The tech bros gave us crypto currency that isn’t currency, artificial intelligence that isn’t intelligence, and prediction markets that are inside-trader scams. On the other hand, they have given us gigantic data centers that employ no one and destroy communities. So there’s that.

#nzpol “So, it seems that under a veneer of law and order, the Government is also seeking to hide the evidence of the societal failures that have happened under their watch." wellingtoncitymission.org.nz/murray-edrid...

My Comfrey is trying to die off but can't stop flourishing in this weather, neither can this monster Pie Melon in a compost heap. Already took 4x4+kg fruit, it's still setting and growing more, thanks to this little one covered in pollen, in a flower from the volunteer triffid

RIP Jools Topp. A wonderful person and a staunch advocate on the right side of things for a very very long time.

Not a murder mystery fan but I watch Brokenwood, for its unabashed kiwiness, subtle movie homages, I miss most of them for sure, the running gags and strong subplots and characters But mostly I watch Fern Sutherland who is a master of her craft, she can tell a whole backstory in 2 words or less

“a company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is”. Same game, different age

From the No Shit Sherlock department, who have mostly been asleep at the wheel since the end of Feb, a slow waking up But STILL stuck with the effect on prices To ask a Zen-ish question: what is the price of a product that is no longer available? "Sorry, we don't know how to talk about that"

Needed this

I spent a lot of time over 15 years promoting the integration of IT across the human experience, seems like at least some of that was a bad idea.

#nzpol For those writing to MPs about the heinous bill on gender identity, this short piece on the scientific evidence that debunks the alleged biological binary might be helpful: www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

Please, oh pretty please, will someone buy this person a trip to Sweden, with car hire thrown in? Please?

Sean Foo is a gold bug at heart so I take his stuff with a grain of salt, but he does cover the landscape, in this piece he looks at the collapse of the Turkish economy, as it sells off its gold and then sells down US Bonds from $16Bn to $1.6Bn to prop up it's collapsing currency

Define "press"

Sic transit gloria gugli The enshittification is complete

No argument "asking people to vividly imagine experiencing a personal and specific, negative future that could result from not addressing climate change and writing a letter to a child about the world being left to them" Now How do you get them in the room ready to do that exercise?

About to make a submission (no doubt fruitless) on the Man/Woman bill, can anyone give me a link to a reliable Biological Reality check about the chromosomal variety observed in the human genome?

More unnecessary excitement 2.16am, the backup power5 circuits dropped out, I suspect as faulty fuse because there really is nothing that would exceed the current limits 8.45am, the burnoff that has been going 3 days up the valley now covers half a gully and the flames are 5m, Firies on the way

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/act-leade... Only corrects it after he gets caught. Will he be treated the same as Michael Wood or will Seymour get away with it like he did his links with Tim Jago? #nzpol

This is a HUGE tell from a pathetic, fragile. infantile, increasingly demented man running loose & enraged in the global china shop Its not just that the election was a year ago, that he pathetically tries to grab the credit, its not even that he is trying to cover up last week's rage post 1/3

if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either

#nzpol #nzlabour

New theory, straight from my butt The world's 2 most powerful nations are now an economically determinant Iran, & a militarily emergent Ukraine China will annex what it wants of Russia and ally with Iran The EU will become a Ukrainian client The rest of us will scrabble for crumbs & the US? 🤷

Treatment. My @smh @theage cartoon.

These people are beyond gross. #FightBack Let the 🍊 🤡 be a warning

Guys. They’ve fixed the economic crisis. By… increasing the font size of the English words and making the te reo Māori words smaller. It’s just what you all were hoping was a priority right now. Imagine being new minister and this is what you think is important. How embarrassing.

Presumably, under the proposed legislation in this increasingly benighted country, this will not be possible #nzpol

Apple iPhone wizards I take video on the SE, until recently, if I made the video in landscape it automatically saved it that way. Suddenly it is rotating everything to portrait and, though I can edit it to landscape, it doesn't save it as that How do it tell it to get it's act together? Example

Please don't use "DOGE-style", that is Americanised, social-media-centred, inside baseball language They are deliberate, malicious vandalism of the systems on which our civil society depends, on which humane dignity and humane relationships are founded, they are ideologically fascist, say it's name

About 15 minutes in a conversation between a couple of insiders, which can be a bit elided for the rest of us, a gem to keep "I like to point out, almost all commodities are nothing but dirt and diesel" ALL commodities

NZ govt: we will strip the land of resources, and make it illegal to complain. We will screw your health and education systems, we will lie and cheat and tell you it's the fault of the bloody mowries. NZ people: they are rich so they probably know better than us. This is fine

Turtles have nerve endings in their shells. Alt text [turtle scrubbing their shell with an aquarium mounted shell brush]

"One thing about humans is we are gonna put some shit inside some other shit and eat that and it will always be delicious." x.com/barbarismcri...

Worth a watch

#nzpol ahem

This just happened. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Kia ora e te whanau, what do we know about the connections, ownership, operations, cooperations, people, of Tactical Solutions? Asking for a family member www.tactical.co.nz

The five alarm dumpster fire of 'under urgency' 'unprecedented' 'conflict of interest' that is the entire term of this govt is shorthand for 'hijacked by corporate raiders to loot for profit and fuck you all'

Shocked and ashamed that only 8,000 non-Māori have so far chosen to be part of history by adding their name to the Claim that Tania's talking about. Deadline is Monday. "Worse than the Treaty Principles Bill!" @taniawaikatolawyer.bsky.social #ToitūTeTiriti #nzpol 📝 forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

"subtly contemplates the role generational memory, tradition and spectacle play in sustaining community" I'm OK with elaborate, full on displays of non-sense as part of social cohesion, Palio di Siena is another, Bolivian Navy Day maybe What troubles me is the hidden nonsense in cultural norms

Singapore PM Laurence Wong lays it out as it is, ONCE the strait is open, which it ain't and wont be for who knows how long Good summary of the situation, but then he goes on a self congratulatory jag focused on exactly the FF dependence that is the heart of the problem Baled out at that point

It’s in the constitution. No slavery except for prisoners. Remember labor camps are part of the plan. Arbeit macht frei.

Pseudohistorical belief is not just an incidental part of supremacism, it’s a functionally necessary one

In today’s Weekend Herald

NEW: Solar plus batteries cheaper than gas. “A new report finds that 24/7 ‘firm’ clean energy is cheaper than coal & gas in many parts of the world. The Iran War may catalyze faster adoption.” It’s just really dumb not to lean in on renewables. Unless your personal profit requires oil dependency…

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Loquats are a forbidden fruit round here, no new planting or moving the trees, but we also have a couple of kereru who used to spread the seed I'm sure Used to, because the trees are healthy but for 3 years haven't flowered

"It's tourism flight operators, it's agricultural aviators, it's helicopter contractors, everyone across the whole system is feeling this." They missed one, emergency response/medevac In the last Northland floods, private choppers worked together to create a response on the fly, how will THEY pay?