Blue Fog

If this all goes tits up, this will be the stupidest way to kill millions since a failed anarchist got the munchies and the Archduke's driver was using Google Maps.

I’m shocked, stunned etc. Meanwhile, everywhere else around the world assumes Australia has cracked it and are rushing to copy their law.

Not many people realise they have the humble blue cod to thank for the traffic light system. This from the 2018 National Blue Cod Strategy. www.mpi.govt.nz/fishing-aqua...

I gotta say, there's this strange spontaneous etiquette forming between cyclists about how to layer the bikes depending on the destination.

Things that main stream western media won't be mentioning.... #Iran defencesecurityasia.com/en/irgc-dest...

"Datagrid would take seven litres per second from groundwater bores and discharge up to 5000 litres of treated wastewater onto land every day."

See Bernard Hickey's ( @bernardchickey.bsky.social ) Interview of Chlöe Swarbrick ( @greens.org.nz )

I would like 2 (two) inquiries into this in five years time please. Perhaps exploring why these cookers rolled back energy independence projects like clean car discounts.

It's very simple; Deep Blue is the status quo. Act Yellow is to the right of blue. Orange is for the Orange Electoral Guy, as it's election year. Red is a Labour led govt.

'Flatten the curve' now means to take corners widely to keep up speed and reduce the need to accelerate once turned, conserving petrol

What I would say to you is that there are a lot of very salty Luxo Loyalists who are so out of touch with ordinary kiwi battlers out here in the provinces that they are 100% sure that not only did this not happen, they are sure it COULD not happen

Took the trains with bike from Kapiti to Lower Hutt today in my three year quest to find a thru axle that can fit my bike trailer. Trains are gonna need more bike space. On each of the four legs there were four cyclists. The racks can handle three each at best.

What are the Greens thinking? There's only one Chris on the list and he's second to last.

A reminder - 1984 & the Rogernomics revolution is to 2026 what 1944 & the Bretton Woods Agreement was to 1984. IOW, the economic paradigm which has dominated policy for the last 40 years has run its course. We need a fresh approach which recognises climate change & our strategic vulnerabilities.

Here's a primer on somewhere you'll be hearing a lot about. Kharg Island. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Oh, and helium, which was a pretty endangered supply before the Epstein War.

If Aucklanders hated the second lockdown, they're really gonna hate this. Fuel shortages result in Car Covid. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

I attended a Medpot Symposium in Wellington in the early 2000s, when the Clark govt was making serious noises about reform. Then United Future's Peter Dunne ruled everything out. I'm having that same feeling now.

Watch this BBC interview if you want to understand how badly Trump screwed up and why Iran still holds a lot of cards.

Waiheke sunset

Hey Danyl and Bryce. Now do Deaf people.

Is it war? youtube.com/shorts/P_eLH...

Fog of War complicated by Fog of Trvmp.

Rewatching The Expanse just to watch kick-arse politician Chrisjen Avasarala. Been a while since I've seen one.

Reckon he'll go out the way he came in. Being driven by a Crown limo for two blocks.

I must admit I'm surprised at how little the Royal Commission gave to vaccine opponents, some of whom saw this process as the thing that would vindicate them. Can't get much clearer than this.

Purely for defensive carpet bombing purposes.. Three US bombers land at RAF Fairford amid conflict with Iran share.google/K45qdttXBzbd...

Night BSers. Time for a cup of tea.

I can't stress how much "as above, so below" influence the UK and Antipodes share. In this instance, the UK is doing away with jury trials the way Key's Nats raised the criminal threshold for juries. We treat juries like shit, we pay them shit. Better off without them. Judges don't know grundnorm.

I had the increasingly rare experience of feeling better informed after reading this.

Most reassuring thing I read over the weekend.

I was talking to my Act-voting sister today. We don't agree on much these days, but we both know Luxon is dog food. We also agreed that the talent pool is wafer thin. I doubt if Stanford could spell spull.

Don't you know I used to be CEO of Rubicon Airways? Everyone there called me Rube.

On the bright side, this whole Nats talking about themselves distracts attention from the previous years of the Greens talking about themselves. Neither of which impresses the body politic.

No one has eaten the magic mushrooms.

First time using shrimp paste. Huge but brief pong while browning it in the wok, but it was worth it for my Mee Goreng.

Night, BSers. The Luxon's Prayer. Our lord, who art in Hawaii and sometimes Parnell Hallowed be thy name Thy landlording come like Max Key your son From unearned wealth and inequality Give us cake today And forsake the bread of bottomfeeders For thine is the kingdom In Waiheke as well. Amen

Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

The local impacts of the war in Iran are completely foreseeable, except to the New Zealand government for which the easily accessible and common sense information below will come as a total shock as soon as disruptions hit April’s scheduled deliveries

Referring to the previous boost, this why I was so flabbergasted at Luxon's Monday press conference on the subject of Iran. We're a small country. Our only hope is to preserve "in any way" (to use a Luxonism) the international rules based order. We're totally fucked otherwise.

Three cheers for @robertshrimsley.bsky.social. Am reading and listening to too many self-styled fans of liberal democracy saying, in effect, 'let's park international law for the moment and talk about....'

He's rich, sorted and doesn't care.

Luxon has a rare disorder. His Archilles heel runs from his feet to his head.

Nats still prefer Luxo over nails, broken glass and manure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP-w...

My mate @testtubeone.bsky.social reckons there's gonna be a Nat overhang, winning more electorates than party vote, wiping the list out completely. Right now, the Nats are nuking themselves from orbit.

Move on, Goldsmith. You're beginning to smell.

Waiter, this word salad is limp and has raspberries in it.