Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

CEO, Jack Yan & Associates; publisher, Lucire and Autocade; co-chair, Medinge Group. Favourites = bookmarks; boosts = interesting. He/him.

jackyan.com
keybase.io/jackyan

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npub179lhhjz30t3n4utkkn26qzgmpx44v9s5qdtwjs5686px8ulw7dfszxmfgp

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relay.damus.io

nos.lol

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npub179lhhjz30t3n4utkkn26qzgmpx44v9s5qdtwjs5686px8ulw7dfszxmfgp

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2024-08-08 09:37:05

Holding firm in fifth. https://www.medalspercapita.com/ #Olympics
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2024-07-24 20:26:15

They really are desperate, arenʼt they?
https://mastodon.social/@MEActNOW/112842828837581859

2024-06-11 02:15:49

Can’t figure out how to use this #Microsoft Teams thing but the other side uses it …
And no, there is nothing wrong with my network configuration.
I am told some people use this every day. God help us.
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2024-06-09 15:21:59

Used to get a bit of childish fun telling people that the Christina Applegate comedy Samantha Who was a #DoctorWho spin-off. #TV

2024-06-08 02:09:13

Feel free to tell this person that what they are writing is #disinformation. #Linkedin #SEO https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/google-seo-tools-jackyan-humaira-seo-agency-iaq7f/?trackingId=HRrVTI0C1oJu09nP1I8Z0A%3D%3D

2024-05-30 08:12:52

If you think most of these fonts typified the 1990s, then you weren’t around in the 1990s. #typography #typeface
https://htmlburger.com/blog/90s-fonts/

2024-05-29 08:53:12

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@npub19xu…e8yd My partner tried one of those to see if it could do an image of a normal, size 14–16 woman. Nope.

2024-05-26 08:09:09

I imagine I won’t get the Civil Defence alert tonight … only phone that worked was a Chinese-spec Meizu M2 Note that I bought in 2016 …

2024-05-24 05:46:13

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@npub1trd…ussx All good, I think we were both misinterpreting the other and I apologize for my part!

2024-05-24 05:39:20

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@npub1trd…ussx This is why I said, 'Iʼm sure you were alive,' rather than, 'Before you were born'. 🌝

2024-05-24 02:50:44

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@npub1trd…ussx The problem is both. If they made it, Iʼd watch it, which was the original point. Iʼm sure you were alive when this was what everyone did, so this isnʼt exactly a stretch of the imagination. Call me lazy.

2024-05-07 12:03:14

Just finished a wonderful book written by a friend of mine in the rainbow community. He and I are of a similar age, and we have some similar beliefs, but one thing we differ on is that I never visualized Jon and Ponch on CHiPs naked!

2024-05-06 06:05:51

Do people just argue for the sake of it? This person took issue with what I wrote and when I asked them to explain, we wind up pretty much with what I originally said. #Reddit #car #Fiat #Tofaş
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2024-04-26 00:59:22

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@npub1hde…de0r Good on you, Eddie. A fantastic piece.

2024-04-21 11:45:09

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@npub15ax…lqq5 And so tightly coded compared to the modern stuff. The mark-up is so efficient, as you know—miles better than Libre and Word. (I have seen some shocking stuff from Libre on Mac.)

2024-04-21 11:31:59

#misinformation This mob falsely claimed they had entered into a business partnership with me.
When I called them out on Linkedin, they deleted my comment.
Since they also claimed I am an #SEO expert, then let’s make that part of their BS come true.
Right now on their favourite search engine Google:
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2024-04-15 06:14:31

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@npub1lrv…tth9 Good on you, Dan, a vital task. Thank you.

2024-04-13 00:03:49

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@npub1m8v…dj64 Image is fine here.

2024-04-12 09:58:18

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@npub1lrv…tth9 As a journalist, I wouldnʼt even say understandable.

2024-04-07 00:55:36

Big Tech are thin-skinned little bullies, and like all bullies, ultimately back down through cowardice (number one):
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/meta-the-handbasket-censorship-slay-giants

2024-04-07 00:42:24

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@npub1mmf…eknq That would be marvellous! I didnʼt come here for Twitter redux, or they can stick his stuff behind a US politics CW.

2024-04-01 22:03:26

@npub1x8g…tf0f This was an interesting clone in China, but I think it was licensed. https://autocade.net/index.php/Jiangnan_Alto

2024-04-01 11:58:01

The #misinformation “AIs” are getting more and more ridiculous. I’ve written an email to this lot as it appears to be a minority-owned business. Hoping they’ll see it my way and do what’s right.
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2024-04-01 04:53:06

@npub1x8g…tf0f We just had this on test.
https://lucire.com/2024/0322ll0.shtml #Suzuki #car #スズキ
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2024-04-01 04:03:04

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@npub1fha…3ru0 I hope you dismissed it!

2024-04-01 00:25:33

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@npub1u3t…c6ug I hope you can do it. Maybe even a very low limit to election spending, including the external support and lobby groups.

2024-03-29 12:03:16

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@npub1fha…3ru0 That worked for me as well. Farewell, CoPilot!

2024-03-29 10:50:42

Hmm, the Windows task bar has vanished, as has all mouse control. All that is left is this window and I have no idea what it does. Windows 11 is so clunky. Usual #Microsoft reliability.
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2024-03-25 05:16:38

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@npub12uf…6hdv Some of the cis male OnlyKlans users in the comments there trying to mansplain this … my word, that place is depressing!

2024-03-24 06:02:25

An update on my friend Hasan and his family in #Rafah. My colleague Jan has added some photos of his old (destroyed) flat and the conditions at the camp.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-type-designer-hasan-abu-afash-from-gaza
I am trying to use contacts in Egypt to help them with the next stage.
While Jan has concluded his fund-raising as he has reached his goal, feel free to keep giving to Hasan’s Paypal:
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/hibastudio #Gaza

2024-03-18 00:24:30

Honda made the Prelude but I’m not sure what followed it. Geely makes a car called the Preface and again I’m not sure what will follow that. #car #anorak

2024-03-15 22:19:56

If you look at my sites (e.g. @npub1dv6…ayzd and Autocade), they are ones that have resisted doing this. Weʼve been approached by companies with enshittifying tech, but to date weʼve always said no.
https://mastodon.social/@seventhop/112101618951712816

2024-03-15 00:27:40

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@npub1fha…3ru0 Thank you. I havenʼt seen the piece though the story itself is well known to me. Probably should have a disclaimer since the authorʼs grandfather was the first editor. But the kaupapa here is really important and Kerry is someone in our iwi who has a ton of mana and can speak with authority to this.

2024-03-09 22:23:45

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@npub1mmf…eknq From the Twitter era, this was almost our national flag.
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/fire-lazar

2024-03-02 10:48:14

Looks like #Amazon has given up. I might raise this again with them in five or ten years.
https://jackyan.com/blog/2024/02/signing-up-on-seller-central-another-amazon-swindle/

2024-02-29 04:10:14

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@npub1mmf…eknq I’m going to post about it, see if I can get you some more followers.

2024-02-29 03:49:33

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@npub1mmf…eknq That sucks! FWIW I can still see you, but probably because I already follow you. A new user might get the “hidden profile” BS.

2024-02-27 13:43:37

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@npub1cxc…akj4 I publish @npub1dv6…ayzd if youʼd like to add us. Five editions worldwide, two languages (English and French), print and digital.

2024-02-27 02:47:10

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@npub1sfl…gczt All the best! Positive vibes your way!

2024-02-19 09:00:26

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@npub1fha…3ru0 You can get the parts fairly cheaply off Ebay, but the age is counting against it. Also corrosion could be an issue due to age. Mechanically they are generally OK. (First-hand experience.)

2024-02-14 11:31:28

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@npub1fha…3ru0 Interestingly, you are a lot closer to how the US remake ended than the Korean one!

2024-02-14 10:21:45

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@npub1fha…3ru0 Nope, but happy to post the ending with a CW if you’d like to know.

2024-02-14 10:15:58

Just watched the end of Korean Life on Mars. I won’t spoil it. #TV #LifeonMars

2024-02-13 04:59:22

Bloody Windows. Did I tell you to switch off the Chinese lunar calendar? No. Why is it gone?
Not just my calendar, I need to see it for maramataka, too.
Edit: images confirming that my settings are correct but shit monocultural programming has overridden what I asked.
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2024-02-09 11:22:27

@npub1alq…mnj6 Don’t know whether to laugh or cry at what the web has become.
https://jackyan.com/blog/2024/02/read-all-about-the-seo-algorithm-that-i-developed-for-google/

2024-02-05 10:33:46

In my blog
Is #Google stealing your voice for its virtual assistant? Meanwhile, Mktg Stinx
https://jackyan.com/blog/2024/02/is-google-stealing-your-voice-for-its-virtual-assistant-meanwhile-mktg-stinx/ #MktgStinx #marketing #privacy #technology #BobHoffman
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2024-02-02 22:30:26

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@npub16uk…pv7k @npub10tx…crtk AWS is awful, isnʼt it? Got moved there in the early 2010s by a friend who specializes in IT and it was basically IT prison. Couldnʼt do a damned thing without him since it was so poorly designed. Price doubled over a decade. Eventually we moved to Hetzner (literally took years to find people who could do it), and like you, saved 80 per cent, and now we can do stuff again, like set up PHP and MySql ourselves. Lots of OSS as a result.

2024-02-01 13:19:09

Thanks, Bing and ChatGPT! I rock at martial arts.
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2024-01-25 10:17:23

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@npub1fha…3ru0 Ew, gross. Glad I didn’t look. I guess Elmu and his fanboys love that stuff. Sick ****s.

2024-01-25 08:14:05

Surprised that OnlyKlans (MySpaceX) still ranks so highly in the search engines. Companies and individuals could stop linking to it.

2024-01-24 14:06:40

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 Picked up the brochures, still deciding.
Just kidding, must have owned four Imacs over the years.
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2024-01-24 14:04:54

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 Picked up the brochures, still deciding.
https://mastodon.social/@jackyan/110720902871110624
Just kidding, must have owned four Imacs over the years.

2024-01-22 03:07:11

Making kitset furniture is so much easier when you stop following the instructions. I guess it’s the same with computer stuff.

2024-01-19 02:12:21

In my blog
We need to serve the #technology with the new pay-by-plate meters
https://jackyan.com/blog/2024/01/we-need-to-serve-the-technology-with-the-new-pay-by-plate-meters/ #WhanganuiaTara #Wellington #Aotearoa #NZ

2024-01-18 20:12:06

Donʼt forget the UK with Assange in Belmarsh.
https://mastodon.social/@VOANews/111778034948169761

2024-01-13 11:35:47

Twice I lost the internet in the office this week when my chair wound up on top of the ethernet cable. I didn’t realize the hose principle applied to the internet.

2024-01-13 11:20:03

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@npub1xr8…3q0g Absolutely, I never stopped using it. I’m only up to v. 18 but there are newer ones out. Still the best word processor but for one huge omission: no Unicode.

2024-01-13 11:15:49

Just had to copy a whole Word document into #WordPerfect to do some edits. I guess it’s my familiarity with WordPerfect, but I really have no idea how people put up with Word!

2024-01-12 23:48:06

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@npub19xu…e8yd All the best, Bill, wise to treat it as the virus and take it easy. Hope it passes quickly.

2024-01-08 10:34:52

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@npub1ke3…xcva Oh wow, thank you for your support! I feel terrible about how much the postage is.
Also we put the price up to the regular £19·99 today, probably an hour before you ordered! Any way I can get you the £5 difference? Seems unfair you paid more because of the timing.

2024-01-07 10:01:36

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@npub1fha…3ru0 Personally, I like it warm though the other half would disagree … Under 10 is too cold for me!

2024-01-07 07:58:20

Nice to come back to such low humidity.
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2024-01-05 23:34:10

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@npub1su4…a0dw What a pity the old Intellimouse 1.1 isnʼt on this list. Best mouse they ever made.

2024-01-04 09:24:32

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@npub1fha…3ru0 You have to get it, sounds like a great buy!
Forget the Chery. Just how many old ones do you see in good nick on the roads? Terribly made dross.

2024-01-04 05:31:33

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@npub1fha…3ru0 Looks clean, too! And anything that can go wrong probably already has and fixed. You should consider it. It wonʼt be terribly refined but itʼll do the job.

2024-01-01 21:28:50

Nothing to be proud of, finding ourselves in the top half of this graph.
https://mastodon.social/@philipncohen/111682546383017229 #inequality

2023-12-30 06:15:21

Only just realized I have been #blogging for 20 years. My first blog post was August 2003, four months after @npub1alq…mnj6 started ReadWriteWeb.
http://www.beyond-branding.com/blog/2003/08/spirit-in-branding.html #blogosphere

2023-12-29 23:28:49

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 Iʼd love to see what those surnames look like in their original tongue. Iʼm going to look it up. Well, itʼs nice to meet someone who can trace part of their lineage back to original Americans.

2023-12-29 23:24:01

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 I simply meant that one example of how ChatGPT might have figured out my race, in response to your question, because it was precedent. I know of what First People suffered, and how advanced your societies were before the later arrivals brought their diseases over, but as I donʼt know what surnames you use today since there are so many tribes each with distinct cultures, I imagined you couldnʼt be grouped and targeted as easily.
This 2015 incident was quite a big thing here.

2023-12-29 23:14:03

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 No, I meant that specific example of a political party inferring race (hence providing a link!), not that Native Americans have never faced racism, which is an incredibly moronic and virtually impossible position to advance. This country is currently going backwards with regard to native rights so of course we are aware, probably more aware, of what Native Americans had to go through, than the average person. Sigh.

2023-12-29 22:50:58

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 Guess you didnʼt have to put up with this racist stuff in your country!
https://publicaddress.net/onpoint/my-last-name-sounds-chinese/
If itʼs pulling data from the web and everyday people, then itʼll mirror them, like the last time Microsoft attempted this.
https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist

2023-12-29 15:18:12

Who are these people that #ChatGPT says co-founded #Lucire with me? Iʼve never heard of them. Is ChatGPTʼs programming so racist it canʼt handle a person of colour as a sole founder so it adds white-sounding names to the story?
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2023-12-27 14:28:57

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@npub1fha…3ru0 Iʼve owned French cars since the 1990s and that is a myth. English and German are far worse. Next time you see a Volkswagen owner, ask them how things are going!
As to Tesla, all you need to do is sit on one to see how badly they are made. So it doesnʼt surprise me that word is finally getting out. It only surprises me about how long it has taken.

2023-12-27 11:05:19

The Tesla Model 3 might be faster than a BYD Seal but then who wants to look like an Elmu fanboi? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwR0pjwuIAQ

2023-12-27 04:33:32

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@npub1fha…3ru0 My rule with investing is: if it canʼt be easily explained, itʼs not worth the risk.

2023-12-27 02:20:36

Oh wow, all the stuff we are missing out on over at OnlyKlans.
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2023-12-24 05:16:41

Summertime is not just a myth we tell children. In the olden days, it really existed, till the greedy oil barons silenced all the scientists who were protecting Mother Nature. Summer by summer, the calm days vanished, as Mother Nature writhed in torment, reacting with ever wilder and wetter storms, begging the oil barons to stop.

2023-12-16 23:46:22

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@npub1ke3…xcva Will do! Maybe around late January–early February.

2023-12-16 22:46:54

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@npub1fha…3ru0 The thing is, that was ours. Never had a notice about it getting pulled. Might try to see when their last email notification was.

2023-12-16 21:56:39

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@npub1ke3…xcva I could look at printing with our people in Lower Hutt but the Brits have the process (now that they have fixed up the shop end) more down pat (closer to how I envisaged it). Our guys here are great and the quality is second to none, but they’re a smaller shop and we get shifted aside based on how much work their big clients give them.
Kind of still on the cards because we need to get two copies to the National Library and I thought I’d get them to run off a small batch locally.

2023-12-16 21:35:45

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@npub1ke3…xcva I totally understand! We had to source a UK printer as we figured most sales would be UK and US. A reverse of what we were doing with Lucire ($60 to post from here).

2023-12-16 21:32:22

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@npub1ke3…xcva Thank you! Huge delays on the printer side otherwise weʼd have got some Christmas sales, but got to play with the cards youʼre dealt.

2023-12-16 21:13:42

Both of these cannot be true. Typical #Instagram. Would love to know what happened to our #Autocade account.
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2023-12-16 12:41:59

We have another #book out! For all the #car fans out there, #Autocade is now in print as a #Yearbook. For a limited time, we’ve priced it at just £14·99! Boosts appreciated as we will not be promoting this on a certain other website!
https://lucire.biz/product/autocade-yearbook-2024/ #CarYearbook #automobiles #autos #UK #carros #coche #Auto #waka #voiture #AutocadeYearbook
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2023-12-01 06:40:33

If SHADO was top secret, how come their name was plastered on the sides of all those planes and trucks? #UFO #TV #ITC #50shadesofgrade

2023-11-26 19:41:53

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@npub1fha…3ru0 I still remember one of them going through my website and screenshotting part of a page. Obsessed little people with too much time on their hands, looking up at their superiors and finding subjects to hate. If we were so meaningless, they wouldnʼt need to waste their time!

2023-11-26 13:37:50

Had to check in to OnlyKlans as a mate messaged me there. Had three notifications, from three racists who had tagged me to some anti-Chinese stuff. Anti-CCP I can understand, but this was about the whole Han race.
Therein lies Elonʼs core. Iʼm surprised to still find anyone I like on there, but many are still present. It should be treated like a fringe noticeboard but so many continue to patronize it. Enjoy the company, folks.

2023-11-25 00:52:04

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@npub1yk6…4zz4 I can imagine young people walking through here to attend Carousel.

2023-11-15 20:57:03

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@npub1fha…3ru0 I wonder if anyone will still fall for it. Did anyone buy tulips for crazy money in 1638? 😁

2023-11-15 14:47:21

How retro! #NFT #Disney
https://mas.to/@carnage4life/111414728791476958

2023-11-12 13:13:25

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@npub1alq…mnj6 Sadly not. I was given a Google Drive link for judging but that was only for this yearʼs entries. I tried looking for some really old Salients a few years ago and came up empty.

2023-11-12 12:45:15

What a pleasure to return to the judging panel for the #ASPAs (Aotearoa Student Press Association Awards). Congratulations to #Salient for winning my category (design) and best publication! #VUW #VicUni

2023-11-06 23:04:02

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@npub1fha…3ru0 Good you didnʼt get stung for excess and you sorted out your other issue. Who are you with?

2023-11-06 07:05:30

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@npub1fha…3ru0 When someone scratched my car with their open door and was caught on CCTV doing it, the insurance company said that wasn’t good enough and it needed a human witness. So maybe?
There should also be CCTV nearby in that area.

2023-11-06 06:29:25

To the Toyota driver who hit the car next to them and didnʼt leave a note: I found the owner of the car you hit, gave them your rego, and offered to be a witness. So sick of these clumsy, dishonest drivers here.

2023-11-03 10:51:33

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@npub1fha…3ru0 And on both occasions, we won, though in my other half’s case it really harmed the health of her loved one.
Based on our interactions, you are a person of considerable quality and thought.
Everything Peters isn’t.

2023-11-03 06:50:38

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@npub1fha…3ru0 He hates so much, he even hates his own race. Both my and my other halfʼs whānau have taken the fucker to court. Heʼs a born loser, shit at law, and his opinion of your mahi has no credibility.

2023-11-03 06:30:39

No matter what I say, W. Peters will always hate my kind.

2023-10-31 21:44:47

Anyone use Ecostore dishwashing liquid? Latest bottle I have is weak as. Feels really watered down. Donʼt know if itʼs the one batch, its age, a change in formula, or something else.

2023-10-23 11:52:30

Unlike Big Tech, when you see a Japanese company’s mea culpa, you can believe it. #Daihatsu
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