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Building coshop.nz, a community-centered food platform. Things I repost: - Food Systems - Art I like - Weird Cryptography - Liberatory Tech I'm on Germ DM 🔑 ger.mx/A-eO8zapoeySJJAWhLwVOxeiP6oY…

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 11h
www.youtube.com/watch?v=610L...
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Songs of Solidarity Festival
YouTube video by Boosted Crowdfunding
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 11h
An hour left to support and only $300 left to hit our $10k target! www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/proj...
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Songs of Solidarity Festival 2026 - Anthems of Resistance
Boosted is Aotearoa New Zealand’s only arts crowdfunding platform. We’re here to bring creatives and supporters together to grow creativity. With our mentored approach to crowdfunding, we have one of the world's highest crowdfunding success rates and have helped creatives raise millions since 2013.
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 06/09/2026
An ecommerce store in #NZ suggesting I look for "murder drones"... This could an LLM suggestion or the result of people searching for them - and I'm not sure which is actually worse? 🤔
Screen shot of Mighty Ape store suggesting I search for "murder drones"
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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 03/09/2026
❤️ Deliberative Democracy Workshop An intro workshop to deliberative democracy, a consensus based system for making healthier collective decisions. criticalsignals.nz/programme/de... 🗓️ Today, at 5.30PM 📍 113 Taranaki Street
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 31/08/2026
And we have @ganeshahirao.bsky.social in person tomorrow night on ‘How to be a Good Ancestor’. Though we have 34 registered attendees so you might want to book a spot if you want to get in the door (it’s not that big!)
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 31/08/2026
Another great event this Wednesday evening for all #Climate people in Wellington.
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 27/08/2026
It's late, always a dangerous time to be thinking
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 25/08/2026
Screening "Narrative tomorrow 6pm at @criticalsignals.nz followed by a Q+A with the director! Set 15 years after the 2010 military massacre of pro-democracy protesters in Bangkok, Anocha Suwichakornpong’s film blurs the boundaries between filmmaking, political reflection and legal investigation.
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Film Screening of "Narrative" with Arsenal Filminstitut
Arsenal – Insitute for Film and Video Art will be screening “Narrative” at Critical Signals. Screening will be followed by Q+A and discussion with the Director, Anocha Suwichakornpong. Set 15 years …
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Sustainable Farming @sustainablefarming.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Vegetable harvests are collapsing. Not slightly. Not just by double digits. In many locations by more than half. Broccoli harvests across Europe have collapsed very fast.
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
And we have a new all-time record warm *absolute* temperature for the oceans, according to ERA5 (which goes back to 1940): August 21st likely marked the warmest Sea Surface Temperatures have been for the entire Holocene period. Should be major news!
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 22/08/2026
You know the band is good when they have two drummers
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 21/08/2026
So ahh yeah, looks like there’s a bit of flu going around in NZ. Almost double last year’s hospitalisations. Out food co-op almost didn’t get food delivered yesterday as half the warehouse staff were off work! www.phfscience.nz/digital-libr...
Chart showing weekly hospital admissions per 100k. Currently admissions are double the normal rate at ~15 vs 7 or 8.
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Karin Kvale @kkvale.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NZ government promoting death by limiting the tools available to it’s citizens to hold polluters accountable
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 18/08/2026
For squat lovers, this is on tomorrow 6pm, 113 Taranaki Street. Giuseppe Micciarelli will be zooming in from Italy to share his experience of creating urban commons in abandoned, neglected, or underused areas and buildings reclaimed through collective management. criticalsignals.nz/programme/ur...
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Urban Commoning - Returning City Spaces to The People
Giuseppe Micciarelli will be zooming in from Italy to share his experience of creating urban commons in abandoned, neglected, or underused areas and buildings reclaimed through collective management. ...
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
100% #BookSky
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 17/08/2026
If you're involved with a community group in Wellington facing some issues that could be solved with good tech, like: - volunteer management - data scraping - automating annoying things - getting off Gmail or Microsoft Come along, these are for you!
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 17/08/2026
If you're in Wellington, NZ sometime before November and are keen to work on "Tech for Community" then come to this thing! On every Wednesday 9am-12pm. Hangout with like minded people for Show & Tell + Community Preso + Coffee & Cake followed by building stuff www.tickettailor.com/events/criti...
tickettailor.com
RSVP – Community Tech Co-working – 113 Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington
Community Tech Co-working – 113 Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Multiple dates and times - A regular 3hr co-working session over the 3 months for community-minded techies and tech-adjacent creati...
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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 14/08/2026
What fresh hell is this?! newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/14/c...
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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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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 14/08/2026
"Surround yourself with good people and good things happen" seems to be what's happening for me in life at the moment. Hope everyone finds their good people 🙂
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 11/08/2026
Feels like a bit of a phase shift is happening today in the world of AI. “In my opinion this paper demonstrates that current AI models go beyond just helpers to human mathematicians – they are capable of having original ingenious ideas, and then carrying them out to fruition.”
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 11/08/2026
Trying get some work done but keep accidentally hacking websites by just looking at dev tools 😑
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 10/08/2026
Ok so this is a bit of a WTF moment. According to Cloudflare, since May AI systems account for the majority of global internet traffic. 40 years of building the modern internet and it’s just been taken over by bots. www.theregister.com/networks/202...
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‘Humans will be a rounding error on the internet’ says Cloudflare exec
Machine-generated traffic to surge 1000x in five years, while we meatbags keep clicking away slowly
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Karin Kvale @kkvale.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
F- for not connecting the severity of this El Nino to climate warming and GHG emissions www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...
rnz.co.nz
El Niño's 'spiky' temperatures could harm or even kill people this summer, health official warns
Hot weather driven by "spiky" temperatures from El Niño could harm and even kill people this summer if they are not prepared to cope, a senior health official says.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/08/2026
Meta is unsatisfied with this metaphor and is actually working to shift its data centre infrastructure to being actual air pollution, too fortune.com/2026/03/27/m...
fortune.com
Meta orders 10 gas-fired power plants for its Hyperion AI campus in rural Louisiana—more than triple the initial plans | Fortune
The Meta AI complex represents an over 30% increase to Louisiana’s total power grid capacity.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Lights out and away we go! #Clacton
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 17/07/2026
The NZ Government spent $8M to bring the Michelin Guide here. $8M is the entire yearly government funding to all food banks, who feed 500k people a month. newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/17/s... #NZPol
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Starry-eyed Tourism NZ buried the downside to fund its $8m Michelin gamble
Previously secret documents imply that the famous international restaurant guide essentially guaranteed the award of at least one star to a restaurant, if the NZ Government paid its $1,901,250 fee.
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 15/07/2026
WTF is this shit?
Screenshot which says “@schizanon.bsky.social has added you to the "People who get really offended when you put them on a list" moderation
list”
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 11/07/2026
Not a good time to be a circular sawfish.
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The Broke Bonsai Bloke me my coffee & bonsai🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️ @memycoffeenbonsai.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
#NZpol Just went to a screening at Drifter Coffee in Ōrewa of A Line in the Sandstone by Climate Liberation Aotearoa. I may not ever see such a place but it is beautiful & treasured by me & by more of us than not. Bathurst mining sux along with their best mate enabler ANZ Bank and Shame Jones.
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 26/06/2026
Yep, they dun goofed. www.rnz.co.nz/news/weather...
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Weather live: Flights cancelled, trees downed and roofs damaged by strong winds around country
At least 100 flights have been cancelled as heavy winds cut power, damage roofs and prompt emergency callouts around the country.
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 25/06/2026
I think tomorrow at midday the Cook Strait will be the windiest place on earth (100km/hr sustained). Took a look on Nullschool and can’t anywhere with faster wind than this🤔 Just another day in Wellington 🌬️
Screen shoot from nullschool’s earth map showing wind lines blasting the cook strait and a wind speed of 27.8m/s
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Orthanc @orthanc.nz · 24/06/2026
I know it's not intended to be harmful, but I don't think that "compare how much tax you pay under each parties policies" site is a good thing. It kind of inherently reinforces the framing that "less tax = good" rather than focusing on what's actually being done with the tax take.
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Jos Buurmans | New Zealand @josbuurmans.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I almost missed this one — it sat buried in my library for months while I worked through everything else from this year's trips. It's from my home ground. Rhythm of the Ridges - Tukituki Valley, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand #photography #landscape #nz
Abstract landscape photography of the Tukituki Valley in Hawke's Bay, showing interlocking green ridges slicing through layers of thick morning fog like waves, with a few bare trees breaking the minimalist geometric pattern.
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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
It looks as if the Strait was never really closed, but that's just because it's a really bad graph. Zero is basically touching the bottom of the wiggles. The bottom of the shaded area is like minus 10 ships per day! That's not how area graphs are supposed to work.
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Wesley Finck @wesleyfinck.org · 16/06/2026
HTTP gave us hypertext, atproto gives us "social hypertext"
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 16/06/2026
Just came across @semble.so and am very excited! It’s like a way of having personal knowledge bases (think Notion/Obsidian) that are connected into a broader social network. So curative action - classification, collation - can shift from individual to a collective/social sense-making.
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 16/06/2026
If you ever wondered what's happened to the Manus Island refugees that Australia abandoned in Papua New Guinea... They're dying. Hatam is only 36 years old. He was approved for a medevac to Australia in 2018 but Morrison's government quickly repealed the legislation. refugeeaction.org.au?p=16888
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Urgent medevac needed for PNG refugee | Refugee Action Coalition
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 15/06/2026
Hey it's me! 😁 This is such a great tool for professionals. I love all the different ATProto integrations in Sifa and how smooth it is to use! If you don't have a Sifa profile yet, you should definitely claim yours 👀
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disasteradio / eyeliner @disasteradio.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Working in town today and popping in on a special friend
Brutalist timezone, Õtautahi Christchurch
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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The campaigners who say “ban it all” and the contractors who say “it’s basically empty down there” are both flattening a story that refuses to be flat. That refusal is exactly why this review paper is worth reading. www.franciscoblaha.info/blog/2026/6/...
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The environmental impacts of deep-sea mining — Francisco Blaha
I’ve been interested in this topic for a while, and when my friend Gilles sent me this paper , Glover, A.G. et al., 2026, “The environmental impacts of deep-sea mining,” Current Biology 36, R400–R4...
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 07/06/2026
David Fucking Seymour. “He said as a result of the strikes, Iranian girls will have an opportunity to "dress as you like, go to school, do things that are normal rights that have been withheld from them by this regime" The 120 school kids killed by US bombs in Feb might feel differently. #NZPol
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Opposition leader Chris Hipkins says US-Israel strikes illegal
The Prime Minister says New Zealand will not join the conflict.
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History of Geology @historyofgeology.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
🌈⚒️ (unfortunately I have no idea who originally came up with this meme)
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 01/06/2026
And people say Humanites has nothing to offer
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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Pigotry
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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
🐷🙅‍♀️🤝🫂
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 01/06/2026
Also I’m scheming to buy a specific building in Wellington on Taranaki Street to do exactly this. Long communal tables in a big hall with extremely cheap delicious food. Though. Though $23 is way too much, aiming for $15.
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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Average earnings per filled job and food price index changes, aka when employed people get grumpy
we are presently in a grumpy zone, and with the war cost of living effects likely to get grumpier
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Silke @silkehartung.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
MIGRANTS! Important! For electoral purposes, you are a resident if you’re in New Zealand legally and not required to leave within a specific time, and have lived in New Zealand continuously for 12 months or more. This will be a lot more people than are aware of this. enrol.vote.nz/app/enrol/#/...
enrol.vote.nz
Electoral Commission
Enrol, check or update your details here.
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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 01/06/2026
I may have just bought a giant 3-tier brewing system as I can't resist a bargain. I have no idea what I'm doing... anyone want to help me spurge my grist into wort? (I have no idea what that means 😂). Plan is to make it available to anyone nice. Just need somewhere in Wellington for it to live!
3x 100L pots on a portable 3 burner steel frame on wheels. The pots have thermometers and are attached by tubes and a pump.
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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Are you enrolled to vote, NZ? Check (or double, triple check) here: vote.nz/enrolling/en...
NZ ELECTORAL COMMISSION TE KAITIAKI TAKE KOWHIRI 

Screenshot of check or update details page

Message:

Hayley — you're enrolled!
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