What’s the most valuable skill for talking persuasively about climate change and helping stimulate people into action? It’s not the ability to debate or remember statistics. In fact it's got nothing to do with science at all I think it’s listening 🧵

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

Tuesday, 4 November dawning, from Okitu Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Big day across the globe, good luck @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

Great resource for climate classes (and anyone worried about our warming world) 👇

I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥 There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️ They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬 Thread:🧵Plz RT

The cutest elbows 🤗

How the garden grows. 😍🌱 #gardensky

I preferred it when Prime Ministers believed things like every person deserved “someone to love, somewhere to live, something to do, and something to hope for”, and acted on those beliefs.

You know I watched this in fascination because I actually didn't know what Daniel Day Lewis sounds like. He's always so intensely doing accents & different characters that I legit had no idea what he spoke like.

Spider pronouns be like: it/ze/bit/xe

At a candidates meeting last week an older male candidate said that the way to improve well-being of workers is to encourage investment so that the wealth trickled down. Aaron stood up & said he'd like to acknowledge the myth of trickle down economics & the crowd cheered. This is the way ☑️ #whakatu

I know everything's terrible but did you know Whittaker's has a recipe section on their website & everything looks amazing? Whatever the chocolate equivalent of doomscrolling is, this is where to do it. www.whittakers.co.nz/en_NZ/recipes

Defying those who told him to "stick to football", Gary Lineker chooses to use his platform to speak up against Israel's genocide in Gaza and for the rights of refugees in the UK. Congratulations to Gary Lineker for winning Best TV Presenter at the National Television Awards.

My annual purple sprouting broccoli promotion. What a pleasing & delicious thing. 🥦😍 #bloomscrolling #gardensky

a lynch mob but it's just a bunch of people wearing david lynch masks asking where agent cooper is when you need him

Thomas Deininger uses plastic waste to create sculptures,or should I say,works of Genius!!!!!!

My job as a professor is not to create a serviceable worker. My job is to help foster thoughtful citizens or community members. If that sounds fanciful it’s bc corporate interests have spent decades framing how we talk about education so they don’t take the heat for immiserating labor conditions.

Some wholesome Sunday content for you - while I’ve been housebound and spending a lot of time on the couch I’ve been painting rocks for hiding in parks and today I got a chance to release some into the world for others to find & rehide.

Here's what a no go zone in England *really* looks like.

It ain't going away, no it ain't going away....

Photo of the Day. Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops. This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people. Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.

Hot tip - if you tune into a show half way through, you can slide the timeline bar thingy back to the start and still hear the whole show. 🤘🏼 #6music

Go for it. I don't even care any more.

Once again, a number of Voices for Freedom affiliated candidates are running for local government, this time they are hiding their more conspiratorial views and focusing on bland populist issues like rates and road cones www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

Please enjoy this turtle being given the gift of speed, and immediately using it to chase a kitty

So it turns out that the 'fast-track' to getting projects consented isn't so fast after all. This is backed up by a planner I know who's been working flat out on a fast track application for months & reckons it would have been consented by now under the usual RMA process. #nzpol

I applaud this post. But also, aren't elephants among the most wonderful things on the planet? Look at the size of its ears 🤗❤️🥰 Absolutely amazing that we get to share our planet with creatures like this. It will never fail to amaze me that they are here & we get to know about them. ❤️🐘🌏🥹

A very good long piece on AoNZ & climate which details why (among other things) the oil & gas reversal is utterly batshit on so many levels including economic ones. As these decisions become more obviously irrational, the justifications are becoming equally insane. drilled.media/news/new-zea...

Come on, "Royale with Breeze" was right there.

Topical. #kikorangi

Reposting for the benefit of all the people, none of whom are on this app, who didn't believe me when I told them that a Meyer lemon isn't a true lemon. In your face 😈

I just heard of Joanna Macy‘s passing. I hope people take some time to learn about her work and the amazing example that she set for what it means to be an activist who really really does the work of building long-term movements. We owe a lot to her input into the conversation.

RIP. ❤️🌱🙏🏼 Joanna Macy made my heart bigger. Both in its capacity to care & capacity to grieve.

“Active Hope is not wishful thinking. Active Hope is not waiting to be rescued by the Lone Ranger or by some savior. Active Hope is waking up to the beauty of life on whose behalf we can act." — Joanna Macy (May 2, 1929 – July 19, 2025)

Any billionaire that cared about climate change would cease, immediately, to be a billionaire.

Dude from Infometrics on the radio basically saying that $10 for a block of butter is good for the economy & will make us all better off in the long run. Funny how paying farmers well is a good thing but fair pay for women apparently had no value. #nzpol

Ol' mate grab-a-seat cutting through that woke nonsense like toilets. #nzpol

A great thing about ebikes is that they turn non-cyclists into cyclists.

The Morning Show on Apple TV is bloody good eh.

Shakespeare walks into a gay bar, then realizes he has somewhere else he needs to be. ::Exeunt, pursued by a bear::

EVERYone has skills to bring to the resistance. 🧶 What’s yours?

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The demographic trouble is "crank uncle who believes whatever bullshit he's told and is perpetually bewildered, and it's always someone else's fault" is now something like 20% of the electorate www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a city in possession of a mayoral election, must be in want of a genial transit nerd.

After my mom died in 1988, our annoying fundie neighbor told my dad that she was "called away to serve God." "Oh, so I lost my wife and my boys their mother because that fuckface in the clouds is too lazy to make his own pancakes?" was my dad's response.

Oof. Roads closed everywhere, power & water out around Riwaka & Kaiteriteri, flooding in Takaka. People evacuated. Nelson City seems to have escaped yet again & the Motueka valley, miraculously, is still open. Still wet & windy out there. #theweather #kikorangi

This is what social media should have always been