And don't worry, if you came for pūtangitangi videos I've got you covered. 🪶🇳🇿

"Young Director from YouTube" is a funny designation because it makes sense right now but in a few years it'll sound like "programmer who used computers as a kid." Like, yeah. Where else would you do it.

It is better on paper, but the finances of the deal appear circular and a bit dodgy to me, someone with no experience of business deals and money. Does anyone know why so many nz businesses end up head-officing in Auckland? Wouldn't it be the most expensive spot to do it?

Any sparkies in nz aotearoa, particularly in the south island, happy to chat about learning and working as one? I'm an IT person looking at also going into electrical but am worried that being a trans woman would get me a lot of flak, despite knowing my stuff.

Disgusting. If I told someone random that the govt is testing out some foreign product called starshield, they might be like me and think that it's something to literally blot out the sky to fight climate change. But it is unrestricted weapons communications tech used for the worst of all things.

Let’s hope the government decides not to spend millions of dollars of public money on the military version of Starlink. Healthy school lunches would be a great alternative.

Christ that website was a mess. All the worst things we joked about it ended up being true! Auckland devs, AWS hosting, Python Django and Next.JS. And they were quoted 14k? how on earth did it ever blow out to 600?

A majority saying New Zealand is heading in the wrong direction but still preferring the government over Labour should, in any sane political environment, have Hipkins being rolled immediately along with whoever is advising him.

Why are nz politicians allowed to be on their phones during speeches in parliament? Chloe going off while ministers practically fall asleep into their phones in their laps seems incredibly disrespectful?

I have duck content AND sewing content today hahaha. Beginning with my darlings Ngaire and Lefty. I have two great videos too, maybe I can cut them together and still be within Bluesky's time constraint. They're EXTREMELY expectant now and they march over very self righteously. I adore them 🪶🇳🇿

C'mon, where's the "it comes as"?? Normally the press gallery only need two instances to say there's a pattern and you have at least four. I want a "it comes as National MPs have been caught out using personal email repeatedly this term" before the week is out!

the cooker to nz first pipeline is smooth and unruffled as their brains

lmao I said this before I actually looked into it and I was pretty bang on. I hate being right all the time. Made with Python, Django, and Next.JS, hosted on AWS.

This govt legit has a modus operandi where a minister will say some dumb shit, they wait to see the reaction, and if it’s stronger than expected they then have Luxon do this. It’s focus group by stupid soundbite. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

The site the article is about does not have a library catalogue or any other functionality because it's not a library website. It's just a brochure site about the *building*. www.tematapihi.govt.nz The *library* website is wcl.govt.nz

"“Ara Ake was set up with a very clear mission. It was to be the bridge between new technologies in the energy sector and economic development and jobs that could flow from that." Megan Woods newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/02/t...

But it's a website about a library? Wappalyzer extension indicates my worst fears - made with Python, Django, Next.js, React, Amazon cloudfront for cdn, hosted on AWS. Pretty much all of the most expensive options, all for a fancy looking static website. Christ.

The slick new $600k site about the building is www.tematapihi.govt.nz

Without knowing anything about what it's made in/with, the 72k hosting /year is what shocks me most. Probably using an expensive cloud provider who hopefully gives them all the bells and whistles for backups and disaster recovery and duplication?

I love my baby birds but gosh puppies are something else entirely. Cheepy noises versus squeaky squeally noises. awh

I think this is the lot took the kara.nz website from me (beat me to it). I wouldn't be doing much with it, but at least I wouldn't be doing AI.

The New Zealand Initiative group needs oodles more scrutiny than it is getting. It connects the rich, the neolibs, the think tanks, the people shifting the Overton window, policies, and it connects down to the useless idiots that hang around them and follow their orders without scrutiny.

The NZ Initiative represents at least $12.7 Trillion in business interests: #AtlasNetwork #Greed #Privatisation & #austerity open.substack.com/pub/weareund...

#Democracy demands that we eliminate not only the dodgiest and most obscure sources of donor money, but all of it. Here’s what George Monbiot suggests: #nzpol #ukpol #uspol #auspol #billionaires #corporate #lobbying #elections #donations www.filmsforaction.org/articles/get...

"this app could have been a webpage"

Labour won in 2017 because it's leadership offered hope and something different. It won in 2020 because it had DELIVERED MATERIAL SAFETY FOR THE COUNTRY. It lost in 2023 because it offered neither of those things. I have been saying this for 11 years now. publicaddress.net/speaker/hone...

So many absolute gimmes. Restore the actually-expert-informed non-AI-drafted curriculum. Uncancel the Census. Restore the Ministry for the Environment. Repeal the Regulatory Standards Act. Yeet the Fast Track. Bring back same day enrolment for voting.

Māori shut out of curriculum decisions against ministry’s advice Erica Stanford is advised by a "pro-colonisation" advocate Elizabeth Rata & Atlas Network's NZ Initiative which has a history of anti-indigenous bias

Hmmm. No, BYD can’t build a car in 52 seconds. It has a production line which is so big that when averaged over time it ejaculates a car every 52 seconds. Also, Australia and New Zealand are not the only markets for right-hand drive vehicles. Good story marred by sloppy writing. #HotButtonWhinge

Māori-owned data storage network hailed as significant step towards data sovereignty www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...

Or we could tax people and companies properly. 🤷‍♂️

Linux KDE should probably not have an option for signing into a Google Account for integration if it straight up doesn't work, and hasn't worked for years, because of OAuth2.0 scope permission issues + usage limits + Google making it extremely difficult anyway.

Just before entering politics Hipkins worked in the oil and gas industry for Todd Energy which is an NZ Initiative member if that tells you anything.

Seeing Labour MPs try be active on here, and then getting dragged through the dirt for their lack of commitment is deserved, but made me realize that I don't see the same of green MPs. Searching Green MP NZ yields 3 well known members, but no more. Anyone know if there are more than that on here?

It must be so weird being in NZ govt, having to pretend Australia doesn’t exist. Yeah there really is nowhere solar + batteries on buildings thru public incentives, is delivering meaningful load, reliability day & night, and lowering cost to homes & biz. Nowhere www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Opposition to AI development and data centres: "anti-tech violent extremist activity." Has this language (and attitude) already infected NZ agencies?

Kākāriki Renewables executive director Simon Currie doesn't seem to understand that we won't own the work output, the land, the data center, the data, or the renewable generation. He's just interested in selling his own stuff at a significant margin like gentailers.

look how much craftsmanship we've lost in clothing in just a hundred years

How many mac users do we know that are affected? Probably have to hit up the accountants groups.

Would it be illegal or generally discouraged to post that the nz minister that wants us to reconsider our nuclear free stance should have hazardous radioactive material hidden in his sleeping quarters, where he has the chance to mutate into a politician with a spine AND a brain?

I'm gobsmacked. This is Priyanca Radhakrishnan's response to this qn "Does Labour have any plans when next in government to introduce any legislation that will strengthen the democratic process by countering this?" "It's not a conversation we've had" wtf?

Marae are emergency infrastructure. So why aren’t they funded like it?

So media report on rural perception of climate change in AoNZ - 69% agreed climate change is occurring and 83% of them consider it driven by human activity But only 41% consider it's driven primarily by human activity = UNDER 30% stating climate change is happening and primarily our fault

THANK YOU @ricardommarch @greens.org.nz "Why the rush to grant ‘automated decision makers’ the power over any decision made by WINZ? It speaks volumes that the priorities are to punch down on the unemployed instead of going after the big banks & supermarkets raking while people struggle." #nzpol

They carried bikes up 55 stairs for 40+ years. Then Sydney built a 170m ramp. Result in 10 weeks: 📈 +42% daily cyclists 🚴‍♀️ +76% women riders 👴 +8% older adults ⚡ +5% e-bikes Infrastructure shapes who shows up! Read the full story here!

Hands up if you are surprised to hear there is currently NO ISO standard for period products. Not for tampons. Not for pads. Nothing. 5/12 #PeriodFriendlyWorld #MenstrualHealthAwarenessMonth

(cartoon Steve Sack) #politics