A prime-time hit job on renewables falls apart under basic facts Spotlight's TV report on renewables and EVs collapses under basic fact-checking, highlighting how misinformation is shaping Australia’s energy debate.

A prime-time hit job on renewables falls apart under basic facts preview.johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04/a-prime-tim... #Auspol

I'd love to post the content of this clap trap, but close your eyes & pretend you're in a pub, the air thick with cigarette smoke, there's an old man sitting at the corer of the bar, last inch of a ciggy waggling on his bottom lip as he pours himself another 7oz glass of Lion Red from his jug, ranting to anyone within air shot about the communists & socialists are ruining the country & that wokeism will destroy us all, except no one is listening, in fact there's a juke box on & Chumbawumba, the socialist band from England's biggest hit is playing & folk are singing along while others are playing darts & yet others are chowing down in a basket of hot fries. A young girl asks her mum & dad 'whose that old man in the corner talking to himself, he looks kinda sad' & the dad smiles 'he's a man who thought he as someone once, ignore him sweetie, we all do'. Bye, Felicia you're done old man - irrelevant.

So there you have it, vacuous pandering to the casseroles who have all turned up to his FB with their napkins ready to dine in his anti-woke rhetoric.

Helluva ploy for a party on 8-10% & National going to loose the election.

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#NZPol

Wellington Wikicon is just a few weeks away! If you'd like to pop along and meet the great people that keep Wikipedia running in Aotearoa, there are a few spots available still

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You’re not supposed to point lasers at airplanes because the pilots are actually cats

A poster with a colorful stack of books on the left and this text on the right: “Hey, Teenagers: Pay close attention to the books people try to ban. Then, make a beeline to read those books, if you can. Find out for yourself why those people want that book banned. Find out for yourself if they can be trusted to know what’s best for you.” ~ Jeff Zentner

NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK

"Hey, Teenagers: Pay close attention to the books people try to ban. Then, make a beeline to read those books, if you can. Find out for yourself why those people want that book banned. Find out for yourself if they can be trusted to know what’s best for you.”
~ Jeff Zentner

Yes, and I think that is why I have a problem with the new scrubs

JAG would be great, The original cast would have to be involved probably as the Judges.

A 1,000 km day trip in our EV to a country town and back - and just 43 minutes charge time Over the 1,000 km to a country town and back, we stopped to charge for a total of 43 minutes, which is 17 minutes less than the recommended breaks for a single driver.

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Comic of the beetle from the cover of Massive Attack's "Mezzanine" meeting the crab from the cover of The Prodigy's "Fat of the Land".

Hi this joke is for me

They have done a great job, It's quite pleasing to watch and great for woring out when i have to walk out out the door to grab our local train.

Hey everybody! I am taking the helm of this classic American institution with @theonion.com and want to know what you fine folks would like to see from us.

NZ-built electric hydrofoil network planned for Tasmania’s Derwent River A fleet of New Zealand-designed electric hydrofoil vessels is set to underpin Australia’s first hydrofoiling passenger network, with services planned

Good news! - We're getting more EV ferries!

Bad(ish) news - We're sending them to Australia!

Vessev doing great I think

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Norway and Qatar show Australia doesn’t have to give the gas industry a free pass For decades, Australia has tolerated a rapidly growing gas industry that pays little tax and royalties, employs few people, pushes up gas and electricity prices for Australian families and businesses,...

"Norway and Qatar show Australia doesn’t have to give the gas industry a free pass" by @jack-thrower.bsky.social @thepointau.bsky.social
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Myki Map - Live Victoria Transport Live map of ~2,000 public transport vehicles across Victoria, Australia with route-following animation, congestion heatmaps, and historical playback.

some top person used the open data and built this mykimap.live for the Melbourne PT its amazing what data is arround and what can be done with it.

Feeling disappointed, I've got a craving for brandy snaps and it turns out the 2 supermarket brands think we should only have them at Xmas.

Good Read for a Saturday morning.

As a Kiwi who moved to Melbourne 20+ years ago, I never understood why you didn't have road user charges.

This state’s power prices are plummeting as it nears 100% renewables South Australia is proving to the world that relying largely on wind and solar energy with battery back-up is incredibly cheap, with electricity prices tumbling by 30 per cent in a year and sometimes ...

So great to see renewables plus batteries are collapsing power prices where they are rolled out at scale. The NZ Govt may be trying to reinvent the 1950s, with its love of expensive climate killing fossil fuels, but elsewhere history is moving on. www.newscientist.com/article/2514...

Denmark didn’t “transition” its grid—it replaced it.

~15% → 92% renewable electricity in 25 years.

Wind did the heavy lifting. Solar is scaling. Interconnection balanced. Flexibility solved variability.

Wind built it. Solar is scaling. Fossil lost it.

This IS system replacement. ⚡#Bettrification

I've been told over the years I've been told that the racing industry is one of the largest employers in the country.

I wonder, kids on holidays or a politician doing a photo shoot.

The power is a CoOp and have been rather slow at wanting to change for many years.

Fark that's a lot of adds

Greg has done a great job breaking down all the points that Tim made, it would be nice if JJJ did a quick read through of this for its listeners.

Why aren't you holding pressers, issuing statements & inspecting the damage on camera over a number of days to ensure saturation reporting, @albomp.bsky.social? There was a singed door at a Melbourne synagogue & you were barking AnTiSeMiTiSm & there in the blink of an eye. #auspol #hypocrisy #racism

This fun interactive tool allows you to draw circles anywhere in the world to see how many people are around you. A 3km circle around my home in Melbourne shows that I have almost 84,000 people nearby I can annoy in person with my maps! Play with the tool here: buff.ly/GcGnreL

I would have thought they would have gone the other side of Woodridge

Going down hill fast

If we all chipped in 5cents we should be able to buy him a train ticket and and harbour front cardboard box to live in