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Hugh Young
Compiler of "Ngā Ingoa o Aotearoa: An oral dictionary of Māori placenames" http://ingoa.maori.nz Kaitautoko kaha ki te reo Māori, obviously. Long-term (26 y) intactivist, I maintain The Intactivism Pages http://www.circumstitions.com) Human rights, LGBTI+ rights, gay history, classical music, words, an old cis gay Pākehā male, he/him/ia Header image. Pukerua Bay after sunset, with Kāpiti Island in the distance.Avatar: Hugh Young in 2022, tinted with the blue and yellow of Ukraine.
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@rbreich
And she lost: a reminder not to take anything for granted.

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@RickiTarr
Both notices are in the same font, all caps, and have similar spelling mistakes. And "Cornhol me"? I call fake.

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@GottaLaff
Sorry, you're right, She should be the default gender, just to get up their noses. Liberal christians, who I have no trouble with, won't mind.

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@GottaLaff
'Then there was the "Why did god save your life" question.'
For those who believe in G*d, that's a good question: why the hell did He?

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@w7voa We need to know how likely they are to vote. If I'm not mistaken, their votes could simply be weighted by that percentage (but it would add an uncertainty factor, perhaps greater than its usefulness. Perhaps if the question were asked indirectly, as "On a scale of 0-100, How important is voting?")

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@rbreich
He says he doesn't know about it or want to know about, but his name is in it 300 times. Pull the other one!

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@jackyan @skykiss
Thanks. Snopes has edited the entry and added another page to discuss the images. They have been in touch with the hoaxer, who has explained that they simply edited a pirate copy of the e-book to insert the page 180 (couch) material. The owner of a first edition also reports the passage is not in it. The page 21 (M&M container, hotdogs) passage is not discussed.

There are more important things happening at the moment, as Kamala stands up to Bibi.

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@Miraz

The funny thing is that it's not actually a heritage, like Dannevirke and Norsewood or Dunedin or Waipu. A homesick Dutchman built a windmill, then the cafe followed and the museum got in on the act, then the town started celebrating Queen's day. It's all authentic enough, but quite recent.

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@skykiss

Shame on him! The apostrophe in ol' goes at the END of the word!

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@skykiss
Snopes has marked the story as false. I have sent this image to them.
For further confirmation, you should post the copyright page with the edition number.

Please also show us page 21.

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@adamconover

But is it? Kanala didn't waver for a moment, and his speech declining the poisoned chalice the Supreme Court has given him shows he is as sharp as ever.

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@Nonilex @DemocracyMattersALot

Let's call a spade a spade. These people want Tr*mp as dictator for life (and by then he can pick his own successor).

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@gerrymcgovern

This is self-evidently absurd. As Ada Lovelace said in 1842, a [computer] can only do what it is [programmed] to do. AI can not invent solutions, it can only pillage the total of human/computer activity and provide plausible answers to questions.

Count the fingers.

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@breadandcircuses

"EV or hybrid" is misleading. Non-plug-in hybrids are just more efficient ICEs. All their energy comes from fossil fuels, just less is wasted on brake pad heat and wear. And if the electricity supply comes from fossil fuels, EVs just move the problem.

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@augieray
Ideologues, not idealists.

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@MissConstrue @RealJournalism
"Like, Jesus's crown had diamonds, or the nails were diamonds..."
There's some world-class revisionism going on there.

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@MissConstrue @RealJournalism

Fine tuning: A crucifix is not just a posh way of saying a cross, it's an image of a crucifixion, i.e. a cross with Jesus on it, usually Catholic. Protestants usually just wear and wave crosses.

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@Nonilex
I think we can expect worse from the WP after the recent shake up.
As for the felon, he hasn't yet shown any limit to his depravity. Your quote shows he doesn't believe in the fundamental principle of equality under the law, or indeed in the law itself, but does believe in retribution.

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@Nonilex
"But Trump’s message also has been muddled at times."
Is she pulling our keg? Is she having a laff? Muddled? The man is a living puddle of rage. He's shown who he is and what he plans. Believe him.

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@ProPublica
Has there ever been anyone as crooked as this man? The list of his crimes and evils is mind-numbing, yet has anyone had such adulation? The reaction of Catholic crowds to the Pope, or English crowds to Queen Elizabeth in the 1950s, pales in comparison.
The mix of evil and veneration resembles cult leaders like Jim Jones, Charles Manson, and the Heaven's Gate couple, but his numbers on every metric leaves them trailing in the dust.

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@GottaLaff
I'm sure his motives are pure, but if I were him, I'd be looking our for my own molecular biology.

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@profcarroll
I can remember garbage websites from way back, long before we talked about AI. They seemed to be created by random sentence generators fed with keywords. I think they were about as old as Goggle.

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@foone You never use a book's index, do you?

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@Miraz
Did you take the picture of the one in flight? Wonderful!

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Global warming was recognised as an urgent issue in the 1990s.

The cost of cutting our carbon emissions, that seems so high today, will appear trivial when it is too late to implement it. The more we delay, the worse it will be.

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Wordle, Quordle, Octordlex3

A very good set.

Wordle 599 3/6
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Daily Quordle 380
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quordle.com


Daily Octordle #380
🕚5️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣🔟
Score: 59




Daily Sequence Octordle #380
3️⃣5️⃣
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Score: 73




Daily Rescue Octordle #380
8️⃣9️⃣
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🕛7️⃣
5️⃣🕐
Score: 8




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Octordle

My first sequence #Octordle loss ever, after 120 wins :
Daily Sequence Octordle #370
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Score: 91
I made only one actual failing-to-use-a-yellow-letter mistake. All the rest were good guesses, but wrong.
Daily Sequence Octordle #370







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"Neve's mum" - Clark Gayford's term for Jacinda, and fair enough, since that is their blood tie.
https://youtu.be/yYphREk9cCY

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Wordle

I've never had an all green one before.

#Wordle 581 4/6

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#JeremyClarkson would have done much better to just STFU. He's just digging himself deeper with this ham-fisted #mansplaining.

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Frank Wilhoit (the onlie begetter of Wilhoit's Law, not the political scientist Francis Wilhoit) speaks so eloquently about politics, I think his music might be worth listening to. https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html

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Wordle +

Pride cometh before a fall.

#Wordle 577 4/6
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Daily #Quordle 358
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Daily #Octordle #358
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4️⃣5️⃣
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Score: 60




Daily Sequence Octordle #358
3️⃣5️⃣
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Score: 59




Daily Rescue Octordle #358
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5️⃣8️⃣
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Score: 4




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The bad news. If you leave your phone under your pillow while it is charging, it will overheat.
The good news. It (Android) will bleat and switch off before any damage is done.

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Can't wait for Greta Thunberg's response to the impoundment of Andrew Tate's 35 cars with their tremendous emissions!

#GretaThunberg #AndrewTate

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Wordle

#Wordle
575 3/6

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Knowing what letters aren't in the word can as important as knowing what are.

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Octordle

Like this:

Daily Sequence Octordle #356
4️⃣5️⃣
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Score: 60




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Wordle

Wordle 575 3/6

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Octordle

I'm both peeved and ashamed. I got a hole in one, and I blew it. I consider par for Octordle is 60.

Octordle
5️⃣9️⃣ INLET - DIODE
🕛6️⃣ FRAUD - AGILE
🔟🕚 MAMBO - MISSY
1️⃣7️⃣ SHARE - UNITE
Score: 61




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Harry's todger, foreskin, frostbiteHarry is quite wrong that cutting off the foreskin protects men from frostbitten "todgers" - at least according to Antarctic explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes: "...my private parts were nipped and swelled up.... it turned out [Dr Mike Stroud] was having th... mastodon.nz
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#Intactivism, c*rc*mc*s**nI've just realised the role of #sealioning in the case for infant male genital cutting. Its advocates endlessly demand evidence for the blindingly obvious, that cutting off the foreskin impairs sex, but none will satisfy them, least of all the first-person test... mastodon.nz
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Controversial? opinion:

Ballerinas dancing en pointe is the Western equivalent of footbinding.

https://youtu.be/2kLgcJFE7GI

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Thank goodness our 🇳🇿 insurrectionists were so incompetent!

#NZTwits #NZParliament