The U.S. Secretary of Energy does not know that electricity is energy. I'm glad we've gotten rid of DEI programs and are now giving America the leadership it deserves.
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The U.S. Secretary of Energy does not know that electricity is energy. I'm glad we've gotten rid of DEI programs and are now giving America the leadership it deserves.
So if the president calls you a terrorist, Rubio can murder you. Please note that Stephen Miller just called the Democratic party a "domestic, extremist organization." Pay attention. www.snopes.com/fact-check/s...
💯 I'm a 50+ year old white man. People like me have nothing to offer that can't be offered by women, POC or younger people. At age 65 I will ask my children who they want me to vote for.
Very detailed look at post-Trump America Train wreck is the only constant
Hot take: if you abuse and coerce the women around you, there should be consequences. Other hot take: a man's career is not more important than the safety of the women he meets.
It won't be while Act runs the show. I doubt Labour will take it up either. It has to go back to the original setting I'm sure that in time, a certain musician will get thousands of thinly disguised reviews and will need a new career.
Oh my gods. This is pure genius. What a fucking legend. So I carried on working- as you do. Read it to the whanau and we’re rolling here😂😂😂😂😂😂
There are those who have a conniption at the thought of using te reo (Maori language) or the name Aotearoa, but are happy to appropriate the haka when the All Blacks play rugby. We have right wing political arseholes sowing division, but most of us welcome diversity and unity
Oh wow this is incredibly damning of Luxon, Amazon and the entire situation. Would that every analysis of their "announcements" was as clear-eyed #nzpol
If you already call it Aotearoa NZ, and you're not a techbro billionaire, then you are most welcome. You just have to learn our anthem www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wlz2...
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
The truth about Amazon's NZ datacentre operations. @newsroom.co.nz
My data-journalist friend just researched and wrote this super-fascinating story about what kind of content TikTok sends teenagers, and how young people feel about it www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/i...
My Mum's care worker helps her shower & get dressed every morning. She works 0700 to 8.45pm, 3 hrs off during day. Has every second weekend off, but that's still 12 days in a row. Staff shortages have meant she missed her weekend off: is working 26 days straight. No overtime No pay equity #nzpol
Tourism down in five out of six months, with experts linking decline to president’s rhetoric and restrictive policies.
Science is real
Minister for Homelessness, Chris Bishop, said he didn’t want kids growing up in emergency housing in motels. So he dramatically cut emergency housing grant approvals, pushed the families out into the streets. And now they are growing up on the street.
You could safely bet that the people screaming and making death threats against councillors are the same people who furiously opposed Three Waters. They're stuck with the bad solution they loudly demanded. www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/571...
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Stunning
here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road
Please vote for the NZ Geo Photographer of the year www.nzgeo.com/photography/.... Talent and devotion galore
Important read if you are planning to buy an electric car, or more specifically a second hand one
So good Banksy would approve (I assume)
The battery boom has begun 🔋⚡️ 2024: 69 GW storage added, +66% YoY. Growth looks more like smartphones than power plants—modular, fast, unstoppable. With costs still falling, 2025 will likely surge another 60–70%. The fastest-growing energy in history? Batteries + solar. #BESS #Lithium #Solar #LFP
I can
Lure him into the tomb with the couch of Amontillado
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
Oooh genius
This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.
Fair call. She will now and forever be Nicola no boats
Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week. newatlas.com/energy/large...
Accurate
Welcome to a world where the waxworm caterpillars will rule: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
ok y'all complain when he wastes money on a gold plated toilet but somehow it's also bad when my man cuts costs with some golden spray paint?
In today’s NZ Herald #nzpol #duopoly
After Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent MMR paper: Measles cases: up 1200% Mumps cases: up 70,000% Multiple fatalities People with no science knowledge were taken in by Wakefield. People with no science knowledge are taken in by anti-vaxxers. Listen to scientists www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
I saw the angels live in about 1992, having been a massive fan for a decade. Hated them, thought they were misogynistic wankers. 1000 times better on cassette than live, IMHO. Your mileage may vary 😉
Same, but less poetic
$1 of PV imported into Africa today can displace ~$50 of imported fuel over its operating life. "In Nigeria, a 420 Watt solar panel retails for ~$60 USD and would produce 550 KWh in a year. [...] $60 USD of diesel would make only 275 KWh of electricity, implying a payback time of just six months."
Lassr focused on the cost of living like a trooper hunting Luke Skywalker
Australia: Home batteries for 40,000 households 714 mWH. NZ: Drink my beer: Gentailers - In the decade to 2023, dividends have totaled almost $10.8 billion, including excess dividends of $4.2 billion. Some or ALL of that could have been invested in renewable energy for consumers.
When hoping for an earthquake is all we have left.
Snoop Dogg is scared to go to the movies
Surely it has to be Eat the rich But will be something about eating gravel or gruel
Heavily subsidised and accounts for 1/20,000th of total global emissions, so this is not going to save us
My favourite meme on this one (stolen from someone here):
What I'd just say to you is, don't look up. #LyinLuxon #WorstPMEver #WorstGovernmentEver #EconomicVandals #ElectionRiggers #NZpol
Road repair Warkworth-style Just chuck it in bro
Thomas Deininger uses plastic waste to create sculptures,or should I say,works of Genius!!!!!!
Robot meets bollard. Nothing beats the #WorldBollardAssociation
In the final analysis, a billion monkeys chained to a billion typewriters may indeed produce Hamlet, but anyone who would chain a billion monkeys to a billion typewriters isn't going to appreciate or recognize Hamlet when it finally emerges.
I absolutely agree the Greens have pro-social collective values, but I also found that the 2023 NZES has a how much do you trust trust scientists question, and Green voters in 2023 exhibit the highest positive (lot + somewhat) trust with 98.9% of Green voters.
Tech doesn't work that way anymore. Phones have gotten as good as they can get, in terms of the shit we actually need. Every new generation is at best a tiny iterative improvement. And at worst something that used to work being shoved full of bloatware to create illusory value.
Nostalgia is a toxic impulse but also I miss the time when tech trends were things like "let's put everything in a translucent colored plastic case" instead of "let's add software to everything that lies and also accelerates climate change"
Led By Donkeys are in court in Janyuary, after hanging a banner on scaffolding across the road from Labour HQ Free speech is being silenced in the UK
Peak peacock
Perfect. No notes
Fully agree with the spectator comment. Hadn't head that Twain quote, only the similar one: "Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience"
Apparently this is true Kudos
Exit through the grift shop (apologies the everyone who already said this)
And the award for the best use of eyebrows goes to... President Zelenskyy!
People - we cant even afford butter! Media - Why is hospo dying? Is it the cycle lanes? Gov [Laser focused] - Sets fire to $671 million #nzpol
how many times am I gonna have to post this
This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read
Zelensky wore a suit this time.
Long live Miles Pickering! Long live Plasticine Action! (One can't wish the same for those who criminalise protest against genocide & ecocide.) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
NACTFirst working hard to ensure we're left behind when it comes to fuel and energy
Suspect we are about to get swamped by them in local elections though. So many ACT and SovCit standing with no opposition, so they walk right in. Check all candidates' credentials here: theprogressreport.co.nz/local-candid...
lol @stuff.co.nz using ChatGPT for writing their articles but forgetting to remove the "?utm_source=chatgpt.com" from the generated links 🙄
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🎼 The Finding Out is the Har...dest...Part... 🎶
like rain on your wedding day a free ride when you've already paid the good advice that you just didn't take Isn't he moronic?
Very suspicious that it is her real signature, I've seen it elsewhere
Extra butter And extra bacon
This is hilarious, Bluesky #nzpol
I never thought I would see nazis in broad daylight in my lifetime, but here we are
The talks have begun. Putin has Lavrov and Ushakov, Trump has Rubio and Witkoff. One side is absolutely going to get its lunch money taken.
can you imagine trying to convince the average skepti-dude in the year 2010 that this is what summer europe will look like in 2025
6 cookers to 2 sane candidates. That's quite a ratio. Sort your shit out Christchurch
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I so wish that story had a find out phase. You do a good find out, Amanda, plenty of opportunity for them to have a learning experience
Minister for Rail Winston Peters on the $671m scrapped ferry fiasco #nzpol #ferries www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3607... "One rule for me but not for thee..." We see you speaker of the House and we see the hypocrisy. #NzPol #Caricature #ChlöeSwarbrick #JohnKey #Palestine #GetASpine #Cartoon #Hypocrisy
Numpty Dumpty sat on a fence Numpty Dumpty couldn't make sense The media coaches Both casual and formal Couldn't make Numpty Just talk bloody normal
Dr. Yael Harrari receiving diploma at Tel Aviv University’s School of Medicine graduation. Shirt says: first do no harm, and harm is crossed out and it says GENOCIDE
Shot. Shot. Chaser. A story in three parts. #nzpol
Could be alcohol Or a mixture of alcohol, racism, misogeny, greed and fear. But you're spot on.
CAST THIS MAN IN A BROADWAY SHOW IMMEDIATELY YOU COWARDS
Nagging doubt Stone temple navigators DD volley Goodsinglet The naked and familiar
if you watch the tech industry long enough you learn the promised benefits never materialize but the unforeseen harms continue to be perpetuated long after the companies move on to the next big thing yet governments are too worried about scaring away investment to do anything
The tale of how National broke our 3-5th largest industry so quickly is truly extraordinary. 18,000 jobs gone, ~40% increase in business liquidations, tens of thousands of businesses destroyed, infrastructure capacity and skills lost. Give it up for Chris Bishop once again #nzpol
Killing journalists. My @smh cartoon.
Abigail Dombey 
