Notices by Phil Stevens :tinoflag: (phil_stevens@mastodon.nz)

RE: https://mastodon.nz/@pistonblown/115697617297157526

At least they're not being coy about what they're after.

@ATLeagle @ai6yr Holy shit. If I were in a place that had these abominations I'd keep a stash of plastic explosives with me.

@kibcol1049 I could offer a real simple peace plan. It goes like this:

1. Russia retreats from all the lands it has invaded since 2014.
2. Russia pays reparations to Ukraine for all deaths, injuries, harm, and damage to infrastructure. Assets frozen during the war can be tapped to help with this.
3. Russia agrees to demilitarise and sign non-aggression pacts with all bordering states.
4. Putin wears a sign saying KICK ME every day from now on.

The weird thing about the omission of sea level rise is that it's probably the simplest trend to model out of all of them.

https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/05/flood-risk-picture-remains-dangerously-incomplete/

It may be a leap too far for some people, but there is space in my moral framework to grieve the innocent Israeli civilians who were murdered two years ago today, and at the same time be horrified that they were turned into martyrs to justify a holocaust.

No. No. A thousand million times NO.

They will start amassing a trove of warrantless surveillance imagery and we all know the next step will be to feed it to an unaccountable nazi billionaire's panopticon database like Palantir.

We have to fight this and hard. #NZPol

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/575481/fears-of-surveillance-state-as-police-regain-right-to-photograph-public-retain-images

Oh great. The most expensive generating modality on our grid just got a boost from the Minister for Corruption. PV+battery could do the same for a quarter of the cost and not emit any greenhouse gases, but it's not like evidence matters when the govt has nailed its colours to performative climate denial.

Can't wait for these dinosaurs to turn back into hydrocarbons.

https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/02/big-new-diesel-power-plant-will-help-in-energy-crises-says-marsden-point-chief/

More fractures. I've lost a lot of my esteem for TPM over their mishandling of the Ferris debacle. They need to lead with empathy and inclusion or they risk alienating a large chunk of their base in the same way that Turia and Sharples did by appeasing the colonisers.

For now, I'll be telling people who give a shit to vote Green.

https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/10/02/toitu-te-tiriti-cuts-ties-with-te-pati-maori/

Don't know how many of us noticed this, but before Italy announced that it was sending a military vessel to accompany the Sumud flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, a union-led general strike pretty much shut down the whole country. The strike was called as a message of solidarity with Palestine.

We have the power if just decide to use it.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/thousands-italian-workers-strike-solidarity-112530284.html

Charlie Kirk, eh. What goes around comes around. Thoughts and prayers, etc.

@colinburgess Sea kayaking on that bay is so good. Also, @skinnylatte does cool things at the aquarium.

@JonChevreau Not much of an improvement, when you consider all the possible choices.

Handy up-to-date reference. Just in case.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/how-to-leak-to-a-journalist/

Has there been a statement from NZ Labour on the insanity of remaining in a strategic intelligence alliance with a bunch of psychopathic war criminals who can't even secure their own comms?

I know there's a sort of "gentleman's agreement" that opposition parties don't rock the foreign policy boat, but come on. Make this an issue.

(PS, Greens and TPM: This goes for you as well. Oppose and make hay when it's politically expedient. A statement is all that's required.)

#nzpol

Trumpian policies are a boat anchor internationally. Wrap that chain around Luxon's ankles and toss him into the deeps.

School lunches and ferries (on top of a recession nearly as bad as post-GFC) could be the undoing of the coalition. But they still have lots of time to undermine, hollow out, and poison what is left of Aotearoa's commons.

Right now Luxon is marketing us like cans of body spray to the multinational finbro rentier crowd. Any time you hear a right wing politician say the word "investment" you need to substitute "asset stripping" because that is what's about to happen.

https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/12/guardrails-needed-to-protect-nz-from-foreign-investors-ex-solarzero-employee/

@steter Moldova, too.

@ingridglomp @pluralistic He's just replicating the pattern. When he bought Tesla he mandated a fictional narrative that he was the original innovator, instead of some wealthy usurper.

@ArrestJK It has everything to do with the little shitler. No one wants to support that or be seen driving a swastikar.

@Nigel_Purchase Casinos on the beach. With a view of oil and gas platforms out to sea. All on the bones of 100,000 victims of a holocaust.