Happy New Year

Where to donate e-waste for recycling in New Zealand. Recycling your e-waste is an important step in ensuring it stays out of the landfill. www.wisemove.co.nz/post/where-t...

this resonates. make an effort to connect with someone new, perhaps someone who might not be part of your community. it can be reassuring, and it’s always enlightening… “The world is a team sport, not an individual one. The people around us — all the people — are our teammates, not our opponents."

Move over, AI. @science.org's Breakthrough of the Year: Renewables!

Climate Change Minister Simon Watts is not concerned at the lack of opportunity for public input on the Government’s decision to weaken the 2050 methane target to align it with a level of global warming deemed catastrophic by the United Nations. newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/10/g...

Gmail users!! They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off. Pass it on!! www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

“you are not your swedish furniture.” or… the first rule about improving the NZ economy never seems to include supporting the designers and manufacturers of Aotearoa NZ!

for most basic research and idle curiosity, if @wikipedia.org’s search was slightly better, the big search engines would be unnessary. as it is, siri is really good (i know, right?!) at prioritising wikipedia results. and the best way to avoid #AI is to avoid the corporations who push it. #ux

where does this urge for efficiency (for thee, not for me) come from? if we think about how to contribute, to ‘ornate’ and how to add capacity, quite often we might be also adding pleasure or longevity… … why does everything need to be finished ASAP? surely accelerating towards any end is nihilism?

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

We’re looking for innovative, evidence-based ideas that help local communities, organisations, and decision-makers prepare for climate challenges. 👉🏽 Read more: adaptationfutures2025.com/ecr 📺 Watch the introduction video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSa8...

And here we go again! Last day to make a submission on the Fast Track Amendment Bill www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

… increasingly the calls to “fix it”, should become “reinvent it”.

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is that you MacOS Tahoe? Life as a Tahoe? to much? sorry… (sidebar: road rage is a symptom of the inhuman reliance on private transportation in public space. in that case why does no one talk about the in-debilitating rage and low productivity caused by shittily designed software?) #ux

#nzpol, this applies also to a country like New Zealand when it chooses to force homeless people to 'move on' rather than choosing to help them

Andrea Vance has gotten her teeth into this useless, venal, no-ideas govt and she’s not letting go. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Have they considered low unemployment, a liveable wage, affordable housing and breaking overpriced supermarket duopolies?

Mamdani and Obama are different, sure. However, connecting their victories isn’t unreasonable. Their respective victories say, in their relative political environments — and to anyone paying attention! — that there other ways to govern. A different, more equitable society is possible.

AOC: I have to tell you, in my traveling across the country, I am hearing and have been seeing consistent things from everyday people. And it is that they are terrified, they are frustrated, they are angry, and they are shocked by a president violating the values that we hold dear

two massive democrat wins today. trump can jump.

poetic justice doesn’t come much sweeter: “… while you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose […] If that must be true, let the prose we write still rhyme and let us build a shining city for all.” — Zohran Mamdani, mayor elect of NYC.

has Mamdani won yet?

i’m myopic. no seriously, i need glasses for long distance vision. i’ve forgotten my glasses two days in a row. i clearly don’t want to see what’s coming.

… tell me this donkey doesn’t already own the farm.

Plot twist: the donkey committed deed fraud and does, in fact, now own the farm

Siouxsie took on an institution that failed to protect her and other academics from death threats, whilst doing fantastic #scicomm for the common good. She won against UOA. And is left with a house-size debt even after being awarded costs. Give a little back if you can 💚 🚨

more artists, designers and authors (of all stripes) should follow del Toro’s lead here. … and if you don’t have a profile or massive audience then talk to young creatives. explain your position, tell them how you have worked and created with your own eyes, hands & heart…

The media and opposition in nz is giving too much benefit of the doubt to this govt for my liking. They are cozying up to the worst people in America and it’s really bizarre and concerning. Where is the pushback?

… in person interaction has always required representation of role, reputation & relationship alongside deliberation. online platforms should be no different: do not offer unvetted contributions into civil society where the issues are key to social cohesion & government… 👍🧵👇

Mark Mitchell wants to cut down all the trees around powerlines. How about we force lines companies to invest in undergrounding critical infrastructure like they should have been doing for the last 30 years. We need more trees for biodiversity, wind breaks & reducing urban heat islands, not less.

$300 of benefits to every $1 spent. That is the Benefit Cost Ratio of Bike lanes supporting bikes in urban areas. $0.33 of benefits to every $1 spent. That is the BCR of 15 of the 17 Roads of National Significance Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport archive.ph/bs1Qj

wtf is she doing? the opposition parties in NZ must not forget foreign policy in the 2026 election.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Jaron Lanier!

No money for teachers. No money for nurses. No money for doctors. No money for firefighters. But $3 billion for roads roads roads roads roads roads roads roads roads. Priorities are fucked bro…They have no shame. #nzpol wellington.scoop.co.nz?p=175029

Membership of a union should be compulsory for all workers, as the overall impact is a reduction in coercion.

Did a new one

Dunno who made this but I love it

Nz grows really fantastic wheat. Canterbury is great climate for wheat. Then we export most of it as animal feed and import different wheat for our bread. If you want to have a smaller impact, and eat more local, here's one of a handful of sources of local wheat.. www.milmoredowns.co.nz/flour

The end of the middle ground e-tangata.co.nz/history/the-...

c’mon. there ain’t no way a dog’s travels are more expensive than most fixed wing aircraft.

Time to Block the US SS everyone 👇

Dear Bsky whanau There's a poll at the bottom of this article. Do your thing www.farmersweekly.co.nz/opinion/doin...

(sheesh. writing multi post threads on this platform blows. but then again, maybe it’s just the ios, appstore, hardware, confluence cackocracy expressing itself again)

one of the best things about OG microblogging was the practice of live-posting on a hashtag from an event or location. there are still smatterings of this practice, but since twitter became x, independent portrayals of an event are much rarer. and republishing across platforms is far more common.

… i host Contextual Studies courses at Toi Rauwhārangi, College of Creative Arts. Art History should be accessible to all. It's a key opportunity to learn about the history of what people think and understand how that has changed over time. Sign the petition! #savearthistory #ArtHistoryIsCritical

@lauriefoon.bsky.social looks like we get you back in Paekawakawa/Southern, and I am delighted (and a bit relieved!) 💚 yay Laurie!

here’s your semi regular reminder that NZ has chosen a commodity driven, market based economy that only supports only a few directly. it’s not complicated: infrastructure for everyone, responsive support for those that need it. austerity doesnt work www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/575...