I’m at the Donald Trump. I’m at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. I’m at

Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx

Oh my oh my, what treasures has #SecretSantaAoNZ #OpeningDay brought! This is really so generous. The musically themed scarf will be perfect for outdoors performances with the Auckland Street Choir in winter. (I hope you can see the bass & treble clefs in the photo.) Thank you, mysterious Santa!

Me too! #SecretSantaAoNZ

Here’s an article from this year with the Australian gun lobby boasting that, with surging gun numbers, it was winning the fight against firearms control advocates. Blame guns. Blame anti-Semitism. Blame terrorists. Do not blame everyday Australians who marched for peace.

News from Bondi shows yet again that anti-semitism is alive and well in Australia. The shooters appear to have used high-powered rifles. It could have been even worse if they had semi-automatic weapons. #auspol

So I chatted with Jesse Mulligan on RNZ today about the Sanctuary Mahi Whenua community gardens. You can listen in here: www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

I dunn0 man, I dunn0.

Me, realizing that Christmas is sneaking up and I'm utterly unprepared.

If there is a workplace productivity problem summer, surely Simon already knows the answer? Slushies ! ! !

"Politicians in South-East Asia ignore climate change at their own political peril." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12... #nzpol

Fanny Osborne's stunning watercolours including the only colour depiction of the extinct Adams mistletoe... a Great Barrier Island special edition. www.rnz.co.nz/life/culture...

The same argument one hears all too often in both Australia and New Zealand.

First Trump take egg, now Kiwi take egg.

So, I'll need to update this piece I co-wrote back in 2022 re NZ's climate target and the need to buy international offsets to meet it: newsroom.co.nz/2022/10/10/i... #nzpol

Tomorrow's MPI press release.

As a prof, I am grateful that TP published both the essay itself and the response! Thank you so much, TPUSA, for showing the public the quality of the writing we have to grade so tactfully and impartially. I don’t think people realize just how bad it is lol

Excellent article by Cathrine Dyer. Worth a read https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/28/clean-car-standard-tinkering-an-incoherent-misstep/

New Zealanders: “I knew everything over there could kill you.”

Nature - no planet B Spicy food - plant-based Reading, all kinds Music, all kinds (choir director) Tech, all kinds Family tops the list Actually, kindness tops the list. House the homeless and fix the mental health system Aussie in Aotearoa Tēnā koe e hoa! #SecretSantaAoNZ

*Stephen miller to trump, once Mamdani leaves*

Heartbreaking stories like this are surfacing everywhere at ~1.5ºC of heating. We are firmly on track to cross 2ºC and at the current heating rate of ~0.3ºC/decade we will reach this in the next ~16 years. We are utterly unprepared for the climate chaos this will unleash.

And in climate change news, #COP30 has reached the “live demonstrations” part of its agenda.

George Monbiot addresses a packed house via video for Next Fest 2025 (Sustainable Business Network). “Our power comes not from our role as consumers, but as civilians”. #NZ #nzpol

Pink hopper club! 🎵 I’m gonna keep on hoppin’ at the pink hopper club! 🎵

The cost. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Our heartfelt congratulations to all of our Uber members and the four drivers - Nureddin, Julian, Bill and Mea’ole. It is not easy to stand up and speak out about a multibillion dollar multinational corporation that controls almost every aspect of your livelihood. You have done it. And won! #uber

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.

The death of Ken Saro-Wiwa was one of the singular events which opened my eyes to the damage being caused by fossil fuels to both planet and people. 30 years later, we can say thanks to the Ogoni Nine for their leadership - they are not forgotten.

Paywall lifted: At every turn, the Govt has opted for whatever would actually lead to more pollution and a warmer world – even if it costs more, jeopardises NZ’s reputation, overturns a campaign promise or clashes with the Govt’s other priorities. The long retreat: newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...

how it’s going

The politics of the shutdown: *GOP had a strong opening position *Undercut themselves with the RIFs and unnecessary cuts to blue states/SNAP *Polls showed GOP getting most of the blame, no reason to assume that would change *Dem centrists then folded on their key issue of ACA subsidies

Handy advice for New Zealanders, whose Government is toying with a policy to “move on” the homeless. While avoiding doing anything much about the causes of homelessness. #nzpol

Z Energy advertisement: "We're in the business of getting out of the petrol business." Consumer NZ and Lawyers for Climate Action:

2. Culinary Witches

Some great news... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... Like that guy said, "it belongs to them, we're gonna give it back."

From the people who brought you: “There are fewer in emergency housing so that’s great. We have no idea where they are. Who knows if homelessness is increasing?” www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... #nzpol

In Sydney it is nearly 7pm and we are in the 3rd week of October. The temperature is 30 degrees Celsius.

Something something, metaphor something.

The hole in a guitar is traditionally used to store soft cheeses and dried meats which are fed to the drummer when he does a good job

Stuff front page right now… what a juxtaposition. #climate #nzpol

Personally, I did not have “3 people in giant inflatable frog costumes save democracy” on my 2025 bingo card, but here we are.

Australia and New Zealand have substantial and rising economic losses from extreme weather. Thanks to our lethargy on climate change, this will continue. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... #auspol #nzpol

NSW flood victims' personal details loaded to ChatGPT in major data breach www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

#Arctic air temperature rank by month over the satellite era - now updated through September 2025... + Ranks: 1=warmest (red), 46/47=coldest (blue) + Download higher resolution version: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...

they are destroying US climate science on purpose, and it hurts my heart. but take it from an MIT-trained nerdass: all most of us need to know is that we have to stop burning stuff stop burning stuff for heat stop burning stuff for make car go stop burning stuff for power we have the tools

You have to wonder if a deal has been done here… www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... E.g. will US tariffs on NZ exports be cut? #nzpol

NEW: China's president Xi Jinping unexpectedly joins the UN climate summit, by video, to offer his nation's 2035 climate pledge * Cut GHGs to 7-10% below peak by 2035, "striving to do better" * Raise non-fossil share of energy to at least 30% * Boost wind/solar to 3,600GW