Alex Winter-Billington
@hukapapa.bsky.social
Here to be entertained
She/her/ia
Ngati Kahungunu ki Wairoa me pākehā
Mana motuhake
Post-doctoral researcher of debris-covered glaciers
https://radicalactiongrants.wordpress.com
She/her/ia
Ngati Kahungunu ki Wairoa me pākehā
Mana motuhake
Post-doctoral researcher of debris-covered glaciers
https://radicalactiongrants.wordpress.com
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This is real GDP per capita for NZ since 1960. There is no way we should be being told we can't afford services.
September 10, 2025 at 6:19 AM
This is real GDP per capita for NZ since 1960. There is no way we should be being told we can't afford services.
“Friendliness is homo sapiens’ superpower” says Dr. Ella Al-Shamahi on BBC Humans -excellent series. And that’s why Trumpism will ultimately fail!
August 26, 2025 at 6:55 AM
“Friendliness is homo sapiens’ superpower” says Dr. Ella Al-Shamahi on BBC Humans -excellent series. And that’s why Trumpism will ultimately fail!
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I remember, what, fifteen years ago the issue of pumping fucking heaps of fertilizer and growth shit into paddocks was cited as making waterways unswimmable and water undrinkable by the Greens and this was dismissed as alarmist radical left nonsense WELL GUESS WHAT MOTHERFUCKERS
Alternative drinking water sources are being sought by councils as nitrate pollution worsens - but one academic warns authorities they cannot “engineer their way” out of a looming crisis. #drinkingwater @
www.thepress.co.nz/environment/...
www.thepress.co.nz/environment/...
Nitrates pollution: ‘It’s not like you can engineer your way out of the issue’
Nitrate pollution in drinking water is increasing across Canterbury, forcing local councils to find alternative water sources. But it’s a band-aid to a bigger problem, an expert says
www.thepress.co.nz
August 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I remember, what, fifteen years ago the issue of pumping fucking heaps of fertilizer and growth shit into paddocks was cited as making waterways unswimmable and water undrinkable by the Greens and this was dismissed as alarmist radical left nonsense WELL GUESS WHAT MOTHERFUCKERS
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What cutting cycleways would really save ratepayers
Answer: 3/5ths of naff all as these excellent graphs show
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
Answer: 3/5ths of naff all as these excellent graphs show
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
August 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
What cutting cycleways would really save ratepayers
Answer: 3/5ths of naff all as these excellent graphs show
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
Answer: 3/5ths of naff all as these excellent graphs show
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
Got a spam email to submit to the journal of otolaryngology. Spam, or maybe the personhood for nature movement is so advanced there’s a whole new discipline emerging of ear and throat treatment for landforms?!
August 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Got a spam email to submit to the journal of otolaryngology. Spam, or maybe the personhood for nature movement is so advanced there’s a whole new discipline emerging of ear and throat treatment for landforms?!
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#BREAKING: We are calling on the Prime Minister to show leadership by removing Brooke van Velden as Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety, following her recent comments that politicise the Employment Relations Authority and breach the Cabinet Manual. 1/6
August 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM
#BREAKING: We are calling on the Prime Minister to show leadership by removing Brooke van Velden as Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety, following her recent comments that politicise the Employment Relations Authority and breach the Cabinet Manual. 1/6
Wow that’s intense. Did not know.
August 21, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Wow that’s intense. Did not know.
Lol yes paired with American Psycho, spot on
This year is Lolita's 70th birthday, and I have a theory that this is the book that explains the culture wars www.vox.com/culture/4584...
The scandalous literary classic we’ve never stopped arguing about
The novel published 70 years ago that still explains America.
www.vox.com
August 21, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Lol yes paired with American Psycho, spot on
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All these new planes and helicopters cost just a little over three times the price of not getting a ferry. Killer deal.
Watch: Judith Collins and Winston Peters reveal new $2.7b planes and helicopters
Live: Judith Collins and Winston Peters have revealed the planes chosen to replace the Defence Force's ageing 757s, and a fleet of helicopters to be based on NZ's frigates.
www.rnz.co.nz
August 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
All these new planes and helicopters cost just a little over three times the price of not getting a ferry. Killer deal.
Sorry, which economists, Minister? What data is that? Show us?
“They don’t have to believe me, I’m a politician. But they can look at what all of the economists and the data are saying. It is objective data that says things are absolutely getting better”
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
“They don’t have to believe me, I’m a politician. But they can look at what all of the economists and the data are saying. It is objective data that says things are absolutely getting better”
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Stuff
www.stuff.co.nz
August 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Sorry, which economists, Minister? What data is that? Show us?
“They don’t have to believe me, I’m a politician. But they can look at what all of the economists and the data are saying. It is objective data that says things are absolutely getting better”
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
“They don’t have to believe me, I’m a politician. But they can look at what all of the economists and the data are saying. It is objective data that says things are absolutely getting better”
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
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it really is amazing that NZ has had a government as long as we have, without them realizing that teacher strikes can be prevented with decent pay offers!
Sometimes the simplest connections are the hardest to make!
Sometimes the simplest connections are the hardest to make!
August 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
it really is amazing that NZ has had a government as long as we have, without them realizing that teacher strikes can be prevented with decent pay offers!
Sometimes the simplest connections are the hardest to make!
Sometimes the simplest connections are the hardest to make!
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Number of people unemployed? 'Higher for longer' as the chorus of ghouls requested. Note that RBNZ appear to think that 140,000 is the right number to settle on. That's enough desperate people on the dole to suppress workers' bargaining power. Ace. [2/n]
August 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Number of people unemployed? 'Higher for longer' as the chorus of ghouls requested. Note that RBNZ appear to think that 140,000 is the right number to settle on. That's enough desperate people on the dole to suppress workers' bargaining power. Ace. [2/n]
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The argument against regulation is always the same: “It stifles growth and jobs.”
But just as tax cuts for corporations have not trickled down, regulatory cuts have not benefited most people.
Big companies enjoy bigger profits. Working people bear the costs.
But just as tax cuts for corporations have not trickled down, regulatory cuts have not benefited most people.
Big companies enjoy bigger profits. Working people bear the costs.
August 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The argument against regulation is always the same: “It stifles growth and jobs.”
But just as tax cuts for corporations have not trickled down, regulatory cuts have not benefited most people.
Big companies enjoy bigger profits. Working people bear the costs.
But just as tax cuts for corporations have not trickled down, regulatory cuts have not benefited most people.
Big companies enjoy bigger profits. Working people bear the costs.
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Well this is what happens when you fire our public servants. But at least your landlord mates and non-existent boats got funded.
Way to go Luxon and Willis. Really top notch mahi.
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3607... (paywall)
Way to go Luxon and Willis. Really top notch mahi.
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3607... (paywall)
Wellington’s hospo has never had it so bad, closed bar owner says
Avida Bar shut in May and is now in liquidation, as Wellingtonians stay home or bring a paper bag lunch to work rather than eat out, the owner says.
www.thepost.co.nz
August 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Well this is what happens when you fire our public servants. But at least your landlord mates and non-existent boats got funded.
Way to go Luxon and Willis. Really top notch mahi.
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3607... (paywall)
Way to go Luxon and Willis. Really top notch mahi.
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3607... (paywall)
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1. Willis has spent $25bn in this budget & plans another $72bn. Without pay equity cuts they would have been at ~$110bn debt in ~5 years. Labour was at $88bn in 6 years, including a $70bn #Covid package for NZ thestandard.org.nz/nicola-willi...
thestandard.org.nz
August 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
1. Willis has spent $25bn in this budget & plans another $72bn. Without pay equity cuts they would have been at ~$110bn debt in ~5 years. Labour was at $88bn in 6 years, including a $70bn #Covid package for NZ thestandard.org.nz/nicola-willi...
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Did you know that already more than 1000 glaciers have disappeared in Switzerland over the last 50 years as a consequence of human-caused climate change?
One of those is Pizolgletscher which I visited today. Always a saddening yet impressive sight...
One of those is Pizolgletscher which I visited today. Always a saddening yet impressive sight...
August 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Did you know that already more than 1000 glaciers have disappeared in Switzerland over the last 50 years as a consequence of human-caused climate change?
One of those is Pizolgletscher which I visited today. Always a saddening yet impressive sight...
One of those is Pizolgletscher which I visited today. Always a saddening yet impressive sight...
Heat is so overrated.
August 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Heat is so overrated.
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🌡️ 🌀 🔥 We know climate disruption is real and that business as usual is insanity.
Our lack of climate action is costing us so much in terms of lives, livelihoods and our economy. At the moment the cost of climate related disasters globally is $USD 38 trillion.
#EndCoal #StopFossilFuels
Our lack of climate action is costing us so much in terms of lives, livelihoods and our economy. At the moment the cost of climate related disasters globally is $USD 38 trillion.
#EndCoal #StopFossilFuels
August 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
🌡️ 🌀 🔥 We know climate disruption is real and that business as usual is insanity.
Our lack of climate action is costing us so much in terms of lives, livelihoods and our economy. At the moment the cost of climate related disasters globally is $USD 38 trillion.
#EndCoal #StopFossilFuels
Our lack of climate action is costing us so much in terms of lives, livelihoods and our economy. At the moment the cost of climate related disasters globally is $USD 38 trillion.
#EndCoal #StopFossilFuels