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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

www.1news.co.nz/2024/11/22/w... The steel industry is planning to decarbonize making coking coal mostly redundant. Miners should take this into account when planning ahead but it seems they are not.

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West Coast coal miner outlines plans under fast-track proposal

The company is applying for consents that would allow it to keep mining coal for a further 25 years.

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brewpubus @puzzle42.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

I know there are some very sound criticisms of the RMA and the consenting process. But this just looks like our environmental protections have been thrown on a bonfire, by, and for the benefit of, a bunch of clowns.

newsroom.co.nz

Billion-dollar backtrack by fast-tracked seabed mine

One contentious fast-track project claimed it would generate $1 billion a year for NZ, as it emerges applications weren't fact-checked

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

If she is not stood down and investigated, the public can assume the dishonesty is endorsed. Revealed: Politically charged tobacco policy document that NZ First Minister Casey Costello tried to hide www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...

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Revealed: Politically charged tobacco policy document that NZ First Minister Casey Costello tried to hide

Casey Costello now says she does not know who wrote, or even how she got, a document about tobacco policy she sent to health officials.

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 26/05/2024

One feather from an extinct bird sells for $46,000. Shame we don’t value the birds and their habitat so highly BEFORE they go extinct. My Sunday Star Times #cartoon today #nzpol #FastTrack

Cartoon with the title “the Inheritance” A kākāpo holding up one of their own feathers, and saying to a little Piwakawaka, “When I’m gone, sell it”

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 18/05/2024

I really enjoy the science and climate community here and I would love for it to grow. If you’re still on X, why not use it to invite people to come over here? I do, every week! RT if you agree 😁

A screenshot of me inviting people on Twitter to join us here.

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Éliette @elipriaulx.bsky.social · 13/05/2024

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists have included a session by the President of the anti-trans lobby group SEGM. Petition attached. 🚨 transjustice.org.au/ranzcp/

transjustice.org.au

The anti-trans lobby have no place at a health conference

Tell RANZCP: Anti-trans lobbyists have no place at a health conference. Trans people

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 28/04/2024

“Coalition's talk of fiscal mess, its funding freezes & state sector job cuts have reversed an initial revival in business and consumer confidence, extending & deepening 2023's recession into 2024” Luxon & co, quelle surprise, not so great at economic management after all. #NZpol

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Coalition's dirge of austerity and uncertainty is driving the economy into a deeper recession

Coalition's talk of fiscal mess, its funding freezes & state sector job cuts have reversed an initial revival in business and consumer confidence, extending & deepening 2023's recession into 2024

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 27/04/2024

A day after Stuff had to publish a note of a media council decision against it in relation to a Damien Grant column containing "significant factual inaccuracy" on the Israeli occupation of the West Bank they publish his views on trans healthcare. Presume the same attention to facts on this topic.

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 27/04/2024

Know nothing about a subject but willing to write about it, that’s Damien Grant on gender affirming healthcare. It’s disappointing that Stuff sees misinfo as just an opinion when in reality Stuff are contributing to making the world unsafe for trans youth. #kikorangi

Stuff headline:

NZ NEWS

Damien Grant: Pay attention to review into gender care for youth

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(((𝙴𝚖𝚖𝚊𝙲𝚘𝚘𝚔))) @creativeelc.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

My cartoon in today's: www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3502... The fast track bill... Here in Aotearoa New Zealand the collation government are hellbent on destroying the environment for big business. #FastTrackBill #NzPol #EditorialCartoon

Cartoon title: 30% Pure New Zealand. To the left a dirty looking oil rig stands amongst an orange polluted sea. The waves are rough and spikey looking. On the rig a puff of smoke, in the shape of a skull, ekes out into the sky. To the right a huge long cloud of dirty smoke drifts across the ocean. Inside the cloud there are words, "Where one journey can destroy another". The words have been taken from the 100% Pure NZ original campaign and made into a more fitting response.

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

That this could just happen, that three unprincipled dudes can just decide seabed mining and god knows what else is fine and they don't have to care what other law says or we think, makes me sick. Secrecy shrouds 'fast track' projects as submissions close www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...

rnz.co.nz

Secrecy shrouds 'fast track' projects as submissions close

Not even the MPs supposed to be scrutinising the Fast Track Bill are allowed to know which projects could bypass rules.

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 13/04/2024

BREAKING New data from cameras on boats reveals massive under-reporting of dolphin and seabird killing by the fishing industry: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/350... They cannot be trusted. We now need cameras on ALL their boats and the data managed independently. #nzpol #NZOverFishing

A drowned wandering albatross on a longline. Fishing gear used by vessels poses one of the biggest threats to seabirds. They're attracted to the bait and caught fish, and the gear involved can injure, capture, or kill them.

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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 13/04/2024

A new report is setting the stage for the future of trans healthcare in the U.K.—and it could spell bad news #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA xtramagazine.com/health/trans...

xtramagazine.com

Here’s why the ‘Cass Review’ matters—even if you aren’t in the U.K. | Xtra Magazine

ANALYSIS: A new report is setting the stage for the future of trans healthcare in the U.K.—and it could spell bad news

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

The Greens make the threat explicit: companies who get fast-track "consents" should expect to have them reviewed when the government changes www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA24...

scoop.co.nz

A Warning For Those Looking To Fast-track The Climate Crisis

“The Green Party is steadfast in its opposition to this legislation and its stance towards those looking to use it to fast track the degradation of our environment.

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Mandy Hager @mandyh.bsky.social · 30/03/2024

This is horrendous. Please sign.

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Girls mutilated for life

This country could become the first to go BACKWARDS on girls’ safety

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Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

OMG this is so good!

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

Incredible post from the best writer on Boeing that we've got. The level of willful negligence from executives on something that carries human beings through the sky is astonishing and should be a crime. Sorry I forgot to make a joke. prospect.org/infrastructu...

prospect.org

Suicide Mission

What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

#NZpol Science / Keremadecs reserve Fisheries Minister Shane Jones: "We're not going to have the Kermadecs commandeered by a whole lot of test tube-watching white coat scientists" Nasty play on a stereotype common in posed stock library photographs. Often with fake brightly-coloured liquids, etc 😞

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Nicola Gaston @nicgaston.bsky.social · 24/03/2024

The first piece of journalism I’ve seen on this (that has given the academic accused of being a liar the right of reply). Nice work, more like this please etc. [Note: kinda hilarious that this one is labelled ‘opinion’ when the various places that printed Coutt’s reckons verbatim were… not]

newsroom.co.nz

Sir Russell takes a rough ride on an ocean of obstacles

Opinion: The SailGP boss is dogged by extremes and red tape but overlooks how caring for dolphins aligns with his event’s brand, writes David Williams

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Digging Fork NZ @diggingfork.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

This is really good on climate communication. What I'd add is that we need to take care with what we call "doomism". There's a danger that anyone who isn't relentlessly positive about the future gets shut down for being a doomer. That won't help either.

resilience.org

How to talk about climate change and the problem with doomerism

Should we be yelling that the sky is falling at every chance? Or might that paralyze us into inaction, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy?

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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

Congrats on electing a Nat MP! How's that working out for you? www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

rnz.co.nz

Government rejects Westport's plea for flood protection funding

Local Government Minister Simeon Brown told the mayor it was not the government's problem.

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chelsea bridge 🩸 @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

reskeet if the existence of trans people makes you smile

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

When the Green Energy Transformation goes bad: news.mongabay.com/2024/02/indo...

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Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

Shane Jones said he was "horrified" by recent court rulings and accused the nation's top judges of having "flexed their muscles" in the Mike Smith case. When Stuart Nash criticised court rulings, Christopher Luxon called for him to be sacked from Cabinet. newsroom.co.nz/2024/02/19/s...

newsroom.co.nz

Shane Jones criticised over attack on Supreme Court ruling

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, who called for Labour's Stuart Nash to be sacked when he criticised court rulings, didn't respond to a request for comment.

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David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

If that speech really pissed you off and you'd like to read and support regular critique of such things, please consider a sub to this plucky little newsletter subslack.substack.com/p/believe-in...

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

“The only two areas not affected yet are the right to strike and criminalising peaceful protest” For now… thestandard.org.nz/atlas-smirked/

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Atlas smirked

A George Monbiot article in the Guardian made me wonder what effect the Atlas Network is having on New Zealand politics through the Taxpayer’s Union. Publicly available information suggests c…

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Revy but spoopy @catgirlfingies.quest · 23/12/2023

Repost if you support trans people and think we're neato

Photo of Revy Photoshopped onto a transgender flag
She's pointing back and looking shocked

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Mandy Hager @mandyh.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

open.substack.com/pub/nickrock...

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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

"the overshoot discussion is characterized by stark overconfidence in the geophysical characteristics of overshoot, overconfidence in effectively deploying technologies required to carry out an overshoot, & overconfidence in the resilience of institutions & societies in such a world." #greensky

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Overconfidence in overshoot - Climate & Environment at Imperial

Professor Joeri Rogelj, Director of Research at the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, argues that the risks of climate overshoot are dangerous and underappreciated. Image by W...

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Who in our press gallery will speak up for the queer folks & Maori directly in the gun of this incoming government? Who understands the issues? Who *cares*? Which editors will ensure these issues are covered? There is rightful skepticism in those communities that many in the gallery are on our side.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Well the negotiations are enduring anyway. Apparently endless.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 11/11/2023

Transformation of travel in Paris has been rapid: —Car traffic down 45% since 2001 —Bike use doubled since last year on major axes at peak hours —Bike use higher than car use on many roads This was enabled by massive installation of cycleways citywide www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...

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LostArcNZ @lostarcnz.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Calling on all the poisonous creatures of Australia to not fail me now.

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(((𝙴𝚖𝚖𝚊𝙲𝚘𝚘𝚔))) @creativeelc.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3501... and across the country. Winnie's cheekiness knows no bounds...this is how I imagined his 'not replying because he thought it was a a scammer' text really went down 😂 Come on, we all know he had Seymour's number! 🥴

Cartoon title: Makeup Time

Winston Peters is dressed in his comfy dressing gown reading texts. Here's one from 'Loser Seymour' (as I can imagine he saved the number as). He's laughing hysterically to himself. An arrow points to a close up box of the texts it reads, "hey!! Turns out I need you after all!!! Will you give me another chance?? YOU CAN STILL TRUST ME!!!"

Winnie replies, "new phone who dis??"

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

A brilliant essay by @cketchamwild on the illogical and frankly psychopathic economic reasoning that reduces mass death, planetary tipping points and societal collapse to mere hiccups in economic life. Well worth reading in full. theintercept.com/2023/10/29/w...

theintercept.com

When Idiot Savants Do Climate Economics

How an elite clique of math-addled economists hijacked climate policy.

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Katja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

Away from intersections, pickups were 80% and SUVs 61% more likely than cars to hit a pedestrian walking or running along the road. Minivans and vans were 45 percent more likely than cars to be involved in such crashes. www.iihs.org/news/detail/...

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SUVs, other large vehicles often hit pedestrians while turning

SUVs, pickups, vans and minivans are more likely than cars to hit pedestrians while making turns. The finding suggests possible visibility problems for larger vehicles.

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J Cooper 🌏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄 @jccooper.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Meanwhile, at the bottom of the news: we have actually run out of time to act on climate. Maybe if they referred to the fact that rugby can't be played on a dead planet, it might get some traction: www.stuff.co.nz/environment/...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/10/2023

Another nice, simple illustration of how carbon offsets directly facilitate climate delay. "Carbon neutral fuel" shouldn't exist. It should be illegal to lie this brazenly/unashamedly. But the fossil fuel company and all the carbon offset co's depend on these lies. www.reuters.com/article/petr...

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Petrobras to use carbon credits to decarbonize premium gasoline

Brazil state-run oil firm Petrobras will use the 175,000 carbon credits it purchased last month to render carbon neutral around a year's worth supply of its premium gasoline, Gasolina Podium, a compan...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/10/2023

This is an incredibly shocking story of a Chinese glass company displacing thousands of people and building massive new fossil fuel power stations (a good chunk of the glass will feed into solar panel production) theconversation.com/victims-of-t...

Indonesian residents resist relocation for Chinese-backed industrial park:
The Indonesian government is pressing ahead with plans to demolish five villages on the island of Rempang to make way for an industrial park for Xinyi Group, a major Chinese glass company. News reports suggest that at least 961 households would be relocated if the project proceeds. Xinyi announced that as part of its plan to build nine factories, the company plans to invest in a 2500 MW coal and gas-fired power plant to supply the industrial park. Xinyi has proposed establishing plants to manufacture glass and solar panels. In early September, about 1000 police with armoured vehicles fired tear gas and used water cannons against protestors opposing the project. Dozens of students were hospitalised after police fired teargas into a school. Residents have also expressed alarm over the project's likely water use and pollution. Amnesty International Indonesia condemned the heavy-handed actions of the police. On Sept

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 24/10/2023

++JUST PUBLISHED++ Here's a truly *epic* factcheck by @drsimevans.bsky.social for @carbonbrief.org where, in turn, he calmly dismantles TWENTY-ONE of the most misleading claims made against EVs. This is the one-stop-shop debunking you've been waiting for... www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-21...

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