Breaking News: The Trump administration moved to open the habitats of imperiled animals to farming, drilling, mining and other development. Environmentalists characterized it as the most severe erosion of protections for wildlife in half a century. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...

Under Lula, Amazon deforestation falls to lowest level in a decade https://aje.news/4aer73

Note to self

From ‘Outstanding’ and a good reminder that investing in the arts is a win-win, not a lose-lose, proposition.

Quick reminder as we see yet another record number of kiwis celebrating and attending Matariki events this week, despite this govt cutting its funding, that every National and Act mp voted against Aotearoa having this.

“In these difficult times, we can no longer afford to keep all the ghastly, mysterious men who haunt our catacombs on this organization’s payroll,” said Timothy O’Leary

@pearced.bsky.social The full story

Also let's not ignore the fact that 19.2% is an unbelievably piss poor result, especially when it's not like people don't know who he is. He's been Labour leader for four years now and people just aren't impressed.

as a result of the NZ govt's "flood the zone" strategy in completely changing how science and universities are funded, it's been hard to keep track of exactly what's being done, even if one pays attention. ordinary kiwis have no idea that our government is killing off science funding

Broken election promises & Bishop wants to blame external factors from overseas. I remember when he & his right-wing mates attacked Labour for “very ambitious” promises & wouldn’t give them grace of a global pandemic reason. Why should we afford them grace now? #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

There’s simply no way to come out of a fight with a clown looking good. Either you’re the guy who got savaged by a clown, or you’re the guy who beat up a harmless clown.

Wouldn’t it be great if people could get over to Clacton in Count Binface headwear delivering flyers like this? Count Binface needs a properly run campaign.

Fascinating how rattled Farage allies are by Count Binface. I doubt he can really marshal a serious challenge - perhaps they do. Or maybe they just need to build him up into more than a guy with a bin on his head so this contest doesn't look, well, silly

WAIT FOR IT WAIT. FOR. IT! 🪶 🐣

@stephenkb.bsky.social I’m worried for the Count; won’t the Houses of Parliament have a dress code - surely that includes ‘no headgear’ or something similar ?

He's from another planet, so not our establishment!

Fan Ho?

Then please, for the love of god, don’t www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361....

I remain optimistic that Hungary will provide good models for what America must do next.

Argh - disorganised posting, but better a day late than a weekend early! Miki Berenyi Trio will be supporting The House of Love at their London Scala show on December 6th. Tix: dice.fm/partner/tick...

Nobody used the term "arms race," but that's what they're describing: enormous pressure, including from some professors, to use AI or fall behind those who are. Many say they hate it, don't want to use it, but they feel like now it's submit or fail. 5/

Every time you hear a politician tell you cuts to services are necessary or a family member parrots them send them this #nzpol Life can be better. Better political choices are possible. Vote accordingly.

To explain. Belgium never appealed. They asked for clarification which FIFA refused to give them. FIFA then considered the request to be an appeal. For the appeal to be valid, Belgium needs to know what grounds to use. Which they don't have because FIFA refused to explain their actions. QED

I feel this should be a option in more creative classes;

UEFA: “.. Football, like any other sports, relies on rules .. We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision.” www.uefa.com/news-media/n...

To be clear, it is the warnings and announcements that will stop, not the actual layoffs.

There should be a Sean Connery James Bond comic set in the 60s, a Roger Moore comic set in the 70s, a Timothy Dalton comic set in the 80s, etc. The fans would eat them up.

YOU LITERALLY VOTED TO CANCEL 33 PAY EQUITY CLAIMS. YOUR VOTE SCREWED OVER 150,000 - 180,000 WOMEN. GET ABSOLUTELY F*KED WITH YOUR "CONVERSATION" BIZZO

What underpins sport is 'sportmanship'. You play by the rules, or you face *and accept* the consequences. It's really is that simple. Having somene cheating so blatantly, off the field of play, is giving the finger to very soul of sport.

MSD staff in Akld have been telling NZers without a roof over their heads... to move to Kirikiriroa Hamilton "because services are better there". those services run on donations, volunteers, hard-to-obtain & ever-dwindling grant funding, and they receive little to no govt funding to operate. 💯 EVIL.

Oh, so after fucking over so many women in the country by eliminating Pay Equity, Clueless Christopher has suddenly realised who actually gets out there and votes #nzpol

Maybe this hasn’t sunk in for anyone who should care but the NHS was birthed when the UK *literally had negative money*. The USA had razed us of every penny to pay for weapons to defend ourselves against Germany, Germany had bombed all our industrial sites. We still did it in 6 months. 6.

Looks like Mayor Z's pied a terre tax is not collapsing the real estate market or causing the wealthy to flee Manhattan after all. Indeed, the opposite. Who could have possibly imagined this scenario? www.realtor.com/news/trends/...

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

I assumed everyone knew this was predicted to occur when they sacked 50% of the NOAA staff and started canceling weather balloons that collect data last year; but if not. 👇

Capsule reviews of the Kala Mandala line so far - a neat system, fun adventures and evocative visual world books seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2026/07/caps... #osr #ttrpgs #zines

All over Russia, this conversation is playing out: "You up to much this weekend?" "Nah, having a quiet one. Might go and watch the refinery burn."

Who wants to come and work in my lovely department for a year? We’re looking for someone with expertise in 18th / 19th c literature while one of my brilliant colleagues is taking up a BA mid career fellowship. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSD064/l...

So… our Parliament in New Zealand amended our constitution today under urgency on a Saturday afternoon (2nd, CoW, 3rd readings) and barely anyone noticed.*

It was pointed out today by one of the scientists who developed the cooling cap for babies that's used worldwide that their research wouldn't be funded today bc it arose from blue sky research and wasn't commercialised! www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

“A big multinational’s Kiwi subsidiary has claimed to be unprofitable and paid no tax in New Zealand for the last two years – yet found the cash to pay a $70 million dividend to its Vancouver-based parent company this year.” Fuck that. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

This is the same MP who "didn't know" about lobbyists in his office. But he keeps getting away with it. He surely isn't that stupid...

Repost/Quote/Message/SMS the link to this YouTube video to EVERYONE you know. Keep on asking them to watch it in full. [ www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD3v... ] #nzpol

UK’s culture secretary and department quit X citing concerns over democracy ft.trib.al/1AV7wrF

It’s memoirs season! Time to take some proudest decisions

Anything this regime passes under urgency should simply be repealed. Its that simple. They don't get to embed their policies if they're not going to follow a proper process.