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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 7m

Yeah, I have thoughts about this. I think it engages me with the rest of the community in way that's hard to achieve inside a car.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 12m

I read it. It's not at all a good piece of writing. It ignores the most salient, practical criticism of Weiss – she has no real news experience – and just wallows around in the usual puddle of grievance.

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James Renwick @cubaraglanguy.bsky.social · 2h

An excellent article from Marc Daalder, if you want all the shifty details.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/13/f...

Farmers off the hook on climate means rest of us pick up the slack

Comment: The Government's methane announcement is the policy equivalent of a steaming cowpat on cross-partisan climate consensus.

newsroom.co.nz

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 3h

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 1h

"Any EMTR over 100% is seriously distortionary; the government’s new regime introduces an effective marginal tax rate of 1,394,200%." www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...

PM Christopher Luxon seemingly transmutes political gold into sh*t

PM seemingly fluffs the coalition’s beneficiary-bashing surefire vote winner.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 2h

Exactly this! It's also, by definition, a constant act of balancing you *don't* have to think about, which is therapeutic in a different way. You also get a lot of stimulus from the environment: sights, sounds, smells.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 11h

Walking's fine, but for me lacks active peril, which is important.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 14h

I may have died just looking at the picture.

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 15h

Remember the old rightwing argument that all we needed to do was put a price on climate emissions and let the market do its thing? Well the necessary step was for the Govt to put a price on emissions. The current far right NZ Govt just announced it will never put a price on emissions.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 15h

This was extremely inevitable. These nitwits have been pampered for so long on the MAGA-DEI gravy train they genuinely don't know what it is to anticipate the real-world consequences of their choices, let alone develop public systems to deal with those consequences.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 15h

I would also note that her take on Wayne Brown and Auckland Council is clueless patter. When he's working well with the liberal-left councillors and standing candidates against his erstwhile supporters you can't really say he's "bulldozing through" the agenda he arrived with.

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henry cooke @henrycooke.bsky.social · 16h

Amelia Wade dives into the Family Boost policy, which was designed in a hurry using guesswork, and is now so complex one Kindergarten has hired a staffer explicitly to help parents navigate it:

www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Families miss out on FamilyBoost after being caught by quarterly income rule

Parents hoping to claim childcare rebates have been rejected because their quarterly incomes are too high ‒ despite being told it was based on what their households earned yearly.

www.thepost.co.nz

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 18h

Well this is good news!
Whakatāne mayor-elect! #nzpol

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 16h

More like: actually putting some glasses and bowls in a box in the half hour I could maintain a state of not furiously thinking about potential uses for every piece. And then taking the box to the community recycling centre! And not buying anything while I was there!

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 16h

I have a lot of glassware and very many bowls. And no Tupperware!

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 20h

To be fair, the only multi-day festival I've been to in recent years is Splore, which has a beach.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 20h

This "washing at a music festival" you speak of ...

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 20h

Yup.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 20h

Damn. But yeah, riding a bike puts me in the moment and pumps up the dopamine.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 20h

He's still going on about it. Bit weird.

Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 20h

Did a good bit of kitchen decluttering this morning, until my ADHD brain freaked out and I had to go for a bike ride about it.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 21h

C&R might want to reflect that campaigning against safer speeds in a neighbourhood full of rat-run streets isn't a winner.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 21h

Also, when he says there will be a permanent library building "soon", what he means is in six or seven years, possibly.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 21h

Meanwhile, an unsuccessful C&R candidate makes a whiny and graceless post. Mate, people *like* the street upgrades round here. And we're also pretty excited about finally having a library again. Good grief.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 22h

Mad king watch: when *RFK Jr.* is telling you to stop with the vaccine crazy talk www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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