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If you're feeling tired, remember you've lived through the greatest global pandemic since 1918, and you're currently living through the end of the rules based social order and the stable climate that has sustained human civilisation for almost 12,000 years. It feels hard because it is.

It blows my mind that America has the least efficient healthcare system in the world and our govt is busily trying to replicate it in NZ. The only winners from this are private healthcare and insurance companies - and we are 100% buying the bullshit they're slinging.

Possibly, here's a novel idea, we could do more to build Northland's economy by investing into companies in Northland, supporting start ups, giving out science and innovation grants - just basically anything that would provide a better return than building a massive new state highway 70 km away.

We need to stop burning coal or our planet will burn. it is that simple - share your story here about why you want to protect Denniston. 350.org.nz/coal/

Forest & Bird is backing the avatar moth – a tiny, beautiful, day-flying moth that lives only on the Denniston Plateau. It was discovered in 2012 and named after the film because its home – like Pandora – is under threat from a mining company.

Compensation for time & effort spent on unsuccessful bids? Nice! Gosh, *imagine* if arts funding worked this way, or science and research, or indeed any gig whatsoever? "So sorry you didn't get the role, but here's a bunch of cash for making it this far. Best wishes for your work going forward!✨🥰 "

One for all you train nerds... the gate to the Vatican train station, only opened when a train goes through which is not often.

I look at both National and Labour refusing to raise fuel taxes - both short-sighted in different ways. I just wonder if as well as struggling with the cost of living, New Zealanders just actually want the government to be adults, to confront difficult issues, to think about the future.

Love this article - great insight into the short term thinking that seems to permeate NZ politics right now.

The Earth will cross the 1.5 degrees warming limit that everyone agreed to in the Paris Accord. Thank all those politicians that delayed and weakened the vital climate policies, and still do. It’s not them who’ll pay the price, but you and your children. apnews.com/article/clim...

Two of these reports would fund our social service community organisation for ONE WHOLE YEAR. Also, I’m quite good at excel so maybe I should do the next one?

Methanex leaving would provide the perfect excuse for the government to drop their LNG terminal. But, no, they're still 100% committed to this mad idea. Simeonism: www.1news.co.nz/2026/09/02/m...

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Government: 'Every mother gets a 3-day postnatal stay.' Officials: 'That needs $100m and 175 beds.' Government: 'Here's $34.4m and a press release.' Bed not included. #nzpol

It’s kinda tragic that confessing that you have to deliberately underpay 50% of the populace in order to reach your budgetary requirements isn’t a career-ending move #nzpol

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Goldsmith admits breaching Public Record Act in ongoing chats with broadcasting bosses. #NzPol

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Regular remind that the government is currently consulting on a law change that would make up to 60% of the conservation estate eligible for sale for private development, hotels, mines etc. Submissions are due 2 July. More information here: www.forestandbird.org.nz/campaigns/sa...

"Almost a third of the hospitals using Palantir's platform report a decline in the number of operations performed." So much for speeding up the NHS...🙄 https://www.ft.com/content/a3e94197-87a8-4ba5-8a6d-4b7193993af9?syn-25a6b1a6=1

The Dutch mobility system isn't just built around cycling. It's built around bike-train intermodality: cycling solves the train's convenience problem and the train solves cycling's range problem. Together, they offer an attractive alternative to driving on a mass scale. WATCH: youtu.be/jq93DgLvmFc

RNZ canvassing economists to pick over public transport subsidies literally (like actually literally) ONE THOUSAND TIMES SMALLER than a single RON.

Hey RNZ when you have finished chasing every conceivable edge case for this very cheap proposal, could spare some time to look at the massive $50+billion vast hole that is the govt’s transport policy?

'Last month, Friends of The Earth released a report with Beyond Fossil Fuels that found the average Irish household may have paid an estimated $589 in additional electricity costs between 2015 & 2023 due to the "intensity of data centre presence" on Ireland's Single Electricity Market grid'.

It's wild how unusual it is to see consequences for a company actively choosing to install automated aesthetically-plausible lying software on top of its information retrieval service. This should be the god damn norm

London created a low emissions zone, cleaned up their air and literally saved hundreds and thousands of lives. We have normalised the cost of our car-dependent cities to the point we can't even see it anymore.

London is actively combatting disinformation.

This is REALLY important. The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature/green in cities ISN’T the density of buildings or the density of people — it's the density of CARS. And the better designed your density of people and buildings is, the fewer cars you need or want. #UrbanTruth

“The city’s transition away from the car, tho fantastically chaotic, has become a global role model. Under mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social, Paris was ‘the most influential city in the world’ says Canadian urbanist Brent Toderian. Hidalgo, stepping down after 12 yrs, exulted: ‘The bike beat the car.’”

Move on orders will criminalise children experiencing homelessness. www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...

He wrote what now? David Seymour signs off an email to a constituent with "Are you ready to accept you've just had a beating?" What a remarkable way to defend a $17K parking bill. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Am I reading this right? The NZ Govt is not proposing to properly protect endangered dolphins, in order to access the US market, rather it plans to continue the killing but sell the fish elsewhere? newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/11/g...

#GoodNews for the Waikato river and catchment. Finally a court decision to stop the pollution by farming, industry and landowners. Over time. And not guaranteed as the government's proposed Natural Environment and Planning Bills could override it. Sadly. #nzpol share.google/hQPGI5wQFsHV...

Simeon Brown thinks it’s okay to waste up to a billion dollars of taxpayer money on a terminal NZ clearly does not need but using taxpayer money to make PT more affordable for everyone is ‘wasteful’. “Officials redacted advice showing 'low need' or no need for LNG imports”

I despair about the NZ govts latest decision to end tax rebates for charities donations over 100k. NZD This hits research right when the govt also slashed humanities/ social sciences/ arts & science funding Last year alone my teams depended on amazing donors for climate work This shuts all doors

This morning scrolling Bluesky, there is nothing at all in my feed about Putin’s barbaric attack on the Ukraine’s holiest site, the UNESCO protected Lavra so I’m posting this here.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot: “Last night, Russia once again showed the full extent of its cruelty, striking Kyiv massively and causing extremely severe damage to the Dormition Cathedral, a UNESCO World Heritage site. 1/2

Time for me to repeat one of my ‘sayings’. If you try to solve a problem by passing a law, but people don’t obey the law, you now have two problems where you used to have one.