Daniel
@dznz.bsky.social
Aotearoa, recently ex-IT. Some kind of socialist/anarchist, focused on climate response. ADHD, pakeha, she/they/he 🏳️⚧️, fash can DIAF.
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If only there was a political party that would deliver free GP, nursing, and dental services under the public sector...
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November 30, 2025 at 5:39 AM
If only there was a political party that would deliver free GP, nursing, and dental services under the public sector...
#nzpol
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One of the most important works of literature in my life. This play opened my eyes to what was possible in drama, in comedy, in philosophy, in performance, in conversation with the past. My first play was an almost direct homage and I’ve been chasing it ever since. RIP to a true genius.
November 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
One of the most important works of literature in my life. This play opened my eyes to what was possible in drama, in comedy, in philosophy, in performance, in conversation with the past. My first play was an almost direct homage and I’ve been chasing it ever since. RIP to a true genius.
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Checking to see if Tom Stoppard wrote any videogames so I can add to the discussion but not even one Call of Duty, not even a single existential Conker game on the résumé
November 30, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Checking to see if Tom Stoppard wrote any videogames so I can add to the discussion but not even one Call of Duty, not even a single existential Conker game on the résumé
It seems I've now seen enough media to pick many of the twists in new media i see, which sounds like a humble-brag but I'm not sure it'll improve my watching experience.
November 30, 2025 at 6:13 AM
It seems I've now seen enough media to pick many of the twists in new media i see, which sounds like a humble-brag but I'm not sure it'll improve my watching experience.
I will never understand how "clear surface" house people fill the draining surface with dirty dishes. It's the ONE PLACE in the kitchen that it's better to always keep clean.
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I will never understand how "clear surface" house people fill the draining surface with dirty dishes. It's the ONE PLACE in the kitchen that it's better to always keep clean.
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A popular view of me is that I write ’woke‘ dialogue into videogames but unfortunately what I actually do is design and implement extremely competent game systems and write some of the most profane and ‘edgy’ dialogue into games allowed; unfortunately none of that is ‘edgy’ in a rightwing manner
November 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM
A popular view of me is that I write ’woke‘ dialogue into videogames but unfortunately what I actually do is design and implement extremely competent game systems and write some of the most profane and ‘edgy’ dialogue into games allowed; unfortunately none of that is ‘edgy’ in a rightwing manner
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Stoppard always feels clever in a way that so so many writers mimic, but everyone else copies the surface. the Stoppard magic is that the cleverness is impossibly thin, basically transparent, and there’s this unending well of feeling on the other side
November 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Stoppard always feels clever in a way that so so many writers mimic, but everyone else copies the surface. the Stoppard magic is that the cleverness is impossibly thin, basically transparent, and there’s this unending well of feeling on the other side
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“It makes me so happy. To be back at the beginning, knowing almost nothing.” -Arcadia, Tom Stoppard, zichrono l’bracha
November 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
“It makes me so happy. To be back at the beginning, knowing almost nothing.” -Arcadia, Tom Stoppard, zichrono l’bracha
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Agreed. R.I.P. Tom Stoppard.
November 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Agreed. R.I.P. Tom Stoppard.
RIP Stoppard. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead remains one of my comfort watches, and in general I loved his work, cleverly metatextual and yet full of pathos and empathy for his characters, trapped within their fictions and their own natures.
November 30, 2025 at 12:51 AM
RIP Stoppard. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead remains one of my comfort watches, and in general I loved his work, cleverly metatextual and yet full of pathos and empathy for his characters, trapped within their fictions and their own natures.
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RIP Tom Stoppard
Dazzling talent obviously but I loved that this was the line he wished he’d written.
Dazzling talent obviously but I loved that this was the line he wished he’d written.
a man is making a funny face and says i don 't care !
ALT: a man is making a funny face and says i don 't care !
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November 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
RIP Tom Stoppard
Dazzling talent obviously but I loved that this was the line he wished he’d written.
Dazzling talent obviously but I loved that this was the line he wished he’d written.
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RIP. I think this is a guy who tried, in general, to encourage people to be more thoughtful and aware.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
RIP. I think this is a guy who tried, in general, to encourage people to be more thoughtful and aware.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
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NEW: Over 50,000 people attempted to block the founding convention for the new youth org of the far-right AfD party on Nov. 29 in Gießen, Germany. Wide-ranging actions-including 19 blockades around the small city-prevented a majority of participants from attending. Police violently beat blockaders.
November 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
NEW: Over 50,000 people attempted to block the founding convention for the new youth org of the far-right AfD party on Nov. 29 in Gießen, Germany. Wide-ranging actions-including 19 blockades around the small city-prevented a majority of participants from attending. Police violently beat blockaders.
Labour already did the "we are going to stick to a budget", it was first-term Ardern and National had been bad but not Luxon bad, had not done quite the generational damage that this lot have done. Why run a boring, mediocre playbook when you can point at National's idolisation of the US?
#nzpol
#nzpol
November 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Labour already did the "we are going to stick to a budget", it was first-term Ardern and National had been bad but not Luxon bad, had not done quite the generational damage that this lot have done. Why run a boring, mediocre playbook when you can point at National's idolisation of the US?
#nzpol
#nzpol
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this is an essay on this fucking stupid idea, just hitting the technical issues
it's time to cover this one. what are *your* favourite writeups on why data centres in space are just fucking stupid?
this is an essay on this fucking stupid idea, just hitting the technical issues
it's time to cover this one. what are *your* favourite writeups on why data centres in space are just fucking stupid?
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.
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November 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM
taranis.ie/datacenters-...
this is an essay on this fucking stupid idea, just hitting the technical issues
it's time to cover this one. what are *your* favourite writeups on why data centres in space are just fucking stupid?
this is an essay on this fucking stupid idea, just hitting the technical issues
it's time to cover this one. what are *your* favourite writeups on why data centres in space are just fucking stupid?
Went to a food place tonight where I diagnosed— accurately, it transpired —that the eatery was bad simply by the length of the menu (and some other subtle details but that was the tell)
I'm quite smug about it.
I'm quite smug about it.
November 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Went to a food place tonight where I diagnosed— accurately, it transpired —that the eatery was bad simply by the length of the menu (and some other subtle details but that was the tell)
I'm quite smug about it.
I'm quite smug about it.
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Kholoud. Kholoud worked in education before this. She lost her brother and sister in the 2014 Gaza war and another brother and brother in law during this one. She is helping many of their children (I’ll list them in the replies) and her mother
November 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Kholoud. Kholoud worked in education before this. She lost her brother and sister in the 2014 Gaza war and another brother and brother in law during this one. She is helping many of their children (I’ll list them in the replies) and her mother
I immediately mute folks that post like it is 2016. Catch up.
November 29, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I immediately mute folks that post like it is 2016. Catch up.
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Things that Labour will say 'yes' to:
1. We need 120,000 people unemployed (at least) to stop wages going up by too much.
2. Banks can extract $8bn a year in profits, because that's the price we should pay.
3. The market will eventually deliver affordable energy / food / rent - be patient comrades.
1. We need 120,000 people unemployed (at least) to stop wages going up by too much.
2. Banks can extract $8bn a year in profits, because that's the price we should pay.
3. The market will eventually deliver affordable energy / food / rent - be patient comrades.
November 29, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Things that Labour will say 'yes' to:
1. We need 120,000 people unemployed (at least) to stop wages going up by too much.
2. Banks can extract $8bn a year in profits, because that's the price we should pay.
3. The market will eventually deliver affordable energy / food / rent - be patient comrades.
1. We need 120,000 people unemployed (at least) to stop wages going up by too much.
2. Banks can extract $8bn a year in profits, because that's the price we should pay.
3. The market will eventually deliver affordable energy / food / rent - be patient comrades.
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Plenty of pro-austerity parties already, so why would I vote for another one in a different colour?
I want to break the wheel.
I want to break the wheel.
OPINION: Labour’s finance spokesperson set the tone for 2026 with a message of restraint and fiscal responsibility — while avoiding the details voters will eventually demand.
Edmonds renews Labour’s script: Discipline first, promises later
OPINION: Labour’s finance spokesperson set the tone for 2026 with a message of restraint and fiscal responsibility — while avoiding the details voters will eventually demand.
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November 29, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Plenty of pro-austerity parties already, so why would I vote for another one in a different colour?
I want to break the wheel.
I want to break the wheel.
@profanity.accountant oh hi. I doubt i swear that much. More than @tr3s0r.bsky.social ?
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
@profanity.accountant oh hi. I doubt i swear that much. More than @tr3s0r.bsky.social ?
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this is an official Wikipedia content guideline, btw, and it's precisely two sentences.
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Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
this is an official Wikipedia content guideline, btw, and it's precisely two sentences.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
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Friday evening messing: oil on Fabriano, 70 x 100cm
Have a brilliant weekend everyone 🙂
Have a brilliant weekend everyone 🙂
November 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Friday evening messing: oil on Fabriano, 70 x 100cm
Have a brilliant weekend everyone 🙂
Have a brilliant weekend everyone 🙂
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I wouldn’t fix my parents tvs. They deserve some motion smoothing
November 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I wouldn’t fix my parents tvs. They deserve some motion smoothing