@mikepole.bsky.social
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“When you cut nearly 400 jobs in MPI, it's going to make a big, big impact, & the Luxon Govt needs to just admit that it was wrong, step up & fund them properly, & just throw everything at it that they can to eliminate these hornets, before next summer." #nzpol
Conservationist Brad Windust slams Biosecurity NZ over hornet response
Former Far North beekeeper and pest trapper Brad Windust is sounding the alarm over a lack of urgency shown by authorities over eradicating the pest.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
“When you cut nearly 400 jobs in MPI, it's going to make a big, big impact, & the Luxon Govt needs to just admit that it was wrong, step up & fund them properly, & just throw everything at it that they can to eliminate these hornets, before next summer." #nzpol
“Investors should run from any company that would employ these tactics to smear completely reasonable critics”
You have to laugh at some of the quotes in this piece about the smear campaign against critics of @itiscolossal.bsky.social. George Church says Ben Lamm "has faced technical hurdles and skeptics with respect & humor" www.gmwatch.org/en/106-news/... 1/2
Dark PR attacks on critics of 10-billion-dollar biotech Goliath
Debunkers of de-extinction disinformation hit by vicious campaign of intimidation. Report: Jonathan Matthews
www.gmwatch.org
October 31, 2025 at 1:55 AM
“Investors should run from any company that would employ these tactics to smear completely reasonable critics”
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Mark Mitchell wants to cut down all the trees around powerlines.
How about we force lines companies to invest in undergrounding critical infrastructure like they should have been doing for the last 30 years.
We need more trees for biodiversity, wind breaks & reducing urban heat islands, not less.
How about we force lines companies to invest in undergrounding critical infrastructure like they should have been doing for the last 30 years.
We need more trees for biodiversity, wind breaks & reducing urban heat islands, not less.
October 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Mark Mitchell wants to cut down all the trees around powerlines.
How about we force lines companies to invest in undergrounding critical infrastructure like they should have been doing for the last 30 years.
We need more trees for biodiversity, wind breaks & reducing urban heat islands, not less.
How about we force lines companies to invest in undergrounding critical infrastructure like they should have been doing for the last 30 years.
We need more trees for biodiversity, wind breaks & reducing urban heat islands, not less.
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Possibly the most epic sunset I've ever captured. A mothership lenticular cloud above the Māniatoto plains looking at Pātearoa Rock & Pillar Range, Central Otago New Zealand
#Nikon #GreatNZRoadie #Weather #NZ
paullecomtephoto.nz
(available on my site)
#Nikon #GreatNZRoadie #Weather #NZ
paullecomtephoto.nz
(available on my site)
October 20, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Possibly the most epic sunset I've ever captured. A mothership lenticular cloud above the Māniatoto plains looking at Pātearoa Rock & Pillar Range, Central Otago New Zealand
#Nikon #GreatNZRoadie #Weather #NZ
paullecomtephoto.nz
(available on my site)
#Nikon #GreatNZRoadie #Weather #NZ
paullecomtephoto.nz
(available on my site)
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"A single devastating ferret attack has left a flagship Waikato conservation project reeling after it wiped out half a vital seabird colony in a bloody rampage." 🌏
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360853922/lone-survivor-dragged-away-killing-rampage
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360853922/lone-survivor-dragged-away-killing-rampage
October 16, 2025 at 8:00 AM
"A single devastating ferret attack has left a flagship Waikato conservation project reeling after it wiped out half a vital seabird colony in a bloody rampage." 🌏
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360853922/lone-survivor-dragged-away-killing-rampage
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360853922/lone-survivor-dragged-away-killing-rampage
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Thatcher said "The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."
The trouble with capitalism is that if you run out of other people's money, you can do it again with a new limited company
The trouble with capitalism is that if you run out of other people's money, you can do it again with a new limited company
October 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Thatcher said "The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."
The trouble with capitalism is that if you run out of other people's money, you can do it again with a new limited company
The trouble with capitalism is that if you run out of other people's money, you can do it again with a new limited company
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Local news report that Timur, the boy killed today, had lost his dad two years ago.
His mum was raising him alone, in Kyiv, and they had come to Kramatorsk to visit his grandmother, who was also injured in the attack.
His mum was raising him alone, in Kyiv, and they had come to Kramatorsk to visit his grandmother, who was also injured in the attack.
July 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Local news report that Timur, the boy killed today, had lost his dad two years ago.
His mum was raising him alone, in Kyiv, and they had come to Kramatorsk to visit his grandmother, who was also injured in the attack.
His mum was raising him alone, in Kyiv, and they had come to Kramatorsk to visit his grandmother, who was also injured in the attack.
Last night I met the first kiwi in my time in Ukraine - the journalist Tom Mutch (@tomthescribe). He’s just, in the past week, published what may be the first comprehensive history of the war: The Dogs of Mariupol. amazon.com/Dogs-Mariupol-…
June 27, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Last night I met the first kiwi in my time in Ukraine - the journalist Tom Mutch (@tomthescribe). He’s just, in the past week, published what may be the first comprehensive history of the war: The Dogs of Mariupol. amazon.com/Dogs-Mariupol-…
Yesterday I got back to Lviv, after a nearly 16 hour train trip from Kharkiv. I’ve been volunteering in Ukraine for around 218 days now. Mostly in Lviv through the winter, then a month in Odesa (a sheet of black ice when I got there), and a few side trips. Staying a while yet…
June 25, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Yesterday I got back to Lviv, after a nearly 16 hour train trip from Kharkiv. I’ve been volunteering in Ukraine for around 218 days now. Mostly in Lviv through the winter, then a month in Odesa (a sheet of black ice when I got there), and a few side trips. Staying a while yet…
Submission completed opposing the Regulatory Standards Bill.
June 18, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Submission completed opposing the Regulatory Standards Bill.
Santander, Spain
May 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Santander, Spain
“One man's plight in Mongolia is having a "chilling effect" on foreign capital inflow, according to his advocates … in stark contrast to the warm and welcoming message the young and emerging democracy is trying to send to international investors” www.mongolianbusinessdatabase.com/base/newsdet...
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Bridge of your product and service in/to/from Mongolia Mongolian Business Database
www.mongolianbusinessdatabase.com
April 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM
“One man's plight in Mongolia is having a "chilling effect" on foreign capital inflow, according to his advocates … in stark contrast to the warm and welcoming message the young and emerging democracy is trying to send to international investors” www.mongolianbusinessdatabase.com/base/newsdet...
"Clinically serious outcomes evaluated include scrumpox, mortification, the shakes, witchpox.., monkey fluxpox, dropsy of the brain ..crotch rot, .. grocer’s itch, .., the horrors..milk leg... the shakes, softening of the brain, .., swamp sickness..wandering womb fever, jail fever ....and autism. "
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Published in 'The Journal of Predetermined Conclusions'.
Background
'Despite Saint Wakefield’s definitive study and incontrovertible testimony from parents who have done their research on vaccines, the myth that the MMR doesn’t cause autism persists.'
Published in 'The Journal of Predetermined Conclusions'.
Background
'Despite Saint Wakefield’s definitive study and incontrovertible testimony from parents who have done their research on vaccines, the myth that the MMR doesn’t cause autism persists.'
March 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"Clinically serious outcomes evaluated include scrumpox, mortification, the shakes, witchpox.., monkey fluxpox, dropsy of the brain ..crotch rot, .. grocer’s itch, .., the horrors..milk leg... the shakes, softening of the brain, .., swamp sickness..wandering womb fever, jail fever ....and autism. "
A decade trapped in Mongolia' (from 'The Australian'). Former British MP and chair of the Mongolian-British Chamber of Commerce John Grogan: “I have visited [Mongolia] 51 times ... the Mo Munshi case is having a chilling effect on investment and trade” #bringmomunshihome
March 24, 2025 at 8:19 AM
A decade trapped in Mongolia' (from 'The Australian'). Former British MP and chair of the Mongolian-British Chamber of Commerce John Grogan: “I have visited [Mongolia] 51 times ... the Mo Munshi case is having a chilling effect on investment and trade” #bringmomunshihome
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As part of the Banks Peninsula project I'm working this month on forest remnants and reserves, the last remaining 2% of the Peninsula's forest cover. Just wrote an article about a little one in Kaituna Valley, surviving by luck and the foresight of one family. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaituna...
March 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
As part of the Banks Peninsula project I'm working this month on forest remnants and reserves, the last remaining 2% of the Peninsula's forest cover. Just wrote an article about a little one in Kaituna Valley, surviving by luck and the foresight of one family. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaituna...
