Very good question. There three Bumble bees www.bumblebeeconservation.org Humanists humanists.uk/donate/ National Brain Appeal www.nationalbrainappeal.org/get-involved...

our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/de... #nzpol

Thread. Kā mihi Phil.

Balance sheet update (yesterday's data). Let's start with that little pink stub - total Govt liabilities (debt). Believe it or not, *that's* the debt number that our commentariat obsess over! Let's dive in and have an explore... [🧵 1/n]

eurosky people, do you have a fav android client, other than bsky dot app's implementation?

Inspection finds 49 violations of detention standards at largest US migrant detention camp reut.rs/4dmPa3x

He lobbied for an industry that is killing 14.5 Kiwis A DAY back then. Unfit for public office.

Who knew that - and stick with me, here, because this gets complex and difficult to understand - the cure for poverty turns out to be *money* #nzpol

In space, no one can hear you Teams

One reason why LGBTQ+ history matters, is that THIS vile fuckery will come as no surprise from the only member of Parliament who voted against Homosexual Law Reform, the Human Rights Amendment Act and marriage equality at all stages. He's always been a hateful anti-queer bigot. #nzpol

Our govt is asleep at the wheel! awrworker.substack.com/p/new-zealan...

I love her #NZPol Jacinda Ardern’s memoir adapted into children’s book

This kind of analysis and commentary is what we should be seeing from our media. The lack of critique, context and approach of repeating talking points verbatim and calling it a job done is deeply damaging to our democracy. This approach in an election context is unacceptable - and a likely reality.

Israel is desperate for this to be a religious war cause the state of Israel has lost the nation-state PR.

Starmer, Albanese, and Luxon: Three PMs, and three different captures of the Middle-East war www.linkedin.com/pulse/starme... (LinkedIn) sanjanah.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/s... (WordPress) #nzpol

Some rare good news today! #NZpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Compared PM Luxon's "column" against addresses by the Australian PM Albanese, and British PM Starmer on 1 April in their respective countries, around the same set of issues. The UK, and Australia are two of New Zealand's closest allies. Comparison establishes quality of political leadership. #nzpol

Andy Foster MP, one of the NZ First sponsors of this disgusting and disgraceful Bill, pictured holding a trans rights flag 🏳️‍⚧️ in Civic Square on 13 July 2021. It seems Mayor Foster had different views on trans people’s right to exist?

Seems like every country haa a plan. Except AoNZ #nzpol

Excited to announce that - for the first time - I'll be reading poems at the Edinburgh Fringe. I'm bringing 'How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside' to the Assembly Rooms between 24-30 Aug. Tickets are now on sale: www.edfringe.com/tickets/what... It would be smashing to see some of you there.

🤝 Italian senators have proposed a bill to encourage fishing companies to donate discarded nets for use in Ukraine’s anti-drone defenses. 🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...

When the enormity of the world's horrors makes you feel helpless, narrow your focus. Find one person and do something to make them safer. Put a hat on a baby, feed someone, drop an email to someone telling them you care, help one person out.

Sending so much love and solidarity to our trans whānau today. You shouldn't have to keep dealing with shit from a bunch of bigots using who you are to try to score cheap political points. I'm sorry they're doing this again. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍⚧️

SARS-COV-2 causes infected cells to lose their motile cilia, which may facilitate viral spread. In this infected nasal cell, one can see membrane protrusions engulfing a bunch of cilia. Nice SEM image made by Vincent Michel. Glad it made the cover of J. Virol. 😊 doi.org/10.1128/jvi....

Why do Americans cut off their dogs' ears, but not their balls? They will mutilate those beautiful, soft ears, but not remove the cause of unwanted litters of pups.

There has been shockingly little coverage of the American regime’s demands for access to personal data on New Zealanders. MPs need to be tabling written PQs and demanding information in question time.

If any party or candidate doesn't clearly, strongly and explicitly denounce NZ First's bullshit transphobia they do not deserve your vote It is nothing but shit-stirring scapegoating to distract from their abject failure to run a country

TAPPING THE SIGN: trans issues are important not only because trans people are cool, but also as a vital litmus test of someone's politics: do they stand with the oppressed against conservatism and patriarchy, embracing the beauty and diversity of our human community or are they a fucking fascist

i think of this at least once a week

If you want to safeguard the internet from fascist takeover in Aotearoa, here's a pretty cheap way to make a big impact:

Absolutely incredible watching them run the same playbook on children with ADHD and autism that they did on trans youth.

THERE IS NO NEED TO WAIT FOR STUDIES TO COME OUT BEFORE YOU TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT YOUR KIDS FROM A VIRUS THAT MIGHT BE TARGETING THEM. 📢

What's the lawsuit potential inherent to replacing expert, trained human radiologists with computer systems known to screw up? Humans are fallible, of course. But AI is *guaranteed* to make mistakes. Can it be sued? Probably not, but I suspect that execs who make the decisions to use it can.

The petition to move the mathematics conference away from the US was sine’d by thousands of mathematicians, cosine’d by many more, all because they wanted to avoid the tan gent.

How many people had they fired for them to fuck this up so bad

I have to post thus! Israel is the first state in history to legislate a death sentence that applies only to one ethnic group. There's a reason nobody has ever done this. It's a depth of evil beyond humanity itself.

Electronics are likely to get more expensive, slower, and worse over the next few years—and you can blame the AI boom, @hana-kiros.bsky.social argues.

The argument that we should sell off our national infrastructure as private enterprise will run it better is really just an argument for another way wealthy people bleeds citizens dry of our collective wealth.

I highly recommend you check out Pepper's range sooner rather than later; many things have already sold out.

Good man. | Iran war: Billing Donald Trump and the US for staff’s increased fuel costs just what the doctor ordered www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

This is why you always bomb them *first*, every Civilization player knows this

I swear to God, New Zealand’s government is asleep at the wheel. No pun intended.

It is really, really wild how persistent and prominent this remains in common LLMs. There seems to be an air of "well they fixed that" and it is 100% not true: most of the energy just seems to be going towards 'being plausible enough to be accepted', ie style and not accuracy or truth

I don't think people realise that this industry is built on the premise of unlimited, infinitely abundant data centre construction and energy supply *just to maintain* current performance. That's before we get to needing more and more energy for each shrinking implement 'improvement'

BOOM! Greenpeace Aotearoa has won its greenwashing case against Fonterra. Fonterra — NZ’s biggest polluter — was found to have broken the law with misleading butter packaging falsely claiming its Anchor Butter was ‘100% New Zealand Grass-Fed’. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

I am begging Lloyd Burr to write about this shit instead scaremongering about super in 40 years #nzpol

The Gov cutting 391 MPI staff in 2024 is in no way related.. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

How Christian were you being when you were in a hotel room having a wank on the public's credit card there Shane? Fuck off with your "holiest of days" virtue signaling bullshit. #nzpol