I put a bit of ground cardamom and mānuka honey in my kawakawa tea and it is DELIGHTFUL.

I'm visiting Tāmaki Auckland. Three goals: help a business plan emerge for Wikipedia Aotearoa, write a poem with lyrics from approx 37 Prince songs, & celebrate my mates birthday at a jazz, funk, latin gig.

Billionaires are looting the world. We're not in a recession, we're in a robbery. #TaxTheRich

#dailydrawing & a snippet of a poetry prompt. "linesmen appear to converge to vanishing poison off to the left and right" I'm testing converging my writing and drawing notebooks.

I love art

Birdle 🇳🇿 28/12/2025 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 birdle.nz

Glenda Leon, contemporary Cuban conceptual artist who works with video and installation #womensart #ChristmasEve

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

Always nice to get a scientific poll to remind us that TalkBack radio and the Facebook comment section are not actually representative of public opinion www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/pub...

Want to see billionaire brainwashing in action? Seven out of ten Brits are big fans of renewable energy and want to see lots more of it. But they think the majority of people DON’T support it. That disconnect isn’t an accident. 🧵

Get amongst it people, this is wonderful #kikorangi

Toroa: Skycall: Mahi tika ana to the Atawhai team, this is a truly special experience that felt spiritual especially as someone who has been on a journey to discover my Whakapapa over the years

SOON, IT MAY BE ILLEGAL TO HAVE A… ZINE Daniel “Des” Sanchez is facing *federal charges* for “transporting a box that contained ‘Antifa materials’”: theintercept.com/2025/11/23/p... So whatever you do, don’t download and distribute these: drive.google.com/drive/mobile...

Unpopular Opinion? Our roadways should be designed with built in safety features for pedestrians and cyclists first because pedestrians and cyclists aren't protected by a 1800kg metal cage with seatbelts, airbags, and crumple zones. #visionzero #winnipeg #roadwaysafety

Non-kiwis! Thanks to our right-wing govt crashing the NZ dollar, your money pisses off 1.5-2x as many transphobes as a year ago. Isn't that lovely? #ttrpg #indierpg #silverlining #transrights

Wikimedia Australia recently made a submission to the Senate inquiry into the Copyright Amendment Bill 2025, strongly supporting the introduction of an orphan works scheme and modernised remote learning provisions. 👉 Read our statement: wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikimed...

Kia Ora koutou - Taking a chance that you’ll see this. We’re doing our annual Xmas fundraiser and we need around $8000 so if you could pop $ in, + share, that would help greatly Jackie x givealittle.co.nz/cause/the-au...

The blackbird nest outside the home office window has 3 or 4 new eggs after the last three babies grew up and flew away. So that is something joyful.

UK ceramic artist Marie Prett specialises in figurative and carnivalesque sculptures #WomensArt

Painting by singer Joni Mitchell "40 below 0" Nice❣️ #BlueSkyArt #Painting #Landscape #JoniMitchell

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

Ardern and Shaw, willfully or no, were taken for a ride by National and Fed Farmers on climate change. Nats/Feds delayed climate action with false promise of seeking 'consensus'. As soon as they had the power they ditched He Waka Eke Noa and 'Zero Carbon Act'. Don't get fooled again.

Mikaela Bartlett, UK #artist who works in needle felt and sculpts creatures out of natural/dyed sheep and alpaca wool #WomensArt

If there's one thing I learned in my brief career as a lobbyist, it's that the most important things in any approach are persistence and diversity: You've gotta keep pressing MPs and Ministers, and you've gotta do it through as many different avenues as you can. #NZPOL

We had a small but productive group in Bramblers on Saturday. Here's a 🧵 of what we got up to - creating and improving #Wikipedia articles on #Perth women #PerthScotland

🤬❓Don’t know what to do with your rage and sense of injustice when our government is in active denial of the climate crisis? Take action! 💥 Carnival for Change www.facebook.com/share/1A76zD... 💚 Join CLA! climateliberationaotearoa.org/join/ 🙌 Donate climateliberationaotearoa.org/donate-2/

"Your intention is noted, but your data is incorrect" Boundaries We will not Unity

Reflection and action. Reflection and action. Reflection and motivation and action. Value judgements, moments in motion, and where are all the histories?

"If farmers aren't going to feed us, we have no reason to permit their industry to exist - and certainly no reason to continue to subsidise them with free water and free pollution and free emissions." Yeah, too right!!!

You just died. The sixth picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.

The first full ten-year assessment of Brexit’s impact has arrived. The verdict is stark: no benefits, huge costs, and a self-inflicted economic slowdown. eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...

E kai kaka ka ki a Kākā Emerging collage

Oh wow less than a month until Christmas, huh, wonder if anyone needs a recommendation for a really cool, fun, bright, informative, slightly geeky but very accessible, yes my partner wrote it that's how I know it's good, book that would make an excellent gift?

"Locals keep having different ideas and opinions than the government, and it is really getting in the way of localism."

"But as the chaos of the day settled into my blood, something else rose to the surface. This wasn’t just another maggot. It was a mirror — held up to a system where the people with the purse strings, the contracts, the procurement decisions, the legislative pens — are not holding our children."

Wikimedians from across East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific will be gathering in Kaohsiung, Taiwan from 15 to 17 May for the 2026 ESEAP Conference. Scholarship applications and program submissions for the conference are currently open — get the details below 🔽 www.wikimedia.nz/eseap-2026-s...

A gorgeous Tuatara lizard at Wellington’s #Zealandia exclosure.

EXPECT MORE Too many people act like decline is inevitable. It is not. Expect more from our institutions, including honesty and transparency. Expect more from our democracy, with real checks and balances. Expect more from our economy, with fair wages and support that lets families breathe. 🧵1/3

I fucking HATE "Wellington Bays" Bring back Rongotai.

Good to see some reporting on this. Spread it far and wide, folks. www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-...

Yeah obviously duh Enrich our society rather than shit on kids and hāpori: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/pr...

The current govt just removed a lifesaving medical treatment from a minority class of people in breach of NZBORA, that is a big deal.

Yep. If the government restrict abortion rights or access to contraception will Labour leave it to individual women MPs to speak out? We are watching the Labour leadership fail very badly rn and can have no faith they’ll stand up for healthcare rights.

Fantastic! I absolute adore cats but recognise feral cats have a significant impact on the survival of our endemic species. So pleased action is being taken. Next up ... invasive wasps!

Its always the Women leaders in Labour who do any substantive progressive change while the cis white men, Cunliffe, Little, Hipkins get to play it safe through milquetoast centrism even though their privilege will make it so they wouldn't suffer attacks as severe as Helen or Jacinda received. #nzpol

Wikimedia Commons provides the internet with 117 million freely usable images — and your photos could be there too. If you're near Ashburton, join our Wikipedian at Large Dr Mike Dickison (@adzebill.bsky.social) for a free workshop. 10am–4pm, Sun 23 Nov @ Ashburton Art Gallery Please register ⬇️

New Zealand kills twice as many workers as Australia and four times as many as the U.K. per capita. Despite the introduction of WorkSafe in 2013, we’re seeing issues with weak enforcement, inadequate fines, and a Workplace Relations and Safety Minister hellbent on taking us backwards.