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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Aotearoa New Zealand.
Aotearoa New Zealand.
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So help me understand something here.
After I have put $30k of my hard earned money on a solar system, I will now have to sunsidise the fossil fuel industry because we are being governed by 🦖?
What, and I mean it in the nicest way possible, the actual fuck?
#nzpol
After I have put $30k of my hard earned money on a solar system, I will now have to sunsidise the fossil fuel industry because we are being governed by 🦖?
What, and I mean it in the nicest way possible, the actual fuck?
#nzpol
New Zealand set to build LNG import facility to boost energy security reut.rs/4ryvRYF
New Zealand set to build LNG import facility to boost energy security
New Zealand has shortlisted contractors to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import facility to boost energy security, provide a reliable backup power source and support economic growth, Energy Minister Simon Watts said on Monday.
reut.rs
February 9, 2026 at 9:35 AM
So help me understand something here.
After I have put $30k of my hard earned money on a solar system, I will now have to sunsidise the fossil fuel industry because we are being governed by 🦖?
What, and I mean it in the nicest way possible, the actual fuck?
#nzpol
After I have put $30k of my hard earned money on a solar system, I will now have to sunsidise the fossil fuel industry because we are being governed by 🦖?
What, and I mean it in the nicest way possible, the actual fuck?
#nzpol
"It is important that we do get to the bottom of what has actually caused such a failure in this way."
Here's a cheap investigation result - the cause is corporate greed. It was more important to pay dividends than provide a good service.
Solution - nationalise it.
#nzpol
Here's a cheap investigation result - the cause is corporate greed. It was more important to pay dividends than provide a good service.
Solution - nationalise it.
#nzpol
This whole article and not a single mention of National's genius "rates cap" 🙄. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Calls for investigation into Moa Point Treatment Plant failure
PM Christopher Luxon told Morning Report the failure was "catastrophic" and he would be further talking with the mayor later on Monday.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 9, 2026 at 12:03 AM
"It is important that we do get to the bottom of what has actually caused such a failure in this way."
Here's a cheap investigation result - the cause is corporate greed. It was more important to pay dividends than provide a good service.
Solution - nationalise it.
#nzpol
Here's a cheap investigation result - the cause is corporate greed. It was more important to pay dividends than provide a good service.
Solution - nationalise it.
#nzpol
#BHN Luxon is currently giving us a lecture on what te tiriti says and what it’s all about
#waitangi #nzpol #nzpolitics
#waitangi #nzpol #nzpolitics
February 5, 2026 at 2:39 AM
#BHN Here's the problem for both the major parties, since taking over as leaders both Luxon and Hipkins have seen a constant decline in net favourability. The first party that figures out how to turn that around, probably wins #Election2026
#nzpol #nzpolitics
#nzpol #nzpolitics
January 27, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Plan B:
Electrification of our transport.
Rail / sea transport.
Urgent emissions reduction plan.
Managed retreat.
Rejuvenation of native planting.
Stop sticking your head in the sand.
#nzpol
Electrification of our transport.
Rail / sea transport.
Urgent emissions reduction plan.
Managed retreat.
Rejuvenation of native planting.
Stop sticking your head in the sand.
#nzpol
I mean, they're just becoming a joke now.
Printing farmer's opinions about what should be done about highways damaged by storms with NO REFERENCE to climate change and the role of said farmers in it!
The quicker these 'journalists' are looking for a job waiting tables, the better.
#nzpol
Printing farmer's opinions about what should be done about highways damaged by storms with NO REFERENCE to climate change and the role of said farmers in it!
The quicker these 'journalists' are looking for a job waiting tables, the better.
#nzpol
January 26, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Plan B:
Electrification of our transport.
Rail / sea transport.
Urgent emissions reduction plan.
Managed retreat.
Rejuvenation of native planting.
Stop sticking your head in the sand.
#nzpol
Electrification of our transport.
Rail / sea transport.
Urgent emissions reduction plan.
Managed retreat.
Rejuvenation of native planting.
Stop sticking your head in the sand.
#nzpol
#nzpol
Waka Kotahi can explain until it gets blue why roads are so damaged. They are failing us by not stating the obvious. No amount of money spent on roads will save us from the anger of mother earth when she decides raining on us enough rain to move mountains.
Waka Kotahi can explain until it gets blue why roads are so damaged. They are failing us by not stating the obvious. No amount of money spent on roads will save us from the anger of mother earth when she decides raining on us enough rain to move mountains.
January 22, 2026 at 8:16 PM
#nzpol
Waka Kotahi can explain until it gets blue why roads are so damaged. They are failing us by not stating the obvious. No amount of money spent on roads will save us from the anger of mother earth when she decides raining on us enough rain to move mountains.
Waka Kotahi can explain until it gets blue why roads are so damaged. They are failing us by not stating the obvious. No amount of money spent on roads will save us from the anger of mother earth when she decides raining on us enough rain to move mountains.
The great thing about solar panels is that even on a rainy day like today it's still producing power.
We need to solarify our nation.
#nzpol
We need to solarify our nation.
#nzpol
January 22, 2026 at 1:03 AM
The great thing about solar panels is that even on a rainy day like today it's still producing power.
We need to solarify our nation.
#nzpol
We need to solarify our nation.
#nzpol
PM’s Office Received No Advice That There Are Jobs For Young People
Vibes. Just Vibes.
#nzpol
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO26...
Vibes. Just Vibes.
#nzpol
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO26...
Revealed: PM’s Office Received No Advice That There Are Jobs For Young People
Auckland Action Against Poverty (AAAP) coordinator Agnes Magele says this new information reveals a policy that treats young people as disposable.
www.scoop.co.nz
January 21, 2026 at 12:18 AM
PM’s Office Received No Advice That There Are Jobs For Young People
Vibes. Just Vibes.
#nzpol
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO26...
Vibes. Just Vibes.
#nzpol
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO26...
Maybe it's a special deal. Buy one get 50% off second item.
January 20, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Maybe it's a special deal. Buy one get 50% off second item.
The Free Speech Union didn't exist when black ppl couldn't speak.
The Free Speech Union didn't exist when LGBTQ ppl couldn't speak.
The Free Speech Union didn't exist when disabled ppl couldn't speak.
The Free Speech Union existed when racist white ppl were asked to keep their racism to themselves.
The Free Speech Union didn't exist when LGBTQ ppl couldn't speak.
The Free Speech Union didn't exist when disabled ppl couldn't speak.
The Free Speech Union existed when racist white ppl were asked to keep their racism to themselves.
January 17, 2026 at 11:52 AM
January 15, 2026 at 5:22 AM
My top tips would be to tax the online retailers and crackdown on commercial leasing. You can't avoid the hard choices completely, so you either turn town centres into ghost towns or stop smooching the already rich.
My top tip? Pedestrianise. Make these places that folk want to spend time in, sort out commercial rents, and stop trying to compete with online retailers like Amazon if you're not going to tax them. Make the High Street the place you go to buy the things that you don't want from a warehouse.
Latest from me, on an eternally overlooked, sniffed-at issue that is politically huge www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
January 11, 2026 at 9:23 PM
My top tips would be to tax the online retailers and crackdown on commercial leasing. You can't avoid the hard choices completely, so you either turn town centres into ghost towns or stop smooching the already rich.
I don't expect journalists to know everything about everything. I do expect them to know how to research & find the expert that can give them a good analogy that the rest of us can understand.
I kinda feel for the journalists on this story. They can't be expected to know how web apps or APIs work, and there's a bunch of us nerds out here yelling technobabble at them: "it's the TLS!", "the DMARC is at 39%!", "it's the API!"
How are they supposed to know what's true?
How are they supposed to know what's true?
I think it's important for the non-technical people to understand: this is dumb. This is not an elaborate hack. This is an exploitation of a very big mistake.
January 8, 2026 at 8:34 AM
I don't expect journalists to know everything about everything. I do expect them to know how to research & find the expert that can give them a good analogy that the rest of us can understand.
We took away your land, your livelihood, and your language and declared you are inferior, but aren't you happy we gave you mobile phones?
#nzpol
#nzpol
Cough cough, Paul Goldsmith
#nzpol
It's scary how much our government aligns with the clownshow in the US
#nzpol
It's scary how much our government aligns with the clownshow in the US
On X, a senior U.S. Justice Department official is promoting a post that praises colonization as “one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world.”👇
January 5, 2026 at 2:35 AM
We took away your land, your livelihood, and your language and declared you are inferior, but aren't you happy we gave you mobile phones?
#nzpol
#nzpol
"Events beyond our control" is the tech world way of saying we didn't want to spend the money required to safeguard the system because shareholders dividend is more important to us.
#nzpol
#nzpol
“Manage My Health cannot be held liable in any way for events beyond our control or in any way for accidental or unauthorised access of your information.”
"Manage My Health waited two days, from Tuesday to Thursday, before notifying police of the ransomware attack"....
#nzpol
"Manage My Health waited two days, from Tuesday to Thursday, before notifying police of the ransomware attack"....
#nzpol
Private health records surface on dark web after Manage My Health hack
Private health records, linked to the Manage My Health ransomware attack, appear to have surfaced on the dark web.
www.stuff.co.nz
January 3, 2026 at 8:22 PM
"Events beyond our control" is the tech world way of saying we didn't want to spend the money required to safeguard the system because shareholders dividend is more important to us.
#nzpol
#nzpol
I've been putting off reading her entire book as it was just too much for me last year. It's on my list for this year.
Highly recommend listening to this podcast if you care about the safety of women.
open.spotify.com/episode/0UEy...
Highly recommend listening to this podcast if you care about the safety of women.
open.spotify.com/episode/0UEy...
January 3, 2026 at 8:09 PM
I've been putting off reading her entire book as it was just too much for me last year. It's on my list for this year.
Highly recommend listening to this podcast if you care about the safety of women.
open.spotify.com/episode/0UEy...
Highly recommend listening to this podcast if you care about the safety of women.
open.spotify.com/episode/0UEy...
How about you prove you actually pay ANY FARKING TAX AT ALL you risible sociopathic leech?
January 3, 2026 at 3:32 AM
This here puts in perspective the ineffectiveness of social media ban for under 16y.
Social media isn't the problem. Unregulated social media is. Lack of accountability of the tech bros, is.
Regulate the life out of them.
#nzpol
Social media isn't the problem. Unregulated social media is. Lack of accountability of the tech bros, is.
Regulate the life out of them.
#nzpol
This exchange ought to settle any idea of the probable next word machine "saying" anything, per gullible media reports.
January 2, 2026 at 9:13 PM
This here puts in perspective the ineffectiveness of social media ban for under 16y.
Social media isn't the problem. Unregulated social media is. Lack of accountability of the tech bros, is.
Regulate the life out of them.
#nzpol
Social media isn't the problem. Unregulated social media is. Lack of accountability of the tech bros, is.
Regulate the life out of them.
#nzpol
That's 10% of our population. Let that sink in.
Unacceptable in a rich country like Aotearoa.
Certainly unacceptable when the 1%ers are increasing their wealth.
#nzpol
Unacceptable in a rich country like Aotearoa.
Certainly unacceptable when the 1%ers are increasing their wealth.
#nzpol
The reality of the Xmas Luxon has given NZ:
NZ Food Network CE Gavin Findlay said “More than 500,000 NZers rely on foodbanks & food rescue organisations for support.” ..across the country they were seeing families who were working, budgeting carefully & still unable to afford enough food. #nzpol
NZ Food Network CE Gavin Findlay said “More than 500,000 NZers rely on foodbanks & food rescue organisations for support.” ..across the country they were seeing families who were working, budgeting carefully & still unable to afford enough food. #nzpol
Money for food? Only if you're a critic
I can’t stop thinking about the wildly discordant nature of these two headlines:
open.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
That's 10% of our population. Let that sink in.
Unacceptable in a rich country like Aotearoa.
Certainly unacceptable when the 1%ers are increasing their wealth.
#nzpol
Unacceptable in a rich country like Aotearoa.
Certainly unacceptable when the 1%ers are increasing their wealth.
#nzpol
Excellent article. I would add that on top of requiring duty of care, directors of these companies need to be held accountable for none compliance.
If "safety is “too hard” or “too costly” to implement" than this platform should not exist.
#nzpol
If "safety is “too hard” or “too costly” to implement" than this platform should not exist.
#nzpol
I've literally *just* been talking with a friend about the point at which we each recognised how screwed up our childhoods were. This isn't about safety. Narcissists, control freaks, and other toxic people don't want children to see/ recognise/ learn from other's experience.
Banning kids from social media doesn’t make online platforms safer. Here’s what will do that
theconversation.com/banning-kids...
theconversation.com/banning-kids...
December 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Excellent article. I would add that on top of requiring duty of care, directors of these companies need to be held accountable for none compliance.
If "safety is “too hard” or “too costly” to implement" than this platform should not exist.
#nzpol
If "safety is “too hard” or “too costly” to implement" than this platform should not exist.
#nzpol
It's starting to look a bit more attractive, though $600 for two people and Departing Addington at 9:00am Arriving in Dunedin at 4:20pm when driving costs you $150 and takes 4 hours is still an 🤔 but here's to hoping.
#nzpol
#nzpol
If a private company like Mainland Rail can see the good sense to drop their ticket prices, why can't Kiwirail?
#RailNews: A passenger rail venture between Christchurch and Invercargill received a 25% price drop within 24 hours of going live.
Via Otago Daily Times: www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin...
Via Otago Daily Times: www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin...
December 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
It's starting to look a bit more attractive, though $600 for two people and Departing Addington at 9:00am Arriving in Dunedin at 4:20pm when driving costs you $150 and takes 4 hours is still an 🤔 but here's to hoping.
#nzpol
#nzpol
Perhaps not a popular opinion but I am actually happy they just put it on the table like that. Buying carbon credits is just middle-class greenwashing, it allows us to continue our harmful behaviour because we bought carbon credits. Now our trading partners can potentially force us
There it is. We just reneged on Paris. FYI @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social & @ukparliament.parliament.uk
“Under questioning in the meeting, Willis also confirmed the government had no intention of buying offshore carbon credits to meet the 2030 Paris agreement as part of a "performative awards ceremony" even if that meant it would breach its commitment.”
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
December 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Perhaps not a popular opinion but I am actually happy they just put it on the table like that. Buying carbon credits is just middle-class greenwashing, it allows us to continue our harmful behaviour because we bought carbon credits. Now our trading partners can potentially force us
He's getting a hiding in the comments.
They are not reading the room at all. Mr 8% is so full of himself that he thinks the country is as racist as his 8%ers are and failed to notice we have moved on and left them behind.
#nzpol
They are not reading the room at all. Mr 8% is so full of himself that he thinks the country is as racist as his 8%ers are and failed to notice we have moved on and left them behind.
#nzpol
#Nzpol are they using a bed leg? Is this transference?
November 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
He's getting a hiding in the comments.
They are not reading the room at all. Mr 8% is so full of himself that he thinks the country is as racist as his 8%ers are and failed to notice we have moved on and left them behind.
#nzpol
They are not reading the room at all. Mr 8% is so full of himself that he thinks the country is as racist as his 8%ers are and failed to notice we have moved on and left them behind.
#nzpol
"The ministry has apologised and says the breach was due to human error."
The human error is us allowing AI into every corner of our lives. The human error is thinking bots can do a better job than humans, and we should use AI in a cost cutting exercise.
#nzpol
The human error is us allowing AI into every corner of our lives. The human error is thinking bots can do a better job than humans, and we should use AI in a cost cutting exercise.
#nzpol
Ministry privacy breach sees the names of five people seeking compensation for sexual abuse published
#nzpol
#nzpol
Ministry privacy breach sees the names of five people seeking compensation for sexual abuse published
The ministry has removed documents naming five people, but internet searches were still bringing up the MSD information.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 6:39 AM
"The ministry has apologised and says the breach was due to human error."
The human error is us allowing AI into every corner of our lives. The human error is thinking bots can do a better job than humans, and we should use AI in a cost cutting exercise.
#nzpol
The human error is us allowing AI into every corner of our lives. The human error is thinking bots can do a better job than humans, and we should use AI in a cost cutting exercise.
#nzpol