Jakob | TheLoyalOrder

It's taken a while but I've finished my profiles of every NZ electorate ahead of the 2026 election. Enjoy. theprogressreport.co.nz/electorates

are some of the polling places not mapped? I couldn't find where the hastings sports centre pin is, its not where it is irl

its the only missing one from the Greater Wellington cities

anyone live/able to visit #UpperHutt Civic Centre and take a photo/write down what the blazon on the letters patent for the cities coat of arms is? council website says they have it on display there on level 2

want to be able to make a public domain version for #wikipedia

yes I know there was a previously existing ACC that was merged into the current council but no reason they couldn't also be called that

its dumb that Auckland Council isn't Auckland City Council

#nzpol

Horse of the Year cancelled - Hawkes Bay Today News - NZ Herald

📢 'This is a devastating blow for our equestrian community.'

Orca pod freed from Napier estuary after stranding fears

📢 People were warned not to swim with the orca or come closer than 50m.

The Fame

how have I never heard the title track to Lady Gaga's The Fame - so good!
open.spotify.com/track/3HhAZV...

so much game didnt even run any candidates in the local elections or have a leader for like 2.5 years

crazy that people are responding to that post being "Well all we have to do is look harder, see i noticed x, y, z" and its like yeah but this time last year x, y, z where that the photo made no sense and now its oh this shadow is slightly the wrong angle

I meant the boundary line that perpendicularly bisects the line of blue voters

Is the long diagonal line in the middle of the state a remnant of anything or just random happenstance?

Gwendoline Christie?

Christchurch has 60% of the population of Canterbury but something tells me that their one mayor isnt gonna have that equivalent vote share vs 9 other mayors
#nzpol

im pro-amalgamation, but this is just not the way to go about it
something tells me the govt will use the fact that mayors werent elected to do this to exert more control when inevitably their priorities are elsewhere

im sure Wairoa and Central HB will be glad that their mayors will now have to travel to Napier rather than focusing on their districts, but localism is very important to this govt obvs

mayors weren't elected to do what the govt is proposing, insane not to announce this like 6 months ago

#nzpol

what do you mean a majority of democrats think aliens have visited earth???

Map showing boundaries of regional councils of New Zealand since 1 January 2019 CC BY 4.0 TheLoyalOrder | Boundaries CC BY 4.0 Stats NZ

Map of regional council areas (1/1/2019-present)

reform in local govt is needed but just getting rid of regional councils seems like the worst way of doing that

more stuff should be organised at the regional level, there's too many local councils it makes no sense that hawke's bay has 5 councils for example

#nzpol

everyone i dont like is maximally bad in every conceivable way, obviously

reforming local govt with less than a year to a general election—one in which you are not guaranteed to win—is just insane. shit takes time. also weird to wait to after this terms local elections, for a "fiscally conservative" govt you'd think they want to do it before hand to avoid the costs
#nzpol

who knows, they might take away regional councils and not even divy out the powers RC have

> I know Andrew Little didn’t run as a Labour candidate but was backed by Labour

actually he was a ticket Labour candidate, fully endorsed, on the ballot "Labour"

Should have just gone with "TOP" like ACT dropped their name being an acronym

Shout out to Aotearoa New Zealand editor Shaun, whose first Featured Article is currently pride of place on Wikipedia's home page 👏

Alicella gigantea is an amphipod found at ocean depths between 4,850 and 7,000 metres, making it hard to find — but information on it isn’t: w.wiki/Ejmj

He's literally the Pope?????

at some point it seems all the social media sites i use went from posts with the vibe of "im posting to the internet" to "im posting to my special friend group" even though the actual interaction between poster and reader didnt change, just parasociality with people you dont know

Bayden Barber - Wikipedia

Link to the article
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayden_...

Barber is the current chair of Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi Inc and a former Hastings district councillor

Screenshot of Wikipedia's Did you know section on 15 November 2025 Did you know ... Bayden Barber Bayden Barber ... that Bayden Barber (pictured), the chair of Ngāti Kahungunu, has supported establishing a parliament for Māori? ... that The London Standard described the lyrics in a Taylor Swift song as "a car crash of outdated millennial cringe"? ... that Xavian Stapleton was given a list of 55 schools to which he was not allowed to transfer? ... that the Kaman-Kalehöyük Archaeological Museum, opened in 2010 and styled as a mound covered by natural grass, received the US-based "Best Green Museum" award? ... that Theo Waimuri's bid for the General Elections Commission caused three lawmakers to walk out of his assessment hearing? ... that the region of Inazuma was used to allay concerns that Genshin Impact imitated The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild? ... that, after a policeman held up traffic to let a mother cat cross a street, Harry Warnecke staged a re-enactment of the moment for a photograph? ... that some Japanese railway companies have their own character mascots? ... that the voice of the UK X Factor has narrated 30,000 adverts? Archive Start a new article Nominate an article

Article I wrote on Bayden Barber featured on the front page of #Wikipedia today in the Did you know? section

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