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Last Notes npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki ✅✅ @nprofile…hc46 I'd like my lawyer to be present, officer. npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki ✅✅ Look at these outstanding human beings! ✊️ 🐢 🌏️ #greenpeace #SaveScottReef #directAction #endFossilFuels https://o.mastodon.nz/media_attachments/files/117/471/402/858/957/634/original/0309b036e1fbfe9b.mp4 npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki ✅✅ @nprofile…xm73 the regulations should be made to the platforms to change their algorithms. The platforms are harmful for everyone. This is a privacy nightmare for everyone with exactly 0 gain, as has been demonstrated in other countries. npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki ✅✅ This failed in Australia, failed in the UK, so of course Luxon wants to do it and have it fail here too. 🙄 Evidence-based decisions? Not under their watch! Govt pushes ahead with social media ban for under-16s https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/1103002/govt-pushes-ahead-with-social-media-ban-for-under-16s #NZPol #ditchThePricksIn26 #voteThemOut npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki ✅✅ Just ACT party things, huh? Glad we're finally getting rid of all the red tape and improving efficiency. /s Daycare concerned after gun store unexpectedly moves in next door https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361021574/daycare-concerned-after-gun-store-unexpectedly-moves-next-door #NZPol #shitpost npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki ✅✅ In the past couple of weeks, Greenpeace Australia Pacific has reached out to me, offering a position working on their upcoming Rainbow Warrior tour. It is an exciting opportunity: I love being on that boat and getting up to shenanigans. So I have resigned at the Green Party campaign, and in a couple of weeks will be temporarily relocating to Australia (likely Naarm) for the duration of this new adventure. I hope the Greens get their best election result ever, and I leave in the best terms possible with the awesome team here. Now, I have to go confront some Fossil Fools across the ditch. 💚 You will surely hear about it soon. npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki ✅✅ When radical leftists take charge we'll ruthlessly provide health care, housing, food and education for everyone. Even our staunchest opponents. We are dogmatic extremists like that. npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki ✅✅ I have the full confidence of the caucus after my second vote of confidence just to double check confidence. Double confidence even. #NZPol #shitpost npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki ✅✅ I've got a really awesome caucus that fully supports me, but you wouldn't know them. They go to a different school. #NZPol #shitpost npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki ✅✅ I am not saying people should go to this meeting and ask Winston if he's vaccinated. 💉 I am just saying it would be very funny if that happened. 😈 #NZPol https://o.mastodon.nz/media_attachments/files/117/011/321/988/678/363/original/33edd10056180e74.jpeg npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki ✅✅ @nprofile…yzxf @nprofile…xpag... we were so young and innocent *sigh* npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki ✅✅ 'Does it even matter?' - you might think. Well, part of my job these days is to contact people who might want to volunteer with the Green Party. Sometimes we contact people who aren't keen, and that's OK. Sometimes though, we get Winston Peters' intended audience. This is from today. New Zealand: You've got a racism problem and the more you ignore it, the worse it will get. #NZPol #NZIsRacistAF https://o.mastodon.nz/media_attachments/files/117/007/191/273/332/688/original/ddaa88a4bfcc7d8a.jpg npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki ✅✅ NZFirst has for on this. Remember their open xenophobia against Menendez March not too long ago. NZ First refuses to back down over 'xenophobic' comments https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/540319/nz-first-refuses-to-back-down-over-xenophobic-comments #NZPol npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki ✅✅ Something like: Greens: Let's pause and check there's water and no crocodiles in the pool before we dive in. Luxon: That's alarmist. Greens push to pause big data centre consents, PM calls it 'alarmist' https://www.1news.co.nz/2026/07/26/greens-urge-freeze-on-large-scale-data-centre-consents-in-nz/ #NZPol #voteGreen npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki ✅✅ Bare minimum stuff, but no one else is saying it. 💚 ‘You can’t put that genie back in the bottle’: Greens call for one-year pause on AI data centres | Stuff https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361011111/genie-back-bottle-greens-call-one-year-pause-ai-data-centres #NZPol #voteGreen npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki ✅✅ @nprofile…r5lt @nprofile…e8mx agree, but for most people being an MP likely won't be their first job. And for most people, a union would likely be useful in their first job. I like the idea that the default is to be unionised rather than not (the policy is clear that anyone is free to opt out, no questions asked), because it will build a solid base for improving working conditions in general, and would be a step to start to counter balance the massive power imbalance that benefits owners of capital today. 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 ✅✅ Kia ora e hoa mā. I've joined the Green Party's election campaign until November. It'll be interesting to be on the front line building the movement to change the government and aim for an Aotearoa that looks after all of us, including nature and people alike! If I get too noisy or annoying, feel free to mute me. .. No hard feelings, I get it. But hopefully you won't. 😉 Anyway, let's get rid of the fossil fools in charge, #VoteGreen 💚 #NZPol 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 ✅✅ @nprofile…qtg5 creo que no? Hay "chivo expiatorio" pero no es sólo para Colombia. npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki ✅✅ Last year I joined #InternetNZ to vote against the racist bigots. Haven't really done much with my subscription since then, but apparently it is now time to renew it. With all the redundancy and job insecurity happening in my life I don't think I will be in a position of throwing $21 at it right now, so I think I will let it lapse. Hopefully the bigots have given up on their hostile takeover. Or at least there are enough of you lovely woke nerds to outvote them. I might join again next year if I have a job and a spare few dollars. This year I truly don't. Fight for the Internet, friends. Sorry I can't do it right now. npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki ✅✅ @nprofile…je7u one thing I like about the idea is that I could potentially still be contributing to environmental goals like decarbonisation and energy transition, while hopefully achieving a bit more job security. npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki ✅✅ So the Little One just had their first baby tooth fall off. 🦷 In Colombia, it is not a fairy but a mouse that comes for teeth an exchanges them for money. (Raton Perez) But I worry that biosecurity will not let them through. 🐭 Anyone aware of the going rates for the local tooth fairy in New Zealand? are they affected by inflation and supply chain logistics? 🧚 #parenting npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki ✅✅ Nonsensical oil crisis response from the coalition #NZPol - If you take things out of your car, it will be lighter and use less petrol. - If you allow heavier loads in trucks they can carry more things and use less petrol too. Very good logic here. They have clearly thought this through. We are in good hands.... not. #fossilFools npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki ✅✅ But I thought they really really hated potholes? We're about to get loads more of them. Government looks to cut heavy vehicle regulations as part of fuel response https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/593502/government-looks-to-cut-heavy-vehicle-regulations-as-part-of-fuel-response #NZPol #FossilFools npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki ✅✅ Another week, another weather crisis. And yet, not a peep about climate action, because the climate denying #fossilFools are still in charge. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/weather/593294/weather-orange-heavy-rain-warning-for-parts-of-north-island This doesn't stop until we take meaningful action. And it starts by getting these corrupt stooges out of power. #NZPol #climateCrisis 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 ✅✅ This is the most Taco Tuesday a Taco Tuesday has ever Taco Tuesdayed. 🌮 #shitpost #TACO npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki ✅✅ Once: proudly Nuclear Free, whatever the diplomatic consequences. Now: standing by quietly while the crumbling fascist regime threatens "destruction of a civilisation". Are we back on track yet? #NZPol #howFarWeHaveFallen npub17p9zsde5arqh5wslxgrwah0a0nn6dy72lgjaukxpx4umeppww3esmfl2d3 Ika Makimaki ✅✅ 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 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 ✅✅ 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 ✅✅ 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 ✅✅ 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 ✅✅ @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 ✅✅ 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 ✅✅ 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 ✅✅ @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 ✅✅ @nprofile…qtg5 OMG you brought one back!? 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 ✅✅ @nprofile…lhfg @nprofile…r0uz absolutely, I don't blame the people who do it. They might have good reasons. I blame the culture that made it reasonable or even necessary. 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 ✅✅ "We're absolutely heartbroken about the lives lost and the suffering caused by recent storms caused by wild and unpredictable weather. We extend our deepest sympathy to those affected. Who could have ever foreseen this? Anyway, we're restarting oil exploration, mining on conservation land, increasing dependence on coal and expensive natural gas, gutting any environmental legislation left, increasing the extent of dairy operations and also doing seabed mining instead of renewable energy." - Christopher Luxon, probably. #NZPol 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 ✅✅ 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 ✅✅ Correr es mi destino para burlar la ley. Manu Chao – Clandestino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AzimrAgWbA #jukeboxFridayNight #StepByStep 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 ✅✅ This is my medal for not getting myself into an useless fight online today: 🏅