I've had an EV for nearly a year. As petrol prices rise, I've decided to share what I've learned (and saved) in that time: newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/24/w...

"Mum/Dad/Aunty/Uncle(over 50s),I want you to do the children a favor. In New Zealand the 16-24 unemployment rate is 16.5%. Right & centralist led government austerity policy is making things worse. I want you to think about the next generation & consider voting Green in the upcoming election" #nzpol

I know a lot of you don’t feel anything about excluding disabled/brown children and feel this kind of bigotry and cruelty is fine. It’s not. Expecting people to leave their kids to come work and prop up your economy is awful and just because it’s framed as a choice doesn’t make it better.

They were trying and failing to get people to subscribe at $20/mo and each 60 second video was costing the company $15-18 in costs to make. That’s it, everybody, right there. That’s the Economics of AI. Visionary stuff.

This is fascinating.

Cartoon by @dennisgoris.bsky.social

The GBM and I were talking politics at the dinner table and the tiny hobbit clearly wanted to be part of the conversation so I asked him straight up what should we do about the fuel crisis? The tiny hobbit: I … I wanna read owl book. There you have it folks. Stay home and read your books.

District includes Mar-a-Lago and voted for Trump by 11 points in 2024

So on Monday it was "we have fuel we'll announce something Tuesday". Tuesday it was "here's fifty bucks" Wednesday it's "we'll let you know more on Friday" www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Quite interested to see what a LOTRphile like Colbert will come up with. I’d like to think it embraces Tolkien and he wants to come back here to film it 😃 (my son is qualified & wanting to work in the field)

given the modern conservative fascination with Sparta it's at least a little funny that they've engineered a situation in which Persia is able to level a dramatically uneven battlefield by forcing the conflict into a narrow pathway

While in NZ? LNG Mate, need more LNG

Pete Hegseth: "We negotiate with bombs"

SCOOP: Mark Zuckerberg’s AI CEO has no legs

Go to internetnz.nz/membership/ to sign up before March 31 2026. Then make sure you vote for the board elections, and turn up to the online AGM and ensure the right wing don't capture INZ and implement their anti diversity agenda.

Accidental?

Emily Writes nails this! www.emilywrites.co.nz/so-brooke-va...

Thank goodness The Spinoff rescued @haydendonnell.bsky.social from his totally unhelpful role as a media commentator on RNZ and put his skills to use properly!!

The greed baked into New Zealand’s electricity market, resulting industry closures and regional unemployment, will be felt for decades. I’ll vote for anyone who destroys the profit incentive on power supply. It has to stop.

again I point out how strange it is that high-level diplomatic negotiations of war and peace are being conducted by freelancers Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, both of whom have egregious conflicts of interest, and not the actual secretary of state

We’ve told all the casting agents that the Weird Al biopic sequel is currently on hold, but they just keep sending in headshots.

Who could have imagined that a country you were attacking would shoot back? That's not supposed to happen!

Woop

“National would have screwed up the Covid response” yes we all have eyes we can look to the UK and US that had right wing govts for example. We don’t have to give these people the benefit of the doubt ok we know. We have decades of precedence. STOP GIVING THESE PEOPLE THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT.

A Labour apologist care to explain this? Hipkins has forgotten that his primary job is TO OFFER BLOODY ALTERNATIVES TO THIS DROP DEAD NACT1 REGIME www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

With fucking what??? Our navy has 8 boats and our airforce has 44 planes/choppers

Chris Hipkins is piss weak as a political leader and if Labour don't swap him out for someone, ANYONE, with actual charisma, then they're fucked. And if they're fucked, so are the rest of us. We've seen what's happening, we can't survive another NACTFirst term.

Sure seems like an urgent corporate tax to stop price-gouging, as suggested by the Greens, would come in handy right about now 🤔

Look forward to working out how Labour losing the election is because of the woke left in mid November. That's going to feel great.

What is even the point of Hipkins? What utter lack of ambition or any positive message on how they plan to build a better future. #nzpol

If Luxon is Temu Prime Minister then Hipkins is Temu Leader of the Opposition

So - astonishingly - Iran has been paying attention to history, notably the Millennium Challenge exercise, which was originally an Iran war game, and in which US Marine Col. Paul van Riper, playing the baddies, handed an invading US force its hat with both its ears in it BY DOING THIS.

You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything? That’s how the internet was.

Labour governments consistently see improved credit ratings - with all but one of Labour's govt achieving a higher rating National consistently has NZ credit ratings reduced: 1991, 1998, 2011, 2026, meaning higher credit costs. John Key borrowed $50b, Ardern $80b, Luxon $120b. Courtesy Frank

There's so much going on here. The helmet not fitting properly, the fact there's at least three shades of blue and they all argue with each other, the safety goggles while giving a media standup. Someone has done Nicola Willis extremely dirty.

Iran has 600,000 soldiers and 350,000 to 5 million reserves. 5,000 Iranian soldiers have been killed in the Second Iran War, and 15,000 injured... ...leaving just *580,000 to 5.58 million armed Iranian combatants* lying in wait for the ground invasion Trump is about to launch.

Maybe it works out, but what Trump will soon do—send our kids into vast, rough terrain held by one of Earth's largest armies to search 4 heavily guarded nuclear facilities that are booby-trapped and filled with fake canisters—is the craziest thing a POTUS has done in my lifetime.

Imagine screwing up so badly that you decide you need to give the country you're waging war on a $14 billion windfall to avoid tanking the global economy. www.ms.now/news/u-s-war...

Imagine if you had made your whole 'sound economic managers' schtick about stopping that yellow line going up? Of course, the blue line is more interesting, but, enough about the private sector being in net debt to the NZ Govt.

Nicola Willis needlessly travelling to Marsden Point just to announce nothing perfectly encapsulates their fuel crisis response so far. #nzpol

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Trump Broadcasts to Entire World *Exactly* When and Where U.S. Will Strike in Iran Next, Endangering U.S. Pilots; Unclear If Any Prior U.S. President Has Ever Intentionally Endangered American Lives in This Way Just to Be Macho and Feel Like a Big Man

The US President casually announcing his intention to commit war crimes on social media. That's where you're at, America.

Sounds like an ideal time to be investing in a LNG backstop to our national energy infrastructure. 🙄

“It’s clear that user feedback is influencing Microsoft’s moves around AI on Windows... The Copilot rollback is just one of the changes being made.” Keep it up, haters🤗 techcrunch.com/2026/03/20/m...

Well dang Waiting for Korea and Singapore to now go Force Majeure on all exports of refined products as they just cant get the crude in to refine

We can move the trucking fleet to EVs any time folks 👇

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609... What we’re doing is failing, so we have to double down o. What we’re doing. Nicola-not-clue 😡 #nzpol