"I don't think people are scared enough." Polly Hemming on how to cut through on climate messaging. Read more from Polly here: https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/251110-caution-is-killing-us

Perfume, plant sex, human gender. Can we stop boxing both flowers and ourselves into narrow imaginary spaces?

There are legends everywhere! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 #nzpol

A flower of West Australian red flowering gum tree Corymbia ficifolia (Myrtaceae), cultivated in Nelson NZ. It's about 40 mm in diameter. Stereo pairs; instructions in ALT. #bloomscrolling 🌱🇳🇿

Do WE see ourselves, YET? 🙄 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment

No, he was being blackmailed by Mussolini.

It makes me want to smash my head against the wall. The fascism is because they just really like fascism

We have a small Australian section in the garden and this week Corymbia ficifolia flowered for the first time. This was a bought one, but there are three more that I grew from seed; they'll probably all flower next year. I'm looking forward to that!

This guy must be the most brazenly, breathtakingly, horrendously openly corrupt politician in the last 100 years of Aotearoa's Parliament, and he backs that up with also being the most outrageously pompous wanker as well. Just an execrable human

“Offshore gas companies pay no royalties, which means they get the product that they’re selling for free.” – Senator Larissa Waters, Leader of the Australian Greens ✍️ Add your name to the petition calling on the government to fix our gas export laws: https://theaus.in/3LW3DIq

Wall lettuce (Mycelis muralis, Asteraceae) flower heads are like dandelions, but they have only 5 florets. Each floret is bisexual and presents its pollen before its stigma. 🇳🇿🌱 #bloomscrolling

THIS FUCKING GOVERNMENT! 🤬🤬🤬🤬 Just when you think they can't stoop to lower depths. #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/30/n...

For people with dual UK-NZ citizenship now needing a UK passport to enter the UK: the UK Passport Office received my application on Monday and approved and printed my new passport yesterday. Painless and efficient.

The workplace relations minister refusing to back a bill to address the issue of modern day slavery doesn't bode well for workplace relations

Should have added I’m planning to read @theobrominated.bsky.social book He Puāwai in winter as a cheering book. I am making a go-to list of books for the dark days to combat what is almost bound to be a dark pre-election winter in NZ politics. aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/he-puawai/

Nicky Hager says Judith Collins is “clearly and demonstrably not” fit for the Law Commission role www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Let us remember that the NZ police unlawfully raided the house of journalist Nicky Hager after Hager published a book exposing the malfeasance of Judith Collins. Police had to apologise while Collins is being appointed by Luxon to head the Law Commission. What a joke. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3505...

You too! I was delighted to see your book there.

I had to look up what the New Zealand Law Commission does. It's pretty impressive. I hope its current directions will continue, because in a world of rising fascism good lawyers are important. 👀

So not all bad then?

And here's a 3D version (stereo pair for magic eye viewing or use the viewer from my book)

Jacaranda trees (Jacaranda mimosaefolia, Bignoniaceae) have been flowering in Nelson NZ for several weeks and I took these photos today. It's just as well I did a dissection, because what I thought was the stigma isn't. Explanation in ALT. 🇳🇿🌱 #bloomscrolling

Only 1/3rd? My god the kiwi voter has their head in the waterlogged sand re Climate Change.

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

Break out the champagne everyone. One down, many more to go. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Bonkers panorama of last week's massive Tahu-nui-a-rangi #Aurora Australis Niagara Falls, Caitlins, New Zealand Nikon Z7ii 20mmS F/1.8 2sec ISO800 X5 frame panorama 21st Jan 2026, 12:30am Kp9 G3/4 geomagnetic storm #Aurora #AuroraAustralis

The president should be impeached and convicted, as should everyone responsible for these outrages. ICE should be disbanded. So should the Department of Homeland Security. And the people who have killed should be investigated and brought before judges and juries.

You mean Nigel found a date for 6 pm?

Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas l'idéologie de Peter Thiel je vous conseille de googliser. (exemples : Il déteste l'État, mais il développe pour lui des logiciels de surveillance (Palantir) contre une rémunération confortable.

Last election, climate change was barely mentioned. We cannot let the climate emergency fall by the wayside again. We know what the issues are and we have solutions for adaptation. We also need an education program to help folks recognise the warning signs #nzpol

The National-Act-NZFirst government gave the funding to landlords and no-one squeaked.

I think the All Blacks should cancel their planned game in the US.

Do you remember when John Key spent 26 million dollars trying to change the New Zealand flag. Then we have Winnie saying the $222M breakage fee was "reasonable" when breaking the iREX Ferry contract. And it costs $3M PA for WHO🤦 Please vote these loonies out #nzpol

Four-time Grammy Award nominee Jesse Welles performs his song "Join Ice." Bob Dylan once said a single folk singer could defeat an entire army. Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have our man.

NZ taxpayers spent $6M to bring Michelin stars here and only paid $3M to the WHO. Contributing to world health seems like a much better spend to me. #nzpol

Everyone on the right spent a lot of time deriding Ardern as performatively empathetic, but her government passed firearms legislation after the massacre. It created the Climate Response Emergency Fund in 2021. It saved 20,000 lives with the Covid elimination strategy.

Two former presidents felt compelled to comment publicly

A.K.A. Red tape they despise.

NZ pays about $3 million per year for WHO membership. Peters is cooker signalling - it is not about the money. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

With 5 days to go, the ADHD Inquiry petition is nearing close. It asks Parliament to initiate a Select Committee inquiry into systemic harm to people with ADHD across health, education, employment and justice, and the need for a national strategy. tinyurl.com/ADHDInquiryNZ

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The solution of course is not a simple window winder but a phone app with face recognition so that only the car’s owners can open the windows.

Yes absolutely.

I find it ironic that so many are shifting their votes from “stable” centre parties to Winston First, without apparently any critical thinking involved. Over the last 50 years, Winston has a been in cabinet decision making deliberations more than anyone else & look how far we’ve fallen. 🤷‍♀️ 🙄 #nzpol

NZ's political leaders continue to cheer on the destruction of the very international norms and institutions that have allowed small countries like NZ to have a voice in global affairs and not be completely dominated by great powers. 🤦‍♂️ #nzpol

"Unelected globalists" That's full on cooker conspiracist speak and should definitely not be coming from govt leaders. (It's also antisemitic AF.) #nzpol

Winston shows his cooker colours

I am physically incapable of taking a deep enough breath to accommodate all the swears I have about our nations current leadership. With currently about double the support NZF had at the 2023 election, if reflected in a new government their influence could be twice as strong.

This is so, so terrible. Say bye-bye to global emergency cooperation strategies with the US. We've got H5N1, measles, and Covid going hogwild, unprevented, and unsurveilled in the US with its population facing an unprecedented lack of vaccine access and DOA public health comms. Pandemic powder keg.

Reporters must ask Luxon if this is the Government's position. Seems very important to know, with an election coming up. #nzpol