So the RBNZ printed $60b to buy freshly-minted Governnent bonds off banks, then has accepted the cash back from the Government as the bonds have matured and have sold a few still-to-mature bonds back into the market for cash. 1/2

Musical Chairs@musicalchairs.bsky.social · yesterday

Notice that RBNZ have not exactly shrunk their balance sheet in the last few years - they have just gone from holding Govt bonds to holding piles of foreign currency assets (grey). They are using that $33 billion(!) stash to intervene in currency markets every now and then to protect the $NZ. [5/n]

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

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This policy would directly lead to physical abuse of disabled and neurodivergent children. Tell your friends. I'm absolutely serious.

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 4d ago

ACT candidate Paul Henry unveils plan to let teachers use 'reasonable force' on 'little shits'

Hey remember when a Labour leader had the instinct to give someone being a shit a bit of a fucken serve on live television? Yeah, I remember how it was an important marker and enthused people who wanted less boorish male bullshit.

Lessons for NZ - apparently datacentres in Ireland draw =23% of the country's power and household power bills have gone up 600 Euros in the last year as a result. Use urged from 5% of national electricity demand in 2015 to 23% in 2025. Forecast to exceed 30%

Yeah but weren't they vegetarian?

Luke Knox@lukeknox.me · 5d ago

this is my new favorite diagram

"How much of your own money have you invested the businesses you ran?" "How exactly did you personally reshape and retool the global conglomerate Unilever and state-subsidised Air NZ, and how enduring have those measures proved?" Why does no one call him on his bullshit? I hate his face

It's August now, @jcsalterego.bsky.social Where are you?

if you're going to support Chinese protectionism at least be honest and tell me it's because you don't want to compete, don't want tougher domestic regulation, or are getting fat stacks of cash from U.S. carmakers don't come at me with claims you are trying to protect privacy

In today’s NZ Herald

In case you have the blues today🪻:

Remember that interview when Luxon said he thought abortion was murder? Making Simeon Brown Minister of Health is part of an evangelical agenda #nzpol

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Yeah Zoe!!!! www.1news.co.nz/2026/07/29/g...

Gold for Zoe Hobbs in 100m at Commonwealth Games

The 28-year-old finished with a national record time of 10.93s.

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Another slip at Mauao this week - thankfully not tragic like the one in February - in part because the walking tracks hadn’t yet been reopened while TCC continued engineering checks. And here’s local MP Sam Uffindell demanding the walkway reopen last week because people want to walk it now 🙄

Millionaire landlord Prime Minister that took a 50k payrise during a cost of living crisis and tried to take a wage subsidy of 52k to live in his own house just said he supports actual workers having their pay cut

I make this plot each year for our "intro to rocket science" course. It's remarkable that as many rockets go to orbit from New Zealand as from Russia – but on a per head basis we stand alone. This is an amazing place for a small country to find itself, and we should be making the most of it...

Dear Aotearoa New Zealand, We have a Prime Minister who doesn't know how to be one; a Finance Minister who is laughably unqualified; a party whose values are "me me me"; an old fart minister who just won't quit.... the list really does go on. Vote them out. Please. #nzpol

Blunder-bus #nzpol

David Mohring@nzheretic.bsky.social · 3y ago

45. Set five major targets for health system, including for wait times and cancer treatment. Extremely necessary but it is impossible to hit a target when you are pointing the blunderbuss in the opposite direction. www.stuff.co.nz/national/hea...

I understand there is cute mammal pest discourse. Over a year we culled roughly 80 possums from 5 acres of regenerating bush. I have planted trees that have not been nibbled, there are frogs on the veranda at night...not fighting possums, the birds are everywhere including a banded rail.

I always think that people from other countries who are talking like they know what New Zealand needs to do should first have to tell us where they think New Zealand is (cc. @dimsie.bsky.social)

absolute sphere ☺️

To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.

Job ads from the Auckland Star, Wednesday March 26, 1986 #NewZealand #Aotearoa #kikorangi