Beautiful autumn day yesterday on the bike around the roads of Ōtepoti Dunedin. Not a bad little corner of the world we inhabit down here. #ōtepoti #dunedin #dunnerstunner

I know this is a historic moment and everything, but those parachutes are making me think of Tunnock’s Tea Cakes. Giant ones! 😋

That did make me chuckle

Have they downloaded Authenticator?

They going to bring Paddington into it, aren’t they. It’ll get messy.

Political nihilism reaches it’s nadir in the UK. Everyone dies so nothing matters.

April Fools Day. We need a complete news blackout as it’s too cognitively demanding this year to tell reality from hoax.

Such a great film. Having live here a few years I’d agree that it is very New Zealand! ‘I didn’t choose the skux life, the skux life chose me’

Tertiary Education Commission warns of government funding shortfall for domestic enrolments It's the third consecutive year government funding is expected to fall short of demand for tertiary education.

Funding squeeze for domestic enrolments at NZ universities. Some difficult choices for institutions in relation to how much they seek to grow and what the focus of any growth is.

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Ok, now I get the 4D chess strategy Trump’s supporters keep going on about. It’s all an elaborate plan to decarbonise the economy.

‘…only the President is allowed to embarrass the President’

Ironically, AI's been boom time for newspaper columnists, I've seen at least half a dozen or so of this sort of thing in the last week. The biggest challenge for them isn’t the tech, it’s when the novelty wears off.

i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this

Greetings from New Zealand 😊.

Incredible that both Reform and Conservatives are completely at sea on such an important issue as *checks notes* going to war. Neither should be allowed anywhere near power.

Seems quite quaint now how everyone was wondering about Biden’s faculties.

I have just a sneaking suspicion that Trump and the Republican administration have absolutely zero clue what they are doing.

Not sure what the evidence really says on WFH productivity (my hunch is it probably varies by sector, role, and individual). What bugs me about this though is how preachy Farage and his followers are. Firms are best placed to decide what works best for them, not virtue‑signaling politicians.

I’m just hovering on the outside of UK HE professionals globular cluster. Expected to merge with UK Nursing professionals in c250 million years.

On top of everything else, it shows the extraordinary incompetence of ICE.

Having lived in New Zealand for nearly 3 years I’m with Colin Stinging-Nettle on this.

Quick, hide the penguins on Otago Peninsula (although it’s not icy so that may confuse him) #otago #Ōtepoti #Dunedin

In tomorrow’s speech he’ll talk about that wonderful gift they are expecting from the Trojans.

Imagine the feeling when one of those pointless work meetings you hate with every fibre of your being just got cancelled. That’s how Mark Carney is feeling right now.

Winston, are these unelected globalists bureaucrats in the room with us right now?

Watch: Election to be held on 7 November, Christopher Luxon announces The prime minister has confirmed the general election will take place on 7 November.

NZ election set for 7 November #nzpol. I'm eligible to vote for the first time since arriving 🥳. It'll be close run, and interesting given current global climate. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

I can't speak for NZ given I've only been here a couple of years, but yeah, count us in.

Wow, this is really good.

Woah. That’s quite the memo, even by his standards. He genuinely doesn’t seem at all well.