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There’s something very funny about the reality of Seymour. He’s an obsessive tinkerer. A guy who is so focused on fine tuning his motor mower endlessly to get the perfect lawn he’s failed to notice there’s a drought.

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'Red tape and dumb rules' targeted by David Seymour in broad hospitality sector review

It would examine the rules affecting restaurants, bars, cafes, food trucks, catering services, hotels and food stalls – but would exclude gambling regulations.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 5h

A pilot out in Nova Scotia seems to have had some fun yesterday.

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C-GZPT Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

Flight status, tracking, and historical data for C-GZPT including scheduled, estimated, and actual departure and arrival times.

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 4h

It’s an eternal question as to whether certain politicians really are “that stupid” or in fact “know exactly what they’re doing” but I think the truth is likely a messy puddle of genuine ignorance and/stupidity combined a grifter’s gut instinct for manipulating their audience.

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 4h

If a left coalition had voided due process & given a single charity $24m only for a story like this to emerge every opposition politician, media pundit and your mum would be endlessly rabbiting on about that coalition’s unfitness for office.

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'Excessive': Exec pay at Mike King’s charity soars after $24m public funding boost

I Am Hope has defended a significant increase in executive pay over the last year.

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 4h

It feels like it’s less about ‘technology’ which is everywhere doing boring stuff well and more about ‘Technology™️’ which is nebulous but requires a billion dollars a quarter in investment.

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Dr Zoë Ayres @zjayres.bsky.social · 4h

Felt shit, made him lunch

Squirrel getting a nut from a mini table

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 4h

It’s all fun and games till you realise NZF is shaping up to be the third largest party.

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Big names at risk as Labour pulls ahead and PM loses ground

Christopher Luxon’s leadership is under growing pressure as National slips behind Labour in the latest The Post/Freshwater Strategy poll – and senior figures Nicola Willis and Gerry Brownlee face bein...

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Kaz @serenity22.bsky.social · 5h

More misleading BS from min of Ed, Stanford. #nzpol

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 15h

We thought we’d hold off on the battery but make sure we had a system future-proofed to be able to add one without additional changes. We’re a 4 adult household with pretty hefty usage, what with hot water & multiple PCs etc.

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 19h

If true it would mean he’s never understood the “Anyway, here’s Wonderwall” meme.

fry from futurama is shown in a close up

Alt: Fry is suspicious

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 19h

Believable that’s it’s a technique he uses to throw you off the scent of what he’s genuinely ignorant about.

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 19h

I have literally given myself a Morning Glory ear worm just from this thread, that’s how fucking embedded in the psyche those songs are for anyone who was conscious in the 90s.

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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 22h

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.

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 19h

I just checked, he was 20 when What’s The Story (Morning Glory) was released. I call BULLSHIT.

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 19h

He fucking said what?

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 20h

If they made The Martian today it would end being a very different movie.

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NASA unit JPL to lay off about 550 workers, citing restructure

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a research and development lab funded by NASA — the federal space agency — and managed by the Caltech.

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 21h

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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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 20h

Which is what they basically said, but also “well here’s another good option we offer” which is such a weird place for a company to be in with quality product that does what it says on the packet.

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