"The alternative is a populist movement that tells the truth, a populist movement that says, this is an injustice. You are being screwed over, and that story is not a cultural one, but a class one," which gets a huge pop.

This is unusually relevant to my interests

Time to admit it’s brown, all year round…?

“I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better.” @sjblakemore

It just happens that back in 2014 I made a bunch of Winter Olympic Lolcats. Let's have a look!

Speed Skating!

and finally, cross country skiing

Invisible Figure Skating

Snowboard! Woooooooooooooooo

Oh to be a floaty-boaty murder-monster 😍

Two Rice University undergrads (freshmen!) built a digital mapping tool to track ICE activity. Students are OK. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Wellington south coast, u may have heard already but there’s a health risk with the sewage spill and weather warning tomorrow, that the sewage is going to be aerosolised in the sea spray 🤢😷

Everybody needs good neeeeighbours… 💞

While seawater is out there and it just don’t care… …oh?

It is also not lost on me that ‘hypocrite!’ has increasingly been the asymmetric attack of the right on the left. It is something the left has to reckon with; owning it in this way is useful. But there is a lot more to be done…

The ‘hypocrisies are vulnerabilities’ part of this is something I think will have echoes. It should and it must. For us to insist on shared values we must uphold them, and consistently

Man certainly seems like we've got a fucken heap of water infrastructure problems in terms of drinking, waste and stormwater around the motu right now - let me count them - ah yes, that's Three Waters.

Who needs 3 waters... #Nzpol

Men need an emotional education. An interesting read, well laid out, though the basic story is sadly unoriginal…

Defending yourself against association with Epstein by trying to rehabilitate Nabokov is… a choice 🤢

Necessary. Consequences, that is.

Good 👩‍🔬🧪

I was gonna post about Climate change but instead here's a pic of my cat. Share this, follow me and I'll tell you some things.

How do we stop lithium batteries from burning up in the bin? – Expert Q&A

If you're currently a student at a college with a faculty member who showed up in the Epstein files, I'd like to talk to you about the campus response for an article. You can reach me at [email protected] or millionbear.44 on Signal.

It’s called conservation, innit?

Some say the world will end in fire Some say in ICE, From what I’ve now seen from the liars, I hold with those who favour fire. BUT if it had to perish twice I think we’ve seen enough of hate To fancy little electron death spirals Repealing quantum mechanics Could be quite nice 🤔

I’m assuming everyone is reading the typo correctly as electron? I could repost but election death spirals are perhaps also a contender. Just not so connected to QM 🤷‍♀️🤔

You can't prove received wisdom wrong if you don't try... and you've got to give China credit for not being afraid to try. A step on the way to serious reduction of shipping emissions by 2050? Or an expensive experiment with niche coastal uses? Time will tell! maritime-executive.com/article/chin...

Some say the world will end in fire Some say in ICE, From what I’ve now seen from the liars, I hold with those who favour fire. BUT if it had to perish twice I think we’ve seen enough of hate To fancy little election death spirals Repealing quantum mechanics wouldn’t that be nice

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

We haven’t had a decent animal-related novelty NZ news story in so long, but this country still has the juice

I watched the pike river doco just last week, and this HITS 😢

My investigative piece today on Nicola Willis's surprise RBNZ Covid Inquiry announcement. She has set it up so that the results are released 6 WEEKS BEFORE THE ELECTION Please share where you can - between the voter suppression laws, and this, it could be a real killer come Nov 2026. #NZPOL #NZ

sigh

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

A MAGA freak in Texas murdered his own daughter in cold blood after they had an argument about Trump. A grand jury in the Dallas area then *declined to indict him*, and he has not yet faced charges. Seems like many Texans believe a man has the right to kill his own child for disobedience.

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

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Want to work with a dynamic team helping connect scientists with the media? Applications close at 5pm tomorrow (12 Feb). www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2026/01/27/w...

A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists. That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Let’s have a little bit of a chat about an economic concept known as the learning rate, and why it makes an LNG terminal a batshit insane idea 🧵 #nzpol

But wait! There's more!! #nzpol

Not-so-dinosaur convention 👏👏👏

About 45% of gas produced in this country goes to Methanex, the Canadian multinational. Fonterra is another significant gas user. Just in case you are wondering who stands to benefit most from the planned LNG plant which is to be paid for by me, thee and every other individual user of power.

No excuses

The extent to which those who can’t afford to get rooftop solar are being asked to pay the escalating cost of national infrastructure is criminal. And no I am not suggesting we tax rooftop solar. But… 🫣

Some governments raise taxes to fund public health and education. Not Luxon. He is literally raising taxes to subsidise fossil fuels. He is putting a levy on our electricity bills to pay for his LNG import terminal.

Damn

You can crush barricades and you can put out fires, but you can't unsing songs. Everything here is going be seared in the minds of everyone here for a generation.