Jombucha
Fraud-fighter and wannabe philanthropic entrepreneur. Help me?
Inclined to making terrible jokes.
twitter.com/mangetout and basically anywhere else I could get the handle.
- He could have done a Chips Act for batteries and shown how good tariffs can be, but no, he'd rather cancel projects in the name of Chinese batteries because he doesn't like wind farms near golf courses or something.
- The Trump administration has a lot of awful policies but I’m not sure anything is more idiotic in every possible way than punishing businesses, starving people of power, and shrinking GDP just because you’re obsessed with harming the climate faster to own the libs www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/c...
- Announced on xitter, so, y'know, stuff that.
- My preferred podcasts are pushing some kind of NLP podcast advert at me, and I feel like they are trying to force me to listen to it.
- To be clear, if you think Voltron Liz Trussian politics are good for the country then you are beyond economically illiterate. You're just plain wrong. #nzpol
- Reposted by Jombucha"Nouriel Roubini thinks the writing is on the wall for the crypto industry, one that has offered no use cases beyond crime and corruption" www.interest.co.nz/business/137... Hard to disagree...
- In the office with an entire bank of desks to myself. Now I just have to hope no-one finds out I'm here.
- Crikey. Like so many on the leftish side, he's more right than not, but when he's wrong it can be spectacularly so.
- The nature of AoNZ means that business confidence, from the survey, correlates to how much they personally like the govt. But there's also an element of believing lies, like "getting rid of bike lanes will help my Wellington business", or "a new Coromandel mine will increase sales of widgets".
- This is *a lot*, and very confusing.
- Frisson
- Doctor, I'm feeling like a complete failure, ignorant of things I ought to know and desperately lying to survive This will help: go see Mike Johnson. He's a real disgusting piece of work. Utterly disingenuous turd. You'll feel much better after seeing him. But doctor, I am Mike Johnson! I know.
- Time to retire the term Streisand Effect for this level of self-implication.
- Reposted by JombuchaI'm sorry but it's very funny to me that the legislature of a G7/P5 country of 70 million is currently drafting the "Fuck This One Guy in Particular Act of 2026." Also, imagine tolerating a system of privilege so entrenched you need to rewrite centuries-old rules just to get at one douchebag.
- UK govt drafting legislation to remove Mandelson peerage, has referred information to the police www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
- I know it's traditional to see Seymour as Rimmer (although I've seen him more as Gordon Brittas), but it's underappreciated how much Winston Peters resembles Cat. And this is a good example.
- In the spirit of Brass Eye, the Epstein money trail could be called "nonce cents".
- Reposted by Jombucha[Not loaded yet]
- So good
- <Shamen voice> Bees are good Bees are good Yes bumblebees are good
- I'm re-reading the Uplift novels by David Brin. I've been wanting to do this for ages, but long ago lost/left my books. Just finished Sundiver, book 1. It's remarkable. Definitely aged, but there's an awful lot going on in there. Startide Riding, next, is the one I remember most fondly though...
- Reposted by JombuchaAmazing coda here.
- See Melania & almost die www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
- Catching up with an old group of friends later on this week, and it seems we've reached the age where we're all comparing illnesses, injuries and health test results.
- My "not named in the redacted Epstein Files" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions etc...
- We call that one Tarka Masala, because she's a little otter.
