National supporters “masterful gambit sir”.

HELL YEAH ! FUCKING RIGHT

I think this is what NYC must have felt like during the events seen in the documentary Ghostbusters

A very uncomfortable thing to acknowledge is that policymakers need to either force or entice data centers to connect to the grid, and also that data centers can really fuck up the grid. There are not easy answers here, but there are answers, and I'm proud to be at an org that is working on them.

it must be fundamentally absurd and on some level unreconcilable to be both, 1. A devout Catholic 2. The brother of the current Pope

BREAKING!!!

"I love the inflation" should be in every campaign ad

Actually it won’t kill you to remember that the person you are speaking to is a person

Read this thread.

The govt consulted a senior law professor who told them that legislating over Smith vs Fonterra would provide "immunity from accountability" for corporate defendants, and was inconsistent with its own Regulatory Standards Bill and common law rights They did it anyway. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

These fucking patronising articles about turning off the TV and heated towel rails to save pennies piss me off so much Save money on your bills by voting for parties who will look after you and not themselves #nzpol

From now on, any interview with him that doesn’t end like this should shame the interviewer for ever. And yet because he & his backers have corrupted so much of the media, it takes proper courage to do it.

You used to go to websites and they would have guestbooks that people would sign like it was a bed and breakfast

"France passed a single law and instantly unlocked 11 gigawatts of #solarenergy — without using new land. In 2023, France's government mandated solar canopies over all car parks larger than 80 spaces. The scale was enormous: There are 400,000 parking areas across France #ActOnClimate #Renewables

Seems the National Party is using the New Lynn electorate (soon to be Waitākere) as an anti-choice base. Paulo Garcia, the current MP, is staunchly anti-choice. He's retiring. The candidate picked to replace him, Agnes Loheni, is anti-choice too.

When I was a teenager, I believed that government should be run like a business. Now I’ve spent 25 years working for a bunch of different businesses & I don’t even think most businesses should be run the way we run businesses

Awful truth, unknown to 99% of the population... NZ Govt adopted an economic management model in the 1980s that MAKES SURE: 1. We always have tens of thousands of kiwis on the dole. 2. People with work / little work live in abject poverty that keeps them desperate for crap jobs. Why? [🧵 1/n]

2 is the weirdest prime number. The other primes are like, no no, you go hang with the evens, it’s fine. We’re okay, later, cool.

We quite literally have a whites only refugee program and somehow the media won’t call the Administration white supremacists.

The Southern Auckland sub region would somewhat disagree Mainly because the sub region is bigger than Wellington and Dunedin combined, and also we disown anything north of Portage Road in Otahuhu

It's not offline, it's gone on strike

Feel that? Yes, that is your sixth sense telling you: The Kawaiicon 2026 Call For Participation (CFP) is open! kawaiicon.org/cfp Want to be part of our chaotic gaggle and theatrical show? It could be a talk, or any flavor of whimsical fun for the hallway con or satellite events. CFP closes 7 Aug.

Ahh no wait sorry let me fix that

Did you see this??? An entire 50 PERCENT of Democratic voters under 30 want the party to MOVE TO THE LEFT on transgender issues. Comparing with other issues polled, it's second only to healthcare as an issue younger voters want to see the party move left on.

NZ National Party 🗳️ Fucking the basics ✔️ Destroying the future. ✔️ The self proclaimed “grown ups” are really fucking shit at this. 🤦‍♀️ #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ

This rules. Absolutely the funniest possible outcome. The president of the United States filling in as the headliner of a concert because Milli Vanilli canceled.

We’ve known this was coming. By 1 May 2028 the NZ copyright term will be extended from 50 to 70 years after death, benefiting a few publishers and ensuring nothing will enter the public domain for 20 years. Worst case, it will be retrospective, clawing back things currently freely shareable.

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

Pardon my French, but who gives the proverbial flying fuck at the moon what unelected and notoriously incompetent functionaries of foreign governments have to say about the New Zealand's domestic business? #nzpol www.1news.co.nz/2026/05/30/p...

Breaking: The Ministry of Social Development will receive broad powers to let computers make decisions as part of a bill being rushed through Parliament. newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/29/5...

Week in Review; Comment: It was seen as a base for a decent working-class family life, but govts now consider it a cost not a benefit, says Rob Campbell

This is my intuition about austerity and most business decisions: short term cost-cutting leads to higher long term costs.

According to Axios, an AI consultant revealed that one of their enterprise clients accidentally racked up a staggering $500 million bill in a single month on Anthropic’s Claude after failing to implement spending caps or usage controls for employees. Half a billion dollars. In 30 days. On AI usage.

Terrible report out from the ghouls at TPU today - including this blatant lie. Remember, if Govt run a budget surplus of $84bn, the private sector by definition has to lose $84bn in savings ($ or Govt Bonds). Equating a Govt surplus with extra money in household budgets is off-the-chart misleading.

Ghouls getting in a frenzy about Govt spending $ on the arts. Govt spends $180bn / year - enough to pay the wages of everyone in NZ. The private sector relies on that spending - nurses pay landlords, artists buy stuff, road crew eat pies.... and Govt collects taxes back on wages and transactions.

The problem with NZ isn't too many MPs. With the move to Unitary Councils, we're going to see a significant DROP in elected representation throughout the country in the next five years.

To explain the significance of this, Anthropic moved enterprises to token-based billing in Q1 2026. This is at most four months of having to pay the true cost of their token burn and they’re already begging for mercy. AI has a revenue ceiling and an economic mismatch with its customer base.

I'm just a biz journo, standing in front of a Taxation Authority, asking it to stop chanting Tax Secrecy provisions.

Arts, Culture and Heritage must save $36.4m over the next 4 years. HOW? How can we save any more in an industry that is already bled dry, with artists themselves providing the biggest subsidies so that kiwis can experience our own stories, participate in the arts and make great new works?

$1.77 billion for 16 km of state highway. Hey wouldn't that have been enough to get the port upgrades and good ferries done?

Thoughtful? Resigned. Determined to be constructive. ALSO determined to be honest. With those who fund this work, regarding what they can expect it to deliver, and what it will likely not. We could do more. We would like to. But yes: that would take more…

This lollyscramble narrative is so sick and twisted. Every year since I’ve been an adult it’s a talking point when we know healthcare has gotten worse, higher education is expensive, poor families are struggling, disabled people are screwed over, elder care is a shitshow. Like where is lolly?

Properly funded healthcare isn't a "lolly scramble" Decent mental health services isn't a "treat' Fully functional community and support services aren't just a "nice to have" Pretty revolted by this govt treating basic services like some kind of fancy expensive treat #nzpol #BudgetDay2026

It’s amazing. Chip Roy and John Cornyn both trump boot lickers, still thrown to the wolves. You either have to be 100 percent committed to the cult, or you’re out. If you want to walk a line, you’ll get crushed. But telling the truth and doing right will free your soul

You fucking wanker

🎶 Well, the word got around, they said, "This kid is insane, man" Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland "Get your education, don't forget from whence you came, and The world's gonna know your name, what's your name, man?"

"The remaining 5 percent concerns only the final portion of the hill, the tendency of the boulder to inevitably roll back down to the very beginning, the eternal nature of my punishment, and the fact that Hades has not technically agreed to alter any terms."

Anyway god I just really needed to get this one off my chest because an entire prong of the MMH PR at the time was "make it sound like we got Fancy Hacked rather than Dumb Hacked", and then a bunch of rando amateurs (myself included) got involved and some of them went off on complete tangents...

Talarico: I’m an eighth-generation Texan. I’ve been eating barbecue since before Ken Paxton’s first indictment. And if all they have on me is lying about me being a vegan, I feel pretty good about our chances this November.

A vast corruption scandal involving our PM and some of our biggest private companies and its not even on the front pages of the news sites any more already #nzpol