25% done and Kaipara has been steadily moving ahead of Henare since the count started

What I'd just say to you is, that damn #StraightUpMcAnulty is Bish's kryptonite. I might have to take him on myself. #LyinLuxon #WorstPMEver #WorstGovernmentEver #NZpol

1/200 S2E157 - 'Combatants' & Laws of War We discuss humanitarian law, war vs genocides, rules of engagement, and the definition of a 'combatant'. With war crimes in the news, we look at the history and context around what these 'crimes' actually are. w/ @l11p.bsky.social @krkelly.bsky.social

We were hoping that this letter to @bsky.app could first be shared by a Gazan, but we were too worried that doing so would get their account deleted so we are sharing first. You can sign on to the letter about the unfair treatment of Gazans on Bluesky here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If anyone ever told me Brownlee of all people would be reigning in the govt on attacking TPM in parliament I'd have said 'who are you, I'm in the wharepaku, how did you get into my house' and then after that I'd have said 'well OK that's pretty wild I grant you, but next time use the door'

Brownlee calls white privilege commitee recommendations "very severe and unprecedented in this parliament"; says using a narrow majority to deprive members of a minority party of their votes and speaking rights is unfair! #nzqt

Jesus! 21 days suspension from the House for TPM's leaders is pretty hefty ... be interesting to see the C'tee's justification for it (I'm guessing they'll claim that the haka was pre-planned + there's been no recognition of "wrong", as compared with Peeni Henare)

Excuse me, but what the actual fuck? HansAreWeTheBaddies.gif

Not the main story on Tesla's earnings, but techno-fascist right wing companies like Tesla are now openly and proudly presenting uncontrolled AI demand growth as an exploitable business opportunity for clean tech (and another mention of the 'sustainable abundance' agenda)

Good.

C you next Thursday, Seymour?

Confirmed: The second reading of the Treaty Principles Bill is set for this Thursday. #nzpol

Climate action on the state level is even more important as of today. For those in Washington State, please support HB 1183, which removes barriers to Passive House. Text of the bill: lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/202...

The “privacy-first” company surprised its user base when CEO Andy Yen lauded Trump on social media.

Grim thread

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

Fossil fuel companies

Resources on the regulatory standards bill (submit by Jan 14 by email.) linktr.ee/regulatoryst...

Steve needs more followers here, this is what I wrote about him a few years ago (that’s not him in the image) lloydalter.substack.com/p/from-the-a...

Looks like @iamnicksimpson.bsky.social has us covered: go.bsky.app/K4gWTBi

Also, bluntly, there *will* be experts who know this inside & out, who have established contacts in Parliament & the public service, who are primed to be taken seriously. What mass submissions add beyond that is a sense of the scale of feeling. The sincere, own words 1 para email achieves that.

I made another #podcast. Again. homestylegreen.com/h1-again/ #insulation #energy #efficient #home #comfort

It's been a while. I just released a #podcast episode. Thanks to @elrondburrell.bsky.social homestylegreen.com/build-aotear... #emissions #climate #construction #aotearoa

My friend and I saw the Cede Deez Nutz sign and died 🤣

I used a video editor to analyse the video + estimated the size of the space using google maps Based on that, the lower bound of the number of people in the video is about 83,000 people. Plus the 4,000 already at Parliament house (according to @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social) that makes 87,000 people.

Those numbers are lower bounds. The upper bound is about double, so the max is about 160,000. That would be if their speed was closer to 1.3 metres per second, which is actually closer to what the video implied but there's uncertainty because I don't know the true framerate of the timelapse.

I’d say that is a good guesstimate - having been at Dunedin’s hospital March of around 35,000 I would say today in Wellington was easily double that and yes I was in Wellington today

Azure Magazine has published an excerpt of my new book! It includes the twitter conversation with me, @elrondburrell.bsky.social and Jorge Chapa, where we came up with the term "upfront carbon." www.azuremagazine.com/article/what...

Not a single day passes without me thinking of you. We need your voice. I took this photo of you taking a photo of a strawberry you picked with your hands, your hands that had on it some ink and some words from a poem you read aloud to us that day before we played pun games.

All of this. Also most times when I hear people say "it's complicated" I really hear them say how they benefit from systems of oppression

A whiteboard in a Gaza hospital, which usually tracks upcoming surgeries, is wiped clean and instead now displays this message: WHOEVER STAYS UNTIL THE END WILL TELL THE STORY WE DID WHAT WE COULD *REMEMBER US* (Source: Doctors Without Borders)

The last update is that they've changed the ward and haven't said where they took them to for safety reasons because the idf is sniper firing the doctors. They were taken out of the incubators. They may yet not survive. I'm sorry but his is very real and I can't find toxic positivity in me. 3 died.

This is a good graphic for where you are aiming for in the mouth when swabbing. You are not trying to sample the voice box.

Don't know if #FollowFriday is a thing here, but here goes for all things #passivhaus #passivehouse @passivhaustrust.bsky.social @ecominimalnick.bsky.social @montepaulsen.bsky.social @elrondburrell.bsky.social @lloydalter.bsky.social @michaelburchert.bsky.social @thewoodlouse.bsky.social

@nadineannehura.bsky.social oh hi! I did find you after all 😎

Guardian Essential poll: left bloc draws ahead of the right as Labour rallies and Act slumps to fifth position. NZ First stinking up the place on 8.2%. www.theguardian.com/world/2023/o...

New- Reported on viral falsehoods on X. I and my colleagues found the attack in Israel saw posts that led to confusion, misinformation and conflict on X, exposing how Musk's policy changes transformed the platform into an unreliable resource during a crisis. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

More in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/books/2023/o...

Well, I’ve arrived. Thanks to @elrondburrell.bsky.social for the invite code.

Before she left for maternity leave, Ann-Marie Fallon did a great podcast with @georgemorgan.bsky.social and Hattie Hartman on net zero, passivhaus, why Scotland is leading on sustainability and more Part of AJ Climate Champions podcast series www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/aj-clim...

This is fine. s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

Ok here's the deal, at 10% of followers on Twitter; here (300), I'll move the straw house thread to bsky or make a skeet guide on how you can do straw building anywhere and without much experience and investment. You decide.

This week another intake of building professionals (and occasional keen amateurs) wanting to learn how to mainstream seriously high performing buildings. Details of courses coaction.org.uk

Next time you need to remind someone that Māori aren't a monolith 🙃😂

Just FYI … “Minister for Space” is actually “Minister for Growing Defence-Adjacent Spending and Growing The Military-Industrial Complex in New Zealand”. #nzpol

Curious to know what it's like to live in a comfortable and efficient house built with timber, straw and clay? We'll be opening doors to Old Holloway on 11th November as part of International #Passivhaus Open Days #iPHopendays booking via passivehouse-database.org/index.php?la...