James Sugrue
@kiwibastard.omg.nz
Coder. Author. Hardware tinkerer. Father. Husband. Geek. Coach. Platform & language neutral. iOS, Android, Linux, Unity.
I've worked in the High voltage electrical industry. The Govt is trying to kill you. It's the only explanation here: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
WorkSafe rule change introduces 'lethal' risk of electrocution, electrical inspectors say
A dispute has escalated over the past month as electrical inspectors repeatedly plead with officials to do a U-turn, RNZ can reveal.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I've worked in the High voltage electrical industry. The Govt is trying to kill you. It's the only explanation here: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
My Sp*tify wrapped is: Fuck off I don't support businesses that give platforms to Nazis
December 4, 2025 at 5:58 AM
My Sp*tify wrapped is: Fuck off I don't support businesses that give platforms to Nazis
Show this to your farmer mates when the EU refuses to take their produce.
So looking at this our Government, for all intents & purposes is taking us out of the Paris climate agreement. They just not admitting it. Wonder how the EU & UK are feeling about those FTAs now?
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
Willis: Government not prepared to ‘send billions overseas’ to meet Paris pledge
Finance Minister Nicola Willis describes 2030 emissions-reduction pledge as an extravagant committment made by the Greens the Government would use “best efforts” but not spend billions of dollars over...
www.thepost.co.nz
December 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Show this to your farmer mates when the EU refuses to take their produce.
The context that Rimmer is a cunt?
December 2, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The context that Rimmer is a cunt?
FFS. Show the winner not the losers Supercars Director. Diminishes Chaz win. Typical GM bias.
November 30, 2025 at 6:42 AM
FFS. Show the winner not the losers Supercars Director. Diminishes Chaz win. Typical GM bias.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Kenny Rogers (Millbrook)
Queen (Forsyth Barr)
Dire Straits Experience (CHC Town hall)
Crowded House (Wolfbrook)
Robbie Willams (Wolfbrook)
Kenny Rogers (Millbrook)
Queen (Forsyth Barr)
Dire Straits Experience (CHC Town hall)
Crowded House (Wolfbrook)
Robbie Willams (Wolfbrook)
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Iron Maiden (Auckland x3)
Steven Wilson (Brisbane)
Mike Portnoy's Shattered Fortress (Auckland)
Opeth (Auckland)
Cruise to the Edge 2024 (Norwegian Pearl blatting around the Caribbean; see attached)
Iron Maiden (Auckland x3)
Steven Wilson (Brisbane)
Mike Portnoy's Shattered Fortress (Auckland)
Opeth (Auckland)
Cruise to the Edge 2024 (Norwegian Pearl blatting around the Caribbean; see attached)
November 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Kenny Rogers (Millbrook)
Queen (Forsyth Barr)
Dire Straits Experience (CHC Town hall)
Crowded House (Wolfbrook)
Robbie Willams (Wolfbrook)
Kenny Rogers (Millbrook)
Queen (Forsyth Barr)
Dire Straits Experience (CHC Town hall)
Crowded House (Wolfbrook)
Robbie Willams (Wolfbrook)
Can someone get rid of one of the bald frauds in control of the things I love please? Can't deal with it any more. Slot or Luxon. I don't care which. Call it an early Xmas present.
November 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Can someone get rid of one of the bald frauds in control of the things I love please? Can't deal with it any more. Slot or Luxon. I don't care which. Call it an early Xmas present.
Hate to be part of that crew, but I'm not sure Slot can turn this around. It's not just recently either. If you look at his results _this year_ then it's not a good look. #LFC
November 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Hate to be part of that crew, but I'm not sure Slot can turn this around. It's not just recently either. If you look at his results _this year_ then it's not a good look. #LFC
I used to be a great spellerist, but you've no ideas how many times I had to try let the spelling autocomplete have a run at my attempt to spell "phenomenon" in that last post.
Feel there is a warning there for AI proponents...
Feel there is a warning there for AI proponents...
November 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I used to be a great spellerist, but you've no ideas how many times I had to try let the spelling autocomplete have a run at my attempt to spell "phenomenon" in that last post.
Feel there is a warning there for AI proponents...
Feel there is a warning there for AI proponents...
History is littered with white privileged men thinking, "I can do that" and then failing disastrously, but it feels like in Politics we've (hopefully) reach peaked incompetent white male. Not just a RW phenomenon either. Chippy is a wet bus ticket of a leader.
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
History is littered with white privileged men thinking, "I can do that" and then failing disastrously, but it feels like in Politics we've (hopefully) reach peaked incompetent white male. Not just a RW phenomenon either. Chippy is a wet bus ticket of a leader.
Remember back in the day when we hosted our own servers?
November 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Remember back in the day when we hosted our own servers?
In one spreadsheet: this is why we need to encourage young people to vote. The people watching this definitely do and can pretty much guarantee they vote blue.
November 17, 2025 at 6:30 AM
In one spreadsheet: this is why we need to encourage young people to vote. The people watching this definitely do and can pretty much guarantee they vote blue.
What the actual fuck has a "what a housewife in Oxford is willing to pay" (so fn misogynistic btw) got to do with local prices? How about we start taxing the cunts properly, especially for the absolute damage they do to the roads, not just the slap on the wrist with a wet bus ticket like we do now?
"Fonterra especially should start just treating the more reliable (as in more consistent) local market using cost plus instead of market pricing.
For Fonterra brands it's easy for them to set retail pricing. For other local manufactures Fonterra could offer rebates for goods to local market."
#nzpol
For Fonterra brands it's easy for them to set retail pricing. For other local manufactures Fonterra could offer rebates for goods to local market."
#nzpol
But why do New Zealanders have to constantly pay above export market prices, often for what is lesser quality than that is exported?
Especially since the NZ Taxpayer disproportionally subsidises the infrastructure that is supporting meat + dairy production?
#nzpol
Especially since the NZ Taxpayer disproportionally subsidises the infrastructure that is supporting meat + dairy production?
#nzpol
November 17, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What the actual fuck has a "what a housewife in Oxford is willing to pay" (so fn misogynistic btw) got to do with local prices? How about we start taxing the cunts properly, especially for the absolute damage they do to the roads, not just the slap on the wrist with a wet bus ticket like we do now?
Penny drops: This is just typical RW self serving, cos Bish and Shitstain Brown are too impatient to sit in WEL airport traffic.
Sorry you had to wait 10 months for your cancer surgery – a politician needed to save 10 minutes getting to the airport.
$4 BILLION to save 'up to 10 minutes' during peak traffic. Fucking hell - imagine what that $4B could do for housing, education, health, etc, in Aotearoa.
November 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Penny drops: This is just typical RW self serving, cos Bish and Shitstain Brown are too impatient to sit in WEL airport traffic.
Anyway fuck Rugby. It's cricket season. What about Dazza Mitchell? What a guy.
Anyone checked if he can play Rugby?
Anyone checked if he can play Rugby?
November 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Anyway fuck Rugby. It's cricket season. What about Dazza Mitchell? What a guy.
Anyone checked if he can play Rugby?
Anyone checked if he can play Rugby?
Look. Razor has won a lot more Rugby titles than me. I've only managed 4 finals in 4 years with our rag tag bunch of lads, and lost 3 of those. But shit, I've not seen a less penetrating ABs side since the Randell days. Pods using pistons was the last straw for me yesterday. Knew we were fucked.
November 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Look. Razor has won a lot more Rugby titles than me. I've only managed 4 finals in 4 years with our rag tag bunch of lads, and lost 3 of those. But shit, I've not seen a less penetrating ABs side since the Randell days. Pods using pistons was the last straw for me yesterday. Knew we were fucked.
I think the world would be 100% better if people realized that subjective opinions are just that. Let other people like what they like. The tribalism and gate keeping around what people like is so dumb.
Except Mark Knopfler. He's objectively the best.
Except Mark Knopfler. He's objectively the best.
November 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I think the world would be 100% better if people realized that subjective opinions are just that. Let other people like what they like. The tribalism and gate keeping around what people like is so dumb.
Except Mark Knopfler. He's objectively the best.
Except Mark Knopfler. He's objectively the best.
It's sad when you realise that a service you used to use and love has been bought by some big enterprise you really don't like. Many examples, but this message brought to you by Heroku
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 AM
It's sad when you realise that a service you used to use and love has been bought by some big enterprise you really don't like. Many examples, but this message brought to you by Heroku
Reposted by James Sugrue
So I'm curious, have any media today asked the PM if he'd like to walk back the 'la la land' comments now that we've found out Tamatha Paul's concerns were completely valid? #nzpol
Media were so bloody quick to lap up the comments from older white men criticising a young non-white woman on this and yet oh look she had a totally valid point
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/lux...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/lux...
November 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
So I'm curious, have any media today asked the PM if he'd like to walk back the 'la la land' comments now that we've found out Tamatha Paul's concerns were completely valid? #nzpol
Bring back the days when all we had to talk about on SM was what text editor was the best.
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Bring back the days when all we had to talk about on SM was what text editor was the best.
Pro-tip: Don't resort to ad hominem jibes. This govt is that shit you really don't need to.
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Pro-tip: Don't resort to ad hominem jibes. This govt is that shit you really don't need to.
Reposted by James Sugrue
"[Luxon said] I think we need to have quite a mature conversation about assets in New Zealand"
But you won't have a mature conversation about
CGT
Emissions
Health
Education
3 waters
etc.
Fuck you, mate.
#nzpol
But you won't have a mature conversation about
CGT
Emissions
Health
Education
3 waters
etc.
Fuck you, mate.
#nzpol
He talk about farms and other “non-performing assets” but he really means healthcare, education and water infrastructure - I mean: let’s be mature about this
NZ needs to have a ‘mature conversation’ about selling state assets, PM says
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has indicated asset sales could be included in National’s manifesto for the 2026 election.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
"[Luxon said] I think we need to have quite a mature conversation about assets in New Zealand"
But you won't have a mature conversation about
CGT
Emissions
Health
Education
3 waters
etc.
Fuck you, mate.
#nzpol
But you won't have a mature conversation about
CGT
Emissions
Health
Education
3 waters
etc.
Fuck you, mate.
#nzpol
Interesting read: climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarp...
Why Solarpunk is already happening in Africa
Or: How Africa is building the future by skipping the past
climatedrift.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Interesting read: climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarp...
But can we? I'd much rather a brash fighter for people, than the limp high school prefect we have atm.
Can we replace hipkins with this guy?
Just leaving this here:
"YES. I AM A SOCIALIST AND I'M PROUD OF IT. YEAH-THERE YOU GO. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. BRING IT ON, AND I'M VERY PROUD TO SAY TO THE GOOD PEOPLE OF THE WAIRARAPA THAT THEY ELECTED A PROUD SOCIALIST
AS THEIR MP." KIERAN MCANULTY, LABOUR MP.
#NZPol
"YES. I AM A SOCIALIST AND I'M PROUD OF IT. YEAH-THERE YOU GO. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. BRING IT ON, AND I'M VERY PROUD TO SAY TO THE GOOD PEOPLE OF THE WAIRARAPA THAT THEY ELECTED A PROUD SOCIALIST
AS THEIR MP." KIERAN MCANULTY, LABOUR MP.
#NZPol
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
But can we? I'd much rather a brash fighter for people, than the limp high school prefect we have atm.
Yet another example of current lot throwing out something that would have worked, with a more costly mess: www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines... because of *checks notes* racism.
Proposed government water reforms will cost ratepayers more - report
A report says it will undoubtedly see some councils facing continued downward pressure on their credit ratings.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Yet another example of current lot throwing out something that would have worked, with a more costly mess: www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines... because of *checks notes* racism.