Thanks for that, signed All Affected

A dark day for democracy in Aotearoa.

We're very excited to be bringing the one and only @carlbergstrom.com to Aotearoa for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium in February 🧪 Will you join him there? www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/conferences/...

The loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) can grow to more than 450 kg (1,000 lb) and live for over 65 years 📹Pelagic Ventures Scuba

Unlocked new level of shame today after being told off for forgetting to remove my shoes in the wharenui by a Justice of the Supreme Court 🤦

I love this intro to a philosophy paper, though I can't actually remember which paper it's from.

We need our guns to protect us from tyranny! Turns out, you’ve got a better shot with solidarity. Powerful lessons

Bingo

Says everyone who does not live in the US

Sarah Cooper, you know what to do

This is awful

Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004. Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.

Tbf the US has never been a reliable “supporter of democracy overseas”

The Australian Electoral Commission. A model that works and is impartial. Let’s go! This makes me proud to be Australian, I must admit.

Priceless

Every word is true

Quietly ripping out the guts of the supposedly bipartisan commitment to the Paris agreement

White Christian Nationalism

“Life, or the totality of ends, has a right against abstract right. For instance, by the theft of a loaf of bread a property is doubtless injured. Still, if the act was the means of prolonging life, it would be wrong to consider it an ordinary theft. If the man whose life is in danger were not …

yesterday on RNZ I talked with Kathryn Ryan about cuts to NZ science funding and the risk of losing talent www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro... here's some correspondence about the opposite problem: kiwi scientists who want to return home to work, but can't, given the bleak funding environment #nzpol

*stares morosely in New Zealander*

This is what happened to my Grandfather in Frankfurt, Germany on 9th November 1938, commonly known as Kristallnacht.

Powerful

There’s no way to stop climate change without consuming less.

I’ve felt this pull myself. My solution: post nothing.

Prescient

How to keep a hundred tabs open before browsers were invented.

There was a time when antifa WAS an organisation, in fact an alliance of military powers. It is celebrated in countless US films about WWII and has been a prominent part of US cultural identity for the past 80 years. But that’s in the past now, it seems

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

The criminalising of non-violent protest in the UK is a disgrace. A clear and absolutely indefensible denial of political rights that are basic for any democracy

The Government's controversial voting law will result in a 411% increase in the number of votes being thrown out, according to the Electoral Commission. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

I’m in Vienna right now. A city which went from being the intellectual and cultural capital of the world to a “provincial backwater” (to quote Brian Barry) in a couple of decades due to nationalism, anti-semitism and fascism which drove away the leading scholars and artists it didn’t murder.

underneath all the doom and hideous stuff happening at the top of our country is a more inspiring story: regular Americans are not buying all this crap. and they're still willing to call the government out on it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

it’s an illogical thought that due process should only be for citizens in the first place. It’s a principle of natural justice.

Am I really late to the party noticing This is Spinal Tap’s rating goes to 11 on IMDB?

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t grunge. (This one technically 2000s because released Jan 2000, but recorded 1998-99)

Did you catch news that the Universities Advisory Group (UAG) reports were released, but the government binned or balked on many of the key recommendations? The whole process went from shelved to buried yesterday morning. www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2025/09/03/u...

I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

I’m doing the old school solution with my courses. The students will cope.

Just casually laying the groundwork for violent repression of the opposition

Well this is happening: Christians against Jesus. www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1...

The entire post-WWII international order - the one we built to ensure WWIII didn't happen - is predicated on not accepting unprovoked territorial conquest of other states This is why, again, Trump threatening the territory of 🇨🇦 & 🇩🇰 needed to immediately end his presidency (bsky.app/profile/mcop...)

Putin is an authoritarian who won his last election with 87% of the vote and murdered his main political rival.