David Tyrer

@KiwiEV Potato storage capacity

Time to don a suit & a bad Sean Connery impression as I've just picked up a Dongfeng 007 to review. 🍸 These new EVs from China start at $55k NZD ($32k USD) for 520 km range (323 miles). This Performance one costs $5k more but does 0-100 in 3.9 seconds. Any questions for the review? Let me know!

Got door’d on my way home from work tonight on my 🚲. Mips helmet saved my head, massive crack in it- the helmet that is. Fair to say I’m a bit sore- lucky I have massive glutes, as my right hand side took the pirouette primary impact 🤣 People, please look before opening 🚙 door

@kellyenz @BishtonSyl43661 A lot of those seats could have been booked pre-war perhaps?

New Zealand flight numbers are tracking usual seasonal patterns. Is it really the case we are seeing demand destruction?

@BenUffindell @JohnOSullivan36 Super thread!

And you may find yourself in an office on the ninth floor And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a whole nation And you may find yourself behind a wooden podium, answering a 400th round of questions about your leadership And you may ask yourself, "Well how did I get here?"

A couple of storm clouds about. Looks like it’s going to start persisting down!

@pinkstephness Sheesh, it's cooled down alright!

Slippies on ✅️

@rodemmerson @bowenpip Love your work @rodemmerson

In today’s NZ Herald

Tropical Cyclone Vaianu has formed west of Fiji and east of Vanuatu. Currently a Category 2 cyclone, it will strengthen to Category 3 while tracking southeast in the coming days. We're watching the possibility that Vaianu may affect NZ this coming weekend. More details to come.

@Sportsfreakconz Do it, do it, do it ….

Is there a new Associate Sports Minister? I'm happy to do it from outside parliament.

Went to Everybody Eats for dinner tonight. What a cool and useful place for the community. We donated for our meals and enough to feed 4 other people. Feels good!

@kellyenz Well that’s a kick in the nads. A whole lot more businesses that “survived ‘25” won’t survive 26. Feels like a doom loop.

We have further updated the impact of the Iran war on New Zealand. We see negative growth in Q2 2026 and sharply weaker GDP growth over 2026. Unemployment will rise and remain high. House prices will fall. Business and consumer sentiment should be very weak in the months ahead.

@timgortonz Best of luck!

Step 1. Get a beer

@bryce_edwards @HelenClarkNZ Hard to argue with the logic here!

I am a diplomatic aide in the Sultanate of Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. My job is logistics. When two countries that cannot speak to each other need to speak to each other, I book the rooms. I prepare the briefing materials. I make sure the water glasses are the right distance apart. You would be surprised how much of diplomacy is water glasses. Too close and it feels informal. Too far and it feels like a tribunal. I have a chart. We had a very good month. Since January, Oman has been mediating indirect talks between the United States and Iran on Iran's nuclear program. The talks were held in Muscat and in Geneva. The Americans would sit in one room. The Iranians would sit in another room. I would walk between them. My Fitbit says I averaged fourteen thousand steps on negotiation days. The hallway between the two rooms at the Royal Opera House conference center is forty-seven meters. I walked it two hundred and twelve times in February. This is good for my cardiovascular health. It was less good for my knees. Both are in the service of peace. By mid-February, we had something. Iran agreed to zero stockpiling of enriched uranium. Not reduced stockpiling. Zero. They agreed to down-blend existing stockpiles to the lowest possible level. They agreed to convert them into irreversible fuel. They agreed to full IAEA verification with potential US inspector access. They agreed, in the Foreign Minister's phrase, to "never, ever" possess nuclear material for a bomb. I have worked in diplomacy for seven years. I have never seen a country agree to this many things this quickly. I made a spreadsheet of the concessions. It had fourteen rows. I color-coded it. Green for confirmed. Yellow for pending. By February 21 the spreadsheet was entirely green. I printed it. It is on my desk in Muscat. It is still green. That phrase took eleven days. "Never, ever." The Iranians initially offered "not seek to." The Americans wanted "will not under any circumstances." We landed on "never, ever" at 2:14 AM on a Tuesday in Muscat. I typed the final version myself. I used Times New Roman because Geneva prefers it. The document was fourteen pages. I was proud of every comma. Here is what they said, in the order they said it. February 24: "We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity." — The Foreign Minister, private briefing to Gulf Cooperation Council ambassadors. I prepared the slide deck. Slide 14 was the implementation timeline. Slide 15 was the signing ceremony logistics. I had reserved the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Room XX. It seats four hundred. We discussed pen brands for the signing. The Iranians preferred Montblanc. The Americans had no preference. I ordered twelve Montblanc Meisterstucks at six hundred and thirty dollars each. They arrive on Tuesday. February 27, 8:30 AM EST: "The deal is within our reach." — The Foreign Minister, CBS Face the Nation. He sat across from Margaret Brennan. He said broad political terms could be agreed "tomorrow" with ninety days for technical implementation in Vienna. He said, and I wrote this line for the briefing card he carried in his breast pocket: "If we just allow diplomacy the space it needs." He praised the American envoys by name. Steve Witkoff. Jared Kushner. He said both had been constructive. I watched from the Four Seasons Georgetown. The minibar had cashews. I ate the cashews. They were nineteen dollars. The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten. But it was a good morning and we were within our reach. February 27, 2:00 PM EST: Meeting with Vice President Vance, Washington. The Foreign Minister presented our progress. Zero stockpiling. Full verification. Irreversible conversion. "Never, ever." The Vice President used the word "encouraging." His aide took notes on an iPad. The aide did not make eye contact for the last nine minutes of the meeting. I noticed this. Noticing things is the only part of my job that is not water glasses. February 27, 4:00 PM EST: "Not happy with the pace." — President Trump, to reporters. Not happy with the pace. We had achieved zero stockpiling. Full IAEA verification. Irreversible fuel conversion. Inspector access. And the phrase "never, ever," which took eleven days and cost me two hundred and twelve trips down a forty-seven-meter hallway. Every American president since Carter has failed to get Iran to agree to this. Forty-five years. Not happy with the pace. February 27, 9:47 PM EST: The Foreign Minister's flight departs Dulles for Muscat. I am in the seat behind him. He is reviewing Slide 14 on his laptop. The implementation timeline. Vienna technical sessions. The signing ceremony. The pens. I fall asleep over the Atlantic. I dream about water glasses. February 28, 6:00 AM GST: I wake up to push notifications. February 28: "The United States has begun major combat operations in Iran." — President Trump. Operation Epic Fury. Coordinated airstrikes. The United States and Israel. Tehran. Isfahan. Qom. Karaj. Kermanshah. Nuclear facilities. IRGC bases. Sites near the Supreme Leader's office. Israel called their half Operation Roaring Lion. Someone in both governments spent time choosing these names. Epic Fury. Roaring Lion. I spent eleven days on "never, ever." They spent it on branding. The President said Iran had "rejected American calls to halt its nuclear weapons production." Rejected. Iran had agreed to zero stockpiling. Iran had agreed to full verification. Iran had agreed to "never, ever." Iran had agreed to everything in a fourteen-page document that I typed in Times New Roman. The President said they rejected it. I do not know which document the President was reading. I know which one I typed. February 28, 18:45 UTC: Iran internet connectivity: four percent. — NetBlocks, confirmed by Cloudflare. Ninety-six percent of a country went dark. You cannot negotiate with a country at four percent connectivity. You cannot negotiate with a country that is being struck. You cannot negotiate. This is not a political opinion. This is a logistics assessment. February 28: The governor of Minab reported forty girls killed at an elementary school. I do not have logistics for that. There is no slide for that. The water glass chart does not cover that. February 28: Lockheed Martin: up. Northrop Grumman: up. RTX: up. Dow futures: down six hundred and twenty-two points. Gold: five thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars. An analyst at AInvest published a note titled "Iran Strikes: Tactical Plays." The note recommended positions in oil, defense stocks, and gold. The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten was nineteen dollars. The most expensive pen I have ever ordered was six hundred and thirty dollars. The math suggests I have been working in the wrong industry. Defense stocks do not require water glasses. Defense stocks do not require eleven days. Defense stocks require one morning. February 28: Israel closed its airspace and its schools. Iran launched retaliatory missiles toward US bases in the Gulf. The Supreme Leader promised a "crushing response." Israel's defense minister declared a permanent state of emergency. Everyone is using words I recognize in an order I do not. I recognize "permanent." I recognize "emergency." I do not recognize them next to each other. In diplomacy, nothing is permanent and everything is an emergency. In war it is the reverse. February 28: The Foreign Minister has not made a public statement. The briefing card is still in his breast pocket. It still says "within our reach."

@AstroPuss @KoroTeeps Yes, that’s the one! Supergroove went off too that day.

@davetyrer100 @KoroTeeps Mountain Rock! 🤙🏼

The young people in factory had Beds Are Burning cranked up today at work. I mentioned to them in passing, that I saw Midnight Oil live, under Mt Smart Supertop. When I was 16 .... in 1990. They looked shocked. Pins dropped. Have just recommenced a Diesel & Dust phase

@tmurphyNZ @JeremyReesnz I live in this electorate and see there could easily be a swing back to National regardless. BVV got in because Simon O’Connors views did not represent the community well. BVV has then proceeded to piss off the very people who brought her in. Will be 👀 electorate polling…

National picks Mahesh Muralidhar as candidate in former stronghold Tamaki, against Act's Brooke van Velden who won in 2023. Muralidhar, who stood in Auckland Central last time makes no mention of winning the seat, just campaigning to lift National's party vote. Deal done?

@sausagewalker01 @LettersForPale1 @EricaStanfordMP They literally told my wife in no uncertain terms they were IDF and were on holiday after a stint in Gaza … should she not have believed them?

@davetyrer100 @LettersForPale1 @EricaStanfordMP Again, zero proof they are Israeli army.

@EricaStanfordMP three Israeli Soldiers came to the Palestinian Human Rights rally in Auckland on saturday. One assaulted one of the marshals. There are growing numbers of reports of Israeli soldiers attacking or menacing elderly human rights activists. When will you block These war Criminals from Aotearoa?

@DanielgDan @LettersForPale1 @EricaStanfordMP Plenty of proof, it was my wife that they hassled - she was a marshal at the event. The police escorted the two people away from the area where the event was taking place. They walked around the block and came back. Why would you do that?

@LettersForPale1 @EricaStanfordMP Evidence?

@sausagewalker01 @LettersForPale1 @EricaStanfordMP Plenty of proof, it was my wife that they hassled - she was a marshal at the event. The police escorted the two people away from the area where the event was taking place. They walked around the block and came back. Why would you do that?

@LettersForPale1 @EricaStanfordMP Any proof or being a typical bullshitter of the left?