David Palmer

@cloventt

Ōtautahi / urbanist / Wiki* / software / political junky / tangata tiriti

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David Palmer@cloventt· Jul 10

Reminder: Seymour wants to take this holiday away from you.

Star-shaped fry bread cooking in a wok. Mānawatia a Matariki! 🥰

David Palmer@cloventt· Jul 8

Local National candidate bragging about his “Te Reo Maori” qualification while failing to spell “Māori” correctly.

David Palmer@cloventt· Jul 6

Dangerous news: I am in easy walking distance of the Dr Bugs factory

A massive box of gourmet popcorn flavours including Berry Sorbet, Strawberry Matcha, Acai Bowl, Mint Choc, Blueberry Pancake, coconut Ice and Cappucino Choc. The box also contains about a dozen microwave popcorn packs and an educational “grow your own popcorn” kit for the kids.

David Palmer@cloventt· Jun 24

Bruh that cake is gonna be a brick

David Palmer@cloventt· Jun 19

Pretty much the longest day of the year, right in the heart of winter in Ōtautahi. Humanity is doomed.

A weather forecast shoeing current temperatures of 16° and a high of 21°

David Palmer@cloventt· May 31

🤮🤮🤮

Screenshot of a facebook by “Secretary of War Pete Hegseth” saying “Great meeting with New Zealand’s new Minister of Defence, Chris Penk, at the Shangri-La Dialogue. Look forward to seeing New Zealand make progress on contributing to our collective defense.” In the attached photo Pete and Chris are standing in front of their national flags, and both are wearing suits that do not fit properly at the waist and need to be let out. Hegseth is doing a weird chest-puffing thing and the low-angle of the photo makes them both look like they have more neck than brain. The New Zealand flag is obscured by Penk so there is a non-zero chance it is just an Australian flag.

David Palmer@cloventt· May 17

Diesel price so crazy these guys are back to running their truck on coal

A steam-powered truck on Main North Road, Christchurch, New Zealand. The truck is res and has a large chimney sticking up through the cab. The front of the truck reads “Classic Cookers: Cookers, Stoves, Fires: 0800 RAYBURN”. The truck has a single wheel axel in the front and double wheels at the back. There is a large tank of water strapped down to the flatbed.

David Palmer@cloventt· May 7

A meme from The Office of one of the characters being asked "Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture". One picture is an unflattering portrait of New Zealand right-wing political blogger and dirty politics smear campaigner Cameron Slater. The other photo is an unflattering portrait of New Zealand right-wing political blogger and dirty politics smear campaigner Ani O'Brien. In the second panel the character smiles slightly to the camera and says "They're the same picture."

David Palmer@cloventt· May 5

The katipō is today's Wikipedia Featured Article!

A screenshot of the "today's featured article" section of the Wikipedia home page that reads: "From today's featured article: The katipō (Latrodectus katipo) is a species of cobweb spider found only in New Zealand. It inhabits sand dunes close to the seashore and is found on most of New Zealand's coastline, except for the far south and the West Coast. In the South Island and the lower half of the North Island, the female has a distinct red stripe bordered in white running down its abdomen (example pictured); in more northern populations, this stripe is absent or paler. It is most closely related to the Australian redback spider. Like the redback, the katipō is venomous to humans, with its bite being capable of producing the toxic syndrome latrodectism. Bites are very rare and antivenom is available in some hospitals. It mainly feeds on ground-dwelling insects which it catches with an irregular tangled web spun among dune plants. Due to habitat loss, colonisation of their natural habitat by invasive spiders and hybridisation with the redback spider, the katipō population is regarded as declining."

David Palmer@cloventt· Apr 25

Ned got on the home page of Wikipedia today

A screenshot of the “In the News” section of the Wikipedia home
Page. It reads: “Ongoing: Afghanistan–Pakistan war, Iran war (Lebanon war), Russo-Ukrainian war, Sudanese civil war,
Recent deaths: David Wilcock, James Valentine, Ned, David Malouf, Ricardo de Pascual, Oleg Maisenberg”

David Palmer@cloventt· Apr 24

Kill your lawn. These guys will thank you for it.

David Palmer@cloventt· Apr 23

Christchurch City Libraries are not subtle about who our enemy is in the iNaturalist City Nature Challenge.

A sandwich board outside a library advertising the City Nature Challenge with a handwritten “lets beat Wellington!” on it

David Palmer@cloventt· Apr 20

Kill your lawn, these guys will thank you for it.

A dude with an unarmed stick insect in his face

David Palmer@cloventt· Apr 15

LLMs are going really well I see

A facebook post from Health NZ South Canterbury that reads "Hi team,
Just a quick note - Currently, if you google "phone number for Timaru Hospital" Google's AI will sometimes suggest you should instead call Sopheze Coffee Lounge & Catering. We've asked Google to fix this.
Please note that Timaru Hospital's number is 03 687 2100.
To avoid any confusion:
Sopheze = Coffee & Catering ☕️🥪🥙🌯
Timaru Hospital = Surgeries & medical procedures 😷👩‍⚕️🚑
In emergencies, always dial 111."

Included is a screenshot of the Google AI Overview recommending ringing a hallucinated phone number

David Palmer@cloventt· Apr 14

Political parties need to start educating politicians about disgusting early internet shock humour.

A screenshot of a facebook post of Sam Uffindell (National MP) holding a giant pumpkin. However, the way he is holding it looks nearly exactly like the ancient internet shock-meme called "goatse".

David Palmer@cloventt· Apr 9

Popped along to a burlesque/circus/comedy fundraiser at Darkroom last night. What a great show! Ōtautahi has some wickedly talented people.

A lineup of talented dancers, comedians, singers, and circus performers pose for a photo on the stage at darkroom. The lighting is an intense purple.

David Palmer@cloventt· Apr 8

As a Little Yellow Digger stan I am so very happy with Stuff journalists right now.

Stuff asked police if a bigger digger would be needed, but a police spokesperson advised after 11.15am that a “special tow truck” would be needed and that would take around an hour to arrive.

David Palmer@cloventt· Apr 5

“We were somewhere around Tehran in the middle of the desert when the dementia began to take hold.”

A tweet from Trump that reads: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!
Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President
DONALD J. TRUMP”

What a nutter

David Palmer@cloventt· Apr 5

Tonight’s autistic waste of time is brought to you by finding which specific house in Huntly was a filming location for A Minecraft Movie obviously

A splitscreen showing a still from the movie (a house that is supposed to be in the USA somewhere but is clearly just Huntly) and a Google Streetview screenshot of the specific house in real life.

Why yes that is the Huntly Power Station in the background and yes of course it has been dressed up as a potato factory for obvious Minecraft story reasons

David Palmer@cloventt· Mar 16

New World, why’d you ask my opinion if you don’t want to hear it?

A five star review of Rascal’s size 6 pull-up nappies titled “Baby piss collector” with the review text “Soaks up the piss of small kids, what more do you want?” The review has been rejected for containing profanity.

David Palmer@cloventt· Mar 2

This is what happens within a few hours of saying “trans rights are human rights” on Facebook

A screenshot from facebook moderation tools showing 283 comments have been hidden by a combination of automod and manual mod intervention.

David Palmer@cloventt· Feb 25

A real thing seen at a uni clubs day

A close crop inage of a person holding a National party bumper sticker that reads “Live, Laugh, Lucon” but the “O” in Luxon has been replaced with a silhouette of Luxon’s bald egg head.

David Palmer@cloventt· Feb 15

Don't worry Aotearoa, I am updating Wikipedia for us

A screenshot of Wikipedia that reads "Summer or summertime is the hottest and brightest[citation needed] of the four temperate seasons, occurring after spring and before autumn. At or centred on the summer solstice, daylight hours"

David Palmer@cloventt· Feb 10

Keir Strmer and Luxon standing next to each other. Luxon is duckfacing like a school girl in 2016.

David Palmer@cloventt· Feb 4

A picture of the duolingo owl in firey orange with the caption “I’m on a 3000 day learning streak!”

David Palmer@cloventt· Dec 24

A photo of a wrestler looking overwhelmed with milk pouring all done his front. The caption reads “Santa drinking his 1.358,536th glass of milk for the night”

David Palmer@cloventt· Nov 20

Today’s Wikipedia DYK section has been taken over for Trans Day of Remembrance. 🏳️‍⚧️

A screenshot of the wikipedia home oage that reads

Did you know ...

... that Masoud El Amaratly, one of Iraq's most popular folk singers in the 1920s (recording featured), was a mustarjil?
... that a recent Kate Nash song rebranding TERFs as GERMs caused her to trend on X within hours of its release?
... that Blossom C. Brown attracted national attention for highlighting violence against Black trans women?
... that the dinosaur emojis have been used by transgender groups to represent themselves?
... that several journalists have attributed the suicide of Lia Smith to anti-transgender policies?
... that misinformation about violence by transgender people has been used to defend violence against them?
... that in 2023 Kate Nambiar advised the EastEnders team around HIV treatment options for a storyline?
... that some people identify with no gender?
... that the first transgender person to compete professionally in League of Legends was also the first woman to do so?

David Palmer@cloventt· Nov 5

"Positive discrimination" doesn't sound so positive when Jones is describing it.

Chapman: So tell me something: do the parents have a problem with it? Do the kids have a problem with it?
Wintle: No. [long pause, scoffs] I mean that's a that's a short easy answer. We've, we, no! Why, why would they?
Ali Jones: I've got an answer for that. I know a school in Christchurch where there is a very strong focus on um, uh, “positive discrimination” if you want to call it that, with regards to Māori and Pasifika students. It's a very low decile school and what's happening is that all the other students are missing out. So there's a large number of very, uh, low decile, uh, European Pakeha families and immigrant families who are struggling, who are not getting the support that they need, because that effort and focus is going on Pasifika Māori students.
Wintle: I mean, like, the education research like Te Kotahitanga, for example would argue the opposite: that in fact a focus on Māori learners is universal. It means that if you're focusing on Māori, then—and you're doing what's good for Māori—then you're doing what's good for everybody.
Ali Jones: How does that work?
Wintle: Um, I'll direct you to the research Te Kotahitanga—sorry—is the documentation that you'd want to read up on. That would answer your question.

David Palmer@cloventt· Nov 5

Ali Jones got absolutely schooled by Albany English teacher Philippa Wintle on RNZ The Panel this evening. The importance of te ao Māori in our education system should not be diminished. Transcript attached for those that can't listen. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Jones: Look I really admire, um, you're incredibly articulate. It's lovely listening to you actually, you put your argument really really well. I don't agree with it, um, I, I don't agree with it, um, I, I don't agree with it in that I don't understand why making something voluntary is concerning so many people. I've been in local government where karakia, uh and… and other customs are required and the dirgy sound of a karakia before a meeting because people can't be arsed to be frank is just awful…
Chapman: Now I'm going to jump in—that would be offensive to many listening Ali Jones: “the dirgy sound of a karakia”.
Ali Jones: No I'm talking about our meeting… (annoyed) See this is the problem—everyone jumps on everything. I'm talking about our particular meeting. Karakia, when it's done well and done by people who love the language, know the language, can pronounce it, is just beautiful! and what I would have loved is that in our meetings that this karakia was sung in such a dirgy way, I would have loved that the wonderful—and I won't use her name—woman in the team, uh, who was Māori and, and had a beautiful pronunciation and could sing, I would far rather that it be done by someone like that rather than it be forced.
Wintle: But I don’t think it’s your decision to determine who does that karakia in that setting…
Ali Jones: [interrupting] Why not? Why not?
Wintle: …and I think specifically you're talking about tikanga—that's one small element of Te Tiriti o Waitangi being upheld. You know, and, it's cultural labor to assume that somebody—just because they're Māori—is going to feel culturally capable and competent and safe in that space to be able to karakia on behalf of everybody in that room.
Ali Jones:
[interrupting] No but you can have a conversation with them.
Wintle:
Of course you can have a conversation with them. But I mean it's all of our responsibilities to uphold tikanga, and it might have a “dirgy” sound to begin with, but I think it's really problematic…

David Palmer@cloventt· Nov 2

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