Rob O'Neill

Talk about cheapening your brand! AI images in a news story? [Great looking supermodel] mental health team excluded from decisions on shared prison cells for mentally ill prisoners @nzherald nzherald.co.nz/nz/psychiatris…

The Grand Hotel in Whangarei was once very rand indeed. share.google/xzX269Ey2iODa9…

A Chinese man living in Beijing airport for 14 years wanted to get away from his family. He said he “wanted to smoke and drink without his family bothering him.” share.google/7k8qJFX7UTnsMy…

The “Nerd Reich” is a web of powerful, ultrawealthy tech billionaires, think Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, pushing the USA further and further away from democracy and toward something resembling a cross between capitalism and monarchy. tiny.cc/c0zp001

DOC spends around $250,000 a year on procuring toilet paper. “15,000 kilometres of toilet paper was ordered for the 2024/2025 year, ending April 2025. Most of this toilet paper (3,103,037 metres) is used in the southern South Island. procurement.govt.nz/about-us/news/…

OpenAI’s Pitch to Trump: Rank the World on U.S. Tech Interests by @samfbiddle theintercept.com/2025/06/03/ope…

@elonmusk youtube.com/watch?v=MYQCb3…

I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.

@elonmusk Elon, your job was to fund that programme by cutting alleged "waste,fraud and abuse". Why did you take it on? Were you surprised when you found bugger all?

A “once in a lifetime cow.”

Well done April! scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2505…

oag.parliament.nz/media/2025/sch… Auditor-General is launching an enquiry into the government's 'alternative' school lunch programme.

Portugal bans deep sea mining in response to "years of research". yahoo.com/news/governmen…

Germany shuts 15 coal-fired power plants as phase-out ramps up @realDonaldTrump power-technology.com/news/germany-s… via @Power_OnlineMag

UK defence official on missing F35 fighter jets: “These are fifth-generation stealth fighters. If anything, this proves they’re working perfectly." ukdefencejournal.org.uk/number-of-f-35…

Disgraceful. A truthteller bullied. We can argue about the water quality, but not until we know where it comes from, where it's going and why. rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

@TheRegister Post-literate indeed: "This a post-literate era, and we should expect the next demand for bughunters to express proof-of-concept as a TikTok dance short."

“Many of these requirements will be replaced by the new economic benefit rule,” Nicola Willis says.

The Government is proposing to dispense with requirements for agencies to buy battery electric or hybrid vehicles, purchase office supplies that produce low amounts of waste; and pay the living wage in contracts for cleaning, catering and security guards. beehive.govt.nz/release/going-…

Ahh, back in my hometown ..

Sound familiar?