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Last Notes npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Honestly? I have little to no confidence in the Minister, a federated Farmers-Act stooge with no scientific background or curiosity who has consistently ignored or undermined expert advice. Also, part of the government that has mindlessly cut all the "back office" and endlessly pandered to the cooker antivax crowd. But here we go. Seabird found on Wellington beach tests positive for H5 bird flu https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/environment/723404/seabird-found-on-wellington-beach-tests-positive-for-h5-bird-flu #NZPol #H5N1 npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Meanwhile, the Peruvian election is the definition of a national knife's edge, being fought to the third decimal digit. As tight as an election can possibly be. Worth noting that this is Ms Fujimori's fourth run as a presidential candidate. She's always been unsuccessful so far. #peru #LatAmElections https://o.mastodon.nz/media_attachments/files/116/716/766/219/023/133/original/32f5eed0b7e8a1c5.jpg npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Last call for submissions! 🚨 Closing at midnight tonight. Go tell Shane Jones his Amendment is regulatory capture and we do not want it. 🌊 🐟 #NZPol #BanBottomTrawling #ProtectTheOcean npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki 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 npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Fifth red warning for a climate event in NZ this year. It's April. News reports explicitly linking this to the ongoing climate crisis: 0 Polluters brought us here. They must be held accountable. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #EndFossilFuels npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki New Zealand call to action! 📢 Cycling Action Network have prepared an Open Letter calling for emergency bike networks, free public transport, lower speed limits and other points, in an urgent response to the fuel crisis. 🚲 Please add your name and share with your networks. It can be signed by both individuals and organisations! https://www.can.org.nz/open-letter-fuel-2026 #NZPol #bikeTooter #Aotearoa #NewZealand #paihikara #NocarNoProblem #fossilFools #EndFossilFuels #PublicTransport npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki This is the most Taco Tuesday a Taco Tuesday has ever Taco Tuesdayed. 🌮 #shitpost #TACO npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Like with climate change, and now with the energy crisis, the government's plan seems to ignore it, pretend it's all going okay and hope it eventually goes away. But that's clearly not working, in any case. Almost 200,000 New Zealanders are now living with long Covid - where is the government plan? | RNZ News https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/591674/almost-200-000-new-zealanders-are-now-living-with-long-covid-where-is-the-government-plan #CovidIsNotOver npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Trump is probably not dead but I'll be putting some beers and champagne in the fridge just in case. npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Jono Ridler has finally arrived in Wellington, broken a world record and raised the issue of bottom trawling! What an achievement! 🌊 🏊 Anti-bottom trawling long distance swimmer breaks world record, arrives in Wellington https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/591508/anti-bottom-trawling-long-distance-swimmer-breaks-world-record-arrives-in-wellington #BanBottomTrawling #ProtectTheOcean #oceans #NZPol npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki If I was a bit more petty, a bit less lazy, and knew how to search my own archive of pointless toots, I'd find a poll I posted sometime in 2023 asking how much fossil fuel reduction you all thought we'd achieve in New Zealand in the next 5 years. You all broke my heart by saying things would not change at all and now I am very close to being right (for unexpected reasons, although tbf collapse was always on the table). npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Phase 1: Nothing. It's fine, don't even ask. Phase 2: Maybe take a bus? Work from home sometimes perhaps, if your boss says you can. Otherwise nothing. Phase 3: Ooops. Should do something but we don't really know what. Plus we criticised covid response so much, can't really do much. We're in trouble. Phase 4: Fuck. We screwed up. Should've saved some fuel, huh? Well too late now. Mad Max, I guess? #NZPol #FossilFools npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki @nprofile…kpvg thankfully, no. 🙏 npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki I think it was me, personally, and my powerful posting that caused Shane Jones to tremble and back down. 😂 Still, the bill is a disaster and should be entirely rejected. Fishing fight: Everyone in New Zealand vs Shane Jones https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/27-03-2026/everyone-in-new-zealand-vs-shane-jones #ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #oceans #fisheries #NZPol npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki @nprofile…yzxf this has no right to go so hard. 🚀 npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki 🚲 #AKLBikeLife #paihikara #BikeTooter #NoCarNoProblem #shitpost https://o.mastodon.nz/media_attachments/files/116/288/533/892/423/750/original/f0dc5e03a37a2149.jpg npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki 6 years ago, March 23 2020, New Zealand went into lockdown to prevent transmission of Covid-19. We had little information on what would come, but we stood together and made a sacrifice to protect each other. We had solidarity and empathy to guide us. Today we face another crisis, perhaps an even more impactful one. But the message from our "leaders" is the opposite: We can't possibly help each other, no way anyone can be expected to sacrifice anything for the common good. To each their own and too bad if anyone falls behind. Money first. Me first. Not only did we not learn the lesson, we've swung the opposite way. Hard times are ahead, may we find our solidarity again. npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Here's a free idea: No refuelling private jets. ✈️ No matter what price they can afford. Should be an obvious step 0 in a fuel crisis. But we wouldn't ever do anything to inconvenience the ultra rich, wouldn't we? #FossilFools npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Yes but surely the New Zealand bound ships would never be cancelled, right? Right? Six fuel ships bound for Australia cancelled https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/22/six-fuel-ships-bound-for-australia-cancelled-as-bowen-concedes-flow-of-oil-to-asian-refineries-has-slowed #FossilFools #EndFossilFuels #NZPol npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki This is a pretty nifty dashboard to track the oil situation in NZ (and Australia). https://nzoilwatch.com/#/ #NZpol #EndFossilFuels #FossilFools npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki From Wikipedia: "Paper tiger" is a calque of the Chinese phrase zhǐlǎohǔ (simplified Chinese: 纸老虎; traditional Chinese: 紙老虎). The term refers to something or someone that claims or appears to be powerful or threatening but is actually ineffectual and unable to withstand challenge. Just an useful word to know these days. 🧻🐯 npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki @nprofile…yzxf I heard this too (and think it's genius), but haven't been able to find a source, do you have one? npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Imagine if our ministers of transport, energy and climate change had taken serious steps towards electrification, regional rail and multi modal transport (yes bikes and cycle lanes) instead of playing foolish culture war games. If the energy sector was actually moving at pace with electrification and renewable energy production. If instead of the pointless shitfight about seabed mining we were already building offshore wind capacity. If the dairy industry's reliance on imported fertiliser was mitigated somewhat ... The incoming shock would still be rough as, but there would be alternatives, a bit of wiggle room. Now? We're headed to the cliff at full speed and with no brakes. 🫤 #NZPol #FossilFools npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Yeah, uhm... Weird question but... How many countries need to be involved before we call it a world war? Hypothetically, of course. npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki @nprofile…58zd subtooting? npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki @nprofile…xjxf are you sure? This one is not paywalled. I've read it without an account several times today. The Greenpeace paper is publicly available anyway, just a lot harder to read than the media article. You can find it here https://www.sprfmo.int/assets/Meetings/01-COMM/14th-Commission-2026/Observer-/COMM14-Obs05-VME-identified-from-the-2024-VME-encounter-area-a.pdf npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki '“Virtually nothing Greenpeace says or does will ever sway the way I approach New Zealand fisheries policy,” he [Shane Jones] told the Herald.' -- when your country's Minister for the Oceans is sensible, rational, evidence based and open for robust discussion. 🙄 #NZPol npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Our Seamounts expedition scientific results are starting to get out into the world and have some effects! Particularly important with the governments 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 npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Great time to become absolutely reliant on a brittle supply chain for a dirty fossil fuel for your country's energy needs! /s Why QatarEnergy’s LNG production halt could shake up global gas markets | Explainer News | Al Jazeera https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/3/2/why-qatarenergys-lng-production-halt-could-shake-up-global-gas-markets #FossilFools #EndFossilFuels #NZPol npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki 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 Fish of the Year! 🐟 👑 https://www.mountainstosea.org.nz/fish-of-the-year #FOTY #OrangeRoughy #fisheries #ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling https://o.mastodon.nz/media_attachments/files/116/157/520/648/039/149/original/80ac189464b27e26.jpg npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Resist the urge to tell the newly minted Iran experts that Khamenei and Khomeini were, in fact, two different people. npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki You wouldn't take "Russian officials" at their word, so why would you believe Israel or spread their talking points unquestioned? npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Anyone still taking "Israeli officials" as a credible source for anything in the year 2026, third year of the Genocide in Gaza, has learned nothing and doesn't deserve to be listened to. npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki @nprofile…5mvz gottem. npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki It's barely the end of February. How does 2026 already feel like a decade? npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki shit. they (Israel-US) are now bombing Iran. npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Good on my workplace, which after detecting 2 confirmed covid cases, and a potential third one, has immediately communicated to the whole workforce, mandated work from home for the affected team and given the rest of us optional extra work from home days as well. (We're a hybrid workplace anyway but a few days a week are supposed to be in office) In effect, declaring a mini quarantine to allow for any other potential cases to come up before they risk everyone else. Not perfect, but significantly better than the average and at least aware that some of us still take this virus very seriously. #CovidIsNotOver npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Here we go. Performative cruelty that doesn't at all address the causes of the issues, further antagonises an already marginalised vulnerable community, undermining police authority to them, and multiplies the harm of an already punitive approach. So yeah, classic National. I'd say it's pointless too, but the cruelty is the point. Government announces homeless move-on orders - for all town centres, not just Auckland https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/587562/government-announces-homeless-move-on-orders-for-all-town-centres-not-just-auckland #NZPol #ditchThePricksIn26 npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Little One has friends with two mums, two dads, a single mum, an adopted family, divorced parents and a friendly adult who has transitioned their gender while we knew them. We've been to drag queen story times, which Little One enjoys, because dressing up and telling stories and singing is Fun. None of that has been confusing or an issue at all. You know what this child finds confusing and upsetting? That there are people with no home, sleeping in the streets. That makes no sense to them. And rightly so, because it has no justification. #parenting #socialJustice npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki In less important news, me and the Greenpeace crew are currently 2nd on our category in the #AotearoaBikeChallenge! 🚲 🥈 I need to recruit a few more cyclists to knock MOTAT out of their first spot. #AKLBikeLife #paihikara #NoCarNoProblem https://o.mastodon.nz/media_attachments/files/116/096/229/275/530/469/original/cc42c6fe3536b4d0.png npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki "We live in a shadow of the world we could create. A world in which we shall be able to avert an almost certain ecological collapse, rather than waiting around for capitalism to push us beyond the point of no return. A world where the abolition of economic insecurity, precarity, poverty, unemployment and indignity is possible, while we lead meaningful lives within planetary boundaries. This is not a distant dream. It is a tangible prospect." We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2026/feb/12/capitalist-model-climate-growth-capitalism-species-humanity #EndFossilFuels #antiCapitalism #degrowth #EcoSocialism npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki If you are still wondering about the stubbornness of the #FossilFools in charge... https://o.mastodon.nz/media_attachments/files/116/061/856/006/623/508/original/350fa9826f32de3c.jpg npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki 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 npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki New Zealand still dragging its feet while Pacific nations lead the way. Bit embarrassing, eh? High Seas Treaty takes effect as New Zealand misses the first vote https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/02/12/high-seas-treaty-takes-effect-as-new-zealand-misses-the-first-vote/ #ProtectTheOcean #GlobalOceanTreaty #BBNJ #oceans #NZPol npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki And now for some #goodNews on how the ocean can recover when it is given a chance to and how indigenous led initiatives can be the way forward for ocean protection. Sea life returns to Maitai Bay, eight years after local hapū declares unofficial fishing ban https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/586576/sea-life-returns-to-maitai-bay-eight-years-after-local-hapu-declares-unofficial-fishing-ban #ProtectTheOcean #oceans #Aotearoa npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Let's build our energy system around a brittle supply chain where we are the last link, requires complex refrigeration and transport of a toxic substance around the entire planet dealing with unstable geopolitics. Because the sun and the wind are too unreliable and expensive. Apparently that makes sense. #NZPol #FossilFools npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki The typo stays, goddammit. 😤 npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Imported LNG? Why, oh why, are we under the thumb of absolute #FossilFools? We could have energy independence with cheap offshore wind and solar power. We could phase out fossil fuels and transition to a carbon free economy. But not with these crapitalist bootlickers in charge. This is tying us to expensive imports of dirty fossils, subsidising war and sacrificing independence. 😩 #NZPol npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Feasting on the salty tears of my enemies (the mining lobby and their frustrated reckless extraction plans). For over a decade the community, experts and iwi have opposed this project in evety court available, through every stage of the process. Take a hint Alan Eggers, haere atu. Mining sector says Taranaki seabed plan rejection 'embarrassing' | RNZ News https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/586143/mining-sector-says-taranaki-seabed-plan-rejection-embarrassing #ProtectTheOcean #stopSeabedMining #oceans #NZPol npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki @nprofile…dr33 Much as I want to get rid of all kings, and colonial royalty, I agree this site looks very sus. In terms of a vision for the future of Aotearoa, I am much more for something like Matike Mai. https://matikemai.maori.nz/ npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki My happy place right now is imagining Alan Eggers (CEO of mining company TTR/Manuka Resources) on crisis call with Shane Jones yelling: "BuT yOU promised this Fast Track Bill of yours would sort it out!?" 😡 It may or not be happening... But it's an awesome win! #stopSeabedMining #ProtectTheOceans npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Some #goodNews for everyone but Shane Jones: Fast-track panel drafts refusal of Manuka’s Taranaki seabed mining bid https://archive.ph/2gfG5 🥳 When we stand together, we win! ✊🏽 #ProtectTheOcean #stopSeabedMining #oceans #NZPol npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Everything is fine. Climate change is a hoax by radical green extremists. Move along, nothing to see here. Drill, baby, drill, etc. /s Major insurer declines new home insurance policies for Blenheim https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/585844/major-insurer-declines-new-home-insurance-policies-for-blenheim #NZPol #FossilFools npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki I really enjoyed 28 Years Later. It is a weird film, but I think it build on the zombie genre and finds a unique balance of beauty, darkness, heart and silliness. From what I can see, people mostly hate it for plot holes and the bizarre ending. I will not spoil anything by going into details but i was willing to suspend disbelief a little to let the film explore this post apocalyptic zombie world. And the ending is bizarre, but it is clearly a cliffhanger for the Bone Temple, and in that sense it really does work. 8/10 good fun, would watch again. #film #movies #28YearsLater npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki @nprofile…xpag ohh such a great film! I wish I had that delivery. :) thanks for reminding me of it! npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki "BuT yOU CaLL EvErYOnE yOu dOn'T Like a FaSCisT" Categorically not true. I dislike a wide variety of people, and I'm quite willing to call them different names. For example I also don't like centrists, liberals, tories, prudes, tankies, brown-reds, purists, snobs, fossil fools, billionaires, golfers, and I'm very touch and go about motorists. #shitpost npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki And of course you'll get journalists painting this as "both sides", and "two groups of protesters". But one group had banners said "this is not China, this is not India, this is NZ". Same people who have stormed libraries to stop kids' events and pride parades where they were never invited. The other had banners saying "you're welcome here", and "uniting our communities". These are not at all the same thing and the media pretending they are by preserving "neutrality", "objectivity" and simply presenting both sides, is precisely how we got fascists in charge elsewhere. When one side preaches hate and the other love, when one side has a history of violence and actual convictions for it, while the other clearly doesn't... pretending you can stand in the middle is beyond cowardice. It's complicity. #NZPol npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki The current NZ government sure loves the delicious taste of those fascist boots. NZ in talks with US on Trump minerals deal https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/30/nz-in-talks-with-us-on-trump-minerals-deal/ #NZPol #warOnNature npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Yeah, but, what's a mere 900000 tonnes among friends? (as if you needed more evidence of how unserious this govt is about climate targets) 900,000-tonne miscalculation makes carbon target even tougher https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/585322/900-000-tonne-miscalculation-makes-carbon-target-even-tougher #NZPol #climateChange #FossilFools npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki My most important contribution to the Community Cycling Co-design group today was being the one participant who arrived and left the meeting by bike. 🚲 npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki A closure to allow rockpools to recover and a reassessment of existing regulation, which may need to be adjusted to the conditions of the natural environment. Not racist rhetoric, scapegoating and division, but meaningful action to protect natural life. Iwi push rāhui as Whangaparāoa rock pools stripped bare https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/01/26/iwi-push-rahui-as-whangaparaoa-rock-pools-stripped-bare/ #NZPol #protectTheOcean npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki NZ First doesn't usually care about the environment, you may remember Jones himself saying that frogs or kiwis aren't going to stand in the way of his profit motive. BUT, if he can blow the racist foghorn, then he might pretend to be concerned about wildlife. The racist rhetoric is being deployed again: must be an election year. Don't fall for it. Support Ngāti Manuhiri's proposed rāhui to allow life to recover, and ignore the noise about blaming ethnicities. Tired tropes and racist rhetoric: How Asians became scapegoats in the rockpool row https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/28-01-2026/tired-tropes-and-racist-rhetoric-how-asians-became-scapegoats-in-the-rockpool-row #NZPol npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki So cool that our "Climate Emergency Fund" has been used up by the Luxon govt to pay for tax cuts for landlords. Not that we need it because of recent events or anything. It's fine. /s #NZPol #climateChange #climateCrisis #fossilFools #oneTermGovt npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki "I hOpE eVErYOnE WhO didn't VoTE bLuE hAs lEaRneD ThEIR LESsOn." You mean the Democrats, who just voted for more ICE funding after a week of the fascist thugs on open rampage? The ones who caved on the shutdown with nothing to show for it? The ones who refused to even allow a Palestinian voice 5 minutes in their convention because they love genocide so much? 🤡 When will be time for the politicians to learn their lesson? Or is it just regular people who need to suffer and be scolded for the one time every four years they maybe get a "choice" between fascism and polite fascism? #USPol npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki I have plenty of criticism for Ardern, but she did know how to read the room and genuinely empathise with what was happening in the country. She was a leader. Imperfect and flawed, but she could lead. This lot? They are not even remotely trying to look like they care. #NZPol npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki just go have a look at the mainstream NZ news sites: Stuff, RNZ, Herald, One News, etc. All the headlines are currently mudslide, flooding, missing people, rescue operations. And next to those: Politicians on the (figurative) horse race, who leads the latest poll, the election date being announced, etc. It is like they live in a separate country. One where there are no emergencies and people aren't suffering, looking for their loved ones, wondering if they are even alive. I find it quite jarring. #NZPol npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki For anyone who wondered what the NACTFIRST coalition disaster response would be like, I guess now we know. They just don't. 'Leadership' completely Missing in Action. #NZPol npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki So... are we planning on doing anything about this whole 'climate change' thing, or nah? Weather bomb in pictures: North Island reels under torrential rain, flooding | RNZ News https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/584629/weather-bomb-in-pictures-north-island-reels-under-torrential-rain-flooding #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #FossilFools npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Perhaps controversial opinion but I am fine with Luxon not returning to work yet, or ever, to be quite honest. May he wander into the sea and never ever be seen again. #NZPol npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki You will get there one day, I know. I am patient. 🪷 🧘 #shitpost https://o.mastodon.nz/media_attachments/files/115/892/214/817/887/850/original/149a80a7c866042e.jpg npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki on that note, not among many peoples main things to look for when choosing a city... But one of my reasons to settle in Auckland (not the only one but a big one) was the awesome library network here. It is just so easy to navigate, so vast and complete. I love it. And librarians are consistently among the best people. So yeah, this is a Auckland City Libraries appreciation toot. #Libraries #loveYourLibrary #TamakiMakaurau npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Unfortunately I don't have a lot of disposable income for all the books I want. But I have a library card and my local library has a book request form... so you do the math. Time to put in a #solarpunk book wishlist request to Auckland City Libraries. 📖 🤓 npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Running a role playing campaign for the Little One and mum. Kiddo is really into it. Thank you once again @nprofile…d43q, the game is well loved in its new home. 😁 #parenting #ttrpg https://o.mastodon.nz/media_attachments/files/115/880/456/962/311/076/original/9ce1e4cd0811ddfc.jpg npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki The summer break is truly over when you open Zoom/Teams/Google Meet again. npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Crossroads | Song Around The World | Playing For Change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCisGFYDrKQ #JukeboxFridayNight #StepByStep npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Rocky Road to Dublin | Sinners (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iapw_hbyBjE #jukeboxFridayNight #StepByStep npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki I had to. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) https://youtu.be/D1Fw6CbGAX4 #JukeboxFridayNight #StepByStep npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Correr es mi destino para burlar la ley. Manu Chao – Clandestino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AzimrAgWbA #jukeboxFridayNight #StepByStep npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki @nprofile…qtg5 classic. 👕🩲 npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Quite likely the dumping is responsibility of a commercial trawler. 🙄 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/trail-of-dead-fish-found-off-great-barrier-island-hauraki-gulf-fisheries-nz-investigates/G6P7LRBODZBHVMGYICLQBT5NLM/ #ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #fisheries #Aotearoa #oceans npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Really sad to see this waste of fish, and likely to become a lot more common under the propopsed changes to fisheries rules that Minister Jones is pushing for. Fisheries NZ investigating report of illegal fish dumping https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/583307/fisheries-nz-investigating-report-of-illegal-fish-dumping #ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #fisheries #Aotearoa #oceans npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Twitter used to be the place where moments 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. 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. npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki @nprofile…je7u 100% npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Currently exercising my right to remain silent. 🤐 npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki The back cover of #Adbusters magazine has one more cool graphic . And the QR links here (website where you can spank Trump): https://www.abillionpeople.org/octopus/main #DefundTrump #GoodnightFarRight https://o.mastodon.nz/media_attachments/files/115/852/680/847/939/703/original/76930d008f48be23.jpg npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki From the latest #Adbusters. https://o.mastodon.nz/media_attachments/files/115/852/546/824/706/845/original/eb20b05bd576355b.jpg https://o.mastodon.nz/media_attachments/files/115/852/546/859/066/391/original/4c0f2f2f820c4b03.jpg npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Don't worry, appeasing the fascists will definitely work *this* time around. yeah, right. npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki I enjoy my work but also don't want the summer holiday to be over. 🏖️ npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki I did give out stars and boost the people I agree with (aka the Cool People Who Are Correct About Things). I might have also written a fulminating reply that shall remain in my drafts folder. Because I'm still human and needed to let things out somehow. But the medal still stands. npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki This is my medal for not getting myself into an useless fight online today: 🏅 npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Oh so it's not a war but just a "military operation" instead? A special one even? Wonder where I heard that before. 🤔 I'm close but I can't quite put in where it was used. npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki @nprofile…qtg5 enjoy! And don't get captured by the gringos, lol. npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Pay close attention at everyone in the Establishment, politicians and media, and especially those who were supposedly against Trump, saying "actually Maduro was very bad and needed to be removed" and "this oil will be put to good use" or something along those lines. They're not to be trusted. They never were. Not because Maduro was good. He sucks. But because this is about imperial control. About burning our planet for profit. And to them that matters more than anything else. npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki My 2026 resolution to cut back on news and doomscroll less is not going great. To put it mildly. npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki I hope at least everyone can clearly see why the struggle to end fossil fuels is the struggle for democracy and self determination is the struggle against inequality is the struggle against Imperialism is the struggle for a liveable planet is the struggle against fascism etc npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki I hope at least everyone can clearly see why the struggle to end fossil fuels is the struggle for democracy and self determination is the struggle against inequality is the struggle against Imperialism is the struggle for a liveable planet is the struggle against fascism etc npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Forced regime change has been an absolute disaster in every country it has been tried before. But this time it will work, right? That's what we're meant to believe? I've got a bridge to sell you too. npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki We joke but these strikes on Venezuela were what the actual Nobel Prize winner was calling for anyway. So Peace. Much Nobel. Very Prize. npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki Don't say: "How dare you refuse the sandwich that had less shit on it?" Say: "How dare they only offer shit sandwiches? We could have a sandwich with no shit in it, surely." npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki It's too late now to wish people a "Happy New Year". You still have time to say "Happy new war", though.