H HARTE 💀🎶

This is so so so bad rnz.co.nz/news/political…

I am 💯 certain my body is riddled with the Covid virus, years after being infected. I have regular flare-ups of all the symptoms I had when first sick. It’s really REALLY unsettling & I cannot actually recover

We have the worst possible government in power at this time. We can’t wait until the election to do something

Luxon totally exposed by Hipkins in Question Time yet again - very obvious that he had no idea that under his Govt plans for a strategic diesel reserve was cancelled. Luxon's response was, yet again, a generic complaint about COVID spending. Massive groans in the House.

OpenAI is shutting down its AI video platform Sora after it flopped Disney is now exiting their $1B deal with OpenAI

Got a few things from mitre 10 & had the eerie feeling that looking at fully stocked shelves of various goods is going to be a rare sight in the near future. The whole world runs on oil - packaging, food distribution, construction - we’re all soon to become acutely aware of this

@NicolaWillisMP So all the young people with horrendous student debt & unaffordable housing, that have somehow managed to find a minimum wage job in the market you & your goons destroyed, don’t get any help, because they’re sensible enough to not have children yet?!? Seriously?!?

We know that the conflict in the Middle East is adding pressure to hardworking New Zealanders. We are delivering temporary, timely support that is targeted to low-to-middle income working families with children. It is a $50 per week boost for eligible households (those earning up to $89,000 for a family with one child, $112,000 for a family with two children, and $135,000 with three). It's temporary support from the start of April for 12 months, or until the price of 91 drops below $3 a litre for four consecutive weeks. We cannot control global oil markets or international conflicts. And we also can’t risk repeating Covid mistakes, where too much spending more than doubled debt and pushed inflation and mortgage rates too high. Kiwis are still grappling with the effects of that today. But we can get the balance right - softening the impact on working families who cannot easily avoid higher fuel costs in a responsible and well-targeted way.

So not only has it been incredibly difficult & stressful for young people to find work, affordable housing & pay off astronomical student debt, now they can’t get any help from the government to get to & from work because they *checks notes* don’t have kids? Seriously?!?

they're genuinely going to try to austerity their way through an energy shock lmfao. we're all going to be eating rats by June

HOW CAN A MAN WHO ISN’T EVEN A POLITICIAN WITH ANY RELEVANT SKILLS BE THE MOST POWERFUL MAN ON THE PLANET

Never in my life have I believed Iran state media over our own government. Until now. That’s not being “unpatriotic,” it’s having a brain that functions.

Iran is now releasing cartoons that Trump can understand. 😂🤣👇

@missispoi Yes! Bless those busses 🥹

@MoiderMother So true. At least we have electric busses here and they’re reasonably priced.

Anyway I bought an awesome bike in amazing condition for next to nothing on FB marketplace (they're really cheap atm, hint hint) & am really really glad | live within biking distance of my kids, parents & areas where you can grow lots of food. Just sayin’

@missispoi I fear demand will outweigh supply soon! I wish NZ had invested in oil/gas free alternatives decades ago 🥲

@MoiderMother Awesome, good on you. I’ve noticed the busses are busier over the last week, good for the service but not the timetable!

Hey you know how I was bang on about Covid waaaaay before our “experts” & stuff, well, that was with a competent government in charge & we currently have the most gormless lot of wait-and-see morons imaginable in power & we are really on our own this time, folks

I miss you so much Helen 🙌🏻

@AllenSutton73 @kiwialliance Actually it’s a remake of that movie that was originally a novel. Actually! Yes, biological weapons are absolutely horrific, but they wouldn’t kill off all the flora & fauna, like nukes. Humans being evil to humans is one thing, but humans obliterating ALL LIFE is worse imo

@MoiderMother @kiwialliance Actually it's a remake of the late 50's or early 60's. The original one is very different to the remake. Nuclear war doesn't worry me, but biological warfare scares the living daylights out of me especially after doing my CBRND cse's in the RAAF Ground Defence Wing.

Who remembers the 2000 TV Movie On The Beach? The world is nuked, Australia & NZ aren’t but there’s a deadly radioactive cloud heading our way. There’s an American sub that ends up on shore & locals aren’t nice to the yanks. It doesn’t end well.

@kiwialliance I read & re-read the British book Children of the Dust dozens of times as a young teen. I can still remember it so vividly. Nuclear war is absolutely the most horrific thing that could happen to humanity. Scares me so much. Definitely never leaving NZ at this rate

@MoiderMother The book is scary enough and have been thinking about it of late.