It's embarrassing that journalists continue to carry water for TPU talking points. You're being played. Rates soar while council staff clock in from home www.waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Free-market reformer needs a bailout.

Bombshell from Sandy @SandyKnapp : Solanaceae are way older than we thought at ~98 million years! 🌍🍆🌶️🍅 #SolRub2025

I wonder if spending $800K on a fake beach is considered a core service or a nice to have by the rates capping proponents? (It's an awesome community asset BTW). wellington.govt.nz/news-and-eve...

"Stroking ponies" and "dawn fishing" among activities banned by rural councils #SinisterQuotationMarks www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...

What's your sign?

Really important research here on Hector's Dolphins with comment from @rconstantine.bsky.social. There's still so much we don't know! World's smallest marine dolphins can perform underwater barrel rolls 🌏🐟🐬 phys.org/news/2025-09...

Sam The Trap Man: How ambitious plan to ‘recloak Papatūānuku’, restoring native forests, could future-proof New Zealand 🌏 www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/sa...

I'd forgotten this piece by Fox Meyer. Shows the annual cost to the govt of treating acid mine leakage at a single coal mine is greater than the annual royalties paid by the entire coal industry. Coal is a climate disaster, it only survives on govt subsidy. newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/02/a...

Sowing. Reaping. "The 40th Farm Aid benefit concert is being held on Saturday as the economic outlook for rural America is the gloomiest it’s been in decades." fortune.com/2025/09/20/f...

An ever-so-casual reminder that the bill for the leaky buildings deregulation fiasco is around fifteen to twenty times larger than all Tiriti settlements either finalised or in progress put together. www.1news.co.nz/2025/09/20/m...

This is a bloody awesome short watch youtu.be/bO47xXnJZfQ?...

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

Forest soils accumulate microplastics through atmospheric deposition renewable-carbon.eu/news/?p=167853 #forestry #microplastics #plasticpollution #RenewableCarbon

Physical infrastructure brings additional climate problems: the world’s ditches and canals emit 333Tg CO₂e (i.e. greenhouse gases). This is nearly equivalent to the UK’s total greenhouse gas emissions in 2023 (379Tg CO) theconversation.com/ditches-and-...

Great job backing Kiwis guys. Their feet should be held to the fire for this one, but I imagine the media will shrug and move on to the next thing. These clowns just love funneling money to Aussie.

Bigger is always better when it comes forests.

“Rich Grenyer, a biologist at the University of Oxford, said de-extinction is a “dangerous” distraction and that gene-edited animals are “at best a sort of simulation, rather like those unnerving animated AI portraits of dead relatives some… people create”.” www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

an infuriating aspect of NZ leadership culture is the preaching of conservatism without practicing it we can't overspend the allocated amount, we can't borrow substantial sums for investments that will obviously pay off, etc and then the same ppl will drop tens or hundreds of millions on dumb shit

Luxon himself handed me the Prime Minister's science prize last year. Let me say this in plain English: he's an idiot for running a govt who budgeted more for AI than for the Marsden fund. any journo reading this can quote me on it #nzpol

new zealand government reaching new heights of stupidity next year our public dollars will go more to AI grants ($70 million) than all investigator-initiated basic science combined ($56 million in the Marsden fund)

So let me get this right: the PMSTIAC to date now has eight members and zero (0) with any experience working in CRIs/PROs. We shall not even start on the gender balance. I guess they're slowly lowering the dairy industry overrepresentation at least...

"Over the four years after the honeybees were introduced, populations of two vital wild pollinators – bumblebees and anthophora – fell by “an alarming” 80%. When the honeybees were locked up, there was 30% more pollen for other pollinators." 🌏🐝 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Nice for some. Meanwhile the rest of us are paying $4.50 for a litre of milk and $22.50 for a kilo of mice. "After a handful of tough years, farmers have a bumper payout for dairy, and record beef prices." www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/...

Unexplained pivot from INNS to rewilding but ... Introduced large herbivores more negative than positive on native biodiversity #ecology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today seems like a good day to repost this. As always, Nazi Punks Fuck Off. #punk www.mixcloud.com/paekakpunksh...

It seems Lamm’s bottom line is "his numbers" 💰💰 (see sidebar quote of the last 2 paragraphs of The Guardian article), but he’s also disingenuous in making out objections to be about "not _liking_" their "Dodos" (or "Moa", etc). The objections are to misrepresenting the science. 1/4 🧵⬇️

The optics of this are so weird to me. Why is he cos-playing being a farmer in his blue swandri? Has he ever worn that jacket anywhere else than this photo? Is anyone fooled by playing dress ups? Why? Whyyyyyyy? Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy?

Rockstar economy has trashed its room and driven away most of its fans, now in danger of drowning in its own vomit www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

Is six sigma of deviation a lot?

Hey Hutt folks, you may miss it when voting, but please don’t vote for Suzanne Levy! She sounds fine, but OOPS she runs the TERF organisation Speak Up For Women.

The thing that fucks me off most about this is we were studying nitrates and overallocation in the Canterbury plains at university 20 FUCKING YEARS AGO.

Even if you have no interest in birds or birding I highly recommend this documentary. It's very good. Listers: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birding Free on YouTube Thanks @dashingdarbs.bsky.social for the tip. 🌏🪶 youtu.be/zl-wAqplQAo?...

Corin Dann on RNZ is drilling the Teachers Union on them rejecting the pay offer of 2.7 - 4.6% "this is above inflation" Oh really Corin?

That is almost one in every five people. A country where a fifth of its population doesn’t have enough to eat is a failed state. #nzpol

Here's the thing about revolutions. They happen slowly, and then very, very quickly. We are on the cusp of a wave of electrification in Europe because, 'the physics, economics and geopolitics' are all pushing in the same direction.

Turns out privatizing what should be an essential public utility is a terrible idea.

I appreciate this reporting so much, but man I wish everywhere else in the country got as much focus as Wellington. We desperately need more funding for local reporting - because it's happening everywhere but because it's not reported on, people can't see it.

The business community are not worried about labor costs, crime, fuel cost, or even the level of tax they are paying... They are worried about the changes in legislation, the lack of public spending, the lack of demand (aka poor customers) etc #nzpol

The Road Cone Rebellion is rising. In direct resistance to a government crack down on road cones gathering in public places.

2025. Invasive plants are rapidly changing tropic ecosystems across three continents phys.org/news/2025-09...

"It’s Not the Skinheads You Want to Worry About, It’s the Skinheads in Suits You Want to Worry About”

Mosquitoes are the messengers that bring the news of climate change to your door via their infectious diseases.

The value of dead wood 🌏 www.facebook.com/share/p/19ue...

Extreme weather in Europe this summer caused short-term economic losses of at least €43bn, according to an EU-wide estimate, with costs expected to rise to €126bn by 2029 "the indirect effects can be even more damaging than the direct destruction"... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

"As ORC staff look to incorporate natural solutions to flood risks across the region, Kelliher said because of the loss of productive land...the council’s ambition to expand native forests, "naturalise" rivers and construct wetlands to prevent flooding was an "utter joke"." search.app/x7sXD

For ffs, it’s way past time for companies and their directors to stop making us (taxpayers) pay for cleaning up their messes while the pocket the gains from their dirty businesses. From dairying, mining through to forestry and all other polluters and environmental vandals - clean up & pay up. #nzpol