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I don’t think you need to be a business super brain to see that a highly possible future for Tesla is a continued decline in car sales alongside an extended Optimus product dev cycle that eventually culminates in a product launch that makes Cybertruck look like a winner by comparison.

I realize it is not the most useful piece of analysis but I feel like we don't talk enough about the plain fact that a relatively large chunk of the country has just kinda lost their minds

At every turn, the Government has opted for whatever would actually lead to more pollution and a warmer world – even if it costs more, jeopardises NZ’s reputation, overturns a campaign promise or clashes with the Government’s other priorities. The long retreat: newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...

I wonder how many stars Michelin will give our food banks? #NZPol

Bad AI supplanting human expertise is an issue that transcends any one field, but man—not many people on earth whose knowledge and dedication deserves respect like LIBRARIANS.

Fines that are less than revenue are not regulation. It’s just income tax. It’s not regulation, it’s the opposite.

The jury took seven hours to decide this. Not minutes - hours. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

A report from the Minister for Growth, on the unemployment rate. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #unemployment #joblessness

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

Soz, we gave all the money to Mike King. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

If all of summer was like this I’d be happy. But it won’t be.

So let’s get this straight. Lifeline is unfunded by govt & needs $2 million. But govt just hands $24 million to Gumboot Friday and is happy to give millions to the bloody Michelin Guide for tourism puffery of dubious value. Everything this govt does is run on vibes. www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/06/l...

Tourists: “Gosh food in New Zealand is expensive” Govt: “Let’s bribe Michelin Guide to do a guide to our most expensive restaurants” www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Microsoft to refund millions of customers over 365 subscription price increase for Copilot AI add-on

This girl is a very special bird because she is the first kingfisher that I managed to find and track by myself. (Usually I just find and track the ojisans with massive lenses and tripods who will eventually lead me to her.) Please love her, she is the size of your thumb.

Bloody blackbirds in the feijoa tree just going full ham on the flowers. It’s total catnip to them.

I rather think the whole point of addressing climate change is that it’s climate, it’s global, and ‘our own standards’ mean absolutely fucking nothing in that context. www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA25...

Yes, we can. Life is full of things we can be absolutely sure of. And the result of doing sweet fuck all about climate change is one of those things.

NZ First MPs keep proposing laws they have no intention of passing, and the media falls for it every time. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...

The problem with ‘chasing the centre’ in politics now is that you’re chasing a centre that has been defined by the right. Every time the right makes up some bullshit issue and you change your politics just a bit to accommodate that, you’ve shifted to the right. You’re no longer chasing the centre.

"It's not coincidental there has been a visible rise in the number of street homeless." #nzpol

Not convinced this "broad daylight attack" is even news (kid surely just dangled their arm over eels at a feeding spot), let alone requiring two reporters. Given the damage from an eel bite is a nasty graze, rather like falling off one's bike. As you can see they're not exactly toothy.

Love how National proudly opposed the Treaty Principles Bill, and wore it like a badge of honour. Then basically rolled it out anyways. They’re dismantling and removing anything that honours the treaty, and undermining Māori. Without consultation too like yesterday. Depressing.

The stupidity of young men is matched only by the stupidity of slightly older, middle-aged, and old men. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

seems bad! www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Elizabeth Rata wanted it gone, and so it is done.

It’s nuts the crap people believe about me. Someone even thinks I leafleted schools to scare boys into getting vaccinated! That may just sound silly, but misinformation and disinformation like this means some people want me and others like me jailed or even dead. It’s heartbreaking.

Why yes, the way to improve education is to launch an all out assault on the independence of the teaching profession and curriculum and assert political control over it all. Just ask any despot, they’ll agree. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

My fave thing is all the people in the Herald comments saying cycleways are pushed by the 'ideological left'. When these are the initial paragraphs of my article😂

Look I think it’s really funny that Luxon wants Trump to come here to play golf. He clearly has not thought it through at all. Not at all. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017...

In 2017, the fourth & final year of #NZ #charterschools, the success rates of students gaining Level 2 or higher was only 59.7% For public schools, that number was 80.3% Educational Institute president Lynda Stuart said the money would be better spent on those with learning needs #nzpol

All I can say, is thank fuck we didn’t have these homicidal cookers running the country during the COVID pandemic. The death toll would have been absolutely catastrophic. Measles can KILL, you sick fucks! #OneTermGovernment #nzpol #Aotearoa #NewZealand #NZpolitics www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.

‘Experts’ on saving for retirement in New Zealand never talk about low wages or extortionate rents and childcare costs. Telling people to save, while supporting the status quo that makes it impossible really grinds my gears. #nzpol

TFW you’re carrying a full cup of coffee and a sneeze starts coming on and there’s nowhere immediately available to put your cup down.

If this were a bunch of Pakeha farmers having to go back to court to relitigate an award of water rights because the government had changed allocation rules the media, business and legal establishments would be united in decrying it as the death of the rule of law.

One of my favourite things about NZ politics is there's only two possible categories for ideas: It'll never work here & We can definitely make it work despite it failing elsewhere #nzpol

“When you cut nearly 400 jobs in MPI, it's going to make a big, big impact, & the Luxon Govt needs to just admit that it was wrong, step up & fund them properly, & just throw everything at it that they can to eliminate these hornets, before next summer." #nzpol

At some point wouldn’t it be great to talk about expert advice to treat mitigation of airborne diseases as a logical piece of obvious infrastructure that requires investment, like roads, as opposed to say, consistently communicating that kids must be at school with none of said mitigations in place.

Every policy of this government shows us their worldview: other people, including children, have no value but economic value. Drive everywhere. Eat slop. Pay more for everything. Learn the right words, not how to think. Don't worry about your health or your neighbours, that doesn't generate revenue

I feel like Social Proximity could work with NZ Bluesky but Improved Toxicity Dectection could backfire spectacularly with NZ Bluesky. bsky.social/about/blog/1...

Reaching Goblin Arms - Taranaki, New Zealand. #photography #landscape #nz #halloween

The yellow-legged hornet has distinctive dark legs with bright yellow tips. In contrast, common wasp species in New Zealand, such as the German wasp (Vespula germanica), typically have uniformly yellow or yellow-striped legs. It is also much larger than honey bees & common wasp species.

For NZ arithmetic, median house price $650k, 20% deposit = $130k. Our little treat is a filled donut at $7.50 each, so saving that $15/week, it’s only 166 years of no donuts to accumulate that down payment here.

A hostile takeover attempt against a fucking public school is insane looking-glass-world crap dystopia shit Anyone who warned about this sort of carryon before the election would have been mocked, but here the fuck we are www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/30/b...

A tale in three links: 1) Govt promises police $72 million in incentive payments for meeting new road safety (including breath testing) targets. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Well, well, well