Mike Riversdale
@mikeriversdale.co.nz
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BONKERS!
The Luxon Govt’s rewrite of the RMA laws allows companies to claim financial compensation (from taxpayers) when councils introduce rules to limit pollution or protect the environment.
Let that sink in.
#NZPOL
The Luxon Govt’s rewrite of the RMA laws allows companies to claim financial compensation (from taxpayers) when councils introduce rules to limit pollution or protect the environment.
Let that sink in.
#NZPOL
December 9, 2025 at 4:36 AM
BONKERS!
The Luxon Govt’s rewrite of the RMA laws allows companies to claim financial compensation (from taxpayers) when councils introduce rules to limit pollution or protect the environment.
Let that sink in.
#NZPOL
The Luxon Govt’s rewrite of the RMA laws allows companies to claim financial compensation (from taxpayers) when councils introduce rules to limit pollution or protect the environment.
Let that sink in.
#NZPOL
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Imagine how very different Aotearoa NZ would be if every MP was publicly chastised when they lie, even in their campaigning? If disinformation and misinformation were actually held up as a betrayal of office?
December 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Imagine how very different Aotearoa NZ would be if every MP was publicly chastised when they lie, even in their campaigning? If disinformation and misinformation were actually held up as a betrayal of office?
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Cried laughing at this
Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
December 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Cried laughing at this
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🚨 GLOBAL SURVEY IS LIVE! World Rugby refuses to share the technical data justifying the size 4.5 ball trial, so we are going straight to the source: the players.
We're asking one simple question: Should the ball size change?
We're asking one simple question: Should the ball size change?
December 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
🚨 GLOBAL SURVEY IS LIVE! World Rugby refuses to share the technical data justifying the size 4.5 ball trial, so we are going straight to the source: the players.
We're asking one simple question: Should the ball size change?
We're asking one simple question: Should the ball size change?
December 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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This is what banning under-16s from social media looks like for EVERYONE
December 9, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This is what banning under-16s from social media looks like for EVERYONE
December 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
SUJ vs Carter USM The Only Living Boy in New Cross
YouTube video by Southampton Ukulele Jam
youtu.be
December 8, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Fucking men!
(and that's a 4.1 billion wide brush I am both embarrassed and confident in using)
#women #wahine
(and that's a 4.1 billion wide brush I am both embarrassed and confident in using)
#women #wahine
Why I'd Like More Women
What this world needs now, more than ever, is women making the decisions. Look, I know women are NOT all the same, they are (! I KNOW) indiv...
blog.mikeriversdale.co.nz
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
December 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I thought I saw Jesus
on a tram.
I said "Are you Jesus?''
He replied "Yes I am''
by Spike Milligan
on a tram.
I said "Are you Jesus?''
He replied "Yes I am''
by Spike Milligan
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Charge of the Light Brigade
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Charge of the Light Brigade
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
Dreamed I saw a building with a thousand floors
A thousand windows and a thousand doors….
Also:
I do not dream of Sussex Downs,
Of quaint old England’s quaint old towns…
Dreamed I saw a building with a thousand floors
A thousand windows and a thousand doors….
Also:
I do not dream of Sussex Downs,
Of quaint old England’s quaint old towns…
December 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I thought I saw Jesus
on a tram.
I said "Are you Jesus?''
He replied "Yes I am''
by Spike Milligan
on a tram.
I said "Are you Jesus?''
He replied "Yes I am''
by Spike Milligan
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MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
December 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Some Christmas smiles, songs, and a fantastic old police car.
#Aotearoa #NewZealand #Christmas #parade
#Aotearoa #NewZealand #Christmas #parade
Levin Christmas Parade 2025
YouTube video by Mike Riversdale
youtu.be
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Some Christmas smiles, songs, and a fantastic old police car.
#Aotearoa #NewZealand #Christmas #parade
#Aotearoa #NewZealand #Christmas #parade
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We are experiencing service disruptions and are working to resolve the issue. Sorry for delays!
December 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
We are experiencing service disruptions and are working to resolve the issue. Sorry for delays!
Fantastic "return address" on my #SecretSantaAoNZ pressie that arrived a few days ago
December 7, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Fantastic "return address" on my #SecretSantaAoNZ pressie that arrived a few days ago
"Before social media, if someone wanted to engage with you, they had to come to your house and be civil before you’d give them the time of day or let them in. And if they wanted you to engage with them, they’d have to make their own house compelling enough that you’d want to visit."
#blogging
#blogging
Requiem for Early Blogging
As part of Talking Points Memo's 25th anniversary, I wrote an essay on early blogging, and what I miss about it. Here it is, in its entirety:
Whether I like it or not, the first line of my obituary w...
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December 7, 2025 at 6:04 AM
"Before social media, if someone wanted to engage with you, they had to come to your house and be civil before you’d give them the time of day or let them in. And if they wanted you to engage with them, they’d have to make their own house compelling enough that you’d want to visit."
#blogging
#blogging
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“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
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There is still good in this world.
An 88-year-old man who lost his GM pension and his wife to illness continues to work to live out his life and now he can retire after help from the public. Read the details below the video.
An 88-year-old man who lost his GM pension and his wife to illness continues to work to live out his life and now he can retire after help from the public. Read the details below the video.
December 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
There is still good in this world.
An 88-year-old man who lost his GM pension and his wife to illness continues to work to live out his life and now he can retire after help from the public. Read the details below the video.
An 88-year-old man who lost his GM pension and his wife to illness continues to work to live out his life and now he can retire after help from the public. Read the details below the video.
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NZ Govt biggest health cuts are from the emergency management team, going from 11 roles to just two, and from Mãori Public Health, which could drop from six staff ..to two. Another attack on Mãori
And -emergency management? #deaths will result. #privatisation of #health
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
And -emergency management? #deaths will result. #privatisation of #health
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Public Health Agency faces job cuts to emergency management, pandemic preparedness, Māori health
The staff cuts will see reductions to emergency management, pandemic preparedness and Māori health.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
NZ Govt biggest health cuts are from the emergency management team, going from 11 roles to just two, and from Mãori Public Health, which could drop from six staff ..to two. Another attack on Mãori
And -emergency management? #deaths will result. #privatisation of #health
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
And -emergency management? #deaths will result. #privatisation of #health
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.
December 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.
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Hey Auckland, is this guy what I think he is?
He was hanging out on my Cape Gooseberry in Silverdale . . .
He was hanging out on my Cape Gooseberry in Silverdale . . .
December 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Hey Auckland, is this guy what I think he is?
He was hanging out on my Cape Gooseberry in Silverdale . . .
He was hanging out on my Cape Gooseberry in Silverdale . . .
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In S17 of #Taskmaster, Nick Mohammed dressed as a vampire for his tasks. The production scrubbed all his reflections when he's dressed like this, but the only way I knew is because someone told me about it. It's subtle and very cool.
December 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
In S17 of #Taskmaster, Nick Mohammed dressed as a vampire for his tasks. The production scrubbed all his reflections when he's dressed like this, but the only way I knew is because someone told me about it. It's subtle and very cool.
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Received my order of superb pins from @pepperraccoon.com yesterday. I Rarely find any merch of my favourite reptile the Tuatara, best bet is New Zealand! (Also apparently quicker to the UK than within).
December 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Received my order of superb pins from @pepperraccoon.com yesterday. I Rarely find any merch of my favourite reptile the Tuatara, best bet is New Zealand! (Also apparently quicker to the UK than within).