Phil Wheeler

Not really telling people anything they're not already painfully aware of. Point is your country is off the leash now, America, and it's hurting everybody else in the process.

White Ferns women are batting at the Otago University Oval against the Zimbabwe women, who are dressed in all red uniforms. An uncharacteristically blue and cloudless sky backdrops the trees against the hillside.

Zimbabwe playing with a lethargy and reluctant resignation of a team that's already accepted defeat 20 overs in. Runs leaking to deep fielders as the inner ring just assume they'll have that backup.

Today marks 15 years to the day since the horrifying magnitude 9.1 Tōhoku Earthquake in eastern Japan. Some areas are still recovering a decade-and-a-half later. Many family members were never found.

I can spot the first mistake...

Translation: this is 100% the major focus for National. If he said he was laser-focused on his poll result, then we know he'd actually be doing fuck all about it.

Yeah, let's go Canada! Showing the rest of the world a polite middle finger to one of the most hated and unnecessary conventions in widespread social use.

Let's talk about what happens when oil prices go through the roof and stay there - because it really isn't pretty, it's going to hit our economy incredibly hard, and it's only peripherally about how much it costs to fill the tank.

A short 🧵

#nzpol

Just remembering how Luxon bought a new Tesla EV when there was a Clean Car Discount, then cancelled the policy so others couldn't do it, and is now canning the Clean Car Standards and adding a new tax to petrol.

What a guy.

#nzpol

Oh. Pretty rash of people to jump to that wild conclusion in hindsight. Don't know how we all might have miscalculated so dramatically, really.

When people say National are good at managing "the economy" but trust Labour more on environment, housing, safety, taxes, education, inflation, poverty and health...exactly what part of "the economy" do they think National are good at managing?

For Thomas Coughlan's article:
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

I am thinking that the decrepit sack of dog mince Winston Peters went on radio yesterday and said the 2023 election results stopped NZ becoming a "Venezuela or Myanmar" and we're RATIONING DIALYSIS to hit an arbitrary spend target.

Iceland locks in on date for EU referendum | Euractiv As a member of the European Economic Area, Iceland is already aligned with much of the bloc's legislation

Just announced: Iceland has urgently moved up its referendum to join the European Union - to 29 August.

A reminder: 🇮🇸 is in many ways already a non-voting 🇪🇺 member because of the EEA. This would give them voting power to shape the laws they have to follow.

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

Do you prefer Suzuki, Yamaha or Kawasaki?
I'm picking you as more of a Kawasaki kind of woman. 😝

Charting New Zealand's five energy futures

Newsroom breaks down a major new report into New Zealand's five energy futures, from AI revolution to solar explosion.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

"We don't know what the morally right position is to take on this issue until we've done our internal polling"

Immigration Minister Erica Stanford apologises after inflating overstayer figures The government has been accused of scaremongering after Erica Stanford said there were "tens of thousands more" overstayer.

"Misspoke" is such a weaksauce euphemism for "lied" and it seems like a daily occurrence that senior members of the government are having to admit to have "misspoken". Here is today's edition.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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Investing in homegrown solar and wind energy is now a matter of national security.

Gas prices jumped again this morning and are on track to double - a stark reminder of our exposure to fossil fuel volatility.

The real solution isn’t more drilling, but moving away from combustion: electrify, use renewable power, and boost energy efficiency.

An image of the moon at the start of the luna eclipse

The #LunaEclipse is well underway now.

As seen from my back patio Muaūpoko Otago Peninsula, Ōtepoti Dunedin, NZ 10:55pm

#Nikon Z7ii 28-300mm

Disestablishment of the Ministry for the Environment is another terrible bill emblematic of this government’s continual attack on our environment - it is now open for submissions - until 4.30 on 11th March.

Christopher Luxon is, in the words of a great man, "a lifetime bitch"

Cometh the hour, clameth the man

this thing "we will not judge, it's up to the perpetrator to explain themselves" and like, what then, you gonna judge then

This town's weather can die in a fire.

... which of course could never happen because IT'S CONSTANTLY FUCKING COLD AND RAINING!