AMAZING!!! @christchurchlib.bsky.social councillors voted 12 to 1 to end discharging wastewater into Akaroa Harbour, to right a cultural wrong and to protect the blue tourism environment & economy by discharging very highly treated water to trees/land & not an ‘out of sight out of mind’ ocean option
I love the way he switches the PM to "her", softened a little by mentioning Clark, Key and Hipkins, but for the next long time in our politics, "she" will be Jacinda, even when they are squabbling over status among themselves, "she" gets hauled in and held up, they can't resist "her"
She haunts him
Not sure why it matters, all Kuwaiti oil deliveries are suspended anyway, if they weren't outside the Strait when the war started, they are stuck in the Gulf
ATM all that matters is decisions made in Korea and Singapore and the hole in the supply chain is now 53+ days and counting, deal or no deal
There's quite long list of items under a heading of pro-social responsibility failures, and way too many subscribers
They certainly seem to be trying to provoke him to do just that
Live: 'They're the guys that put Jacinda Ardern in power' - Christopher Luxon bites back at Winston Peters
They are also the party who put you into power you ridiculous little man #NZPol
Came here for this, come on chaps, you want an insult, do better
Ukrainian drone makers send out customised drones,
they are used,
they get feedback,
they adapt and update,
they get the next batch out
Total time, 1 week
Imagine applying that model to the health service, in-home care, disaster response, the frontline services of govt AND tracking it
They CAN break stuff that works
They can, JUST, make stuff that works, work
They can't MAKE stuff that works
They can't design stuff that works
They CAN make a slide deck of what something that works would LOOK like
(TBF, they get AI to do that, count the fingers)
Wellington 😪 #ClimateCrisis #nzpol
@thespinoff.bsky.social @robbienicol.bsky.social
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Even so, be bloody cautious.
We are in Bombay and our latest bill went from ~$90 to $175 with 2 extras and preserving
We can add in the Homewood this week and that makes a big hole in the bill, but a 6kW solar and 14kWh battery will only skim the top off over winter without it
Getting instructions from her owners, kanohi a kanohi, in a quiet office somewhere
This is exactly the case made by Adam Curtis back in 2021
If you can find the tracks and spare the 6hrs, it's a fascinating watch
There is no unifying vision, except the fevered power dreams of the fabulously wealthy
It takes (with luck) a Mamdani to cut the Gordian knot of conceptual paralysis
An animal abuse defender
A bed-leg assailant
A public, abusive drunk
A hallway bully and standover merchant
A Maori who chaired the Treaty Bill Fiasco
And THEY want to "do better" than Luxon who has just been a doormat, a wetwipe and a basket of used tissues
Good luck with that
I also credit people with being exhausted by the system, struggling to keep their heads above the normal bloody flood of demands, just add water
Then where DO you go? I lived near where the guy is missing, it IS higher ground
2am, pitch dark, pissing down, what do you find 100m round the corner?
The woman in 1News last night saying she would have liked more warning, and then volunteering that, "there have been so many we have just got used to them" or words to that effect
At this rate we will need to live hypervigilant, or risk not surviving
BTW, normal for much of the world already
“We’ve toiled and lost jobs just to end up with this crappy economy”
I wish it was just jobs & toil. The govt have gutted pay equity, housing, food banks, disability support at the same time as pumping money into landlords, tobacco companies, & any pet projects that help donors not NZers #nzpol
Just about to ask exactly that
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I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
Yep, there but for 25mm.....
Mostly of your crotch, out of focus
What does it do to our international reputation, given repudiation of ferry contract by text as the context, if Luxon signs this, some people act within it, and then they are booted?
How do WE deal with the status of the deal and any transactions under it's colour?
I learned a new term today, "family annihilation", also called familicide, where, usually, the father kills his entire family in a single event then himself, or is killed by cops
In the US the latest one is in Louisiana, but one happens about every 5 days
Not just the US
We are in deep trouble
The lightbulb moment came for me with Marcos and his cronies
They COULD have publicly pledged half their wealth to "save" the country, barely noticed the loss, been hailed a heroes, and stayed on to keep looting
But they chose rejection, revolution and exile rather than hand over a single peso
The European Commission will encourage remote working and public transport subsidies to cut fossil fuel use, as countries grapple with the energy price shock from the war in the Middle East.
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From Wellington-based daughter
Schools closed here tomorrow which kids are stoked about
You sent
Really good to see the schools taking this stuff seriously and not caving to bloody Seymour and his bullshit
Let's have HIM cycle/walk from the airport to Parliament in whatever is coming in
There's an interesting nexus of dissenting economists on my feeds, Gary Stevenson, Richard Murphy and Steve Keen have converged on 2 points; inequality IS the problem and classical economics ignorance of thermodynamics is suicidally stupid
Starts in the middle after the charts
