Celebrities and venture capitalists throw millions at a company claiming it can breed fake dodos, which seems especially cruel given the dodo’s living relative., the Samoan tooth-billed pigeon or manumea, is on the brink of extinction for lack of money. news.mongabay.com/2025/09/fund...

The premise of this article is good, but the way it explores the issue has no hope of getting anywhere. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

The story of Auckland's Māori Community Centre is one we've been wanting to tell for a while: The Māori Hi-Five, The Keil Isles, The Quin Tikis, Sonny Day, Toni Williams, the Yandall Sisters are just some who called it home. By Adam Gifford. #reoMāori audioculture.co.nz/articles/mao... ⁠

Anti-pedestrian, anti-children, anti-cyclist, anti-walking-the-dog, anti-liveable-city ideology and our media is foolishly and short-sightedly marinating in it. Disgraceful lack of context and insight yet again.

Incredible lineup—

Omelas, except instead of a single small child, it’s a single billionaire, and instead of torture, it’s having all their assets liquidated to pay for public infrastructure and makeup tax deficits.

"What churchs are they from??" Ones that follow the teachings of Jesus Christ Not surprised Hannah Tamaki is unfamiliar

Love how a wide-ranging rant about Te Wiki o te Reo Māori and welcoming questions gets narrowed to “racism allegations” and media tantrums on the tiles about how the use of Māori excludes monolingual English speakers.

My students have but that’s only because I show it to them

One of the reasons why people often prefer debating ("dining across the divide") with the far right than the left is that the former makes them feel good about themselves by comparison Debates with/amongst the left bring up uncomfortable reflections about our participation in systems of oppression

One reason why there may be very little coherent press analysis of Musk appearing on screen to the coked-up piss-stained far right march in London, encouraging them to overthrow their government, is that Trump and Silicon Valley oligarchs are scheduled to visit Starmer this week.

Political violence being contorted and contoured into the training datasets of large language models.

Make no mistake, the global turn toward authoritarianism is heavily oil-funded. drilled.media/news/casey-m...

The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age. They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today

It’s funny because in design we talk about how digital tools can force decisions too early on in the process, and how the ambiguity of physical sketches and models can be an advantage. Seems like dissemination of information and narratives in digital networks also forces convergence.

The president of the ACT party groomed and raped teenagers. There is evidence (and allegations) that the party leader covered it up. Is this kind of behaviour acceptable for a deputy prime minister in NZ? Was his honesty and fitness for leadership ever persistently questioned in relation to this?

From the upstanders who turned “Seymour says—” into a headline trope; refused to frame Jago as a scandal; amplified toxic rumours and innuendo about Wellington’s mayor; and routinely promote dishonest and inflammatory opinion columns aimed at undermining trust and solidarity and promoting austerity.

"I am no man"

It’s immensely frustrating and concerning, especially as the risk of a global financial crash looms.

It’s such an ahistorical, broken perspective. Not to say there isn’t an influence from social media, but have we forgotten everything that happened in the 20th century? The role of radio in broadcasting hate and chaos fuelling Central European fascism?

If I have to disclose my funding as an academic in public the same social credit should be done by think tanks. It would be preferable if journalists did not report on opaque think tanks and interviewed academics instead who uphold ethics standards as part of their public duties.

The Arts: Not just nice to have.

The New Zealand Right has a choice to make. Following Seymour down the tube, importing far right innuendo, agitprop and violent rhetoric from the USA? Or sticking to their older values upholding liberal democratic institutions inflected by personal responsibility and tradition.

Oh yeah, Seymour is well known amongst teachers in various NZ high schools for grooming kids in their top debate teams, getting their phone numbers in some cases.

OUT NOW ON EXIT FROM AFFCO: the prelude to the 1951 waterfront dispute, New Zealand's enlistment into WWIII against the Third World, and the blossoming of Cold War anti-communism. www.exitfromaffco.com/p/the-1951-w...

When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.

The horror most leading right wingers have about Kirk's death and people's responses to it aren't to do with him being killed, it's them realising that their own deaths will produce similar responses.

Maybe a multi decade propaganda effort to reframe a ridiculous amendment in a 19C constitution about having a right to bear arms into a claim that citizens have the right to use political violence if they feel tyranny is imminent has effects on the acceptability of political violence idk

Pretty great study comparing projections of costs of wind and solar to actual costs holy shit did everyone get it ultrawrong (for both wind and solar!!) - image below is utility PV capex www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Banks draining resources from the New Zealand economy is the real Australian mining boom.

The greatest #nzpol post of all time. Like that Tom Holland lip sync battle vid, when you see it on any platform, it’s your duty to repost it. #newzealandvalues

Lmao at this open letter to the Unimelb VC proposing she pay for Meanjin with a 10% salary sacrifice that would still leave her better paid than the VC of the University of Cambridge It was my joy to sign, & I recommend doing so to all in the world of arts & letters

Typical false dichotomy from Bishop and poorly framed here. Modular design isn’t a philosophical departure from how architecture is normally practiced. This whole narrative is basically blaming designers for problems caused by govt outsourcing and incoherent privatisation. bsky.app/profile/news...

I don’t think this inane cynicism has much to congratulate or celebrate, frankly. Younger people see attitude of millennials and gen Xers with mortgages wallowing in doing nothing to fix anything as a ‘fuck you, got mine’. They don’t necessarily want to go to Australia, many do want to fix things.

Context: this knocks back Marsden funding levels next year a whole two decades to (inflation adjusted) the same level funding as the 2005 Budget.

Teleconnection is one of the most fascinating aspects of the atmosphere. Highlights the absurdity of arguments against climate action based on the thought-terminating cliche that reducing pollution in one country doesn’t do anything because of global averages. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Watching this dog is like the video that went round the other day with the Japanese reporters watching the new bullet train.

If the next Cave Creek happens, Wilkinson, Moss, Counsell and Seymour will be directly responsible and we must make sure that they are held to account. weareunderused.substack.com/p/in-the-roo...

Early climate models by Suki Manabe of NOAA/GFDL in the 60s and 70s laid the groundwork for modern climate science. They predicted key aspects of global warming, such as link to CO₂, stratospheric cooling, Arctic amplification, land-ocean temperature contrast, and delayed Southern Ocean warming.

We’re losing so much right now in AU and NZ. I can’t even begin to imagine what is being lost in other countries joining us in going down the plughole of neoliberal fossil fash austerity…

Tax $4.9M Offshore ‘Cloud Fees’ $307M someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this.

“The so-called ‘obstruction economy’ is, in reality, one which has monetised systemic failure.” NZ’s infrastructure problems are largely consequences of institutional mediocrity and poor understanding of design. architecturenow.co.nz/articles/fas...

all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe

there’s left politics, and then there’s the form of left politics that takes on certain right-wing elements to become appealing and profitable in a right-wing (social) media landscape

Idle thought: Jim Henson and Frank Oz as 80 year olds, performing Waiting for Godot as Kermit and Fozzie. Would be incredible, huh. Waiting for Gonzo

Le Guin undefeated at "the fuck you say to me" as subtext

Huge oooof moment

I think that’s the first #eqnz I’ve felt where I’ve been near directly above the epicentre.

Ata mārie! We are full of the joys of #WORDChch after a Friday full of fab sessions. Latest event reports ⭐Teresa: Rachel Paris ⭐Moata: Brannavan Gnanalingam ⭐Paul on Diana Wichtel ⭐Jemimah to the Front Line high schools grand slam my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/word-christc...

It finally happened.