Lyndon Hood
@lyndonhood.bsky.social
he/ia. Yes, the Aotearoa one.
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The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
December 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
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Texas Democrats just did something historic under the leadership of new state party chair @kendallscudder.bsky.social. We have filed a candidate in EVERY 2026 race.
U.S. Senate: 1 of 1
U.S. House: 38 of 38
State Senate: 15 of 15
State House: 150 of 150
State Board of Education: 8 of 8
U.S. Senate: 1 of 1
U.S. House: 38 of 38
State Senate: 15 of 15
State House: 150 of 150
State Board of Education: 8 of 8
We Did It, Texas Dems, We Did It
Candidates in every legislative, statewide, and federal race. Now it’s time to build power where it counts.
www.lonestarleft.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Texas Democrats just did something historic under the leadership of new state party chair @kendallscudder.bsky.social. We have filed a candidate in EVERY 2026 race.
U.S. Senate: 1 of 1
U.S. House: 38 of 38
State Senate: 15 of 15
State House: 150 of 150
State Board of Education: 8 of 8
U.S. Senate: 1 of 1
U.S. House: 38 of 38
State Senate: 15 of 15
State House: 150 of 150
State Board of Education: 8 of 8
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At least 400 NZD end of day 1! Thanks everyone who has helped out.
Want to support trans rights in Aotearoa & get a bunch of cool TTRPGs? The Ban the Ban bundle is raising funds for action against the NZ govt's blocker ban.
Proceeds go to PATHA to fund their court challenge & support individuals. Get it now!
itch.io/b/3421/ban-t...
#transrights #ttrpg #nzpol
Proceeds go to PATHA to fund their court challenge & support individuals. Get it now!
itch.io/b/3421/ban-t...
#transrights #ttrpg #nzpol
December 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
At least 400 NZD end of day 1! Thanks everyone who has helped out.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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I just read a clearly AI-fueled or AI-written book in my academic niche, and while I stumble to finish it, I predict that future historiography will have literature categories and markers like *published post 2024* or *published ante 2024*. Our days will be seen as the barrier between these worlds.
July 31, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I just read a clearly AI-fueled or AI-written book in my academic niche, and while I stumble to finish it, I predict that future historiography will have literature categories and markers like *published post 2024* or *published ante 2024*. Our days will be seen as the barrier between these worlds.
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The Prime Minister credited 36 Months for convincing him to ban teens from social media.
This group accused experts who opposed the ban of being 'bought' by big tech. Meanwhile, it was lining up brand deals, eyeing global expansion & developing an AI tool to track students
www.crikey.com.au/20...
This group accused experts who opposed the ban of being 'bought' by big tech. Meanwhile, it was lining up brand deals, eyeing global expansion & developing an AI tool to track students
www.crikey.com.au/20...
December 9, 2025 at 6:19 AM
The Prime Minister credited 36 Months for convincing him to ban teens from social media.
This group accused experts who opposed the ban of being 'bought' by big tech. Meanwhile, it was lining up brand deals, eyeing global expansion & developing an AI tool to track students
www.crikey.com.au/20...
This group accused experts who opposed the ban of being 'bought' by big tech. Meanwhile, it was lining up brand deals, eyeing global expansion & developing an AI tool to track students
www.crikey.com.au/20...
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Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.
December 9, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.
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Just made my own Swedish meatballs, which is arguably more IKEA than just buying them premade
December 9, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Just made my own Swedish meatballs, which is arguably more IKEA than just buying them premade
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you've heard of elf on the shelf, now try... the leaky bones of Santa
The bones of Santa have been leaking liquid for 1,700 years.
December 9, 2025 at 4:24 AM
you've heard of elf on the shelf, now try... the leaky bones of Santa
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Good 🧵 about the difference in the way National treats Act compared to how Labour treats its potential coalition partners.
#nzpol
#nzpol
I really think a lot of centre-left Labour-supporting people, if they truly want to change the government *and* get genuine progressive/left policies over the line, need to brush up on the history of the ACT Party
I'm quite serious
I'm quite serious
December 9, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Good 🧵 about the difference in the way National treats Act compared to how Labour treats its potential coalition partners.
#nzpol
#nzpol
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I dunno if I'd call it heresy but it is extremely on point that this Whitehouse with Vance as Catholic convert VP, in a time of various cosplaying trad caths running wild, would get the Feast of the Immaculate Conception wrong in the precise way you'd expect cos-playing Catholics to get it wrong
ok it’s legitimately funny that they can’t even throw red meat to Catholics without falling into heresy
December 9, 2025 at 5:24 AM
I dunno if I'd call it heresy but it is extremely on point that this Whitehouse with Vance as Catholic convert VP, in a time of various cosplaying trad caths running wild, would get the Feast of the Immaculate Conception wrong in the precise way you'd expect cos-playing Catholics to get it wrong
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washington post reporter code-switching on twitter and bluesky like a key & peele sketch
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
washington post reporter code-switching on twitter and bluesky like a key & peele sketch
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with the holiday season now officially upon us, it's time to start playing our favorite christmas songs
here's one of mine
here's one of mine
November 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
with the holiday season now officially upon us, it's time to start playing our favorite christmas songs
here's one of mine
here's one of mine
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Daniel Day Lewis came out of Instagram retirement to show support for Paul Dano. King shit.
December 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Daniel Day Lewis came out of Instagram retirement to show support for Paul Dano. King shit.
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In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
news.cornell.edu
December 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
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"O God!" he cried, "O God... no... 11 pipers, 10 lords, 9 ladies, 8 maids, 7 swans, 6 geese, 5 golden rings, 4 calling birds, 3 French hens, 2 turtle-doves, the partridge... the pear tree... y-you ate them all... this has to stop!"
"More, my true love," she said, rising from the ichor pool, "More."
"More, my true love," she said, rising from the ichor pool, "More."
December 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"O God!" he cried, "O God... no... 11 pipers, 10 lords, 9 ladies, 8 maids, 7 swans, 6 geese, 5 golden rings, 4 calling birds, 3 French hens, 2 turtle-doves, the partridge... the pear tree... y-you ate them all... this has to stop!"
"More, my true love," she said, rising from the ichor pool, "More."
"More, my true love," she said, rising from the ichor pool, "More."
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Exciting result from the NZ Supreme Court: Full-time carers' appeal for employee status upheld by Supreme Court www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Full-time carers' appeal for employee status upheld by Supreme Court
Two parents who care full-time for their disabled children are, in fact, employees of the government - and should receive the same benefits and protections. Supreme Court rules.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Exciting result from the NZ Supreme Court: Full-time carers' appeal for employee status upheld by Supreme Court www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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We don't have a culture that says that "public goods are GOOD." Vociferously. We have a political culture with one party that says public goods are BAD and the other that says "Meh, they should be means-tested."
December 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
We don't have a culture that says that "public goods are GOOD." Vociferously. We have a political culture with one party that says public goods are BAD and the other that says "Meh, they should be means-tested."
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Here we see a figure lifted straight from a marketing blog and copied *almost* verbatim. The blog's claim is unsourced btw.
We also get a method used for *building* wastewater plants applied to *running* wastewater plants. These are savings that won't materialise unless Deloitte has a time machine.
We also get a method used for *building* wastewater plants applied to *running* wastewater plants. These are savings that won't materialise unless Deloitte has a time machine.
December 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Here we see a figure lifted straight from a marketing blog and copied *almost* verbatim. The blog's claim is unsourced btw.
We also get a method used for *building* wastewater plants applied to *running* wastewater plants. These are savings that won't materialise unless Deloitte has a time machine.
We also get a method used for *building* wastewater plants applied to *running* wastewater plants. These are savings that won't materialise unless Deloitte has a time machine.
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Hey, so guess what I did? 🧵
Can I prove Deloitte used AI to write this report? No. But that would honestly be the less embarrassing option. The research in this report is below par for a 1st year undergrad, where they even bother to show research.
Let's unpack some of the mistakes I found.
#nzpol
Can I prove Deloitte used AI to write this report? No. But that would honestly be the less embarrassing option. The research in this report is below par for a 1st year undergrad, where they even bother to show research.
Let's unpack some of the mistakes I found.
#nzpol
Just noting which consultancy wrote this report and the history of their reports for public agencies internationally. Anyone check the footnotes of this one?
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Hundreds of job cuts proposed in new report to Wellington City Council
Wellington City Council could save tens of millions of dollars through cost-cutting, such as reducing staff, according to a new report.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Hey, so guess what I did? 🧵
Can I prove Deloitte used AI to write this report? No. But that would honestly be the less embarrassing option. The research in this report is below par for a 1st year undergrad, where they even bother to show research.
Let's unpack some of the mistakes I found.
#nzpol
Can I prove Deloitte used AI to write this report? No. But that would honestly be the less embarrassing option. The research in this report is below par for a 1st year undergrad, where they even bother to show research.
Let's unpack some of the mistakes I found.
#nzpol
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I had shingles in my early teen years. I cannot express to you how badly you do not want to get shingles. get the fucking vaccine.
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I had shingles in my early teen years. I cannot express to you how badly you do not want to get shingles. get the fucking vaccine.
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We're just a couple of steps from the conservative members of the Supreme Court citing in their rulings things they heard AI founding fathers say on podcasts.
Oh good, Glenn Beck has created an AI George Washington. You will be shocked to learn that the AI George Washington created by Glenn Beck sounds exactly like what would happen if Glenn Beck built an AI George Washington to sound exactly like Glenn Beck.
December 9, 2025 at 1:46 AM
We're just a couple of steps from the conservative members of the Supreme Court citing in their rulings things they heard AI founding fathers say on podcasts.
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Help support our trans youth! It’s a scary time right now.
Want to support trans rights in Aotearoa & get a bunch of cool TTRPGs? The Ban the Ban bundle is raising funds for action against the NZ govt's blocker ban.
Proceeds go to PATHA to fund their court challenge & support individuals. Get it now!
itch.io/b/3421/ban-t...
#transrights #ttrpg #nzpol
Proceeds go to PATHA to fund their court challenge & support individuals. Get it now!
itch.io/b/3421/ban-t...
#transrights #ttrpg #nzpol
December 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Help support our trans youth! It’s a scary time right now.
