Jolisa Gracewood

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In lighter news: enjoy this beautiful, buzzy video by Dropper of the first single from their new album – filmed in and featuring a Wellington architectural icon and an iconic Auckland venue: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr1a...

(PS that's my kid on bass/ in the thumbnail pic 🥰) #nzmusic

Well said - these risks aren’t theoretical, they’re real and already being experienced here.

Music section at Farmers Department Store, Auckland, 1970s

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Oh, I love these connections! While also acknowledging the grievous loss of Otis; so untimely and so unfair. 💔

An updated list. Some I missed, some have released statements since I released the original list.

Medical orgs in support of the ban remains at 0.

Aw, yay! Excellent energy, eh?

A small pohutukawa trees in full red flower stands out against a dark Grey thundercloud sky.

Pohutukawa stands up to approaching thunderstorm.

YouTube video by Dropper Dropper - Anchor (Official Visualiser)

In lighter news: enjoy this beautiful, buzzy video by Dropper of the first single from their new album – filmed in and featuring a Wellington architectural icon and an iconic Auckland venue: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr1a...

(PS that's my kid on bass/ in the thumbnail pic 🥰) #nzmusic

Just what #NewZealand needed Chivalrous criminals

"Why Sir this iPhone is 3 generations old, and I am supposed to be the scoundrel!"

An extra 2 years of the thief comments on the age and appearance of the phone they are robbing

When your country's collective ability to bullshit on the internet is extensive enough to shape AI slop.

Coalition ministers have been warned not to do a lot of things and have pushed on regardless. It's a feature of their government.
But this particular issue has come back to bite them in an embarrassingly public way.
They might run in revanchist racist circles, but most of us have moved on.
#nzpol

National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...

Feels like we need one of these: www.nebriefing.org

That's what politicians said at the turn of the century about 2025 targets 🤬

Government rejects all of Climate Change Commission's emissions target recommendations It comes despite a Climate Change Commission warning that New Zealand is being hit sooner and more severely than expected.

Oh my fucking god.

"In rejecting the advice to continue decreasing emissions after 2050, the government said: "It is our view that a detailed framework for post-2050 reductions and removals is best developed closer to 2050."" #nzpol

Government finances worse than expected as tax take falls Treasury figures show a bigger deficit than forecast.

Put 1000s of civil servants out of work.

Tax revenue drops.

Force 1000s to flee to Australia.

Tax revenue drops.

Force 1000s of businesses into liquidation.

Tax revenue drops.

Go figure.
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Go figure....

#OneTermGovernment #MostMockedGovt #NationalNotFitToGovern

Ministers were warned against removing schools' Treaty obligations The Education Ministry advice preceded the decision to delete a clause in the Education and Training Act that required schools to give effect to the Treaty of Waitangi.

In a shocking move, the NZ govt has ignored expert advice in favour of their own bigotry, reckons, and bank accounts.

Ministers were warned against removing schools' Treaty obligations www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

It's quite a list, and such a bizarre legacy to want to attach one's name to. That's the bit I don't get: the consequences of this stuff will be (and in many cases is already) apparent within the enactors' public lifetimes.

When it suits, they have consistently disregarded:
* Contracts (legal and social)
* Treaties (local and international)
* Subject matter expert advice
* Clear facts
* Demonstrably failed policies (so as to repeat them)
* Political and social norms
* etc.
They are setting a very painful future for us.

(I try hard to give the benefit-of-the-doubt; many paths to similar destinations; no one way is the only way, etc. But this government is dubious all the way down: crafting policy not just despite evidence and data, but as if to spite the very existence of evidence and data. Just incomprehensible.)

Government rejects all of Climate Change Commission's emissions target recommendations It comes despite a Climate Change Commission warning that New Zealand is being hit sooner and more severely than expected.

And the thing is. THE THING IS. It's not just that this government has cancelled/ raided funds for good stuff, to funnel towards not-good stuff.

It's also that every time they're offered a choice, they pick the very worst/ arguably actually evil option, to no good end. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Govt rejects climate advice less than a week after deadly floods in Asia kill over 1400 - Greenpeace Aotearoa The Government has today announced it is rejecting all of the Climate Change Commission’s recommendations.

PRESS RELEASE: Government rejects climate advice less than a week after deadly floods in Asia kill over 1400 www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol

Government rejects all of Climate Change Commission's emissions target recommendations It comes despite a Climate Change Commission warning that New Zealand is being hit sooner and more severely than expected.

"It is our view that a detailed framework for post-2050 reductions and removals is best developed closer to 2050." - wrong. We need action now to avoid disaster in 2050.
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A more colourful way of saying this: they're unilaterally shovelling our future into a business-as-usual furnace, shamelessly hoping/ pretending it all works out in some mysterious undefined way, at some mysterious undefined future point. 🔥🤷

What a generational legacy for a (one-term?!) government.

Their rationale, surprise, is economic cost. Maybe look at what the economic cost of *not* reducing emissions is going to be? Inaction on climate is buy-now, pay-later - and like all credit it costs you more in the end.

Government finances worse than expected as tax take falls Treasury figures show a bigger deficit than forecast.

Super weird how when you FIRE a whole lotta people and also smash a bunch of holes in the economy, your tax take goes down??

(We're-all-trying-to-find-the-absolute-sausage-in-a-bun-who-did-this-meme, etc 🤔🌭)

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Govt has panicked and realised they accidentally banned GnRH analogues for adults too and have quickly updated their legislation. Just shows how little thought went into this decision - no thought, just political ideology and disinformation. www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/p...

PSNZ responds to government announcement on puberty blockers

The Paediatric Society of NZ - representing the clinical field most relevant here - have released maybe the strongest statement of all the medical bodies: “puberty blockers are an established, safe, reversible, and
life-saving treatment option”

Books stacked on a bookshelf horizontally in two roughly thematically piles - creating a small triangular gap between, which the petite black cat has claimed as her very own special top secret hidey-hole. So we’ve discreetly added a little blanket in behind the.books, and agreed never to notice her when she’s Hiding. (Not even when she’s glaring right back out at us with HER MEGAWATT GOLDEN HEADLAMPS 👀)

Why yes, we’ve alphabetised the bookshelves by topic (Birds, Cats, Cities) #nzpets

The local park after a heavy summer rainstorm has just blown through: brilliant green grass against tall dark pines against steely grey skies. The red frame of the swings in the playground is picked up by the nearby pōhutukawa, blooming furiously. All very vivid and alive.

Looking from the park across the inner Waitematā Harbour towards the city skyline. In the foreground, the skeletons of pōhutukawa that slipped down the cliff in the massive 2023 floods, a dendriform memento mori. The sea is a pale jade, topped by the long lime green strip of Meola Reef/ Te Tokaroa. Good old Sky Tower and other city buildings poke up from the dark green of pockets of city fringe forest, against a sky of well worn denim. Rangitoto, lower left, lurks dark biue against the horizon.A couple of pine branches dangle top left, uki-yo-e style. In the middle of the image, a small red kayak upon which much depends etc.

A wider shot of the scene described in the previous alt text, with more trees framing the extraordinary combination of colours. Auckland, you rainswept minx.

Four royal spoonbills, Kōtuku ngutupapa, fly overhead in tidy formation. We saw them coming from a long way off, winging whitely all the way from Westmere. The very best kind of Royal Air Force!

Down the park, after the storm, What a rich paintbox of colours!

And a royal spoonbill fly-by.🫡

Historians, military personnel and Department of Internal Affairs officials gathered at a conference in July 1946 to plan the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF) official histories. Photograph John Dobrée Pascoe. 1/4-1995-F, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.

My understanding is 80% of the Historians at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage depart this month with their cartons of books. Does that just leave a Chief Historian? With it ends an unbroken record of state-produced history going back to the War History Branch seen here in 1946. #HistoryEnzHere