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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As a fellow tile seeker, I want to see this combo?!

Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Have just learnt that the 'Queen's Chain' was not named for Queen Victoria and is therefore now the 'King's Chain' and I am not OK with it.

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I remain dubious. Seismicity requires flex in the materials, not just the joints.

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How well does it behave when the earth moves regularly?

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I want a system where we don't do 1 hour in one night, we do 5 minutes per night for 12 nights instead. Would be a PITA for arranging international meetings, but that's always a PITA anyway, so I can live with that.

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

So "bills have generally taken longer at the Committee of the whole house stage". How much longer? If most of the use of urgency was in the first 100 days then surely there's time to let things take a little longer?

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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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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

That is an experiment I would love to see.

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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 · 21/08/2026

I think that is the reason, yes. And by "noone else", they mean "noone else likely to attract new voters". There are plenty of smart competent MPs in Labour, but appealing to voters as a leader is a different skill set. Also, alas, not necessarily the same skill set as maintaining caucus unity.

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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 · 13/08/2026

Was it posted by someone on Threads?

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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 · 27/07/2026

I love this! Not sure how practical it would be to return to poultry as legal tender, but it would certainly be entertaining 😀

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

My experience as a co-owner of an area of regenerating bush is that getting hunters in to manage pigs is difficult. We want them all gone, but they usually like to leave some so there will be more to hunt another time.

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

Should definitely solve the problem by paying with chickens 😉 🤣🐔🐔🐔

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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 · 24/07/2026

I would happily eat lotus and hang out with Charlize for as long as she'd have me 😉

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Was there any island before home that wasn't the wrong island?

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Even if that were true - I don't disagree with all of it - it doesn't change the reality that perpetuating the myth of under or slow investment in new generation, and dry year risk, only serves fossil fuel and industrial interests, not energy poor consumers.

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Sure. But you're treating the OECD as some neutral commentator. They are not. Again, this "dry year risk" bullshit is perpetuated in the interests of industrial gas users. It doesn't, and won't, help families in energy hardship at all.

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I don't see anything in there saying we have the 4th highest prices in the OECD.

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

And yet... bsky.app/profile/rjme...

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"Sitting on" implies they're good to go and they're just choosing not to, rather than the other constraints that slow construction. Those reports ... whose interests do they really serve?

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I know electricity is unaffordable for many households. But when you perpetuate the myth that generators aren't building, or aren't building fast enough, it helps those promoting fossil solutions like LPG terminals.

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

From all I see, the constraints are external (availability and assessing suitability of sites; the (truly glacial) process of RMA approval, rather than prioritising dividends.

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Like most generators, they have a swathe of new generation underway. If the data centre is profitable, they will have more money to spend on more generation. I'm not keen on data centres, but I'm tired of the myth that generators aren't building.

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Doctors generally want women to get a mammogram before they'll prescribe HRT. So although mammograms are not compulsory in general, I wonder if this woman's reluctance got in the way of treatment she did want.

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

You could go one better and have a district heating scheme.

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Nice idea. Of course, North Makarewa isn't exactly heavily populated, but warm public baths would be lovely in an Invercargill winter.

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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 · 29/06/2026

Well sure, but (I looked) Chloe's on 6% so it's not clear we want exciting young women either. The top 6 preferred PMs only get 55% among them. Seems we barely want a PM at all?

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

So we don't really want Luxon, Hipkins, or Peters. Who _do_ we want?

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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 · 23/06/2026

I guess I don't dislike Hipkins. I'd happily, I don't know, talk to him if I ended up next to him on a hike or something. But that doesn't mean I want him running the Labour Party, or the country. Conversely, I can imagine there might be people I wouldn't specially like who'd do either job well.

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Dr Lucy Tel-Bar @lucytelbar.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I'll interpret the lack of response - and the apparent need to repeat back to me what I just said but with more verbiage - as either "yes, I'm AI" or "AI writes all my content because I have no original thoughts of my own". Either way, ew, block.

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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 · 16/06/2026

Mōrena Jude, wondering if you'd previously come across this abomination? Appears to be a brand of a Croatian company 'Vapour International'.

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