He's literally the Pope?????

at some point it seems all the social media sites i use went from posts with the vibe of "im posting to the internet" to "im posting to my special friend group" even though the actual interaction between poster and reader didnt change, just parasociality with people you dont know

Article I wrote on Bayden Barber featured on the front page of #Wikipedia today in the Did you know? section en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

feel like nz parliament buildings arent as cool as elsewhere like not as monumental beehive is giving city council building

was hipkins supposed to reject the term socialist? that seems worse seems like people getting mad it him over nothing

2025 Māori ward referendums - results by ward #nzpol Made for the #Wikipedia article, see detailed results here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Ne...

I was trying to find freely licensed photos of every mayor in the previous term and now a bunch of new mayors are in so gotta find even more photos!

2020 NZ general election

Phew! Took a bit of work, but I finally got the Wikipedia article about pōwhiri up to the standard where it could be accepted as a "good article" under our article assessment criteria.

Started a biographical #Wikipedia article on new #Wellington deputy mayor Ben McNulty #nzpol en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_McN...

You don't need to be a photographer to contribute to Wikimedia Commons 📸 Providing open access to public domain and freely licensed content, the media repository is maintained by a dedicated community of volunteers, and there are plenty of ways to get involved without ever picking up a camera.

Where to from here, with the country’s new crop of young councillors

2025 #Auckland mayoral election - margin of victory by local board subdivision Incumbent mayor Wayne Brown was ahead almost everywhere, whilst 2nd place Cllr Kerrin Leoni was ahead in parts of South Auckland. #nzpol #electionmaps

Map of Te Pāti Māori local councillors following 2025 New Zealand local elections #nzpol #electionmaps

Map of Green party local councillors following 2025 New Zealand local elections #nzpol #electionmaps

Map of ACT Local councillors following 2025 New Zealand local elections #nzpol #electionmaps

Map of Labour party local councillors (+mayor in Wellington) following 2025 New Zealand local elections #nzpol #electionmaps

like every govt website has a copyright disclaimer that's like "This website is license CC BY 4.0, except for all of the photos, and the text, and anything else you might want to use" aaaaaaaaa plz

crazy to me that some people consider the waffles-posting on bsky more annoying than getting called a dozen racial slurs you havent even heard of, as seems to be the case on twitter

While I'm on this I find it very weird everyone's discussing these "tricks" they think Trump might use to run for a third term. I don't think he will, but if Trump decides to run for a third term here's how he'll do it: he'll announce he's running for a third term and Republicans will let him.

thespinoff.co.nz/politics/21-... #nzpol

insane to me anyone still posts on twitter i'll pop over to see the posts of the people who didnt move and the comments are all nazi shit

2025 Whakatāne District Māori wards referendum - results by ward. #nzpol

2025 Māori ward referendums - margin of support by council (final results) #nzpol

Some maps of the Auckland Council election Showing elected councillors by affiliation and political lean #nzpol

more places in New Zealand should have flags Otago really the only place with a proper flag

local election voting closing at 12 midday is insane considering general election voting closes 7 hours later and its not nearly advertised enough, most people probably assume its the same - wonder how many people rocked up to drop off a ballot or special vote only to be told it had closed #xpol

updated my Māori ward referendums map can compare versions with these links Progress (old): upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co... Prelim (new): upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co... Created for the #Wikipedia article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Ne... #nzpol

Turnout was doomed from when it was obvious Auckland wouldnt have a competitive mayoral race, they have a third of the country so when they're low the overall result is low #nzpol

#wikipedia article on Māori ward referendums got more than double the views of the main local election article over the weekend #nzpol pageviews.wmcloud.org?project=en.w...

This is great. Also, let’s do away with private election companies. They continue to do a garbage job and excluding Māori candidates from the booklet this year was unforgivable. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/13-...

Ok after an afternoon of results, texts, calls, messages on other apps and emails, I have some thoughts on today’s Local Election results 1) Voter turnout is depressing. 32%ish on average across AoNZ is pathetic. 2) The Māori Wards referendum should never have happened - it was a racebaiting farce…

Preliminary results of the 2025 Māori wards referendums #nzpol

2025 New Zealand regional council elections - preliminary results map #nzpol

wikipedia pageviews for various mayoral candidates #nzpol Auckland:

actually surprising to me that it seems the māori ward referendums haven't driven turnout, most places seem to be about where they were in 2022. or maybe it has driven turnout and without it we'd be doing even worse? #nzpol

Well before the sun rises, the roller doors open to an unassuming warehouse in Christchurch. Voting papers for most local body elections in New Zealand will be processed here. From about 5.20am, tens of thousands of votes from across the country are delivered, sorted and processed by Electionz’s…

wait the US not having a budget means the us embassy in nz isnt posting on their social media = no new public domain images during this period 😞

Auckland Council should do what GWRC, WCC, PNCC do and license their photography on their websites under Creative Commons licenses #nzpol #creativecommons

Newsroom has a little interactive graphic thing where you can look at various things for local body candidates that answered their survey newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/02/c... No dedicated page for it, it just appears in local election articles #nzpol

2025 Tāmaki Makaurau by-election - Final results by Auckland Council ward (took them awhile to release final polling station data so only got around to it today) #nzpol #electionmaps #wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_T%...

me explaining how many continents there are in the western hemisphere

Ok have been writing this today, added 1,600+ words. Pretty good state, another edited moved it from start-class to B-class. #Wikipedia

Manaaki Whenua have appointed Siobhan Leachman as their Wikimedian in Residence! Supporting staff to share their expertise, @siobhanleachman.bsky.social will be assisting the group with contributing content from their nationally significant collections to openly accessible Wikimedia platforms.

Wrote a quick biographical article on incumbent Ngāti Kahungunu chair Bayden Barber for #Wikipedia this evening. Gonna expand further tmmr as there are more sources. Luckily, the NZ GG happened to take a photo with him in February so we have a good PD photo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayden_...

Redid the map I made for the #Wikipedia article on the 2020 Auckland Central election, which was a three-way-competitive race between Chlöe Swarbrick GRN, Helen White LAB, and Emma Mellow NAT #nzpol #electionmaps en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aucklan...

The deep-sea supergiant amphipod Alicella gigantea may be hard to find, but information on it isn’t — all thanks to a dedicated NZ editor. The article for this unique species has recently become a featured article, meaning it represents some of the very best content in the online encyclopedia.

thespinoff.co.nz/politics/23-... Totally, crazy that Auckland has basically the same system of local govt as a small town Akld elections should be seen as nationally important, over 1/3 of the country lives there. For that to happen it needs proper westminster-style democracy imo #nzpol

Voted today #localelections #localelectionsnz #nzpol