This is a terribly sad and twisted story of abuse and murder… kudos to the police for some very clever investigations to find the responsibles www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a...

Mike Smith "This is not just about climate change anymore. This is about whether billion-dollar corporations can use their political access to shut down legal challenges they do not want to answer." #nzpol

I’m starting some work on the nature and structure of fisheries access agreements, and while my angle is from an operational perspective, there is so much more to it than rich country A paying poor country B to fish in their waters. www.franciscoblaha.info/blog/2026/5/...

End of a day fixing bikes for our fellow islanders here at the Waiheke BikeHub… today the speakers have been feasting on instrumentals of the Wu Tang Clan ✊🏽

Mince was already at 30$ a kg… 🤯 I wonder if there anything you can cook with 8 lt of diesel as the main ingredient 🙄 www.thepress.co.nz/business/361...

Adopting legislation to further marginalise the 0.7% of NZelanders that identify as trans, arbitrarily deciding that 1% of the population is the right size of public service, legislating that size of font of English words should be bigger than Māori, and so on Is this really what the majority voted?

Data from the 2023 Census shows that an estimated (0.7%) of New Zealand's usually resident adult population (aged +15) identifies as transgender. Inland Revenue (IRD) data indicates that more than 15% of taxpayers engage in tax evasion. Guess who is the focus of the present legislative reform?

Because we don’t have enough problems in the country… emigration, unemployment, health, education, treaty issues, etc so how come this is a priority? Surely as consequential as legalising English 🙄 www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Satisfactions of my other job as the Waiheke Community BikeHub Mechanic (and data nurd)

This is just so fucked up… if a real and true picture, either Luxon and the upper cast distance themselves openly from this shite or this is their kiss of death

Governance in New Zealand is becoming a farce. Theoretically, democracy offers government ‘of the people, by the people, for the people.’ Under this coalition Government, it’s government ‘of the corporation, by the corporation, for the corporation.’ Dame Anne Salmond newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/16/a...

The good people of @SeafoodSource asked me to reproduce my earlier blog on the impacts of the present fuel crisis on the Pacific tuna sector into an Op-Ed for them… as usually the biggest impacts of any war are on the people who least need it www.seafoodsource.com/news/supply-...

Landlords are only necessary if you build your housing system around generating profit (just read that and is so true) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/do...

I'm 61… I was in the same protests already in 1987… when we thought the the cuts where asphixiating to free education and critical thinking. Can't imagine how bad things are now 😔

I’m not a meetings-type person, and while I cherish my operational and research work, it's in meetings like this one where decisions are made, and being able to provide feedback on the research basis and the potential implementation implications of those decisions is helpful to the RMI delegation.

Absolute cowards… either you push for policies that align with your views of minimising impacts and emissions, or you go into status quo and denial. But this is not even fence sitting! Is just not accepting any accountability for your actions www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

So the government basically just slapped a surprise $12,000 tax on every family with a tertiary student in it? Laser-focused on what now?

The legal framework, as Arron N. Honniball demonstrates, can accommodate robust action. Whether the political will and the technical capacity exist to use it — that remains the harder question, and one that no PhD thesis can answer for us. www.franciscoblaha.info/blog/2026/5/...

Pleased that most of the people I work in the pacific are welcomed this way to a week of meetings discussing the many aspects of our shared tuna fisheries at Te Papa… is reassuring to emphasise that (at least in principle) we are a pacific islands bicultural country

Open decks night at Moon, my favourite bar in Wellington (and nearby the Mediterranean Food Store - my favourite restaurant)… love the spots

Global seafood systems are energy systems first. Fisheries are discussed in terms of sustainability, management, quotas, labour standards, traceability, and so on. All of it is definitely important… but fuel prices underlie it all. www.franciscoblaha.info/blog/2026/5/...

Invest in your people! What kind of pathetic ideologically driven bunch this crew are

New Zealand is considered the top country in terms of vessels per capita, with the highest density of recreational boats. So what the government does? 🤬 www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

In NZ, we are fortunate to be able to fish for fun and recreation without paying a licence, have access to a commercial QMS, and practise legislated customary fishing. We have so much in our favour, yet we are wasting our time pointing fingers at each other. www.franciscoblaha.info/blog/2026/5/...

David Seymour's comments about not trying to influence RNZ's staffing decisions are slightly undermined by his comments about trying to influence RNZ's staffing decisions

While true for Maui and Hector's dolphins, it is factually incorrect to state that Aotearoa NZ's fishing fleet is the primary driver in the decline of Antipodean albatross. From the 2024 Antipodean albatross multi-threat risk assessment: fs.fish.govt.nz/Doc/25627/AE...

To migrate I had to prove every aspect of my education, work history, health, birth and family history just to have the same rights of the worst offender in a NZ jail that happen to be born here. What exam did the grand parents of those proposing this test had to pass? www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

New Zealand politics in a nutshell #nzpol

You know, when I hear "kiwi values", I think of this image, showing Micky Savage helping the first state house tenants move into the first state house. If that's the test David Seymour is talking about I'm all for it.

MFAT confirms Singapore NZ deal does not commit Singapore to supplying NZ with fuel Despite this Luxon and National are still inferring it does Because deception is the way of victory for the right

With EM, the resource is not just the fish. It is also the data about the fish. And data, unlike fish, accumulates and compounds. It becomes more valuable the more of it you have. www.franciscoblaha.info/blog/2026/5/...

🧵My take here is that the coalition government has decided to abolish the BSA because it has advice that the authority's assertion that the Broadcasting Act gives it jurisdiction over online broadcasting is well-founded and would prevail in a court. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

To help us visualize the new European Centre El Niño forecast I added a little color and category. The average of the ensemble members is ~ +3C sea surface temperature anomaly in the Pacific El Niño region. That means the average for late 2026 is as high or higher than the any recorded El Niño! 1/

Today's soundtrack for working on a proposal kurup.bandcamp.com/album/shika-...

'El pez cantante' 🎨 1972 Joan Miró 👨🏻‍🎨

Great surprise in life layover in Honolulu on the way back home and by chance the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra is performing at my favourite museum (the Bishop Museum) Terry Riley’s “In C”, perhaps one of the most avant garde contemporary classic pieces ever made. ❤️ it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_C?wp...

1) In been in NZ for 31 years… had to prove every aspect of my life…from health requirements to the translated syllabus of all my degrees, to certificates of every job I ever had and so on…just to have the same rights of the worst ofender born here deservingly in jail www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

2 May “World Tuns Day” forever thankful to the fish that reshaped my life for the better.

I can think of 10000 priorities we have in NZ that we could better use the money such mission will cost www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/593...

🙄 www.rnz.co.nz/news/communi...

Just been fair in between what government spend in car and bike infrastructure would be a massive steep ahead! (just a 10% would make such a difference… example: the anual budget of the bike hub I work with is the equivalent of less than 1m of road resurfacing) www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Should not be a surprise that Luxton will obviously align into the christian “crusader” type talk of the some of the dept of Defence/War nutter heads… (besides being a crusaders’ fan since he was “a child” 🙄) www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

As usual these types of governments curses any socialist type initiatives for the proletariat… yet if they apply to corporations, is all good to do it and withhold the info from the public

Islands life (in Majuro, Marshall Islands 🇲🇭

Low riding in Majuro… amazing how many more bikes are out and about, now that petrol is being rationed. It used to be only me (and the chasing dogs)

The commute to work is killing me 🙄 Majuro, Marshall Islands 🇲🇭

What the fu*k What kind of a person does a hit and run in any case…. But on a child on a bike? Really??? www.rnz.co.nz/news/emergen...

"Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it" Or till the background is the street you grew up in. Hits home.