If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
I work in a lab that does pre-harvest testing of kiwifruit. Tests involve slicing thin layers of skin off the fruit. The reds are quite messy and remind me of childhood skateboarding injuries to the knees.
Can we start a petition to request that he's denied a knighthood when he steps down as PM?
A couple of inquiries into the whole ferry situation might be handy, prior to the election.
#nzpol
We've got time for at least two inquiries to be delivered just before the election
Time to pass a law that any party spokesperson of media outlet that opines with hindsight reckons on pandemic management has to show this chart in the background at all times #nzpol
Does anyone think he's looking bit tired?
A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg
Rivers are living beings.
A monochrome ‘spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage
An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?
From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon
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I’m so tired of bad people getting away with doing bad things.
"Move on" Luxon
An MBE isn't a damehood
Of course Luxon pronounces it "new-cue-lar". Of course he does.
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
The opening image of the show Twin Peaks, showing a road heading around the bend in the mountains. The green text reads STAR WAR
Is this legal action why Solar Zero fell over in New Zealand?
THIS!!! This is why I talk about “car drivers” and not just “cars” when it comes to collisions.
Because of daylight saving in New Zealand, we can be two days ahead of Hawaii from 11pm, Hawaiian time.
Maybe i just want to watch a nice show where nothing bad happens, did you ever think about that?
Some bot account complaining about pronouns in bio shit. I asked the bot to write a poem about pangolins and it did
It happened again
ingridverse Feb 21 "God never gives you more than you can handle" is survivorship bias. People who got more than they could handle are dead. Picture of a screaming black cat (cartoon)
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Cancelling plans is okay. Putting yourself first is okay. Going for a long walk is okay. Abandoning society is okay. Moving into a cave with a family of raccoons is okay. Giving them tiny swords & shields is okay. Do what you need to do to cope.
Right: Let's do genocide Left: Let's not do genocide Center: Guys, you're gonna have to compromise, let's just do /some/ genocide Right: guess can live with that for now Left: No Center: See, this is why no one likes the left, you guys are the real extremists, smh
The centrist obsession with "balance" or "impartiality" enables right-wing or oppressive ideas by treating them as equally valid to more progressive policies, essentially giving them a "free pass".
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of unimaginably stupid shit every fucking day
Felt inspired by that headline... ☠️ #NZPol
The only reason it’s not falling like a stone is that we don’t look very hard for corruption in AoNZ, because we think it’s about briefcases of cash - when in fact it’s cushy jobs for mates and looking the other way and saying, ‘he’s ok, I went to school with his brother’
New Zealand has shown slow, steady, and "troubling" decline in the corruption perception index score, falling from 91 in 2015 to 81 in 2025.
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