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It ain't going away, no it ain't going away....

My hobbies include smoking marijuana and hunting with my dog (A guy holding a shotgun next to his cat, and a pile of cucumbers)

From above everything looks grey or black. Smoke is seen rising from building ga at the top of the photo. In the foreground many buildings have collapsed entirely. Photo credit to Heidi Levine taken for the Washington Post.

Photo of the Day.

Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops.

This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people.

Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.

Hot tip - if you tune into a show half way through, you can slide the timeline bar thingy back to the start and still hear the whole show. 🤘🏼
#6music

Photo of a sketch of a Neanderthal. The headline reads: Scientists Growing Neanderthal 'Minibrains', Will Connect Them to Crab Robots

Go for it. I don't even care any more.

Yeah really odd. You'd think that if they have consent, any other sub projects within it, or add-ons that need consent wouldn't be significant enough to warrant a fast track. Interesting.

The quiet campaign: Inside the freedom movement’s bid for council influence Voices for Freedom and like-minded groups are campaigning for council seats, changing their rhetoric from the pandemic to potholes.

Once again, a number of Voices for Freedom affiliated candidates are running for local government, this time they are hiding their more conspiratorial views and focusing on bland populist issues like rates and road cones

www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

Please enjoy this turtle being given the gift of speed, and immediately using it to chase a kitty

Yeah, glimmers of hope there. In the one project I know about the panel was surprisingly diverse & seems quite conscientious. Will be interesting to see if it makes a difference to the outcomes.

Admittedly, if you're a dodgy multi national wanting to do something contentious & you've got $250k to spend on a consent & want to avoid spending years in the environment court, the fast track process will work for you. But that's actually not most developers.

Progress stalls on ‘fast-tracked’ North Canterbury projects | The Press share.google/B9CRJDzbVMmi...

So it turns out that the 'fast-track' to getting projects consented isn't so fast after all.

This is backed up by a planner I know who's been working flat out on a fast track application for months & reckons it would have been consented by now under the usual RMA process.
#nzpol

I applaud this post.

But also, aren't elephants among the most wonderful things on the planet? Look at the size of its ears 🤗❤️🥰
Absolutely amazing that we get to share our planet with creatures like this. It will never fail to amaze me that they are here & we get to know about them. ❤️🐘🌏🥹

A very good long piece on AoNZ & climate which details why (among other things) the oil & gas reversal is utterly batshit on so many levels including economic ones. As these decisions become more obviously irrational, the justifications are becoming equally insane.

drilled.media/news/new-zea...

Come on, "Royale with Breeze" was right there.

Topical.
#kikorangi

Reposting for the benefit of all the people, none of whom are on this app, who didn't believe me when I told them that a Meyer lemon isn't a true lemon.
In your face 😈

I just heard of Joanna Macy‘s passing. I hope people take some time to learn about her work and the amazing example that she set for what it means to be an activist who really really does the work of building long-term movements. We owe a lot to her input into the conversation.

RIP. ❤️🌱🙏🏼
Joanna Macy made my heart bigger. Both in its capacity to care & capacity to grieve.

“Active Hope is not wishful thinking.
Active Hope is not waiting to be rescued
by the Lone Ranger or by some savior.
Active Hope is waking up to the beauty of life
on whose behalf we can act."

— Joanna Macy (May 2, 1929 – July 19, 2025)

Any billionaire that cared about climate change would cease, immediately, to be a billionaire.

Dude from Infometrics on the radio basically saying that $10 for a block of butter is good for the economy & will make us all better off in the long run.

Funny how paying farmers well is a good thing but fair pay for women apparently had no value.
#nzpol

We're cracking down on councils because we've got your back. We want councils focusing on roads water & rubbish not woke nonsense like fancy toilets & excessive bike lanes.

Ol' mate grab-a-seat cutting through that woke nonsense like toilets.
#nzpol

A great thing about ebikes is that they turn non-cyclists into cyclists.

The Morning Show on Apple TV is bloody good eh.

Shakespeare walks into a gay bar, then realizes he has somewhere else he needs to be.

::Exeunt, pursued by a bear::

EVERYone has skills to bring to the resistance. 🧶

What’s yours?

the perfect post doesnt exi-

Nick Smith, David Seymour & Mark Mitchell posing for a photo op, with big smiles following the massive floods in Tasman. This is who has come to help.

'Governments aren't going to rescue us in the face of climate change'.

Yup. ⬇️🫣
#nzpol
#theweather

Ray Chung stays in Wellington mayoral race amid criticism over lewd email Councillor Ray Chung has confirmed he will stay in the race for Wellington’s mayor, after his lewd email about Mayor Tory Whanau hit the headlines.

The demographic trouble is "crank uncle who believes whatever bullshit he's told and is perpetually bewildered, and it's always someone else's fault" is now something like 20% of the electorate www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...