With complications
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Yep. Also how many countries even seriously try to catalogue all taxa
Polls have closed in the first of this year's five German state elections, in prosperous Baden-Württemberg. It's looking like a remarkable win-from-behind by the Greens under @oezdemir.de. Full results over the course of the evening.
I had my annual musical event last weekend. 30-odd (hyphen optional) folks mostly 50-79 year old. I monitor vax levels. In last year MOST of these folks have not boosted, a steep recent decline. Vague excuses, some reticence. Yep NZ needs a booster campaign
Full-time science photography job at the BioEconomy Science Institute - Maiangi Taiao, in Auckland, NZ. a great gig: careers.sciencenewzealand.org/jobdetails?a... #science #photography
That darn Freud
Dilworth Karaka passed. I can't begin
Occupying forces in Iran would face the most complex array of guerrilla/ alternative warfare imaginable. Booby traps, suicide soldiers, poisoning, contamination etc. Nobody can win in Iran. Horrendous personnel losses might lead to the Pentagon ignoring Trump's orders
Oh no. JFC. My favourite male Maori voice. Melancholic, soulful. End of the Herbs era maybe.
Finn Allen
#nzcricket
My elderly neighbour used to hire that nice Jim Smowing to tidy up her section. Naughty Jim never let on. He's probably offering personal services these days
Nice man. Good player
Leadership looks like this
POTUS is considering an executive order declaring a voting emergency. Its main instigator helped sink John Kerry.
Put same on other shoe and 1 on each ear and you're a trendsetter.
On the other hand my daughter has been dressing me since she was 19 bc I'm just hopeless
"Peter Drennan says Auckland's messy housing debate has clarified. We now know who actually wants to fix the housing crisis and who's strip-mining it for political advantage " www.interest.co.nz/property/137... Interesting take.
NZ: relevant to your interests
Please no
One of the reasons behind the NZ Govt's 'move on' law is to demonstrate cruelty and abandonment of hope. Same with reducing housing and mental health assistance, forcing the raising of bus fares, more prisons. Childish muscle flexing that actually costs more than it saves
Seymour wants to sell the Govt investment in Air NZ when it's share price dips, not when it's high. Demonstrates exactly who he's working for
A tweet from Jason Bassler on February 19 2026, which reads: "Let me get this straight: -Trump greenlit a Palantir "master database" -8 new "mega-detention centers" are being built -CBP just bought access to Clearview's 60B-image facial ID system -DHS is now demanding names of social media users critical of ICE -ICE agents on our streets threatening to put people in a "domestic terrorist" database And no one sees where this is going?"
If you're in the UK, read the following and ask yourself: exactly how far away from this are we?
Civics
Te Reo
Parenting
Jazz appreciation
Just concluded NZ Green Party Candidate (ranking) Conference. My 4th as a delegate (ie not a candidate). Without doubt the best quality crop of talent I've seen. Gladdened the heart
Strong sustenance required. Tick
I can never shake off the feeling that it's a Nat trojan horse, designed to draw votes from the Greens but not make 5%, thereby wasting left votes. Whether this is true or not is immaterial bc they won't win a seat or get 5% anyway
Must read
Govt to pay up to $180m/year or $2.7b over 15 years to lease LNG re-gasification plant, paid for by $15-$30 'levy' per household per year. That $2.7b would build four Benmore Dams worth of electricity #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...
Another reason why the Govt wants regional councils gone. They have water, air, soil and data scientists, river engineers, planners, ecologists, economists, maritime and biosecurity experts etc.
Dead men tell no tales
Richard Toft also developed an effective bait for Argentine ants. A great scientist
