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Just fucking cap donations - end of.

Fixed it for you Simeon, you fucking ghoul

Mandates, lockdowns, and billions spent: The key findings of the Covid inquiry phase 2 report The report ultimately reasons that decisions made at the time were “balanced and reasonable”.

The cost of the inquiry comes out of the coalitions election campaign budgets yes?

#nzpol

“Dad, how may garlic breads do you want”

Is that even a question. The answer is all of them. Plus some more.

‘There are crocs absolutely everywhere’: NT residents warned to stay out of flood waters as hundreds evacuated Entire Daly River town evacuated as Bureau of Meteorology warns river levels expected to rise in coming week Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast

Climate change just hits different in Australia

Ninth wave of Covid-19 suggests wane in immunity, expert says everyone must 'act to reduce impact' The latest figures show 50 hospitalisations and 19 deaths with the virus in the past week.

It is very disappointing that the expert only had 2 options for reducing the spread of COVID:

"Apart from getting boosters - which were available every six months for people over 30 - Baker said self-isolation was the next best way to stop the spread."

Perhaps K95 masks would be another?
#NZPOL

“Just cut the big ones, make sure they don’t look like testicles” #overheardinthehouse

“Are you surprised that your child is making a tower out of cantaloupe skins?” #overheardinthehouse

Noem may be gone from DHS - but Trump appointed her to another position (although we aren't overly sure what that is).

This shows that he still trusts her - its clearly only an optics thing.

who made this

so, torture. they’re torturing them as federal policy. entirely predictable, but that doesn’t make it any less evil

Positive COVID-19 rat test

Booooo

The National Library still hasn’t paid hundreds of authors. It has ‘no definitive timeframe’ for a fix In what's being referred to as ‘a fucking saga’, 318 writers have been told they won’t receive public lending right money, even though they were told they'd successfully registered for the annual payment....

The National Library still hasn’t paid hundreds of authors. It has ‘no definitive timeframe’ for a fix

Wellington's beaches are currently more consistently safe to swim at than Auckand's, per LAWA

Quick reminder that The Dawn Raids only targeted brown people at a time when our largest group of overstayers came from England.

The challenges to accountability when people using public services have their private data involuntarily added to private providers' records is under appreciated. What's meaningful accountability here? Can the public agency actually render it when they don't control the vendor?

Screenshot of part of the post, which reads "By publicly abandoning X on moralistic grounds, public agencies are advertising their political alignment. They are saying, in effect: we share the values of liberal media elites, and we disapprove of the platform where conservative and populist voices have found a home."

YMMV on reading 2,282 words from a political commentator on why the Speaker of the House was wrong to decide Parliament would no long post on Twitter/X. 'Gone Rogue' is the term used.

I'm not sure reducing misogynist white supremacism to 'conservative & populist voices' is wise.

A screenshot of the new NEH guidelines, with eligibility text highlighted "The 2026 Fellowships competition will only accept projects for research in American history and culture and Western civilization. Competitive applications must focus on topics in the history, culture, and government of the United States in any period from the Colonial Era to the present, or topics in Western civilization from antiquity to the present." The rest above it says "NEH Fellowships are competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Applications must clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, born-digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research. Projects may be at any stage of development. NEH encourages submissions from independent scholars and junior scholars."

"Exceptional work in the humanities for me (white) but not thee (non-white)."

The biggest problem with solar energy is not that it is intermittent, it is that greedy people cant make it scarce nor monopolize it.

#greensky #nature #energysky

Nothing to see here just Auckland Transport cancelling four early morning commuter ferries because of cruise ship operations. This should be completely unacceptable but time and again it happens without penalty. Until this is sorted it's hard to accept public transport is considered a priority.

Remmeber when they got mad at Obama for wearing a tan suit.

Looks like every movie ever made about authoritarian fascist dictators. He’s proud of it. It’s all he ever wanted.

This poll for the "Uber Law" just passed, because if you tolerate this then your contract will be next!

Link to poll in thread 1/2 #NZPol

Good morning with good news: Battery costs plunged 27% in 2025, a bigger fall than 11% forecasted 2025 decline!

Global battery deployment jumps 33% in 2026 to 122.5 GW in 2026!

Battery costs fall 25%; solar costs 30%; onshore wind 23% & offshore wind 20% by 2035!
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

she's a child abuser and those parents should lose custody of all of their kids.

Budgeted for this = canceling $6bn climate resilience fund

Infra not being political = canceling iRex and politicizing 3waters to the max

I've not seen this level of gaslighting in NZ for a while

#nzpol

Also. People. YOU MAY NOT BE AT HOME WHEN AN EMERGENCY HITS!!

A lot of advice (a) individualises the problem and (b) assumes people will be at home.

Fun fact: NZers travel!

We holiday, visit family/friends, work, go on retreats, etc etc

We need better advice+support than "err make go bag". Gah

Now we wait for them to disestablish the Infrastructure Commission like they did the Productivity Commission

Solar, heat pumps ‘lower cost’ path than LNG for electrification, says NZGBC A new report argues New Zealand can meet its looming energy shortfall by accelerating rooftop solar and electric hot water

Government’s plan to import LNG for electricity generation would cost households and businesses up to $8.3bn

Same volume of electricity could be delivered through a $2.5b investment in rooftop solar panels and hot water heat pumps

evsandbeyond.co.nz/solar-heat-p...

PSA for Hutt Valley: "Please do not drive to look at flooding. Please do not drive to check conditions. Please do not drive unless it is essential." congestion is delaying emergency services, power restoration & delaying flood response, preventing crews from reaching vulnerable residents.