Wow.

The new CDC director is known! As good and convincing as you would expect.

Good read on the topic. “[…] man-made heat now penetrates as deep as 2,000 meters below the surface [of the ocean]. According to Trenberth, it takes roughly 25 years for heat to travel to such depths, creating a warming effect that will likely persist for centuries” 😔

Full article here: Adelaide Writers Week now just Adelaide Writers Afternoon chaser.com.au/general-news...

As a former Director of Adelaide Writers' Week I am appalled that the Adelaide Festival Board has rescinded Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's invitation to the 2026 AWW, explicitly linking its decision to the shattering crimes in Bondi. A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.

Seymour: let's not make "assumptions" that a serious food safety incident is the responsibility of a company with a record of food safety incidents so bad that officials strongly warned against contracting it. Maybe it was the person who reported it! What a prick. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/christchu...

I wish Disinfo Project had ¼ of the funding, & resources he had to continue work we did. Examples like this make it harder for other folk to access philanthropy. | The transparency project that went dark: Inside the collapse of Bryce Edwards’ Integrity Institute www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Labour lodges member's bill to repeal Regulatory Standards Act, asks NZ First for support

This is grimly amusing. Bishop couldn't fulfil a campaign promise because of Simeon Brown's footpath fatwa, so he had to raid a Kāinga Ora fund. Maybe running transport policy as a culture war was a stupid and destructive thing to do in the first place, eh.

Paywall now lifted: Just eight of the Government's 17 Roads of National Significance have already seen costs blow out by $5.1 billion - before any shovels are even in the ground. The full programme would cost $44-$54 billion on the latest numbers. newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/5...

“She discovered through subsequent research that Māori were not given this access to land after World War II, she says.” The value of the land given to Pakeha was, in current $, about $12B. Compare that with the Waitangi settlements of about $3B. Pakeha have little idea of their privilege.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

So, this is a woman?

A particularly deranged opinion piece from Julian Leys in today's paper: he seems to think that if it weren't for the ban on gas exploration we wouldn't be in the energy predicament we are currently facing. He knows that it is utter drivel but still voices it.

A reminder that NZ increase in Govt spending during 2020 - 2022 was middle of the pack by any sensible measure you choose. Treasury for *some reason* are still using a rushed together, inconsistently measured, and hopelessly out of date IMF report from 2021.

Two private helicopters took the Australian and NZ prime ministers to a mountain top lunch in Queenstown. This week I asked, what was the purpose of that trip? www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Can’t wait for Fonterra to up our dairy prices by 15% to compensate

Motherfucking wind farms…

Van Veldon’s whole view of productivity seems to be that it is held back by worker safety, workers’ rights and fair pay. That’s it. That’s all she’s really got. An ideological obsession that workers are the enemy of work.

Surprise, surprise, the corruption and nepotism within this government is disgusting. #nzpol

Sad, absurd, outrageous.

Re-upping this at the end of a long week. I am disappointed with the candour and openness of @methanesat.bsky.social and that our Ministry is letting them wiggle out of giving a spin-free accounting to the New Zealand public. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Shortly before banning Palestine Action, British parliamentarians dressed up in the colours of another, famous Direct Action group - The Suffragettes. A group they would certainly have proscribed for their campaigns, which included bombs & vandalism Irony is dead.

Trump didn’t just reshape the office of the presidency, he rewired our political culture. It’s just policy, he’s changed, but our nation’s perceptions. This essay explores how Trump turned governance into spectacle, loyalty into currency, and truth into a battleground—and what that’s done to us.

Seeing as RFK Jr is in the news– From 6 months ago, this candidates for the #NZ science journalism awards (see my earlier repost). ‘We learned the hard way’: Samoa remembers a deadly measles outbreak and a visit from RFK Jr by @michelleduff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n... 1/2

Excellent summary of the privileges committee/haka situation. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... Impeccably factual, and accurately describes some of Judith Collins' justification for the scale of the penalty as an "untruth".

"The committee report now appears partisan, indefensible and open to attacks of racism." www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

So, it isn’t about refugees It’s about who is considered human enough to have the right to seek refuge www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/w...

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

If you want to read my complaint about Stephen Rainbow, the full text is up here: ajv.org.nz/wp-content/u... Spinoff has a great story: thespinoff.co.nz/politics/02-... For a good video see: www.1news.co.nz/2025/04/03/s...

I think I was in fact actually obliged to play this one out. lyndonhood.wordpress.com/2025/03/05/i...

I went to the Munich Nazi History Museum yesterday and gotta tell you, Trump isn't Early Career Hitler (1920s) anymore. He's got off on his coup with the support of the judiciary/political establishment, he's gone mask off on full fascism, he's within reach of power again. It's 1932, people.

"The best leaders make us feel bigger than ourselves, make you feel like a better person living in a better world." Denis Welch The NZ Listener