Lowest April Arctic sea ice area on record.

Grok is in the Starlink app which I use once a week to turn off the sleep schedule on the weekends. Please update the sleep schedule to have different times for different days instead of adding AI to it!

At a physics talk at Otago Uni open day. Lecturer giving laser pointers and memory sticks for prizes. Teen asks "what even is a memory stick?"

Well this one has my moral compass in a right royal spin 👀💭 I’ll allow it for now, we can circle back to the fine print later. 😉 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ

Two of my most favorite people!

Solar and wind should now be big enough to bribe politicians. I'm ok with that.

Solar and wind are both generating as much as nuclear globally. Not combined, each seperately!

It is now late autumn in Antarctica. The polar night, when the sun disappears below the horizon until spring, will soon extend over most of the continent. Yet there is still hardly any sea ice in the southern Bellingshausen Sea (lower left in the regional map below).

Boomers would do well to recall the family benefit, paid to mothers for each child, no matter family income. Many many boomer wealth stories will originate from money saved because of this universal basic income that recognised the social good of raising children.

It's day 2 of #MenstrualHealthAwarenessMonth, so we're answering the questions: what is menstruation and what's normal? #PeriodFriendlyWorld 1/8

It's May 1, which can only mean one thing... it's the start of Menstrual Health Awareness Month! Each day this month, we'll (Period People Aotearoa) be breaking the silence around this important topic. 1/6 #MenstrualJusticeForAll #PeriodFriendlyWorld #MenstrualHealthAwarenessMonth

Could Big Solar™ please lobby (ehem bribe) the Whitehouse to derail Clean Beautiful Coal™.

Solar and wind are both generating as much as nuclear globally. Not combined, each seperately!

Holy shit balls this video just gave me a ridiculous shot of hopium! Especially when he explains this absolutely bonkers chart! www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1MG...

I don't know if this simply a consequence of dumbing down or if it part of someone's agenda, but either way it is a failure of the BBC's public service duty.

This late into a #kakapo breeding season, long after the mating has finished, a few males will still be at their bowls. They'll be sporadically booming, but most often you'll hear their 'skraaks' as they scrap for territory before returning to their winter ranges. #kakapo2026 #conservation

Two of my most favorite people!

WTF? What's wrong with people?

You'll be shocked to know that the racists have SHAT THE BED over Environment Canterbury using Takapō instead of Tekapo on a FB post. OH MY GOD Even funnier, one cried when I told them to piss off Another. 'It's been Tekapo for 170 years' fuck off racist it's Takapō for about 700 years prior

WTF? What's wrong with people?

Soniferous Aether xkcd.com/3238/

From our Washington correspondent www.robinince.com

Po marie Aotearoa

Our new rapid-sexing method for #kakapo and #takahē has been transformative. We've been sexing kākāpō chicks in the field on the day they hatch, enabling more effective management. Big thanks to @dnature.bsky.social @dnaturediagnostics.bsky.social www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-r...

I must know someone who's thought seriously about the sounds that pterosaurs might have made...

Humanity can survive without AI. Human civilisation is unlikely to survive in +2°C world though.

Rakiura's webcam is not getting the ☀️ it needs to function right now, but here's Nora (1255g) and Heath Fledger (Heather 1495g) at 50 days old. There's also a pic of the nest. Rakiura is the only kākāpō still raising two chicks on Whenua Hou this season. #Kākāpō2026 #nzwildlife

The largest animal to EVER exist is in the oceans right now.

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I've picked my nose and bitten my nails for as long as I can remember. Having no nails has made the other part of the deal an inelegant extraction. After 40 years, I've started growing my nails again and the nose picking side of things has been supercharged. Changed my life.

Not only was it a yahoo address it was "[email protected]".

Congratulations to @stephenking.bsky.social for this well-deserved honor!👍 (Novels/Novellas: Approximately 65 to 67 Non-fiction books: 5 books. Short Stories: Over 200 Pseudonyms: 7 novels were published as Richard Bachman. Frequency: He has published at least one book almost every year since 1974)

When your boss sends you a branch where he vibe-coded a new feature that took him an afternoon and would like you to include it on prod and you open it up to find the AI did the equivalent of splicing the crankshaft in two, welded in a new belt pully, adjusted the head & cylinder block to suit...

This is a simply wonderful video of the people who have dedicated their lives to protect the taonga of Aotearoa.

This is a simply wonderful video of the people who have dedicated their lives to protect the taonga of Aotearoa.

I’m trying to convince my institution that’s it’s worthwhile to be on Bluesky, so I volunteered to setup an account and posted at @soest.hawaii.edu. Please do me a favor and follow the account, share and like some posts before my meeting to discuss the account tomorrow. @joshuajfriedman.com

This video's very ableist... oh, OMG

Bumped into an old friend on Whenua Hou the day before yesterday, while I was working on the webcam. #kakapo #kakapo2026 #conservation #wildlife

Only two months to go before days get longer! 🥳

1080 works. "A controversial 1080 drop on Stewart Island has led to a 52 percent population boost for threatened Southern New Zealand dotterel/pukunui." www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

not sure it's still happening but for the entire 2010s every single EV made by large car companies was designed to suck as much as possible: in looks, function etc, to sabotage EV growth

What's your favourite pair of related/unrelated facts? Lake Taupō surface is at an elevation of approximately 356 metres above sea level. Lake Taupō's deepest point is approximately 160 metres (so if you get all the way to the bottom, you're still ~200m above sea level).

What's your favourite pair of related/unrelated facts? I'll start: A human being is likely to survive an impact of about 40km/h. The top speed of a human is about 40km/h.

I haven't had a long enough breath to talk about how AI is ruining the open web. API after API I used to use is closing - literally because paying the $$$ required to feed these impersonation machines is prohibitive.

10th day of lowest Arctic sea ice area in April on record.

How to surf with sea lions in Aotearoa!

This is what a gravity well actually looks like.

Have you been watching the #kakapo webcam? After a few power issues it’s back online. I’ll be at the nest in about an hour from now, so tune in then if you’re free! www.youtube.com/live/K_j3aaE...