TrevorN

TrevorN (npub1jd8…mfu8)
Maths, music, chess, software, Green, agnostic. Intellectual radical and emotional conservative.
Likes cycling, quaxing (google it), gardening, problem-solving. Thinks every software problem is a networking issue, hates networking.

Location: Wellington, Aotearoa NZ
Generation: Atypical Boomer
Twitter (for now): @quatarkus

Last Notes

2026-09-30 02:41:04 GMT

There was a meme about NZ being left off maps, looks like the Atlas group took this personally and are making sure we get the full Atlas treatment now
#nzpol

2026-09-21 09:02:17 GMT

Notes after listening to RNZ's Panel today:
1. Society is NOT built upon personal property rights.
2. The economy is not limited to the issue of how easily filthily rich individuals can get richer.
#nzpol #rnz #thepanel

2026-09-19 05:04:05 GMT

The only way the National Party is backing women is into a corner
#nzpol

2026-03-04 05:44:30 GMT

I was discussing the state of the UK with someone this afternoon. They lamented the influx of muslims into a country where they didn’t belong, and how this was changing the climate of the country. The immediate context was the election of a new (atheist) Green MP who only won by pandering to these outsiders.
What I would like to have said to this guest was that this was a surprising argument for a white Christian Englishman to make, given that what they saw as the endangered white Christian civilisation was itself an import from the Middle East. Shouldn’t they be defending the Druids? Painting themselves with woad? Speaking Norse?
What they believe of course is that normative UK culture is the precise cultural stew that made *them* a few decades ago. But the UK has always changed, and it didn’t stop changing in 1960.
If you embrace change, you’ll get a relationship. If you fight change, you’ll get a war. So it goes.
#UKPol

2026-01-26 09:56:37 GMT

Inside a decade or so, half of the NZ budget will effectively be climate emergency funding. The rest will be subsidies to farmers and extractive industries.
#nzpol

2024-12-21 05:32:06 GMT

Do rich people use it? We'll fund it.
Do poor people need it? That's what charities are for.
- shorter Luxon & Willis
#nzpol

2024-12-11 04:39:39 GMT

The best way to speed up traffic is to reduce traffic.
The cheapest way to speed up traffic is to reduce it.
The fastest way to speed up traffic is to reduce it.
Roading projects are expensive and take years. Public transport can be scaled up in weeks or months. Active transport networks are cheaper and quicker to construct than roads.
It's a no-brainer, but unfortunately Aotearoa has a VERY small-minded minister of transport whose party is in hock to the car and trucking lobbies.
#nzpol

2024-08-31 02:18:01 GMT

The best current example of "stolen valor" is Donald Trump, who evaded the draft with faked bone spurs, exploiting military losses for publicity stunts.
#uspol