I appear to have spoken to a reporter who took seriously the gravity of NZ's science crisis does anybody have a newsroom pro subscription so that I can learn what other choice phrases I used on the record? newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/w...

Aotearoa , new Zealand - MMR vaccine is free for anyone aged under 18, and for people over 18 eligible for free healthcare. please visit your local chemist that offers vaccinations & see if you had 2 doses. If not please get vaccinated. Protect yourself and people who can’t get vaccinated #nz

You can also get a booster if you're unsure. I'll be getting one myself next week 👍

Happy Labour Day Aotearoa. #nzpol

Just because one country's administration has let them off the hook, that doesn't mean the rest of the world is unconcerned about #climatechange and will excuse Google and Meta's denialist opportunism. We, the consumers, want better performance from you.

England in New Zealand: Harry Brook century in vain as Joe Root, Ben Duckett and Jamie Smith fall cheaply

Everywhere it’s the same story. Wind power is lowering the electricity prices, whereas gas power is increasing them. Here in New Zealand, expensive fossil gas generation keeps our electricity prices unnecessarily high. #nzpol

After New Zealand announced it would not recognise a Palestinian state, Israeli deputy foreign minister Sharren Haskell visited the country. While here she met with Christian Zionist leaders Brian Tamaki (Destiny Church) Alfred Ngaro (leader of the NewZeal party) Nigel Woodley (Flaxmere Fellowship)

The he politics of spite. Honestly - it THIS one thing that all the right wing parties share. Vengeful policy. Take New Zealand’s right wing govt - cancelled important infrastructure that the country needed and we still don’t have (ferries, state houses, hospitals) just to be spiteful.

Have they considered not putting forth wildly unpopular bills then?

Thinking about what the systematic dismantling and erosion of social welfare, education, healthcare, human rights, and targeting of vulnerable communities alongside deliberate weakening of media and undermining of democratic process means for the next election in NZ and concluding: nothing good.

Speaker Gerry Brownlee not happy about Te Pāti Māori burning a copy of the Marine and Coastal Areas Amendment Bill on Parliament steps. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Māori #MarineAndCoastalAreasAmendmentBill

There's hope for us yet... 🍀🎶🎵🍀

Nu är det klart. Den samlade vänstern på Irland vann stort. Den tionde Uachtarán na hÉireann blir en progressiv feminist, Palestinavän och republikansk socialist.

Absolutely this. Christian nationalism is a risk to the Rainbow community, to women - to anyone who isn’t a privileged white cis man. NZ is moving quickly from taking selfies with some of the worst people in the world to implementing the same values and behaviour as policy - it can’t continue.

The US is so effing effed.

#Climatechange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction International Day for Climate Action

In today’s Weekend Herald

International day of Climate Action. A time to reflect on what you are doing personally or collectively to make a difference. It doesn't have to be huge.. you can make a commitment to do *something* on a regular basis & talk to others about it, encouraging them www.globalissues.org/news/2025/10...

Happy Int'l Day of #ClimateAction! At #CarbonCure, our #Climate progress comes from a proven, pragmatic solution plus collective action. When @billgates.bsky.social visited Pan-United in Singapore to see our tech, he showcased how innovation & industry can collaborate to cut #HardToAbate CO2.

Let’s start a trend. Wear Polka Dots and stand against ice peacefully. She’s famous around the world but our press isn’t sharing much with us. #pinks #truthtopower #courage #polkadotpower

Ōtepoti: union solidarity Strike rally location has been changed to EDGAR CENTRE 11:30am tomorrow, Thursday 23rd Oct (because of weather warnings)

Hey NZ, when they show you who the really are FUCKING BELIEVE THEM Xenophobic Fascisats adjacent economic imbeciles.

BREAKING Greenpeace joins Pacific activists in Rarotonga to protest deep sea mining as US-owned exploration vessel docks in Cook Islands www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

My @bsky.app cover pic: -- Waimakariri River draining the waters of Kā Tiritiri-o-te-moana (Southern Alps) onto Kā Pākihi-whakatekateka-a-Waitaha (Canterbury Plains), New Zealand... Amazing #hydrology & #geomorphology... -- Photo was taken by NZ' @paullecomtephoto.nz -- bsky.app/profile/paul...

Judith Collins calling open fascist Kristi Noem a friend and posing for photo ops with her would have her hounded out of politics in any reasonable democracy - and a functioning, non-propagandistic media would lead that charge Unfortunately we have neither of those things in NZ

Genuinely horrifying malevolence. NZ is being pulled into violence and complicity in Trump administration crimes. We didn’t ask for this and it’s not in our name.

Simeon Brown is forcing Health NZ to sign 10 year contracts with private hospitals - meaning it will be very difficult for a future government to back out of the contracts. But the evidence is clear, privatised healthcare costs more and delivers worse outcomes: www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-...

🚨 In a new perspective experts in modelling and behavioural psychology reflect on the status of our fields on advising on #lifestyle #change for policy. Great initiative by Laura Scherer @unileiden.bsky.social and the EU 1.5° Lifestyles project! 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Young people speak about the pain and challenge of not finding work

Covid arrived in the UK in February 2020, and its first victim died on March 2nd. Over 72 000 people died whilst Covid +ve in England in the following 10 months. The Blitz, an 8-month long, targeted bombing campaign across the whole UK, killed 40 000 people. The Blitz stopped; Covid hasn't.

“All my friends murdered and raped, sometimes they hung out at my house. Get over yourself.”

45 major meat & dairy corporations generated more than 1bn tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions eq Largest 5 emitters analysed - JBS, Marfrig, Tyson, Minerva, and Cargill - together produced 480 mn tonnes, surpassing emissions reported for Chevron, Shell, or BP www.businessgreen.com/news/4520605...

This is what a real Opposition Party, standing up for Joe & Jane Public looks like... www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

If the government axes jobs and doesn't release the funds for workers pay increases and Luxon is supposedly the Leader of the government, then how is this not a political decision. What a dumb arse thing to say Christopher #nzpol

Auckland unemployment 10 year record high. Auckland business failures 10 year record high. #backontrack #nzpol

Emergency doctor 'shocked' by Health Minister's speech accusing clinicians of crossing 'ethical line'

At the 2026 election it will be worth remembering that National did nothing about excessive power company or supermarket or bank profits, despite all the rhetoric about being focused on the cost of living

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Join us in calling on the government to immediately halt all progress on the amendments to the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act. our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/op...

Just about as bad as you can get, the host country for this gathering would have been decided years ago, back when we were respected. This pathetic snub is going to take a long time to recover our standing. Coalition of Assholes.

This is truly shameful legislation. The government is once again showing contempt for the rule of law. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

More waves crashing on the sandcastles of hopium. I'm famously pessimistic, but the data continues to surprise me to the downside. It's relentless. We've not seen anything like this for 45 years. Compounding, mutually reinforcing, job-killing dynamics. (1/2)

The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

Steven Joyce doing the calculations of the ferry expenses. Because lets be honest, they always rely on his expertise. #nzpol

Excellent piece by @mountaintui.bsky.social The most telling quote: "Luxon sold the lucrative Heathrow slot for $27 million in 2019, stopping the 40 year London service, but only 4 years earlier, another airline purchased the Heathrow slot for $75 million. Today Air NZ can't get it back." #nzpol

Daniel Boris 🎯

Could you pls do an old ex-Art History teacher a solid, sign this petition to save the subject in our schools, and pass it on. These philistines need to hear from you all. Thank you petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...

Stuff front page right now… what a juxtaposition. #climate #nzpol

I absolutely 💯 decry the attacks on fundamental science but cannot help but be reminded that so many people pissed off now were silent when humanities funding was obliterated & don’t step up for Mātauranga, nor care about the rising misogyny their colleagues have described for a decade.