Notices by Ika Makimaki (pezmico@mastodon.nz)

Hell yeah! Take the wins when we get them!

When we fight together, we win! ✊

Suck it Shane!

West Coast mine application on UNESCO heritage site withdrawn
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/593914/west-coast-mine-application-on-unesco-heritage-site-withdrawn

#goodNews #NZPol #environment.

The Fisheries Amendment Bill is a rotten piece of legislation that only benefits big commercial fishers. 🎣

It removes oversight and gives license to plunder the ocean and leave it empty of life. 🌊

We must tell the government to Kill the bill, because it is a corporate giveaway of our ocean to the few fat cats on top of the industry. 🐋

Make your submission in a few clicks with our online tool! 📢

https://greenpeace.nz/fisheries-submission

#killTheBill #protectTheOcean #banBottomTrawling #oceans #NZPol

Hey, Bezos! What’s in the bag?
It’s the unpaid wages of the working class
It’s hard to pull yourself up when you can’t afford boots
You blame our generation but you set us up to lose
The workers make a penny while the boss makes a buck
The rich get richer and the poor get fucked

No Fuck You

Maybe it’s hard to work
Maybe it’s hard to breathe
Maybe it’s corporate greed
Maybe it’s Maybelline
Maybe it’s capitalism
Maybe it’s fascism
Maybe it’s just a brain aneurysm

Can’t afford a house, can’t afford a car
Can’t afford health, it’s expеnsive to be poor
You didn’t earn your monеy by working harder
But by stealing the profit of the true labor

Eat the Rich

Cheap Perfume - Probably It's Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjRFDrwhduI

#jukeboxFridayNight #PunkRock

Seeing Peters standing sheepishly next to Rubio it is hard to believe that NZ once bravely and proudly put principles over deference to power and declared itself Nuclear Free.

#NZPol

It's important to refrain from blasphemy, maintain appropriate language and a minimum of decorum when threatening to commit war crimes and declaring your genocidal intent, else the liberal establishment might be forced to fetch the fainting couch.

Perhaps even write another strongly worded letter.

#USPol #noWar

#EndFossilFuels #FossilFools

Many people are saying this.
Experts included.
The government coalition still refuses to listen though.

Free public transport the fuel crisis response that makes sense - Newsroom
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/27/free-public-transport-the-fuel-crisis-response-that-makes-sense/

#FossilFools #PublicTransport #NZPol

Heartbreaking, and yet more proof that the ocean around us needs more protection!

Seabirds struggled to raise chicks in the Hauraki Gulf this summer. What happened?
https://theconversation.com/seabirds-struggled-to-raise-chicks-in-the-hauraki-gulf-this-summer-what-happened-278086

#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #Oceans #HaurakiGulf

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#AKLBikeLife #paihikara #BikeTooter #NoCarNoProblem #shitpost

With nothing to say about the aggressors who started this illegal war of choice.

These muppets are aligning us with the fascists, in exchange for nothing but the delicious taste of imperial boot.

New Zealand joins 19 countries in statement condemning Iran's attacks in the Gulf https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/590249/new-zealand-joins-19-countries-in-statement-condemning-iran-s-attacks-in-the-gulf

#NZPol #noWar #EndFossilFuels #FossilFools

@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