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Our hybrid takes 95. But a tank lasts a month. That's something I guess.

Looking at the homepage of all of our news organisations, you'd be excused to think that war is happening on a different planet, and its effects are limited to costly/inconvenient supply chain disruptions. It's like we're not living through history. (See also: muted, cowardly coverage of Gaza.)

Important issues in play here -- the stories told about MethaneSAT don't add up. (And they should add up to the $30M in public money that was poured into it)

And the people who won't tell us what happened play a key role in deciding what missions can launch from New Zealand soil.

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Headline reads "The Covid immunity cycle: Why catching the virus is basically our new booster" below picture of glived hands preparing a wooden syringe or something honestly the picture is weird I can't even tell what it's meant to represent

Dangerously stupid headline.
(It implies catching Covid is a neutral alternative option to getting a booster. It is not).

@craigwrightstclair.bsky.social "Scrapped the much-needed Dunedin Hospital upgrade" mucked about with it, definitely not scrapped. I work there.

Cripes.

Petrol prices.

Gaspy app useful, if you haven't got it.

$2.78 for 95 octane.

I'm paying nz$2.61 per litre for 91 octane petrol.

Not correct.

Bit 2001: Space Odyssey.

Idiot plot

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Heinz Watties proposes closure of three manufacturing facilities, impacting 350 jobs Heinz Wattie's said it was proposing closing facilities in Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin.

Heinz Watties proposes closure of three manufacturing facilities, impacting 350 jobs

Gross!

This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?

Nope. Nor watched as far as I can remember.

I've no idea what they're talking about.

Sandy Sandilands, the UK Defence Attaché to the United Arab Emirates

Sorry, but I just learned about the UK defence attaché to the United Arab Emirates, then I had to spend ages verifying that instance of nominative determinism

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This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

Grey literature! Haven't heard that term for a while. I was a cataloguer using the NZBN system run by the National Library. It was all new and modern at the time!

Who asked them to write that?

See also, bloc. Sigh.

Gorgeous morning in Ōtepoti. 3°!