Definitely in my deliberate typo era now

Point Chev / Grey Lynn / Ponsonby

Last week's radio show set list

'Where does your tax money come from?' is the question to start with. If Govt spend an extra $10bn, we have an extra $10bn to pay taxes with.

I've seen all I need to see. The book with the flower pictures should win

There are a growing number of people looking at the situation in the Middle East and staring at our diesel supply and the apparent indifference of our government, and wondering: why aren’t they doing more? And there’s a straightforward but unhappy answer to that question. A 🧵 #nzpol

If only Winston Peters had met with JD Vance last week. #nzpol

#nzpol sound familiar?

Man, being on this side of the date line sucks some times. "TACO Wednesday" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

That's right, hang your head in shame, Winston Peters

Tāmaki whānau, heads-up for Sunday. Big weather incoming! I've never seen this much alignment between models five days out. We can be pretty confident of a direct hit of from ex-tropical cyclone Vaianu.

Great 🧵 And brings to mind this seasonal gem. Let's not elect fairy-tale-believers this November, eh?

Resist like water

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

If only there was an organization, a part of society, whose job is to step in and solve market failures for the long-term good!

A great way to remove dependence on foreign energy and the war and suffering that goes with it is to invest in renewables and storage. We should have been doing this for decades. Elect leaders who support clean energy and economic security for all, not fossil fuel interests.

Would you employ to do a job a person who, in the job interview, said "this job isn't important, and if you hire me, I'll do nothing"? Can we please stop electing to govern us people who have no interest in governing?

Amazing watching the American baseball tragics on here all rooting for Venezuela in the World Baseball Classic final against the USA. Venezuela won!

sound the klaxon

These are all places i have been, and wish to revisit

A DJ mix as fan fic in response to @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social 's Southern Reach novels. This expresses the experience of the characters' transmogrification, but also my own experience as an obsessed reader. Pain, fear, uncertainty, awe, union. Assimilation. on.soundcloud.com/v2FF59C2hUYL...

While an understanding of what ecosystems looked like in the past is useful This is rarely going to provide a useful template for what ecosystems should be in a highly human-modified world, with rapid climate change

#nzpol maybe Nicola Willis could afford a couple of these to placate the impatient masses.

🍃🌹🌿 NZGreens have demonstrated they are the most evidence-based & pragmatic NZ political party with fully-costed budgets, & fiscal strategies that are meticulously researched & proofed #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/weareund...?

Goddamn, this trite trivialisation pisses me off no end. Tell me how many teens in the early 1900s were sexually victimized or bullied to death by novels? This isn't apples to oranges, its apples to anthrax

Good lord, can everyone calm down about VPNs. The SC report does not propose banning them, nor even explicitly recommend exploring the banning of them. Yes we get it, you are smart and practical and virtuous. But you are losing your mind about a mischaractization of a very minor point.

"To be clear, the US faces no hard financing constraint. It does not need exports to pay its debts. It issues the currency in which those debts are written. ..... That is not a payments crisis. .... It is a crisis of power." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I just finished this book, with tears in my eyes. Remarkable. I'm not sure I've ever been as 'seen' by an author, nor identified as strongly to a character, as with this book. If you ever want to understand why us kiwi men are so fucked up, this book will show you.

At the risk of repeating myself, Brownlee vote of no-confidence when?

If you see this, post a rabbit youtu.be/sFRt67AWzHI

The race is on for someone in the #nzpol left (Greens or Labour?) to announce a “solar levy” of $8.50 a year to provide the exact same outcome to kiwis as the $30 gas tax the govt is creating. I know which I’d vote for. Make the election a referendum on renewable energy. You’d smash the govt.

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Once again I skeet before you...

Seattle Seahawks fan parade today Seattle, Washington

Post a banger not in English youtu.be/-qLmWU2eXKM?...

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Especially when, for the same price as another one of their stupid highways in Northland, we could have built Lake Onslow, which would have solved the dry-year challenge while completely insulating us from the volatile global energy market pricing dynamics. Now we'll be price-takers, yet again!

Jason Myers for MVP, with the return TD-saving tackle. And most of the points.

We need to find a way to tell the youths about internet forums so they restart them

Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: Beekeeping Oceanography of Puget Sound Philosophy of Science American Studies Ethnobotany

No wonder Kash Patel got such a warm audience with NZ's current governmental. Equally vacuous, focused solely on optics, obsessed with perks, entirely uninterested in actually doing the job. #nzpol

Isabella Aiona Abbott was the first Native Hawaiian woman to receive a PhD in science and a leading expert on Pacific marine algae. She discovered over 200 seaweed species and her work is still influential today. adalovelaceday.subst...

Great interview here with Herbert. Recommended!

Do I know anyone at University of Washington who can help me get liquid nitrogen and ultra-high purity nitrogen? 👀

We may be an ocean away, but there are many of us in Aotearoa quietly cheering on every one of you Americans who are standing up, speaking out & taking action today against your govt's latest acceleration towards full-on fascism & war. Solidarity & strength from the deep south of the planet. #nzpol