Oscar Sims
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Cities, infrastructure, and technology. Antipodean social democrat. 🇳🇿 🇫🇮
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined August 2013
No yeah I'm sure all these leftist accounts that hate Estonia and love Burkina Faso are all 100% authentically American, those are definitely two countries we form passionate opinions about over here.
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Just checking in to say I have officially moved to Aussie and the spring weather in Melbourne has arrived perfectly in time to return to the office on Monday
I only realized this week that Kiwis say they are “off to Aussie,” “moving to Aussie” etc. and it is driving me up the wall, we need to cancel the Special Category Visa of anyone who does this.
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developing government digitalisation to do patronage politics is a really funny 'value-brand cyberpunk dystopia' thing
The government is developing an app that will require consumers to scan QR codes to buy subsidised cooking oil packets. The eCOSS system will verify consumers’ citizenship before they can make purchases, says KPDN. https://t.co/md0T7eKZxz 🧵 1
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I am currently filling out a web form in a SaaS product to prove my identity by uploading a series of scans of my documents so that they can create a PDF on my behalf to submit to the Australian government
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do NOT move to Estonia. Every subsequent interaction with other governments will feel like bamboo torture
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I understand the political incentives, but if not now, when? This has been a live (& urgent) political issue for almost a decade now, it’s not like there hasn’t been an opportunity for feedback
Government (aka Parliament) has instructed Auckland Council that we must provide for more housing intensification - by law we have no choice but to allocate capacity for 2 million new dwellings. Last week the Howick Local Board held a meeting to formalise our feedback.
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Australia is a very cheap country if you mentally convert everything to Euros and imagine paying 22% on it
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This is Sydney and Melbourne also
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A grave error making this a poll instead of ragebait about one or the other city. I've let my Posting skill atrophy in 2025
am thinking more this weekend about where I want to live for the next few years. I don't really care about the weather, beaches, or nightlife (positive things most commonly cited about each city). Assuming same income, I should:
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particularly interested in thoughts on whether Sydney's relatively higher global importance and cosmopolitanism is worth the punishment of having to rent there
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am thinking more this weekend about where I want to live for the next few years. I don't really care about the weather, beaches, or nightlife (positive things most commonly cited about each city). Assuming same income, I should:
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Unfortunately 500,000 NZers in Australia are getting sent home because we don't have a system of industrial awards
KAP MP Bob Katter has unleashed on a reporter who asked about his Lebanese heritage at a KAP press conference about Sunday's March For Australia "My family has been here for 140 years...I have on many occasions, punched blokes in the mouth, so I'm restraining myself today!"
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Today, August 28, marks the release of The Shoup Doctrine, a book celebrating the legacy of legendary urban planning professor and economist Donald Shoup, who passed away earlier this year. 🧵
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BIG NEWS: The United States of America now owns 10% of Intel, one of our great American technology companies. This historic agreement strengthens U.S. leadership in semiconductors, which will both grow our economy and help secure America’s technological edge. Thanks to Intel
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