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Dan Slevin

@danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net

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Gentleman of Silverstream. Writer, broadcaster and sometime CEO. Reviewer of films at substack.funeralsandsnakes.net and RNZ.

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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · Nov 10

Here's a quick pinned intro post for all those welcome new arrivals. I'm a film and tv critic for RNZ in Aotearoa New Zealand, broadcasting every Friday on Nights with @emiledonovan.bsky.social, and occasionally as a reliever on At the Movies.

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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 3h

Didn’t Nicola Willis weigh in on this before Acacia was dropped?

Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 6h

Watching the Acacia-less ad for that mobile phone company and it’s such a dog’s breakfast. They should be boycotted on the basis of taste let alone political squeamishness.

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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 1d

Finally caught up with the All Whites superb draw with Norway this morning. Bazely has us headed in the right direction and the years of Phoenix Academy etc players learning skills mean we can stand against the best now. Any team below 40 in the rankings should be concerned playing against us.

Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 1d

At the pictures the other day, I thought SP was there to learn what it was like to be a Prime Minister but instead he turned out to be a Downton Abbey man.

Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 1d

Thoughts and prayers to Sean Plunket who, it seems, is entering the "Find Out" stage of broadcasting.

NZ Herald article preview with the headline:
'We're going to war': Broadcasting watchdog claims authority over The Platform; Sean Plunket hits out

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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 1d

Terrifying.

Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 1d

Conway’s a good dude.

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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 1d

I miss Tweetbot so much.

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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 1d

My annual request to the @bsky.app powers to make an app that remembers where I am in the timeline when I … take a photo, add a film to my watchlist, respond to a message, you know NORMAL stuff like that.

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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 2d

That was the implication. But New Zealand is clearly the loser so I’d argue it was a bad call for us.

Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 2d

For you, maybe.

Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 2d

I don’t believe that Stuff pays DG.

Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 2d

If it’s episode 7 out of 10, it’s a flashback.

Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · Jul 6

For just $30 an hour I will watch streaming shows with your parents and tell them whether something is a flashback

Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 2d

Where is the “go fuck yourself” option you needy fuck?

Cropped screenshot from my phone of a Microsoft Outlook inbox with a query “Enjoying Outlook so far?”

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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 2d

Define “improving”.

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 2d

What's really going on with the housing market?

It's been a patchy year - so are things improving now or not?

www.rnz.co.nz

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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 2d

If you can tell me why my phone is the only device that doesn’t get internet connectivity through my home WiFi I’ll solve your problem.

Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 4d

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Labour won’t commit to much, but these are the six promises it has made in Opposition

Chris Hipkins often bats away questions by saying he’s still working on policies. But he has made a few commitments.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 4d

Good turnout for the first of only two Wellington screenings of GOOD BOY today.

Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 4d

You have situations still where an article might appear twice. Once formatted for the home page like news and again formatted for Life. Some of my old reviews show up three times in Search.

Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 4d

My understanding is that there will be no equivalent role in the new system. Just lots of bits and pieces contributors. Although we are promised that there’ll be no reduction in content - radio minutes or website pieces. Which might mean opportunities for me, don’t know yet.

Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 4d

Ah, don’t get me started on metadata. It’s really inconsistent. @danxduran.bsky.social would know more but I think it’s because the website is currently fed by two* different content systems - one for news and one for the rest - and the home page content comes through the news system.

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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 4d

Lifestyle has always been a big factor in RNZ content. It’s not possible to be all hard news all day and keep an audience. There’s not enough of it for a start and the charter demands that RNZ serves as many audiences as it can with the resources available.

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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 4d

I quite enjoyed all the bells and whistles in the Tron movie and still think it should have been called TRON: ARSE

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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 4d

And yet it’s a syndicated article from Australia’s ABC, who are a public broadcaster that we look up to and wish we could emulate. There’s been stories like this as radio segments for decades, you’re only seeing them now because they are turned into web pages that last forever.

Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 5d

Even though I went on a bus trip to the Odeon Marble Arch (one of the biggest screens in London at the time) with a few mates to watch the original and felt like it set a standard for social effects etc but was never hanging out for an extension to that story

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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 5d

She is absolutely not going anywhere near the lawnmower tomorrow, for sure.