You know that feeling when you're struggling to stay awake? #kakapo chicks Tiwhiri-A3 and Tiwhiri-A4 in Tiwhiri's nest on Pukenui/Anchor Island. Both around two weeks old, and doing well. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots
A $2.9 billion tax cut to landlords.
A female kΔkΔpΕ looking out of a nest, with one small chick showing. Credit: Andrew Digby
Female #kakapo Kohengi on her nest with a newly-hatched chick and an egg (unseen). We removed the egg from underneath her and gave it to another female (Phoenix) who had infertile eggs. We're trying to ensure each female on Anchor Island has 1-2 fertile eggs to hatch. #kakapo2026 #conservation
A country surrounded by the ocean, with active geothermal zones, buffeted by winds and basking in sunshine should not be relying on tanker loads of oil, gas and coal shipped half way across the world to run its energy network.
NZ Herald, Shayne Currie: "Bowker is not a big fan of Stuff, and in that respect, his move has been a masterstroke. It has meant Stuff has faced a costly dilemma: either move out in mid-2027 when the building lease expires β a huge cost, in that Bowker earlier said that Stuff is required to remove its printing press equipment and return the building to its original state β or agree to what is likely to be a substantially higher rent."
I personally view a businessman buying a newspaper's building & kicking them out, basically forcing them into a deal with their competitor, all because they rightly reported on him being so racist he had to leave the Hurricanes, as "concerning" but NZME's Shayne Currie calls it a "masterstroke".
Totally not of this government's making... #nzpol
The Government is currently negotiating an Enhanced Border Security Partnership with the US Department of Homeland Security that would grant US agencies, including ICE, automated, direct access to New Zealanders' biometric data and identity records.
Another banger from LoadingReadyRun's weekly sketch mines!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=reGB...
This machine kills fascists.
Give me strength how could anyone possibly want more of this government? The things I value are not even on their radar!
Environment
Health
Education
Te Tiriti partnership
Empathy
Integrity
Respect
Equity
#NZpol
ONE BILLION DOLLARS.
IT WAS THE ADDITIONAL ONE BILLION THAT MADE THEM STOP THE DUNEDIN HOSPITAL AND IREX.
No money for hospitals or the ferries, money to prop up fossil fuels.
A picture of a couple of cockatiels wearing a tiara and one of those Russian hats, respectively
A panting of one of those horrible Labubu things attacking a snowy Bob Ross cabin
Two separate paintings of a dog wearing headphones and a cat eating spaghetti
A poster of a greyhound wearing an LGBTQ flag with the caption βGayhoundβ
Investors, I get the feeling that the free AI money isnβt going to be around a lot longer so please give as much of it as possible to me. I need money more than OpenAI does and I promise not to use it on an AI project
Instead Iβll just do more of this sort of thing
IT'S FEBRUARY 2026.
THE RAIL ENABLED HYUNDAI FERRIES FOR I REX WERE MEANT TO ARRIVE BY NOW.
Instead we have no rail enabled ferries, the two we have are clunky as fuck, and there will be no replacement ferries until 2029 at the earliest.
oh you mean NZ citizen Peter Thiel who NZ's entire media is just refusing to report on effectively, if at all, these last 2 weeks?
Whatβs actually βembarrassingβ is NZ pimping vanadium as a critical mineral to the US when TTRβs been clear it wouldnβt be extracting the vanadium (it actually canβt do it whoops), wld sell it to China to strengthen steel.
This industry spin is pure greenwash.
#nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
It's $36m a year, for goodness sake. The cost to taxpayers in 2023-24 from storm damage *in TairΔwhiti alone* was nearly half a billion. Yet the same govt throws tens of billions at mega-roads because they're very important for the economy. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
chainsawsuit comic. a doctor speaks to his patient panel 1: you have stage 4 cancer which is incredible news, for the cancer panel 2: tumors fuel growth and innovation. cancer is all about moving fast and breaking things like, what it we stopper getting in its way! panel 3: who are we to say we know better about cancer's business? i'm just an oncologist
this is about billionaires
If a union affiliated with NZ Labour (or the CTU, which National and ACT lie about being Labour affiliates) was hosting a high-profile Epstein associate on a speaking tour of NZ it would be the only story for weeks
Remember their reaction to Benjamin Doyle having a slightly naughty Instagram handle
You can boycott the current administration and work with future ones. NZ failed to take a stand on South Africa and it ended with the Olympics Boycott of 76. We still work with South Africa today. This editorial is appeasement pandering to a fascist regime and denies reality in favour of comfort.
So how does Darren Aronofskyβs AI dross differ from any random assholeβs AI dross exactly
We had a $6B climate resilience fund and Nationals squandered it all on tax cuts for their mates so now we get boxes of KFC after weather events instead of properly funded supports and help.
Yay for us I guess??
I'm still mad about this - see the full list of cut projects from the money taken from climate polluters, which would help adaptation and mitigation efforts of the recent weather events, including $900M from the Emergency Response Fund - now frittered away.
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
A kΔkΔpΕ egg being candled. Credit: Andrew Digby
Working with #kakapo, this is the best thing you'll ever see. When "candling" an egg you hold your breath, hoping to see this: beautiful embryo development in a fertile egg. This is Tiwhiri's second egg, about 8 days old. About half of eggs are infertile. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds
RNZ *again* printing extremist PR verbatim without sufficient critique or analysis
Nor a response from opposition or health professionals or NGOs
Nor in an environment where they're promoting, or even reporting, on legitimate health crises or issues
This is a choice
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Look, as always, I don't want to pretend journalism is easy, but surely it is *weird* for both of RNZ's articles on this to offer no neutral summary about the work WHO does, the "original mandate" of the organisation, any kind of factual context
It's just the perspectives of various dudes
Demanding that we stop talking about climate change while climate disasters are killing people is the actual politicization, actually
Regulation of AI and platforms helps counter mistrust and misinformation. Without it, the reflex when seeing real footage is "it's AI". An important overview of what happened online over the last few days:
thespinoff.co.nz/society/26-0...
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
Also sorry, that's horrible to be surprised with that sort of thing.
A screenshot of an Android phones settings app, in the notifications menu.
In theory you should be able to check in settings which app is generating the notifications and turn them off. Something like notification history here.
