Important issues in play here -- the stories told about MethaneSAT don't add up. (And they should add up to the $30M in public money that was poured into it)
And the people who won't tell us what happened play a key role in deciding what missions can launch from New Zealand soil.
why didn’t lux flakes resign? because his advisors reminded him he could defer and deflect…
You know, since the first modern oil crisis in the 70s it feels like we shouldn't have quadrupled down on oil dependency and car required living
🚨The most important graph in the world has another year of data, and it doesn't look good!🚨
NASA CERES satellites measure how much sunlight Earth absorbs and how much heat is radiated back to space.
The difference is heat accumulation, which has more than tripled!
This infantilization over past years about “doomscrolling”, and “not seeping into despair” is so...
You need to feel uncomfortable.
The ignorance is bliss mentality that brown people can watch their own innocents being killed, but you got to take a mental health break every time from reading news?
“Critics warn this could effectively embed U.S. surveillance capabilities into another sovereign state’s information infrastructure.”
Read this alarming article and decide whether the limited focus from NZ media on this story is acceptable given the context of US fascism and worldwide aggression.
Please consider donating to the project, or directly sponsoring an area of the Pacific Ocean that might help Niue “secure sustainable sponsorship for building a climate resilient, sustainable blue economy that reinforces long term ocean conservation. niueoceanwide.com
Totally not of this government's making... #nzpol
The fuckwit health minister and his lackeys in Health NZ leadership fired a ton of IT staff and now there are major tech failures every other week.
Opposition needs to hammer them on this - it's a direct connection between their bullshit "back office" cost cutting and patient harm.
… the more information a individual gives up, the less sovereignty they can claim. the result is their community usually becomes restricted by the new information holders from enacting what it needs to do relative or specific to its needs.
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"The objective of this Bill is to disestablish the Ministry for the Environment so that the Government’s desired machinery of government change can be implemented"
Penny Simmonds has got to go
#Election26 #nzpol
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Government deciding whether US should get access to New Zealanders' biometric data www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Graph showing accumulated rainfail between 9-17 February 2026
Copernicus Sentinel‑1 radar image showing flooded areas in red
Copernicus Sentinel‑2 true‑colour view of the same region.
France has endured 35 consecutive days of rain.
Here are 3 images that show the impact of the heavy rainfall from space:
• Accumulated rainfall (9–18 Feb)
• Copernicus Sentinel‑1 radar image (flooded areas in red)
• Sentinel‑2 view of the same region
Our thoughts are with the communities affected.
front page of the waikato herald. lede story headline: “residents hopeful sea wall will protect homes”
“New Zealand hopeful it’s not surrounded by ocean.”
Good luck Port Waikato. We’re in this together. Or at least we would be, if the current government demonstrated any leadership.
#nzpol
… adherent of austerity and economic ruin strongly suggests that austerity also needs to apply to collective cognitive effort.
“let us decide for you”
Analysis: A serious approach to climate adaptation requires reckoning with the grim reality the future holds: more storms, more floods, more heat.
Honestly if NZ parties don’t front up about their plans for climate & basic infrastructure we should be deeply ashamed -NZ has a sewerage crisis in all our major cities, we have flooding & landslides causing loss of life & critical failure s- thinking we can cap rates & manage this, is crazy
black boxes are an anathema.
hype is literally a level of hyperbole that buries what ever small element of truth it is tacitly built on.
in most circumstances, AI is not worth it due, in part to:
1. people derive much of their identity from sense making
2. black boxes are an anathema
3. energy (and material) use
“Wellington's sewage spill is just one of many examples of public service and infrastructure enshittification, begun by Roger Douglas and Ruth Richardson, and continued by neoliberal factions across government, business, media, finance, and the public.” - Josh Drummond
A must read folks #nzpol
Not 'struggling'.
Not 'hard up'.
Not 'skipping meals'.
*Starving*
In Aotearoa. In 2026.
This is so immoral and disgusting that opposition parties should be 20 points ahead in the polls by now.
a quote tweet. fwiw 😬
i mean… every city considers itself hot shit.
… but wellington may have actually achieved it!
shush. you might normalise it!
📢 A map by Calypso Science tracks where the Moa Point plant sewage is drifting on the coast.
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Righto. I've read the papers released by MBIE on the LNG analysis. This will be a longish thread on my thoughts, which I'll add to progressively. Docs are here. 🧵 1/-
FYI I’ve opened this up for full public reading, listening & sharing after requests from paying subscribers. Their support allows me to do this kind of public interest journalism on Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate & poverty in public. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/why-not-sp...
You know, it’s just possible to feel really bad about the violent deaths of Israeli Jews, the genocide in Palestine and the deaths of Australian Jews all while being neither anti-Semitic or Islamophobic.
Somehow that has become impossible for the political class.
$?????? millions on a liquefied natural gas terminal that cuts against the actual economics of natural gas instead of just paying for everyone to switch to fucking electricity is probably peak Luxonism. Bad economics, bad infrastructure, bad decision.
