mikepole.bsky.social
@mikepole.bsky.social
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Fun job to get: can design for a new Garage Project beer celebrating the incredible work of old mates Capital Kiwi Project bringing brown kiwi back into the hills of Wellington. Legends
November 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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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
“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
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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.
October 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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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)
October 20, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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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
October 16, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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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
October 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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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.
July 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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
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
Submission completed opposing the Regulatory Standards Bill.
June 18, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Santander, Spain
May 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM