Nic E
@neasthope.bsky.social
She/Her. Pākehā Mum, poet, teacher, tangata Tiriti, Planet Earth lover-protector. Adorer of dogs, birds & wormfarms. Chloe, Marama & Hana for PMs. Born @
323ppm carbon dioxide. Mostly hopeful. Might be 5-7 minutes late.
https://gannetink.home.blog
323ppm carbon dioxide. Mostly hopeful. Might be 5-7 minutes late.
https://gannetink.home.blog
Reposted by Nic E
“What is clear from He Whakaputanga is that there was never a ceding of any kind of sovereignty to Britain. Not then, nor five years later, when Te Tiriti was signed at Waitangi.” — Catherine Delahunty. #nzpol e-tangata.co.nz/reflections/...
Towards He Whakaputanga | E-Tangata
“What is clear from He Whakaputanga is that there was never a ceding of any kind of sovereignty to Britain. Not then, nor five years later, when Te Tiriti was signed at Waitangi.” — Catherine Delahunt...
e-tangata.co.nz
November 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Bob Brown - inspiring read for the morning 🌞
"...we need to get back to seeing life as a flowing and innovative thing on the planet, not as something that is exclusively being created for our own existence."
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
#activism
#bobbrown
#greens
#environmentalism
"...we need to get back to seeing life as a flowing and innovative thing on the planet, not as something that is exclusively being created for our own existence."
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
#activism
#bobbrown
#greens
#environmentalism
Bob Brown: ‘Being an environmentalist is sensible. I like defying the growth mentality because it’s irrational’
At 80 years old, the trailblazing environmentalist on the state of activism, optimism and why he is comfortable with the concept of his own ‘perpetual annihilation’
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Bob Brown - inspiring read for the morning 🌞
"...we need to get back to seeing life as a flowing and innovative thing on the planet, not as something that is exclusively being created for our own existence."
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
#activism
#bobbrown
#greens
#environmentalism
"...we need to get back to seeing life as a flowing and innovative thing on the planet, not as something that is exclusively being created for our own existence."
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
#activism
#bobbrown
#greens
#environmentalism
Reposted by Nic E
If you'd like 25 minutes of hope & unity, watch @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social giving his victory speech as Mayor-Elect of New York City🚕🍕🗽🇺🇸
It's wonderful to see a leader elected with such a positive view of the possibilities & responsibility of civic leadership.
Very best wishes from Auckland NZ 🇳🇿
It's wonderful to see a leader elected with such a positive view of the possibilities & responsibility of civic leadership.
Very best wishes from Auckland NZ 🇳🇿
November 5, 2025 at 6:43 AM
If you'd like 25 minutes of hope & unity, watch @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social giving his victory speech as Mayor-Elect of New York City🚕🍕🗽🇺🇸
It's wonderful to see a leader elected with such a positive view of the possibilities & responsibility of civic leadership.
Very best wishes from Auckland NZ 🇳🇿
It's wonderful to see a leader elected with such a positive view of the possibilities & responsibility of civic leadership.
Very best wishes from Auckland NZ 🇳🇿
Reposted by Nic E
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
Reposted by Nic E
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/04/w...
Learned some new things about colonisation / housing theft / manufactured inequality and the present day renewal of papakāinga.
#nzpol
Learned some new things about colonisation / housing theft / manufactured inequality and the present day renewal of papakāinga.
#nzpol
When everyone lived in an affordable home
Pre-colonial Māori didn’t have a housing problem. The Crown created one. Can the past give us clues to fix housing today?
newsroom.co.nz
November 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/04/w...
Learned some new things about colonisation / housing theft / manufactured inequality and the present day renewal of papakāinga.
#nzpol
Learned some new things about colonisation / housing theft / manufactured inequality and the present day renewal of papakāinga.
#nzpol
The yellow-legged hornet has distinctive dark legs with bright yellow tips. In contrast, common wasp species in New Zealand, such as the German wasp (Vespula germanica), typically have uniformly yellow or yellow-striped legs. It is also much larger than honey bees & common wasp species.
October 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Reposted by Nic E
WHAT THE FUCK JUDITH
October 29, 2025 at 7:27 AM
WHAT THE FUCK JUDITH
Turns out it’s not just the winds at gale force today, so are Char’s public rants 🤣😂🤦♀️ Felt good to get that off my chest…ffs. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #Aotearoa #NewZealand
“Nicola thinks a CGT is a terrible idea”
“Nicola thinks a CGT is a terrible idea”
October 28, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Reposted by Nic E
"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"
Cicero, Orator, 120
Cicero, Orator, 120
August 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"
Cicero, Orator, 120
Cicero, Orator, 120
Reposted by Nic E
not to bignote but um five or six of the things I have worked or advised on have won prizes or been longlisted. so there.
holla I am looking for manuscript assessment proofreading and editing mahi mostly because I'm pohara but also it stops me from losing my mind to entropy when I engage with other people about their work
October 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
not to bignote but um five or six of the things I have worked or advised on have won prizes or been longlisted. so there.
#nzpol
Long live Te Reo Māori, idiot gov't
Long live Te Reo Māori, idiot gov't
Waitangi Tribunal finds Crown breached #TeTiriti principles over te reo #Māori cuts –
#nzpol #NZGovtFail #language
www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/10/24/w...
#nzpol #NZGovtFail #language
www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/10/24/w...
Waitangi Tribunal finds Crown breached Te Tiriti principles over te reo Māori cuts
Waitangi Tribunal has announced its findings in the Taku Reo Kura, Taku Reo Kahurangi case around the Coalition government’s axing of te reo Māori in public services.
www.teaonews.co.nz
October 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
#nzpol
Long live Te Reo Māori, idiot gov't
Long live Te Reo Māori, idiot gov't
Happy Labour Day to the people of Aotearoa New Zealand #FlickThePricksIn26
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Still my favourite novel ever. Wonderful article.
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
#nzlit
#thebonepeople
#kerihulme
#keeningharpies
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
#nzlit
#thebonepeople
#kerihulme
#keeningharpies
‘Keri was ahead of her time’: The Bone People’s historic Booker Prize win
The Bone People won the world’s top literary prize 40 years ago, despite one judge describing it as “unreadable”. Was this global success to blame for author Keri Hulme never publishing a second book?
www.thepress.co.nz
October 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Still my favourite novel ever. Wonderful article.
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
#nzlit
#thebonepeople
#kerihulme
#keeningharpies
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
#nzlit
#thebonepeople
#kerihulme
#keeningharpies
🤯
Unhinged + toxic
Unhinged + toxic
The White House's East Wing construction rubble was taken to East Potomac Golf Course. It was reported that the rubble will be used to create mounds on the golf course.
Read more: bit.ly/4oa2tXA
Read more: bit.ly/4oa2tXA
October 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
🤯
Unhinged + toxic
Unhinged + toxic
October 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
October 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Reposted by Nic E
Strongly advise against lighting solid fuel heaters over the next couple of days. Whilst you may think "Oh it's an enclosed burner, it'll be fine", heavy winds can draw embers up and out of flues.
Just rug up and chuck on a heat pump or other electric heating if you can.
Seriously.
Just rug up and chuck on a heat pump or other electric heating if you can.
Seriously.
October 22, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Strongly advise against lighting solid fuel heaters over the next couple of days. Whilst you may think "Oh it's an enclosed burner, it'll be fine", heavy winds can draw embers up and out of flues.
Just rug up and chuck on a heat pump or other electric heating if you can.
Seriously.
Just rug up and chuck on a heat pump or other electric heating if you can.
Seriously.
Reposted by Nic E
“Hardship & Hope published through Bridget Williams Books and Pakukore which she co-edited, explore the everyday struggles whanau across the country are facing and analyses the systems, institutions and policies that perpetuate cycles of poverty.” #nzpol
Rebecca Macfie: Unpacking poverty in Aotearoa
It was while researching her two latest projects that Award-winning journalist Rebecca Macfie came to realise the privileges colonisation had bequeathed her own family.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
“Hardship & Hope published through Bridget Williams Books and Pakukore which she co-edited, explore the everyday struggles whanau across the country are facing and analyses the systems, institutions and policies that perpetuate cycles of poverty.” #nzpol
Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Chris Finlayson offer praise for the Waitangi Tribunal – and damning criticism of the coalition Government. Sam Sachdeva reports.
Hell hath no fury like an attorney-general scorned
newsroom.co.nz
October 11, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The enshittification of the Nobel Peace Prize. Wow & woe!
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, a leading Venezuelan opposition figure.
www.democracynow.org/2025/10/10/n...
www.democracynow.org/2025/10/10/n...
2025 Nobel Peace Prize for Anti-Maduro Leader María Corina Machado “Opposite of Peace”: Greg Grandin
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, a leading Venezuelan opposition figure. Machado was set to run for president last year, but she was disqua...
www.democracynow.org
October 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The enshittification of the Nobel Peace Prize. Wow & woe!
Congratulations Ingrid Horrocks
#nzlit
#nzlit
Join us to celebrate All Her Lives: Nine Stories by Ingrid Horrocks. The book will be launched by Emily Perkins.
🌿 Thursday 9 October, 6pm
🌿 Unity Books Wellington
🌿 Free event – all welcome!
Cover: Sarah Wilkins
www.facebook.com/share/19atXe...
🌿 Thursday 9 October, 6pm
🌿 Unity Books Wellington
🌿 Free event – all welcome!
Cover: Sarah Wilkins
www.facebook.com/share/19atXe...
October 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Congratulations Ingrid Horrocks
#nzlit
#nzlit
Reposted by Nic E
You can sign this, I did. #nzpol
Open letter from staff, students, and alumni of the New Zealand community of universities.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open Letter to Winston Peters, Minister of Foreign Affairs: The New Zealand Government must recognise the State of Palestine
As students, staff and alumni of the university community in Aotearoa (New Zealand), we express our profound dismay at the Government’s recent decision not to recognise the State of Palestine.
Aotearo...
docs.google.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:18 AM
You can sign this, I did. #nzpol
Reposted by Nic E
These are the sorts of things you can do if you're serious about art, creativity, and growing an economy
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 7, 2025 at 2:16 AM
These are the sorts of things you can do if you're serious about art, creativity, and growing an economy