NASA’s Terra satellite captured Iceberg A-23A losing 2/3rds of its area in its final drift northward from Antarctica Once over 4,000 km², it now spans ~1,500 km² and is shedding named fragments A-23G and A-23I 🧪🔭🏔️🧊🌊 #Antarctica #ClimateChange More info: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15482...

I've just started a wiki page for "The Story of a New Zealand River"; anyone able to do a decent plot summary and add stuff about its study in NZ universities? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sto...

Also, this claim: "Go look at other Western economies around the world and how fast they count their vote. We must be the slowest folk on the planet." Australia - voting day 3 May and final results 12 June (37 days) NZ - voting day 14 Oct and final results 9 November (26 days)

News from the US makes so much more sense if you replace all mention of the orange shitgibbon with "Emperor Palpatine".

Would this get more attention if I used words like 'Ombudsman tells TERF complainant to get stuffed'?

The Government's controversial voting law will result in a 411% increase in the number of votes being thrown out, according to the Electoral Commission. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

They could have gone with "trumped up charges", but no.

Fonterra stated we make up only 5% of their market. I'm yet to hear a compelling reason why local prices can't be decoupled from the global price. If the government is worried about farmer backlash, they could introduce a fund to help grow the global market to offset the miniscule drop in profit.

Wikimedians in Wellington and Auckland, you have meetups on this weekend! New attendees are always welcome. Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington 📅 Sat 27 Sept 2025 ⏰ 10am–12pm 📍 National Library 🔗 w.wiki/FDfj Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland 📅 Sun 28 Sept 2025 ⏰ 10am– 2pm 📍 Central City Library 🔗 w.wiki/FSxR

Another morning, another bunch of random American dipshits in my mentions, who don't understand that I'm not talking about their country, spewing about their weirdo issues. This site needs a giant "blck America" button.

Dodgy fly-by-night rubbish-burners won't pay their bills www.nzherald.co.nz/waikato-news...

NEW The Prime Minister’s extraordinary and significant statement on MI5 misleading the High Court A practical example of the judiciary and executive holding the security service to account By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/the-prime-... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/09/the-...

Billion dollars in profit but can’t lower domestic prices. Get fucked Fonterra. Farmers better not ask for a fucking cent next bit of rough weather. #nzpol

There are so many miners targeting Te Tara o te Ika a Maui in 2025! Bliimin Shane Jones been pimping it out hard! Check out who is here...

Cost of living crisis. Butter $12 Dairys best year Fuck the dairy industry

There has been enough trials of four day working weeks to show that it increases productivity and happiness for everyone involved. That most businesses in the world won’t do it tells you more about how they feel about their employees than anything else.

Electoral Commission on NZ Minister Goldsmith's Electoral Amendment Bill says: - cutting off enrolment early was NOT in their recommendations! - cutting off enrolment early would NOT result in a faster result! Still 20 days w verification of Special Votes. #NZpol www3.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/scl...

The most obvious explanation is once again proven true: barring enrolments during advance voting was purely a pretext to deny franchise to a group of people who vote mostly against govt parties, so as to avoid the govt losing seats between election-night & final counts www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

On NRT: This corruption has to stop - norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/09/this...

Is the return MPs make to the Registrar of pecuniary Interests a statutory declaration (exposing them to criminal penalties if they lie), and if not, why not?

No I do not want to sign into software. 90% of software should just run on your computer and do the thing it's built to do. Not everything needs to be signed into. There's no reason I should have to sign into Adobe Acrobat reader!

They are saying 32% GST and 72 for retirement age so we will happily accept 20% GST and 68 for retirement age. Why don’t they say 5% wealth tax and 40% corporate tax on big conglomerates? No of course they won’t say that no siree.

Wondering what penalty the Privileges Committee will hand out for fraud, and how it will compare to the penalty they handed out for being Māori

This is your regular reminder that according to IRD, the richest 350 families in the country pay an effective tax rate of 8%

Paying superannuation only to people who survive until they're 72yo sounds like Systemic #racism. Who live longer? People who are rich + white! People who need a social safety net the most are poor and marginalized, many of them brown. It's not as if there is much work for people 60+ anyway. #Nzpol

The Greens are pledging to revoke any permits this corrupt regime issues. Will Labour? www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Pretty sure our elite finance team will make the correct decisions here.

ElectionsNZ really does seem to be fucking it up this year... www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/574...

The Treasury’s dire warning: New Zealand may have to look a bit more like Europe

Manaaki Whenua have appointed Siobhan Leachman as their Wikimedian in Residence! Supporting staff to share their expertise, @siobhanleachman.bsky.social will be assisting the group with contributing content from their nationally significant collections to openly accessible Wikimedia platforms.

The Substandard shows the scale of kainga Ora's devastation of Palmerston North. Whole blocks have been left vacant by cancelled projects. Of 500 promised homes, they're now building just 35 archive.ph/608VG

Be wary of invitations to "collaborate" with or be "consulted" by NZ gov't agencies. Some advocates for disability communities participated in workshops but had to sign NDAs Non Disclosure Agreements. ✂️ OIAs showed Minister cut Disability Strategy recommendations #NZpol pvi.org.nz/oia-nz-disab...

From Wikisource to public library - pipeline from scans to lendable books. Mike Dickison, Wikipedian @adzebill.bsky.social #LIANZA2025 #Wikisource

I’m not sure there’s been a more damning corporate statement about Kirk than postponing a series about infiltrating violent white supremacist groups out of respect to his followers.

They should do a Mood of the Unions survey 😂 #nzpol

New Zealand prevaricates on whether to recognise Palestine as a state, or not. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Palestine #Gaza

Solar and batteries go together like chips and queso — and they’ve won Texas over. Solar power generation has set 17 records there so far this year, and battery storage has already had four discharge records this month 💪 www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

Now do netanyahu and trump.

“First, the use of parliamentary urgency needs constraining.” #nzpol

Rich man buys shorter prison sentence www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wealthy-n...

Raising red flags: Another misrepresentation of Māori in video games

Racists attacked Palmerston North's pro-Palestine demonstration on Sunday, assaulting several people including a child. [Depaywalled Substandard link] archive.ph/CsQRG

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The problem with SOEs is that they behave like corporations, blaming non-existent "vendors" to avoid accepting responsibility for their own fuckups www.nzherald.co.nz/business/air...

RNZ apparently thinks legislation happens by press release www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Opinion | The woke left violated Disney’s right to free speech by forcing the company to put Jimmy Kimmel back on the air

On NRT: Still wibbling - norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/09/stil...

Boycotts work. If you're sick and tired of how NZMedia are increasingly pushing us towards fascism, BOYCOTT them too. #nzpol