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Peter Lucas

@98percent.bsky.social
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An otrovert. I want to be the best ancestor I can be. Interests: global systems, the natural sciences, sci-fi, conservation, sustainability, equity and people. Born at 311 ppm (if you get it, you get it)

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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Had the US entered the world wars out of altruism, they would have done so at a much earlier point. Instead, they sat back growing rich through the sale of arms and war materiel to the nations actually doing the fighting.
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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So what is your position on pets? I assume you don’t keep cats or dogs either, because they would be being kept captive for your own enjoyment? We need to know more before we pass judgement.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Haha! #BookSky
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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
You absolutely DO NOT have to be the world police. In fact, I wish you would STOP. Fact is, almost NONE of the interventions made around the globe have ever been in the interests of the rest of the globe, but out of US self-interest. This includes both world wars. The US is one nation of many.
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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
So. At least his post clarifies one thing. The war in Iran IS a war. Despite what Pete Hegseth says.
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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Just for clarity, we have 230V power here in New Zealand. Don’t know if that would result in different charging rates to people on 110V. The secret with a slow charger is to top up to a baseline level of charge each night rather than running the battery really low and then having to do a big charge
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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We have had EVs for 7 years now and have only ever used a level 1 charger in a normal domestic outlet. Our daily usage for the car was 40-50 km. Charging at off peak rates for 4-5 hours each night with the granny charger was enough to keep the car topped up.
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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This tells us everything we need to know about the kind of person Elon Musk is!
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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
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Sukie 💙🇺🇸🇺🇦🌊 @froggybottompond.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Who would ever have thought that we would fall so far that we now face a need to defend Democracy from the president. #VoteBlue up and down the ballots and don’t sit out the Midterms.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. This is a danger to us all.
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☆Jennїe S Jonzen☆ Is He Dead Yet?! 🖖LLAP🤟🍀✴️✳️🌟☘️🗽🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🌈🗿🌻💙💛⭐️ @astartiel.substack.com · 02/09/2026
Everyone needs to share this often.
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"If Trump was a Democrat would you still hate him?"

Trump WAS a Democrat, and YES, I hated him then too, you soup fork.

No one hates Trump because he's a Republican, we hate him because he's a shitty human being— which was evident long before his time in politics.
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Steven Goldsmith 🦋 @stevengoldsmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I truly believe that everyone gets what they deserve. I really hope that Trump gets exactly what he deserves.
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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Not in New Zealand. But this sort of bending the knee by Google depending on national political whim is enough to trigger my #degoogle project, finally.
Screenshot of Lake Ontario from Google Maps, showing the Lake is still labelled "Lake Ontario" for New Zealand users.
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WutTheWut😵‍💫 RBroeck🗳️💙 @wutthewut.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Believe the science. It is literally written in stone. Vaccinate.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]
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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
FYI, this is what we see in Aotearoa / New Zealand
Screenshot from Google Maps of the Gulf of Mexico, showing it as labelled by Google in Aotearoa / New Zealand "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" P.S. don't tell bubba Donald.
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👋I’m working on follow backs😊 @beaches1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
🎯🎯🎯
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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Anyone concerned about the sovereignty of their nation and worried by global corporatisation should know this piece of history! substack.com/@brianresist...
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Brian Resists (@brianresists)
I wonder how many Americans know this story. Yes, it’s factual.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
One for the #proofreaders out there… #BookSky
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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
That's a bit silly, and not what I'm saying at all. I am saying is that a lot of people don't have the resources to drop the job they have and go find another one without going hungry or homeless in the meantime. The more educated and wealthy you are, the more options you have. Many have neither.
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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Humans can only choose who they work for as long as they have other employers to go to. For some, that's not an option that's available to them.
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Union Thug™️ @theunionthug.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
My union lobbied NYS to pass a heat bill with temperature limits. Now every classroom in my district has an air conditioner. Unionize Amazon.
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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I don't understand your reasoning. The gestation period of a cow is about 9 months, allowing time for recovery and re-impregnation, that's about one calf a year. Some of those calves will be raised for beef and some held for breeding. So how can a beef herd recover in less than 12 months?
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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
And those of us in exporting nations are sick of the USA's shenanigans. We'll be paying a smaller and smaller proportion of the tariff as we diversify away from the US market as fast as we can.
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Guido Eekhaut @eekhaut.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
We love loopholes, don't we?
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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
He didn’t change. They did.
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Andy Reisinger @andyreisinger.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Not a single mention of “greenhouse gases”, “fossil fuels” or "climate change". Ministry claims students will still learn how the climate system works, why it changes, and its impacts. Withholding core vocabulary from curriculum to express causal relationships amounts to disinformation.
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Climate change omitted from new science and social science curriculums
The Ministry of Education drops all mentions of climate change and fossil fuels from new school curriculums, sparking alarm from an academic and educator
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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A new video emerged which seems to show a surface rupture in Yatsushiro, Japan following the M6.8 earthquake in July! Exact location of the video would be 32°30'04.0"N 130°38'29.9"E. Absolutely wild. Only the second ever video of a surface rupture forming after the 2025 Myanmar video! ⚒️🧪 #geology
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14/08/2026
Apple: ~$2.2 billion Nike: $986 million FedEx: ~$800 million Amazon: $640 million General Motors: $500 million Giant corporations are raking in millions in tariff refunds and getting even richer. But remember: corporations passed tariff costs on to you. Where's YOUR refund?
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Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @te-ara-paerangi.community · 14/08/2026
Friends, @seismologyfinn.bsky.social knows the score. The public research system is being destroyed. They are not even really trying to hide that fact at this stage. There is strength in numbers. Pitch in and be like Finn! Pre-Election forum is 18th at Noon. Turn up. Push hard. #NZPOL
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Pre-Election Forum on Science & Research
YouTube video by New Zealand Association of Scientists
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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
There is no one problem, or one solution to loneliness
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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Loneliness is a multifaceted issue. Don’t fall for the trap of thinking there is only one solution or only one cause. Also for the trap of thinking that a solution that applies to one culture applies to all. Being able to walk among other people definitely does reduce loneliness, for me, at least.
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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I have often wondered what an alien observer would make of us. Here is what I think (it's a friend link - free for you to read) medium.com/@unworn.trie...
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Dispatch Regarding Planet 261–3
Attention:
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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I enjoyed Project Hail Mary. It was quite true to the book, except that it missed large sections of the story that explained some big credibility gaps in the movie. People who watched the movie without reading the book must be left wondering “how did that happen?”
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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This may be Vimeo's big moment! Video tutorials will have to go somewhere..
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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I wonder why these groups have not been designated terrorist organisations? www.wired.com/story/a-whit... I’m pretty sure a (let’s say) a Muslim or POC group behaving like this would have been. #activism #racism #immigration #equality #justice #extremism
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A White Supremacist Youth Group Helped Orchestrate the Belfast Riots
After Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson stoked anger over a horrific knife attack in Belfast, a youth group linked to a global neo-Nazi movement quietly orchestrated anti-immigrant riots.
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Judy Weston @westonjk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Men are too emotional to be president.
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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
They take turns? 😊
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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Where do you live? Heaven? Feet up, a beer, a cat, and a good vintage read. You have it all!
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Scarlet @scarletblade.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
We can barely afford rent, and these fucking tax-tit sucker beneficiaries get more per year as an accommodation supplement than I’ve earned in three years. Wankers. NZ is NOT Broke if they can be allowed to be this entitled during austerity budgets.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/05/2026
Three months ago today, a war began that no one voted for — and the cost has been paid by people who had no say in it. 

Thousands of civilians have lost their lives. Thirteen U.S. servicemembers will never come home to their families.

Americans across this country and our city have watched prices rise at the pump and the grocery store, their budgets strained by a conflict launched without a single vote of Congress. 

Every life lost abroad and every dollar squeezed from a working family here is part of the same reckless bill, handed to the people who could least afford it by those who will never pay it themselves. 

I opposed this war from the first day. I oppose it still. It must end.
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Angeliki T. 💎 in NYC @ellinidata.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Chinese newspaper cartoon (Today... 😂 )
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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I wish you (and others) wouldn’t use the term “is worth” when speaking of individuals. “Worth” implies the individual has that value, whereas you are actually valuing their possessions. In my book, a nurse or teacher making a positive difference is worth more than any self-centred billionaire.
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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Additionally, on a per capita basis, China’s emissions are about 70% of America’s.
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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
“China is one of the highest emitters”. Why? Because the USA and others shut down their polluting industries and moved manufacturing to China. Why? To dodge environmental and safety regulation and take advantage of low wages.
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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Ours was administered in a little paper cup of raspberry drink
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Peter Lucas @98percent.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Yes. I’m old enough (just) to recall people having to be put into “iron lungs” like this. I was just into primary school when the first polio vaccine was released here in New Zealand.
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padresalsa.bsky.social @padresalsa.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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