André "Seasonal Pun" Alessi
@andrealessi.bsky.social
Philosophy PhD student at the University of Waikato (working on how regular people figure out when to trust experts) but I mainly joke about tech and cats. Former telco product manager, data guy and financial crime analyst.
https://ko-fi.com/andrealessi
https://ko-fi.com/andrealessi
Pinned
Reposted by André "Seasonal Pun" Alessi
peter_thiel_speech_bubble.jpg
Maybe we're just not being cruel enough to sufficiently many outgroups? Has anyone in politics or the media even considered this??
November 29, 2025 at 7:31 AM
peter_thiel_speech_bubble.jpg
Reposted by André "Seasonal Pun" Alessi
i feel like i'm catching strays here even though i am gainfully employed
you've tweeted 452k times since december 2013. that's 103 tweets a day. assuming you sleep 8 hours a day, that's a new tweet every ten mins for twelve years. talking about how to attract a high value man. brother, you need to attract a HIGH VALUE JOB
November 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
i feel like i'm catching strays here even though i am gainfully employed
Reposted by André "Seasonal Pun" Alessi
maybe next time
November 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
maybe next time
Reposted by André "Seasonal Pun" Alessi
Your gentle reminder that my crowdfunding campaign ends tomorrow night… Thanks everyone for all the love. It’s been amazing. www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
Support Dr Siouxsie After She Supported Us! | PledgeMe
Support Dr Siouxsie to recover some of the money she spent fighting her legal case to protect employees experiencing online abuse
www.pledgeme.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Your gentle reminder that my crowdfunding campaign ends tomorrow night… Thanks everyone for all the love. It’s been amazing. www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
Reposted by André "Seasonal Pun" Alessi
The "advisory group" for SRW Laboratories includes a naturopath, so this is likely mostly junk science, but the Herald just prints whatever this guy tells them. www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/me...
This Kiwi futurist says he can add six years to your life
Greg MacPherson says we can slow down the biological signs of ageing - here's how.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 29, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The "advisory group" for SRW Laboratories includes a naturopath, so this is likely mostly junk science, but the Herald just prints whatever this guy tells them. www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/me...
Reposted by André "Seasonal Pun" Alessi
If you're into games and want thoughtful, sharp and occasionally super weird writing about them -- stuff that treats games like the core part of culture that they are -- subscribe to Aftermath and support some brilliant writers who are also good people.
Exciting news! Thanks to our sale, we've rocketed all the way up to over 4,900 paying subscribers. This means we can cross another goal, a regular columnist, off our list. We plan to sort out the exact specifics in our own time, but for now, who do you think would be a good fit?
November 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
If you're into games and want thoughtful, sharp and occasionally super weird writing about them -- stuff that treats games like the core part of culture that they are -- subscribe to Aftermath and support some brilliant writers who are also good people.
Reposted by André "Seasonal Pun" Alessi
just a reminder that the current best explanation for why this was necessarily or desirable is that the President wanted to see some video of it
It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card).
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
November 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
just a reminder that the current best explanation for why this was necessarily or desirable is that the President wanted to see some video of it
Reposted by André "Seasonal Pun" Alessi
i think that, in the ends, it's the obsessive need to whitewash it — to make israel not simply just another country but the perfect country, the blameless country, the hero country that defines the best and brightest a country could possible be — that made the contradictions inescapable…
Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar & writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas & the history of Palestinian resistance, points to 3 factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed...
November 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
i think that, in the ends, it's the obsessive need to whitewash it — to make israel not simply just another country but the perfect country, the blameless country, the hero country that defines the best and brightest a country could possible be — that made the contradictions inescapable…
Reposted by André "Seasonal Pun" Alessi
the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
Pointing out that something is incorrect definitely isn't sufficient - the *culture* of "it is bad to make incorrect statements, good to promptly and clearly retract and apologize for them, and disqualifying to keep making them deliberately" is the framework needed for fact-checking to plug into.
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
Reposted by André "Seasonal Pun" Alessi
Might be the first time I've seen good posts from a National MP.
November 28, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Might be the first time I've seen good posts from a National MP.
I buy a pack of ten Nespresso pods a week because it's cheaper than buying coffee every day, but the price on even the cheapest packs of ten has increased by over 25% in the last couple of months.
November 28, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I buy a pack of ten Nespresso pods a week because it's cheaper than buying coffee every day, but the price on even the cheapest packs of ten has increased by over 25% in the last couple of months.
After a certain age, I regret to report that every walk is a fart walk.
Feeling gassy after Thanksgiving? Take a fart walk.
Light exercise after a big meal can help. Whatever you do, resist the urge to lie down.
Light exercise after a big meal can help. Whatever you do, resist the urge to lie down.
Column | Try a ‘fart walk’ to ease the pressure after that big Thanksgiving meal
Whatever you do, resist the urge to lie down.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 AM
After a certain age, I regret to report that every walk is a fart walk.
Reposted by André "Seasonal Pun" Alessi
grammarly hates to see an Australian coming
November 28, 2025 at 3:29 AM
grammarly hates to see an Australian coming
Reposted by André "Seasonal Pun" Alessi
The people: ‘can we have pay equity?’
National: No.
Labour: No ❤️ ✨ 🌈
National: No.
Labour: No ❤️ ✨ 🌈
Chris Hipkins will not say whether Labour will commit $12.8b to restore pay equity.
Labour leader Chris Hipkins speaks to the Herald ahead of his conference
Chris Hipkins will not say whether Labour will commit $12.8b to restore pay equity. Video / Mark Mitchell
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The people: ‘can we have pay equity?’
National: No.
Labour: No ❤️ ✨ 🌈
National: No.
Labour: No ❤️ ✨ 🌈
Reposted by André "Seasonal Pun" Alessi
Look, I'm genuinely sorry for the Graham Linehan posts. I really am. But this is just too fucking astonishing not to share. The last paragraph of an Observer interview with him. Absolutely beyond parody. He's gone. He's absolutely fucking gone.
November 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Look, I'm genuinely sorry for the Graham Linehan posts. I really am. But this is just too fucking astonishing not to share. The last paragraph of an Observer interview with him. Absolutely beyond parody. He's gone. He's absolutely fucking gone.
Reposted by André "Seasonal Pun" Alessi
Reposted by André "Seasonal Pun" Alessi
Good to see UN at minute 21 with firm questions on NZ’s human rights record and failure to implement key RCOI recommendations from the Christchurch attacks. Goldsmith’s response, starting after minute 38, was difficult to watch, stretched reasoning, and failed to address the core concerns. #painful
Paul Goldsmith (44min) says NZ didn't ban #HateSpeech cos of #FreeSpeech concerns. It banned display of Gang Patches tho Freedom of Expression is in NZ Bill of Rights Act cos freedom from intimidation.
#NZpol
webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1w...
🙄 Nazi symbols allowed in NZ
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
#NZpol
webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1w...
🙄 Nazi symbols allowed in NZ
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
3179th Meeting, 116th Session, Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
Consideration of New Zealand
webtv.un.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Good to see UN at minute 21 with firm questions on NZ’s human rights record and failure to implement key RCOI recommendations from the Christchurch attacks. Goldsmith’s response, starting after minute 38, was difficult to watch, stretched reasoning, and failed to address the core concerns. #painful
Reposted by André "Seasonal Pun" Alessi
I don't care how many times I have to say this. The idea that fascism and right-wing populism only ensnares the stupid and uneducated is demonstrably false. Continuing to insist on shit like this is willful delusion.
November 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I don't care how many times I have to say this. The idea that fascism and right-wing populism only ensnares the stupid and uneducated is demonstrably false. Continuing to insist on shit like this is willful delusion.
Reposted by André "Seasonal Pun" Alessi
macys parade said italophobia REAL
Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...
November 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
macys parade said italophobia REAL
Reposted by André "Seasonal Pun" Alessi
Reposted by André "Seasonal Pun" Alessi
New academic drinking game:
Reading each other's publications and guessing which sections were added to appease reviewers.
Reading each other's publications and guessing which sections were added to appease reviewers.
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
New academic drinking game:
Reading each other's publications and guessing which sections were added to appease reviewers.
Reading each other's publications and guessing which sections were added to appease reviewers.
Reposted by André "Seasonal Pun" Alessi
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
girls always love to telling people to care about " stranger Things"
but they do not care of, "ranger things"
but they do not care of, "ranger things"
November 27, 2025 at 5:32 AM
girls always love to telling people to care about " stranger Things"
but they do not care of, "ranger things"
but they do not care of, "ranger things"
Reposted by André "Seasonal Pun" Alessi
choosing a dad-rock cover of follow you into the dark for the soundtrack goes CRAZY
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 AM
choosing a dad-rock cover of follow you into the dark for the soundtrack goes CRAZY