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Petrol station sign board with various types and prices including $00.00 next to a bicycle symbol

Worried about petrol prices hitting your pocket? Try this simple hack! 🚲 #costofliving #nzpol

Many countries made electrification of their transport fleet a priority. Our govt scraped all incentives. And now we starring down the raising price a barrel. Who could have predicted that?

Countries that have adopted electric vehicles the fastest will suffer the least from oil price spikes caused by the US/Israel attack on Iran.

NZ is not one of those, thanks to Luxon’s poor leadership.

Coffee, straight out of my nose.

Graphic of busy car-filled road and text stressing that car dependency is the opposite of freedom. Mobility freedom comes from mobility choices. Graphic by the Urban Truth Collective.

Gas price hikes & shortages “fuel” controversy, especially when they’re “driven” by an illegal war. But let’s not forget one of the most important discussions that should flow from such hikes — how they spotlight the difference between places with mobility choices, and places that are car-dependent.

Yellow bird with black face and red eye, all puffed out and slightly damp.

Let me start a belated thread of Aotearoa New Zealand silvan birds.

To lead things off, a New Zealand Bellbird photographed on Kapiti Island.

Can't wait for a few year's time when $54 billion dollars worth of roads and a new LNG terminal will have made our dependence on volatile fossil fuels a thing of the pas... Oh. Oh crap.

Just heard the first mention on NZ media of the possibility of "rationing" fuel.

These dairy alternatives are getting out of hand

They won't. Winston will not allow it. It's woke to distance our energy market from the whims of global superpowers.

if you're happy and you know it, stay in bed. if you're happy and you know it, stay in bed. if you're happy and you know it, getting up will surely blow it. If you're happy and you know it, stay in bed.

Nicola Willis - along with the rest of the National government - has a performance review on 7 November this year. And the choice is pretty simple: either we vote for the ultra-rich, or we vote for ourselves.

/end

Cutting dialysis just to save a couple of dollars is truly toxic behaviour. But let's ask ourselves the question: where did the money that used to be available to keep people alive actually go?

A short thread.

#nzpol

NZ had started down the pathway to cut its dependence on oil and gas. Then Luxon/Willis/Bishop/Jones/Seymour reversed course. Looks pretty stupid now.

lettuce prey

Cartoon illustration featuring a man running towards a bicycle encased in a glass box. Over the box is a giant hammer and a sign that says, "In case of rising gas prices break glass."

You know what to do

Fortunately we have had a many years ongoing priority to reduce transport inflation by having the mass movement of internal goods focused on rail fulled by renewable electricity.

(listens to earpiece) Oh No.

In other words, a mere 311 families have net assets that are about half the size of the entire NZ government. That's a lot.

And on the income from those assets they pay around 9% in tax. No-one reading this thread only pays 9% tax

I am thinking that the decrepit sack of dog mince Winston Peters went on radio yesterday and said the 2023 election results stopped NZ becoming a "Venezuela or Myanmar" and we're RATIONING DIALYSIS to hit an arbitrary spend target.

A female Kākāpō on a nest with a young chick. Credit: Andrew Digby

Eva at her nest tonight on a very wet Pukenui/Anchor Island. Her chick Evohe-A2 is doing ok and her foster egg underneath her is about to hatch. #kakapo #conservation #kakapo2026 #birds

Maybe you're too cool to be involved with model boats, but that probably means you've never seen a Russian submarine being chased by an angry Moorhen:)

Dawn Chorus: Luxon clings on as inflation shock looms Luxon won't resign after poll shock; Oil over US$90/bbl overnight; Petrol over NZ$3/l in some areas; Freight cost warning after diesel rises 44c/l; Pak n'Save buying US butter; Dialysis rationing

“Christchurch Hospital has started rationing dialysis to two sessions per week from three because of a Government-imposed sinking lid on spending to ensure Crown spending to GDP gets down below 30%, 1News reported last night” #nzpol

Cover of Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Ben Miller and Huw Lemmey. It has a blue and purple gradient with the GCN logo and the article's title that reads: "5 LGBTQ+ history books to read all year round". At the bottom of the image, a message says: "Read more on www.gcn.ie at the link in bio".

From the archive for #WorldBookDay: Be sure to keep room on your bookshelf for all of these fabulously queer history books 🌈📚 Read 👉 buff.ly/M9QGQZs #GCNnews

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Hannah Playhouse, Wellington, NZ. r/brutalism

Cars back on Queen St - act now or go back to the bad old days 😤

Auckland Transport is quietly bringing back cars to Queen St. Here's why they aren't acting in good faith and what to do about it.

https://www.bikeauckland.org.nz/news/cars-back-on-queen-st-act-now-or-go-back-to-the-bad-old-days/

It's reassuring that despite the cost of living crisis, the sustained recession, and our general malaise, our splendid banks can still make $30m a day in profits. But, wait, don't judge... (1/2)