When you bring an aluminium smelter into the system to take advantage of cheap power, it works when power is cheap, and stops when power is expensive; this way, it functions as a minimum price guarantee for power producers, which makes various renewable projects viable...

Keith Ng@keithng.bsky.social · 5d ago

The constant load part is a big deal - they compete for power when the wind isn't blowing, they compete for power during peak usage. They are not a good fit for a renewable-centric grid.

This one made me laugh for real.

a bunch of happy residents working at the data centre

Keith Ng@keithng.bsky.social · 5d ago

a bunch of happy residents working at the data centre

It’s a Fair Question….. “Why is it that it takes 900 years and 5000 impact studies to build high speed rail but a 5 minute city council meeting is all it takes to approve a massive data center?”

Thinking about how Wayne Brown would get leverage on Labour if he were somehow made leader of the Greens — he'd do something like offer them Coalition that delivered large parts of the platform or confidence & supply & three years of bloody noses from packing the biscuit tin with Greens/Nats bills

Shitters of Mercy

Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · last wk.

The Feacles

Use the Leverage plot generating mechanic of "read the newspaper, halve the machinations of the antagonists so audiences believe them" & you're golden

Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats@wolven.blacksky.app · 2w ago

I've said it before and I'll say it again, a West Wing style hyper-saturated but not melodramatic episodic hopecore drama series about a progressive political operation that was just the Mamdani administration with the serial numbers filed off would have endless viewership numbers.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, a West Wing style hyper-saturated but not melodramatic episodic hopecore drama series about a progressive political operation that was just the Mamdani administration with the serial numbers filed off would have endless viewership numbers.

Once again proud of my contributions to The Spinoff

NIMBY, YIMBY, we all need to come together say go from "if" to "WHEN everyone in Auckland's isthmus pooed at the same time" thespinoff.co.nz/society/23-0... ... just let's not do a before test

What would happen if we all pooed into Auckland’s new poo pipe at the same time?

The question on everyone’s lips, answered.

thespinoff.co.nz

I finished my bottle of Two Paddocks last night & I am a little superstitious it seems.

nzers looking at rancid old politicians carking it like

I saw this and had to share.

Important note: if count binface is elected, he can make speeches in commons referencing the fact that he is a 5,900-year-old recyclon from sigma ix and it will be against parliamentary rules for any other mp to accuse him of lying

The Greens point out "that with the three largest parties in parliament all supporting the Ratepayer Assistance Scheme, the House can and should just legislate the required tweaks to allow it to be used for solar, rather than making people wait until after the election." #nzpol

Idiot/Savant@norightturnnz.bsky.social · 4w ago

On NRT: The bidding war on solar - norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

The only thing Luxo and I have ever agreed on #nzpol

Appreciate the nutsack -> ballsack correction on Manhire At Large. That's what standards look like.

I've said it before and I'll say it again; The Greens have the most economically literate policy in parliament. The CoC parties campaign on un-costed vibes, reckons and a tired-and-increasingly-rediculous notion that National are sound financial managers despite years of evidence to the contrary

Katya@nzkatya.bsky.social · last mo.

Chlöe on inflation (in response to FSU's Jonathan Ayling) #nzpol

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

Well now DON’T you tell me to PRAY Mess with dogma and you’ll MAKE MY DAY Think you’re a man but you’re an ALTAR BOY Yeah I’m Rome but I’m from ILLINOIS

Got served Pink Pony Inn & now chasing all the bardcore I can get my gauntlets and greaves on

The history of America in 100 objects is, to its credit, very much "new object, more racism"

Is it really called SCREAMING_SNAKE case?? I didn't used to be a fan, but—

You have no idea the heroic restraint it took to not exclaim "a detectorist!" when strolling past one of the very same this morning

Quite often, I find myself missing Helen Kelly and Georgina Beyer.

One of my first "Aha!" insights about the NZ economy after I arrived in 1993 was the weakness of the regulatory system which was built on the astonishingly naive belief that markets would solve any pricing issues. It's a total institutional and political failure to have not tackled this issue

I have to say that Daredevil suffers when the villain is openly corrupt, subverting government and sending his private thugs to disappear people

It’s weird to be clearly living through exactly what was warned about with global warming and still have the concept treated as a future event or hypothetical.

proposal: call years that do not have an el niño or la niña "ela niñx" years

Apparently my internetnz membership expires in 2035, so the "renew now!" email I got was premature