I harp on this a lot. Apologies. In Niue everyone has a family garden and a job that seems to be 4 hours a day. No unemployment/ sickness or other benefits at all. Free medical and dental for life. Free education, water and WiFi. Everyone lives with families. No ageism. It efficient and happy

Of the day. Can't stop giggling

Damn. Jack DeJohnette died. What a player and unique jazz voice

Paul Jacques is a force of nature. Scientist, planner, pack mule, shooter, trapper,ukulele player, impossibly hard worker. Was my project overseer at Nu'utele Island Samoa. Island Conservation is the best organisation l have ever worked with. And the most successful.

Predicting annexation of 160km deep buffer...

As designed

I hear you sceptics. But Collagen Scientist starts with C O too. Coincidence? I think not. Wait, coincidence starts with C O too....

Yellow-legged hornets have been found Glenfield and two other spots in Auckland. We don't want these here! They're twice the size of our other introduced wasps, kill and eat honeybees and lots of native species, and have a nasty sting. www.mpi.govt.nz/news/media-r...

“When Power Gets Scared It Gets Dangerous, Kaipara Edition” - 18 October 2025 The Fascist Playbook Unfolds in Real Time as Outgoing Mayor Tries to Overturn an Election He Might Lose themaorigreenlantern.substack.com/p/when-power...

It's all about distraction

My analysis: The Government’s methane announcement is the policy equivalent of a steaming cowpat on cross-partisan climate consensus and international efforts to tackle the crisis. The headline effect of a new, weaker climate target is a warmer, more dangerous world. newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/13/f...

Got reelected today. Survived a big RW swing. Majority cut from 3000 to 187

Open letter from staff, students, and alumni of the New Zealand community of universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

What are the ‘social dimensions’ of moving species for conservation and why does engaging with them matter? This is the focus of our new paper doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... published in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social olevo.bsky.social led by ever talented @aisrayne.bsky.social 📷 Kevin Parker

Deep down we're all dogs, but not Winston Peters' pet! #NZpol 🐕 🐩 🦮 🐕‍🦺 🐶 www.emilywrites.co.nz/dogs/

Got me thinking- what would we like to hear on NatRad. My starter for 10 1 hour pw Nick Bollinger on music Reinstate At The Movies 1 hour pw History Of Politics by Giovanni Tiso 1 hour pw Climate by Rod Carr 5 min daily Legislation by Geoffrey Palmer collated and repeated weekly

FYI I’ll be on TVNZ Breakfast from 7:05am to talk about the age of eligibility for NZ Super. I say don't extend it. It’s not fair on manual workers, Maori, Pasifika, the disabled & those in 30s/40s without the unearned wealth those in 60s/70s are now sitting on. Land tax/wealth tax better. #nzpol

Govt takes a billion in revenue each year in dividends and tax from the electricity sector. This is a regressive form of taxation that causes factories to collapse. Why cant we just tax capital gains like a grown up country

I can't believe this isn't butter

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

Boom

Now l know who he reminds me of. Not Toad of Toad Hall at all. It's Stool of Toadstool

I Whangarei last week l saw mattresses in 6 cars and 14 vans. Just close to my parking in 3 trips to town. A huge % of non-trade vans are now dwellings. The health impacts alone must be horrendous

Technology is nearly here (EPA tidy up re pesticides to be approved) that will allow devices to time when to go live. So microchipped cats out at night can be killed, and all unchipped cats all the time. All humanely. Technology will force better owner behaviour

I initially read that as "shower with them" and I'm ok with that

While Putin, Xi and Modi build autocratic alliances, Trump is friendless on the world stage.

Read and enjoy on link below! open.substack.com/pub/marinapu...

So it's love already

IMO probably the worst of many alarming moves by this Govt in this term. This cannot be accepted

youtu.be/tT99qIV-tvI?... Graveyard to be your home

Also looks like a bulwark against imposition of CGT, wealth tax and possibly other taxes

I've said this several times before - it won't be a disaffected Iraq War vet or a Dem or a MAGAt that disposes of Trump. It will be a group of pissed-off RW businessmen

Get this

A dock workers union from Genoa said if the flotilla gets intercepted they'll shut down all of Europe's ports. The Med having three of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, this could be huge! Especially if they get Union solidarity from North Africa

Faaaaaaaark

Please watch

Did you know that Israel has visa waiver access into New Zealand but Samoa, Tonga and Fiji do not. Let that sink in.

Oh hey it turns out another thing Covid cautious people have been saying nonstop for several years is true: lockdowns did not cause “immunity debt,” and Covid infections DO cause immune disruptions that make you more vulnerable to other illnesses.

Auck folks. Get thee to The Hendy Siouxie Man Hire show. Also please can this be filmed for us at the extremities?

Electric vehicle battery production worldwide is set to reach 3,930 gigawatt-hours in total annual capacity, over triple the expected demand of 1,161 GWh. trib.al/BL5fWfV

This is such a great post from @patrickreynolds.bsky.social ... "The City Rail Link in a Bargain" www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2025/08/18/t...

Donald Trump's summit meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday was an abject failure (for everyone but Putin), making clear that the president’s performance skills have degraded nearly as much as his already-damaged cognitive abilities.

Rare actual footage of a doormat rolling out a carpet

You don't have to love rugby to watch the second half of the SA v AUS match at Ellis Park. It's worth it just to see the pain and realisation in mad Coach Rassie Erasmus' face. He's an actual lunatic

TOP NZ is looking for a leader. Been without one for 2 years. Advert sounds coyly desperate. Oddly still polling ~2%, on the basis of what? It still looks as Trojan horsey as sawdust on a moat

Succinct