Max Johns (MxDEJ)

@maxjohns.nz

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aka MxDEJ, aka Mike Alpha Xray. Glad to be here. Disliker of billionaire saboteurs.

NZ Herald screenshot of an article in which Auckland mayor Wayne Brown talks about harbour crossings in an interview with Ryan Bridge: '"I understand bridges better than professors of bridges," he told Bridge.'
In the Herald, news about "NZ's oldest school". In Stuff, "Jonah Lomu's old school".
Screenshot of a context-free paragraph, from a news article. "Salis, who garnered half a million followers on the social media app TikTok after his sheep shearing videos evolved into travel content, was recorded making threats to decapitate his mother..."
From the home page of stuff.co.nz, a link to a news article. The photo is fuzzy, showing a bearded man of average build with long blond hair and a tight leopard-print top. The headline is, "Can you recognise this A-list star?". The article category, appearing above the headline, says "Jonah Hill".
Three consecutiove NZ Herald headlines: "Kiwis are cooking their sausages wrong", "Your coffee habit could be ruining your health", "Moving to Australia? Why Kiwis are being warned to rethink their plans."
Google search "auda wholesale price". First result: Link to auDA.org.au with the title ".au domain name wholesale pricing". Preview text shows that the price is $9.50. Second result: AI Overview - "There are no publicly listed wholesale prices for auDA..."
A Bluesky user self-replying: "(Not necessarily re children specially but expanding the market in off-label/untested ways before the first wave has even been properyl understood yet)".
"Murdoch wins case in family succession feud."
News article headline: Health Minister Simeon Brown intervenes as Ministry of Health reduces posting on social site X
Freeparking's "Buy and register domain names" page, showing a .nz price of $22.48.
Two paragraphs of text from a Herald article. The first contains the term "F-bomb". The second contains "C-suite". Only one of them is meant to be a shortened version of a rude word, but come on.
Minister for Rail Winston Peters has announced a quote-plan-unquote.
Despite a string of record-breaking drug busts, the local market has been flooded with methamphetamine supplied by Mexican cartels and Asian crime syndicates working with outlaw motorcycle gangs.
I am sympathetic to those who think "the Government should do something". I used to think, "if I was minister of railways, I could get the trains to run on time". I now know the government cannot even buy a ferry.
On Wednesday, the Reserve Bank (RBNZ) cut interest rates, kicking off what it forecasts to be a cycle of monetary loosening which (if you believe those forecasts, and you have plenty of reason not to) means election year 2026 will look an awful lot like 2014. The Bank forecast annual GDP growth at 3.3%, CPI at 2% and the OCR at 3.4 – more or less exactly where they were going into the 2014 election.
"In Shihad we write together and make a big sound..."
Headline: "Here's how to get an espresso martini at any airport for only $5"