Jacob

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Jacob

Jacob

@Needmorethan280

Lapsed writer and wonk. Has lukewarm takes on football, indie rock, and effective altruism Tweets about both 🇳🇿 and 🇬🇧

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Jacob
Jacob@Needmorethan280·
It's the first proper day of 2026 (January 1 may have been something of a write off due to New Year's Eve indiscretions) Time for a book thread that no one needs or asked for - turns out winter is good for forcing me to finally actually read the books I bought in the summer.
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Branko Marcetic@BMarchetich·
@Needmorethan280 Cede its eastern territories in a deal. The terms have only gotten, and will only get, worse w/ time.
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@3lbronnix Superb for Auckland, but made some very poor decisions today.
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Bron💛🖤@3lbronnix·
Randall is genuinely the only Auckland player I respect, he’s fucking good
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Jacob@Needmorethan280·
No end product from NZ. Old, Stamenic, Bell looked decent but otherwise been really poor. Massive improvements needed for Chile on Monday.
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Who is this man wearing the number 9 shirt and what has he done with Jesse Randall
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@oscarcsims Kinda want to hear this, do you have a link for the Finnish feed?
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Jacob@Needmorethan280·
Far too easy for Finland to score there, almost a free header
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@WeirdMedieval The Fan museum is excellent, highly recommend
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weird medieval guys@WeirdMedieval·
ALWAYS go into niche museums on a whim!!!!
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Big, BIG day for middle aged British men who are convinced they have uniquely intelligent niche taste (me)
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Jacob@Needmorethan280·
@carto_graph There's also a reason that "punch up, not down" is a golden rule in comedy. Have a go at someone who likely won't even hear your joke, and can absolutely be well off enough financially/socially to brush it off - not the LGBT community.
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Jacob@Needmorethan280·
@carto_graph I see lots of people going "oh I've said worse down the pub", or "oh comedian ABC says that every week". We, rightly, hold politicians and political candidates to a *higher* standard than 'some bloke in a pub'.
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Jacob@Needmorethan280·
@rustie5555 Saw it last night, thought it was well done, but couldn't connect emotionally as much as I expected to. Maybe because I never read the original book, maybe because I couldn't believe Gosling as a humble teacher turned hero
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henry cooke
henry cooke@henrycooke·
In 2011 the UK Government “temporarily” postponed a fuel tax rise by six months. They still haven’t raised them since. My column this morning asks if NZ will ever raise fuel taxes again:
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Jacob@Needmorethan280·
@AbsentHog @mentallyworld I have significant concerns about vesting as much power in one body as we do in the House Muldoon aside, we've avoided explicit bad actors, but that won't always be the case
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@foxcar_joey Can't wait for this logic to be applied to NZ Super and end the discriminatory practice of giving money to people just because they're old
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🦊🚙🦘@foxcar_joey·
I have no idea what the right legal answer is, but if prioritising support to people with children somehow did contravene the Bill of Rights Act, then it’s a bad law and we should change it.
ᴅʀ ᴅᴇᴀɴ ᴋɴɪɢʜᴛ@drdeanknight

@henrycooke Hmm. Curious to know if policy has been subject to a Bill of Rights Act vet re discrimination? I think WFF has survived challenge on that basis before -- but I wonder if rationale here holds in same way when being squeezed isn't significantly affected by having children or not?

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Jacob@Needmorethan280·
Just visited the NZ Legislation website for the first time in a while, and the new website is much better, easier to navigate, more mobile friendly Love to see it
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@smithkstead Yep this is us doing a vital public service 🫡
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@yuanyi_z The Old Firm is the last bastion of hope. Never thought I'd write that.
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Yuan Yi Zhu@yuanyi_z·
The collapse of the Prostant/Roman divide and its replacement with undifferentiated cultural Christianity in the UK is a very obvious sign of the Americanisation of UK discourse.
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Jacob@Needmorethan280·
@thomasforth Subsidiarity is important folks.
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Tom Forth@thomasforth·
And because the UK government regulate local government parking fees and conditions and process so tightly, really very little that Manchester City Council can do.
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