Figured I’d wade into the airport discourse I’m seeing on Bluesky today; Airports are where planes depart from. However, they are also where planes arrive. So it’s important to consider both of these things
Here’s Trump bragging about making the U.S. a country that no one wants to come to and many want to leave.
Aotearoa I haven’t turned my attention to the yellow legged hornet thing for a while, how’s it going? I assume great?
Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.
Studied 1k+ comments around Marton incident on Facebook. Theft is celebrated as resistance, buyers openly seek stolen fuel. There's a rising anarchy in sentiments. This is NZ's social cohesion coming apart, given fuel prices/crisis. Worry is that govt, starting with PM, oblivious to this. #nzpol
Now, the kicker: $200m not spent domestically means we are gonna lose about that much demand from the economy soon. Friends, $200m / week is about 130,000 jobs worth. This is serious. Any media folk want to ask for an unemployment forecast, and, errrm, whether we have a frickin plan? [Ends]
That extra $200m isn't creating any notable increase in demand. No extra jobs to move less fuel to the gas stations. Ships turning up as usual. All said and done, it's just extra cash flowing offshore to suppliers. How much is $200m per week? Any precedents? Oh yes... [2/n]
just leaving this here Doh ! broken for 30+ yrs>
"Letting the power generators also be retailers enables them to maintain a stranglehold on the market, because the other independent retailers have to buy electricity on the wholesale market from the gentailers, who they are also competing against."
For me all of the best bits of Twitter are here, plus a few new ones, to the point I sometimes forget the former Twitter still exists
thank god i found it again
It's TWO VAST AND TRUNKLESS LEGS OF STONE Tuesday!
be serious
r/OopsThatsDeadly fodder
yup
the OTHER thing about this is it means the track is WIDE OPEN for Labour or the Greens to just be INCREDIBLY forthright on economic populism, really take it through the roof and compete in rhetoric with NZF
"Oh yeah, we'd do that but BETTER, you can actually trust us AND without the weird shit"
This fuel shit plus the incoming tropical cyclone are getting me down a bit. Feels like we’re in for some big unopposed hits. #kikorangi
Including our public broadcasters. Looking at you RNZ
There was a reason the end of the beginning of Full Metal Jacket never washed, which is it was so well known that recruits would go psycho and kill their drill sergeants that ammo was very very carefully tracked and secured. So this should be interesting
Jewish troops will be looking for Muslims hidden in the attics of Christians. Let that sink in. https://x.com/ryangrim/statu/ryangrim/status/2039684274564051425 Quote Ryan Grim @ryangrim · 10h Israel is explicitly warning Christian and Druze residents in southern Lebanon not to hide Muslim residents among them as their forces advance.
And there it is.
I think people in nz should be madder that we generate so much renewable energy but don’t get to benefit from the fact that it’s cheaper because our energy market was designed by idiots obsessed with profit margins
An entire industry written article that never mentions how most of the profits over the last 30 years went to shareholders, rather than being invested back into the network.
Like water infrastructure, this is a self-made problem.
newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/01/y...
Peters has previously said his party's bill would be "a win for common sense". "This bill would ensure our country moves away from the woke ideology that has crept in over the last few years, undermining the protection, progression, and safety of women." NZ First wants to see “women” defined in law as an “adult human biological female” and “man” defined as an “adult human biological male”. Peters added: “These definitions in law fight back against the cancerous social engineering we’ve seen being pushed in society by a woke minority. "The need for legislation like this shows how far the deluded left has taken us as a society. But we are fighting back."
winston peters is describing trans people existing as a "cancerous". fascism (for what else is this "social engineering" but an extant people expecting the same protections as everyone else?)
a disgusting transposition, when he is the one proposing to legislatively engineer our civil rights away
that being said, had they been flying a mission consistent with that mission at Kid Rock's house, I'd'v'e been fine w that
you'll note that all that "the military's mission is Lethality, no distractions" stuff flew right out the window once they had purged all the minorities from the upper officer ranks
If any party or candidate doesn't clearly, strongly and explicitly denounce NZ First's bullshit transphobia they do not deserve your vote
It is nothing but shit-stirring scapegoating to distract from their abject failure to run a country
Tweet showing a photo of an old gun with 4 barrels. When you need to shoot exactly four evenly spaced dudes Reply says say your prayers weezer
In Nov 2025 Chris Bishop removed the incentives that existed under the Clean Car Standard to encourage the import of fuel efficient cars and penalize gas guzzlers. This move cost Govt $264m. And increased NZ's fossil fuel use and emissions. Dumb and dumber
www.drivencarguide.co.nz/news/clean-c...
