Idiot/Savant

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New Zealand's liberal blog.

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If you do not like politics, climate change, or the OIA, you are unlikely to enjoy following me.

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Idiot/Savant1h ago
On NRT: Climate Change: The new normal - https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/04/climate-change-new-normal.html
Climate Change: The new normal

I'm sitting here in Palmerston North (where it is raining), watching the reports of the rain and flooding from Wellington . Water flooding d...

Idiot/Savant1h ago
On NRT: More racism from National - https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/04/more-racism-from-national.html
More racism from National

When National voted down its own Treaty Principles Bill last year , they claimed it was because they understood that "seek[ing] to impose a ...

Idiot/Savant3d ago
On NRT: Climate Change: The latest inventory - https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/04/climate-change-latest-inventory.html
Climate Change: The latest inventory

Ministry for the Environment has released New Zealand's Greenhouse Gas Inventory 1990–2024 , which has updated emissions figures. The bad ne...

Idiot/Savant5d ago
On NRT: Strengthening proactive release - https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/04/strengthening-proactive-release.html
Strengthening proactive release

Newsroom has an opinion piece by Marcus Ganley, on the problems of proactive release of official information . The government releases vast...

Show threadIdiot/Savant5d ago
Weird things: no-one's advancement triggers activated, so no-one got XP (which doesn't really matter). And things went smoothly because they generally succeeded: no-one rolled a miss, and there were only two partials. And yet, it was naratively satisfying: the team demonstrated competence.
Idiot/Savant5d ago
Tonight, on #UnchartedWorlds : having made their way to the ruined alien archive in the restricted military training area, the team carefully extracts the alien "books" they were looking for (containing engineering diagrams of the Precursor artefacts recovered by an ancient civlisation), and then escapes. There was nearly a hitch, with running into a patrol on the way out, but they successfully distracted them and made their escape. Success!
Idiot/SavantApr 13
On NRT: A victory for democracy in Hungary - https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-victory-for-democracy-in-hungary.html
A victory for democracy in Hungary

Hungarians went to the polls yesterday in parliamentary elections, and responded with a resounding "Ruszkik Haza!" , telling Putin (and Tru...

Idiot/SavantApr 9
On NRT: Crown solicitors deserve scrutiny - https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/04/crown-solicitors-deserve-scrutiny.html
Crown solicitors deserve scrutiny

Graeme Edgeler had an interesting piece the other day advocating for crown solicitors to be subject to the Official Information Act . Unique...

Idiot/SavantApr 8
On NRT: A hegemony-ending war? - https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-hegemony-ending-war.html
A hegemony-ending war?

Well, that was a day, wasn't it? After threatening that "a whole civilisation will die tonight" if he didn't get what he wanted, the orange...

Show threadIdiot/SavantApr 7

It worked! My #UnchartedWorlds reflexes are still good!

Went with a Jump Point that ripped off "Raiders of the Lost Ark", with the party trekking through an alien jungle to find a ruined alien archive, and digging their way in. We wanted a relatively gentle game of exploration, so no immediate threats in the opening questions, but they set up plenty of stuff to come in on a miss. And of course there's always snak(oid)s...