Craig Cliff
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Writer in residence at my house | Climate change mahi at University of Otago | Dad life Ōtepoti
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Giovanni Tiso
about 2 months ago
This is what I expected from the government, but it's incredibly disappointing that Autism New Zealand should go along with it. We need to make "regular" schools cater to neurodivergent students — which will benefit everyone! — not segregate difference.
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Government announces new charter school for secondary students with autism
The government has announced the Autism NZ Education Hub will start in Term 3 for neurodivergent secondary students who are struggling with traditional schooling.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/577337/government-announces-new-charter-school-for-secondary-students-with-autism
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Jolisa Gracewood
4 months ago
Copy-paste this for New Zealand, eh (and no doubt a few other purportedly green island nations) 😬🐄🚙💩 Wouldn’t it be lovely to live up to our ad campaigns and film exports, and the gorgeous images we slap on our products, and all the stories we tell our kids about how this is a great place to live?
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Friday packages are the best. Can now plug those unsightly gaps in my Geoff Cochrane collection! Thanks
@thwupbooks.bsky.social
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David Ho
5 months ago
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Paul Bierman
5 months ago
Amazing visualizations..share these with any climate change skeptical friends. 🧪
thebulletin.org/2025/07/how-...
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How clear and simple data visualizations bring the climate crisis home
Climate change is a slow-moving disaster. We need graphics that capture both its pace and its impact.
https://thebulletin.org/2025/07/how-clear-and-simple-data-visualizations-bring-the-climate-crisis-home/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=French%20nuclear%20arsenal%20today&utm_campaign=20250724%20Thursday%20Newsletter%20%28Copy%29
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David Buchanan
5 months ago
no, monks can't fly, you're probably thinking of air friars
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Newsroom NZ
5 months ago
25 attempts at a biography of the legendary Terry Voss
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Short story: Collective Tissue, by Craig Cliff
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/07/12/short-story-collective-tissue-by-craig-cliff/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1752298750-2
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Tried spotting hoiho 🐧 on this, the shortest day of the year, at Roaring Bay in the Catlins, but no dice
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Bill Manhire
6 months ago
Farewell to the great Maurice Gee. His novels go on looking clearly at the world and introducing us to ourselves.
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
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Writer Maurice Gee has died
The prolific and unassuming writer died in Nelson.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360724081/writer-maurice-gee-has-died
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The optimist in me says this 'Gen-AI as Polyester' take sounds likely. Unfortunately, having just read "Careless People" and watched "Mountainhead", I'm 99% pessimist today. AI art is only a stage-gate to somewhere much darker.
culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our...
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GenAI is Our Polyester
The best way to understand generative AI art and aesthetics is to consider how previous "synthetics" lost value in the long-run For the first half of the 20th century, white-collar workers wore busin...
https://culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our-polyester/
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Aurora from Blackhead Beach, Dunedin
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Carson
7 months ago
Dodgers broadcast was discussing the science behind the perception of time between children and adults. After hearing the explanation, the color commentator pauses and asks, "Am I gonna feel any better?" Andy Pages then smashes a dinger into space, thus ending the existential crisis on commentary.
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It has always been important to count blessings... Like discovering your wife's second cousin has a crib in Aparima Riverton and it's available this week.
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Still bathing in the afterglow of a fantastic morning event on campus, a collab with the DCC. The end of daylight saving doesn't have to be the end of active commuting!
8 months ago
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Trying to enjoy [sic] a post-climate apocalypse audiobook, but keep getting thrown by mispronunciations. Who says dungarees with a soft "g"? And my guy keeps saying "cachet" when he means "cache". What surprises will the remaining 11 hours hold?
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Love stories like Bill Fay. 41 year gap between 2nd and 3rd albums. And what a return. Plus a further two albums (and maybe more posthumously). R.I.P. Bill. There is a valley
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Bronwyn Hayward
10 months ago
Jumping on line and going on again about Adaptation Futures 2025 as it’s the biggest climate adaptation event- held in both virtual & in person formats because we can’t keep flying to save the planet but come and stay longer - first time NZ & Pacific has hosted this
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Meredith Rose
11 months ago
This is absolutely crucial advice. Read it. Read it again. Repeat it to yourself. Do not allow yourself to be overloaded. OVERLOAD IS A DELIBERATE TACTIC.
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Roadtrip goals: picked up a haskap plant from St Mary's Berries, Makikihi. The rare fruit for which Dunedin might not be cold enough.
11 months ago
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Never in my lifetime had a player on my favourite team ever had a signature shoe, so it was pretty cool to open up a pair of Fox 1's for my birthday last week. Time to hoop 🏀
11 months ago
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2025 READING Kicking the year off with some op shop finds for camping and an audiobook from the author of Beach Read ⛱️
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Katharine Hayhoe
11 months ago
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
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The Southerner is back! (for four days in late autumn). Worth celebrating this baby step, and hopefully one day there'll be an option where the price point and timing works for students.
www.stuff.co.nz/travel/36052...
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/360529668/back-track-popular-nz-train-journey-making-comeback-four-days
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That rare feat in a bio of the comparison double-drag
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Martin Shaw
about 2 years ago
Terrific user’s guide to “Planet Adam” this by
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, and its most recent incarnation in particular, Audition
https://landfallreview.com/massive-miscreants-in-outer-space/
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Pretty stoked Ōtepoti now has a Zero Carbon Plan in place and council backs the high investment option after things looked dicey last week. I spoke at the public forum today alongside students, seniors and inbetweeners, all advocating for the climate. Happy Monday!
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DCC adopts zero-carbon plan, mayor's preference rejected
The Dunedin City Council has voted 11-4 to adopt its zero-carbon plan but rejected Mayor Jules Radich's preference for a low-investment scenario.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/dcc/dcc-adopts-zero-carbon-plan-mayors-preference-rejected
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