Andrew Geddis
@acgeddis.bsky.social
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Aotearoa NZ based with occasional thoughts on things and views on others.
So, the data belonging to between 106,000 and 126,000 users has been compromised? Around the entire population of Dunedin? That sounds ... kinda bad?
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Shit. (And not in Clay Davis tones ... .) Can someone please check on Wendell Pierce and Dominic West, because I fear the rule-of-three kicking in.
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Isiah Whitlock Jr. Dies: ‘The Wire’ Actor & Frequent Spike Lee Collaborator Was 71
Actor Isiah Whitlock Jr., known for his roles in The Wire, Veep, Your Honor and The Residence and a number of Spike Lee movies, passed away Dec. 30.
https://deadline.com/2025/12/isiah-whitlock-jr-dead-the-wire-spike-lee-movies-1236658855/
2 days ago
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Garrick Tremain - that old codger who doodled out "edgy" and "not cowed" (or, "what old white people think") cartoons - just died. This bit from the tail end of the Otago Daily Times story reporting his death is ... somewhat light on context.
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You're thinking of abnegating. It's actually setting a person free from guilt or sin.
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5 days ago
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I like Chris as a person (flaws and all) and think he’s right in what he says here and recognise that everyone is capable of changing their minds, but also would note that the executive’s undermining of the WT’s role already was underway whilst he filled the A-G’s office …
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Hell hath no fury like an attorney-general scorned
Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Chris Finlayson offer praise for the Waitangi Tribunal – and damning criticism of the coalition Government. Sam Sachdeva reports.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/10/hell-hath-no-fury-like-an-attorney-general-scorned/
7 days ago
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When kings (or wannabe kings) start dictating warship design based on what they think looks cool and powerful, the results can be … unfortunate.
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10 days ago
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Quarter grade! QUARTER GRADE!! I won the internet.
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10 days ago
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Aww ... real downer to end '25 on. His acting work in the Wire + Generation Kill was amazing. Just sucks that he doesn't seem to have been have been able to quiet the demons others created in him.
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James Ransone, US actor known for The Wire, dies aged 46
LA medical examiner reports Ransone, who played Chester ‘Ziggy’ Sobotka in the HBO crime drama, died by suicide
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/21/james-ransone-the-wire-actor-dead
11 days ago
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Worthy of 🍿🍿🍿!!!
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15 days ago
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From my Otago colleague Anna High - strong read recommend, especially for any MPs who happen to see this bleet!!!
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It's time the law caught up with society on consent
Comment from the University of Otago: Most of us agree on the basics – communicate, don’t assume, writes Anna High
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/18/its-time-the-law-caught-up-with-society-on-sexual-consent/?utm_source=Newsroom&utm_campaign=cbcb95a9bb-Newsroom+Pro+8+Things+18.12.2025&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-41c1b1e3d3-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&ct=t%28Newsroom+Pro+8+Things+18.12.2025%29&mc_cid=cbcb95a9bb&mc_eid=f813c6351c
15 days ago
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"Laser-focused on delivery."
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16 days ago
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And they'd have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for the meddling High Court of New Zealand ...
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16 days ago
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Scattered reckons that horribly mixes metaphors ...
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Ōtara-Papatoetoe election re-do a 'nail in the coffin' for the postal voting - law professor
A judge has ordered a new election to take place for seats an Auckland board over manipulation of voting papers.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/582024/otara-papatoetoe-election-re-do-a-nail-in-the-coffin-for-the-postal-voting-law-professor
16 days ago
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This question (regarding the inability to appeal electoral petition results) is a good excuse for retelling my favourite NZ politics story. Back at the 1978 election a bright-eyed and bushy tailed young tyro called Winston Raymond Peters contested the electorate of Hunua for the National Party. 🧵
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17 days ago
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🍿 (as
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17 days ago
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I borrowed mine (thanks Maya!)
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17 days ago
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Andrew Geddis
(((𝙴𝚖𝚖𝚊𝙲𝚘𝚘𝚔)))
17 days ago
My cartoon in today's
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
They're selling us fixes to problems that don't exist and calling it a success.
#NzPol
#PoliticalCartoon
#Caricature
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It is very, very, very important to note that Julian Batchelor is neither racist nor prone to seeing fair-skinned, ginger-haired people where none exist ...
17 days ago
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Chris Bishop: "I am reluctant to use urgency to avoid select committees outside of the standard Budget urgency process, and it is only done so when there are good reasons." 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
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Vanessa Smith-Glitenkamp deserves our respect and attention: “Aotearoa welcomed my family as immigrants. … I will not stand by quietly and enable behaviour that disrespects tangata whenua.”
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Executive assistant resigns over mayor’s ‘disregard for Treaty principles’
Woman resigns over Napier mayor’s ‘disregard for Treaty principles’.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360914362/executive-assistant-resigns-over-mayors-disregard-treaty-principles
17 days ago
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Bloody Auckland Law School … (Come and have a go if you think yer hard enough.)
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Spike in complaints accusing lawyers of incompetence
The Law Society is investigating how it can handle the complaints faster.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/581860/spike-in-complaints-accusing-lawyers-of-incompetence
18 days ago
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Added my 2c worth to this regarding developments in AoNZ in 2024 ... it's at pp 228-231 for those interested, while the whole thing can be accessed for free at
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
(There's some 80-other country reports to read ... cheap Xmas idea for any constitutional nerds you know!)
18 days ago
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JUSTICE FOR TOBY!!! (Attn:
@tobymanhire.bsky.social
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20 days ago
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Just to be clear what is (and isn’t) happening here. The Govt MPs are empowering a select committee with a majority of its MPs on it to stuff more things into the government’s bill, because these things procedurally couldn’t be included in the bill when introduced.
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Crimes bill adds things outside the usual rules
Parliament has been pushing hard, rushing through bills and working under urgency all week. In that scramble, one bill bypassed the rules, adding things not usually allowed.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/thehouse/581687/crimes-bill-adds-things-outside-the-usual-rules
20 days ago
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When us process-heads warn about the importance of following systems and giving due weight to the how alongside the what, we have things like this in mind …
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21 days ago
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Legislative override (potentially retrospective) in 3 … 2 … 1 …
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23 days ago
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Strong recommend to this piece and the danger lurking in existing case law ... "Essentially, if widespread vote theft has taken place, the perpetrators may actually be saved by the sheer scale of their offending."
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I haz reckons ...
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Judge deciding whether Papatoetoe will face rare by-election
An Auckland District Court judge has reserved his decision on whether alleged voting irregularities in Papatoetoe's local board election are serious enough to trigger a by-election.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/indonz/581314/judge-deciding-whether-papatoetoe-will-face-rare-by-election
24 days ago
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Attn
@thepost-nz.bsky.social
… looks like the sort of thing you ought to investigate as the local newspaper, no?
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24 days ago
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24 days ago
Hey, so guess what I did? 🧵 Can I prove Deloitte used AI to write this report? No. But that would honestly be the less embarrassing option. The research in this report is below par for a 1st year undergrad, where they even bother to show research. Let's unpack some of the mistakes I found.
#nzpol
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There's a pretty high probability that this case is going to find that although "corrupt" practices took place in this election (stealing postal ballots and casting them without the voter knowing), because it can't be proven that this affected the result the election outcome must stand.
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‘Chilling for democracy’: Judge to decide whether to trigger by-election
“The assertion is that people have been going around in gangs stealing voting papers,” said Manukau Judge Richard McIlraith.
https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360910978/judge-decide-whether-trigger-local-election-auckland?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Right%20bloc%20buoyed%20as%20economy%20shows%20signs%20of%20life&utm_campaign=The%20Bulletin%20-%20December%209%2C%202025
24 days ago
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I think I've read this book before ...
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24 days ago
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This "process" is going to end with Trump being awarded the Netflix Oscar for Best President ...
25 days ago
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The House's last sitting day is December 18 and it does not meet again until the last week of January (for just a week, before it breaks again for Waitangi Day). (I do not begrudge MPs this break - it's a hard, grinding job - but I also think everyone else should also have this time off.)
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Are NZ summers too long? The PM says we’ve got to keep moving
The summer shutdown is coming but should the Kiwi summer holiday still stay sacrosanct?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360911129/are-summer-holidays-too-long-pm-says-weve-got-keep-moving
25 days ago
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Strictly Obiter
25 days ago
Off to the Australia New Zealand Legal Ethics Colloquium at Otago. A colloquium is like a conference except it’s worth more points in Scrabble.
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This is pretty dodgy - looks like up to 2/3rds of the (thousands) of formal warnings issued by Police in the last 4 years were unlawful + so none of them will now be disclosed during police vetting procedures (because it's too hard to go through and weed out the unlawful ones).
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Police could wipe thousands of unlawful warnings after years of botched protocol
A police review found only 37% of sampled warnings between 2019 and 2024 were lawful.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/thousands-of-police-formal-warnings-set-to-be-wiped-due-to-improper-protocol-over-several-years/premium/ZARZOUQHGRBZZNEWUSGIIJH2OE/
25 days ago
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I think we know where the creator of the FIFA "give Trump a golden bauble to make him happy" award got their inspiration.
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27 days ago
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"Confirmed to Stuff" via a formal judgment of the High Court of NZ which also was published on the Courts of NZ decisions of public interest ... but sure, your news organisation got the scoop 🙄
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Let me just add to Eddie's comments that this decision shows why it is a good idea to get a lawyer to thoroughly check your party constitution to make sure that it is clear in its processes and explicit in what it allows various decision makers to do (and how they can do it).
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28 days ago
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Henry (
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TPM case asks: What exactly is a political party?
ANALYSIS: TPM case forces court to consider if a political party is more like an employer, a social gathering, or an omelette.
https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360909725/unscrambling-omelette-te-pati-maori-case-asks-court-consider-what-party-really
28 days ago
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This is ... quite the correction from Richard Harman in relation to his Politik newsletter.
28 days ago
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It's interesting that this "controversial" proposal that is attracting so much heat in the UK (including criticism from government MPs/peers) as being an attack on constitutional fundamentals is pretty much the kite that our government flew last year with hardly any notice being paid ...
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Why Lammy wants to scrap some jury trials – and the arguments against
Justice secretary says record backlog is failing victims and defendants, but there are concerns about lack of diversity among judges
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/02/why-lammy-wants-to-scrap-some-jury-trials-and-the-arguments-against
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The Republicans have held this seat with a (so far) 13% swing against them. In 2024, 43 Republicans won their House seats by a margin of 15% or less. (Of course, results in an individual special election =/= those of all general midterm congressional elections, but a boy can dream?)
30 days ago
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I share S.I.T.'s pain. Where is the political party devoted entirely to doing exactly everything I want the way I want it to be done, because I obviously am the only person in AoNZ with the One True Vision For The Future.
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Liam Boardman
about 1 month ago
I'm surprised there's not more mention of the Irish Senate, which has a bunch of interesting facets that could adapted well into an AoNZ context
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Counterpoint - those who say “we desperately need things to be different“ need a convincing story for how existing institutions subject to current incentives can provide that different practice …
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about 1 month ago
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Very glad that
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The day the suicide squad burned down the house at New Zealand’s parliament
The case for debating drunk first, and sober second.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/01-12-2025/the-day-the-suicide-squad-burned-down-the-house-at-new-zealands-parliament
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They’d have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn’t for those disgusting unions <sarc>
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about 1 month ago
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Dr Dean Knight
about 1 month ago
Come join us at
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