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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 5h

Not just for *years* to come... "Even if global temperatures go above 1.5°C and then come back down, sea levels will keep rising for centuries..." sealevel.nasa.gov/news/283/the...

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The Seas Will Keep Rising, Even If the Planet Cools

NASA Sea Level Change Team releases "Sea Level Rise Under Overshoot"

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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 5h

"I'd really like to be recognised for my journalism outside of New Zealand" *monkey's paw curls*

John Oliver quoting me on Kiwibank's sexy green-haired sheep Buck

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 6h

Oh and also gender. Always gender, because we know lots of our unpaid workers are women but it's always okay to bash women

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 7h

So he gets to vice-signal and make implications in a way that gets maximum coverage

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 7h

I think it's mostly that it's about as low as you can go when you're trying to create in-groups and out-groups. We're not quite yet at the point where you can just say 'lazy (insert non-white race here) and lazy disabled folk' but the media is happy to platform sentiment that not working is lazy

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 10h

My read of the vibe on X is a bunch of folks cooking their brains on stuff that would’ve been way, way outside the realm of acceptable discourse even three or four years ago. That’s a feature, not a bug.

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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 11h

The privileged people self silencing to avoid mild criticism from the political right is doing my head in rn #nzpol

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 11h

The lack of courage has been below even my very low expectations

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 11h

If the only way Mum gets taken out to dinner is by pretending a fucking tiger turned up then my dude you've got bigger problems (this take is hilarious and I thank you for bringing it to me)

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 12h

This is one of the many reasons I advocate for better active and public transport. Walking, biking and sitting on a bus makes you notice the world. Cars separate us from it.

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 12h

Remember that if you sundown in fashy ways that make great headlines (and therefore make journalism simple) then you'll just be platformed!! Also I've said this before but I'm absolutely begging the left to stop saying they want to do a pub quiz with this man, stop fucking normalising him

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 13h

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Climate professional: look, that is insignificant compared to the large and growing gap between our total emissions and the level of emissions consistent with achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fri 9 Oct At pre-COP in Tuvalu & Fiji, 13 year-old Melelusi Sokotia, told Australian & intl delegations her friends dreamed of “becoming teachers, doctors, builders” but spent their lives wondering if their island would survive into their adult lives Will @albomp.bsky.social govt listen & act❓️

Protestors at our weekly Friday protest outside the allegedly pro-environment Josh Burns' St Kilda office
Our crew hold placards, hand out flyers & speaking with passers-by about the super-majority Albanese govt's health-, environment-, climate- & planet-harming policies

Protest crew member holds a large red & white banner opposite Josh Burns' office
It says SHAME LABOR DON'T DRILL 12 APOSTLES

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13h

Years ago I wrote this essay, and the clamor for compromise and one-sided pandering marches on, and of course David Brooks is a standard-bearer in the parade. As Jamelle Bouie notes, what if they are Nazis?

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Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway

When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them …

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 15h

Why on earth does this BBC piece on Burnham telling an interviewer the UK security services confirmed Russian interference in the Brexit referendum require a response from a pro Brexit pressure group? It's literally our Prime Minister telling us about election security. It's nothing to do with them.

The prime minister told The Rest is Politics podcast that upon arriving in No 10, he had asked about possible Russian interference in the 2016 vote, adding: "I've had the clear answer that, yes, there was."

"I think we've been too much on the back foot on that actually and we haven't informed people sufficiently about the extent to which people are seeking to disrupt the political process from overseas," he added.

Burnham did not provide further details about the type or extent of Moscow's activity during the Brexit referendum.

Britain Unbound, a pro-Brexit campaign group, said Burnham's comments were "another crude attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the decision that the British people made in 2016".

It said that foreign interference in UK elections was "obviously unacceptable" but added: "There is no good reason to believe that Russian intervention influenced the outcome of the referendum in 2016.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

The targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 10/10/2026

China’s railway system provided 25 million rides on a single day, October 1. For comparison, the US aviation system serves about 3 million travelers daily. Amtrak serves about 35 million riders per year.

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China's railway passenger trips hit record single-day high

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 15h

A good summation of David Brooks and "civility" politics generally: no one on the right-wing can ever be described honestly, while everyone who isn't on the right-wing is always portrayed as a radical breaking cherished norms.

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I am not saying a scheme like this is some kind of nirvana, but it is big cog in the wheel of running an economy for the 99% of people that just want to be able to live, love, work and play. The 1% can buy desert islands and knock themselves out with ket. We don't need their money. [Ends]

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Imagine if we swapped that bufferstock of unemployed people for a bufferstock of people paid to do good things in their communities. Helping out at youth clubs, maintaining walking trails and playgrounds, climate mitigation schemes , helping kids to read. How would that help manage inflation? [6/n]

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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

By their own values, the ones they firmly demanded they be measured on, the current govt shouldn’t even be contenders this election -

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

When I say the politics will become increasingly obvious... I mean look at this. If you want to unite the left/centre and split the Tories, without a big spending committment there's no better option.

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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

What I really love during election year and at every other time is think pieces by dudes framing pay equity as a choice/cost versus a basic inherent policy that any democracy should have as a given right - which also wouldn’t be framed as such if men were the ones primarily impacted by its absence.

Analysis Thomas Coughlan - NZ Herald headline
Labour says it can fund pay equity and public services - its fiscal plan suggests it can't afford
both

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Things that are essential, according to the right: Correct debt to GDP ratios Things that are not: A habitable planet, healthcare, women

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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What The Fukc Is Happening? @dudeseriouslywtf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I love Anti-Fascist Humans. Especially artistic ones. #nzpol ##VoteGreenPartyAotearoa26 #DitchThePricksIn26

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♿ hiding from plagues - Always masked - N95 or bust @smollestbunny2.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

My favorite thing is when politicians try to kill me every year for the crime of being disabled /s

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

[lots of spoilers] Wrote up some more thoughts here. Iñárritu is challenging the audience to think about whether or not films like this matter or if there are deeper truths to grapple with about our response to climate change. www.aaronhuertas.com/digger-is-a-...

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Digger is a Masterfully Bleak Criticism of Society's Response to Climate Change

Lots of SPOILERS follow, including ones that are fundamental to experiencing the film fresh. If you're interested in climate change, I strongly urge you to avoid reading anything else about the film u...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/10/2026

There are many ways in which every billionaire is a policy failure, but the most corrosive and destructive way in which billionaires are policy failures is this: billionaires, despite being unelected and unaccountable, possess the power to control - and ruin - millions of peoples' lives.

The Warner Brother tower posed against a vintage map of Burbank, keeling over, tearing up a huge clot of sod and concrete. Standing atop of the tower, forcing it down, is a sad, spavined donkey in Democratic Party livery. Being crushed under the tower is the California flag bear, with blood pouring out of its eye and mouth.

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yummmmm. A Brazilian workmate gave me her recipe for these and I cherish it, they're so good

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Unfortunately the same people fucking things up are the ones in a position to ride the crash out in relative comfort, buy things up for peanuts and further consolidate their power. Oh and then inequality gets even worse which as we know is utterly corrosive for society! It's just a horror show

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 09/10/2026

The feasibility of carbon dioxide removal is still uncertain: Even under the most favourable scenario, carbon dioxide removal methods would take 50 years to reduce warming by 0.25 C. www.thexylom.com/post/every-d...

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‘Every Day Above 1.5 C is Now Going to Matter’

Environmental scientist and IPCC co-chair Debra Roberts on overshoot, adaptation, nuclear energy, and having reasonable expectations of climate action.

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Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In today’s Weekend Herald

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Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Editors, reporters (anywhere in the world) - if you want to sharpen your climate journalism and join a global network, I can highly recommend applying for this, led by @arguedasortiz.bsky.social l and Katherine Dunn informedstories.org/en/informed-...

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Apply to join the Informed Climate Journalism Network | Opportunities

Applications are open for the Informed Climate Journalism Network, a free six-month online programme from Informed Earth for reporters and editors worldwide.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The shock factor is a big part of their thinking here. They enjoy it. I don't know what it'll take for more people to understand that these people cannot be negotiated with. They can only be fought. The only thing they care about is power at all costs.

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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Countries That Have Public and/or Live Streamed Executions Context: www.reuters.com/world/us-li...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Do you have young kids? With young kids I'd lean no, with almost-grown kids (as in, can get around themselves) or no kids I'd say go for it as long as you can afford it

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The only thing close to a proper city in NZ. I still miss it. It is SO expensive though and hard to get nice housing unless you're wealthy. You also mostly end up existing in a smaller bubble within your part of the city because it's so shit getting around (or you spend a lot of time in traffic)

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pleased to have this out today with @steveakehurst.bsky.social, discussing @persuasionuk.bsky.social's work on climate salience and public attitudes. I'm really pleased with the piece, do give it a read: www.break-down.org/making-peopl...

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Making people care about the climate

As the world heats up, are we really taking notice?

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Clean Energy Wire | CLEW @cleanenergywire.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Britons kept in dark about scale of climate crisis, say viewers of ‘first-of-its-kind’ emergency briefing Nine out of 10 people felt motivated to act after watching film outlining threats to food security, economy and public health

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Britons kept in dark about scale of climate crisis, say viewers of ‘first-of-its-kind’ emergency briefing

Nine out of 10 people felt motivated to act after watching film outlining threats to food security, economy and public health

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Or to put it another way, bsky.app/profile/seva...

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The part that I think has surprised me is that if I was a journo, I'd be shouting out of self-interest if nothing else. We all suffer if these guys gain more power. But hey, it's not cool to actually go 'Holy fuck this is actually a big problem,' gotta pretend it's all fine

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

'Do you feel wealthier?' No because we're destroying the planet and it's costing us more every day and also the energy systems that underpin everything about the economy are getting increasingly expensive and we're not investing in the cheap options that could help, thanks for playing though RNZ

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's 2026 and we're still writing articles about the cost of things without talking about how climate change is making a ton of things more expensive and will continue to do so 🙃

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