We found a 4th egg in #kakapo Waikawa's nest yesterday and found it was fertile. Waikawa has maintained her incredible 100% fertility record: 5 clutches of 4 fertile eggs in 4 breeding seasons. That's unmatched by any other kākāpō. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds

IT'S FEBRUARY 2026. THE RAIL ENABLED HYUNDAI FERRIES FOR I REX WERE MEANT TO ARRIVE BY NOW. Instead we have no rail enabled ferries, the two we have are clunky as fuck, and there will be no replacement ferries until 2029 at the earliest.

Or in visual form - crimes against humans up

A heavily redacted cartoon. My @smh cartoon.

2025 FFA AWARDS! Sponsored by @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social The categories are: Best Traditionally Published Novel of 2025 Best Self-Published Novel of 2025 Best Traditionally Published Debut Novel of 2025 Best Self-Published Debut Novel of 2025 TIME TO ANNOUNCE THE WINNERS!

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609... Shane Jones & his portfolios of destruction. He's been picking fights with people, groups & our environment. Shane is only interested in Shane & the pursuit of money... #Cartoon #ShaneJones #NzPol

Read Our Simulated Selves by Nikki Null as a judge in team #SpaceGirls for #SPSFC5 This is an unequivocal YES from me to move forward to be read by our whole team. I’ve completed it and you can read my review on Goodreads #SPSFC #Self-publishedSci-fi #🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #Booksky 💙📚🪐 #pukapuka 📚🇳🇿

In today’s NZ Herald

You have no allies. You are already bleeding, though you are not sure why. Rawlins is nearby, and he is absolutely not here to help you. To survive even ten minutes, you may take one completely ridiculous weapon. Not useful. Not sensible. Just delightfully stupid. Comment your answer to win this;

The pressure is crushing. Your suit is beeping in a way that feels personal. Corin Hayes is present, grumpy, sarcastic, and already halfway through a drink. You are offered one coping mechanism to get through the day. Comment with your absurd coping mechanism to win a UK/US audible code!

Winter is coming. The Empire is marching on the clans. Everyone looks tired, armed, and deeply unimpressed by your existence. You are offered one role to justify why you should not be immediately sent to die in the snow. Comment your choice of role to win this!

Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social is doing a giveaway on the amazing books by author G.R. Matthews @grmatthews.bsky.social as his sequel to Seven Deaths of Empire releases TOMORROW!! Be in to win these excellent books #BookGiveaway #NewRelease #GRMatthews #Booksky💙📚 #pukapuka 📚🇳🇿

I read Earth Sucks by Heather Chambers as a judge 4 team #SpaceGirls in #SPSFC5. Whilst it's a No to moving on, this was an enjoyable read, with some comic relief scattered throughout. I do recommend giving this book a read. #SPSFC #Self-publishedSci-fi #Aliens #dystopia #Booksky💙📚🪐 #pukapuka📚🇳🇿

Read Afterburn by D Andrews as a judge in team #SpaceGirls for #SPSFC5 I'd already read this due to personal interest and I'm personally giving this a Yes to move forward. #SPSFC #Self-published #Sci-fi🪐🚀 #discrimination #gaslighting #Booksky💙📚 #pukapuka🇳🇿📚 Pic shows a fiery silhouette in a bubble

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609... There's been loud voices in the media saying it's too soon to talk about the impacts of climate change... 𝘀𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗜𝗦 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲? #ClimateChange #PoliticalCartoon #EditorialCartoon #Caricature #Luxon

As part of team #SpaceGirls, I read Ashen Light by Ian Young for #SPSFC5 I personally am giving this a Yes to be read in full by whole team. RTC www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... #SPSFC #Self-published #Scifi🪐 #Automata🤖 #crime🔍 #Spaceships🛰🚀#Booksky💙📚 #pukapuka💙📚🇳🇿

Introducing Fantasy-Faction's Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off ( #SPFBO) team! (@marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social @kitvaria.bsky.social @karenlucia.bsky.social @devildauta.bsky.social @kitauthor.com @stillmellow.bsky.social @stacey-unchecked.bsky.social) fantasy-faction.com/2026/the-11t... #booksky

Looking for a new Grimdark book to to read? I highly recommend P D Ashton's debut novel, Blades Forged www.goodreads.com/book/show/24... (It was almost a 5 star read for me) #Fantasy #Grimdark #debut #self-published #MilitaryFantasy

The NZ Govt has announced that it will be reducing support for the Total Mobility scheme that subsidises travel for some disabled people That money being taken from disabled people is 25% of the tax rebates that were introduced for a tobacco company #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

FFS! Luxon just said "We've got rid of emergency housing." without even realising he was saying the quiet bit out loud.💩🥚 #OneTermGovernment #nzpol

Luxon’s reply on last night’s TVNZ interview with Maliki Sherman to her question on whether he would be at Waitangi in 2026. ‘Waitangi ? It’s all drama, soap box stuff.’ Fu¢king racist POS #nzpol

Fantasy-Fantasy-Faction's @fantasyfaction.bsky.social final review in the #SPFBO Champions League is for Orconomics by J. Zachary Pike. This comes in 6th place in our ratings. fantasy-faction.com/2025/spfbo-1... #SPFBO #Self-published #Fantasy #Booksky💙📚 #pukapuka 📚🇳🇿

Meanwhile Luxon gets a $8500 pay rise this year.. #nzpol

I read 100% of Artificial Selection by Marianne Pickles as a judge in #TeamSpaceGirls for #SPSFC5 Giving this a Y to go forward. See my review at www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... #SPSFC #Self-published #Sci-fi 🪐📚 #Mystery 🔍 #Booksky💙📚 #Pukapuka📚🇳🇿

“New Zealand women start working for nothing from this week.” “for every $1 earned by a Pakeha man, a Pacific woman would earn 79c, a Maori woman 82c, an Asian woman 84c and a Pakehā woman 93c.” “This would be the week all women started working for nothing for four weeks.” #nzpol

Read Animus Paradox by Adam Basset as a judge for #SPSFC5. I enjoyed this & before I knew it, I'd read the whole book. Check out my initial thoughts here www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... #SPSFC #TeamSpaceGirls #Self-published #Sci-fi 🪐📚 #Booksky 💙📚 #pukapuka 📚🇳🇿

Read 20% as a judge for #SPSFC5 (team Space Girls). This is my initial thoughts and is not a reflection on the views of other team members. This will be a No from me. My initial thoughts can be found here www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

Interference and Disruption- expect more, it's official now. So much for isolationist MAGA. (They have already asked their embassies to collect data.) #auspol #cdnpol #ukpol #nzpol #uspol #eupol www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...

Read a percantage of this as a judge (team #SpaceGirls) for #SPSFC5. I will be giving this an N to moving forward. My initial thoughts can be found on Goodreads www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... #SPSFC #SPSFC #Self-published #sci-fi #dystopia #Booksky💙 #pukapuka📚🇳🇿

#nzpol This government is fast tracking the giant hole our country will be buried in. They MUST be roundly defeated next year and their evil policy platform needs to be taught in all civics lessons to prevent future repeats. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

‘Like science fiction’: How smart cars are being weaponised by violent men against women #auspol #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...

Fantasy-Fantasy-Faction's @fantasyfaction.bsky.social latest review for #SPFBO Champions League is for Reign and Ruin by J.D. Evans – Review fantasy-faction.com/2025/spfbo-1... This will currently sit at #8 on our leader-board #SPFBO #Booksky 💙 #self-published #magic&romance #pukapuka 📚🇳🇿

NZ Government cruelty and tolerance / inaction on cruelty encourages others to take out frustrations on politicians, particularly women and people of colour serving on local councils. Only trickle down that works (nastiness and abuse) #NZpol 😢 www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

US State Department has ordered US embassy in Wellington NZ to collect info on migration data and “migrant-related crimes and human rights abuses”. Will that include visitors like FBI's Kash Patel who broke law when in NZ? Or US migrants like Peter Thiel? 🤔 #NZpol www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/25/t...

"The more gas we add, the cheaper your groceries get!" #nzpol

Doctors speak out against proposed restriction on healthcare for gender minority young people aka a ban on puberty blockers. Shocking overreach! #NZpol www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

The Government is banning new patients from being prescribed the most common form of puberty blocker and is explicitly aligning NZ's future policy on this matter to the UK's. PR below.

Government's appalling track record in health just got international recognition. NZ delegation at the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control meeting in Geneva received the Dirty Ashtray award. www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroo...

More reputational decline for Aotearoa NZ after ongoing #BrokenPromises by NZ Govt. This time it's from #ClimateInaction. What's NZ Minister Nicola Willis doing about this? Or NZ PM Luzon or Climate Minister Simon Watts? Or #DrillBabyDrill Jones? 🙄 #NZpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Initial response from Gender Minorities Aotearoa, to NZ Government proposal to restrict access for gender minority patients to medical treatment approved by their own doctors. Ban would be by Regulation with a likely start date of 19 December 2025. #NZpol genderminorities.com/2025/11/19/a...

FUCKING HELL. 🤬 NZ Govt is banning puberty blockers for trans people bc "it's unsafe" but will continue prescribing to cis people. They decided to do this during Trans Awareness Week. Arseholes! www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-...

Fantasy-Faction's @fantasyfaction.bsky.social latest review for the #SPFBO Champions League is The Sword of Kaigen by M.L Wang fantasy-faction.com/2025/the-swo... #selfpublished #booksky 💙 #pukapuka 📚🇳🇿 #SPFBO

#israHELL ''ceasefire''

Fantasy-Faction's @fantasyfaction.bsky.social latest review for #SPFBO 10 Champions League: The Lost War by Justin Lee Anderson @justinleeanderson.com – fantasy-faction.com/2025/the-los... #SPFBO #self-published #epicfantasy #booksky #pukapuka📚🇳🇿

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... #nzpol @chrishipkins.bsky.social

Coming out of a 35yr recession 🙄 wonder how many hours Luxon stand in front of a mirror rehearsing his lies www.facebook.com/share/v/17ZE... #nzpol #OneTermGovernment

Fantasy-Faction's @fantasyfaction.bsky.social latest review for #SPFBO #SPFBOChampions is for The Grey Bastards by Jonathan French fantasy-faction.com/2025/spfbo-1... This comes in at 5th spot on our ratings board

Liveable Incomes for All - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ta...