Dr Bex

A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg

Rivers are living beings.

This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

Screenshot from linked article that notes bother Ryan Hamilton and tama potaka could lose their seats in the upcoming election

Hamilton could swing red this election...

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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon 'absolutely not' considering standing down The Prime Minister told Newstalk ZB all of his ministers were telling him they back him.

"The only thing I am considering is the future of our children & grandchildren." #nzpol And let’s be clear, that’s only his children & grandchildren. He’s made the lives of 10s of 1000s of children & grandchildren infinitely worse.

Luxon believes he has skills.

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

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TVNZ board chair rang senior minister to discuss negative coverage Justice minister won't reveal exactly what the public broadcaster's board chair said, while police minister doubles down on concerns about bias.

Right-wing commentators were *obsessed* with what they fancied was the former Labour govt's control of the media. Yet now we have what looks like direct political interference with reporting that ministers didn't like. Far out. newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/04/t...

99.4% of disabled learners now attend local mainstream schools. Back in Andrew's day they were shunted off to special schools and excluded. Funding for this has not kept up with need. On top of that, families are facing far worse material deprivation, drug use stress etc than 30+ years ago.

NZ spy chiefs warn of extremism risk as teenage boys dominate investigations Our national security agencies are worried about New Zealand’s young men.

In 2022 a group of us (experts) tried to explain to the joint security group that extreme misogyny was the fastest growing form of violent extremism www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

The model of unpaid academic labor required good jobs with ample unstructured time.

Image 1: reasons given for withholding the information I requested on solar from MBIE

Image 2: the reason given in the House today by energy minister Simon Watts today

These two things are not the same

Disestablishment of the Ministry for the Environment is another terrible bill emblematic of this government’s continual attack on our environment - it is now open for submissions - until 4.30 on 11th March.

Sticker on lamp post "Luxon supports bombing schoolgirls "

Seen in Ōtepoti today

NZ Herald, Audrey Young: "Christopher Luxon's Clare Curran moment - can he recover?"

I'm sorry, I can't believe NZME journalists are STILL using Labour MP Clare Curran as a synonym for fumbling to answer questions.

Do you know what she did? She used a personal Gmail account for Ministerial use in 2018.

Know who did that more recently? Current MP and media darling Erica Stanford.

My strongly held belief is that the rapture isn’t real and people should stop trying to make it happen.

30 seconds is all it took me to write an eloquent (remarkably clean by my standards) email telling him this decision is disgusting.

P.Goldsmith@ministers.govt.nz

Fill yet boots peeps.

Government ‘kicked the tyres’ on solar subsidies but went with ‘minor’ tweaks instead It is one of the cheapest ways to cut power bills - yet documents reveal the government shelved a subsidy.

New Zealand has more sunshine than Germany.
But only 1 in 35 homes here has rooftop solar.
Australia? 1 in 3.

Why? I tried to find out - despite some strange secrecy

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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.

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

Screenshot of a social media post by a verified account named David Seymour reading, “Our dinner for Persian freedom fighters was well timed. Let freedom reign this time.” Below the text is a photo of a dining table set with plates, glasses, and a vase of flowers beside large glass doors. Outside the doors hang several green-white-red flags with lion-and-sun emblems. A folded cloth sits on a countertop in the foreground.

Let's not forget that Seymour called New Zealand's first Iranian born member of parliament, a woman whose parents fled the regime as dissidents, a "menace to freedom" resulting in her needing extra security as threats increased

He directed contributed to her being hounded out of public life

Perhaps. Altho I do think faith is a bit more complex than that. For those who are part of a faith belief/practice it can certainly seem so. Those who hold a faith speak to meaning, purpose, community, connection, and of course to spiritual experiences.

Oof. And yes, ive heard that too. Its terrible theology and a poor interpretation of what it means to be caretakers of what has been to us to nourish and look after.

Its hard, because then you're falling into the No True Scotsman fallacy. Plus many of the underlying beliefs are orthodox - its the practice thereof that is bonkers

Ikr?! Not even the worst thing I heard. Top tier would be the time he had coffee with my *husband* to ask him to, and I quote, "bring me into line".

Tesco walked away from talks to take on supermarket duopoly, documents show Aldi and Lidl also declined to engage, leaving the supermarket duopoly intact.

So Willis' RFI to sound out potential competition in the supermarket industry was as much of a flop as the much touted Investment Summit

NOBODY bothered to even meet with her or participate in the RFI

Tesco, Aldi (who operate across the ditch) and Lidl all said no🤣🤣
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National party policy for the 'squeezed middle' with some surprises On the morning of 30 August 2023, the National Party (National) released its tax policy for the upcoming general election, titled ‘National’s Back Pocket Boost’. The policy contains a number of changes to the New Zealand tax system, including changes to income tax rate thresholds, relaxation of the tax rules for residential property investment and two curious new taxes targeting non-residents.

1 October 2023 - Election 2023: Nat Party release 100 day action plan if elected

National Party released most of its policies at the end of August/September 2023 - i.e weeks before the election

Yet they are desperate for Labour to

Why?

#nzpol #newzealand

Had a church leader here in NZ say this to me back in 2012; he genuinely believed that allowing the destruction of the earth would hasten the second coming (the return of Jesus in Glory). Evangelical Christianity is a destructive malignant curse upon the earth.

The school term only started at the end of January, so that's at least one incident a week.
All on Simeon Brown's head.
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I still can't believe that cunt said the bigger issue [than homlessness] is Chuck and Mary's dream holiday in NZ. Its like a parody of a statement.