Notices by Ika Makimaki (pezmico@mastodon.nz)

@blogdiva oh, they did the meme!

Here is your #OrangeRoughy fun fact of the day! 🧡 🐟

Orange Roughy is how most of us know them today. But they have had many names over the years!

Their scientific name is Hoplostethus atlanticus, and their common name used to be "slimehead" but that was abandoned as it was commercially unappealing. They have also been called "Red Roughy" and "Deep sea perch".

Some fishers also call them "Napoleons" because of their long lives, referencing the fact that some of them have been alive since Napoleon's time!

Whatever name you want to call them, please vote today for these fascinating fishies of the deep to raise awareness about the issue of bottom trawling!

https://www.mountainstosea.org.nz/fish-of-the-year

#FOTY #FishofTheYear #TeamOrangeRoughy #banBottomTrawling #ProtectTheOcean #oceans #fisheries

Our Seamounts expedition scientific results are starting to get out into the world and have some effects! Particularly important with the NZ government's outrageous proposal to allow for more coral to be thrashed without consequence in international waters of the South Pacific.

Lord Howe Rise deep-sea coral ‘proof’ ramps up bottom trawling clash
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/lord-howe-rise-deep-sea-coral-proof-ramps-up-bottom-trawling-clash/N5AXLNFJFBHVPNPPIE44M3ZPZQ/

#greenpeace #BanbottomTrawling #ProtectTheOcean #corals #oceans #fisheries #NZPol #TeamorangeRoughy

With everything (terrible and not so much) that is going on, one thing is clear: Democracy is important.

So let's focus on the one democratic process we can all agree is fun and enjoyable, and where the candidates are pretty cool and trustworthy.

Fish of the year voting has opened!

And we are once again suggesting you give your precious vote to the Orange Roughy, an emblematic species of the threat of bottom trawling to ocean health.

Vote Orange Roughy for #FishOfTheYear!
🐟 👑
https://www.mountainstosea.org.nz/fish-of-the-year

#FOTY
#OrangeRoughy #fisheries #ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling

Got any #BanBottomTrawling memes?

This video from Seafood Watch and the Monterey Bay Aquarium gives orange roughy a red rating for being unsustainably fished with bottom trawling nets that wipe out entire coral ecosystems.

They are rightly telling conscientious customers to avoid buying it.

"It's a red alert if you ever see orange roughy on the menu" -> how's that for NZ's clean green trademark?

#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #oceans #fisheries

If you are still wondering about the stubbornness of the #FossilFools in charge...

Update: it brings me no pleasure to report that apparently this cartoon is from the 70s, and things have not changed one damn bit.

I don't know how everyone else lives their lives but, personally, I never have a reason to think about the genitals of about 99.9% of the people I meet.

If you say I'm a she/her or a he/him I take your word for it.
If you say I am a they /them that's all good too.
If your pronoun changes and you let me know that's a-okay, I might still get it wrong sometimes but I will do my best.

This obsession some people seem to have about the contents of other people's undies is really disturbing.

Unreasonably excited about going to Kirikiriroa by train!

Go Te Huia!

Imagine if we could travel to any city in the country in the comfort and whimsy of a train with a proper little café on board. 😍

🚉

#transport #PublicTransport #trains

It's clearly more dangerous and expensive to continue Business As Usual than it is to mitigate and adapt to our changing world.

But our 'leaders' have their heads firmly buried in the proverbial sand.

Deadly storms expose growing gap between disaster recovery and climate preparation
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/585400/deadly-storms-expose-growing-gap-between-disaster-recovery-and-climate-preparation

#NZPol #ClimateDiary #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #fossilFools

The wrong Amazon is burning,
the wrong ICE is melting.

Twitter used to be the place where things like today's events in Minnesota would spark social movements on the streets.

Xitter is now, (and probably because of this) as you all know, a cesspool of AI slop, deepfake porn adjacent material and even CSAM. Social movements and minorities are systematically shut down and their reach limited, drowning them out.

So maybe some people will come looking for an alternative, maybe they will post things that upset you, maybe they won't use the CW you want or the hashtags that would be appropriate.

Maybe we should tolerate some temporary discomfort so that social movements can organise and grow organically, outside of corporate networks.

Maybe scolding people into posting The Correct Way™ is not the main priority in these moments.

Maybe.

Little One wants stilts.

No good ones seem to be on sale. So it's turned into a DIY project.

Wish me luck, also, advice or recommendations on stilt building guides welcome. 😬

#parenting

Three Greenpeace activists have been removed by police after protesting Fonterra’s shareholder meeting.

The activists set up a nitrate contamination tent and dumped two tonnes of simulated “toxic” slime at Fonterra HQ, forcing shareholders to walk through it, mirroring what many New Zealand communities are expected to live with as dairy pollution contaminates rivers and peoples' drinking water.

#NZPol #greenpeace #dirtyDairy #nitrateEmergency #tooManyCows #directAction #freshWater #ClimateCrisis

Our press release is out : 🐄☣️

Greenpeace dumps 2 metric tonnes of slime at Fonterra HQ before shareholders meeting
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/greenpeace-dumps-2-metric-tonnes-of-slime-at-fonterra-hq-before-shareholders-meeting/

#NZPol #greenpeace #dirtyDairy #nitrateEmergency #tooManyCows #directAction #freshWater #ClimateCrisis

Please stand by.

BREAKING! Fonterra HQ is under quarantine! Toxic slime is oozing out of the building’s main doors.

The building has been identified as ground zero of New Zealand’s nitrate crisis. So the Greenpeace nitrate emergency quarantine unit has shut down the building and installed decontamination tents to prevent the nitrate emergency from spreading further.

#NZPol #greenpeace #dirtyDairy #nitrateEmergency #tooManyCows #directAction

⚠️🚨Fonterra HQ seems to be under quarantine this morning 🚨⚠️

The Greenpeace Quarantine Unit is on the scene. We’ll have more information soon.

#tooManyCows #dirtyDairy #nitrateEmergency #greenpeace

A bit of an inspiring story for your Friday vibes:

An indigenous led project up north, in Whangaruru, aiming to restore balance in marine ecosystems. 🌊

Maara Moana: The First Ocean Garden
https://oceanographicmagazine.com/features/maara-moana-the-first-ocean-garden/

#protectTheOcean #oceans #aotearoa

I am late to the party for this one, but if you think you'd like a slightly surreal, radically anti-capitalist spin on the super hero story tropes, "I'm a Virgo" is a great watch.

It is a bit silly at times, but has an interesting take on issues of racism, coming of age and liberation through solidarity. Big fan of the character of Jones, the communist organiser, and her storytelling powers.

It's from Boots Riley, who also made "Sorry to bother you", which I loved. He is a self declared communist, and it shows on his work. So if you liked that this will be up your alley.

We really enjoyed the first season and are interested in a second one, if it is ever released.

#series #ImAVirgo #antiCapitalism