read the cornell’s sun original story which is fucking CRAZY

Lil scoop: Three in five respondents to a new poll say they are driving less due to the fuel crisis, as a majority lose confidence in the Govt’s response. newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/04/n...

'By presenting infection as “basically our new booster,” the headline conveyed a message directly contrary to the article’s central point – that vaccination remains the best available tool to reduce the impact of Covid.'

My complaint about this headline has been upheld by the Media Council — they have found it to have been misleading and not accurate. I understand that Stuff has been instructed to publish a summary of the ruling today, but I have not yet spotted it. www.mediacouncil.org.nz/rulings/john...

✉️ Explore 145,000 medieval merchant letters as a live map: the correspondence network of Francesco di Marco Datini (c.1363–1412), spanning Florence to Barcelona to North Africa. Visualise routes, travel times & seasonality. docuracy.github.io/datini/ #DigitalHumanities #MedievalHistory

Wrens are usually solitary birds but when it’s cold they will sometimes huddle together for warmth. Some people call this a ‘herd’ but technically it’s known as a ‘scene’. That’s because chilled wren should be ‘scene’ and not ‘herd’.

Nostalgia bait.

Meanwhile Jack Tame is out here doing a two minute segment on how much Luxo has failed to show up on Q+A www.youtube.com/shorts/VKlXb... #nzpol

Had a visit from the bike-shed inspector today. #pīwakawaka

A few pics from the train to Tauranga! For more information about the effort to reconnect Tauranga to New Zealand's passenger rail network, visit the Facebook Group: 'Golden Triangle by Train'. #Rail #NZ #Trains #Passengers

Core government funding for MetService weather warnings is about $30M a year. If one bad weather warning costs the economy 10s of millions a smart person might say we should spend more and get better weather warnings. But instead...

Over 40 ppl displaced and 700 properties affected ... this National govt doing the very least to offer practical support. I'm sure the money will be welcomed but $2k pp doesn't go very far when to comes to covering the cost of displacement, extra housing cost, stress etc.

If the problem is universal superannuation might be paid to billionaires, why is your answer means testing instead of taxing the shit out of billionaires

This is unhinged. This is an unhinged thing to say. "Let's not warn people about potentially deadly weather, so that instead they go out and spend money*" *"And maybe die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make on behalf of business, who are the real victims here."

Guys guys, it turns out climate change might be, like… bad for the bottom line?? 🤔🤯 www.rnz.co.nz/news/weather...

Jones blames The Green Party. 🥳Heck yeah, thats an endorsement imo. That’s why I’m voting for them Jonesy, and not men like you that’d sell our environment down the toilet for donors and dollars. #nzpol Party vote Greens for a greener NZ 🎉🎉 #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

It’s May Day - if you can’t get out & join the revolution, at least read a book about it! On the blackboard we’ve got books we highly recommend & in the window a sample incl. Rebel Cities, Armies Of The Poor, Workers' Holidays in NZ, Art And Organised Labour, & Wobblies of the World. Happy May Day!

BRILLIANT ⭐️🤜💚 Human chain bike lane fills Wellington street objecting proposed cuts to infrastructure www.rnz.co.nz/news/communi...

I bet campaigners for equal pay in 1961 didn't imagine we still wouldn't have it in 2026. #NZPol (credit in alt)

I'd like to see someone asking Seymour that if he's so good at responsible spending and hates waste then how come he spends so much on electioning for such shit results?

The BBC News homepage has now COMPLETELY removed its Climate section?! It has now been relegated to a sub-menu via the "More" button in the right-hand corner.

By policy. Everywhere can achieve great things if only we accept that we have the power to do so. Public policy can be positive and powerful.

'What I would say to you is that the frog and the scorpion are actually in a strong and stable coalition as we get back on track to crossing this river', said the frog.

Okay here's foggy pics episode two from glorious Ōamaru Public Gardens. 🌱🇳🇿 Taken this morning; this is a sea mist. It can roll in any time, sometimes mid afternoon on a scorching day. It all feels a bit Jane Eyre. Some of this alt text courtesy of @eddie.co.nz

Interesting that Nicola Willis thinks #PayEquity is “gold-plated”. They clearly don’t value women’s contribution to NZ’s workforce 😒😒😒 #nzpol #RNZ

Just landed on this essay by @understatesmen.bsky.social ooooph, been very much feeling the nature of circling/inability to be direct recently and shit there's a lot in this (quite heavy) & its well worth reading if you haven't yet

Today, 28th April is Terry Pratchett's birthday. It's apt to post the Vimes’s ‘Boots’ Theory of Socio-economic Unfairness from "Men At Arms". GNUTerryPratchett

Good to see Classical Studies alive and well... 🏛️

Tri-lingual signs 😉

I love this essay very much!!!!

What’s it gonna be (wrong answers only) #nzpol #fuelcrisis

New Zealand taking The War on Cars quite literally.

This guy.

Fun visit today

Multi-modal Meola Road this morning. #AnzacDay 🫡

Something very special for ANZAC Day: The inclusion of seminal Aotearoa song ‘Pō Atarau’ in the film Project Hail Mary took NZ audiences by surprise. The 1976 recording, by the Turakina Māori Girls’ Choir, brought many people to tears, and also stimulated...1/2 www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/goo...

. My World War I Poem Inside each trench, the sound of prayer. Inside each prayer, the sound of digging. .

Apparently it's tiny spider pride week at the park

A short film for Anzac Day — Dead Letters (2006) highlights forgotten roles played in wartime. Brought to life by a brilliant bunch of people, it’s based on a story I wrote – sparked by a true family tale, and a timely newsreel. Hard to believe it’s 20 years old. www.nzonscreen.com/title/dead-l...

My usual Anzac Day post. George was Ngāi Tahu.

The #TransitCat of the day does not hate going the local V-E-T by bicycle.💜

Hooray, the Coalition is FINALLY doing something about climate change! www.emilywrites.co.nz/coalition-go... #nzpol #kikorangi

A phenomenal read – so satirically accurate it hurts: "Right now, flooding a shop or carrying away a bridge isn't an offence under legislation, but it will be." "Look, what I'd say to you is," said Luxon, addressing the floodwaters. They crept up to his ankles, overflowing his comfortable shoes...

"Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it" Or till the background is the street you grew up in. Hits home.

i am requiring you all to learn about this show and enjoy it with me. we have to all get into it together okay kotaku.com/game-show-dr...

ever taken on a $10.5B mining company and won? neither. until yesterday. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Uh-oh. Do we need a new version of @magnets.eurosky.social’s brilliant observation about how climate change will manifest? In a surreal twist, people are now doubting footage that is both very real and very close to home—a result of AI imagery poisoning the waters: www.tickaroo.com/e/GCRysAwNeu...

Broke: short car trips Woke: replacing short car trips with fun little bike trips 🚲 Bespoke: replacing short CAT trips with fun little bike trips* 😻 #nzpets *to the local V-E-T… and surprisingly, she didn’t hate it!

beautifully written, science and art, thanks @rjme.bsky.social newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/22/t...