@phil-wh
New Zealand based Engineering Manager and recovering web developer, trying to learn as much as possible about languages, cricket, drums and cycle adventures. Was also a music teacher (drums, percussion & orchestral) for a few years. 日本人ですか？日本語を習って助けてください！
Just remembering how Luxon bought a new Tesla EV when there was a Clean Car Discount, then cancelled the policy so others couldn't do it, and is now canning the Clean Car Standards and adding a new tax to petrol.
What a guy.
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Oh. Pretty rash of people to jump to that wild conclusion in hindsight. Don't know how we all might have miscalculated so dramatically, really.
When people say National are good at managing "the economy" but trust Labour more on environment, housing, safety, taxes, education, inflation, poverty and health...exactly what part of "the economy" do they think National are good at managing?
For Thomas Coughlan's article:
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
I am thinking that the decrepit sack of dog mince Winston Peters went on radio yesterday and said the 2023 election results stopped NZ becoming a "Venezuela or Myanmar" and we're RATIONING DIALYSIS to hit an arbitrary spend target.
Just announced: Iceland has urgently moved up its referendum to join the European Union - to 29 August.
A reminder: 🇮🇸 is in many ways already a non-voting 🇪🇺 member because of the EEA. This would give them voting power to shape the laws they have to follow.
Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72
“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit
Do you prefer Suzuki, Yamaha or Kawasaki?
I'm picking you as more of a Kawasaki kind of woman. 😝
Newsroom breaks down a major new report into New Zealand's five energy futures, from AI revolution to solar explosion.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
"We don't know what the morally right position is to take on this issue until we've done our internal polling"
"Misspoke" is such a weaksauce euphemism for "lied" and it seems like a daily occurrence that senior members of the government are having to admit to have "misspoken". Here is today's edition.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Investing in homegrown solar and wind energy is now a matter of national security.
Gas prices jumped again this morning and are on track to double - a stark reminder of our exposure to fossil fuel volatility.
The real solution isn’t more drilling, but moving away from combustion: electrify, use renewable power, and boost energy efficiency.
An image of the moon at the start of the luna eclipse
The #LunaEclipse is well underway now.
As seen from my back patio Muaūpoko Otago Peninsula, Ōtepoti Dunedin, NZ 10:55pm
#Nikon Z7ii 28-300mm
Disestablishment of the Ministry for the Environment is another terrible bill emblematic of this government’s continual attack on our environment - it is now open for submissions - until 4.30 on 11th March.
Christopher Luxon is, in the words of a great man, "a lifetime bitch"
Cometh the hour, clameth the man
this thing "we will not judge, it's up to the perpetrator to explain themselves" and like, what then, you gonna judge then
This town's weather can die in a fire.
... which of course could never happen because IT'S CONSTANTLY FUCKING COLD AND RAINING!
Very pleased to see Helen Clark calling the current NZ govt’s response the disgrace that it is.
A country surrounded by the ocean, with active geothermal zones, buffeted by winds and basking in sunshine should not be relying on tanker loads of oil, gas and coal shipped half way across the world to run its energy network.
Yeah this is going to be fun to test nearer to Christmas when I'm being mugged by charities as I try to spend my week's salary at New World.
this is some evil shit
this is part of why it’s so important another party takes a strong and very public anti US stance, because the Deputy PM is pro US fascism. There is literally no argument on this now and there MUST be an alternative presented
Radiohead has issued a statement responding to the Department of Homeland Security's unauthorized use of their song "Let Down" in a recent social media video.
One term government says what now?