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This is the case for a majority of people in New Zealand due to the response in 2020 and 2021 which could explain why our excess mortality continue to be lower than other countries. Lockdown gets proven to be the right decision (at the time).
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
doi.org
December 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
This is the case for a majority of people in New Zealand due to the response in 2020 and 2021 which could explain why our excess mortality continue to be lower than other countries. Lockdown gets proven to be the right decision (at the time).
WT actual F
The fact that it's Labour doing this, Labour, which used to be the left(ish) party in England, is truly horrifying.
They've gone all in on transphobia and genocide.
The fact that it's Labour doing this, Labour, which used to be the left(ish) party in England, is truly horrifying.
They've gone all in on transphobia and genocide.
December 7, 2025 at 7:26 AM
WT actual F
The fact that it's Labour doing this, Labour, which used to be the left(ish) party in England, is truly horrifying.
They've gone all in on transphobia and genocide.
The fact that it's Labour doing this, Labour, which used to be the left(ish) party in England, is truly horrifying.
They've gone all in on transphobia and genocide.
Excellent 🧵 and comments about the kind of culture that simply shrugs at a middle aged man having an affair with a much younger subordinate and assumes the woman is overreacting if she complains.
So much to process from this interview so I'm just going to hyperfocus on how Mark Mitchell and Brian Roche are very, very concerned about Andrew Coster "relitigating" things
Oops did your fall guy not understand he was meant to take ALL the blame for the systemic problems you're complicit in
Oops did your fall guy not understand he was meant to take ALL the blame for the systemic problems you're complicit in
Exclusive: Coster claims Hipkins and Mitchell told about McSkimming
In an interview with Q+A, the former police commissioner spoke for the first time since the damning IPCA report on the McSkimming scandal.
www.1news.co.nz
December 7, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Excellent 🧵 and comments about the kind of culture that simply shrugs at a middle aged man having an affair with a much younger subordinate and assumes the woman is overreacting if she complains.
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The total normalisation of powerful older men having "affairs" with much younger women and the assumption that *she's* the one whose behaviour before or after MUST have been inappropriate
December 7, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The total normalisation of powerful older men having "affairs" with much younger women and the assumption that *she's* the one whose behaviour before or after MUST have been inappropriate
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Mark Mitchell is complaining on social media that Coster is relitigating the Jevon McSk disaster?
Relitigate? Does he know the meaning?
This is 1st time we’ve heard Coster’s side of events?
We have heard plenty from MM prior to today, even about Coster. I’m grateful for the other PoV.
#nzpol
Relitigate? Does he know the meaning?
This is 1st time we’ve heard Coster’s side of events?
We have heard plenty from MM prior to today, even about Coster. I’m grateful for the other PoV.
#nzpol
December 7, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Mark Mitchell is complaining on social media that Coster is relitigating the Jevon McSk disaster?
Relitigate? Does he know the meaning?
This is 1st time we’ve heard Coster’s side of events?
We have heard plenty from MM prior to today, even about Coster. I’m grateful for the other PoV.
#nzpol
Relitigate? Does he know the meaning?
This is 1st time we’ve heard Coster’s side of events?
We have heard plenty from MM prior to today, even about Coster. I’m grateful for the other PoV.
#nzpol
Alone, alone, all all alone
Alone on a wide wide sea!
From The Ancient Mariner
Alone on a wide wide sea!
From The Ancient Mariner
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Alone, alone, all all alone
Alone on a wide wide sea!
From The Ancient Mariner
Alone on a wide wide sea!
From The Ancient Mariner
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Feminists are supposed to be the man-haters, but here's a guy who equates masculinity with murder.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Feminists are supposed to be the man-haters, but here's a guy who equates masculinity with murder.
Had we but world enough and time
And
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace
From Marvel's To His Coy Mistress.
The poem is a dodgy whine to a women who won't sleep with the speaker, but that 1st line is beautiful, and there are the jokes. So I love it anyway.
And
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace
From Marvel's To His Coy Mistress.
The poem is a dodgy whine to a women who won't sleep with the speaker, but that 1st line is beautiful, and there are the jokes. So I love it anyway.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Had we but world enough and time
And
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace
From Marvel's To His Coy Mistress.
The poem is a dodgy whine to a women who won't sleep with the speaker, but that 1st line is beautiful, and there are the jokes. So I love it anyway.
And
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace
From Marvel's To His Coy Mistress.
The poem is a dodgy whine to a women who won't sleep with the speaker, but that 1st line is beautiful, and there are the jokes. So I love it anyway.
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Life is short
And pleasures few
And holed the ship
And drowned the crew
But o! But o!
How very blue
the sea is.
— Clive Barker
And pleasures few
And holed the ship
And drowned the crew
But o! But o!
How very blue
the sea is.
— Clive Barker
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Life is short
And pleasures few
And holed the ship
And drowned the crew
But o! But o!
How very blue
the sea is.
— Clive Barker
And pleasures few
And holed the ship
And drowned the crew
But o! But o!
How very blue
the sea is.
— Clive Barker
My sister's neighbour took his dog, the snuggly black lab, and her dog Hazy, on the floor being a bit concerned about Santa, for a Christmas photo today.
As you do.
As you do.
December 7, 2025 at 4:24 AM
My sister's neighbour took his dog, the snuggly black lab, and her dog Hazy, on the floor being a bit concerned about Santa, for a Christmas photo today.
As you do.
As you do.
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I spend so much time verifying everything now from art to cited sources to photos to historical references to citations to quotes to legal and medical information that it's really hard to fathom how much work AI has collectively added to the world, not reduced
Here's the reality this example illustrates:
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
December 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I spend so much time verifying everything now from art to cited sources to photos to historical references to citations to quotes to legal and medical information that it's really hard to fathom how much work AI has collectively added to the world, not reduced
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Correct spelling eludes a New York Times headline.
December 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Correct spelling eludes a New York Times headline.
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🦠 #NZ Measles
- Many new locations of interest
- Close contacts
Auckland: G.A.Y. Club, Eagle Bar, Karagahape Road
Nelson: BP Connect Richmond
Otago: Emergency Dept, Dunedin Hospital
Hikari Teppanyaki & OPSM, Frankton
Ballarat, Chemist Warehouse, Carters, Queenstown
info.health.nz/health-topic...
- Many new locations of interest
- Close contacts
Auckland: G.A.Y. Club, Eagle Bar, Karagahape Road
Nelson: BP Connect Richmond
Otago: Emergency Dept, Dunedin Hospital
Hikari Teppanyaki & OPSM, Frankton
Ballarat, Chemist Warehouse, Carters, Queenstown
info.health.nz/health-topic...
info.health.nz
December 7, 2025 at 12:58 AM
🦠 #NZ Measles
- Many new locations of interest
- Close contacts
Auckland: G.A.Y. Club, Eagle Bar, Karagahape Road
Nelson: BP Connect Richmond
Otago: Emergency Dept, Dunedin Hospital
Hikari Teppanyaki & OPSM, Frankton
Ballarat, Chemist Warehouse, Carters, Queenstown
info.health.nz/health-topic...
- Many new locations of interest
- Close contacts
Auckland: G.A.Y. Club, Eagle Bar, Karagahape Road
Nelson: BP Connect Richmond
Otago: Emergency Dept, Dunedin Hospital
Hikari Teppanyaki & OPSM, Frankton
Ballarat, Chemist Warehouse, Carters, Queenstown
info.health.nz/health-topic...
Good🧵 about organising
We do some of this for my daughter, who tells me she's absolutely positively not ADHD, but who loses stuff all the time.
I bought a wicker basket for her regularly used valuables (wallet, headphones, card holder, etc) in it. We spend much less time looking for things now.
We do some of this for my daughter, who tells me she's absolutely positively not ADHD, but who loses stuff all the time.
I bought a wicker basket for her regularly used valuables (wallet, headphones, card holder, etc) in it. We spend much less time looking for things now.
I've been watching a lot of "organizing for ADHD" shows to continue leveling up our org game. One of the most useful things I'd started doing that I heard a name for here is "zoning." That is, putting items of certain types or categories into a single (open) container to make finding it easy
December 6, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Good🧵 about organising
We do some of this for my daughter, who tells me she's absolutely positively not ADHD, but who loses stuff all the time.
I bought a wicker basket for her regularly used valuables (wallet, headphones, card holder, etc) in it. We spend much less time looking for things now.
We do some of this for my daughter, who tells me she's absolutely positively not ADHD, but who loses stuff all the time.
I bought a wicker basket for her regularly used valuables (wallet, headphones, card holder, etc) in it. We spend much less time looking for things now.
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Ffs. This beyond shameful and a slippery slope. Labour in the UK is f**ked. You either believe in everyone’s human rights and defend them no matter what, or you are part of the problem.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Trans women to be barred from main Labour women’s conference in 2026
All delegates will be able to attend fringe programme as party tries to find compromise while complying with supreme court ruling on gender
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Ffs. This beyond shameful and a slippery slope. Labour in the UK is f**ked. You either believe in everyone’s human rights and defend them no matter what, or you are part of the problem.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Excellent work from the production team.
And we didn't even notice at my place.
And we didn't even notice at my place.
In S17 of #Taskmaster, Nick Mohammed dressed as a vampire for his tasks. The production scrubbed all his reflections when he's dressed like this, but the only way I knew is because someone told me about it. It's subtle and very cool.
December 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Excellent work from the production team.
And we didn't even notice at my place.
And we didn't even notice at my place.
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As we are now in a period where one party has, in the past two months, bought enough political ads on YouTube to have shown 1 to everyone in the country if they were evenly distributed, just a reminder that the Google Ads Transparency Centre is still a thing & the Political Ads tab tracks showings
December 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
As we are now in a period where one party has, in the past two months, bought enough political ads on YouTube to have shown 1 to everyone in the country if they were evenly distributed, just a reminder that the Google Ads Transparency Centre is still a thing & the Political Ads tab tracks showings
Holy moly. They froze all the claims while they decided whether or not to honour them. And it took them a whole year and three ministers to see sense and not cut them.
#nzpol
#nzpol
Government considered cutting over $3b of ACC sex-abuse claims
ACC Minister Scott Simpson made a bid for a law change to be included in this year’s legislative programme before the bill was suddenly “reprioritised”, documents show.
www.thepost.co.nz
December 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Holy moly. They froze all the claims while they decided whether or not to honour them. And it took them a whole year and three ministers to see sense and not cut them.
#nzpol
#nzpol
It really doesn't.
Left leaning parties need to stand for lefty things.
Voters aren't going to choose a right lite party when the real thing is there.
#nzpol
Left leaning parties need to stand for lefty things.
Voters aren't going to choose a right lite party when the real thing is there.
#nzpol
If anyone thinks going the Starmer route is the key to success within the general public, go look at a recent poll for the UK.
Conceding ground to the right has no benefits for left wing parties.
Conceding ground to the right has no benefits for left wing parties.
December 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
It really doesn't.
Left leaning parties need to stand for lefty things.
Voters aren't going to choose a right lite party when the real thing is there.
#nzpol
Left leaning parties need to stand for lefty things.
Voters aren't going to choose a right lite party when the real thing is there.
#nzpol
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Remember when we were kids and people just littered every roadway? And then we all agreed that it sucked and was ugly and stupid so we made it a priority to stop littering. And we jacked up fines and enforced them and began social pressure campaigns and "adopt-a-highway" stuff.
December 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Remember when we were kids and people just littered every roadway? And then we all agreed that it sucked and was ugly and stupid so we made it a priority to stop littering. And we jacked up fines and enforced them and began social pressure campaigns and "adopt-a-highway" stuff.
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Hipkins response to me was basically, "we absolutely support trans people & will reverse it, but we don't want to start a culture war that would put trans kids at risk."
It doesn't make sense. WP has already started the war, TPM & the Greens response didn't start a flare up of hate afaik.
It doesn't make sense. WP has already started the war, TPM & the Greens response didn't start a flare up of hate afaik.
December 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Hipkins response to me was basically, "we absolutely support trans people & will reverse it, but we don't want to start a culture war that would put trans kids at risk."
It doesn't make sense. WP has already started the war, TPM & the Greens response didn't start a flare up of hate afaik.
It doesn't make sense. WP has already started the war, TPM & the Greens response didn't start a flare up of hate afaik.
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This is the conclusion, which I'm pulling out from behind the paywall because it'll probably be a free newsletter or podcast one day. I think the AI era is a reckoning for the tech industry, one where consumers finally realize they're being abused.
December 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
This is the conclusion, which I'm pulling out from behind the paywall because it'll probably be a free newsletter or podcast one day. I think the AI era is a reckoning for the tech industry, one where consumers finally realize they're being abused.
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If you can dream it you can do it! #nzpol #OneTermGovernment
December 5, 2025 at 5:03 AM
If you can dream it you can do it! #nzpol #OneTermGovernment
Oh lord. You need a strong stomach to read this self-aggrandising garbage. He only sleeps 4 hours a night you know, and he talks up his own emotional intelligence.
#nzpol
#nzpol
‘Oh, hell yeah. Don’t you worry about that’ - Luxon thinks the 2026 election is in the bag
Luxon said the Government was doing ‘a serious turnaround job’, not like the ‘bit of a realignment’ carried out by the Key government in 2008.
www.stuff.co.nz
December 5, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Oh lord. You need a strong stomach to read this self-aggrandising garbage. He only sleeps 4 hours a night you know, and he talks up his own emotional intelligence.
#nzpol
#nzpol
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This is an interim injunction, not a final decision. What it signals, though, is that the judge (a good judicial review judge in justice Radich I should say) thinks her argument about TPM's board exceeding its powers under the party constitution is credible enough to freeze things where they are.
Judge reinstates Mariameno Kapa-Kingi's Te Pāti Māori membership
The case was heard in the High Court at Wellington yesterday.
www.nzherald.co.nz
December 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
This is an interim injunction, not a final decision. What it signals, though, is that the judge (a good judicial review judge in justice Radich I should say) thinks her argument about TPM's board exceeding its powers under the party constitution is credible enough to freeze things where they are.