I gather it’s been a hard time for the staff at #InternetNZ, and they’re receiving a lot of unfair attacks that they can't respond to. If you have a few minutes, It would make a difference to send an appreciative email to membership@internetnz.net.nz

Tell them you respect the work they do, efficiently and effectively every day. And tell them you want InternetNZ to remain a community-run organisation that respects Te Tiriti and Te Reo Māori, promotes equitable access, and makes a huge difference to New Zealand.

It's a small gesture, but helping people keep going in the short term matters, and it makes resistance in the longer term possible.

Moon and Venus are lovely just now if you’ve clear enough skies. (Clouds drifting through here in Christchurch Ōtautahi)

Heute entdeckt in #bonn

#noai #antislop

As grotesque and obviously AI generated images start to appear on every single menu, poster, billboard, etc I’m starting to understand why the Amish are like that

Pigeons look like they've seen too much.

#Pigeon #BirdsOfMastodon #JPegsFolder

Following the Bondi Beach shootings, Australia was planning a nationwide gun buyback. But that stalled, so NSW have gone ahead with their own buyback scheme paying $AU1,000 for a handgun and so forth.

New rules mean individuals can only own four firearms - even though one is enough to kill someone - while farmers and sports shooters can own a maximum of 10 firearms.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgjee21eenvo

#AU #Guns #GunBuyBack #NSW

Impossible not to edit this photo in the news

QQ: What the best option for getting mobile coverage and data in AU when we're rocking phones that don't support eSIM. Both on OneNZ prepaid.

Surprising good news from 🇫🇷 !

"France's Constitutional Council strikes down social media ban for under-15s"

🔗 : https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2026/08/14/france-s-constitutional-council-strikes-down-ban-on-social-media-for-under-15s_6756507_13.html

"In its decision, the Constitutional Council raised concerns about the possible impact on privacy from instituting an age-verification system for all users."

Wow! I was not expecting this at all.

#privacy #AgeVerification #France

For the record, Paula Penfold delves into Ani O'Brien's case against Bomber Bradbury. We know that something Bomber posted has upset the hypocritical O'Brien who just happens to be on the board of the Free Speech Union.

Suppression orders mean there's still not much to tell, however the story reveals that when asked if the FSU backed O’Brien’s claim against Bradbury, Stephen Franks said: “We do not.”

Ani's burned yet another bridge.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361019921/she-champions-free-speech-then-went-court-over-what-blogger-said-about-her

#AniObrien #BomberBradbury

Tsunami warning issued after M 7.7 quake in eastern Indonesia. https://www.bmkg.go.id/gempabumi/berpotensi-tsunami/20260815050954

NZ's new flood maps are missing a hidden threat—the water quietly rising from below
https://phys.org/news/2026-08-nz-hidden-threat-quietly.html

Of course a denialist govt would try to ensure that the next generation is unaware and therefore susceptible to their narratives.

Too bad it won't work. Kids are amazingly clever and good at finding out stuff that isn't taught in classrooms.

https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/14/climate-change-omitted-from-new-science-and-social-science-curriculums/

The Nats are tying themselves in knots trying to defend their big lie that Chris Penk was acting alone when he tried to roll the PM.

The press gallery all know Penk was playing wing-man to Erica Stanford with Mark Mitchell and Chris Bishop being integral to the plan. Everyone knows.

Now we have Stanford slipping out back doors to avoid media while Luxon is desperately spinning his potential overthrow as "old news." He continues to maintain he has the full support of his caucus.

Apart from those with knives behind their backs, obviously.

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Related: For more on this subplot, see Tova O'Brien's double-header with Kieran McAnulty and Chris Bishop. The latter's visible thought processes punctuated with uncomfortable silences reveal a naughty schoolboy constructing porkies in real time, and failing.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/erica-stanford-dodges-media-after-conference-as-christopher-luxon-wont-say-whether-he-thinks-she-tried-to-roll-him/K2D7L47KFVA2TBLGZODE7MTOD4/

#NZPol #Luxon #National

Bin fought the con and
the con won

The photo shows some of the candidates at the Clacton by-election count, waiting for the results to be announced.

"Our" man, #CountBinface is unmistakeable in the line-up. Very noticeable for his absence is the by-election winner, Nigel Farage. Farage was too much the coward to even show at the count.

Farage got 22,239 votes, 63.3% on a 44.4% turnout. #Binface got a very respectable 9,455 votes (26.9%), he will get his deposit returned. We likely will see Binface again.

#ukpol #Clacton

Fridays are bin lorry days. And here it comes.

Sky News: Why did you stand here in Clacton?
Count Bin Face: That's where the election was, John.

Unbelievable!
New bidding round opens at site of declined Golden Bay mining permit https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/regional/1003584/new-bidding-round-opens-at-site-of-declined-golden-bay-mining-permit

Sonnenfinsternis -
aber von der ISS
aus gesehen: