Oli - ultracrepidarian

Hey folks, you know the Roads of National Significance are ruinously expensive, with extremely poor business cases? That was before oil prices started rising. Factor in fuel costs and these projects just became even more ridiculous.

Just remembering how Luxon bought a new Tesla EV when there was a Clean Car Discount, then cancelled the policy so others couldn't do it, and is now canning the Clean Car Standards and adding a new tax to petrol.

What a guy.

#nzpol

😢😢😢😢

Russian alphabet

Still from video of Floyd writing the Russian alphabet.

Amazing.

Our autistic 6yo grandson got given a blackboard yesterday.

He promptly wrote the entire alphabet out and used all the same size letters, so it all fitted.

Then wrote Grandma & Grandpa.

Tonight he wrote the entire Russian alphabet out.

He has never written anything before.

Gobsmacked!!!

Have you never been to the Afghan Restaurant in Ōtautahi?

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.

Good morning & welcome to #Caturday

If today gets difficult try & remember the way sunlight dances on a window, the sound of your favourite person’s laugh, the feeling when a song you love comes on
The colour of the sky at dusk and that we’re here to take care of each other.

Hello Aotearoa business journalists . . . I am keen for a solid article on how we secure our national petroleum supply--petrol and gas--and what that process looks like.

Who negotiates? Who handles shipping? How is the price backstopped to ensure that when prices spike, we still get what we need?

Like clockwork.

Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

Pete Hegseth declared “we will hunt down and kill anyone killing” USians.

Now it is revealed Russia is hunting down and helping kill USians.

By the standards set by the current White House the US should be going to war with Russia and striking them, “we r lethal” 🤡.

They've been talking to each other on the phone (even though they're not allowed to).

Chloe doing alright.
#nzpol

Will he last the weekend?

Goneburger.

Just a question of when.
#nzpol

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon 'absolutely not' considering standing down www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Try asking your local council if they have any going spare. Usually they give them to "social initiatives" so maybe ask via the school?

28%?

That means 72% of the country don't like ya.

Almost like they've lost their mandate to govern...
#nzpol

Can we say 'embattled'?

Damn right we can, and we will!
#nzpol

Bombshell poll: Luxon under pressure as National sinks towards 2020 disaster mark The poor rating follows weeks of criticism of Christopher Luxon’s leadership.

Dont threaten me with a good time!

Bombshell poll: Luxon under pressure as National sinks towards 2020 disaster mark

In today’s NZ Herald

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Photograph of Cuisines of Odesa: Recipes & Stories from Ukraine’s Historic City by Maria Kalenska

And a very special #CookbookCorner shoutout for the beautiful Cuisines of Odesa: Recipes & Stories from Ukraine’s Historic City by Maria Kalenska! 💙💛

My submission on the bill the government has just rammed through Parliament.

It is a shameful piece of legislation that shreds constitutional norms, rewards illegal behaviour, breeds a culture of bureaucratic impunity, and imposes made-up debts on some of society's most vulnerable. #nzpol

This is a good analogy. Very useful in carefully controlled settings for specific usages, but unfortunately being widely inserted into everything and used without training or PPE and poisoning a lot of things and people and we’re going to pay a tonne of money to remove it safely in the future

Is Paul Goldsmith “embattled” yet?

Nails it.

Lux-o, of course, will support these madmen in anything they do, whatever the cost.

#nzpol

NewstalkZB: "Barry Soper: Is Luxon facing too much scrutiny over Middle East response?"

I only ask because NewstalkZB still presents itself as a legitimate news operation, but it what world does a journalist ask "is the Prime Minister facing too much scrutiny?"

Awwww! Dat nose!

Mine was just "helping" me make my bed. Lots of tear-arsing around and chewing on my hands.

Government considering scrapping entire clean car standard An EV advocate says if the proposal goes ahead, Kiwis will be sold "the high-emitting leftovers" that manufacturers can no longer sell in Australia.

This government is right on the mark in terms of enshittification… whatever’s was a good thing is their shin to make it a bit shittier… see the 1st the comment for an explanation
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Erm. NZTA, what are you doing?