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Lauren M

@elenem.bsky.social
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Mum, cricket lover, cargo biker, gardener; always wanting more climate action, always wanting more climate justice. Re-skeets for interest, not always endorsement. Says 'fuck' a lot. Aotearoa/NZ.

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 12h
omg it's the 2015 ads from Britain!!!! My "this is NZs 2015" theory is bang on. It's the same advert, it's the same fucking advert
A 2015 advert from Britain with noted sex abuser and dead guy Alex Salmond who was the SNP leader at the time with Ed Miliband, Labour leader, in his front breast pocket.
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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That, I think, is why some of the attacks on Swarbrick feel oddly objectless. The danger isn’t just what she might do as Finance Minister. It’s what she might reveal about the people who have spent 40 years telling us the money is all gone. andrewdicksonnz.substack.com/p/chloe-swar...
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Chlöe Swarbrick Nicked Luxon’s Cotton Reel
Lacan explains why the tough guys of fiscal politics are so emotional right now
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12h
The nation explicitly cast as a fortressed bunker ensuring "survivability" for the in-group. A.K.A. end times fascism.
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 12h
media decry the fact theyre losing subscribers & trust but regularly take money from virulent racists & ideologues to promote racism & extremism you actually *can* turn down money for moral and ethical reasons, folks how (liberal) media figures justify this is beyond me. do something to stop it 🤷‍♀️
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Andrew Jull NZRN (he/him) @andrewjull.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Private equity healthcare does not work. Another OmniHealth clinic, who is part owned by American equity Sanford World Clinic. www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/...
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Last remaining GP at Horowhenua's Taitoko Health clinic resigns
The last general practitioner of a clinic for 4500 patients in Horowhenua has resigned.
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Crucial point on the importance of reducing vulnerability and building overall resilience rather than focussing merely on early warning systems. There are around 15,000 glaciers in the Himalaya. Monitoring them all for warning signs would be near-impossible eos.org/thelandslide...
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 28/09/2026
'The AI-pocalypse is a mirage distracting us from AI's unsustainable development'
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'The AI-pocalypse is a mirage distracting us from AI's unsustainable development'
The highly hypothetical dangers of AI overshadow the very real environmental, social and political risks, writes Stéphane Foucart in his op-ed.
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Mark @maetl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There has never been a widely debated public justification for surplus. The entire thing has always been based on vibes, unstated assumptions and implicit values.
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John Marsham @johnmarsham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Buried on BBC Asia page (not on climate page) - Bangkok disaster zone, $330 million damage, 0.3% off GDP, hundreds of thousands affected - and no mention of why! Climate Crisis driven by burning fossil fuels .... @mattmcgrathbbc.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Bangkok roads submerged as flood disaster declared
Authorities said the heavy rains have subsided but the flooding is not yet over.
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
greens on 16% which indicates we'll likely get a hit job on them within the week and/or a labour leadership change going on historical precedents
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Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · 28/09/2026
Sigh It's not a passing temporary seasonal dry spell It's a long-term drying climate Data is clear Incontrovertible Farmers not taking action on climate change are asleep at the wheel Farmers supporting an absence of political action are backing long term end to what they do bsky.app/profile/prof...
Long-term stream flow data for Western Australia in a drying climate
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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anyone saying they can’t find any proof of a prime minister saying something in the year 2026 is on a fools errand, but they don’t care if a lot of people know they are lying because of all the people who will eat it up. But here we are in the age of lies #NZPol
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 27/09/2026
Tech elites are “angry that they don't have free rein to enact the world they want to enact, and that includes areas like AI,” says @jacobsilverman.com, author of "Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley."
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“Gilded Rage”: Jacob Silverman on How a Radicalized Silicon Valley Shapes Trump’s AI Policies
“One of the features we see in … a lot of the billionaire tech elites is a real kind of anger,” says Jacob Silverman, author of Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley. “They’r...
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M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 28/09/2026
Just a reminder that Ben Thomas is somehow a valuable part of the Spinoff's podcast network, which really should call into further question the Spinoff's editorial policies
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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 25/09/2026
Pols journos sneering that “everyone knows about the Taxpayers Union” and ”it’s just lobbying” are telling on themselves; the fact is that the public *doesn’t* know about the TPU‘s antics and that is because of the failure of mainstream journalists
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social: The best thing that we can do to rein in runaway costs at private institutions is by having tuition free public colleges and universities. “For anyone who wants to say that that’s pie in the sky and unrealistic… this is literally what baby boomers gave themselves.”
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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'What he lacked in technical knowledge he compensated with conviction' sums up so many men I know, tbh (and a fair few women besides). Most of them are in leadership positions 🫠
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1/200 Media @1of200.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
1/200 Campaign Season E25 - Candidate Interview Māngere Electorate We chat with the Green's Māngere candidate @bloodysamoan.bsky.social. We discuss the challenges facing Māngere, CoL & the importance of politicians being a voice for their community w/ @kyledchurch.bsky.social @pmax.bsky.social
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1/200 Campaign Season E25 - Candidate Interview Māngere Electorate w/ Michel Mulipola — 1/200
1/200 chats with the Green's Māngere candidate Michel Mulipola. We discuss the challenges facing the electorate, the cost of living and the importance of politicians being a voice for their community.
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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Really feels like we're ignoring the fact that our whole energy system needs to rapidly and drastically change to keep the planet habitable and civilisation functioning but hey let's hype AI or something woooooooo #nzpol
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
this has always been the problem with RNZ facilitating bad faith rightwing operatives unfortunately, in 2026, that includes many of their actual staff
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When it comes to climate change, the amount of money going to effective solutions matters. After all, we are talking about rebuilding the world. Sadly, money going into climate is way down from a few years ago. In government funding, investing, corporate spending, etc. We need to turn that around.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I miss David MacKay. In his no-nonsense way he showed that one long-haul return flight a year uses more energy than a 1 kW heater on all year. "A 10% improvement? Yes, possible. A doubling of efficiency? I'd eat my complimentary socks." If only more people were pro-arithmetic. We have to fly less
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Ch 5 Page 35: Sustainable Energy - without the hot air | David MacKay
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Every point in this small thread. Every. One.
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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Climate change already hits American households for $400 to $900 annually ... More than half of those costs came from higher home insurance rates — and indirect insurance costs on businesses that are passed on to consumers — the researchers said." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...
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POLITICO Pro: Prices are already high. Add ‘climateflation’ to the tab.
Climate change is boosting costs for households beyond the inflationary pressures from war and tariffs.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can I have some legitimate concerns please? Hello, UK government, I have a legitimate concern that temperatures will rise to a level that destroys many already-struggling nations, leading us in to an era of food scarcity wars. And now we wait for Andy Burnham to act on my legitimate concerns😎
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People who call this techno-feudalism are wrong: feudal lords still had obligations to their serfs, enforced by courts. Excommunication was on the table & it was taken seriously. Colonists have zero obligations to the colonized. Working the inferior beings to death, mass murder, all authorized.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
AI is a colonialist project, which is why many of its leaders are literally trying to colonize Earth & outer space. Hallmarks of colonialism: * getting rich via expropriation (theft as below) * exploitation (cf: participation in AI bros' simulated-rape galas as a condition of career advancement)
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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One might have thought that billionaire islands were out of fashion. But according to their real-estate portfolios, the mega-rich still want to live in their own fortified compounds.
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Exit Strategy - Dissent Magazine
In End Times Fascism, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor make the case that the ruling class is not lording over our future, but trying to escape it. How should the left resist doing the same?
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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’ve written an op-ed for @newsroom.co.nz with Russell Opland, on how ministers and some senior officials are using poor quality data to justify an assault on our right to information under the OIA. Strengthening our democracy is a core issue this election. #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/28/o...
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Officials crack on behind closed doors to limit the OIA, under cover of election
Andrew Ecclestone and Russell Opland argue the managerialism of processing official information requests is shielding the heart of the matter: reducing our right to participate in making policies, and...
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 27/09/2026
Thousands march for climate across France: 'I wish there were more of us, after the summer we've just had'
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Thousands march for climate across France: 'I wish there were more of us, after the summer we've just had'
From Bordeaux to Paris, organizers say 120,000 people took part in 260 demonstrations 'for the climate, for life, for peace, for social justice.
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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
'More than six-in-ten voters (61 per cent) say that the building of data centres should be stopped “for the time being at least”, while 23 per cent disagree." www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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Majority of people want data-centre construction to stop, Irish Times/Ipsos B&A poll shows
More than two-thirds of respondents say they support Ireland’s ‘current model of neutrality’
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Guy Body @bodycartoon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For Thomas Coughlan's article: www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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Dr Gary Payinda @garypayinda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Done: my last ED shift before the election is now completed. Only one Focus now: helping you get to know me, my priorities and my values so that you can feel motivated to enrol...and confident that I will represent you honestly and with everything I've got, in Parliament.
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bijan @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i think about this post all the time. you might too
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I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. Pleas
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
S**t you can't make up. #nzpol
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Chris Penk getting his new column off to a great start by reviewing a book he hasn't read and declaring that it belongs "in the fiction section". I hope Stuff's editors are proud of themselves.
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the cult of the superior machines is inherently a patriarchal cult (like nearly all cults in recorded history) its theology classifies “AI” systems as either wives (systems that exist to serve and empower Great Men) or Gods (theoretical future systems, male-coded, that become the Great Men)
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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
👇This is essential reading for all. Especially the bit about newspaper archives being wiped and journalists being replaced by AI. Globally we are blindly walking into a dark age. Luckily for us @sarahkendzior.bsky.social is alerting us all. Also providing us the best advise - get a library card. 1/
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André "Normal" Alessi @andrealessi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Last day of tutorials today on bullshit. We had ChatGPT "write" an "essay" about whether or not LLM outputs out as bullshit, and the kids are alright: in less than five minutes they were calling for political violence targeted at tech companies.
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 24/09/2026
Moana never misses @moanatribe.bsky.social Me thinks Thomas is taking this a little personally #NZPol
Have yet to read the book. This headline may or may not be apt. But it's funny. I immediately thought of the АСТ party leader who proposed repealing s74 of the Public Services Act because an anonymous Chinese woman (as was described to me) whispered that talk of Te Tiriti had hurt her feelings. Changing legislation on that basis - lack of any evidence or data - is arguably more indefensible than releasing a book that some people may or may not read - in my opinion. LAW CHANGE RELIES ON ANONYMOUS [people] RATHER THAN LEAKED DOCUMENTS.
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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Penny's Bookshop in Chartwell Mall still has copies BTW
Three copies of Nicky Hager's Dirty Work on display.
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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Should we worry?”
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Scientists warn super El Nino could cause 450,000 deaths: Should we worry?
Global South countries will be worst affected by the phenomenon sweeping the planet from June to February.
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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"CEOs who style themselves as philosopher-kings building God have instead become something much more mundane: real estate developers who need a lot of fossil fuels."
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The Big Greedy Data Center Next Door
Data centers may be the perfect encapsulation of an economy built to benefit the already rich. After construction started on a vast facility in Vineland, New Jersey, residents didn’t just get mad; the...
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 23/09/2026
@jbozuwa.bsky.social of @cplusc.bsky.social kicks off From Crisis to Capacity: Big Ideas Fueling Green Politics #climateweeknyc #cwnyc2026 hillheat.com/events/2026/...
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ed Miliband will appoint a new special representative for climate security, as well as a new ministerial taskforce on “the national security and resilience risks of a changing climate and nature loss” - excellent to see Now release the full JIC report publicly! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer
El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers
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