@supergoofnz.bsky.social
Geek, dog nut, player of video games. Middle-aged idle. May contain coarse language & traces of nuts. Tangata Tiriti, Aotearoa. She/her. #Kikorangi. #ToituTeTiriti / #TransRightsAreHumanRights / #BLM
Buy Covid tests at most pharmacies.
Mask up with N95 or better. @covidactionnz.bsky.social has some mask blocs giving out free masks.
Open a window or meet outside. Use an air purifier in your home.
Blis K12 probiotics daily and Dymista nose spray also help.
And I know I'm very privileged that that is even an option.
Thanks, so do I!
Got a new fuel alert traffic light system but it's behind a paywall 🙃
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
"you mean it's going to educate the other people?"
"oh no. no no no. heavens no."
This gov seriously don't give a fuck, they would dump them like unwanted pets if they could. #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
#NZpol He says “it is voters, not donors, who decide the direction of New Zealand”, but isn’t his actions one voter trying to have more effect than most voters can?
- Time to cap donations? Or scrap them entirely, and allocate fixed amounts to parties?
It was never "multidimensional chess" or whatever they were calling it. It's always been a bunch of greedy idiots randomly bouncing from impulse to impulse in search of a payday. Nothing more, nothing less
Things are pretty f****d up when we import... butter.
Coals to Newcastle... ice to Greenland...
Bizarre.
www.rova.nz/articles/kiw...
That sounds like an excellent plan!
Oman's foreign minister, who attempted to shame the US into not entering a war of aggression, says that the goals of US-Israeli war on Iran are not limited to weakening Iran, but also the Gulf states and anyone supportive of Palestinians.
Calls on GCC to reconsider security arrangements.
<taps recyclable headline> #nzpol
here, as a public service.
for general use:
Just scanned the last of the docs and emailed the application, so here's hoping. The JP and library folks said they've had a LOT of kiwisaver withdrawals lately. People are really struggling. 🙁
I'm in the process of applying to withdraw mine for financial hardship, and watching the value drop each day. IF I get all the paperwork right, and IF they approve it, it could still be 20 days of dropping value before it's paid out. 😭
The power broker in this will end up being China.
Again.
You fucking nob America. You dreadful, clumsy fucking nob.
#UxbridgeEnglishDictionary PURPORT: A harbour where cats are happy.
Look, I'm no international relations expert, but I'm starting to think starting a war with Iran was a really fucking stupid thing to do.
Dear everyone,
As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included.
A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.
Here’s the end of the thread 🧵….
( Now go back and read it all ).
The Omanis confirm US Iran negotiations were on verge of a nuclear deal.
Zero uranium stockpiles, full inspections, & “never, ever” pursuing a bomb, yet US & Israel rage 'Epic Fury' war anyway.
A chilling account of a fictional diplomat, as he sees his efforts literally go up in smoke.
University of Oxford is recruiting women who have had keyhole surgery for pelvic pain to understand their experiences!
They are also recruiting health care providers.
If this is of interest check it out...
forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...
The database itself is unfortunately down at the moment, but you can read about it in the meantime –
My definition of the good old days is now of the times when you could go a whole week without hearing about what the President of the United States was saying.
I really miss those times
No way to predict this, says Government of nation whose media outlined exactly this scenario 16 months ago.
#NZpol From a few days ago: New modelling shows renewable electricity can meet NZ’s future demand – without importing gas
- doubts the logic of “imposing a levy on electricity to fund an LNG terminal”, “because New Zealand also has a goal to achieve 100% renewable electricity generation by 2030,”
#NZPol
#GreenEnergy
#Renewables
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How Jeffrey Epstein Seeded The Great Crypto Grift and The Modern Right-Wing Culture
Crypto and Bitcoin were vehicles for Epstein and his cabal of dystopian racists to make money, undermine democracy, subvert regulations, and usher forth right-wing populism.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-jeffre...
Where was Farage’s closest aide and Reform UK Welsh leader Nathan Gill heading when he was arrested for taking bribes from Putin’s pal Medvedchuk?
To a Kremlin sponsored conference in Moscow, to talk about the role of crypto currencies in politics
The warnings are there for us all to see
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GOOD NEWS. The 2026 national vehicle trade-in subsidy has officially launched across China with a total budget of 625 billion RMB (~90.6 billion USD).
This initiative operates under unified national standards to ensure tha...[the rest is cut off].