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@kiwiteej

Kiwi escapee from Twitter. Archivist and other things. Hopes for a better, cooler world. Ōtautahi local.

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Strangely, the author of that Herald story makes no mention of the cancelled iRex ferries.

None.

12.03.2026 09:18 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

A reminder - 1984 & the Rogernomics revolution is to 2026 what 1944 & the Bretton Woods Agreement was to 1984.

IOW, the economic paradigm which has dominated policy for the last 40 years has run its course. We need a fresh approach which recognises climate change & our strategic vulnerabilities.

12.03.2026 07:54 👍 36 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0
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I have it on speed dial

12.03.2026 07:35 👍 45 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
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Fuel costs could drive New Zealand trucking businesses to the ground More than 90 percent of freight in Aotearoa is moved by road.

Bring back rail...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

12.03.2026 05:51 👍 63 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 1

My first ever job was at a supermarket. I worked with an older gentlemen who must’ve been in his late 70s and while I can’t name the supermarket due to an ongoing legal dispute the guy must be dead by now so I’ll just use his real name: Barnaby.

22.12.2025 07:08 👍 25 🔁 12 💬 4 📌 9

Trains

12.03.2026 09:40 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

Third world shit on a first world budget. 🤪

12.03.2026 09:44 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

me and the other scheming viziers are wearing shoes gifted to us by the king that are way too big. we look ridiculous. the whole court is laughing at us behind our backs. honestly this is a pretty low point for us, the scheming viziers

11.03.2026 15:18 👍 4162 🔁 796 💬 32 📌 10
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New modelling shows renewable electricity can meet NZ’s future demand – without importing gas New Zealand could meet its electricity needs through renewables and avoid power shortages during dry years by combining battery systems with pumped hydro schemes.

#NZpol From a few days ago: New modelling shows renewable electricity can meet NZ’s future demand – without importing gas

- doubts the logic of “imposing a levy on electricity to fund an LNG terminal”, “because New Zealand also has a goal to achieve 100% renewable electricity generation by 2030,”

12.03.2026 06:52 👍 51 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 2

#NZpol

12.03.2026 09:45 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

They already are 🤣🤦‍♀️
Ffs. VOTE 🗳️ #nzpol

12.03.2026 09:49 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

I can't believe we have no household solar and no ferries and 43 days of fuel left

We are so dumb

We have the dumbest government but also we are very dumb

12.03.2026 06:04 👍 182 🔁 26 💬 11 📌 4

I wonder if they'll simply txt Willis it's over?

12.03.2026 09:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why don't people just swallow condoms full of oil and then fly it out of the region on a commercial airliner?

12.03.2026 05:07 👍 72 🔁 15 💬 5 📌 1

Well then time to tell the road and truck lobby groups to sit down and let the adults be in charge.
Rail
Supporting land use
1000 EV truck tractor Units you can get with a low interest loan

12.03.2026 05:30 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I wonder if we survive this, whether the broader voting public will come to again value expertise, professionalism and competence

12.03.2026 06:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hard to believe the biggest fuckups in the history of the world fucked this up

12.03.2026 01:35 👍 502 🔁 114 💬 12 📌 2
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#CoC
#nzpol

12.03.2026 05:24 👍 30 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

What's the Temu Streisand Effect?

12.03.2026 05:36 👍 235 🔁 32 💬 11 📌 0

Don't overlook blinkered, myopic ideology. This has been the most evidence averse government I've ever known, and so sadly I don't know that they have the mental capacity or imagination to recognise the reality of the new situation they're finding themselves in

12.03.2026 06:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump & Hegseth fired the experts and replaced them with dumb loyalists.

“The Strait of Hormuz is not just an oil chokepoint. The Middle East accounts for about 24% of global sulphur production, and sulphur is the feedstock for sulphuric acid used across nickel, copper & fertilizer supply chains.“

12.03.2026 05:35 👍 30 🔁 10 💬 5 📌 2

Important reminder that the US is intentionally, before the world, not prosecuting or even investigating anyone involved in the Epstein files.

12.03.2026 05:33 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1

nick leggett's legacy coming brutally and destructively to the fore now with NZ's immense reliance on roads and truck freight

very few people who can so singularly be held responsible for the failures of policy, and especially without having any real public accountability whatsoever

12.03.2026 05:16 👍 40 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 0

This seems like something we should have going on in #nzpol

12.03.2026 06:26 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

He really can't pull it off. And I realise I'm blinded by his earlier career choices, but I see him and all I see is a roll on deoderant bottle with eyes

12.03.2026 06:11 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Fuel costs could drive New Zealand trucking businesses to the ground More than 90 percent of freight in Aotearoa is moved by road.

What an appalling set of circumstances if you needed logistics and distribution for things like food

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

12.03.2026 05:27 👍 39 🔁 6 💬 9 📌 1

Hahaha thankee. And never ever he

12.03.2026 06:07 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

As a bald man I approve of this thread

12.03.2026 06:04 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Watching the media casually talking about fuel rationing & the possibilites of carless days or other radical reaction, calmly & yeah I get it, don't spook the horses but by god I am outraged because I know if this happened under a Labour government there would be "Waily, waily, waily!" #NZPol

12.03.2026 05:47 👍 70 🔁 11 💬 9 📌 0

How much is that LNG plant gonna cost us?

Dumbest motherfuckers to have held the seat of power in the Beehive ever.

12.03.2026 00:26 👍 23 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0