It is April Fool's Day. I don't do pranks but I like to think of myself as reassuringly nonsensical all year round, so have some confusing penguins and fish before I go to bed.
The South Taranaki Bight is home to blue #whales, Māui and Hector’s #dolphins, kororā (little #penguins), and key fishing grounds. You may already know that it is under threat once again by the possibility of #SeabedMining. Trans Tasman Resources ( #TTR ) is seeking consent to #mine the seabed of the South Taranaki Bight - to dig up to 50 million tonnes of ironsands a year for over 30 years, dumping 45 million tonnes back onto the seafloor.
We’ve fought them before alongside our friends from Ngāti Ruanui, the local community, KASM, and other environmental groups.
TTR is now back before the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) with another chance to make a case for mining the seabed. The hearings begin tomorrow (13 March) in Hāwera and you can watch the livestream here.
:ablobcouple: Dear friends of Power #Penguins,
Even though I can use a #variety of OS, my Love is for #Linux Penguins. At the moment, I am using #Manjaro as one of my Puppy #Linuxi/linux’s … what is the plural - Penguins? Yep Puppy Bionic slowly disintegrates into #Chaos to rest in the Sky #Kennels. I am also running a bit of a slow Raspberry. In fact, if Rpi3 was any slower, I would be back to ye #olde, slowly days of #Knoppix (which I liked a lot)
At the #moment, I am trying to delete and reinstall #Audacity without breaking #dependencies. Can I I? Clue: NO!!! :ablobglarezoom:
Today is a good day to die … not die, have #breakfast. I lives to click my claws another day … :ablobdancer:
Incidentally, #Thunderbird is an excellent program. Thank GNU very mucho gracias - ooh I iz mexicanish …
Longtime colleagues of mine are the focus of a doco in development... the promo material is amazing. But.... they need some $ to get into the edit suite and finish a rough cut so they can take this film to the world! They are so close... plus it has #penguins, #phytoplankton and #physics!