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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New graffiti spotted in Kilbirnie, in large blue letters on a white fence: LUXON SUX FARTZ = DIRTY WORK Not sure where the dirty work fits in, but I appreciate the brevity

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Anyone else keep reading these as "Wellington Boys"?

Election hoarding for Craig Renney (Labour) for Wellington Bays. Hoarding has a red and pink background, with Chris Hipkins and Craig Renney in the right foreground in matching suits and ties.

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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is a point I try to emphasize with students in my energy policy class. Climate change is important but carbon is not the only thing that matters. Combusting fossil fuels means particulate matter and other pollutants that currently kill millions/yr. And extraction and transport enviro impacts.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 28/08/2026

Hate the petard, but man, do I love the hoist

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you Hi, I'm a hotel swimming pool! Oh and while you're here, let me introduce you to the mum over there of this kid who's wandered down my deep end! Hmm, guess I can't sorry, she's not looking this way.

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

That guillotine stunt was not OK. I immediately had flashbacks to the "mock gallows" put up in parliament grounds during the Covid occupation. It's not OK now just because it's for someone _I_ think is despicable.

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

How is it legal to describe socks as "Merino" when the merino content is only 7%?

Picture of Mointain Warehouse socks. Label says in largest letters on pack
WALK
Merino

Back of same sock packet shows fabric composition is 76% polyester, 17% polyamide, 7% merino wool, 3% elastodiene

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

My daughter looked at an academic book I brought home and asked "is this like a journal that's self-published?" which is the best unintentional burn I've heard in a while 🤣 (Because, I mean, she's not wrong...)

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Fascinating! (But my favourite bit was: "Estimating the value of housing services from long-term lease data is a complex task. ... a part of the payment was specified in live hens, which did not depreciate with the currency.")

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This is my first time taking the train from (nearish) Auckland Airport to the city and it is great and when do we get an airport extension?

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The weather is so unpleasant in Wellington that I don't want to put the native bush cockroach outside because it feels mean.

Aotearoa New Zealand native bush cockroach on a wall in the upper corner of a room.

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

On the weekend someone in 'the comments section' called an epidemiologist an "epidribbleologist" and now that's definitely what I want to see whenever anyone asks me my job except it is very very hard to say.

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Energy-intensive businesses may well (think they) want an LNG terminal. The question is why they think anyone else should have to pay for it? (No I haven't read the piece - I don't subscribe, and not about to start now).

Headline from The Post 17 June 2026, "Why New Zealand needs an LNG terminal, and needs it soon", by John Carnegie, chief executive of Energy Resources Aotearoa, an industry body representing energy-intensive businesses. There in an image of an LNG tanker at a dock with a caption "Liquefied natural gas tankers like this one ply the oceans delivering LNG to industrial users the world over - soon to include New Zealand under current Government plans".

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Headlines like this are so stupid. We don't even get to any conversation about the environmental risks because nuclear power fails at the firat hurdle by being massively more expensive to build - and maintain - than cleaner options for generation and/or storage.

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Mōrena @rebeccamatthews.bsky.social - apologies if this has been covered somewhere and I've missed it, but has WCC and/or HUD got any plans/advice for tenants around the transition to consumption-based charging, and whether/how rents reduce as that cost shifts to tenants?

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

It's funny cos National, ACT & NZ First have transferred $13,000 million to landlords over the last 2 years, incl. from social housing - benefitting mega landlords like National MP Carl Bates & ACT's Parmjeet Parmar. But Nicola doesn't say these people "won the lotto" - Why?

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I have been collecting these all day and imo these are the funniest

If you remove an adult human female from the ocean to eat, you must return her immediately if her tail is shorter than 3cm or if she is carrying any number of visible eggs.

If you wish to inseminate a giraffe, you must do so using semen from an adult human male who has been living in a registered and approved zoo for 12 months or longer.

There is a $300 fine for letting your adult human male wander onto somebody else’s
property, unless he has been desexed.

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

So, I have things I need to work out from whatever secondary school assessment system we have/we're getting. Can anyone tell me if Year 11 students will have any national literacy/numeracy assessments with results out before mid-July? And/or if Year 10s will have any end of the year ones?

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This OECD report sounds like an AI summary of Opinion-piece reckons rather than any kind of deep-dive into the actual situation in our energy sector or wider economy. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

stuff.co.nz

New Zealand faces ‘massive negative energy shock’, OECD warns

The report also raised concerns about superannuation and proposed a capital gains tax.

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Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Never met Tony Peters, don’t know who he is, but a million years ago on Facebook he posted this and I don’t think anyone’s ever put it better.

A summation of the situation where people are directed to focus their ire at fraudulent benefit claimants rather than at the rich who are the cause of all poverty.

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

New post, on gold-standard and 'aluminium-standard' evidence: kucharski.substack.com/p/do-we-need...

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psheth.bsky.social @psheth.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

NZ used to have this policy, but it was repealed by a right-wing government with ex-tobacco lobbyists as ministers. It's completely insane that people on the left want to condemn future generations to lung cancer and vascular disease because it's "unfair" that kids can't smoke.

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I fear Sir Geoffrey may be even more correct now than when he said this a few days ago.

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Kay in the End Times 🏳️‍🌈 💗💜💙📚 @jennykaynz.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

NZ Human Rights Review Tribunal has ordered Wayne Wilson, admin of Bad Tenants, NZ (Landlords Only) Facebook group, to pay $7500 for a “total failure” to respond to a privacy request. HRRT says social media groups should be treated the same as other agencies. #NZpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

stuff.co.nz

Admin of ‘Bad Tenants’ Facebook group hit with legal bill for ignoring privacy request

A former tenant who feared he had been blacklisted by landlords was blocked from a Facebook group and ignored for years after asking to see the personal information held about him.

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

For #30DayChartChallenge day 15, the topic is correlation. So with discussion "what even is US consumer confidence", and local stuff, here's a graph I made in 2019- for the supposed leading economic indicator of Business Confidence, NZ business confidence is least correlated to the NZ economy.

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Citation needed: I have seen Geoffrey Palmer's famous quote reported as variously that "NZ is an [irredeemably/ irreducibly/indubitably] pluvial [country/nation]". Does anyone have a definitive source for the actual quote?

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

In more news that's not news: Big Food boss confesses he doesn't care about public health & thinks he knows more about what's safe for public health than people whose job it is to know what's safe for public health. "'they could’ve perfectly safely traded,' he said." www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

stuff.co.nz

Butchers were ‘hidden in car boots’ during Covid-19 lockdown, supermarket boss says

“You just found ways to do what you needed to do to make sure the store could open full, fresh and friendly and help a community feel normal.”

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Is anyone estimating future fuel prices at the pump? (I'm wanting to estimate petrol cost for a long drive up country about 3 weeks from now).

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Desperate to know whether the person who named Meta's AI 'Manus' didn't know (or bother to check) slang meanings; or whether there's some Kiwi at Meta who suggested it and has since been smirking inside through every meeting on the topic.

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

In early March 2020 I was worried our government wouldn't listen to the evidence, and tens of thousands of people would die. I know the impact of the war/fuel shortage goes beyond driving, but now does NOT feel like then.

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Is it just me, or do those "photos" on Stuff of the horner jet being refuelled look suspiciously AI-generated?

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Dangerously stupid headline. (It implies catching Covid is a neutral alternative option to getting a booster. It is not).

Headline reads "The Covid immunity cycle: Why catching the virus is basically our new booster" below picture of glived hands preparing a wooden syringe or something honestly the picture is weird I can't even tell what it's meant to represent

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The funniest housing story I've seen in a while...

RNZ headline posted on Facebook reads "New Zealand faces shortage of ultra-luxury housing" on an image of a luxury home in an alpine setting. Subtitle reads "International premuim-grade homes priced more than $20m were scarce".

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Institute of Health Emergencies & Pandemics @uoftpandemics.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Schools are shared indoor spaces, making clean air essential to reduce the spread of respiratory viruses. 🏫 In this new video, IHEP Member Sarah Haines (@civmin.bsky.social) shares practical guidance on steps schools can take to improve the air quality. Watch the video ▶️ #PublicHealth #Health

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Reading real estate listings was always painful, but it's so so much worse since they discovered gen-AI. It's now just completely meaningless, and having to read any of the saccharine nonsense to try to extract some actual information... 🤮

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Interested to hear from people who've used gen-AI in languages other than English: is it just as sycophantic? Is its writing style just as painful?

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Of all the stupid ideas for preventing dry-year energy price spikes, the LNG import facility is the stupidest I've seen. (So far. Feel free to suggest more stupid ideas, e.g. "of course, we will need more piglets...")

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

So, we have a word for when we don't want someone to have what we have (jealousy); and for when we want something that someone else has that we don't (envy); but is there a word for wanting someone not to have what we don't have?

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Frank @fmacskasy.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

My wife and I were on a beach in the Wellington area and found this at a car park, in the grass. It is approximately the size of a person's hand,made of bone, and intricately carved. I've masked the lower half,as only the legitimate owner will be able to fully describe it. Please share this...(1)

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

As my brother put it: "You now require a British passport to come in, because you automatically have the right to enter, so if you don’t have one, you can’t enter. Because you're a citizen." www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

rnz.co.nz

UK High Commissioner fronts after confusion over dual-citizen changes

It comes after new rules for those trying to go back to Britain without a British passport.

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Tonight, if I had remembered even one of various random facts, we would have come third in the local pub Quiz Night and I would have been spared competing in a tiebreaker dance-off. But now I can tick "win dance off" off my bucket list*, so there's that. *I do not have a bucket list.

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

10 days (rest of January) + 28 days (Feb) + 31 (Mar) + 30 (Apr) + 31 (May) + 30 (Jun) + 31 (Jul) + 31 (Aug) + 30 (Sep) + 31 (Oct) + 7 (Nov) = 290 days, not 291.

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

At New World, Newtown. 12th day of Christmas was, what, 3 days ago? Chocolate santas are on clearance. Apparently that means... it's time to start selling Easter eggs.

Supermarket display, three columns: two of Mashmallow Easter eggs with purple and white packaging, one of Mini eggs with yellow and purple packaging.
To the left you can just see some clearance chocolate Santa's for 79c each.

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Why does this Government insist on continuing to break things that work well?! (I don't know if the specific instance I'm thinking of has been made public yet, but I need to vent, and FFS. It's of huge value, and it's cheap - and some absolute numpty has decided to defund it.)

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