And here we go: >>>Earnings from state owned enterprises, such as the three major power companies that the Crown has a majority stake in, were stronger...<<< Thats OUR money going to govt coffers as ✌️earnings✌️. In other words,a hidden tax. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

The whole world please be like Spain 🇪🇸 “Spain Orders Blacklist of US Tech Giant Palantir From Public and Private Companies” 👏🇪🇸👏🇪🇸👏🇪🇸👏🇪🇸👏🇪🇸👏🇪🇸👏🇪🇸 clashreport.com/world/articl...

An unplesant look inside the #OIA sausage factory today, in the form of internal emails about the delays on the request which led to this piece, and its ugly. Wall-to-wall arse-covering and subserviance to the minister norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/06/usin...

Well well well

You guys I’m gettin some weird ads

So much economic ‘planning’ reminds me of a proposal I once saw to reduce the university’s deficit by cutting 10% of the academic staff. I pointed out that they also generate 10% of the income and asked how the shortfall would be made up. (Much then was per capita funding.) The plan was dropped.

Erica Stanford's AI curriculum says what? #nzpol

Google’s power consumption last year was equal to that of New Zealand (see graph 4 in the post below). Kind of puts EECA’s energy saving tips for households into perspective. #nzpol

If you’ve been squeamish about the word genocide to describe what our government wants to and is doing to trans people, (a) you were wrong and (b) it’s time to get over it. I don’t care who you are or what your deal is, you do, actually, have to put everything you can behind fighting this.

Fuck

Because a combination of short term thinking, climate change denial and multiple billions being taken out as profits by privatisation is a toxic blend that leads to chronic underinvestment in what the country needs to prosper.

For those who don't know, the fulla who just scored the opening goal for U.S.A. was born in Brooklyn to Nigerian parents from London. His mum was too pregnant to leave the US after a visit so he was born there, then they returned to the UK. Can't wait for the post game interview - his accent innit

This sounds very promising! 🤞🤞🤞 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

"The states and federal government accused Cal-Maine Foods, Versova and Hickman’s Egg Ranch of a behind-the-scenes arrangement to “artificially inflate the daily price quotations for eggs” between June 2022 and March 2025" so basically most of the biden presidency how weird

"former US businessman" And we want to trust them to do right with our conservation land under National's proposed Great NZ Sell Off

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

I have been laying the groundwork for New Zealand's participation in this 10 year, billion dollar survey of the sky since the day I arrived back home in 2011 -- and it formally started today... Big science from a little country :-) noirlab.edu/public/news/...

"A vote for NZ First is not merely a choice for a domestic political party; it is a direct, deliberate vote to import the most divisive, anti-Indigenous tactics of American Trumpism into the heart of New Zealand politics."

Striking how the centre-right, and the usual far-right chorus performatively angry at developments this week have not... actually read the law? #nzpol

That vampire live forever guy just announced that he has Autoimmune Gastritis in a novel length tweet and the lesson is you can still get sick even if your diet consists of chard and lentils so go ahead and eat that chili cheese dog amirite @wrenispinkle.bsky.social?

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'New Zealand has ranked among the world’s least EV-friendly countries' Aha no shit? 22nd out of 25 evsandbeyond.co.nz/nz-lags-in-g...

How 'bout those 10,000 public chargers that National promised, huh? HUH?

Hey if anyone in Dunedin knows (or is) Henry Scott, I’ve just found his wallet opposite the Night and Day on Regent Road. Going to take it to the cop shop in Meridian!

Nick's blogpost... nickrockel.substack.com/p/death-in-t...

I wonder if it has occurred to our government that they could easily avoid having all these terrible ideas

Petrol powered new car sales now a minority in UK over year, and declining. It’s over. cleantechnica.com/2026/06/26/u...

Listen I'm not saying the national broadcaster thinks you're stupid, but...

Postal pricing is influenced primarily by the continued insistence that NZ Post is run as a profit-making business instead of a public service.

I think this is the way should be treating government and its officers & employees where “I don’t recall” is _culpable_ because this is not a trial, this is not plausible deniability, not knowing is negligent and corrupt and should not be tolerated.

My god is marmite? (Ok, 'with me', but it took me a minute)

How is it nearly 1000 people thought “I’m good. I’m happy to buy a Tesla”?

What a shocker. Our CEO prime minister can’t even run his own office properly let alone the country.

Okay this is funny, look at the entertainment on the left, then look at the sun glasses of the band member, enlarge it and you can see the whole crowd of six.😂😂😂😂😂😂

It really bugs me when someone goes "Please help fix this" and provides no context to what the problem actually is. Provide. Examples. Please.

Time to call it. The NZ Govt is corrupt. Period. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

A #mural by Dutch #artist Judith de Leeuw shows the Statue of Liberty covering her eyes (in shame) in Roubaix, France (in 2025, just before July 4th). Judith de Leeuw, also known as JDL #StreetArt, creates #murals worldwide (41 countries) to draw attention to social issues. [email protected]

NZs PM Luxon clarifying the ombudsman report on secret meetings with lobby in his office: youtu.be/bPv8MCyyUbw?... #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

This seems (more or less) to be how the NZ CoC wants it too.

NZ's Chief Ombudsman finds decision by Prime Minister's Office about official information request on information regarding a case between climate activist Mike Smith and major emitters, 'unreasonable'. Official Information Act is meant to stop cover ups. #NZpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Eco retreat with a communal vibe but only when I feel like it because hell is other people. Reforestation, writing, gardening, music. record evenings with excellent food and wine

"Fine...go to work then, if you need me I'll be in my cup" Drop a follow for the cat

I think these two headlines demonstrate what people mean by a "K shaped economy", the policies behind it all, who benefits & who loses, it feels really messed up and gross. #nzpol

The same way that just a dozen people are behind over half of all the book bans, this entire goddamn nazi movement is a fucking handful of freaks who are loud enough in billionaire nazi sex pest social media empires to be confused with an entire crowd. This *is* their irl numbers and popularity.

“US government buildings, by design, look like the decaying wreckage of a once-great democracy, which is a little too on the nose for me.”

If you’re in DC & want to be anywhere besides broiling in an abandoned state fair, my favorite lesser known museum is the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian. It was really cool & strange. I don’t often go for contemporary art, but this changed my mind. Some pics from 2022, things may have +/-

I thought he was going to *drain* the swamp, not create a new one?