I guarantee this will be the weirdest story you hear today. And you know what? It's even weirder than what is published. Take it from me...a T. rex will bite you. They make people do weird things. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Ukraine needs more air defence systems, more interceptors, and stronger international pressure on the aggressor. Saving lives requires action, not hesitation. Stand with Ukraine. Help us protect our people.

Geologist here who's worked in the NZ oil and gas industry. This is bullshit.

Beans and tomatoes are fruit too, although don’t count on the judge agreeing with a mere botanist. Radishes definitely illegal.

Don't forget to support all political cartoonists. Wherever you find them - share & check to see if they're on the platform you're promoting. We're not going down without a fight. #PoliticalCartoonists Only started this list - more to be added! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ bsky.app/profile/did:...

📢 New paper alert! 📢 We found that sex-specific loss, rather than independent evolution, drive plumage pattern dimorphism in Estrildidae, with João Pacheco, Gonçalo Cardoso @mostlywaxbills.bsky.social , and Michael Sorenson, at Evolution academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... (1/7)

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

Homer Simpson: So far.

Woke this morning to bird song, then remembered the avian flu. Hope our feathered friends will be OK. My #cartoon today #AvianFlu #BirdFlu

"In first place on the rankings, the US ... is responsible for the largest share of historical emissions, Carbon Brief analysis shows, with some 20% of the global total." www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-whi... How about some sovereign responsibility on the cause-of-fire front too?

Every snowflake in an avalanche thinks its own contribution to be "too small to matter". And thus, here we are.

Zeno ain't got nothing on this. How do you solve the climate crisis? Slice emissions into parts small enough that each one "won't materially influence" anything. Jackdaw is 0.02%, so it doesn't count. Run that logic on every source and the whole crisis politely disappears.

so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."

Scarborough to Spineless Speaker Johnson: “I’m not gonna mock you, Mike, I’m just gonna call you a liar. Because that’s what you are. You know EXACTLY what happened in Maine.” #AbolishICE

The Greens eating Labour's lunch here www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

EV owners, I love y'all & agree everyone should have an EV, but when the vast majority of Kiwis are struggling to get kids to after school events due to the cost of fuel, dial back the smugness. Like looking down on plains folk in floods going 'why didn't you buy an expensive hill property'.

News just in: H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) has arrived in NZ. www.beehive.govt.nz/release/h5-b... We encourage you to look out for groups of sick/dead birds and report these to the MPI hotline ☎️ 0800 80 99 66. To keep safe and support detection: www.mpi.govt.nz/biosecurity-...

BBC News - UK wasted £10bn on PPE that left NHS staff poorly protected, Covid inquiry finds www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Ten BILLION pounds of taxpayer money wasted and trousered by Johnson's chums! Why isnt he in prison? We need to remember how corrupt the Tories were. Farage would be worse.

The natural history collections at the University of Texas, holding maybe 5 million specimens, is partly closed down because our buildings are falling apart and UT is doing the bare minimum of life support. We could fix it for 1/5th the price of a vanity purchase of a single dinosaur specimen.

Can we please quit with the oversized 'try AI!' popups on scientific papers that take up readable space? This popup on @newphyt.bsky.social doesn't even have a way to shrink it so I have to give up the bottom couple of inches on my screen.

Reason # n+1 to go the other way.

And they said this guy was a joke candidate!

in a world of Lindsey Grahams, be a Sam Neill

We owe it to Sam to continue to fight for the protection of Central Otago from the mining vultures that NZ First starring Shame Jones is desperate to hand over to. Let’s make that a thing in the name of our own #SamNeill ✊

Vale Sam Neill, New Zealand's top movie scientist and by all accounts a lovely man. Genuinely bereft - he was one of the best of us.

it's so hard to predict the outcomes of parenting, so generally good to not be too self-congratulatory, but the sole exception is reading. if it takes a pair of pliers to get a book out of your kid's hands, you get to self-congratulate all you want. we deserve this

I have a modest proposal. Companies required to recall a product (eg supermarkets) who have decided to keep track of precisely who purchased what (via loyalty card) should be legally obliged to reach out and contact those specific people and offer them full returns and refunds. You wanted that data?

This is absolutely terrifying The Nino 3.4 forecast temperature anomaly mean is now at 4C, when even the biggest historical super ninos have seen less than 3C I really have no idea what this is going to bring over the next 12 months, but it will be very, very, grim

My post based on a recent talk at the reality of everything symposium open.substack.com/pub/mikejoy2...

Let's take this bit at a time. The editor of The Spectator, defender of the working class, and protector against immigrants is privately educated former Tory minister Baron Gove of Torry, formerly in relationships with an American, another American, and then a woman raised in Rome. 1/

I’m late to the party but this is such a cool paper. Most mosses have several archegonia that each make an egg, but typically only one forms a sporophyte even though it seems like multiple eggs could be fertilized. This points to a possible mechanism to suppress the growth of all but one offspring

This report is damning and hasn't really had the media coverage it deserves. It was a cock-up right from the start. The politician involved is the cockiest prick we have in Parliament and I sincerely hope he and his vile party are voted OUT! #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/politics/30-...

IMO not just Europe, everywhere. #NZ too. Not necessarily because the place is falling around your ears, but as a reminder of why safeguards matter so that you don’t get to that point. #NZpol

NZFirst is what happens if Reform UK & MAGA USA had a baby. 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇳🇿 “Cooker, racist, xenophobic, christofascist bigots, Superkalefragelisticexpielodocious please make sure you vote them out to make sure that we end this, and send the clownshow packing with a science book & virus” 🎤🎶❌🙅‍♀️ #nzpol #NZ

Thank fuck we've finally found out what he's been doing all year #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

Also, I feel it is time to stop referring to Nigel Farage using the French pronunciation of his name (to rhyme with mirage) and instead go with the New Zild pronunciation to rhyme with garage. As in Farridge.

In the olden days if a bloke didn’t want to mow the lawn, he’d pay a local teenager to do it. The money stayed in the economy because they’d spend it locally on rock and roll records and cigarettes. Nowadays you buy a robot from China and send the money overseas. Progress, I suppose.

the first photo was taken before the reforms of the 4th labour govt. the 2nd photo shows an outcome of the reforms of the 4th labour govt

After the successful opening night of the @winterstellar.bsky.social Central Otago Dark Sky Reserve Project in Alex, driving north I had to stop just before Chatto Creek as there was a break in the clouds & Tahu-nui-ā-Raki Aurora Australis revelled itself. winterstellar.com/central-otag...

The whole fucking network is down, but yes okay I will try restarting my router on the off chance the first step in the Consumer Helpdesk Flowchart somehow fixes a digger with a mouthful of fiberoptic cable

🧵If you have a little time, the backstory to Farage and his fixer/surrogate son/funder "Posh George" Cottrell is absolutely wild. First, Gabriel Pogrund of the Sunday Times' Insight team explaining it all to Emily Maitlis. youtu.be/EJE2te_VFI0?...

As a renter this means a lot. I am also keen on the community batteries as I have been saying this kind of idea should be implemented. This is a win-win and is far superior to National’s offering. Well done @chrishipkins.bsky.social & #NZLabour #nzpol www.labour.org.nz/solarsaver?f...

NEW - Greens won’t stand in Clacton. So it is Nigel Farage versus Count Binface.

This is so cooked. Hard right ideology dictates that those on the waiting list for a state house can't move into the state houses that were built for them because they are state houses. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Game on, Nige.

The dream match-up is Farage vs Count Binface – and no one else. (The UK Greens need to read the memo and say they won't stand.)

🧪 (drat)

#Climatechange is bringing major emergencies in #NZ & around the World every other week. The costs of not taking #climateaction are HUGE in lives & infrastructure! #PartyVoteGreen ✅+💚❤️🖤 Pay LESS tax,+FREE GP,Dentist & Childcare. They’ve got my vote(s)‼️#nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/weather-l...