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Ashley (@webash elsewhere)

@ashley.geek.nz

@webash on the apartheid oligarch's site we dearly lost. I care about: Systems. Environment. Empathy.

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FACTS:

Net Zero barely nudges your bill.

Fossil‑fuel wars send it through the roof.

So when Farage and his ilk slags off renewables while fanning conflict, remember who actually hikes your costs.

10.03.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 1575 πŸ” 454 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 7

The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

27.02.2026 04:54 πŸ‘ 1370 πŸ” 453 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 20

The politicians should have the costs taken from their personal wealth.

11.03.2026 09:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Government is currently negotiating an Enhanced Border Security Partnership with the US Department of Homeland Security that would grant US agencies, including ICE, automated, direct access to New Zealanders' biometric data and identity records.

26.02.2026 00:17 πŸ‘ 173 πŸ” 97 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 39
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Is it fair that prices rise as power companies bank profits? Meridian Energy, Mercury and Genesis have reported multi-million-dollar half-year profits. At the same time, customers have been receiving emails telling them the cost of their power is set to rise.

No, it's not fair, and there's an easy solution. We need to bring Aotearoa's electricity back into public ownership. We must treat the electricity market as a public utility, not a source of profit. #nzpol

25.02.2026 21:28 πŸ‘ 82 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

It's not what he means but: great idea Seymour! Let's make them a public benefit organisation with no profit incentive - delivering public transport for the public.

25.02.2026 23:04 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Each new defection confirms it: the old two-party system is dead and buried.

Under FPTP, this means chaos.

We can't keep pretending nothing has changed, stick with the same voting system and expect voters to still have trust in our democracy.

We need PR before it's too late.

26.01.2026 13:44 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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Trump:

"NATO has treated the United States very badly. We've never asked for anything. We've never got anything."

Tell that to the families of 850 soldiers from 19 non-US NATO countries who died fighting to defend the United States in Afghanistan - the only occasion Article 5 was ever triggered.

21.01.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 5310 πŸ” 1698 πŸ’¬ 443 πŸ“Œ 145
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🚨The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is now closing on 80,000 signatures!

Let’s get it to the 100,000 needed today!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

21.01.2026 11:45 πŸ‘ 418 πŸ” 265 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 17

The President of the United States is trying to economically damage and coerce NATO allies because they don't agree with his imperialist ambition to seize a NATO territory by force.

Donald Trump is the most egregious traitor and saboteur of the West in history.

17.01.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 785 πŸ” 230 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 17

BREAKING: Trump announces 10% tariffs from 1 February and 25% tariffs from 1 June on "all goods" from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, Netherlands, Finland & the UK.

"This Tariff will be due and payable until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland."

17.01.2026 16:51 πŸ‘ 178 πŸ” 78 πŸ’¬ 70 πŸ“Œ 28
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The Public Accountability Bill Amendment Ask your MP to support a ban on lying in politics today. Amendments 13–18 to the Hillsborough Law would make it a criminal offence for politicians and parliamentary candidates to deliberately mislead ...

…but it won’t pass unless we push it

πŸ“£ Email your MP before Wed. Please.

It takes seconds to email them and could make the world of difference…

Just hit the link below:

www.compassioninpolitics.com/write_mp_acc...

10.01.2026 16:03 πŸ‘ 209 πŸ” 96 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 6
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The Public Accountability Bill Amendment Ask your MP to support a ban on lying in politics today. Amendments 13–18 to the Hillsborough Law would make it a criminal offence for politicians and parliamentary candidates to deliberately mislead ...

Ask your MP to support a ban on lying in politics. Amendments 13–18 to the Hillsborough Law will make it a criminal offence to deliberately mislead the public. Tell your MP to back it today: www.compassioninpolitics.com/the_public_a... #TruthInPolitics #HillsboroughLaw

10.01.2026 16:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Will coming out is so weird...

04.01.2026 22:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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01.01.2026 09:30 πŸ‘ 1819 πŸ” 435 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 35

'Listen to me as I come to your neighbourhood and tell your trans siblings they are subhuman or I will use the wealth of billionaires to sue you into oblivion,' is a very late-capitalism form of free speech right.

22.12.2025 08:21 πŸ‘ 762 πŸ” 223 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 6

If a town already exists but is depopulating due to a lack of work and therefore likely leaving housing stock to rot, and places a burden on councils who get less tax but no reduction in infrastructure footprint - then it seems a no brainer to try make the most of those towns by connecting to cities

21.12.2025 23:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Great stuff. Hobby hunters are trying to normalise the idea that these invasive pests should be farmed, for their convenience, in the native forests we all own. (Imagine if possum trappers tried this nonsense!) We non-hunters who love our forests outvote them. Let your MP know.

21.12.2025 19:40 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

FWIW, the jury is still out on Gen AI being good at text summaries. Because it shortens & emphasizes text based on distribution, not meaning, it’s less of a summary (ie, salient points highlighted) than a compression (ie, the most frequently asserted terms in the distribution). Not the same thing!

21.12.2025 20:47 πŸ‘ 160 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 8

This is accurate. I can use AI to massively speed up some parts of my work, but only because I'm able to intuit when it's gone wildly off-base, which it does with confidence indistinguishable from when it gets things right.

21.12.2025 22:09 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of an email:

Subject: [PIPEXP-1192] Login Access Request
To: me

Good morning Kimberly! =^uwu^=;;

I’m sorry to hear that you’re having trouble logging into Jellyfin! It looks like your SSO account was indeed deactivated on 2025 Dec 15.

According to our records,

1. On or about 2025 Nov 15, you were broken up with by ___, who noted this as a β€œfinal break” on vis event report sheet. I’m also seeing that Ve ticked the β€œUnilateral” box, meaning it isn’t contestable.
2. Our Salesforce shows you aren’t close to any other polycule members

Unfortunately, our solo-poly access policy doesn’t allow us to extend resources to unpartnered members after the 30 day grace period following your break. This includes entertainment resources (Jellyfin / *darr / nzbget / Pornhub for Enterpriseβ„’ seat), as well as O365β„’, Adobe CCβ„’, and shell access on the Nix clusters. We’re so sorry for your loss, cutie!! πŸ˜­πŸ’œ

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Include this line in your email to comment on the ticket: 250e084a-b937-47a6-948d-b519112ad35a

Screenshot of an email: Subject: [PIPEXP-1192] Login Access Request To: me Good morning Kimberly! =^uwu^=;; I’m sorry to hear that you’re having trouble logging into Jellyfin! It looks like your SSO account was indeed deactivated on 2025 Dec 15. According to our records, 1. On or about 2025 Nov 15, you were broken up with by ___, who noted this as a β€œfinal break” on vis event report sheet. I’m also seeing that Ve ticked the β€œUnilateral” box, meaning it isn’t contestable. 2. Our Salesforce shows you aren’t close to any other polycule members Unfortunately, our solo-poly access policy doesn’t allow us to extend resources to unpartnered members after the 30 day grace period following your break. This includes entertainment resources (Jellyfin / *darr / nzbget / Pornhub for Enterpriseβ„’ seat), as well as O365β„’, Adobe CCβ„’, and shell access on the Nix clusters. We’re so sorry for your loss, cutie!! πŸ˜­πŸ’œ If you have any questions, you can reply to this email to generate another ticket, or you can contact zzzoeee@ from our Partner Infra team (note: three Zs and three Es in their LDAP, we have a lot of Zoes here!) β€”- Regards, ___ (πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈshe/her, UTC -5) Partner Infra Platform Experiences team As a courtesy, a copy of this email has been sent to your manager listed in Workdayβ„’ New name or pronouns? Dating someone new? Just visit go/update-me to update your account! Include this line in your email to comment on the ticket: 250e084a-b937-47a6-948d-b519112ad35a

sheesh, the only thing worse than getting kicked out of the polycule is finding out via jira ticket 😣

17.12.2025 14:49 πŸ‘ 3540 πŸ” 1029 πŸ’¬ 107 πŸ“Œ 172

Then people can stay in their existing community, but be brought out to their work. The communities then have outside money continuing to come in and don't further come at risk of losing the core services

17.12.2025 22:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I can't find it now, but supposedly the more your speed up transport, the further people are willing to travel for work.

Western governments are too incompetent to reverse rural employment problems locally, so why not bring the people to the work.

Provide fast, reliable public transport

17.12.2025 22:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

They're totally upside down. If you want to save towns you don't stop spending money. Instead you spend money in the towns. Do some projects. Create jobs. Create some buzz. Up the vibe.

Austerity, theoretically, is being tight so good times return, but you actually need to build the good times.

17.12.2025 22:03 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What!

17.12.2025 22:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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UK MPs target VPNs in latest Online Safety Act debate "The onus should be on the VPN company to comply with the law"

**screams at stupid at best, maliciously incompetent at worst**

UK MPs target VPNs in latest Online Safety Act debate www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...

17.12.2025 22:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

what the f...actually you know what this is just how it is these days

16.12.2025 20:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Say no to Palantir in the NHS NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

16.12.2025 00:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone

- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware

but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

14.12.2025 04:19 πŸ‘ 16031 πŸ” 7781 πŸ’¬ 98 πŸ“Œ 92

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

14.12.2025 19:12 πŸ‘ 11529 πŸ” 3841 πŸ’¬ 266 πŸ“Œ 140