Dr Throttling

This Buffy Fish Owl has exactly the same expression I had on my face when I got to its home in Borneo. #addBirder #Birds #Borneo #UtanRainforestLodge

NZ Super Fund yielded $9.3b for Kiwis last year. It's world class surpassing Singapore. The NZ Future Fund is one of Labour's core #Election2026 policies. And it was former PM Helen Clark & Sir Cullen that set up both NZ Super & Kiwisaver. Seymour wants NZ Super fund stopped. #NZPOL

this article is excellent, and well worth your time. #nzpol #bhn mountaintui.substack.com/p/dark-under...

#BHN When you think about who will best provide for NZ in the health system just remember that the last 12 months of the last government Labour hired 10 FTE nurses a day, under this government National hired 1 FTE nurse every 2 weeks over 2 years #nzpol #nzpolitics

“The Waitakere Ranges are precious. They provide Auckland with fresh air and clean water. They provide us with serenity & artistic inspiration. They have been described as “the lungs of Tamaki Makaurau” and Te Wao Nui o Tiriwa is a very effective sequesterer of carbon.” #nzpol Sign & share.

Rāwene community celebrates milestone in battle to keep human waste out of Hokianga Harbour

The Government has no credibility talking about the “international rules based order”. It criticises Iran at every turn but says nothing about the US-Israel illegal war of aggression. #StoptheWar Full speech here youtu.be/aiusHG5NOoU 2/3

Casar: "Trump said oil prices going up would be 'small price to pay.' Well, everything for him is small price to pay bc he never pays it. It's not his budget getting stretched thin. It's not his kids getting shipped off to war. They're too busy cashing in on business deals w/Middle Eastern despots"

This is an immensely significant document that continues to get virtually no attention in US media—but lots abroad. In Jul 2015, Epstein arranged a meeting between a known highest-level Russian intel operative, Sergey Belyakov and Peter Thiel,

Don’t order the calamari

100% this!👇

BREAKING NEWS: Bregman goes to Cubs. $175 million/ 5 years

I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.

have to worry that this could do serious harm to the perceived legitimacy of the FIFA peace prize

Which one is more English?

When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee. But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education. A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

Imagine this scenario. I met a lady who wants her 8 year-old boy to really enjoy his creative writing classes. I suggested she get him into a role playing game BUT pref not D&D because she’d have to DM and she’d never heard of it(?!?). Does anyone have a child friendly RPG suggestion for a busy mum?

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched this TikTok since yesterday. Sherman was stressing those ladies out.

If you keep voting for politicians who want to cut public services and roll back human rights, eventually you end up desperate but powerless because if you so much as squeak in protest the government is free to do what it wants to you.

I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?

New in PN: Comey and the lessons of pre-capitulation "Other institutionalists are going to face the kinds of choices and incentives that Comey did. Hopefully they will look at the sad, gutted remnants of his beloved Justice Department and choose a different path."

Bartenders are a more important part of the US economy than coal

there was never going to be a world in which the right didn’t claim the left was celebrating the death of charlie kirk, no matter how respectable anyone tried to be.

Qatar gifted Trump a luxury plane. Trump returned the favor by ok’ing an Israeli attack on their capital. I imagine Qatar has briber’s remorse.

Uber extracted $402m in revenue from NZ in 2024 but paid less than $1m in tax. Unfair global tax rules allow corporations to profit at our expense. Fair tax policies could help us tackle growing inequality, curb rising living costs, protect nature, and fund climate action. #FairTaxNow #TaxTheRich

Been lucky enough to visit Borneo, see incredible wildlife and meet a lovely couple who shared their photos. Our guide Saiben was a legend and could mimic any bird. Hats off to him as well as Utan Rainorest Lodge - but with only 17% of original forest left, Eco-Tourism may be the only answer.

NBC News: 13-year-old boy ‘won’t rule out the possibility’ of seeking a romantic relationship with Jennifer Lawrence, saying in an exclusive interview that ‘there were methods for doing so’ and clarifying that he was ‘not joking’

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

There a many, many joys about living (mainly) in the Far North. A new one is my daily visit from a piwakawaka who flies into my place, picks out some tasty insect kai, and then flutters out with a chirp of thanks.

The wonder and joy of finding a secret fresh water swimming hole deep in native bush 35 mins from the front door

Failed to run over a stoat carting a baby rabbit across the road in its jaws today. Need to up my pest killing powers.

Only a slight modification of a @davidslack.bsky.social coinage I believe