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Takes about all kinds of things but predominantly politics, autistic people things and research, technnology. Opinions my own and all terrible. He/Him Pōneke/Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand

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That assumes the Iranians are willing to stop when the obvious lesson is that doing so just let's the USA and Israel replenish their supplies of munitions before attacking again

09.03.2026 19:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I mean he's probably trying to avoid panic in both cases but one seems slightly more important than the other 🤷‍♂️

09.03.2026 19:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This seems to slightly contradict the PM's press conference yesterday where he said there's nothing to worry about #nzpol

09.03.2026 19:37 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

You're taking over Webworm and Flightless Birds? 😂😂😂

09.03.2026 19:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You know it's an election year when the rich old NIMBYs who don't have to worry about where they're going to live start trying to dictate housing policy for everyone else again #nzpol

09.03.2026 06:26 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Definitely better alternatives in 2026. Technology has come a long way

09.03.2026 07:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

There's a case from Canada where a tribe had land returned in Toronto IIRC and zoning didn't apply cause tribal lands and residents nearby tried to get the city to refuse to connect utilities to stop them building density for their people

NIMBYs are crazy the world over

09.03.2026 07:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They want to be able to simultaneously do whatever they want on their property and dictate what anyone else within a 10km radius can do on theirs

It's so fucking tiresome

09.03.2026 06:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You know it's an election year when the rich old NIMBYs who don't have to worry about where they're going to live start trying to dictate housing policy for everyone else again #nzpol

09.03.2026 06:26 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I'm so tired of national housing policy being dictated to the rest of us by people who can afford not to worry about it

09.03.2026 06:23 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Drivers flock to pumps as oil passes US$100 a barrel Petrol stations were busy on the weekend, as the price of Brent Crude hit US$100 a barrel.

So about out that LNG terminal #nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

08.03.2026 23:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon' absolutely not' considering standing down The Prime Minister told Newstalk ZB all of his ministers were telling him they back him.

Funny they thought this dude was the next John Key #nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

06.03.2026 04:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Petrol prices jump past $3 a litre at the pump The price of 95 petrol has hit $3 in some parts of the country as conflict in the Middle East pushes up oil prices.

Since post COVID inflation was the government's fault then this is obviously the fault of the current government #nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

06.03.2026 03:18 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

They're slightly different flavours of neoliberal economically and more different socially cause of how far right National have shifted

They're trying to solve 2020s problems with 1990s solutions which caused those problems

It's so sb it hurts

05.03.2026 23:36 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It was obvious how Little would operate when he gave RW councillors including Chung, committee chair positions and froze out the Greens from them

05.03.2026 23:28 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So depressing yet predictable from the version of Labour on WCC

05.03.2026 23:14 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

This is devastating 💔

05.03.2026 23:09 👍 53 🔁 13 💬 6 📌 1

Their methodology is consistent but when you look at the trends they will beore favourable to ACT and less favourable to the Greens compared to similar polls

05.03.2026 23:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The name rings a bell which is generally a bad sign for a Republican

05.03.2026 21:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is really funny built important to remember Curia left the industry group for polling companies and TPU are an ACT astroturf

So take it with a massive grain of salt #nzpol

05.03.2026 21:00 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

They got too focused on Winston's

05.03.2026 20:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Labour had six long years to fix Christopher Luxon's polling

05.03.2026 20:51 👍 44 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0

Time for that Industrial and manufacturing strategy we keep hearing about

05.03.2026 20:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They definitely only care about the first one

05.03.2026 20:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I saw that flashback to when I was 7 but there's also been murmurs from some American journalists they're considering being really dumb and launching ground missions too

05.03.2026 10:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They're definitely going to and any nation state level costs will be medium to long term so not a problem for these fuvkwits

Tfe only way they fuck this up is if they try an actual ground invasion

05.03.2026 10:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Tiktok on the Labour channel. It's an actual person as far as I can tell

So just really confusing

05.03.2026 08:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I clearly need to be more annoying when arguing for regulating the platforms themselves and how they operate as an everyone safety measure

05.03.2026 07:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hopkins put out a video pointing out the economic and security risks of importing LNG

I commented saying the same applies to petrol and diesel, and we should be encouraging electric alternatives instead

Now has someone decided I want a new domestic oil refinery

I'm so confused rn #nzpol

05.03.2026 07:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Really keeping up the tradition by playing with computers

05.03.2026 00:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0