David Clegg
@delphijunkie.bsky.social
Software developer, family man, Playstation junkie, and headbanger since ages ago. Amateur guitar torturer. The only thing more progressive than my politics is my music taste. Gluten is my kryptonite. He/him.
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David Clegg
@delphijunkie.bsky.social
· Dec 9
Tis the season for "Best of" lists, and for me it makes sense to theme mine around music.
But because I have shown uncharacteristic restraint this year, instead of ranking my 2025 vinyl purchases, over the next few days I'll play them all, in approximate order of purchase. #VinylWrapped2025
But because I have shown uncharacteristic restraint this year, instead of ranking my 2025 vinyl purchases, over the next few days I'll play them all, in approximate order of purchase. #VinylWrapped2025
We need @chrishipkins.bsky.social to come out right now and declare that if Labour is elected this project will be cancelled on day 1. #nzpol
UNBELIEVABLE! 🤯
Luxon’s idiotic fossil gas terminal will bypass even the fast-track process so that construction can start before the election.
Let that sink in.
Luxon’s idiotic fossil gas terminal will bypass even the fast-track process so that construction can start before the election.
Let that sink in.
February 11, 2026 at 8:46 PM
We need @chrishipkins.bsky.social to come out right now and declare that if Labour is elected this project will be cancelled on day 1. #nzpol
Yeah nah, we understand alright.
We also understand that you're bullshitting us. It's got nothing to do with energy security and everything to do with propping up your fossil fuel donors' business model. #nzpol
We also understand that you're bullshitting us. It's got nothing to do with energy security and everything to do with propping up your fossil fuel donors' business model. #nzpol
Oh... LNG is just too complicated for NZers understand.
Bishop literally just said that.
It's too complicated for us to understand.
#nzpol
#punchableface
Bishop literally just said that.
It's too complicated for us to understand.
#nzpol
#punchableface
February 11, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Yeah nah, we understand alright.
We also understand that you're bullshitting us. It's got nothing to do with energy security and everything to do with propping up your fossil fuel donors' business model. #nzpol
We also understand that you're bullshitting us. It's got nothing to do with energy security and everything to do with propping up your fossil fuel donors' business model. #nzpol
And yet we have a government doubling down on fossil fuel usage here mere weeks after having to grapple with another fatal climate change driven extreme weather event. 🤦♂️ #nzpol
We don't know what's happening, but there's no good news here. As long as we keep burning fossil fuels, the world will continue to become more dangerous and chaotic.
Scientists thought they understood global warming. Then the past three years happened.
The fastest warming period since 1880 occurred in the past 30 years, according to a Washington Post analysis of NASA data.
wapo.st
February 11, 2026 at 7:46 PM
And yet we have a government doubling down on fossil fuel usage here mere weeks after having to grapple with another fatal climate change driven extreme weather event. 🤦♂️ #nzpol
The progress message sitting at “You’re 100% there” for 5 minutes must be one of the most egregious misrepresentations since Better Financial Managers ™️
February 11, 2026 at 7:29 PM
The progress message sitting at “You’re 100% there” for 5 minutes must be one of the most egregious misrepresentations since Better Financial Managers ™️
There’s only one true mountain. 🤘🤣🤘
(Plot twist: Damon is a mad keen Haken fan and this is a Ryan Adams style reimagining)
(Plot twist: Damon is a mad keen Haken fan and this is a Ryan Adams style reimagining)
February 11, 2026 at 4:28 AM
There’s only one true mountain. 🤘🤣🤘
(Plot twist: Damon is a mad keen Haken fan and this is a Ryan Adams style reimagining)
(Plot twist: Damon is a mad keen Haken fan and this is a Ryan Adams style reimagining)
Today would be a good day to donate, if you feel inclined.
February 11, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Today would be a good day to donate, if you feel inclined.
IT'S HERE!
That's my afternoon's listening sorted. Chur @bigbigtrain.bsky.social and @burningshed.com (and of course my daughter for having the forethought to pre-order this one for me for my birthday).
That's my afternoon's listening sorted. Chur @bigbigtrain.bsky.social and @burningshed.com (and of course my daughter for having the forethought to pre-order this one for me for my birthday).
February 10, 2026 at 10:57 PM
IT'S HERE!
That's my afternoon's listening sorted. Chur @bigbigtrain.bsky.social and @burningshed.com (and of course my daughter for having the forethought to pre-order this one for me for my birthday).
That's my afternoon's listening sorted. Chur @bigbigtrain.bsky.social and @burningshed.com (and of course my daughter for having the forethought to pre-order this one for me for my birthday).
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Happy 13th anniversary to this pair of matching news headlines.
February 10, 2026 at 7:26 AM
Happy 13th anniversary to this pair of matching news headlines.
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Let’s have a little bit of a chat about an economic concept known as the learning rate, and why it makes an LNG terminal a batshit insane idea 🧵
#nzpol
#nzpol
Watch live: Taranaki's Liquefied Natural Gas import facility expected to save New Zealanders millions
Watch live: Taranaki's Liquefied Natural Gas import facility expected to save New Zealanders millions
Energy Minister Simon Watts on Monday announced a contract was expected to be signed by the middle of the year.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 10, 2026 at 6:39 AM
Let’s have a little bit of a chat about an economic concept known as the learning rate, and why it makes an LNG terminal a batshit insane idea 🧵
#nzpol
#nzpol
Last night's pub quiz was interesting. We thought we'd done really badly. Definitely out of the places with a score of 75 (top three are usually in the 90s and sometimes over 100).
Turns out we were tied for second, and secured that place after a tiebreaker question.
Turns out we were tied for second, and secured that place after a tiebreaker question.
a man with glasses and a mustache is wearing a white polo shirt and a white shirt .
ALT: a man with glasses and a mustache is wearing a white polo shirt and a white shirt .
media.tenor.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Last night's pub quiz was interesting. We thought we'd done really badly. Definitely out of the places with a score of 75 (top three are usually in the 90s and sometimes over 100).
Turns out we were tied for second, and secured that place after a tiebreaker question.
Turns out we were tied for second, and secured that place after a tiebreaker question.
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On your (e-)bike, people:
electrek.co/2026/02/06/s...
electrek.co/2026/02/06/s...
Scientific study shows e-bikes benefit a surprising part of the body
From a fitness perspective, electric bikes are often framed as a way to make cycling easier on the legs or...
electrek.co
February 7, 2026 at 9:51 PM
On your (e-)bike, people:
electrek.co/2026/02/06/s...
electrek.co/2026/02/06/s...
Your daily reminder that, despite the cover the media likes to provide for them, The TPU is not a union but an astroturf organisation. #nzpol
February 10, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Your daily reminder that, despite the cover the media likes to provide for them, The TPU is not a union but an astroturf organisation. #nzpol
Age verification?
February 10, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Age verification?
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FYI I’ve opened this up for full public reading, listening & sharing after requests from paying subscribers. Their support allows me to do this kind of public interest journalism on Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate & poverty in public. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/why-not-sp...
Why not spend $2.7b on solar & batteries instead?
Govt to pay up to $180m/year or $2.7b over 15 years to lease LNG re-gasification plant, paid for by $15-$30 'levy' per household per year. That $2.7b would build four Benmore Dams worth of electricity
thekaka.substack.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:59 AM
FYI I’ve opened this up for full public reading, listening & sharing after requests from paying subscribers. Their support allows me to do this kind of public interest journalism on Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate & poverty in public. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/why-not-sp...
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#BHN Luxon saying "It's a charge that's levied against the electricity companies" about the LNG proposal sounds an awful lot like "China will pay the tariffs" doesn't it?
Who ultimately pays that "levy" Mr Luxon?
#nzpol #nzpolitics #notalevy #powertax
Who ultimately pays that "levy" Mr Luxon?
#nzpol #nzpolitics #notalevy #powertax
February 10, 2026 at 3:18 AM
#BHN Luxon saying "It's a charge that's levied against the electricity companies" about the LNG proposal sounds an awful lot like "China will pay the tariffs" doesn't it?
Who ultimately pays that "levy" Mr Luxon?
#nzpol #nzpolitics #notalevy #powertax
Who ultimately pays that "levy" Mr Luxon?
#nzpol #nzpolitics #notalevy #powertax
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Bit late to it but if you want to know the chain of events that led to us importing gas (and charging electricity users to pay for it!!), I did this deep dive for RNZ last year www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
The fuel of ‘last resort’: How imported gas became New Zealand’s first choice
It's expensive, vulnerable to price shocks and terrible for the planet. So why are we importing gas?
www.rnz.co.nz
February 10, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Bit late to it but if you want to know the chain of events that led to us importing gas (and charging electricity users to pay for it!!), I did this deep dive for RNZ last year www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Being Better Economic Managers™️ involves far more economic recklessness than I anticipated. #nzpol
LMFAO we're being taxed for this, we may not use it, and we're buying it on HP and paying $2.7bn fo rit
Are we utterly fucked in the head?
Are we utterly fucked in the head?
February 10, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Being Better Economic Managers™️ involves far more economic recklessness than I anticipated. #nzpol
Whenever anyone in the whanau travels over to 'stralia, I get them to bring me back some of the Tip Top gluten free bread.
While we do have variants under that brand here, the Aussie stuff is far superior to our local implementation. As I was sadly reminded at lunch today.
While we do have variants under that brand here, the Aussie stuff is far superior to our local implementation. As I was sadly reminded at lunch today.
February 10, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Whenever anyone in the whanau travels over to 'stralia, I get them to bring me back some of the Tip Top gluten free bread.
While we do have variants under that brand here, the Aussie stuff is far superior to our local implementation. As I was sadly reminded at lunch today.
While we do have variants under that brand here, the Aussie stuff is far superior to our local implementation. As I was sadly reminded at lunch today.
My daughter pre-ordered the new @bigbigtrain.bsky.social album for me for my birthday. It shipped last Wednesday, and is winging its way to me from Old Blighty.
Will I be able to maintain the willpower to abstain from streaming it so I can hear it for the first time on vinyl? 🤔🤘
Will I be able to maintain the willpower to abstain from streaming it so I can hear it for the first time on vinyl? 🤔🤘
February 8, 2026 at 7:25 PM
My daughter pre-ordered the new @bigbigtrain.bsky.social album for me for my birthday. It shipped last Wednesday, and is winging its way to me from Old Blighty.
Will I be able to maintain the willpower to abstain from streaming it so I can hear it for the first time on vinyl? 🤔🤘
Will I be able to maintain the willpower to abstain from streaming it so I can hear it for the first time on vinyl? 🤔🤘
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Perhaps we should just admit that the country only works at all because of the network of Aunties, and start electing governments that are basically made up of Aunties
#nzpol
#nzpol
Interesting Fran decided to write on the subject.
Can be interpreted multiple ways as well both excellent (Wahine just being awesome) and Pale Stale Males in NACT1 are just fucking useless
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/eco...
Can be interpreted multiple ways as well both excellent (Wahine just being awesome) and Pale Stale Males in NACT1 are just fucking useless
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/eco...
Fran O'Sullivan: Inside the women-led push to unlock a $126b Māori economy
OPINION: Women leaders used the Waitangi dinner to push a new Māori investment agenda.
www.nzherald.co.nz
February 7, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Perhaps we should just admit that the country only works at all because of the network of Aunties, and start electing governments that are basically made up of Aunties
#nzpol
#nzpol
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Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics
February 7, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
<swords clashing noises> Compiling! 😁⚔️
<swords clashing noises> Compiling! 😁⚔️
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
The Resource Management Act is [insert curse word here]
The Resource Management Act is [insert curse word here]
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
“What problem are we trying to solve?"
“What problem are we trying to solve?"
February 7, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
<swords clashing noises> Compiling! 😁⚔️
<swords clashing noises> Compiling! 😁⚔️
No surprise. Brad Olsen is National in a trench coat. #nzpol
This week's lies, damn lies, and green shoots award goes to Brad Olsen (via Susan Edmunds). This is a particularly disgusting use of data - like so bad that the article should be removed. Let's have a look... [🧵 1/n]
February 7, 2026 at 12:29 AM
No surprise. Brad Olsen is National in a trench coat. #nzpol
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Name them
shame them
shame them
February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Name them
shame them
shame them
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I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane
February 5, 2026 at 1:46 PM
I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane