Zooey Neumann
@zoomoo.bsky.social
Lost in the woods. Still hopeful 💚 Greenie, West Aucklander, immigrant
Classrooms are not Social Faraday Cages for kids. Whatevers going on Out There gets brought In Here. Job insecurity, cost of living, addiction, DV, intergenerational trauma - that's all coming in with that child, and that's a lot of mental load before you even begin to start the educational stuff.
Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
I think by rights we need to now exhibit his flailed, de-skinned and preserved human body 🤔
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 7d agoGunther von Hagens, the scientist behind the popular and polarizing traveling exhibitions of human corpses, has died at 81.
Peters is a stain on this country. It should be an eternal embarrassment that a Deputy Prime Minister and FOREIGN AFFAIRS Minister utters, and is allowed to utter, disgusting slurs and racist comments with no consequence. FFS
Nothing good happens? Except things become DELICIOUS 😋
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last wk.Column: If you add sugar to your diet, nothing good happens. But it’s also hard to find compelling evidence that sugar is much worse than other kinds of carbohydrates.
Really insighful from Simon Wilson. Predatory delay - it's everywhere. In other news my brother has to evacuate their camp ground in France today, with his two little girls, because of the wildfires. No biggie.
Simon Wilson@simonbwilson.bsky.social · last wk.ICYMI over the weekend I posted on Substack about Auckland Council’s new housing density plan, agricultural emissions, the cement bailout and the thing that has characterised them all: predatory delay on climate action by the powerful. Free to read simonwilsonhopetown.substack.com/p/housing-fo...
France is on fire. Spain is on fire. Norway is on fire. Sicily is on fire. Ontario is on fire. Scotland is on fire. Bolivia is on fire. Algeria is on fire. England is on fire. Greta wasn't wrong when she said our house was on fire. We are in a climate emergency. - Greenpeace UK
This is sort of a reverse fox/henhouse situation 🫠
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 2w agoACT wants hunters in charge of game animals on conservation land, not DOC
This is such good news. I'm a habitual worrier, so it's great to see a rare case where the worst case scenario does not come to pass
Prof. Michael Fuhrer@michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social · 2w agoBut, to be clear, there is no evidence that the pandemic left those who survived it worse off in terms of mortality (e.g. due to "airborne AIDS" causing immune damage, vaccines causing "turbo cancer"). In 2025, people in the US of every age were less likely to die than counterparts in 2019. 7/
The climate commission report out today shows emissions reductions almost coming to a standstill in 2024 as the Govt’s war on climate policy had its predicted impact. Dairy emissions are up. 2025 numbers will be worse. It is grossly immoral for NZ Govt to undermine global climate efforts.
So.. Failed Climate goals Failed inflation Failed Ferries Failed Health Failed Water Failed Pay equality Failed Curriculum Failed Police Failed Child Poverty Failed Homeless #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/governmen...
Govt rejects all of Climate Change Commission's emissions target recommendations
A tougher 2050 net-negative goal for carbon dioxide has been rejected.
nzherald.co.nz
This is so outrageous. They really are a pack of ghouls. Just vandals.
Sacha@sachadylan.bsky.social · 2w agoResource laws now ban Councils from working with those pesky Māori. #NzPol
No sooner had the Govt decimated environmental protections in the new Planning & Natural Environment Bills, they drop the bombshell that Manawhakahono ā rohe agreements will be scrapped too (literally minutes after select committee had agreed to uphold them...including national and act members) ☠️☠️
Bryce is right here, we have been massively let down in the West. "With more density come better services!" they said. The shape of the development is crappy, and the services have not arrived. We have Moa Point-sized overflows on the regular. And it's still an hour and a half into town by PT.
Bryce@brycepearce.bsky.social · 2w agoIf I had any inkling of that, I would have opposed the intensification of Te Atatu Peninsula. We’ve been let down. Massively. So to see some people defend some largely modified weatherboard houses in an area that has had such huge infrastructure spend, is a slap in the face.
Fantastic article about how we used to look after our young people 💔, and what parts of the 1970 we won't be bringing back, thanks!!
Dr Bex@drbex.bsky.social · 2w ago100% Literally wrote about the same this morning! open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...
Yes please! We also need staff who can help people enroll - 40% of special votes cast last time were disallowed
RNZ News (Unofficial)@radionz.nzcow.com · 2w ago📢 In a bid to turn around its most dismal voter turnout since its establishment in 2010, Auckland Council is considering the introduction of general election-style polling booths.
Which investment is more likely to help make NZ more prosperous and happier: A century of new scientific research across the nation, or an unnecessary duplicate road in rural Auckland?
Connor Sharp@connorsharp.bsky.social · 3w agoIf they sign one of the RoNS which might actually happen, Warkworth to Te Hana, as a Public Private Partnership, the annual payments for that could be over $300m per year, for 25 years+ So yeahhhhh enough money for the Marsden fund for 100 years on one road...
If only a dedicated group of scientists had warned us about the record heat, torrential flooding, continental scale wildfires, and apocalyptic orange skies
German kids assemble ✊ (nb this looks awful but well, I am a curmudgeon)
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 3w agoMomo is a fantastic book, and if the story feels derivative in 2026, it's because most modern YA fantasy is its direct descendant. Sadly this film looks relentlessly literal, which IMO does the book a disservice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO4n...
Any political party want to announce David Bain as a candidate this is the year for it probably
No, Luxon is not primarily the problem. The problem is record poverty, unemployment, homelessness, a health system on its knees, a plan to strip conservation lands, and zero effort towards climate action while we are being pummelled by a weather event every 8 days. Great angle, RNZ.
RNZ News (Unofficial)@radionz.nzcow.com · 3w ago📢 Analysis: National appears to be baked in as a party of 30 or below with at least eight reputable polls this year, including the recent RNZ-Reid Research, having the party slump into the 20s.
