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Please tell me, and everyone else, you don’t support the ‘move on’ orders. Poll near the bottom of the article.

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

How Finland’s giant sand battery is storing clean energy (and cutting emissions by 70 percent) | The Optimist Daily Finland's sand battery stores renewable energy as heat using crushed soapstone, helping one town slash emissions and eliminate oil from its heating system.

Adding the world's largest sand battery to the local heating network is set to reduce heating emissions by 70% in the town of Pornainen, Finland. The battery holds up to 100 MWh of heat energy from solar and wind energy. #goodnews #renewableenergy

Four Big Tech Companies Avoid $51 Billion in Taxes in Wake of One Big Beautiful Bill Act Four of the corporations whose CEOs flanked President Trump at his 2025 inauguration ceremony have now disclosed that they collectively received $51 billion in federal tax breaks in 2025, much of that...

New reporting shows Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla collectively received $51 billion in tax breaks following last year’s corporate tax cuts — paying an effective federal tax rate of just 4.9%.

TAX THE RICH FAIRLY! https://seiu.co/4qRJulh

Watch: 'It needs to stop' - Police given new powers to clear beggars and rough sleepers Breaching a move-on order may lead to a $2,000 fine or three months in jail.

I knew it would be bad but this is draconian - note it is for anyone 14 years and over and it will be a $2k fine for people with no money so instead they will go to prison. It thus becomes move on to prison. This is not a solution to homelessness. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/governmen...

feminist discourse is so interesting when it's between women and about who u can really trust

Queen!!!!!

Blind boxes rely on the same mechanisms of seduction as loot boxes in video games – and so demand the same scrutiny.

👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/gamblin...

Imagine, Aotearoa! 🙏

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

Wow.

Uncomplicated pleasures in a complicated world: Bill Manhire and Jenny Bornholdt’s new poetry, reviewed Two of Aotearoa’s greatest poets are launching new collections today. We review them both.

‘These poets are reaching across time, across ways of seeing and remembering and supposing. Reading Manhire and Bornholdt is an uncomplicated pleasure in a complicated world. I am tremendously grateful for them.’ The launch day review for two of our favourite poets. thespinoff.co.nz/books/11-02-...

Its fucking insane isnt it

$200 billion to fix NZ, but lets drop taxes for landlords and reduce gov spending

'With infrastructure crumbling, and being literally washed away by yet another summer storm'

The plan? Build more roads

That surely will fix the problem!

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

If you are in a perpetual cycle of response and recovery with inadequate preparation, planning and mitigation, no we are not getting good at this.

The headline with the breaking news banner is fitting

Wairarapa friends: the Red Cross has six families keen to have sewing machines and we are out of stock there.

Could you please ask your neighbours, aunties, sports buddies etc ? Email any offers to sewingmachinedonations@gmail.com please 🧵💚

Please share!

NZ has normalised inequality. As the cost of living rises, Govt has to expand into every corner of life so people don't starve and end up homeless.
We need to reduce inequality and rampant rentierism so that people and communities have the resources they need to look after themselves.

Big grid batteries are pushing dirty, expensive fossil gas out of the power grid, and Australia has joined the party.

"Batteries are picking up daytime solar and dropping it on evening gas like an anvil being dropped on a cartoon character."
#nzpol

As the govt threatens a gas tax, it’s important to reiterate that tax is a GOOD thing. It’s what can make a society work well for the people.

And that it’s also very important that a government spends tax income on things that benefit PEOPLE, not the fossil fuel industry.

They can take this graph, add the one showing excess mortality worldwide 2020-2023, and say "We spent the same, but had the best result on the planet. And National still says human lives are worth less."

But they don't. 🤷

Writing Club Tip #193

"To skip time, just jump to the good part. But once you've got there, give a quick summary of significant stuff the reader has missed."

@yenningtons.bsky.social

#writing #writingcommunity #writingtips

'It's just not enough': Salvation Army warns families are starving The Salvation Army's latest State of the Nation paints a dire picture of worsening child poverty and unemployment.

'It's just not enough': Salvation Army warns families are starving
#nzpol

This is grim 😢 incredibly tough for these people and their families right now, and it will take years (sometimes generations) to recover, if ever

Gore Verbinski Sounds Off on AI as He Launches ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’ The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ filmmaker is back after nearly a decade, and is ready to skewer how technology has taken over our lives (even more) in that time: “Why is AI helping me write a song or t...

“Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? Send some shit through a black hole; do something that we can’t do. Or dig a ditch; do the shit we don’t want to do. Why is it coming after the stuff that we essentially need to do to be human beings?”

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Australia: let’s roll out so much rooftop solar you can have free power during the day
NZ: businesses are closing down because they can’t afford power so we’re building a one billion dollar fossil fuel terminal so we can keep not having free power

Climate & economic imbeciles.

Climate & economic criminals.

1 - Build out infra
2 - Privatize companies
3 - Dividends!
4 - Spend public money on more infra (??)
5 - Dividends!

Gentailers have spent TEN BILLION DOLLARS on dividends over a decade of under investing in capacity

We're left paying the bill? Fuck this

#nzpol

Why the new LNG terminal could raise, not lower, your power bill Analysis: Energy Minister Simon Watts is confident importing gas will lower power prices, but questions remain about the scheme and its costs.

Marc Daalder on why the new LNG terminal is likely to shape up as a bad financial and climate decision.

Examines Watts and Luxons facile talking points and takes them apart.

Should be material for Hipkins but will he use it?