Rest is *good*, unscheduled time is *good.* You are not always either producing or decaying. Creativity flows from shutting things up enough to hear yourself, to be able to synthesize everything you’ve taken in lately.

Paywalled 9and The post is having one of its regular sulks with the depaywaller), but: * elected cooker spent $20K to get a seat * unelected chief cooker was financially backed by Les Fugle, a very dodgy businessman www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Climate change: the Climate Change Performance Index recorded another fall for New Zealand, now down to 44th position and classified as an overall “low” performer. theconversation.com/nz-report-ca...

Aotearoa New Zealand’s Wikipedian-at-Large, Dr Mike Dickison, recently spent a weekend on Waiheke Island getting members of the local community better acquainted with the Wikimedia Movement. The result was a group of new editors, and improved coverage of the island. www.wikimedia.nz/a-weekend-of...

This work is being done by keen volunteers in their spare time. Why isn’t Public Domain Day part of the National Library’s remit? Why is there no Centre for the Public Domain at a NZ university, making the complete works of James K. Baxter and Rita Angus available for free to all Kiwis?

$75K for a whole industry? This isn't a meaningful policy - its a PR stunt, designed purely to distract www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

In anticipation of US public domain day, I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about two NZ authors who published works in 1930. The first is Palmer White, who published a pair of spy thrillers ("Mystery island" and "The circle of confusion")

Here's another take on a song which has been running through my head a lot these days — "Satan thought up a plan Dressed as a man Walking the earth and since he began The world is hell for you and me But what a heaven it will be When that man is dead and gone." youtu.be/XDkhzVw0yBs

Seeing the annual Duke public domain list doing the rounds, with its list of cool stuff that will soon be free. But that's the _American_ public domain. NZ has a nice, easy 50 years after death copyright law. So who do we get?

NZ solar power generation up 31% in 2023, 52% in 2024, 61% in 2025. Long may it continue. Still only 1.9% of total power generation to there is plenty of remaining scope. The 4th quarter of 2025 is likely to come in at the lowest emissions and highest renewable proportion on record.

"Climate solutions are also cost-of-living solutions. Most of the elite discourse is very bad at estimating or understanding levels of public concern, and this is a good example of this." --- Anthony Leiserowitz

In a few days' time NZ's first ever emissions budget period (2022-25), set up by the 2019 "Zero Carbon Act", ends. It will be a year before we get the full reckoning including methane & forests. But here are the fossil CO2 emissions for 2-year periods ending in September: [1/3]

Doctorow on anti-circumvention laws: "The world’s governments agreed to protect this racket in exchange for tariff-free access to American markets. Now that the US has reneged on its side of the bargain, these laws serve no useful purpose." www.wired.com/story/us-tra...

Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

Imagine: newspapers and magazines could pay people to read books, provide opinions on them, and generate annual best-of lists! And that way, they might be real books, not hallucinated shit!

Colonisation and terraforming were always an environmental crime: "Where the hills are bare these are often blocked by landslides, for the early settlers burnt the bush that clothed the hills and held their soil in place. Now every heavy rain brings it sliding down..."

This is a great example of how genAI steals from us all on multiple levels. It's stolen a promotional spot for real books and authors, it's stolen a job from an actual journalist who could have compiled this, it's stolen an opportunity for parents to be recommended good NZ books for their kids

In thinking about what you can do this year, keep this in mind: showing up at protests has real impact - - www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Almost 60% of bills were passed under urgency this term… 60 FUCKING PERCENT!!! That is outrageous. #nzpol

it's crazy that 500 years ago, you would see the ruler of your country maybe once in your life and hear whispers that they're the Sun God, but now with social media, you get to see on a daily basis that they're the most unhinged, idiotic, and unhappy person you know

I managed to bork my cheaparse digital kitchen scales the other night. Pressed too hard when wiping them down, there was an overload warning, and now they're measuring 10 - 15x too high. Anyone know a way of fixing them, or is it just time to buy new ones?

Merry Critmas from the Waikato Roleplaying Guild! We wish you a safe and happy holiday and hope all your dice rolls are successes! See you in the new year 🎉

Tiny Tim, WHO COULD NOT DIE, not even through a lack of oxygen or the fury of a supernova, floated in the void, all alone. For the Ghost of Christmas Present was a silence more crushing than any Tiny Tim (WCND) had known before.

If Russia rejects ICC jurisdiction over its crimes in Ukraine, then its victims will keep making their own justice, and just keep on murdering those they believe to be responsible. The ICC OTOH will give them a fair trial, and explicitly won't kill people kyivindependent.com/2-russian-po...

They're not wrong, and even Macron admits it www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Interesting how the framing is all put on Labour / Greens to do the right thing and not the crisis of a gov that can't get its own legislation through.. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

I’m not certain if there’s a big #nzpol community on here, but if there is: Last night I finally launched my web tool to track when this Parliament has gone into urgency, and which bills were affected by it. Takeaways: Urgency sessions: 19 Bills: 104 See the stats: nzpt.cjs.nz

Don't become a bookless statistic this year 😥 #pukapuka

It would be political malpractice for Labour to vote for this because of bipartisanship right after National tore up a bipartisan climate agreement. Labour has leverage: Luxon desperately wants this, and NZF won't play ball. Restoring the climate agreement would be a good price for Labour votes...

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

I got "At The Front" proofed, and it was indeed unbelievably bad. So on to the next thing: Edith Howes' travel guide to the Marlborough Sounds #wikisource en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:M...

I don't think corruption gets enough follow up in New Zealand. The links (should I say "concidences") between donations to politicians/parties and laws passed. The NZF/Costello tobacco link. NZF and fishing industry. Property and virtually every RW party.

Yesterday afternoon, we received the judgment on our case against Environment Canterbury. It's a doozy of a Christmas present. #nitrates #nzpol #freshwater Read the full piece at: www.eli.org.nz/updates/ecan...

This is just a note to say that I have eaten the falcon in a widening gyre and that you were probably saving for anarchy Forgive me it was delicious so rough and full of passionate intensity

Remember you can make Christmas your own. You can choose not to hang out with relatives you don't like, you can have sandwiches, you can decorate with skulls, you can do whatever makes you happy, even if that's ignoring the whole thing and just binging your favourite shows all day.

Unless the regime can get this built by the election, its a non-starter - the next govt will simply cancel it. Which ought to deter any businesses involved as well.

There's is an obvious public interest followup request here, and given their previous requests, I am not sure the requester will do it...

Response to an Ombudsman's provisional opinion: done. And so am I. No thinking till January!

And it's out - Operation: Harvest Moon for @pelgranepress.bsky.social's The Esoterrorists RPG. Grab it here - legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5502...

Roads are "infrastructure" that you "invest" in because they generate a return in [getting to work faster], which makes them better than free [ignore what the BCR say]. Health/education are "spending" that you "waste" money on because they [who knows what they do].

New Zealand just recorded its first-ever day of zero coal- or gas-fired electricity. In fact two days, 20 & 21 December. (Still some co-gen, about 1.8%.)

Mōrena e te whānau - by the time you’ve all woken up, it’s Summer Solstice here in New Zealand Longest day; Mon, 22 Dec 2025, 4:02 am

Been doing some wiki work on NZ's smaller electricity generators, and interested to see that community trust-owned organisations are busy building stuff now the lines / generation limits have been weakened...

s9(2)(f)(iv) is the "if people knew what we wanted to do, they would object" clause. Its purpose is to allow governments to develop plans in secrecy, then impose them on us as a fait accompli. It is inherently undemocratic.

95MW wind farm project with a near-20 year history has been bought by overseas developer and will finally get built renews.biz/106052/yinso...

Imagine denying that clean green future.

#OtD 20 Dec 1973 Spanish fascist PM due to succeed Franco, Luis Carrero Blanco, was assassinated and dubbed "Spain's first astronaut" as his car was blown over a five-storey building. His death was credited by some as hastening the return to democracy stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9258...

Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.