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Let's remember that Sinead Boucher is the sole owner of most of the daily newspapers in Aotearoa. She has the final say on who their editors are. Her company owns #Stuff.co.nz the digital platform that gives them a homepage on the web, as well as #Neighbourly.
That's a lot of influence for one who thinks being against public spending is *not* an ideological position;
3 Nov, 2024 "Inability to reign in spending is a fact."
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NEW PODCAST EPISODE:
In this episode Lizzie, Val, and Quetza talk about:
Kamala Harris’s interview sidestepping a question about trans rights.
Minnesota doctors continuing to provide trans healthcare despite the political climate.
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CLOUT. A blow. I'll give you a clout on your jolly nob; I'll give you a blow on your head. It also means a handkerchief. CANT. Any pocket handkerchief except a silk one.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons
#Bolivia’s #government accuses supporters of ex-President Evo #Morales of taking 200 soldiers #hostage
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Angry Staffer says
"Basically, pollsters are terrified of being wrong again, so they’re flat-out ignoring “very blue” results.
As a result, pollsters are more willing to take steps to produce more Republican-leaning results.
They’re intentionally watering down the aggregate and making this race look deadlocked across the board. It’s crazy.
And it’s going to feed into Trump’s rigged election claims if Harris wins in a landslide"
#Polling sucks
Coupled with the fact that those (majority of) shitty, wrong, eff'd up polls then become interpreted by media who has no business pretending to understand methodologies or how polls work, and there is literally ZERO reason to trust polls, or give cred to media that does.
...it's (practically) allll just a bunch of garbage being used for propaganda.
To anyone trying to play the #MonsterHunter wilds beta on #linux.
1. Use #proton experimental, turn on the beta "bleeding edge"
2. Force DLSS on (if nvidia), disable all upscaling if not
3. Turn surface detail to Low (bypasses a vertex generation bug with the surface detail shader, if left on high it causes terrain to go haywire) Note: this can only be done from the main menu
4. Turn texture filtering down to 8x or 4x (16x is bugged)
And enjoy! I'm getting a smooth 70fps on all ultra settings
China is closing a South China Sea surveillance gap with a new radar made to spot stealth aircraft, satellite images suggest
Satellite images: China's new counter-stealth radar in South China Sea
The system, purported to have advanced counter-stealth capabilities, could challenge how US forces operate in the region.Chris Panella (Business Insider)
NOTICE:
THIS ACCOUNT WILL BECOME STRICTLY NON-POLITICAL AGAIN AT 6:00 PM EST, NOVEMBER 5.
This account was always intended to avoid talking about modern-day politics and generally speaking current events, except as #satire. The only reason I'm talking about politics so much on it is because the election is so close, and this one is so incredibly important to all #queer and other #marginalized people, #writers, and all #Americans in general.
I strongly encourage everyone to vote for Kamala Harris, not simply as a queer writer, but as an #American who believes in #democracy.
That said, as we won't know the results in any of the many close states until days after the election, and there won't be anything left to do once polls close, I do not engage with politics AT ALL after a certain time on election day.
Instead, I plan to go on an #erotica / #shitpost #writing binge once I'm done with politics. (Though my support group in #Resonite is at 9 PM, so maybe I'll hang out there?)
Now that #Hezbollah's pagers and walkie-talkies have exploded, the crucial question is how can secure communication be maintained today?
#communication #security #military #war #conflict #cybersecurity #question
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Strypey
in reply to Strypey • • •Because it's not a fact, it's an interpretation. Of underlying facts that are explained at least as well by a *lack* of council spending. For decades. Leaving huge debts and failing infrastructure, if that's what it takes to keep rates lower.
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Strypey
in reply to Strypey • • •Creating direct financial benefits for property owners, at the same time they're pocketing millions in untaxed capital gains.
Including the company Boucher now owns. Which owns rateable property in Wellington and elsewhere. Just keep that in mind when you're taking in reporting about real estate and council business, in Stuff-edited papers, podcasts, or TV3 news.
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Strypey
in reply to Strypey • • •"If you think back to that time of Absolutely Positively Wellington .. How do we get to that feeling again about Wellington being this incredible creative capital, where everything was moving forward and exciting and things ..."
#SineadBoucher, 2024
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Three words. Restore. Public. Spending. By both central and local government. To what they were spending - per capita - in 1992, when the Absolutely Positively Wellington tourism slogan was launched.
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Strypey
in reply to Strypey • • •In 1992, the ACTonomics knife crimes had only just begun. Since then they've have cut billions out of public funding for services and infrastructure. That why almost everyone feels broke and desperate, rather than "Absolutely Positively".
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