Phil Garnock-Jones
@theobrominated.eurosky.social
Botanist, retired academic. Author of "He Puāwai, a natural history of New Zealand flowers" (Auckland University Press, 2025) illustrated with >500 stereo pair photographs. 🎸🌺🌱 Whakatū, Aotearoa. orcid.org/0000-0002-2539-4152
Hey Siri, who was in power when unemployment was last this horrifically high? … The same people? But I thought they were good at the economy?
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 17h agoNational backs its policies as unemployment rises to 11-year high
FFS we cannot keep doing this… A handful of the richest people hoovering up wealth from everyone else while quite literally making the planet unlivable At what point does someone grow a fucking spine and do something?!
Unemployment at its highest level for 11 years, did I see? And THAT INCLUDES THE COVID AND LOCKDOWN TIMES. Thanks to the Ardern government that protected jobs and businesses at the time.
And you can’t imagine how many Russіan wаr crіmes the world never sees because there is no camera recording them. Yet after all of this, many people still talk about russian culture. Wake up…
#nzpol But hey, let’s cover the country in hyperscale AI data centres. Monorail, monorail, monorail 🤦🏽♀️
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 19h agoTranspower issues power warning
It's publication day! The 3rd edition of "The Scientist's Guide to Writing" is available TODAY. It's expanded and it's as up-to-date as I can make it. If you've been using this book - thank you. If you haven't: today is a great time to start! scientistseessquirre... 🧪🌍
It’s publication day! “The Scientist’s Guide to Writing”, 3rd edition
Some things don’t ever get old, and I can tell you that publication day for one of your books is one of those things. Today is that day: the new 3rd edition of The Scientist’s Guide to Writing is o…
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In the November elections, to be radical is to be pragmatic.
There's a "Four Seasons Nail Salon" in Coastlands. Just saying.
Asher@asherwilsongoldman.bsky.social · 2d agoSurely the Prime Minister could have found and booked a big venue for his Kāpiti public meeting that wasn't Jevon McSkimming's church...
My partner took this between Waipara and Amberley on state highway 1 this morning.
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A generation being disenfranchised in plain sight
Enrolment of 18-24 year olds for Nov 7 election collapses to 53% from 70%; Over 200,000 young people not enrolled = more than voted NZ First in 2023; Auckland Council vote turnout under 20% for young
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My favourite for those “add a letter, spoil a band” games.
Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷@paullecomtephoto.nz · 2d agoWhat a fucking band!
A female Physoptera (Phoridae) showing off/advertising her presence, by releasing pheromones through her abdominal glands (the yellow stripes on her abdomen). As you can see they have reduced abdominal plates (tergites) that allow these glands to expand #FlySchool2026 @dipteracourse.bsky.social
In a cozy motel at Hanmer Springs tonight with the prospect of a snowy drive to Christchurch in the morning. I’ll be talking to the Canterbury Horticultural Society about flowers tomorrow evening at 6 and Wednesday at 1. Then on to Dunedin.
Dear Australian news media, I have zero interest in your daily coverage of everything Pauline Hanson says and does. Yes, report her policies (when she releases them). But also report the policies of the Greens too. For balance. With some factual analysis of both. Do some bloody #journalism! #auspol
Across arthropods, sperm often work in coordinated groups rather than alone. This cooperative strategy appears to have evolved repeatedly over roughly 600 million years, but why it arises remains unclear. doi.org/hcdbx9
A cooperative approach to reproductive success
Fertilization is often imagined as a frantic race, with millions of sperm competing for a single prize. But new research by a team of evolutionary biologists from Syracuse University, the University of Siena in Italy and the University of Szeged in Hungary reveals a more surprising reality, where success can depend less on competition and more on cooperation.
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"Basically, if you don't do politics, politics is going to do you." If you don’t do politics, the over 70’s will design a society that they’ll never see the consequences of, but will have you living a more expensive, unhealthy & oppressive existence than you are facing right now.YOUR VOTE MATTERS.
Pterostylis barbata - Bird Orchid The Bird Orchid has to be one of our more unique looking orchids but you can certainly see where its common name comes from. Endemic to the southwest of Western Australia, flowering July to September. #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #bloomscrolling 🌿
Let's draw a line in the sand. No mining on public Conservation land. If this Coal-alition Government actually listened to kiwis, this would be a no brainer. It's in our nature to care for eachother and te taiao environment. For all of us 🐝🦋🌳🐧👶
I can’t find any simpler way of saying what I need to say than: when you vote, this election? Think of the children. All of them; explicitly the children you can not help in person. Other people’s children. Vote for them? 🙏
Why is Luxoff allowed to get away with this unchallenged? "We're getting inflation back into the band. We're at 2.9 percent, strip out the fuel prices" You can't just cheat the figures and ignore bits to pretend you're on target #nzpol
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's 'parent-child mentality' description of NZ businesses 'valid' in some cases - Seymour
The prime minister's office is defending comments Christopher Luxon made to Rotorua businesspeople that New Zealand businesses had a "parent-child mentality" and looked too often to the government for...
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The Great Replacement theory is racist, deeply misogynistic, and explicitly linked to anti-abortion and reproductive control. It’s important to say the quiet part out loud - this government has given plenty of reasons to be confident these views will be further embedded if power is retained. #nzpol
henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 4d agoWinston Peters wants to pay people up to $45k, tax free, to have three kids. It’s a policy with a very nativist bent that will naturally draw comparisons to the “great replacement theory” conspiracy. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...
grrr...that prick has blocked every pro-child anti-poverty measure that has crossed his desk for decades. If women aren't having kids it's in no small measure due to the shitty anti-child conditions he and his ilk have created. Women aren't going to fall for this garbage. #nzpol
Bruce Buckman@brucebuckman.bsky.social · 4d agoI assume we’re not far away from NZF producing propaganda posters extolling young women to breed for the fatherland. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...
And a rail network , post office in every town, family benefit. All achieved with a population half what it is now.
David Mohring@nzheretic.bsky.social · 4d agoYou mean the generation complaining about the demographic situation that had near-free supported tertiary education,widespread apprenticeships,relatively low cost entry into the housing market & parents who grew up in the age of full employment government policy? [ bsky.app/profile/nzhe... ] #nzpol
There is no denting the self-belief of this man www.davidslack.net/there-is-no-...
There is no denting the self-belief of this man
It’s pure reflex now. I see our Prime Minister and I think, You are just so full of it. Polling suggests I’m not alone. But there is no denting the self-belief of this man who imagines himself a her...
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