One of the world's great migrations - the seasonal return of the cruise ships to Whakaraupō/Lyttleton harbour.

Not what you want to see on you home camera when you are 25 min away from home and your young adult son is home alone. Couple of young guys, forced a window, ransacked the place, took cash, jewellery (including precious inherited pieces) and tools from the garage.

The media literacy game www.emilywrites.co.nz/the-media-li... Emily Writes spot on as always. Once you starting seeing the wanton use of passive voice, you can't unsee it.

My local MP seems to believe that the solution to environmental degradation is simply to threaten local democracy. To say there is any sort of "Blue Green" movement is farcical. I will actively campaign against her if she stands next year.

Free Speech Warriors in action again. We really are in "don't mention the genocide" territory here, aren't we? www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Cleaning out some old stuff. For some reason peeled this off a mailbox in Victoria B.C. in 1982. Didn't think much about the KKK in the 80s and certainly not in Canada but I guess they were around.

These governments are making a lot of work for the compilers of the Oxford dictionary - the definition of terrorism now has to include “delivering food to children” and “sitting quietly”

Spent my honeymoon here. Seemed exotic and was all we could afford. www.thepress.co.nz/business/360...

Can’t think who I heard say ‘Fascism is imperialism & colonialism turned inward’. We in Aotearoa need to get ahead of this. What starts there eventually makes its way here, & we know Seymour would salivate at the thought of turning Aotearoa full MAGA. Our next election is crucial. #nzpol #Kikorangi

As much as I like the idea of a woman on late night tv I’m having some trouble warming to the new Kimmel.

Just leaving this here for later.

Delivering flyers for a mayoral candidate on Friday and I came across this grass maintenance device on the grassy centre of a cul-de-sac in suburban Cashmere. Seemed pleased to see me.

If they were making Mad Max now there'd be no need to hijack oil tankers. He could be Chill Max, just relying on his solar panels www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Capitalist versus socialist health care. The capitalist goal is to make their stock holders as much money as possible. The socialist goal is to save as many lives and provide as high a quality of life for our people with the money have. Which works best? 🧪☠️ #Sociology #Population #Think #News

Just noticed that @billmckibben.bsky.social is on here. Thanks Bill for an excellent book, have had many useful discussions with people about this already.

Just finished this excellent book, available as an audiobook from @christchurchlib.bsky.social I don't think I've ever read a clearer explanation of the possibilities from the cheapest electricity ever known and the madness of continuing to prop up fossil fuels.

This head height web is practically invisible but fortunately a hatching of lake flies overnight finally stops me running into it each morning.

Thought this movie was a bit patchy but been thinking about it a lot this evening for some unknown reason. m.imdb.com/title/tt4686...

The failure of Right to Repair bill in Select Committee is terrible and shows a very poor level of bipartisan goodwill even for things that should have appeal to votes of all inclinations. Sign the petition to let the Government know you are unhappy: action.greens.org.nz/right_to_rep...

Imagine being so well known that you actually have your own news category.

Foggy Whakaraupō. Somewhere out there the vehicle carrier “Palmela” is mournfully blowing its horn every 30 seconds trying to find the tugs and the wharf.

Getting the increasingly sinking feeling that Labour are wholly unequal to this moment. Greens seem to be everywhere, doing grassroots consistently and well - and have been since the last election. Labour seem to just be waiting to be handed back the throne - odd when people are struggling so much.

I think I'll be OK? Hard to tell to be honest. Not really seen those kids do much yet but I presume that's Chekhov's Guillotine strapped to Wendy's back.

Dan must be one of NZs most prolific musicians. Had to do a bit of driving around today, one of my least favourite things, but listening to this for the first time really kept my spirits up. In fact I would say it's one of Anecdata's best.

There's far too little poetry about imaginary boyfriends IMO.

All these wannabe Thatcher's love this sleep deprivation rubbish. "I don't need much sleep because I'm a sociopathic half-wit out to make a fortune!"

I just cannot fathom the mindset that says "We keep trying this shit, it's never worked - roll the dice again, it'll work *this* time". There's enough evidence that if you're thinking the ideas that handed us recessions, economic destruction and only enriched the Few are great, you're already gone.

Bare minimum for a conversation: today’s weather, yesterday’s weather, tomorrow’s weather, next weeks weather, the weather when we were kids.

Eugenie Sage on the Coherent podcast: the Government’s sweeping “modernisation” of conservation land management could weaken protections, open the door to land sell-offs, and prioritise development over biodiversity. The biggest shake-up in decades? melanienelson.substack.com/p/eugenie-sa...

What gif pops up when you type your name? (All Tarantino, no Crisp, no Uncle from Famous Five, no Macfarlane)

llm that turns daily news into art so you can glance instead of doomscroll, and early ideas for portable e ink graffiti boxes. spi and i2c bring-up, dithering workflow, cellular update loop,

I regret to inform you that the National Party has formally kicked off their 2026 election campaigning and as expected they're betting the farm on lies, propaganda and fear. Without a strong media, it will be hard to resist.

Since I started following @musicalchairs.bsky.social I’ve become painfully aware of how little I actually know about the data underpinning our society and economy.

This, 1000x this. It’s what homeopathy would be if that actually worked.

It’s bleach isn’t it? Yup it’s gonna be bleach.

It's true - Luxon & National want to sell or exchange up to 67% of NZ's conservation lands The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment states: “This proposal would represent a major change to New Zealand conservation law...The vast majority of this land is of high ecological value.” #nzpol

From the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment in the face of proposals to sell of conservation land: "…The idea that we are protecting ‘too much’ of certain ecosystems is not one I have heard before.” Was this what National campaigned on? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Rat monitoring on the lower Ōpāwaho/Heathcote river. 9/12 pads show signs of many rat visits and in some cases they have shredded the pad to get the last traces of peanut butter. Large and hungry rats I presume.

Everytime I see chronic dufus Don Brash making a complete dick of himself with Hobson's Pledge I think of what his father, Alan, would have this total waste of energy.

Hobson's Pledge: “We are saddened to see that this billboard has caused personal upset. That was never our intention." Mate, the mere existence of your little Pākehā Grievance Club upsets Māori people all the time. But if it's not PERSONAL, I guess that's okay then?! www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

The month’s best science images, selected by Nature’s photo team 🧪 www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Sara Templeton at her mayoral campaign launch on Friday. Extremely inspiring, even for somebody pretty much already convinced. "For our city. For our people. For our future"

Lot of discussion on how to assess young people going on right now, but if you want an example of how best to teach in an engaging manner then this is a Very Good Read.

I'm trying to be more regular with my email newsletter thing! (sign up if you want hopefully more regular posts in our in-box) the-opinionist.ghost.io/a-tale-of-tw...

Power’s off but my phone is fully charged so stand by for a blitz of reckons. Or I suppose I could just read a book or something.

You know I really should have known what this meant but "Concision" was new to me (both as a word and often, sadly, as a practice) From tonight I will try to be a model of concision.

In case people are mixing up their David Fs, here's how I remember them. The one who sounds like he would shoe your horses is the one you wouldn't mind coming around to your house. The other one you'd want to keep Far-rar away. (Little chance of a Doppelgänger situation in this case )

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