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I'm guessing that if it weren't for energy demand from LLM datacentres, we could keep solar, wind and other renewables, and knock at least two of the others off the list.

So methane gas HAS grown to meet rising energy demand. Ok. So once again the world goes “all of the above,” and the flame burning under our cooking planet grows apace.

Apparently James Comey reposted this picture.

I basically had no idea about this 'flocking' behaviour in AI computation, and that's not an accident. After three bloody decades of sweaty hand wringing about wind and solar "inteemittency", this just gets treated like nothing bsky.app/profile/keta...

I would have gasped! But not ONLY because I subconsciously believed a pencil is a person for a sec. But because someone who just *characterized* a pencil as a person then destroyed it. Like... that's the more shocking thing!

This is not an exaggeration. Alex Jones is allegedly bankrupt but has an infinite well of dark money to pay lawyers, sell pills, and harangue judges and the parents of dead kids. This stay must be lifted so we can take over, and I hope journalists look into where he's getting and stowing his money.

Willis poking the bear #nzpol "Willis is also latching on to contradictory comments from Peters on the matter to warn voters the New Zealand First leader could become similarly “confused” during future coalition negotiations and support a Labour coalition into Government"

I have a hot take. Any position for a freedom of speech officer who is to regulate universities from without is a sham and to be abolished. Freedom of speech is a constitutional right that applies across societal sectors and needs to be protected across them. Universities are not to be singled out.

So, uh, how's all this 'Pretend this is a completely normal centre-right government' stuff working out for you there guys? #nzpol

🤯🤯🤯 Prime editing + Gibson assembly =Prime Assembly at decent efficiency. Genome engineering technology is advancing so fast. Very exciting! Congratulations to all!

this is really serious #nzpol 'Vote Them Out' has ~no~ impact on the Treaty Clauses Review in progress. it'll b implemented btwn Aug-Oct, a done deal before NZ votes. Te Tiriti, our protection, will be removed from 23 laws. what will help, now? adding your name to #ToituTeTiriti claim. see next post

This is quite the graph (from newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/30/t...)

A interesting read for #nzpol New Zealand had the developed world’s largest rise in inequality in the two decades from 1985. NZ has broken its (age okd abd implied) promise. You don’t get a fair go any more. If you want one, you have to leave www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

I keep hearing this argument that a good CEO doesn't make a good PM. Trouble is they are referring to Luxon. He was a bad CEO. The same troubles with AirNZ as with NZ under his tenure: bad morale, lack of care for workers, ignoring experts, increasing debt. Bad CEO, bad PM. #nzpol

Paywall now lifted on Hanna McCallum's scoop with the full list of the Government's planned Treaty clause cuts and changes: newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/29/f...

Very very telling. It’s been a big question how the govt was able to get a grand jury to sign off on this particular conspiracy charge. Seems pretty clear the govt had dirty hands on that front.

It is also the case, as Rahawa outlined here, that though I chose an imprint that still values paperbacks, if my hardcover sales aren’t strong enough, there will be no paperback of The Edge of Space-Time. Those who can afford to by HC are voting on where a PB option will be available 😳

The one imprint I spoke to that didn’t make me an offer for The Edge of Space-Time is the one I got into an argument with during the sales call because they said they didn’t want to do paperbacks anymore and I said that some people could only afford to buy at that lower price

when every noun in the sentence is cursed

Had a family member call me asking for help interpreting a CT report of a friend; “what does pneumatosis mean?” (air in the bowel wall). “Oh, they told me to tell you they drink raw milk, if that is important”. Yes. Yes it was. That was the infection causing the air, and why a surgeon is there.

Oh yes. Very much. Those build up and eventually I have to read them standing up for some reason.

You ever have those emails that you've tried to open and read at least a dozen times but every time you're just so supremely uninterested in reading the wall of text that your brain completely shuts down?

who are fucking fed up with this govt? that'd be a big old sparkling cunty YUP ✨😊✨

For at least a century we've been reassured that exposure to low levels of lead, mercury, BPAs, tobacco smoke, microplastics, PFAs, radiation, glyphosates, DDT, etc were all perfectly normal & safe - right until they weren't. Now the same blithe rationalisations are applied to viral disease. Super.

It's tough seeing every single freelance artist I know having the same "uhh I haven't had paying work or sales in weeks" posts, it's gotten extremely tough out there for us. If you have the means, please consider treating yourself to a commission or print or book from an artist you like, it helps!

Might need help funding some firewood. Winz still can't tell us if they can help with rent and are farking us around.

If I saw this in a film set in an awful dystopic future I'd call it unsubtle, ham-fisted, bad writing...

Also, if you say anything about the inevitability of AI, even from a place of cynicism, I'll block. Nothing is inevitable except death.

Why did none of you tell me my feijoa jelly was the wrong colour and was never going to set cause there was too much water in it still

Woke up to the msg of a close friend telling us on the group that his family house in South Lebanon was demolished by the Israelis

Scholarships to attend the annual SCANZ conference close tomorrow - www.scanz.co.nz/2026-scholar... #scicomm #SciCommNZ

"Yes, now how come you haven't told the public that?" Because her decade old conviction for possession of cannabis that has already been sorted by the courts, shouldn't mean she's detained for 9 weeks in a damn concentration camp. Why haven't you told the public that, Winston? #nzpol

How did you get introduced to the Discworld? Me, I spent years being annoyed that there were Discworld books in my way every time that I was looking for the next *Ringworld* book, and then I suppose I ended up mistakenly taking a Discworld instead of a Ringworld!

i love u transgender

Treaty Principles Bill 3.0 and why the coalition are trying so hard to hide it www.instagram.com/reel/DXVS8gZ... Toitū te Tiriti - Interested Party Application - Treaty Clause Review Claim Wai 682 Only 22,000 signed up so far, link in her Insta bio. #NZpol #AusPol #Maori #TeTiriti

Only one full day of Autism Bewareness Month to go! We've got this!

Telomere-to-Telomere Assembly Using HERRO-Corrected Simplex Nanopore Reads @nanoporetech.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

webworm can report that the new zealand government appears to be offering *zero viable support* to everlee wihongi, or her family, after she was kidnapped by ICE: www.webworm.co/betty2/

Dare you to add an “all of the above” option, Stuff

Bendigo #FastTrack "There's no part of nature Luxon's Government won't destroy forever to make a quick buck. The Greens won't let that happen. 💪💚" NZ @greens.org.nz 29 April #nzpol #auspol

'Where does your tax money come from?' is the question to start with. If Govt spend an extra $10bn, we have an extra $10bn to pay taxes with.

Not luck, just science, all clear after Wellington-Christchurch-Singapore-Auckland-Wellington! 3M respies for airports and planes (I broke two straps, had backups), KF / N95 for the rest. More details in alt text. Covid is airborne and it's not "a cold." Take it seriously. We *can* prevent it.

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Oh FFS. Once again for those at the back - and sorry, must SHOUT 'cos obviously didn't hear last ... few hundred times ... it has been said ... THE GOVT DOES NOT HAVE HIGH DEBT. WE DON'T NEED TO SELL ASSETS. IS FICTION USED TO NARROW ARGUMENT TOWARDS "GOVT IS BAD, SO SMALLER GOVT IS BETTER".

We desperately need a great 'de-uteification' of the NZ economy. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

really good point. I think often about the “men afraid of being laughed at, women of being killed” and the rage when a man is no longer feared or is called names (“weird” springs to mind in recent politics) Looking forward to the book

That is the psychological wage operating at its most precise. Not wealth. Not safety. Not real community. The currency of being more threatening than a wild animal. The bear does not have ego. The bear does not have something to prove. The bear is just a bear.

Fascinating thread