I promise, that was not intended to be a pun!

Bloody hell, wasn't the no 1 was it?

Says, Populist politicians deliberately try to undermine trust between people by manufacturing conflict, preying on fears instead of rising above, deliberately undermine trust in institutions and frame themselves forward as the "only ones who can be trusted", and undermine trust in media

A story from a long ago friend who took a pet mouse to the vet to be put down.
"What's the name?"
"Michie."

Talking about this with a pharmacist ex academic today. She said there used to be two family-owned pharmaceutical companies in NZ that were allowed to disappear. The same happened in Australia but they had the sense to bring theirs back to some degree.

And I have the chance to pitch my vote for the 2026 election slogan:
Grow the good things!

Wonderful news, except for Greymouth...

Enjoy setting up your new home. My daughter is doing the same on the other side of the ditch.

How did you get on? I can remember some mighty gales in Opaki with massive shelter belts uprooted.

There was a rally of that vintage cars went through Waikouaiti yesterday. I think I saw that very one!

Aaw, same birthday as my big sister, she would have been 87! Have a lovely special day.

Good! I just realised it looked wider because zero cars!

Is it one or two way?

We disaggregate the global results into country clusters by income. Median results show the richest 20% of countries (home to 15% of people) are responsible for over 40% of ecological overshoot in 2017, while the poorest 40% (home to 42% of people) experience more than 60% of global deprivation. 3/

This is a real TIL moment for me. Wtf?!

For the wrong reason, though...