More extreme weather more often. What do our leaders think we should do? In a word, not much. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Climate

Are these the same farmers who 'decorated' the countryside with pink billboards for the ACT "users should pay" Party...? Irony writ large....

So uh, if anyone knows a good intermediate software engineer or high junior ready for that next step..... We're a small team, which means lots of autonomy and you can learn a bunch of stuff. Also working with me, maybe that's a bonus.

Basic goods are really struggling. - Potatoes up 16.2% annually - Tomatoes up 31.9% - Kiwifruit up 40.6% - Oranges up 19.9% - Beef Mince up 18.8% - Sausages up 10.5% - Cheese up 16.5% - Butter up 17.7% - Chocolate up 20.5% If you need a coffee after that - that's up 8.2%

After 4 relatively gentle episodes of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - the fifth just - wow.

National will back down as soon as the blue voters of the Shore open their mouths.

Well that was gross … went out to do the rubbish and a cat (not our cat - our dachshunds would not abide one!) was meowing loudly and showing me the dismembered carcasses of 5 mice. 🤮 Firstly, yuck and then where did these mice come from 😳😳😳

#nzpol Prices for basics are rising again at a rate much faster than wages, new data from Stats NZ shows. 70% of workers got a pay rise less than 3% last year and 44% got no pay rise at all. Food prices rose 4.6% overall, with the price of white bread rising 58% this year. A 🧵

The concept of being mauled to death by dogs is truly horrific. Horrific.

It’s Mabel’s 3rd Birthday. Happy birthday my little darling.

It’s bleak that on a day of climate related events this is announced. Hosting events that motivate masses of people to travel internationally, is the opposite of climate friendly. All Blacks in Chicago, State of Origin in Auckland - so much airline travel built in. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Who cares about state of origin when we have states of emergency...?

This baby just dropped from our Feijoa tree - only mid Feb! And our plum tree lost all its foliage in late January with that storm and now it seems to think it’s spring - all fresh foliage is sprouting. The plants are confused by this climate!

I hear Luxon was on TV this morning keeping the nation well informed about crucial current events such as, checks notes, a sports ball game in 2027.

Thought I’d better turn on the TV since half the country is getting smashed but it’s just Luxon talking about more events at Eden Park.

Hope you survive all the rain ok Manawatū

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

Oh look it’s the supposed terrible at business Labour Party going through the alleged Party of business’ rushed Indian trade deal with a pen highlighting all the actually terrible for business sections. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Interesting that both minor parties of the coalition are distancing themselves from the “government” and saying things aren’t right.

I've been saying it for years. Trump is the logical outcome when your worship of money is more important than social cohesion.

NZ has normalised inequality. As the cost of living rises, Govt has to expand into every corner of life so people don't starve and end up homeless. We need to reduce inequality and rampant rentierism so that people and communities have the resources they need to look after themselves.

TVNZ news tonight: -Ōtorohanga under water, mayor near tears -citizens discuss self-reliance as East Coast braces for risky weather on the 3rd anniversary of Cyclone Gabrielle (in which 15 people died) -Cook Strait ferry sailings cancelled due to rough swells And that’s just the first 10 minutes

Nicola Willis’s Covid enquiry is going to be just like Chris Bishop’s Kainga Ora enquiry Willis: “hey, I need this report done - it needs to conclude that all the decisions made were WRONG!”

Water, water everywhere. Can't drink it, can't swim in it, can't survive it. Remember clean green? Being proud of AoNZ? We need serious leadership. Now. #nzpol

Hahahahaha, so we’re literally forking out $2.7billion for a fancy storage building for some other countries obsolete & worthless gas 😂🤣😂🤣 🤦‍♀️ #nzpol #OneTermGovernment

If you’d like a laugh www.instagram.com/reel/DSItFY7...

Oh, the windless humidity

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We've cracked how to get rents down in real terms - crash the economy for a couple of years. That'll do it. Rents now back to 2017 levels in real terms but showing signs of stopping the drop. Few more renty reckons (🧵 1/n)

Well worth 60 seconds of your time! 😂😂

This downpour is not part of my BBQ dinner plans. Why wasn’t I consulted??

Job growth still inching back to standstill (not getting worse). Where to over the next 6 months? My money is on bobbling along between 0 and 1% - i.e. below population growth. Others may have more hopium.

UNBELIEVABLE! 🤯 Luxon’s idiotic fossil gas terminal will bypass even the fast-track process so that construction can start before the election. Let that sink in.

“Oh monsieurrrrrr”

When is the protest march happening?

Luxon is in the running for the dumbest National Party Think Big Project, with his LNG import terminal. He is competing with Muldoon's Motunui synthetic petrol plant which was obsolete before it was completed. But I reckon a $2.7 billion attempt to lock NZ into fossil fuels is in the running.

Has Labour said they will mothball this idiocy immediately yet?

How’s the headache @withaniplease.bsky.social ?

Quakefeed has a Valentine’s Day offer that will get hearts racing.

Not a single thing we were told about #COVID turned out to be correct. A long thread 🧵

Kind of weird to illustrate this using a hacker-like figure as opposed to, say, a photo of Shane Jones

#nzpol Simeon and Chris think it’s awesome that people can barrel through school zones without slowing down. bAcK oN tRAcK 🤬🤬

Trump, in the middle of his latest unhinged Truth Social screed, claims that if Canada makes a trade deal with China, "the first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup."

Just so we're all totally clear here. Everyone has to pay more because this government scrapped projects for electrification, ignored advice from the sector on transitioning off gas, and wants to build a terminal that is unlikely to be usable for $1 billion plus - money they said we didn't have.

Quick update of debt cost data. If more reckonomists followed data like this (vs vibes), we would have had fewer 'recovery is round the next corner' crap through 2025. Let's have a look. Here's interest added to mortgages per month. Time from OCR hitting 5.5% & debt cost peaking = 18 months 🤨[🧵 1/n]

I guess if the book is AI authored Then it can be edited and approved for publication by AI Then AI can probably read it over and over again so it becomes a bestseller AI can run the awards process so it can win some prizes AI can just take over. Why not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯