype.

www.thedailymash.co.uk

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Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social · 17h

Thinking about buying one of these costumes just to bust out whenever I need to spread some lols, tbh.

Make Lying Wrong Again @makelyinwrongagain.bsky.social · 1d

This one is my favorite 😂

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21h

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Guy Body @bodycartoon.bsky.social · 16h

Retrospective #25: Almost forgot this one from 2018:

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Guy Body @bodycartoon.bsky.social · 16h

Retrospective #23: 2023

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Malcolm RF 💚🇳🇿 @p-no-nwa.bsky.social · 1d

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Autumn (spooky season) @autumnalcoffee.exportaud.io · 1d

my tiktok algorithm: here's a recipe that's too many steps. here's a cat being silly. here's a lesbian being a lesbian

my YouTube shorts algorithm: we noticed you like interviews with musicians. could we interest you in... right wing podcasts?

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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 17h

For extra points just go with your last name.

"Bitch."

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Michele @funnymichele.bsky.social · 1d

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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 17h

You already tax the savings accounts, now you're going to reduce or cancel the govt contribution?

Come on already... We should be encouraging people to plan for the future, not deferring maintenance on all our important future assets.

Wait... There's a pattern here, isn't there?

PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 21h

Stealing from our kids' future, to save money
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Govt expected to save nearly $2.5 billion with KiwiSaver changes

Savings are forecasted through to the 2028/29 financial year.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 17h

Your semi-regular reminder that the full quote is "The customer is always right in matters of taste," and that it has long been cut off too short by dickhead customers who want free shit.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 19h

few ideas have damaged the average psyche more than ‘the customer is always right.’ it should be a little bit humiliating, being a customer. you should walk into any service transaction knowing that the other person, and not you, is in control over whether you get your treats

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Anna @tgannawade.bsky.social · 20h

01 811 8055 will be remembered by most Brits over 50...

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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 19h

How do you convince a generation of people that having government pay for health care is a bad idea? I mean seriously, it's an obvious sitter for "you shouldn't have to pay for that", right?

Rupert Murdoch and the tech bros have so much to answer for.