Andy Gardner

Nice work @chrishipkins.bsky.social
Your comments about Te Pati Maori just ensured Labour will never see another vote from me (party or otherwise) again.
Dickhead.
#nzpol

Yeah. Get Swarbrick there and let’s have a proper conversation

Love the name

Blame game at the highest levels continues in McSkimming case It’s the latest development in the blame game merry-go-round that marks the fallout of the Jevon McSkimming scandal.

Tick tock, Minister's going down

I can't wait
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FML☹️

Judith Collins has been completely hoodwinked into thinking AI is the dog's bollocks

There's something really weird going on with this McSkimming stuff. Nats and Labour all trying to sweep it under the carpet.

My daughter has just finished high school and is staring down the barrel of adulthood. I didn’t ask to be born, she told me, I didn’t ask for a life that’s all work.
I didn’t know what to tell her, because she’s right, it’s bullshit. Life should be about more than a desperate scramble to survive.

Hipkins keeps saying "If you want National out, vote Labour". But what difference would it make if he's keeping most of the destructive legislation from the last three years in place anyway.

We need to do more than stop the rot. We also need to fix it. #nzpol

The ‘enormous bribe’ 50 years ago that cost New Zealand $625 billion. And the price we will pay for decades Changes made today will still take decades to make up for the shortfall of a decision made in 1975. Damien Venuto looks into how a fiery politician changed the course of New Zealand’s history.

Never let be said Kiwis are a slow bunch...

... it only took 50 years - HALF A CENTURY!! - for some to realise the horrendous decision voters made in 1975.

(1)

www.stuff.co.nz/money/360910...

Atlas Network: Disinformation as a Weapon of Neoliberalism The organization, founded in 1981, has 589 think tanks in 103 countries that finance the hatred and hoaxes of the extreme right. The objective: to protect the privileges of capital owners.

The Atlas Network has 589 think tanks in 103 countries that finance the hatred and hoaxes of the extreme right.

Its objective is to protect the privileges of capital owners.
#nzpol

Big Tech enshittified the Internet and then went on to enshittify careers, human relationships, politics, the economy, people’s brains, and all of civilization.

RNZ Headline that says: "Landowners to get more compensation from councils as major RMA overhaul revealed"

"Under the RMA, compensation is limited to extreme scenarios where land is considered unable to be reasonably used;

the new system would lower that threshold to where impacts of regulation on all privately owned land are "significant" under a new framework."

the tax cuts aren't enough huh?
#nzpol

#NZpol

one more racist, bigoted freak out of F1. rejoice

Oh, and this drama about summer holidays is of course stupid, but it's not about people having 12 weeks off (because no one does); it's about so many people taking a week here and a week there that it FEELS to them like everyone's disappeared, and rich people want a plumber instantly #nzpol

Action station, Louisa and Tory in in front of parli

Tory hongi Marama

Tory speaking at parliament

Marama, Julie Anne, Tamatha and Celia

Proud to stand with Louisa Wall, Marama Davidson, Rawiri Waititi and Green MPs as we delivered a 30k strong petition calling on the PM to bring his ministers into line. Whether it’s Seymour calling academics “deranged,” or Peters taking cheap shots at anyone who disagrees with him, it’s not ok.

Most cars sit parked for around 95% of their life. Bidirectional charging lets you put that battery capacity to work.

Australia has had solar subsidies for so long that some of my Aussie colleagues are eligible for a second round of upgrades because it's been ten years.

NZ meanwhile, we can't have nice things. It might upset the status quo.

Hello fellow patriots

Did you know that at 3.30pm today the govt is introducing an “undisclosed bill” which, as the title suggests, means no one knows what it is.

The opposition needs to prepare for a bill that they haven’t been told about…can someone tell me how that is democratic?

After a backroom meeting with Donald Trump and a donation to the Trump ballroom, NVIDIA got a deal to sell the most advanced AI chip it has ever sold to China.

The NVIDIA CEO should testify under oath in Congress.

Cartoon. Title: Groundbreaking Four panels. Luxon is in the first holding a report that says 'IMPORTANT INFO INSIDE'. He says, "Erica... we have official advice on the Treaty in the curriculum..." the next panel has him holding the report up in his hand about to throw it to Erica, "AND... you know what that means!" Third panel: Erica Stanford catches the report and shouts, "I SURE DO CHRIS!" Fourth panel: Erica is standing by a green wheel bin holding the lid open with a whole load of expert reports inside it - "We file it away with all the other expert reports!"

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

If you type '𝗚𝗼𝘃𝘁 𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲' into google you get a whole shit ton of articles - by the current lot.

#Cartoon #NzPol #Caricature #Luxon #Stanford

Whenever I walk into a house with Alexa I wait until they're out of earshot and ask it to to fire off alarms at 4am etc etc.

A very senior IT guy at big Aotearoa company adamant nobody should go near Alexa etc or cloud-store security cameras either but it's all a coin-toss because when you buy any 'smart' stuff decide whether you want China or US to spy on your stuff... first. The other side will get it soon after anyway

You know who doesn't rush to buy wi-fi-enabled "smart" appliances? IT security people. I had one regale me with a story about a "smart" heater that could be remotely made to bypass its own thermostat and keep heating. Ideal for burning your enemy's house down.

NZ and our long summer break - are we blowing it or are we a model for the world? Here’s what you say As December rolls on, much of the country is moving into the so-called “Great New Zealand Shutdown”.

Why we we ignoring the fact that the dipshit prime minister, who has spent much of his working life in america, doesn't seem to understand that america's work culture, where paid leave is a fantasy, is not this country's?

What a season finale 🎉. Either one of the most stressful races of the year or maybe one of the most uneventful, depending on who you were cheering for 😅. The Abu Dhabi grand prix summarised in one picture…
#F1 #AbuDhabiGP

Today I went down a biocement hole* 😀

The research in Chris Mancuso’s post is opening up the ability to engineer a bacteria used in biocementation.

This 8min video explains biocement if you’re new to it ⬇️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEt9...

Pretty soon you'll be able to adopt The Professor and have him live with you if you want. You can give him tenure.