Daniel Jackson
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Daniel Jackson
@danielneljack
He/him. Lawyer. Green. Socialist.
Nelson City, New Zealand Katılım Ağustos 2021
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They're calling it the weirdest meltdown of all time.
Stella Tsantekidou@Stsantek
Literal white supremacists on our right, PhD students who run for elections six months before their visas expire on our left. We didn’t know how good we had it. God have mercy.
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@KiddSpade1 @AotearoaSam @nzsd Someone can be famous without being frequently brought up in conversation.
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@AotearoaSam @nzsd In my experience Ardern isn't really bought up by people from outside the USA when talking about New Zealand
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For us it was probably Steven Adams until a year or two ago and now Rosé right?
Charles Bramesco@intothecrevasse
One of my favorite games is “Who’s the Most Famous Person in the World,” where you pick a country and guess who the most famous person from there is. Some are easy (Barbados—Rihanna), but I’m now wondering about France. Probably some footballer, right
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@PronouncedHare @BenThomasNZ I am now contemplating what reasonably practicable steps sporting organisations should take to prevent or mitigate the mental distress of athletes who lose competitions. People everyone should be a winner!
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@PronouncedHare @BenThomasNZ It's certainly a very elaborate gag if it is one!
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Don’t these guys have wives who could have talked them out of this?
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@BenThomasNZ @PronouncedHare Auckland Grammar v Christ's College is a real "I wish both sides could lose" situation!
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@danielneljack @PronouncedHare Private school in my and its heart
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@BenThomasNZ @PronouncedHare Auckland Grammar isn't even a private school - it just likes to pretend it's one!
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@danielneljack @PronouncedHare Oh wait, I just read the whole NZH story. I take it back, mortifying private school losers
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@BenThomasNZ @PronouncedHare Are you saying that the whole thing is a joke?
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@PronouncedHare @danielneljack This is clearly a joke? Like, it’s very boomer coded, eg “it’s caused us anxiety under OSH”, but they’re obviously just having a laugh
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@admcrlsn The positioning of Connie Chan seems strange. She has always been regarded as a progressive within San Francisco politics, wheras Scott Wiener has always been regarded as a moderate.
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Very rough pass at the scoreboard for the battle for the soul of the Democratic Party in notable 2025-2026 primaries.
Separated out by races that are competitive in the general election and those are safe blue — each sorted by primary date.
Open to feedback on categorizations of candidates (which is an inherently subjective exercise, and local expertise is always welcome) as well any notable races I missed.
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@chrisinstalbans @tmurphyNZ @bryce_edwards It's not an insult. It's the standard way of referring to another lawyer in court.
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@tmurphyNZ @bryce_edwards You realise “learned friend” is a courtroom insult?
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Our learned friends begin to stir on the Govt's continual blocking of and over-ruling of court judgments.
NZ Bar Association press statement:
"If retrospective legislation becomes a regular occurrence or norm, citizens will not know with any certainty what their rights are."
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@Coolestkapital Yup the senior men who used to dominate the profession never expected anyone to conform to their ways of doing things
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@PanasonicDX4500 @StatisticUrban J.D. Vance, Al Gore, Walter Mondale - it just isn't true that senators who became Vice President were all old.
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@StatisticUrban yeah, and it’s a graveyard of silver haired career politicians who were desperately trying to make one last push for the oval office and whose failed campaigns are largely remembered as epilogues to the actual presidents they served under. no one in their prime goes for it.
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everyone on here drastically overestimates the value of being vice-president. it’s not something you give up a senate seat for if you’re under 55.
Polling USA@USA_Polling
Get ready for the hottest ticket
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@barbarikkizzle @eilishsilie Were you on the news? Or is this a different Briar?
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@eilishsilie Omg what delightful timing tehehe 😘
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@BadWritingTakes Sonia is not self-aware enough to have an "are we the baddies here?" moment
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The cognitive dissonance is honestly fascinating.
"Why does a human rights organisation oppose the Gender Critical lobby, a fascist-backed international hate movement hell bent on destroying human rights and which abuses children? Probably just one of those things I guess."
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@danielneljack @KateBMwriting @d78930305 So what made a man become a woman? At what moment did he stop being one?
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Time for men to ‘be kind’.
Owen Jones@owenjonesjourno
If trans women use men’s toilets, they will be subjected to humiliation, abuse and violence. Anyone with any sense knows this. Which is why in practice trans women will not use men’s toilets, and will just increasingly be driven out of society.
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@LulaLulaGT @thundertick @KateBMwriting @d78930305 Trans women are not the threat to cis women; men are.
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@thundertick @danielneljack @KateBMwriting @d78930305 It’s a man’s problem to solve not women’s. Not to make women unsafe because men are bad to other men/
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@LulaLulaGT @KateBMwriting @d78930305 Trans women are not men. If a person identifies as a woman, she is a woman.
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@danielneljack @KateBMwriting @d78930305 How much, if any, does a man needs to go through to qualify as a tw?
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@howardanglin If immutability is required under s 15, why does it expressly include religion? People can and do change their religion.
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@LulaLulaGT @KateBMwriting @d78930305 Trans women are women. Like other women, they are at risk of violence from men. If you force them to use men's toilets, they will be at grave risk - just as cis women would be, if you forced them to use men's toilets.
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@danielneljack @KateBMwriting @d78930305 That men would attack other men? So let’s have men who want to, in the women’s? Because of men??
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@KateBMwriting @d78930305 You lot are always going on about the dangers of male violence. You can't now pretend amazement at the idea that men would attack trans women.
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@d78930305 Why? Are you suggesting men would physically attack trans women in toilets?
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