Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: The Web, in reply to Russell Brown,
www.govt.nz in 1996
Managed by Colin Jackson and coded (IIRC) by one Nat Torkington.
I didn't take it over until 2000, by which time it had become a PHP/MySQL based beast known as NZGO.
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Bart Janssen,
But also I think there is an element of, “if I can judge this person as weak/defective/wrong/selfish/whatever then I can kid myself that I could never be in that state of mind myself”.
With a side order of guilt that "I didn't do more because I didn't know"
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Russell Brown,
Julie Burchill has written a column inspired by Charlotte Dawson’s death.
Blurgh. Though there is one point I agree with: " if you feel loved in your personal life, and sure of your beliefs in your public life — which I do, in spades — it’s hard to be hurt by the abuse of strangers."
That surety is very rare, especially for those of us visited by the black dog.
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Jack Cottrell,
just thought I’d post this piece I wrote about living with depression and being suicidal.
So many echos. I still marvel that I hit 53 this year. If there's one thing I could say to the never-depressed: don't try something that will help us all; try to help each of us individually, because we all do it differently, will all be helped differently or not, regardless of your good intentions.
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Kracklite,
The analogy for depression I’ve used often is riding a bicycle with skewed handlebars. You can ride in a straight line, but every yard requires a conscious effort to aim out of the gutter. Give up for a moment and that’s where you end up. Thankfully I’ve never seriously contemplated suicide, but I can understand that those who have committed suicide gave up not because of their depression in one instant, but because of their exhaustion with continually fighting against that skew.
Love this! Okay to quote it in a different group I'm part of?
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Without meaning to offend, those people who dismiss twitter as a useless toy for children are doing it wrong.
Yes, indeed. "The tools are broken!" just means one hasn't learned to use them.
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Kyle MacDonald,
it's clear that a number of those people don't think it's bullying, because they are *right*.
In a fricking nutshell.
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Hard News: The Mayor's marginal enemies, in reply to Jim Cathcart,
Anyway, why is the guy so revered?
Not so much that he's revered, but that the campaign against him has been so sordid and wasteful of resources that the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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Hard News: The Mayor's marginal enemies, in reply to Russell Brown,
Auckland resident Rick Splinter has had his request for speaking rights at the Governing Body meeting of 27 February 2014 declined.
Maybe he'll form a group...
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Hard News: The Mayor's marginal enemies, in reply to Marcus Turner,
Upright citizens, though, Ian
That would depend on the number of legs...