Phil Garnock-Jones

The spell check changed your “because” to “but also”. I hate it when that happens.

British cover of Butterflies

German cover of Butterflies

It's publication day!

My butterfly book for children publishes today in the UK & Germany. Written in the hope it captures the imagination of kids, and inspires a lifelong interest and love for butterflies and the wider natural world. (1/2)

#Butterflies #Schmetterlinge

We’ve had 50 years’ notice on oil shocks – and what we could do to insulate ourselves against them (solar, hydro, rail, public transport, cycling) and not only DIDN’T we do it, our infrastructure is so (un-)robust that it can all be shattered by, get this, ONE GUY’s actions.

Pacific visitors to pay less as NZ cuts visa fees The government says it'll strengthen ties, but critics argue families should not have to pay at all.

Thousands of visitors from the UK, Germany, Israel, and 57 other nations can visit New Zealand without a visa yet Pacific Islanders still pay hundreds of dollars just to see their family. We're calling on the Government to extend visa-waiver access for visitors from our Pacific neighbours.

If they do, I bet they'd make EVs have TWO carless days.

Fuel costs could drive New Zealand trucking businesses to the ground More than 90 percent of freight in Aotearoa is moved by road.

Bring back rail...
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Green Party releases initial candidate list for 2026 General Election We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.

These amazing people 💚💚💚💚

www.greens.org.nz/green_party_...

Ah i got one at last.

so did *his* mom.

A small NZ Post mailing bag.

New Zealand Post: if small mailer bags can’t be used for overseas mailing, why leave a space for “country” and why not say so clearly on the bag. It sucks to find out only when you get to the counter and have to start again. #CustomerFocus.

Speaking at Parliament, NZ First leader Winston Peters told reporters he had serious concerns about vaccine safety. "Hundreds of thousands of people have been affected here. They need to know the truth. They need to know why they were denied the truth." ACT's David Seymour said he was open to the idea of a select committee inquiry. "A lot of people felt they were ostracized from society and if this helps them feel seen and heard, then it might not be a bad thing." Even with the support of NZ First and ACT, a select committee inquiry would require the backing of the National Party. National leader and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon dodged questions over whether he supported an inquiry, saying only that there were "very serious questions" for Labour to answer.

For the avoidance of doubt this is the leaders of all three coalition parties deciding to use, to varying degrees, vaccine conspiracies utterly disproven by facts as an electoral weapon against Labour.

“Fossil fuel subsidies harm the budget and make climate change worse,” said Rod Campbell, Research Director at The Australia Institute.

Read more: https://theaus.in/4lpmqJq

I think enough swing voters have a simple voting algorithm: one term? Vote for the government. Two terms? Time for a change.

I wish there was a battery replacement for all the otherwise fine Nissan Leafs that are running around. Ours is down to 70km range now which means a sunshine topup every few days.

Surely not again?

BSA is not what it used to be.

Scoundrels!

Cook Strait and Foveaux Strait are world famous in New Zealand.

Quick question… these mines, they gonna stop the sun hitting solar panels?

We put people on the moon but start wars over a substance directly & indirectly killing us.

Bagged dog poop by recycling bin

Woke 2.0 will be a movement entirely dedicated to rooting out people from society who bag their dog shit then leave it on the ground.

Inflation! I only got sixpence each.

Early advice from the Minister for COVID-19 Response to Cabinet was that a strong health response was the best economic response. This was repeated in the Cabinet papers of 20, 23, 27 and 30 August, and 6 September. The 20 August 2021 paper set out the evidence officials considered supported that advice. ° New Zealand’s infection and death rates were among the lowest in the world. ° New Zealand’s unemployment rate was at the pre-COVID level of 4 percent, because jobs and businesses had been protected with the wage subsidy. Unemployment in New Zealand peaked at 5.3 percent (whereas in the United States and Canada it rose above 10 percent). ° Economic activity in the March 2021 quarter was 2.4 percent above the previous year. ° The Government was in a ‘strong financial position’ – net core Crown debt stood at 31.2 percent of GDP at the end of May 2021, 8.8 percent lower than the forecast 44 percent (a difference of approximately $40 billion). ‘This gives us options to keep investing to protect New Zealanders and accelerate our recovery’

So Chris Hipkins not only took advice & kept the economy afloat and jobs and businesses alive through #Covid-19, he pushed to keep Kiwis healthy and alive at a time when corpses were piled up across Italy, UK, US, and India.

Kudos @chrishipkins.bsky.social #nzpol #newzealand

Accused Kiwi sex offender too ill to stand trial filmed climbing stairs of his waterfront Australian home “I haven’t made any recovery,” Ronald Thompson told reporters who confronted him outside his apartment on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.

I don’t give a single fuck if some child rapist may be too elderly or unwell to stand trial for their CRIMES. I care about the VICTIMS OF PEDOPHILES & THEIR RIGHT TO JUSTICE.
What a sick fucking world these disturbed network of men have created for us all. 🤨 #nzpol

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Time to pass a law that any party spokesperson of media outlet that opines with hindsight reckons on pandemic management has to show this chart in the background at all times #nzpol

This framing of war having a negative impact on the cost of living makes me wanna scream!

That petrol and groceries are the focus over the human cost is so unbearably grim.

I am sick of money being the measure of all worth in this world.

Fuck cost of living, I am worried about cost of lives.

They almost certainly did sleep well.

Book awards: Dredging literary gold from worlds inside and out | News | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington The shortlist for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards has been released, and four of Te Herenga Waka’s incredible staff members, and five alumni, are among the 16 finalists.

The shortlist for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards has been released, and four of Te Herenga Waka’s incredible staff members and five alumni are among the 16 finalists.

The Government has a responsibility to ensure that technologies launched from New Zealand soil are not being used to help other countries wage war.

If Rocket Lab launches from Aotearoa are supporting the illegal war on Iran then the Government must be transparent about this.

I wonder if the criteria for assigning naturalised status are comparable across samples.

Everyone knows after two terms it’s time to let the other lot have a crack. That’s POLS101 mate.