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Nirvana - Drain You Live at Terminal 1, Munich, Germany on the 1st March 1994. Last concert by Nirvana.

The other tip is Te Rapa R8 Up The Anti No.3 Good chance in this field and top jockey Craig Grylls on board after winning on him last start. Good odds at $12 and $3.80.

Tip for Riccarton today. R6 Jaffa No.3 Triston Moodley riding. Good jockey with 1 kg claim. I spoke to the trainer and he said she's a stayer and been unlucky. She's knocking been on the door for a win as I said to the trainer. Let's see how she goes with some 🍀

I'll be at Riccarton races in Christchurch today if you want to say hello. You can't miss me. I'll have a thermo plastic splint on my left arm and a trippy looking t shirt. If it's cold I'll have a black puffer jacket 😃

@SimonRAnderson @gatherspace Yes it's free. I've sent you a private message on X with my details on trip to Auckland.

@pinpanth @gatherspace I'm not hard to find! Ping me when you're here. I would translate quod libet a "because it is free."

Pretty chuffed to be the first person ever to mix this. Here's @gatherspace's track Infindia with Low Rider by War.

@SimonRAnderson @gatherspace I lived in Auckland for 34 years but could never afford to live there. So I'm staying at a hotel in Parnell!

@SimonRAnderson @gatherspace It's latin for 'whatever you wish'. I'm in Auckland for a week in late May. I'm staying in the posh suburb of Parnell. I might see you hanging around central Auckland!

@SimonRAnderson @gatherspace Some of the best software is open source anyway. I use a music player called Auxio on my Android phone. It works well without features I don't need. I use Quod Libet on my laptop. Both are open source and I recommend both.

Quite so. It's called Mixxx, open source and multi-platform. It's actually a great music player even if you don't have a controller or a mixer. I recommend it for everyone, even just its library features make it worth having. It's perfect for me, I would argue the advanced features proprietary apps have Mixxx doesn't are superfluous. And Mixxx was a constraint on the purchase decision. I (a) needed a controller compatible with it which isn't very many and (b) didn't want to for out for one with a bunch of features Mixxx couldn't use. My mixer (a Pioneer DDJ FLX4) has one feature I can't use: smart fader. What this does is alter the BPM of the tracks so they match when you cross fade, to keep the transition in time. I consider this an anti-feature.

@TadhgHickey The goal by govt is to divid and suppress freedom of speech and they will use antisemitism and anything else they can think of to suppress it. At the same time they say they believe in freedom of speech.

A vigil? OK, I'm done. We're in a fucking simulation. Get me out.

@SimonRAnderson @gatherspace What software are you using? I guess you would lean towards open source.

@pinpanth @gatherspace Cheers! I ummed and ahhed last year when adding a digital mixer. I could've spent a lot more money on one with phono inputs for my turntables. I was a bit suspicious I wouldn't like digital music so daisy-chained this inexpensive one in with my existing analogue gear instead.

@CreativeDeduct On top of your failed capitalism utopia. We don't live in true Austrian Economics. Govt tariffs and sanctions etc and a stock market that is over regulated. The only people doing well are the rich while the middle class and low income get poorer. That's what inflation does.

In the early 1980s New Zealand was a textbook socialist failure: one of the most regulated economies on earth, with exploding public debt, double-digit inflation, rising unemployment and a slide from 6th to 19th richest per capita in the OECD. Then came the libertarian revolution known as Rogernomics. In 1984 Finance Minister Roger Douglas and the Fourth Labour Government slashed farm and industry subsidies overnight, scrapped tariffs and import quotas, floated the NZ dollar, deregulated finance and banking, abolished wage and price controls, and cut the top tax rate from 66% to 33%. The next step was privatisation: Telecom NZ, Air New Zealand, energy firms, ports, forests and banks were sold to private owners. Short-term pain was real, but the results were spectacular. Inflation was crushed. Productivity in privatised firms soared: Telecom NZ transformed from creaky monopoly into an innovator with collapsing prices and exploding services. Air New Zealand went from chronic losses to profitable global airline. Real consumer prices fell, investment boomed and public debt was slashed. By the late 1990s New Zealand was running surpluses, enjoying a long growth boom and climbing the global economic freedom rankings. Rogernomics proved what free-market advocates keep saying: government is a terrible steward of resources. Restore private property rights, kill political meddling and let markets and incentives work. Free people and free markets deliver the growth and prosperity the state never could. Freedom works. New Zealand proved it.

@CreativeDeduct Do your home work. I remember. The investment went back up because the govt bought the railway back. Your capitalism utopia has become a nightmare. There are some assets that shouldn't be sold and railway is one of them. Privatising health won't work.

@pinpanth The railways were stripped off assets??? Annual investment went up by 900% in the two decades from 1994-2014.

Hold on - what? If police officers think someone might be carrying explosives, protocol is to kick them in the head repeatedly like this? Is that actual police protocol? If so, how is it a wise police protocol? Can someone explain the reasoning?

@nzfirst Good job. Now get the Cook Strait ferries sorted out. There should be three ferries in case one breaks down.

Winston Peters: We stepped up and rebuilt rail in New Zealand

@JasonCParis This is the problem with proprietary software. Even Air NZ has and other airlines have had problems with software updates. It's not open for everyone to check. Open source is generally alot more reliable.

A personal apology from me and all of the team here at One New Zealand to the customers that were impacted today by our network outage in some parts of the lower North Island and South Island today. Everything has now been fixed by our teams who have been working hard since the early hours of this morning. It was caused by a bug in one of our technology partner’s software that took them and us and while to fix. We know the important role that we play in your lives and businesses, so any outage isn’t good enough - and we are working hard to ensure that this doesn’t happen again. As always, I’m here to help in any way, at any time on Jason.paris@one.nz. Thanks for your patience, understanding and support. Cheers JP

@JasonCParis Always check the software updates before installing them. You should have the team to do that. Don't just blindly install them.