If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

This is a marvelous change not only for the Humpback whale 🐋 population but for all of us. We need to keep our gentle giants from going extinct. Fifty years after New Zealand stopped whaling, humpback population showing signs of recovery | RNZ News share.google/X1HB3JFgaePK...

The Government is currently negotiating an Enhanced Border Security Partnership with the US Department of Homeland Security that would grant US agencies, including ICE, automated, direct access to New Zealanders' biometric data and identity records.

Criminalising homelessness isn't the answer - it's a cruel distraction from real solutions. The government's announcement to expand "move-on" orders across Aotearoa is deeply concerning. The following skeets on why this approach sucks. #Homelessness #HousingCrisis #AotearoaNZ #Whakahangahanga

Voyager 1 is currently more than 24 billion kilometres from Earth and getting 17km farther every second and hilariously it is not as out of touch with New Zealand as our Prime Minister

Come on guys, wait until the 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓻𝓭 one-in-a-hundred year storm to hit in a couple of weeks, 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓷 you can bring up climate change ❤️❤️❤️

Tragically I think 11 people have already died in Aotearoa this year because of extreme weather. We need to reduce our emissions and invest in climate adaptation with urgency. But naturally, this government is instead pursuing coal mines and an LNG terminal. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/weather-l...

Mayor @andrewlittlenz.bsky.social and WW CEO Pat Dougherty will also be there. Head along whānau. #nzpol @julieannegenter.greens.org.nz @greens.org.nz

At this rate, how long is it before climate change pushes Aotearoa into a constant State of Emergency? At what point does recovery become impossible? #nzpol #climatechange

I don't currently have the words for my anger and frustration seeing climate events happen all over the motu and knowing - we could have been better prepared. We could have made different choices. People don't have to die. I'm trying terribly hard to not be bitter.

Restarting oil exploration, importing LNG fossil gas and expanding the dairy industry is climate extremism.

After YEARS of having the dairy industry denying, delaying and diluting any effort to cut their climate emissions, the irony is excruciating. #nzpol #TooManyCows #ClimateChange www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

The book is in press! HK Lennon Wall cover fuck yeah ✊ @keithng.bsky.social , harking back to Te Papa's first round of Asian activist materials collections. I wrote the intro & a few other bits & bobs. Can't wait to see how Grace has let our history speak through objects in the national collection.

Luxon's mad plan to start importing gas locks NZ into fossil fuels for longer – just as clean energy surges. It's absolutely BONKERS! With the same investment in rooftop solar panels and batteries, we could have cheaper electricity, a more resilient grid and a more reliable energy supply.

A climate emergency fund would be useful right about now. Oh, that's right, Luxon canned it so he could funnel more money to landlords.

"In my experience, academic work that acknowledges racism, inequality, oppression & climate injustice is in no way easier than any other form of learning. It is oftentimes harder, more complex, as it is fighting against the grain, and THAT is exactly why we need to bring care to our teaching."

I think it is important to not say "Britain colonised Nigeria(or similar entity)", but rather "Nigeria is a creation of the British Empire." This feels like a small difference but I think it fundamentally changes how we respond to the challenges of history and the present.

Luxon is still not back at work?! What the actual fuck. Bro gets paid half a million dollars of taxpayer money EVERY YEAR.

About time Aotearoa New Zealand boycotted the 2026 Olympic games The President is purposely being violent and killing his own people. #boycottolympics

In Minneapolis

Ahh yes, when I am organising an arts event, I think to myself "you know who the board really needs? an airport manager!"

“I was a poor Chicano boy from El Paso,” Acosta said. “I made my name in toxicology at the University of Texas.”

This ICE shit is gonna be here one way or other if we don’t nip this shitshow in the butt this year.

Here, I reflect on my experiences of trying to get African food catered for university events that I have organised. I also explain why providing edible Jollof (or other international food) in UK HE is a vital decolonising matter in an educational setting. folukeafrica.com/decolonising...

Thinking about what it means that our elected representatives in Aotearoa are so close with those in the US who are complicit in the murder of their own citizens and what that means if our current elected representatives are elected for another term.

As a former Director of Adelaide Writers' Week I am appalled that the Adelaide Festival Board has rescinded Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's invitation to the 2026 AWW, explicitly linking its decision to the shattering crimes in Bondi. A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.

Following the decision from the Board of the Adelaide Festival, The Australia Institute is withdrawing its support from this year’s literary festival. Here is our statement, and a personal one from me.

I stand with Randa and everyone standing against hate, genocide, oppression and terror. In all its forms.

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Result! NZ’s Supreme Court says Luxon govt must consider climate change if offering oil and gas tenders… which in the #ClimateCrisis logically means no permits should be awarded. Wind and solar is clearly a better bet for energy security anyway. Embarrassing for Shane Jones.

Postcards from Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.

All I can say this morning is look for the helpers, like Ahmed. “Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed.”

sounds familiar aye aotearoa

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Amazon, please stop asking me if books I bought month ago met my expectations. I still have unread books I bought in 2012. Be real.

Heads up NZ poets with no more than one collection published: entries for the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets close this Friday! $6000 first prize, details here.

The Lonely Plane - a new poem by Peter Sipeli

The singer recorded more than 30 albums and won two Grammys during his six-decade career.

I am delighted to have a couple of poems in this beautiful anthology. I got to hear many of these spoken aloud by the authors. And, to have something that also has Witi Ihimaera in it as well. books.apple.com/nz/book/ahi-...

Amazing! More than 1000 schools have now said they will continue giving effect to Te Tiriti, despite the government removing Treaty obligations from the Education and Training Act. #ToitūTeTiriti #nzpol ‪

“Trust us! Marginalising these communities more will absolutely bring down the cost of a KG of Mince and get your job back!”

My amazement continues: Waterstones has chosen Vanished as one of best books of the year. Especially pleased that history of science is being featured on these lists, and even more so as imperial history is even rarer on these lists. Hurrah! www.waterstones.com/blog/the-bes...

Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks: “Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”

BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation" As opposed to doing what with their children??

Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Truly and utterly stunned. The Telegraph has chosen Vanished as one of the ‘greatest books of 2025’ and described it as a ‘rigorous, fascinating narrative.’ Verily, this is the most unexpected place for my roar to have reached. www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...

COP30: Governments must empower forest communities to keep fossil fuels underground theconversation.com/cop30-govern...