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Written By: simbit - Date published: 11:09 am, October 1st, 2025
We're working with a couple of mobs from Oztralia, sending possum pelts so they can revitalise their cloak making practices: (Re)storying the Possum - Pelts with Purpose All donations thankfully received (a few of you took up our Whale Song t-shirt ...Written By: simbit - Date published: 10:49 am, October 1st, 2025
Sorry, missed all this. And I've never paid a powerbill in the US, paid some in Canada (expensive but gas was cheap, which we used for heating - 6 months winter - and hot water). But why insult my intelligence? Seen plenty of dumb (incl, racist) posted ...Written By: Simbit - Date published: 9:56 am, September 12th, 2025
Yeah, Treaty Rights so radical. That said, I'm a new member of TPM, Te Tai Tonga electorate. Reconsidering my membership. Might go back to Greens. Still can't stomach Labour, so bougie.Written By: Simbit - Date published: 9:52 am, September 12th, 2025
Some saying it was the perfect hit, aiming for where the weak point is in body armour (not worn as far as I know) and bouncing up through the neck. It wasn't a long distance shot. But we know very little about the hit on Trump, so. And the right now have ...Written By: simbit - Date published: 4:54 pm, September 4th, 2025
NZ has one of the most benign geopolitical contexts in the world. English speaking, open economy, trained locals (including new NZers) with highly trained specialists about to be waved in. Many rich Americans - decision makers in the Amazon deal - have a ...Written By: Simbit - Date published: 4:39 pm, August 30th, 2025
One of the many 'interface' roles councils have is in their emergency response powers. Multiple reports note and laud the effective part played by marae (e.g., Mateparae report into severe weather events of early 2023). All this was reiterated at last ...Written By: simbit - Date published: 11:55 am, July 22nd, 2025
If you step back and view multiple decisions in the environment space (where I mainly work) you will see a tension between stated goals (PF2050 is a prime example) and the ways that the wealthy then work the system. The planet is being partitioned off for ...Written By: Simbit - Date published: 2:58 pm, July 14th, 2025
The state is the insurer of last resort. If they are not willing to do that, where is their authority to rule? And do we seriously think they will stop subsidising the agricultural sector through all this? Drought inpacts on farming have been noted for 2 ...Written By: Simbit - Date published: 2:51 pm, July 14th, 2025
Implementing this will reduce the amount of land available for development and increase compliance costs. At its core is the drive to reassure financial markets and provide the mythical stability and equilibrium for ongoing investment. Ain't enough chairs ...Written By: Simbit - Date published: 12:00 pm, July 14th, 2025
Underpinning assumption in the report is that due diligence is possible. This has always been a nonsense. First of all, even MfE acknowledges they lack the necessary data to accurately update hazard models (the PCE has repeatedly called the govt out on ...Written By: Simbit - Date published: 4:27 pm, June 10th, 2025
Or she was smiling in her complete faith of ultimate victory. She gets flack for being different, and an implacable opponent. Long may that continue.Written By: Simbit - Date published: 6:33 pm, April 20th, 2025
Don't want to tell y'all how to organise your revolution but question: what are iwi/Māori doing? And why? Iwi authorities are invested in capitalism but not fully. There's a different history, and a different approach. There is also an enduring social ...Written By: simbit - Date published: 8:44 am, April 6th, 2025
Kia ora, my point was that Te Tiriti has never been honoured, has never been implemented, and is now threatened in a way that permanently alters how many people interpet it. One thing rarely discussed here is how do Indigenous Peoples operate within a ...Written By: Simbit - Date published: 7:35 pm, April 5th, 2025
How has The Tiriti been supported?? The Crown - ie, democratically elected representatives - has flagrantly denied Treaty obligations for almost two centuries. And continues to do so to the extent of funding (tax payers money) appeal after appeal in the ...Written By: Simbit - Date published: 10:23 am, April 5th, 2025
Look, Māori have never benefited from democracy - as imposed - in Aotearoa. We are under massive surveillance (as a researcher in my space) and all your white allyship is very very scarce when the tutae hits the kōwhiuwhiu. To quote that old racist, this ...Written By: Simbit - Date published: 8:42 pm, March 14th, 2025
PM's Chief Science Advisor role won't be filled. A council/committee of business oriented science advisors to be established instead.Written By: simbit - Date published: 4:41 pm, February 16th, 2025
Hey saw some chat about our Oranga Programme a few days ago on this site. Here's the link: https://www.ttw.nz/oranga So the 'playing whale songs to trees' is strange interpretation of what was actually being researched (5 projects in total). The ...Written By: Simbit - Date published: 7:13 pm, October 19th, 2024
Tbh not that worried. Racists, among other flaws, do project their own fears including retribution from oppressed Peoples (you see this in US white supremacy). But also that fear has a basis in the fact Maori can and do intimidate little men like Mr. ...Written By: Simbit - Date published: 5:18 pm, June 27th, 2024
Remember the court case (two UC geog lecturers testified, for opposite sides I recall). The solution was noted above: Lyttleton. (Took this ferry in '74). Smaller ferries for Marlborough/Nelson passengers. But agree with other comments re: canceling a ...Written By: Simbit - Date published: 7:15 am, May 26th, 2024
Wee refresher on colonization: Indigenous Peoples didn't need to be colonized to acquire European innovations. Could've traded on a nation to nation basis (which was happening and was subsequently promised in treaties).Written By: simbit - Date published: 3:22 pm, May 19th, 2024
[The following is a very good reply – some would say a ‘damning’ one – to a comment (https://thestandard.org.nz/are-we-drifting-away-or-falling-apart/#comment-2000139) by Dolomedes III under a different Post: The previous government undermined science by ...Written By: simbit - Date published: 7:45 am, April 15th, 2024
And like "off the rez" and "hold the fort", orginating in racist discourse outta North America. Admittedly, I'm sensitized to this after a few years in Nth American academia (got schooled on the term 'disseminate' for spreading knowledge...).Written By: simbit - Date published: 5:27 pm, January 12th, 2024
k/o 1. My iwi are not affiliated to Kingitanga but never underestimate the history and mana behind Tuheitia. Desipte the short time available, he will pull in the requisite attendance. (What they do with that is another question). NB: Hapu are generally ...Written By: Simbit - Date published: 8:57 pm, December 12th, 2023
Bleeding Menshiviks...Written By: Simbit - Date published: 5:00 pm, December 3rd, 2023
NZDF pay rise covered by decline in raw numbers?Written By: Simbit - Date published: 8:51 am, November 27th, 2023
To quote another famous African American, there are house niggers and field niggers...Written By: Simbit - Date published: 12:16 pm, August 9th, 2023
They get $1,200 a fortnight from me, have done for 6 years. Canadian pension, returns down to 3.9%.Written By: Simbit - Date published: 7:43 pm, July 10th, 2023
Take the tie off?! The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance. He's played his role. Next...Written By: Simbit - Date published: 8:29 am, March 5th, 2023
I haven't posted here in months, maybe over a year, but any commentary on activism in NZ that doesn't at least note Māori activism is, arh, strange. The last time I systematically read anything here was about matauranga and that was, arh, weird too. I'll ...Written By: Simbit - Date published: 7:35 pm, September 23rd, 2022
The list of colonial vandalism up my way (Waikaremoana, a bit south of Mr. Iti) is not endless but it is rather long and of a much more serious nature than a daub of paint.
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