Hope comes alive when we take action Here are 8 Good News stories 2025 So much can seem wrong in this world right now yet one thing remains certain: in troubling times, hope is an act of resistance. At Greenpeace, we know that collective action fuels hope. www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

YAY! #nzpol

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Useful thread #Venezuela

This all day every day … the images of Maduro being abducted are being found to be AI generated.

This is really, really important. Don’t do this.

A world that’s not dependent on big oil is a more peaceful world. We have to end our dependence on oil and gas, for peace and to survive the climate crisis. #Venezuela

Pest specs.

Reskeet with the most recent pic of your pet.

Giant pineapple lump choking incident.

Happy election year. #NZPol

It's that time of the year where the diet industry tries to hook you in. Reminder: 1. There is no moral value to food. 2. You don't need to do a detox: your liver, kidneys and skin are really good at doing that. 3. 'Clean Eating' assigns morality and status to how you eat. Check your privilege.

Workride is New Zealand’s bike benefit program that provides an easy, flexible, and protected way for employers to offer a bike benefit to employees for commuting to work. www.workride.co.nz

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Superb.

We asked @shaykauwe.bsky.social for her best book of '25, the book she'd love for Xmas & her anticipated read of '26. Read the full article: https://geni.us/SolarisBks2025 to find out why she picked @sgj.bsky.social @kealakendall.bsky.social & @sheldoncosta.bsky.social! https://geni.us/killingspell

We need to ban new AI data centres. To survive the climate crisis, we have to electrify everything. We can’t be wasting electricity on endless AI slop.

Yesterday I posted about my new web tracker of how often the parliament has gone into Urgency this term. #nzpol seemed to appreciate it and this evening I added a way to see the percentage of bills passed under urgency by each parliament. The results are interesting! See for yourself: nzpt.cjs.nz

u know what 2 do (if the purse allows) #Aotearoa @theaunties.bsky.social

Three Waters anyone?? #nzpol

Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx

Like so many other decisions. #nzpol

Israel govt has just approved 19 new settlements in the West Bank, violating international law and breaking ceasefire terms. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

Any time David Seymour appears in this news claiming to be standing with a minority targeted by prejudice and violence journalists have an obligation to remind us he accepted a donation from a man who threatened to "destroy mosque after mosque until they take me out" www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350...

"An independent public inquiry must go beyond operational misconduct to examine the culture that enabled McSkimming’s rise, assess compliance with the UN Convention Against Corruption and CEDAW, and measure police practices against global benchmarks."

If the Herald wants to be Fox News or a News Ltd tabloid that’s their board’s choice but there are still standards. Disagreement with policies and political positions is fine but blaming violence on people with explicitly nonviolent kaupapa who made public statements condemning the violence is sick.

Nothing screams the economy is in dire times like Boxing Day Sales a week before Christmas! Thanks, National. You killed it stone dead. #nzpol And what are you doing about it? Sacking more civil servants.

He will always be known as Seymour the prick

Again and again and again, this coalition government chooses to ignore expert advice and evidence, instead, creating policies focused on ideology and personal beliefs. It's beyond irresponsible, it's beyond negligence, it's actively and deliberately harmful. It's reprehensible that this continues.

NEW: The High Court has ruled that Paul Goldsmith's appointment of Dr. Stephen Rainbow as Human Rights Commissioner was unlawful www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

#nzpol Data released today shows that for all the talk of green shoots, the economy hasn’t grown at all in 2 years. Unemployment is up, & the cost of living is still rising for middle and low-income New Zealanders. The GDP increase today simply balances out the fall previously. A Thread

We’ve gone from a PM who can explain genomics and SNPs on TV to a govt who’s ministers approve useless drug tests against advice and while admitting they don’t understand how they work

This year on Bluesky I wrote 770 posts and 1,038 replies. I received 7,388 likes, whereas 246 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "nzpol" and 👍🏼! www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

Ewww. Why must dropkicks come here? #Aotearoa

He didn’t hand himself in ffs and it was was 10 years of offending. “While he (McSkimming) expressed remorse, the report writer said he centred the impact on himself and those close to him, and did not express contrition regarding the level of harm caused to the children in images” #nzpol

England’s resident doctors begin five-day strike https://aje.io/8qtxbi

Ok I’m getting whammed daily at this point. #whamageddon

Thought leadership and specificity is lost when you merge. You lose institutional knowledge. You lose years of relationships. I’m feeling absolutely gutted for environment, local govt and housing public servants tonight. #nzpol 2/2

Hey Kirikiriroa / Hamilton folks!! Rally to stop the puberty blocker ban this Friday! Image reposted with alt text.

#nzpol HYEFU data today showed that unemployment is forecast to stay much higher than forecast by Treasury at the last election. There will be 76,000 more people on jobseekers by 2027. Wages going up by less every year than forecast at the last election.

Seriously. If you see someone working extra hard to convince you to go back to X, block that turd. It's not a genuine entreaty... it's not earnest, it's a desperate business move.

Real version only. I got got on Dec 1 🙄 #Whamaggedon

Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today: www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...

Trans rights are human rights. Trans rights are human rights. Trans rights are human rights. Trans rights are human rights. Trans rights are human rights. Trans rights are human rights. Trans rights are human rights.

I’ve been in the bush for four days so this may not be news to anyone else …. JFC #nzpol

The desperate hands of the global south seek to take back an overheated world. Seriously, what's next? The McHamburglar trophy in gourmet cooking? The Pol Pot Human Rights medal? The Jeffrey Epstein childcare grant? The Vladimir Putin democracy fellowship? The Weinstein-Cosby feminism prize?

Ireland calling the UK out for being stupid enough to fall for this 'gender critical' bollocks.

Hell yes.