Rob✅✅

OK - Another introduction as this place is alive and kicking I'm an NZ import, landscape photographer and teacher, SW dev, guitarist, #EV and clean energy fan I'm based in #NewZealand, a place full of spectacular views, handpies and cheeky birds Dont take me too seriously prepare for swearing

Add "between my legs" to a movie title: The Thing Between My Legs

Finished up the Visions of eternity story in @guildwars2.com over the long weekend, has been a great expansion and lot of fun new stuff. Still things to do/achieve but now take a back burner whilst I explore Enshrouded

Rename a book or movie for this economy. Puddles 11

Eh, good for him I guess At least we know the secret ingredient to not winning things is spurs! First English player to win since 2001's Michael Owen

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New Zealanders of all ages are sick of National parties lies. What a legend.

THAT BLOODY BEEP is always at the WORST freaking time. 😂

Privatisation by stealth Cut cut cut and back fill with private services

Ardern will be teaching empathetic leadership to Australians Perhaps one day we can have nice things in NZ #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...

'Management attributed the results to a “flight to value” among Kiwi consumers in what was described as “a highly competitive” market' Competing with fuel costs, rent and electricity, kiwis are choosing to eat the cheapest shit the supermarkets stock because thats all they have funds for #nzpol

Microsoft made a hundred billion dollars last year They are one of the top IT employers and rely on their humans to produce products that generate that $100bn But they can replace them all with Ai they think

Ah, LNG; National's fuel of choice for tackling the cost of living crisis, lowering costs for industry and getting on top of runaway power prices. #nzpol oilprice.com/Energy/Natur...

The heavens speed thee in thine enterprise!

Voter enrolments have closed and Advance Voting has begun. It's time to Party Vote Green and tax the ultra-rich. #nzpol #votegreen

The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

Oil now $117 a barrel. Tanker charter rates, that have been high for months, are now getting really crazy, adding around $40 a barrel. Good job we're not at the end of the oil supply chain. Good job National kept Labour's EV incentives. No. Wait... oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...

#NZpol How does this even happen? Surely their form either lets you tick all of the tick boxes (er, circles…) or none of them? And surely this was tested ages ago?

Christchurch cycle lanes have come on a long way in the last 10 years shame we keep voting for idiots though

Climate disaster keeps disastering: Satellite monitoring has detected massive plumes of methane pouring from Chevron's Gorgon LNG plant in Western Australia. (This is the one connected to the world’s biggest carbon capture and storage project WHIICH IS ALSO FAILING) www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

New BYD Atto 1 (Seagull) up close in China. Rear-wheel drive, 94L frunk, five seats, 10 to 70% in 5 min flash charging. BYD NZ says it's not planned for here yet. Should they bring it?

So if you are not sure Your Samsung smart TV is spying on you in a big way Mics hot all the time, content recognition, network mapping, geo location, targeted adds, AI processing on the sound etc www.reddit.com/r/singularit...

All Hipkins should have said You’re distracting from the big issues all people in New Zealand have a story to tell and we are here to listen to all people If pushed- he replies Key & Muldoon did it That’s why he’s not a leader leaders can explain a complex issue simply and he couldn’t 

Byd shaving a few thousand off most models for the rest of the year autotrader.co.nz/news/byd-cut...

Labour fucked this up biggly

#nzpol Simple explanation. Power here primarily generated by water being pushed over dam making turbines turn. Dams & turbines were built by previous generations for us. Sadly, in interim, price of gravity (required to push water over dam) has soared. So cost must be passed on to consumers. 🙏🏾.

"For the first time, new-energy vehicles made up 67% of new car sales in China in September, according to the latest data from the China Passenger Car Association." www.carbonbrief.org/chart-a-reco... via @carbonbrief.org's Lekai Liu

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It's happening again! 2027 Calendar pre-orders now open on my site! paullecomtephoto.nz A selection of images inspired or enjoyed by the late @otagolad.bsky.social paying tribute to the biggest influence on my photography. Delivery starts 1st week of December.

Their name? It's Party Vote Green. Yeah, I was surprised to hear that too.

30,000 years ago, a wolf tentatively approaches a fire…

Luxon: is a terrible leader Hipkins: Hold my L&P

That one guy done well yesterday

In NZ it doesnt make sense to buy a PHEV and then not plug it in More emissions, more RUC/Duty, more cost, you are looking at 4x the fuel use.. evsandbeyond.co.nz/byd-nz-fleet...

They cant eat #seymourslop either

Oh my god! Climate issues Oil prices Health issues Cost of living issues Luxons National Party "we saw you at that persons house"🤦 Are they living in a fucking bubble? #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

consider that Labour should have been 10 points up in the polls at this stage of the election, and the choices by Hipkins and Labour that got us to a position where the *incredibly predictable smear campaign* is meaningful, is a central Labour leadership issue first and foremost