Josh O'Connor-Chen
@joshoconnorchen.bsky.social
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“..a bunch of dirty old men started bullying her. Spreading salacious, baseless, downright creepy rumours about her. And not even bothering to hide it. Sending all staff emails about it.”
And those men - some not so old - still sit at Council tables & got rewarded for that filthy behaviour. #nzpol
And those men - some not so old - still sit at Council tables & got rewarded for that filthy behaviour. #nzpol
Tory Whanau isn’t leaving - she was hounded out
Opinion: As all the emails and filthy gossip came out, it’s been patently, toe-curlingly, nauseatingly obvious to every young woman what’s been happening.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
“..a bunch of dirty old men started bullying her. Spreading salacious, baseless, downright creepy rumours about her. And not even bothering to hide it. Sending all staff emails about it.”
And those men - some not so old - still sit at Council tables & got rewarded for that filthy behaviour. #nzpol
And those men - some not so old - still sit at Council tables & got rewarded for that filthy behaviour. #nzpol
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Mike Hosking lying about the results of the UK Covid Inquiry this morning. The inquiry found an earlier lockdown could have saved 23k lives. It did find that "stringent restrictions short of a mandatory lockdown" if imposed earlier could have avoided a lockdown – which is diff from "unnecessary".
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mike Hosking lying about the results of the UK Covid Inquiry this morning. The inquiry found an earlier lockdown could have saved 23k lives. It did find that "stringent restrictions short of a mandatory lockdown" if imposed earlier could have avoided a lockdown – which is diff from "unnecessary".
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y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
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Two Step Peace Plan: Step one: leave. Step two: leave faster.
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Two Step Peace Plan: Step one: leave. Step two: leave faster.
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Much of the anger over school closures wasn't about children, example #122225
Durham public school attendance drops to COVID levels amid North Carolina immigration crackdown
Federal officials say they arrested around 370 people in North Carolina this week in immigration crackdowns around Charlotte and the Research Triangle.
www.wbur.org
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Much of the anger over school closures wasn't about children, example #122225
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every year someone does a study that’s like “we gave 100 homeless ppl money and their lives improved” and every year the government kills that guy
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
every year someone does a study that’s like “we gave 100 homeless ppl money and their lives improved” and every year the government kills that guy
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just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
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Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.
My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.
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Charging out your lowest paid admin at $215-$245/hour to process paperwork is theft in my mind. Why do the courts put up with this - are they on the take too?
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Charging out your lowest paid admin at $215-$245/hour to process paperwork is theft in my mind. Why do the courts put up with this - are they on the take too?
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I don't want AI generated art, I want AI emptied dishwasher
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I don't want AI generated art, I want AI emptied dishwasher
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"Framing it just like this makes me want Israel to annex it" uh
a) You have ZERO stake in the harms or impacts here, bb
b) you'd want an aggressive colonialism done out of spite?
c) all those violations of human rights and international law don't bother you? Guess not, lovely
d) oh just fuck you
a) You have ZERO stake in the harms or impacts here, bb
b) you'd want an aggressive colonialism done out of spite?
c) all those violations of human rights and international law don't bother you? Guess not, lovely
d) oh just fuck you
November 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
"Framing it just like this makes me want Israel to annex it" uh
a) You have ZERO stake in the harms or impacts here, bb
b) you'd want an aggressive colonialism done out of spite?
c) all those violations of human rights and international law don't bother you? Guess not, lovely
d) oh just fuck you
a) You have ZERO stake in the harms or impacts here, bb
b) you'd want an aggressive colonialism done out of spite?
c) all those violations of human rights and international law don't bother you? Guess not, lovely
d) oh just fuck you
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If I'm Mamdani I'm like no you have to go now
No one leaving New York City because of Mamdani, say two top real estate CEOs
No one leaving New York City because of Mamdani, say two top real estate CEOs
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's democratic socialist views spark fears companies and capital will flee, but top real estate CEOs say it's not true.
cnb.cx
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If I'm Mamdani I'm like no you have to go now
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Holy moly.
This is not exactly helping their cause. They continue to treat that poor woman as the aggressor, instead of as a potential victim escalating because no on was paying attention to her. Charges in the other case were only dropped last week and only because McSkimming declined to testify.
This is not exactly helping their cause. They continue to treat that poor woman as the aggressor, instead of as a potential victim escalating because no on was paying attention to her. Charges in the other case were only dropped last week and only because McSkimming declined to testify.
Police stand by decision to continue to prosecute woman at centre of McSkimming scandal
Police apologise to Ms Z but continue with prosecution against her
www.stuff.co.nz
November 13, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Holy moly.
This is not exactly helping their cause. They continue to treat that poor woman as the aggressor, instead of as a potential victim escalating because no on was paying attention to her. Charges in the other case were only dropped last week and only because McSkimming declined to testify.
This is not exactly helping their cause. They continue to treat that poor woman as the aggressor, instead of as a potential victim escalating because no on was paying attention to her. Charges in the other case were only dropped last week and only because McSkimming declined to testify.
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CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
Along with all of the sexual abuse and cover-up stuff, one thing that's fucking clear at NZ Police, is that there's 100% an expectation of professional retribution against junior staff by senior leadership if they do something they don't personally like.
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Along with all of the sexual abuse and cover-up stuff, one thing that's fucking clear at NZ Police, is that there's 100% an expectation of professional retribution against junior staff by senior leadership if they do something they don't personally like.
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Forget "Defund the Police." Make "Fire everyone, make them all reapply for their jobs with industrial-grade background checks, and make the forensic accountants comfortable for the mother of all line audits" happen, you cowards. #nzpol
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jevon-mcs...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jevon-mcs...
Police bosses ignored sex complaints against top cop, charged woman for 'revenge' emails instead
Suppressions fall away to reveal full story about the downfall of deputy police boss.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Forget "Defund the Police." Make "Fire everyone, make them all reapply for their jobs with industrial-grade background checks, and make the forensic accountants comfortable for the mother of all line audits" happen, you cowards. #nzpol
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jevon-mcs...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jevon-mcs...
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So when do we decide men can’t be trusted to run the police?
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 AM
So when do we decide men can’t be trusted to run the police?
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This is an empirical and appalling measure of how far victims have to go for accountability from the senior ranks of the police, it is literally now evidenced that you need an 'I'LL DO TIME' online-harassment-case level of vengeance-seeking. It shouldn't be like this.
They prosecuted the woman who made complaints against him. #nzpol
“Over a period of years, Lack said the woman attempted to report allegations of a serious physical, psychological and sexual nature by McSkimming, who was one of the most powerful police officers in the country.” #misogny #corruption
“Over a period of years, Lack said the woman attempted to report allegations of a serious physical, psychological and sexual nature by McSkimming, who was one of the most powerful police officers in the country.” #misogny #corruption
Police bosses ignored sex complaints against top cop, charged woman for 'revenge' emails instead
Suppressions fall away to reveal the full story of the downfall of a deputy police boss.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 11, 2025 at 6:05 AM
This is an empirical and appalling measure of how far victims have to go for accountability from the senior ranks of the police, it is literally now evidenced that you need an 'I'LL DO TIME' online-harassment-case level of vengeance-seeking. It shouldn't be like this.
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Life goal: To never be the subject of all four top stories on rnz dot co dot nz
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Life goal: To never be the subject of all four top stories on rnz dot co dot nz
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Just seems a little short while ago that various government politicians, and people acting as their media surrogates, were outraged and scandalized by, and poured scorn on, comments from younger women politicians for suggesting many people don't trust cops.
Highest levels of the force - filth.
Highest levels of the force - filth.
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Just seems a little short while ago that various government politicians, and people acting as their media surrogates, were outraged and scandalized by, and poured scorn on, comments from younger women politicians for suggesting many people don't trust cops.
Highest levels of the force - filth.
Highest levels of the force - filth.
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The most surprising thing in today's news - tragically and awfully - is that apparently the cops DO know how to prosecute somebody under the Harmful Digital Communications Act. #nzpol
a man in a top hat and purple jacket is flexing his muscles .
Alt: Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka leans on one elbow and says, "Really?"
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:04 AM
The most surprising thing in today's news - tragically and awfully - is that apparently the cops DO know how to prosecute somebody under the Harmful Digital Communications Act. #nzpol
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Now I’d like to hear Chris Hipkins apologise to Tamatha Paul and the rest of us who he gaslit on police safety not that long ago 😡
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Now I’d like to hear Chris Hipkins apologise to Tamatha Paul and the rest of us who he gaslit on police safety not that long ago 😡
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Abolish the Senate.
It's antidemocratic, anti-Black, and classist. It exists solely because the racist founders thought the House of Representatives was TOO democratic and because the southern slavers demanded a house of Congress where they'd have outsized influence.
Get rid of it.
It's antidemocratic, anti-Black, and classist. It exists solely because the racist founders thought the House of Representatives was TOO democratic and because the southern slavers demanded a house of Congress where they'd have outsized influence.
Get rid of it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Abolish the Senate.
It's antidemocratic, anti-Black, and classist. It exists solely because the racist founders thought the House of Representatives was TOO democratic and because the southern slavers demanded a house of Congress where they'd have outsized influence.
Get rid of it.
It's antidemocratic, anti-Black, and classist. It exists solely because the racist founders thought the House of Representatives was TOO democratic and because the southern slavers demanded a house of Congress where they'd have outsized influence.
Get rid of it.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM