#nz stuff

[setnet]

this transmission tower over here with its feet in the air all casual knocking out power to a decent chunk of the country. you'd think a fuckup on this scale would at least concertina

[paxbe]

elementary is on tvnz!! this is not a drill!! every season for free!!!!!

[transmechanicus]

This is the first time i’ve seen a pro-trans poster in a long time and i hope whoever put it up is having a good day, it made me feel a little less alone.

Hamilton, New Zealand

[suburbanlegendstv]

yes another artist coming to Australia but skipping NZ 🥲🥲🥲

[cowboylikeyouu]

"ich geh nicht wählen, weil..."

HALT EINFACH DIE FRESSE UND BEWEG DEINEN VERFICKTEN ARSCH INS WAHLLOKAL DU EGOISTISCHER KOTZBROCKEN

[setnet]

Detailed rebuttals of the claim by Wehi et al that Polynesians discovered Antarctica from scholars associated with Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu are at the links below:

http://abeltasman.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Anderson-et-al-Antarctic-Wehi-response.pdf (I'm not sure why this isn't linking properly but it's the most easily accessible summary.)

In summary, their view is that the claim Polynesians visited Antarctica arises from dubious sources: an 1860s inference (that a journey 'beyond Rapa' was a journey to the south not for eg the east) based on a probable mistranslation (in which bare rocks growing out of foaming seas were interpreted as icebergs in frozen seas) of a legendary history (the boat, in the same story, was said to be constructed of men's bones).

The voyager, Hui te Rangiora, was a Rarotongan who lived about seven centuries before Polynesian settlement began in New Zealand. That places the story in the realm of what Te Maire Tau calls mytho-history - stories based on actual people, but so distant in time that their stories are encoded in mythic templates and often overlaid with symbols.

A story about Tamarēreti, who is also said to have reached Antarctica, may be entirely legendary - the Ngāi Tahu scholars note no whakapapa (genealogy) connects to him, and 'te waka o Tamarēreti' (Tamarēreti's canoe) is a name for the constellation Scorpio.

The authors also note the implausibility of boats fashioned for tropical sailing, with sails that are fragile in wet weather, being able to survive the circumpolar westerlies.

They conclude that 'Southern Māori interests have extended into the Subantarctic Islands for 800 years but there is no reference to Antarctica in our historical traditions. Our archaeology and history document a southern boundary to Māori occupation at Port Ross (Auckland Islands), despite habitable islands existing further south. We think it is very unlikely that Māori or other Polynesian voyaging reached the Antarctic.'

i literally think of that "polynesians first to discover antarctica, not news to maori" headline so much it's so fucking funny

[alintheshitposter]

@maxwellshimbo und ich waren heute gegen Rechts demonstrieren💪🏻🔥😌

[setnet]

sex work was decriminalised in NZ in 2003. Afaik NZPC/nz sex workers collective is not formally a union but it provides similar services in terms of advocacy legal and practical advice and representation and its made up almost entirely of current or former sex workers.

The NZPC were big advocates for the decriminalisation and have a lot of research about its effects - their website is well worth a look:

if sex work was legal the workers could unionize

[setnet]

greenpeace cold caller referred to the coalition government's policies as a 'banquet of inedibles'

[paxbe]

finally finished my submission on the principles of the treaty of waitangi bill (🤮) after four straight hours plus whatever minutes i could spare at work today

[mucking-faori]

Venting here but it's been deeply frustrating since the treaty principles bill came out to see just how wilfully misinformed a lot of people are. I mean, I expected it of the right, have all my life, and I /know/ a lot wasn't taught in schools, but you know what? Most NZ schools don't teach you deep leninism or about the electoral college, and yet I keep running into kiwi commies who can explain roe v Wade back to front but not who Hone Heke was.

This one time, it's become a social media trend, and I certainly appreciate it right now, but will it stick around when this is no longer a hot button issue? Will people examine the racism running deeply through this country beyond tiktok history rundowns and taking selfies with their meme signs?

Kiwis are so proud of our history of resistance and how good "we" have been to our indigenous people. "We" ensured the language stayed alive. "We" ensured Maori had land rights. But Te Piringa at the office never /complained/ about how we say her name, so we don't /really/ need to learn. And oh, this brown boy is so well /spoken/, using big words like "egregious"!

This refusal to confront uncomfortable truths is partly what allowed David Seymour and the rest of the coalition to stir up so much misinformation and hate. Too many new Zealanders don't know enough basic national history to immediately refute what Seymour is saying because they've spent their lives comfortable not knowing, and now they're playing catch up.

I'm praying people catch up and /keep learning after that/. After Maori politics, and the whole Maori /world/ stops being a trend. Even if something else happens in america that makes pakeha feel less uncomfortable to learn about because NZ looks great by comparison.

Anyway. Peace and love peace and love. Thanks for reading my rant. Check out Te Ara dot com.

[aquareegia]

Können wir aufhören zu sagen, afd wäre in Teilen rechtsextrem? Afd ist rechtsextrem, period!

[turnaboutstar]

autistic people when there's collectable things with tv shows with multiple generations of them:

[averagenderedmanta]

Stabilster Turm im Pott!

Laufschriftzug am Dortmunder U: Ich der Turm fand schon damals Nazis voll uncool.

[setnet]

an interesting exercise would be to examine NZ coverage of Anzac Day and see how many articles use the word "invasion" to describe what the Anzacs were doing at Gallipoli

[paxbe]

one benefit of being on the other side of the world is that when date-specific posts start coming through (e.g. anniversaries or xyz tuesday etc.) it's actually still that day for me