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New Zealand MPs who performed haka in parliament given record suspensions | New Zealand | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/05/new-zealand-mps-who-performed-haka-in-parliament-given-record-suspensions

cruxrgxx – FLESH DOLL
#byncnd

New Zealand prime minister Ardern was grappling with whether to go:
“Something had been loosened worldwide,” she says,
with rage everywhere,
public servants being followed and attacked,
as if they were “somehow distinct from being human”.
We all recognise this rage,
but Ardern was at the centre of it,
representing progressive politics, tough Covid measures, empathy, emotion, anti-racism, femaleness;
a symbol of a different time, more rational…

Final Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Mad Max
https://ift.tt/il9ba5q
Call for contributions Title: Theology, Religion, and Mad Max: Rising from the Ashes Edited by: Yael…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Final Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Mad Max
Call for contributions Title:  Theology, Religion, and Mad Max: Rising from the Ashes Edited by: Yael Thomas Cameron, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand; Vernon W. Cisney, Get…

New Zealand-based Halter, which provides smart collars and geofencing software for the dairy industry, raised a $100M Series D led by Bond at a $1B valuation (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

In Bolzano I stayed next door to a Santner; in my next town, Florence, was near a Vettori. It felt like being in New Zealand, but also tells you what a great cricketing nation Italy could have been. #Italy25

The New York Times' games team is testing a Scrabble-like game called Crossplay in a separate app from the main NYT Games, soft launching in New Zealand on iOS (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/games/682063/the-new-york-…

The New York Times is starting to test its take on Scrabble
The New York Times is launching a Scrabble-like game it calls Crossplay in New Zealand. It is also testing a logic game called Pips.

I’m at the point now where I inherently distrust any white man with a bad haircut. https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/114743381099800265

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17600 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eco…

Towards post-growth policymaking: Barriers and enablers for wellbeing economy and Doughnut economics government initiatives
Providing wellbeing for all while safeguarding planetary boundaries may require governments to pursue post-growth policies. To understand how post-growth policymaking can be fostered, we examine wellbeing economy and Doughnut economics government initiatives across governance scales in Europe, New Zealand, and Canada. To identify political dimensions of barriers and enablers as well as priorities for future action, we apply a framework that distinguishes polity, politics, and policy to analyze …

For #MusicWomenWednesday this week, the raw, ripping hardcore punk EP 'Rest in Piss' put out in 2023 by Wellington, New Zealand's PISS BABY. It's riffy, it's dynamic, it's angry, it's short, it's worth a listen.

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 71 nodes and 148 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Help Stop New Zealand’s Sheep Abuse! #AnimalRights #sheep

Help Stop New Zealand’s Sheep Abuse
PETA exposed New Zealand shearers beating, stomping on, and throwing sheep – urge brands like Helly Hansen and Fjällräven to drop wool now.

New Zealand-based Xero, which offers accounting software for small businesses, agrees to acquire payments software company Melio in a $2.5B cash-and-stock deal (Rajasik Mukherjee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactiona

There's a mysterious 'carbon sink' in the hinterlands of the South Island... absorbing more carbon than expected... I'm following this research with interest. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/564407…

Captain Cook’s Ship ‘Endeavour’ Finally Located After 250 Years Sunken off Coast of Rhode Island https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/captain-cooks-ship-endeavour-finally-located-after-250-years-off-rhode-island/

Captain Cook's Ship ‘Endeavour’ Finally Located After 250 Years off Rhode Island
In just his first voyage with Endeavor, he charted the coastline of eastern Australia, and circumnavigated both New Zealand islands.

UK and partners unite to sanction ministers inciting West Bank violence - GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-and-partners-unite-to-sanction-ministers-inciting-west-bank-violence

UK and partners unite to sanction ministers inciting West Bank violence
UK sanctions Israeli government ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich in response to their repeated incitements of violence against Palestinian communities, alongside partners Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Edward Elgar, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra & James Judd:
🎵 Moths and Butterflies (The Wand of Youth Suite No 2)
#EdwardElgar #NewZealandSymphonyOrchestra #JamesJudd

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 105 nodes and 343 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 71 nodes and 155 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

dolphins: Dolphin social network (1994-2001)
An undirected social network of frequent associations observed among 62 dolphins (Tursiops) in a community living off Doubtful Sound, New Zealand, from 1994-2001.
This network has 62 nodes and 159 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dolphins…

Final Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Mad Max
https://ift.tt/6kUJHrG
Call for contributions Title: Theology, Religion, and Mad Max: Rising from the Ashes Edited by: Yael…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Final Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Mad Max
Call for contributions Title:  Theology, Religion, and Mad Max: Rising from the Ashes Edited by: Yael Thomas Cameron, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand; Vernon W. Cisney, Get…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra & Antoni Wit:
🎵 Song of love and death (Eternal Songs)
#MieczyslawKarlowicz #NewZealandSymphonyOrchestra #AntoniWit

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Chantal Juillet, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra & Franz-Paul Decker:
🎵 Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35
#ErichWolfgangKorngold #ChantalJuillet
https://open.spotify.com/track/4p5S3E8iuXLnpXr4TstIOL