“There were plenty of jobs available, such as in horticulture.” Aside from the fact there are only *checks Seek* 100 jobs in horticulture in Rotorua currently, there are hundreds of applications per job, and the market is dire - media may want to ponder if it’s Luxon who needs to get off the couch 🫠

Once we experience the benefits of clean indoor air – imagine getting through winter without needing to take time off work or school – we’ll never want to go back. theconversation.com/why-investme...

We are so humbled to have met our donation goal of $500 after only two days after launching our ACA Wellington Mask Bloc donation page. Its so heartening that people believe in this cause so much that they are still willing to donate in a recession. We have set a new goal of $1000.

74 countries have now ratified a landmark treaty to protect the high seas. Why hasn’t NZ? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Ten days to drop your votes back to a library or a Woolworths! (7 days for a post box). Nice chatting to Birkenhead residents getting on the ferry on this beautiful morning. Look I know voting isn’t always the sexiest thing to, but it’s super important.

Was in Ōtautahi Christchurch when an epic NorWest sunset kicked off. Hagley Park is the perfect place to frame it up. #Nikon #NZ #GreatNZRoadie #Sunset

These words that Nigel Latta wrote in 2015 have always stayed with me

At National Library in Wellington to hear Rainbow Elders talk. Audience includes trans and nonbinary folk as well as hard core anti trans separatist lesbians. Not a comfortable feeling knowing people who want to erase us are sitting nearby.

There are some orgs from New Zealand that have signed: University of Otago, Massey University, New Zealand Green Building Council (NZGBC) & the New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine (NZCPHM). Hopefully more sign soon. Please let people who could be interested know. #GlobalHealthyIndoorAir

Vaccines are one of the great public health success stories. They’ve saved millions of lives around the world. We cannot allow conspiracy theorists to undermine proven science.

Kintsugi time #art

New #MaskBloc alert! I'm so excited for this, I hope you'll donate and share. Help prevent #Covid #LongCovid

Some positive news, especially for people living in Wellington. A group from @covidactionnz.bsky.social is creating a Wellington based mask bloc and masks will be distributed out of Newtown Library. chuffed.org/project/1510...

🙏 everyone who presented yesterday. The Air Club website has a link to the Healthy Indoor Air event. The speakers covered a lot of ground, so I'll enjoy being able to stop and start after watching the event live in New Zealand. Please encourage people & orgs to sign the pledge. www.airclub.org

“He used to be a straight-A student… He had Covid five times in 2022 alone before they stopped testing, and he has been struggling with new-onset asthma, exhaustion, memory loss and anxiety ever since. Once a star hurler, he now collapses after one lap of the pitch.”

Incredible, important work from the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies: thespinoff.co.nz/books/25-09-...

Glad to bring the "little CPC that could" to the Healthy Indoor Air event at the UN today. The conversation in clean air are moving in the right directions. Open source hardware will be part of the solutions and proud to show off the OpenCPC as part of tools that can help us measure it.

This whole thing about medication causing autism, isn't about the medication — it's about getting you all to agree that Autism is something that needs fixing/eliminating. It's health facism.

Another leaderboard update from @forestandbird.bsky.social

Ōtautahi! Do you like riding bikes? Do you like coffee (or other drinks)? Do you want to ride your bike with others then have coffee outside? Join @spokescanterbury.bsky.social for this Ride with GPS #coffeeoutside event. Great for bike-loving, covid conscious folks like me. See you there!

The thing that fucks me off most about this is we were studying nitrates and overallocation in the Canterbury plains at university 20 FUCKING YEARS AGO.

Taken in the garden today. I have a soft spot for blue muscari aka grape hyacinth. #Spring #GrapeHyacinth #FlowerGarden

The Canterbury Regional Council has declared a Nitrate Emergency due to rapidly rising levels of dangerous nitrate in groundwater across the region. Driven by @fonterranz.bsky.social and other industrial dairy cos and accelerated by Luxon Govt. #TooManyCows www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Ever since we bought our house in 2022 we have kept a detailed spreadsheet of housing/grocery/transport costs. We love a semi lockdown life and rotate through the same meals. We can see our paycheck and the cost going up of everything. It’s insanity.

Kowhai flowers. One of my favourite signs of spring. Taken yesterday in the botanic gardens here. #KowhaiNZ #SpringAotearoa #BloomScrolling

A spring camellia from the garden. I should have got out today but stayed in to listen to an excellent webinar. We can't do everything. I'll get out tomorrow to beat the cold southerly that's expected tomorrow late in the day. #FourSeasonsInADay #Camellias

📣Less than an hour and a half away.⏰ @saferairproject.bsky.social's 'Safer share air in schools'. An issue with Microsoft Teams earlier re access has been fixed. I recommend this after attending their workplace webinar earlier this year. www.saferairproject.com/safer-shared...

A tūturiwhatu (New Zealand dotterel) keeping an eye on me this morning. 🪶🇳🇿

2 panoramas of Te Ika-o-te-rangi Milky Way above Ōtepoti Dunedin exactly 1 year apart (within an hour), with Scorpius & Galactic Kiwi prominent. (L) Macandrew Bay 24th Aug 2024 11:30pm (R) Company Bay 25th Aug 2025 12:30am Uncanny both nights were clear. #Nikon #Photography #NZ

Population numbers can be tricky to visualise, so we reach for comparisons to a school, a stadium, a town, etc. But boy oh boy, "New Zealand's Covid-19 response saved the equivalent of the Epsom electorate" is an instant classic of the genre! A particularly piquant measure of our success 🤌🌶️ 😈#nzpol

The #kakapo population has dropped to 238. Adult female Lisa was found dead on Anchor Island recently, and two of the 2019 cohort, Tūmanako and Whakakini, have not been since since then and so have been removed from the official count. #conservation #parrots #birds

We're still in Winter, but it was a bit warmer today with no frost. Great to see the bees out a couple of days ago when this was taken. While the bees hold on, there's hope for us all. #PinkCamellia #Bees #BloomScrolling

More than 70% of US household COVID spread started with a child, study suggests | CIDRAP share.google/fPIdDWhGp4QW...

Florida bans the Diary of Anne Frank. A literary classic that serves as a cautionary tale about the rise of fascism and the importance of documenting atrocities as they’re occurring. We all must document this time in history. Keep copies. Write everything down. Make sure that the truth will out.

Both SARS-COV-2 infections and Long Covid are under-counted in children

Red japonica to remind me we're nearly in Spring here. We've had a few nights of frost, so seeing blossom is uplifting when the sun's out but the day's cold. #SpringBlossom

I've been a bit sluggish with posting. Let's blame Winter. There's a proverb; "As the days get longer, the cold gets stronger" aka seasonal lag. We're moving into better days here and shifting my focus to Spring helps. Rain and hail today, so these hellebores are from a couple of days ago.

You're invited! A social event in Auckland for the Covid Careful 😷

How fabulous 🤩 #Aotearoa

In questions to submitters on the Regulatory Standards Bill on Monday, ACT MP Mark Cameron kept asking people about an increase in spending on health. Perhaps his government could do the research about what #LongCovid is costing the country, along with failures to require protective air quality?

"Fortunately, based on the evidence available so far, currently approved COVID vaccines are expected to remain effective against XFG, particularly against symptomatic and severe disease." Most recent wastewater testing in NZ shows XFG (Stratus) at 12.8%. theconversation.com/xfg-could-be...

A monarch butterfly enjoying today's sun in Otautahi Christchurch. Wings open on a buddleja aka butterfly bush. #MonarchButterfly #WinterSun

Stark illustration of the outcomes of #Covid infections and where we need to focus

And more on the report that recommends a 20 yr period of grace before no more govt/LC buyouts of properties from climate change related damage - including the numbers. #adaptation #flooding #innundation #sealevelrise www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

"...we were directly affected and our lives are still particularly affected as well."

Mehhhhh. Hope my immunity from my childhood bout is holding, hope my former workmates at Carterton library are immune too... and please vaccinate your kids everyone

Good news! www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...