This is all the pick-up most pick-up owners need. The rest of that shit you see on the road is for the driver's insecurity.

So we are at the syphoning petrol from parked cars stage and this government is talking about communism. At this point we need a snap election.

This guy hasnt got a clue and is yet Minister. Qatar has said the LNG infrastructure will be offline for 5 years given the damage HOWEVER, if TACO abandons operations against the Gulf, the Strait is then under firm Iranian control AND NOTHING MOVES for US allies

Despite her announced conditions being met, Willis is not raising the fuel alert level. It's a do-nothing regime #nzqt

Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown says ACT & David Seymour are the "most anti-marketplace outside of Russia" Also labelled ACT Party CAVEs - "Continually Against Virtually Everything" That's because libertarianism is a faux ideology created by the wealthiest to hoodwink the world

This is the bigger picture view: it’s not just that Solar makes fossil fuels less relevant and less profitable; it’s that it makes much modern warfare less relevant and less profitable

This might help explain why this lot are so bad at their job: they think that actually governing would be “communism”.

I think we might all be ready to agree that removing expertise from government has proven to be an experiment with disappointing results and it might be time to return to expertise-based models that had previously proven to be better able to deliver satisfactory outcomes.

In Australia: diesel trucks cost A$200–250k. Windrose BEV ~A$450–500k. Tesla ~A$400k+. Looks like 2×. Wrong lens. Diesel adds ~A$2M fuel over 10 yrs. Electric = higher capex, far lower opex. As prices converge, the cost gap flips. Freight follows cost. Diesel gets exposed. ⚡🔋 #Bettrification

This column Luxon "wrote" is so bad that it raises serious questions about his intellect. So embarrassing #nzpol

Look just get a comms person to write it for you. It’s no big deal. We don’t expect PMs to write everything with their name on it. And if a comms person did write this for you, get a new comms person.

Every F1 race weekend this season is spiritual warfare – Max Verstappen vs. my prayers for him to ragequit in the most spectacularly hilarious fashion

My god in heaven please send me the ultimate meat platter 🤲🏿

Me: “I’m sorry but you’ve failed your saving throw. The backhoe slices through the unprotected fibre and, to make matters worth, both Internet connections and the site-to-site are contained in the same bundle” Party: “I cast Restore” Me: “the spell will take effect within 3 business days”

The law applies a 9.9% income tax on income over $1 million.

"Embassies are told to recruit local influencers, academics and community leaders abroad to carry counter-propaganda messaging, an approach designed to make American-funded narratives feel locally organic rather than centrally directed." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Firefox updated and let me know about the exciting new AI enhancements. So I went to Settings and I selected the one-button "Block AI Enhancements." If there was an option to "Burn it in a fire of 1000 suns" I would have selected that option.

134 years ago this cartoon was drawn, and in 134 years the problem has only gotten worse.

My grand theory of how the National Party sucks at governing is that because they think they are just naturally better at it, the only thing they feel they need to put effort into is differentiating themselves from the previous govt. If they do that, the results will take care of themselves

I don’t know why I watched that Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere documentary. Its entire message could’ve been distilled into a single video. 🙂🔫

This is the future Aotearoa NZ & I couldn’t be more excited.

This government is so wedded to its ideology its going to drive us off a cliff - using the last drop of diesel to do so - and crash us straight into stagflation. #nzpol #oilcrisis #oilshock

This policy announcement about improving the media envisages a future where the front-page of The Dominion Post (sic) has a graph titled “Bara analysis of charts reveals esclusled huner the patterns in the charts chart”

my beautiful friend Arisa. unfortunately she became ensconced in the Motueka hippie commune and when she got cervical cancer they convinced her that chemo and radiology were toxic. she died of cervical cancer. let this be your reminder not to listen to fucking white idiot hippies

#nzpol Don't be fooled by his fuel supply media standups. Here's a reminder on some of the many destructive things that Luxon and his National/NZ First/ACT coalition government have already done which can and will make this fossil fuel supply chain issue worse.🤬 www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

I’m trying to re-home a poodle that barks A LOT. If anyone’s interested I’ll hop over my neighbor’s fence and get it for you.

Chris Bishop now admits the $50 billion "Roads of National Significance" programme can't be funded. It should be scrapped, but at minimum will have to be cut. The first cut should be the project with the lowest benefit-cost ratio of all - the Wellington tunnels project. #nzpol #climatecrisis #fuel

As we move closer to the NZ General Election you must remember that this recession was not caused by the conflict in the Middle East. It was caused by this Coalition Governments desire for personal enrichment at any cost to the people of Aotearoa They are vile, sociopathic liars. #nzpol

#Oil giant breaks ground on its first large-scale charging hub in #Australia, a 24-bay site at Melbourne Airport that it plans to complete later this year.

Now’s an ideal time for the government to take it over and provide EVs by the hour as a public service.

I went grocery shopping today. Did I do some disaster prepping? Yep, dried noodles, flour and tins of baked beans. Never mind 3 days worth, we can probably go three weeks now. Even if the supplies keep rolling in, you can bet your life the supermarkets will introduce [even more] predatory pricing.

National complaining about #OIA costs and using them as an excuse to cut transparency is like them complaining about the cost of elections: both missing the point, and fundamentally anti-democratic.

Cool why don’t you guys just cut out the middle man and go and kill some Urkrainian civilians yourselves? Would be quicker and even cheaper. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...

"New Zealand appears to be sleep walking into a crisis, led by a government unwilling (or unable) to inform the public what the likely outcomes will be" werewolf.co.nz/2026/03/gord...

This is going to get even worse in the coming months as inflation increases and growth goes negative. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

I'm in agreement now that fuel relief just increases demand. We need relief from fuel, not relief for fuel. And societally we have an opportunity to look at what that means. In every crisis, there is an opportunity, and this time it shouldn't be dictated to by fossil fuel propaganda.

The Roman Empire had the largest most expensive army in the world, but it had bad generals and insane moron emperors that fought stupid wars and it died. Anyone getting Déjà vu?

Do It Now!! Advocacy group calls for prioritisation of food security amid fuel crisis #nzpol

I bet you an hour before we run out of oil the Coalition Government will let us know. #nzpol

Green party policy is popular: 4 out of 5 New Zealanders want free dentists (across political lines).

‘Basket liabilities’ neatly sums up this coalition government…🤔 #nzpol

LNG binned? New terminal looks doubtful, ministers consider options amid skyrocketing gas costs Yes well that seems sensible. Solar panels, batteries, maybe some more wind farms. We have the money apparently so …. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

I didn't want to depend on US-censored news so I googled "how to watch BBC" and immediately got content so bold my red wine blushed.

That's quite the sign:

How's the love affair with Donald Trump working out for you Jonesy?

This National Party attack ad is stupid - they can't even focus on a job without resorting to "blame Labour". BTW Global inflation was 9-10% during Covid. NZ did much better than most. And Labour saved 20,000 lives. National's debt is tracking to $120b ($100b w pay equity) without a crisis.

And that is oil and gas fucked for the rest of the Decade

Here's one with the volume up, now that I've had my X-ray and, more importantly, breakfast😉