Lol wut, 20x leverage trading with other crypto as collateral in a pool with a low-latency automated trading; just some "banana peel shoes on a tightrope over a tank of piranas" level of great idea

That new tunnel or road or whatever bishop has proposed for wellington is so fucking silly. The only people that want this are idiots.

Thrilled to announce I'm teaming up with Nvidia to create a basket big enough to fit all of humanity's eggs in it

We have built a load bearing house of cards within your economy, give us more money or it collapses and takes your economy with it.

Musing on how transformative $4b spent on Wellington could be on improving productivity and wellbeing beyond maybe scraping ten minutes off some journeys if it doesn't just snarl traffic through the city centre instead.

Can we hook this into some speakers and play it on repeat outside parliament and every council in the country.

You should build bike lanes for people who are not currently biking and build housing for people who don't currently live in your neighborhood.

Some cities are actively pursuing growth. Others are stuck in a state of managed decline, merely cutting costs for loud existing homeowners while doing nothing to build for the future. I'm increasingly worried that Wellington is irrevocably stuck in the second category.

The conservative minority on Wellington City Council never had the votes to kill the Golden Mile, so instead they played for time, demanding more reviews and consultation to delay it until a conservative won the mayoralty. Andrew Little has played right into their hands.

It me, I do it (because it's my job)

my most woke opinion is that any truck/SUV over 4,000 pounds should require a commercial drivers license, increased insurance/registration, more expensive parking, and higher punishments for traffic violations

Everybody loves user pays applying to things they don't use. This has lead to, and to loud calls for, user pays for things not used by the well off but loud opposition to it applying to things those same people should be paying for

tamatha paul is owed an apology by the media and most of her colleagues in parliament.

R.I.P. to my Kiwisaver and yours

You laugh but 2000 years from now the predominant religion of the world, will illustrate why the temptations ego and wealth must be avoided with the example of how insane, miserable and humiliated this man has been made by them.

Share this to scare Brian Tamaki

It's getting harder to think of things that antisemites allege Jews do that aren't also things that Elon Musk and his tech bro friends actually do.

My father and uncle happened to see 3 of the new DM class locomotives being unloaded at Lyttelton last weekend and they sent me these pics. I thought they’d interest other railway nerds too. The DMs will gradually replace decades-old locos and be the core of the South Island fleet for years to come

If they're not rating bakeries then they shouldn't even bother, the people are crying out to know where they can get a Michelin-starred pie

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

2026 Primary Woke Wave

Yeah thanks for the email Linkdn I was in fact aware about the big jump in advertisements for my role as those position are all at my place of employment.

RIP Dick Cheney. Remember him the way he lived: spruik a whole bunch of whopping lies about your rivals and then shoot a friend in the face

just....enjoy this

I am privileged enough to own my home and I would support a capital gains tax being introduced on it. Such a tax doesn’t impact my immediate financial reality cause I am just planning to live here, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ If for some reason I sold it, why shouldn’t I have to pay tax for getting luck money?

If you need a break from... (gestures at state of world) may I recommend guy who makes tree into ice cream and bowl from tree wood to serve it in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYr3...

Sign this petition about the Regulatory Standards Bill, please petitions.parliament.nz/212f27b2-98f...

my home vs my home 2 hours before a guest comes over

#poneke #Wellington stay away from Maginnity st there is building damage due to the wind overhead.

HELL THE FUCK YEAH!!! thank you to Mastodon user: ben dafydd gillard for finding this. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

I'm so mad I can't find it but out there somewhere is a decade old comedy sketch of exactly this. www.theverge.com/news/802727/...

Some sort of investment fund? This economically illiterate 1970s state capitalism policy pales in comparison to my strategy: spending every last dollar this country has on 10 roads

Very interesting detailed video showing all the steps of the track renewal process using a track renewal train. youtu.be/4B1jZBNqhJQ?...

It's over: I've already depicted you as the seething broad gauge train, and myself as the smug narrow gauge!

i always like to remind people that the european commission's (admirable) push for one common phone charger is also what gave us one of the most batshit bananas pieces of political communication i have ever seen in my life

There is a class of spam that claims that a user's computer has been hacked and that their recherché interests will be revealed to all unless payment is made in Bitcoin. Everyone knows that's silly. Except people who have verified their identity to ChatGPT and then shared their dirtiest thoughts.

48% turnout before counting specials. Nothing motivates Wellington like making mad rich dicks with too much money for billboards even more mad. Really love this city right now.

Absolutely heartbreaking visit to NZ's temperate glaciers on Te Tai Poutini West Coast. Here's Kā Roimata-o-Hinehukatere Franz Joseph Glacier & Waiau (Waiho) River in Kā Tiritiri-o-te-moana the Southern Alps. NZ's glaciers are in fast retreat due to Climate Change (see 2009 position drawn in).

BBC News explain that because of Brexit, Brits will be photographed and have their fingerprints taken when going into the EU, as the UK now is a third country BBC News forget to explain that the UK helped create these rules when we were part of the EU because we wanted stronger border control

Peri Zee has declared victory in the Upper Hutt mayoral election, defeating Wayne Guppy after eight terms.

A casual canter through the jobs and vacancies data from hot to not. Note that I have used Trademe jobs data, which is not as fulsome in some areas as Seek. Feel free to keep any "there are 12 more jobs in XX than you said, you're wrong" gotchas to yourself 😘 Data sources in reply.

Frankly, this undermines both the Media Council system and the credibility of the whining outlets themselves. If they're unhappy and think the council has not followed their brief, it's an incorporated society & is almost certainly subject to judicial review. File for review or have some dignity.

okay we’re now up to 28,194 votes (or 17.48%)… which still kinda sucks tbh. just know that if you don’t vote then I will hold you personally responsible for every terrible dipshit who gets elected

Where I go on holiday,

Bluesky hates art, videos, and anything that isn't a screenshot of a Tweet of some new deranged Tr*mp stuff, but I am going to keep posting my art videos / mini-essays out of a curious mixture of love and pure spite #art

You know there was once a time when Bluesky wasn’t a place for posting screenshots of outrage bait from Twitter and folks would boost artwork and artists

I'm going on a train ride

I would like to think less about it actually but the most likely suspect is loud, rich and won't STFU about it