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Thought 3. Flexible geothermal was one of the alternatives assessed against Project Onslow, but it is not even considered here because it doesn't fit well with current market structure. That logic is backwards: we should find the cheapest solutions, then align market incentives to deliver them. 7/-
February 10, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Thought 3. Flexible geothermal was one of the alternatives assessed against Project Onslow, but it is not even considered here because it doesn't fit well with current market structure. That logic is backwards: we should find the cheapest solutions, then align market incentives to deliver them. 7/-
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Righto. I've read the papers released by MBIE on the LNG analysis. This will be a longish thread on my thoughts, which I'll add to progressively. Docs are here. 🧵 1/-
Document library | Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
A filtered search to all the documents stored on the MBIE website.
www.mbie.govt.nz
February 10, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Righto. I've read the papers released by MBIE on the LNG analysis. This will be a longish thread on my thoughts, which I'll add to progressively. Docs are here. 🧵 1/-
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Righto. I've read the papers released by MBIE on the LNG analysis. This will be a longish thread on my thoughts, which I'll add to progressively. Docs are here. 🧵 1/-
Document library | Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
A filtered search to all the documents stored on the MBIE website.
www.mbie.govt.nz
February 11, 2026 at 12:02 AM
I can't find the skeet, but didn't someone already point out that the maths is just "the LNG importing facility is more economical than [using gas at the same rate without the LNG importing facility]"?
Nicola Willis promising to show us the govts maths will have Jack Tame salivating through pure Pavlovian conditioning
February 11, 2026 at 12:01 AM
I can't find the skeet, but didn't someone already point out that the maths is just "the LNG importing facility is more economical than [using gas at the same rate without the LNG importing facility]"?
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Resistance takes all forms. It's not all public street protests, or public anything. It's also quiet practical community assistance.
And they aren't all crowing about it on social media, so let's not assume that all the people in hats and buttons passing out whistles are doing nothing else. People - "wine moms," "knitters," who else do you think has ready access to breast milk? - are working behind the scenes for good.
A detail I don't want to get lost in this: So far, Bri and her network have helped more than 500 families with grocery deliveries and more than 300 with diapers and wipes. In just two months.
February 10, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Resistance takes all forms. It's not all public street protests, or public anything. It's also quiet practical community assistance.
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A tale of two billionaires. Jeff Bezos was at fashion week in Europe while he pulled a let-them-eat-cake firing of 30% of Washington Post journalists. Jimmy Lai stood by his newsroom and he will now likely die in a Hong Kong prison. Tell everyone you know about Jimmy Lai.
February 10, 2026 at 9:29 AM
A tale of two billionaires. Jeff Bezos was at fashion week in Europe while he pulled a let-them-eat-cake firing of 30% of Washington Post journalists. Jimmy Lai stood by his newsroom and he will now likely die in a Hong Kong prison. Tell everyone you know about Jimmy Lai.
Good lord, OceanGate couldn't get this much underwater this fast.
Keir Starmer is the most unpopular British prime minister since records began: the sick man who cannot afford to catch a cold. That's why the Mandelson scandal has been so destabilising www.economist.com/britain/2026...
February 10, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Good lord, OceanGate couldn't get this much underwater this fast.
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I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.
NEWS: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept his job, got 'no discipline' on his record, UAW says.
www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...
www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...
UAW: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept job, 'no discipline' on record
The United Auto Workers union said TJ Sabula remains employed and called out the president for making an obscene gesture toward the worker.
www.detroitnews.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:18 PM
I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.
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So I read in some article that folks are adding deliberate typos to their writing in order to dispel suspicions that they’re getting machines to speak for them. That’s coward shit. I say just use the word “fuck” more.
In the face of enshittification, commence the enfuckening.
In the face of enshittification, commence the enfuckening.
February 9, 2026 at 10:09 PM
So I read in some article that folks are adding deliberate typos to their writing in order to dispel suspicions that they’re getting machines to speak for them. That’s coward shit. I say just use the word “fuck” more.
In the face of enshittification, commence the enfuckening.
In the face of enshittification, commence the enfuckening.
Does anyone know if this price is legit?? $7.30/month???
February 9, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Does anyone know if this price is legit?? $7.30/month???
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Seems like a chance to repeat that in New Zealand, the Act party, who always seem very sure about what things will destroy a free society, thought Trump would be fine and I haven't seen any sign they've changed their mind
February 9, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Seems like a chance to repeat that in New Zealand, the Act party, who always seem very sure about what things will destroy a free society, thought Trump would be fine and I haven't seen any sign they've changed their mind
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'Consulting historian' is a growth industry.
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu
February 9, 2026 at 9:22 AM
'Consulting historian' is a growth industry.
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I use Grindr a lot but not for sex. I love looking at the decor of the homes people photograph themselves in. I've had suggestions for delightful chairs, curtains, and wallpaper by messaging men on Grindr.
February 9, 2026 at 8:20 AM
I use Grindr a lot but not for sex. I love looking at the decor of the homes people photograph themselves in. I've had suggestions for delightful chairs, curtains, and wallpaper by messaging men on Grindr.
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kind of funny there are prob 1,000 major US musicians and every time conservatives need to put up a music artist to counter a mainstream narrative, they put up kid rock. "ok here's kid rock again" for the next 30 years, an octogenarian man in jean shorts rapping something from the 1990s
February 9, 2026 at 8:50 AM
kind of funny there are prob 1,000 major US musicians and every time conservatives need to put up a music artist to counter a mainstream narrative, they put up kid rock. "ok here's kid rock again" for the next 30 years, an octogenarian man in jean shorts rapping something from the 1990s
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He knows his audience
February 9, 2026 at 8:56 AM
He knows his audience
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My wife cannot tell white actors apart. When Kurt Russell showed up in a Super Bowl ad she thought it was Don Johnson.
February 9, 2026 at 12:22 AM
My wife cannot tell white actors apart. When Kurt Russell showed up in a Super Bowl ad she thought it was Don Johnson.
this is the sports content im here for
What's that? You say you want to learn more about Puerto Rico's electricity grid?
Puerto Rico's electricity crisis
In this episode, lawyer and activist Ruth Santiago discusses Puerto Rico's latest electricity crisis, as the island struggles to restore power in the wake of Hurricane Fiona. In the wake of Hurricane ...
www.volts.wtf
February 9, 2026 at 7:15 AM
this is the sports content im here for
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What's that? You say you want to learn more about Puerto Rico's electricity grid?
Puerto Rico's electricity crisis
In this episode, lawyer and activist Ruth Santiago discusses Puerto Rico's latest electricity crisis, as the island struggles to restore power in the wake of Hurricane Fiona. In the wake of Hurricane ...
www.volts.wtf
February 9, 2026 at 5:46 AM
What's that? You say you want to learn more about Puerto Rico's electricity grid?
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Oh, so just caught up with the news - new taxes can just disappear by calling them levies. Sweet. That wealth levy of ours should now be supported by everyone. Labour can go bolder with its CGL
February 9, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Oh, so just caught up with the news - new taxes can just disappear by calling them levies. Sweet. That wealth levy of ours should now be supported by everyone. Labour can go bolder with its CGL
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For further comparison: Liu Xiabo was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment for "suspicion of the subversion of state authority" in 2008. He died 8 1/2 years later, when he was 61 years old.
Jimmy Lai is currently 78 years old. I sincerely hope he will not transferred to a Mainland Chinese prison.
Jimmy Lai is currently 78 years old. I sincerely hope he will not transferred to a Mainland Chinese prison.
• Ilham Tohti, life sentence, separatism (2014)
• Li Huaiqing, 20 years, fraud, extortion & inciting subversion of state power (2020)
• Ren Zhiqiang, 18 years, graft & abuse of power (2020)
• Sun Dawu, 18 years, organizing people to attack state agencies (2021)
🎁:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/w...
• Li Huaiqing, 20 years, fraud, extortion & inciting subversion of state power (2020)
• Ren Zhiqiang, 18 years, graft & abuse of power (2020)
• Sun Dawu, 18 years, organizing people to attack state agencies (2021)
🎁:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/w...
Jimmy Lai’s 20-Year Term Follows a China Playbook For Punishing Critics
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:32 AM
For further comparison: Liu Xiabo was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment for "suspicion of the subversion of state authority" in 2008. He died 8 1/2 years later, when he was 61 years old.
Jimmy Lai is currently 78 years old. I sincerely hope he will not transferred to a Mainland Chinese prison.
Jimmy Lai is currently 78 years old. I sincerely hope he will not transferred to a Mainland Chinese prison.
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[Edward Said voice]
Ever read a Jane Austen book and thought about the atrocities of the sugar cane industry?
Ever read a Jane Austen book and thought about the atrocities of the sugar cane industry?
February 9, 2026 at 5:49 AM
[Edward Said voice]
Ever read a Jane Austen book and thought about the atrocities of the sugar cane industry?
Ever read a Jane Austen book and thought about the atrocities of the sugar cane industry?
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BREAKING: Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, is sentenced to 20 years in prison in one of the most prominent cases prosecuted under a China-imposed national security law.
Hong Kong ex-media tycoon Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison in national security case
Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, is sentenced to 20 years in prison in one of the most prominent cases prosecuted under a China-imposed national security law.
bit.ly
February 9, 2026 at 2:16 AM
BREAKING: Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, is sentenced to 20 years in prison in one of the most prominent cases prosecuted under a China-imposed national security law.
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GovHK: We are not a police state.
Also GovHK: 👇
Also GovHK: 👇
1/ A heavy police presence is on guard outside West Kowloon Law Courts Building, where pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai, 78, will be sentenced. Live: buff.ly/iTC3p7O
February 9, 2026 at 2:39 AM
GovHK: We are not a police state.
Also GovHK: 👇
Also GovHK: 👇