even as cynical as I am I certainly didn't predict this government would disestablish the *Ministry for the Environment* No NZ government should be able to survive doing something like this, given the values of the electorate enormous amounts of money, institutional & media backing have enabled it

All I can hear is Angine de Poitrine

One way to support us is by watching this 9 min You Tube video. It's very funny. Please don't skip the ads, as Rebecca is donating the ad revenue to our crowdfunding campaign. Please share with everyone you know & ask them to watch it too. 9/10 #PeriodFriendlyWorld www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndrn...

Obsessed

Lowest global sea ice area for the date on record

Got a notification on my laptop saying my timezone change so it updated the clock. Hello from Beijing.

The current NZ govt is wrong, and the people know it:

I've seen a few posts from cis people asking what they can do to support trans whānau, so some vague thoughts on a Saturday night while I half-watch a documentary about the world porridge championship.

Lowest global sea ice area for the date on record

Help I've outsourced all of my thinking to the machine and I have a deadline to meet but my employer hasn't paid for Microsoft 365 Copilot (Premium) can someone please ask Nicola Willis what I should do?

A books cartoon for @theguardian.com from a while back

Predator free without weed free Aotearoa is being short sighted

182.8 Meters xkcd.com/3248/

It's day 21 of #MenstrualHealthAwarenessMonth, and today we're taking a look at the environmental impact of disposable period products. 1/10 #MenstrualHealthAwarenessMonth #PeriodFriendlyWorld

Interesting‘conversation’ with ChatGPT where it confidently and incorrectly made some chemistry up (complete with fabricated refs still). Don’t need to retire just yet!

Particle Census xkcd.com/3247/

Would the billionaires also get the $12,000 cheque? Yes. Because it's the correct thing to do.

and in his astonishment he missed the ground completely and bobbed off into the air with his brain singing. What he was doing was this: he was flying.

As a wildlife illustrator of over 30 years nobody has ever noticed every horse I draw is behind a hedge. I cant do the legs. Have you seen a horses legs though? How do those spindly things hold it up?

We've lost another #kakapo chick. Rata-A2, from Rata's nest on Te Kākahu/Chalky Island, has been euthanised with severe internal diseases. Huge thanks to Dunedin Wildlife Hospital for their care. There are now 92 chicks alive. 📸 Daryl Eason #kakapo2026 #conservation

This nest wasn't usual: the first ever in which we couldn't access the chick. But Whetu-A3 has recently fledged from the nest in good health. As we transition to less intensive management for #kakapo, more nests will be treated like this (without ramps!). 📸: Petrus Hedman. #conservation

The #kakapo chick Whetu-A3 hatched successfully, but we couldn't weigh it or check its health, and could only look in occasionally to see it was still alive. Worried it might injure itself when it came to fledge, our team built a ramp for it. #kakapo2026 #conservation 📸: Petrus Hedman

Two months ago, I returned a fertile #kakapo egg (Whetu-A3) to the nest and tried to remove another infertile egg from beneath her. She wouldn't let me take the egg, so I offered her the new one. Tricky to do that with one hand while using my phone to see what I was doing! Luckily she took the egg!

My favourite #kakapo nest from this year was Whetu's on Anchor: she was 2m off the ground, 2m down a hollow rata trunk, with an entrance so small we had to use a phone camera to see inside. It was the only nest we didn't get into. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots

That's what made me a beaver believer :)

Absolutely awesome. More of this required! #Beavers

Some happy shit in your timeline!

To earn a billion dollars on a 40 hour week over 47 years (18 - 65) you'd need to be paid $10,230 an hour.

Now that's cooking with magnets!

This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...

Results Age xkcd.com/3245/

Pō marie Aoteroa

This is what 431ppm looks like ppm.visuals.earth/431ppm

We should halt sale of all high speed vehicles due to fatal crashes.

Crystal Gazing xkcd.com/3243/

STOP EVERYHING! The Engineer Guy has spoken!

Something a little different from my kayaking trip today to Long Point Light Station. I paused to enjoy the incredible assortment of rocks. I always think with awe of the massive Laurentide Ice Sheet, which picked them up over vast distances and left them behind as it melted. #OceanDevotion

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

Kākāpō: The Night Parrot - narrated by Sir David Attenborough Happy Birthday Dave!

Today is Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday. Here is the view I had in 2018 of the launch of the hull of the research ship bearing his name. Sir David can be seen waving as it goes down the slipway into the Mersey.

A true legend turns 100. We all owe Sir David for inspiring so many people to care about the natural world. And we’re particularly grateful for his support of the #kakapo and #takahe recovery programmes. You couldn’t meet a more enthusiastic - and humble - great man. #conservation #attenborough

Kākāpō: The Night Parrot - narrated by Sir David Attenborough Happy Birthday Dave!

This is incredible. The new NASA image release from #Artemis includes a sequence of 'Hello World' still photographs. I've been processing / animating them and here's what the original didn't show us: Satellites, including their solar arrays, lightning storms and dancing aurora!

The 92 living #kakapo chicks are from 29 to 73 days old. The oldest have had transmitters fitted and have fledged (roosted outside the nest during the day). They'll stay with their nest mother for several more months, then will leave once they're 6+ months old. #kakapo2026 #conservation #wildlife

Our team has finally managed to dig into #kakapo Rimu's cliff-top nest on Te Kākahu. We knew there was at least one chick inside, and that it had a high chance of falling to its death when it left. The cliff-side hole has been blocked and new entrance made. Pic: Daryl Eason #kakapo2026 #conservation

Listen to the Kākāpō Files podcast to learn more about this year's record #kakapo breeding season, including the details of Rimu's cliff-top nest. #kakapo #kakapo2026 #conservation @ali-ballance.bsky.social

Oil companies are tired of winning.