More #BDS success against Elbit. Next up - UniSaver 🤞

#OtD 6 Jan 1971 the Militant Mothers of Raymur, 25 mothers from the Raymur Place housing project in Vancouver, Canada, blockaded railway tracks to get a pedestrian overpass to protect the 400 children who crossed the tracks to and from school stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1061...

I'm posting this for no other reason than goats Well, solar's a pretty good reason, too And also, solar is the GOAT

Opinion from the University of Auckland: Of Weapons and Words is an urgent intervention into the missing Palestinian perspectives in NZ media, writes Dylan Asafo. newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/06/a...

Palestine flag waving in Blenheim as we passed through just now 🍉

A year on, Israel still holds Gaza doctor Hussam Abu Safia without charge https://aje.io/wmyqzo

"The New South Wales premier wants parliament to grant his government “extraordinary powers” to effectively ban protests for three months, claiming the “implications” of pro-Palestine rallies could be seen in the Bondi terror attack that killed 15 people." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A reminder for Wellingtonians that @bookhavennz.bsky.social has an amazing selection, is cheap, and owned by very good people. This is my haul today for the last Christmas presents (I hope but sure to have forgotten someone …🤷🏼‍♀️)

The AI boom emitted as much CO2 in 2025 as New York City. AI-related water use now exceeds all global bottled-water demands. Billionaires reap the profit and corporations benefit but our society is left to pay cost. Let’s say NO to new AI datacenters, block gen AI and push for AI-free apps.

@uwp-aotearoa.bsky.social mahi and community has been one of my highlights this year. And we’re getting somewhere! UniSaver asked to meet with us next month. Very inspired by Justice for Palestine’s campaign for ASB to divest from Motorola, which they announced today has been successful ✊🏽🥳

Hatred is cruel, for the victims of it and for those it consumes. As 2026 approaches, let us all recommit to hope over hatred, to peace over war, and to our shared humanity.

Non-kiwis! Thanks to our right-wing govt crashing the NZ dollar, your money pisses off 1.5-2x as many transphobes as a year ago. Isn't that lovely? #ttrpg #indierpg #silverlining #transrights

Can we say death cult yet?

When Israel says “it will allow Palestinians in Gaza to leave” ask them if they will allow their return Otherwise it’s more layers of illegal Trafficking g in humans by a genocidal state which is killing hundreds and calling it peace

Feeling that a $4 billion motorway project for Wellington that NZTA admits will lose money & is proposing to fund through tolls, a levy on our rates and/or a regional fuel tax isn't a great idea? Then let's organise together on Tuesday night at St Joseph's: www.greens.org.nz/wlg_event_0212 #nzpol

Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season. When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.

Fossil fuel companies were given confidential drafts of legislation during their (successful) two-year campaign to weaken oil and gas regulation and overturn the offshore exploration ban - new reporting from me via the OIA www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

So good.

We're seeing some confusion about this, so let's talk about it. Home Depot has been complicit as ICE snatches day laborers out of parking lots. At minimum Home Depot is turning a blind eye, and there have also been rumors they may be more actively complicit. Organizers including #weaintbuyingit 🧵

@amandathomas.bsky.social representing for Uni Workers for Palestine in our bid to divest our pension from Palantir, Elbit and genocide. www.1of200.nz/podcast/1/20...

Fuck yea

Today marks 15 years since the Pike River mine disaster. Anna and Sonya are meeting with Brooke van Velden today to call for stronger health and safety protections in our country, taking time out of the most precious day of their year to fight for all New Zealanders. #nzpol

Reposting to capture the Shortland St ad break doom scroll crew

Folks, particularly fellow researchers, one of our Aotearoa colleagues, Faisal Al-Asaad, has set up a fundraiser for his friend Mohammed. Mohammed is an environmental scientist in Gaza. In the absence of an avenue to bring him here, please contribute what you can spare to him and his whānau

Yes, absolutely there is an impartiality crisis at the BBC. But it's not the one the billionaire media insists it is. novaramedia.com/2025/06/16/b...

"In her opening remarks to the meeting, Heather, the Free Speech Union chief executive, said next year it planned to launch a “large education initiative” focused on 16 to 25 year olds." ‼️

And the person behind Palantir is NZ resident Peter Thiel, given residence in 2011 due to his “exceptional circumstances” - after spending only a total of 12 days in the country. Here’s a recent Guardian article about Theil and Palantir and Trump and AI etc etc www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Cool cool.

One of the companies the university retirement fund UniSaver has holdings in.

As temperatures continue to drop in Gaza, Israel is refusing to provide Palestinians in Gaza with the tents & mobile homes it agreed to in the ceasefire. “There must be swift action to bring in all the necessary supplies to save people’s lives.”

I'm sure it's totally coincidental that the AoNZ government's changes to the Marsden Fund have been followed by successful applications led by female investigators dropping from 55% to 33%, and successful applications led by Māori investigators dropping from 13% to 5%. 🫠 🧪

Uni Workers for Palestine have been working steadily at this divestment campaign for a while now. It's an solid collective and we're ready for the work ahead. thespinoff.co.nz/society/06-1...

Asked whether he’s sure technology will allow the Government to meet its climate goals, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts replies: ‘Can we be sure about anything in life?’ newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/g...

Uni Workers for Palestine have been working steadily at this divestment campaign for a while now. It's an solid collective and we're ready for the work ahead. thespinoff.co.nz/society/06-1...

Experts universally pan National's latest act of climate denial

When I wrote this just two-ish months ago, the premise was that the architecture of the CCRA (zero carbon act) remained, but the policies that sustained it had been hollowed out. With the CCRA changes today, I feel like that no longer holds www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

SOAS University becomes the first British University to Issue a Statement on Scholasticide in Gaza www.soas.ac.uk/about/news/s...

Just finished watching Tangata Pai on Three Now - bawled my way through the final two episodes and so, so worth a watch. Hearing the Taranaki mita was beautiful, and episode 6's depiction of mental health crisis 🤯 thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/...

our govt wants to spend 327 times more on a single road ($18b) than they are currently spending yearly on all of basic science in new zealand ($55m) #nzpol

#NZ abstains on key #shipping #pollution vote despite Pacific pleas 😡 Island nations championed efforts to reduce #maritime climate #emissions, but received no help from NZ during a key vote on delaying the work #nzpol #ClimateCrisis newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/22/n...

The Government's 17 Roads of National Significance will cost it at least $44 billion – enough to rebuild Dunedin Hospital 23 times over. Marc Daalder reports.

Important thread

We can participate in democracy and be flawed while also having non-negotiable. No nazis. No racists. We aren’t abandoning trans people. Triple the minimum wage. Universal healthcare. Reproductive freedom. Etc etc etc. Stand for something! Appeasement accomplishes very little.

Constitutional transformation is already happening, just not in Question Time. I get that pundits have to focus on six MPs, but it's because they can't and won't look at the thousands of daily acts of self-determination that don't require Parliament's permission.

Today!

God almighty. Shameful

Like most of the science system reforms this year, there's some good ideas here but the overarching direction this government dictates for research ('value for the private sector') is not one that will actually lead to good research

The select committee report on the Regulatory Standards Bill is in. 📝166,000 submissions. ❌98.7% opposed. Yet National are going to continue supporting it. 🗣New Zealand could not have been louder, but Luxon still isn’t listening.