“There is a 0% chance that Peters’ admonishment of the vast majority of UN member states, and continued delay in NZ’s own action, will have any impact on how they take their own stands. There is a 100% chance that it will be remembered as the time New Zealand punched above its weight in cowardice.”😔

Are you a decent human being Mr Peters?

Shameful www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Worth expressly noting that the ONLY reason given in Peters' speech for why AoNZ should recognise Israel and not Palestine as a state is that Palestine "does not control its own territory". So, we reward Israel for its illegal actions + will keep doing so until it chooses to stop.

I have never in my life felt as ashamed of the settler state of New Zealand as I am today. #FreePalestineNow

RIP Danny Thompson. Legendary double bass player whose playing is over so many records. Pentangle, Nick Drake, John Martyn, Kate Bush, T Rex, Talk Talk. The list goes on.

No Shane, not coal or gas. Time for NZ to become an electrostate. #nzpol theconversation.com/goodbye-petr...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Welcome to Wellington, purrs Murgatroyd.

Subtly downgrade a band The Bootles

I'm in that liminal stage of time dilation and contraction occasioned by transferring data to my new phone. Minutes can last minutes or tens of minutes, hours can contract to seconds, all at the same time. Are there timelords in the ceiling dropping bombs of quantum uncertainty? #appletime

FFS: fossil fools announce upgraded hand basket, speedier arrival in hell. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Well, NZ government, there really is no excuse, is there?

Self portrait in a dog's eye

I outsource early rising to this photographer... ;-)

Precisely.

Willie Jackson said some things 👏 #nzpol #ResignNicola #OneTermGovernment #NoConfidence #Election2026

The Makarora Chainsaw Massacre

Monkfish coconut curry? Don’t mind if I do…

Excellent piece by Geoff Bertram considering the options for reforming NZ's broken electricity market. The politics of restructuring the power market are complicated and difficult, but how hard would it be for a good politician to sell cheap power to the nation? theconversation.com/power-strugg...

A very important point: "If you look at the long-term flow of energy into the global economy that’s crystallized with each solar cell produced, it’s many times what’s being provided by Big Oil.” From this review of Bill McKibben's book Here Comes The Sun: open.substack.com/pub/sammatey...

I know I bang on about this a lot but just imagine what a dent this would make in our energy crisis, and to bills. So fucking tired of governance with nothing vision and a media that only froths for personal dramas #nzpol

Excuse me while I kiss the sky #FridayFlower

The paper: the genetic program that enables digit formation in limbs is derived from the system that drives cformation of the cloaca. Me, the headline writer:

More power to his elbow

Fossil fuels waste 2/3 of their energy — 380 EJ lost as heat, worth $5T every year. Electrotech flips the script: 1️⃣ 3x more efficient than fossil fuels 2️⃣ Taps the sun directly, with 100x more potential Full slidedeck 👉 http://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/the-electrotech-revolution

Not unhappy with the look of tonight’s dinner…

Even more considerate of the royals to provide pristine surfaces upon which the campaign group Led By Donkeys could project their Trump-Epstein videos.

Today’s flower is blushing at my attentions.

The National Climate Risk Assessment is now live: www.acs.gov.au/pages/nation...

How long before the balance of migration tips back to NZ? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Tell Federated Farmers to p*ss off. Aotearoa New Zealand's water does not belong to FF and they don't have first dibs on how it's used and FF does not get to set our nation's water quality standards and protections either. #nzpol

Still life/Dead flowers #projectindigo

Nuts to be and nuts that still are.

Life's a peach #blossomdearie

I thought I might get myself a drone... Eristalis tenax, or drone fly #djicanwait

Today, I’ve been taken up the Grand Canal.

What poster did you have hanging in your room as a student? Roger Dean FTW

A lamb called Jackson

Aha! Today's big question occasioned by the arrival of the Mick Herron #SloughHouse novel, Clown Town. Do I resist the urge to read it before the new TV series (S5) starts? Can I bear to wait?

Despite easily being the most British fighting vehicle ever developed, the mock-Tudor AT-AT programme was sadly cancelled due to budgetary concerns

What I'd just say to you is, #NicolaMustResign might not be aware of much, but she does know a joke when she's working under one. #LyinLuxon #WorstPMEver #NZpol

Because our media is now so understaffed and inexperienced that they get their news agenda from what they see on the wires and social media.

Sue the bastards. Make them pay. New research finds that "emissions from any one of the 14 biggest [fossil fuel] companies were by themselves enough to cause more than 50 heatwaves that would otherwise have been virtually impossible." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What happens above Antarctica doesn't stay above Antarctica. Strange goings on in the stratosphere over the next few weeks... www.severe-weather.eu/global-weath...

I defy you not to have a tear in your eye... (The BoRap flashmob liberated from TikTok, with full credits.) youtu.be/rfUEstWJUkA

The most INSANE Bohemian Rhapsody Flashmob you will ever see!! With 30 musicians and singers in the streets of Paris

Clean up, warm up: "Shutting down coal-fired power stations and cleaning up shipping fuels has saved millions of lives. But air pollution can also cool the planet. Removing it has released a surge of warming that has warped the weather around the world." www.newscientist.com/article/2494...

This is an old shot, but at the time I couldn't find any answers about these clouds and their formation. Thought I'd try again here.