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Peter Kelly (@PeterKelly@mastodon.nz)

@kiwipeterkelly

Barrister (but posts are not in that capacity). Parent. He/Him. All views personal. General commercial litigation, trusts and equity, and public / constitutional law.

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Nepalese Dumplings in Emmett Street, in Newtown School staff car park 😍πŸ₯°πŸ˜πŸ₯°πŸ˜πŸ₯°

07.03.2026 23:11 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Clever Hans, seeing Jesus in a cheeto, all sorts of audio and visual hallucination, and scads of other phenomena are all related to;

- Hearing someone call your name when there is no one there has a very low cost

- Not hearing someone call your name when there is a tiger behind you has a very high

08.03.2026 00:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i don't think they see any children as fully human

they see their own as capable of qualifying at some future point once they've been sufficiently indoctrinated

but they see Others as irredeemable children regardless of their age

07.03.2026 12:53 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

okay the fact you can OIA a minister's chatGPT logs is pretty funny, sometimes the NZ administrative state is good actually

07.03.2026 02:40 πŸ‘ 87 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

This statement is worth reading. Should be seen along with the congressional vote tally.

06.03.2026 06:22 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely!

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04.03.2026 09:22 πŸ‘ 122 πŸ” 129 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 5
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

06.03.2026 02:50 πŸ‘ 9982 πŸ” 5262 πŸ’¬ 625 πŸ“Œ 636

I agree with Ewen. Better FYI with unhappy "customers" than no FYI. Feel free to get in touch if FYI needs legal advice (although frankly you seem to navigate those things fine).

05.03.2026 08:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the one who loved horses, the one who was a great goalkeeper, the one who kept a diary every day, the one who held her sister's hand when they walked to school, the one who read Harry Potter in English, the one who collected old coins, the one who drew rainbows for her grandmother ...

05.03.2026 03:04 πŸ‘ 1538 πŸ” 443 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 13
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U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflictβ€”and 9000
miles from North Americaβ€”makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

04.03.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 13488 πŸ” 4965 πŸ’¬ 541 πŸ“Œ 296
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Covid hospitalisations climb as New Zealand enters new wave There’s been an increase in hospitalisations and in wastewater detections, and it’s expected to last another month or two.

Still absolutely adamant you do not want Covid. Long Covid is still a crisis and is the worst health impact I’ve ever personally experienced.
Our health system is much worse than it was in 2020 - you do not want to navigate it with Covid impacts.

Book a booster here: app.bookmyvaccine.health.nz
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04.03.2026 06:16 πŸ‘ 85 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

This is very liberal.

04.03.2026 06:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They've responded to this comprehensive failure by... trying to appease the right. Which seems like just an instance of the strategy whose manifest failure is what lead to them scrambling in the first place. I genuinely don't get, even by their own logic, why Starmerist crowd are behaving this way.

03.03.2026 09:08 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force.

Danish Defense Minister: Continue.

02.03.2026 14:43 πŸ‘ 5847 πŸ” 1296 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 39

Personally,I live in a polity where my kids were only eligible for the initial two shots, and anyone 16-30 can only get a single extra shot after all these years: www.healthnz.govt.nz/health-topic...

02.03.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm sorry this came across as an attack on you. To be honest I wasn't really aware I was posting in your personal quote-tweet.

02.03.2026 05:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't think Prof. Fuhrer doesn't care, or why would he be posting? And I care deeply, hence my support for @covidactionnz.bsky.social although no one in my family is yet seriously affected. But there's a real risk of Lysenkoism if real science is rejected when it doesn't suit.

02.03.2026 04:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Do you ever feel that nearly everyone falls into one of two categories: (1) dedicated to never thinking about cov19 again, or (2) convinced that cov19 is just as bad as ever and everyone will be brain-damaged; and therefore talking about it but not supporting belief (2) is a lose-lose activity?

02.03.2026 04:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

if people are using classified information to place bets, then theoretically others can analyze betting behavior to find signals that reveal classified information.

01.03.2026 03:28 πŸ‘ 3452 πŸ” 942 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 35

If a decision is important enough that someone should be responsible for it, a machine shouldn’t be the one to make it. Because a machine can’t be held responsible.

01.03.2026 16:38 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

This seems... not bad, actually?

01.03.2026 06:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Fun discovery, they were using meshblocks in 1945!

01.03.2026 02:11 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

New Zealand should be coordinating with the EU and other like-minded countries to collectively negotiate proper safeguards, not quietly capitulating.

26.02.2026 00:17 πŸ‘ 115 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

ICE’s killing of Nurul Amin Shah Alam through abandonment might be most horrifying yet.

27.02.2026 03:27 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A screenshot of an Official Information Act response, linked in the related post.

It states that "The reports you have requested are withheld in their entirety at this time" under Sections 6(c), 9(2)(ba)(i), 9(2)(b)(ii) and 9(2)(e).

It also states that the public interest has been considered and does not outweigh the need to withhold the reviews in this case.

A screenshot of an Official Information Act response, linked in the related post. It states that "The reports you have requested are withheld in their entirety at this time" under Sections 6(c), 9(2)(ba)(i), 9(2)(b)(ii) and 9(2)(e). It also states that the public interest has been considered and does not outweigh the need to withhold the reviews in this case.

I just received a reply to my request for the GP portal security reviews that the Ministry of Health performed back in 2019 and... they have all been withheld under Sections 6 and 9 of the Official Information Act.

fyi.org.nz/request/3340...

27.02.2026 03:15 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3
Federal courthouse in Nashville

Federal courthouse in Nashville

HAPPENING NOW: Good morning from the federal courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee.

A federal judge is set to preside over an evidentiary hearing on whether the United States government is vindictively prosecuting Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I'm here for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow along ⬇️⬇️⬇️

26.02.2026 15:07 πŸ‘ 6904 πŸ” 1658 πŸ’¬ 117 πŸ“Œ 62

It's interesting to ask ourselves whether a sufficiently general "fix" to that "problem" might help with pro-social alignment more generally. Not that I think a "sufficiently general fix" would be popular with those that choose.

26.02.2026 06:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Lest anyone think Judge Murphy selectively quoted Mary Larakersβ€”the DOJ lawyer defending third-country deportationsβ€”here's the full exchange from the transcript. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

26.02.2026 03:08 πŸ‘ 502 πŸ” 203 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 11