Ken
@kenzime.bsky.social
Not here for pointless arguments, and if you want that my method is block early and without regret. Living the dream in the deep south Pacific. Probably lots of dog photos, beach and bush. I swear, a lot. I make a lot of typos.
JFC, this current situation seems to simply end up proving that a significant proportion of humans are total fucking trash.
Django Wexler@djangowexler.bsky.social · 4h agoSomehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
The NZ economy is being lashed by high fossil fuel prices, which increase the cost of living and drive inflation. Let's decarbonise the energy system for the climate and reap the side benefits of lower energy prices.
Want to grow kūmara this summer? You can get your crop started now from a supermarket kūmara. This video unexpectedly getting some extra love on the book of faces, so figured I'd share it here too.
Static or falling house prices removes one of the major economic activities in this country, the mortgage top up. Its how a lot of people have managed to get extra money to spend on the nice to haves over the years. Wage growth lags inflation, no top up $$, economy is fucked. Thats when govt spends
Im still wondering how National thinks removing money from the economy will result in growth.
Folks, come hear me talk about the big bang, how long it took us to get from then to now - and what happened along the way, Tues, 25 Aug 2026, 7:30pm – 8:30pm @ the Oakroom; free tickets via Eventbrite. (And if you don't like my korero you can always have a pint) www.rtbevent.com/richard-east...
Good morning Bluesky ☀️ My grandad told me he saw the Titanic - from the outset he warned all the people that the ship would sink, but nobody listened to him. He knew he was right and didn't give up. He warned them again & again, until eventually they kicked him out of the cinema.
At some point we — all of us — have to have a serious conversation about priorities. We can't just keep squeezing corporate profits out of everything and insisting everyone just make do somehow.
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · yesterdayOlder Kiwis choosing between 'starving or heating' as price increases bite
And now im disappointed because the three beef patty, cheese and bacon bread free burger (just a plate of protein and fat) which my sick of cooking brain chose for dinner was predictably crap. Fuck it.
Rant warning. A thread. Im watching delayed tv1 news while cooking a very unhealthy meal, and this almost caused me to burn it. So we have a piece about cold weather and people in AoNZ having to choose between eating, or putting the heating on. Next we have consumer NZ talking about how... 1/?
I am sick of taxpayers being treated like a bottomless ATM by people other than me, to be raided at any time by people other than me, for any reason other than my own.
Another reason for trump to go after the ICC I guess.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · yesterdayUN Human Rights Commission: "So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls, that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity."
NASA: Warming Effects of Carbon Pollution since the 1800s. Wait for it. Since human’s industrialized the Earth has warmed 1.5°C/2.7°F due to heat-trapping greenhouse gases released from the burning of fossil fuels, changes in land use, and the feedbacks of both. This may not sound like much but 1/
I did not work countless hours in an ICU full of proned patients and go back to my hotel crying because we lost more patients in a day than a typical week to hear a moron with a worm in his brain say that the ICU's were empty. I AM SO FUCKING ANGRY.
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3d agoI worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
Well, at least it was for a completely lawless and pointless cause.
CNBC@cnbc.com · 2d agoU.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters
Today is Venn Day, in celebration of the mathematician John Venn, born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn Diagram.
If that evangelical fuckwits version of a vengeful Christian god was true there would not be ice-cream in my freezer would there? Yet here i am eating icecream. Checkmate eftpostel.
As someone who built her own business from the ground up with a handful of clients & grew it to a team of 13 employees, handled PAYE ,GST & all creditors by myself for 11years before my health (& the GFC) eventually killed it, I can confirm this prick is a polished turd compared to SMB in NZ #nzpol
Jordan Rivers@jordanriversnz.bsky.social · 2d ago"Luxon isnt a buisness person, he's a corporate person. There's a big difference"
Brian Tamaki is fucking insane. He's a liar, a grifter, a thief. If there was such a thing as hell, he would certainly be ending up there, and despite all his stupid bullshit here, I will happily say that i will celebrate when he no longer is alive. Fuck him, and fuck all of his followers.
Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa@sanjanah.bsky.social · 2d agoImportant to register the individuals, and institutions on Brian Tamaki's "hitlist". Inter alia, look at what he instigates against LGBTIQ+ community. #nzpol #DangerousSpeech
Oh god, batten down the hatches, incoming feral cat outrage. "Just neuter and release" and it will all be fine...
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d agoNine Lives, the feral cat that terrorised New Zealand’s rare ducks, is caught after three years
Only one notch below the other happening that I hope for every morning when I check the news.
Mark Baxter@aotearoabadger.bsky.social · 2d agoHowever, a massive boost to public morale.
Hey NZ parents, what can we do to get your young adult kids enrolled to vote? I know it's the responsibility of the young adults, but is there something we can do to help things along?
Maybe a short 🧵 These are kinda back of the smoke packet numbers, but i can justify them. A 280 MW "AI Factory" vs using that electricity to power passenger EVs. 15.33 billion ev kms, or 32% of total kms driven in AoNZ. Avoiding importing 1.23 billion litres of petrol. Avoiding sending....
