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It's particularly stupid that it was about automation of the welfare state, after they had to have an inquiry after the last time they did it

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"we can save so much money by automating away the job of consultants!", says the very smart business consultancy

Just Like a Man By John Keats He sat at the dinner table with a discontented frown, The potatoes and the steak were underdone And the bread was baked too brown; The pie was too sour and the pudding too sweet, And the roast was much too fat; The soup so greasy, too and salty, T' was hardly fit for the cat. "I wish you could eat the bread and pie I've seen my mother make, They are so nice and 't would do you good Just to look at a loaf of her cake." Said the smiling wife, "I'll improve with age Just now I'm but a beginner; But your mother has come to visit us And today, she has cooked the dinner."

Found this great little poem in a collection. I'm not sure it was really Keats but in this version they say it is.

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Fiordland by Peter Beadle

Page on Eglinton valley.

Are you coming back on S1 because I found this Peter Beadle book from. 1973 and I have some High Noon Beans.

Just for clarity, the unemployment numbers under this government may look terrible, but keep in mind, Luxon has driven tens of thousands of Kiwis overseas as well, so its actually far worse. These numbers are just the ones that couldnt leave.

Once again, this perfect @zeboydgames.bsky.social post comes to mind:

I watched this. A few brain popping moments. It's from 2017 and it would be good to have an update

YouTube video by Human Dimensions of Natural Resources Mordecai Ogada, Director of Conservation Solutions Afrika – The Big Conservation Lie

"the image of white men... devoting their lives to saving wild animals...[is] used to drive the point home that as the planet experiences immense destruction of species, habitats, & ecosystems, it is only white people who really care. Conservation is now almost exclusively associated with whiteness"

A GREAT GOOD DAY TO ALL WHO SAIL THE TREACHEROUS WATERS OF OUR BROKEN WORLD. WE, THE MOUNTAIN GOATS, COME BEARING NEW SONGS, NOT JUST ONE AS IN FORMER DAYS BUT TWO, AS THERE IS A NEED FOR MORE SONGS. “COLD AT NIGHT” IS ABOUT A SHIPWRECK AND ITS IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH. BASS ON “COLD” IS BY TOMMY STINSON WHO YOU KNOW FROM THE REPLACEMENTS AND GUNS ‘N’ ROSES. GUITARS ON “COLD” ARE BY JOSH KAUFMAN, WHO YOU KNOW FROM BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN, THE NATIONAL, BOB WEIR, AND A PROMISING YOUNG ARTIST NAMED TAYLOR SWIFT, AND BY MATT DOUGLAS, WHO PRODUCED THESE TRACKS AND WROTE THE STRING ARRANGEMENTS. “ROCKS IN MY POCKETS” IS A SOLILOQUY FROM ADAM, ONE OF THREE SURVIVORS FROM THE WRECK. IT IS THE LAST WE HEAR FROM HIM. HARP BY THE GREAT MIKAELA DAVIS. ALL THREE MEMBERS OF THE MOUNTAIN GOATS — JON, JOHN, AND MATT — PLAY GUITARS ON “ROCKS,” AND THE TRACK IS LIVE EXCEPT FOR THE PERCUSSION AND HARP OVERDUBS. HARMONY & RESPONSE VOCALS ON “COLD AT NIGHT” ARE BY LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA, WHO SANG AS CHARLEY IN THE 2012 “MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG” CONCERT. I WILL NEVER GET OVER HAVING A GUY WHO HAS SUNG SONDHEIM ONSTAGE ON MY ALBUM: THANKS, BUD. THE REST OF YOU: ENJOY! THROUGH THIS FIRE ACROSS FROM PETER BALKAN, DUE 7 NOVEMBER ON CADMEAN DAWN.

I'm a self confessed music tragic for decades now but a few artists get through the maze like John John Darnielle and friends. So it was a pleasure to get this all caps email and link today. BTW @themountaingoats.bsky.social are on here & you need this

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These costumes really ruin the optics of the propaganda videos the far right wants to make, which is what they're there for.

ICE will eventually target them and brutalize them to try to run them off, so they can get useful propaganda video. I hope they're prepared for that.

None of it makes any operational sense. All performance theatre of the worst kind.

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

Some of my Swiss relatives moved to Oregon a very long time ago. I reckon they would be dancing in costumes today. Hope that image gets cut through in media land.

We also have this guy the Portland unipiper a dude riding a unicycle playing bagpipes wearing a Darth Vader mask with flame stacks we are holding him in reserve in case situation gets totally weird he's Portland famous beat that ice goons

FFS indeed. I hope it gets through to some voter staying here. Its like they do the opposite of what might help.

Hundreds of teens with a health condition, disability may be cut from Jobseeker benefit The government is ending Jobseeker payments to 18- and 19 year olds whose parents earn more than $65,000.

Fucksake. It's quite clear now that they only looked at this benefit policy as political marketing and took no advice on who it would impact – which includes young people with serious health issues and disabilities. Just feckless and cynical. Shame on them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Lounge with giant coffee table. This a a mf coffee table you could sleep on its that sturdy. Also a book and a beer. Hydrangeas are a thing here.

Daisy has eyebrows and knows how to use them. She is not here right now but would be giving me this look that means. You are sitting down time fir a walk then.

Current status. Dog peeps look away LOL. Daisy ( the Jack Russell) is away for a few days and I’m enjoying a dog hair free moment. She is brilliant but some days i’ts like having an unruly tween in the house.

Thanks Kent - looking forward to that. I’m going to be nominally Auckland by late Jan early Feb I hope. Need to have a decent trip in Mel & Albury/Wodonga then Sydney once i have finalised some logistics.

My home coffee setup. A walk-in butler’s pantry. Aka the old kitchen. House built in 1920 upgraded a lot since then.

Need to do some more IRL catchups in the next little while. Let me know if you are coming past Moeraki/ Hampden or Oamaru or Ōtepoti.

13 Norwich St, Hampden, Otago 9410

My view at Moeraki my old part time work place. Also my little EV there in the carpark. Done 5000 ks now and loving it.

For sale sign up in #NorthOtago near a beach. House went on market today after some weeks & months of intense cleaning out. It will still rake 6-12 weeks to go through the sales cycle but then i will be heading North again to Auckland & Melbourne then further afield. I’ve loved Otago. Tks locals.

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Film poster for Tinā showing the lead actress in the centre with five students in school uniform behind her

Hoo boy, I needed all the tissues!! 😭😭😭 #Tinā

Back when I was lecturing in Applied Ethics, I would tell my students that imagination is an important moral capacity.

No imagination. No empathy. Just nastiness from the current government. 3/3

Open Letter to Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Our current economic approach is causing real harm. We need to change track

Instead of taking up with the RNZ opinion piece, see that 20 economists from around Aotearoa have written and hand an open letter to the government asking them to change tack in the direction they are leading the economy.

Please share this letter.

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#nzpol #bhn

Every time i see a figure for unemployment i think about the people who had permanent roles who are now scrambling for temp roles, the people who had roles disestablished and were forced to take a lower-paying role. All the people who don't count as unemployed but don't have what they used to

These are not necessarily long-term, permanent jobs. They are predominantly seasonal workers, short-term contracts, not a long term well paid career.

This policy is just making it easier for employers in primary industries to exploit our young people.

Thanks - will do - I met them already because we also have an 1850’s dress they had a look at. It wasn’t Otago related but this is.

Full context. Blue blazer from 1920’s Knox College Dunedin.

Full length photo for context. Blue blazer from 1920’s Knox College Dunedin.

My mum would have kept it most likely. Her father died in about 1959.