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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 07/09/2026

Professor Julia Steinberger, a world leading researcher in post-growth living, has a plan to halve our energy use globally, while still live fulfilling, comfortable lives. 🗓 Wednesday, 9th September ⏰ 6.00PM - 8.00PM 📍 113 Taranaki Street ⭐ criticalsignals.nz/programme/li...

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Critical Signals @criticalsignals.nz · 04/09/2026

How much energy do we actually need to meet our needs as a society? Prof. Steinberger's zoom talk will explore new ideas, and connect you with people who want to make change happen. 🗓 9th September ⏰ 6.00PM - 8.00PM 📍 113 Taranaki Street 💫 RSVP at tinyurl.com/3w53u28y

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This creative body doubling thing sounds absolutely fantastic is there anyone doing it in Pōneke .. maybe is it similar in a little less extra way to what you lot are doing down at @criticalsignals.nz ?

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Omg what a fascinating analysis. And totally believable. But what happens when/if the global share market collapses?

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

So I guess this is what "Wellington Climate Festival in Review" has morphed into..looks awesome you should come

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

So I reck'n bjut should be spelt with a "j" .. fight me.

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Awwww yes .. Mandami for PM of NZ please once y'all are done with him being mayor over there

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

You'd think Damien could read a balance sheet given his profession, right?

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Yes please. Actually can someone do this plz

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

A free, no-strings organization that pays for and migrates small businesses off Facebook/Insta to domains they fully, legally *own* with a tool that makes updates, socials, marketing, outreach, and calendaring easy af -- and generates a passive basic income for them.

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Really exciting development. Multi-agentic conversations are so much fun.

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Found myself tearing up towards the end. Dunno why really - much of this kōrero is not new to many of us. Maybe I was just inspired and moved by the eloquence and strength of Marama an amazing wāhine Māori standing in such a place and speaking her truth.

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I don't have fomo I have "actuality of missing out" but all the best over there in Austria I'm sure amazing things will happen (again)

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Something needs to be done about this !! Where the heck is Winston Peters

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 11/05/2026

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

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Everlee Has Disappeared

Everlee Wihongi was transferred by ICE to the notorious "Camp East Montana" at Fort Bliss, Texas. Then she disappeared.

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Birdle 🇳🇿 09/05/2026 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 birdle.nz Nailed it. So stupid. So fun

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Birdle New Zealand

Play Birdle New Zealand, a daily bird guessing game. Learn about New Zealand birds in just 5 guesses.

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Good lord this (almost unskippable) modal pop up from hell - rising from depths of WhatsApp / Meta daemonology - it has to be just about the most obnoxious thing i've ever seen

stupid little Meta AI pop up write where you are trying to write

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 28/04/2026

you'd hope as minister or foreign affairs, winston peters, may care about how a new zealander on a valid green card has been kidnapped by ICE, and is now being held indefinitely in a prison in the middle of the mojave desert?

I am a NZ journalist currently based in the United States.

I have been writing about the case of Everlee Wihongi, a 36-year-old Kiwi who has been living in Wisconsin since she was age six. Her father moved to the US in the 90s, when NZ Rail was purchased by Wisconsin Central Rail. He was one of 12 train drivers brought over to bring their expertise to the United States.

Everlee got detained by ICE 16 days ago at LAX, and is now locked in an ICE facility in the middle of the Mojave Desert. She was entering the US legally - as she has for the last 30 years - on a valid green card.

She is in a cell with 46 other women, with no official idea why she is there or when she will get out.

As deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand, and minister of foreign affairs, is your office looking into Ms Everlee's case at all?

I have also reached out to the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade for comment.

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

It makes me happy that here I am an AI Engineer doing software engineering stuff, and somehow (just now) Wittgenstein and Sapir-Whorf have entered the chat ;-)

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I bought a bottle of Sav on special for only $11 ! It kinda tastes like $11 wine though.

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The Mazda CX-3 is the most beautiful car in it's class, in my opinion.

a Mazda CX-3 finally captured motionless on the street the other day

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

had a birthday, discovered im like 'pre' diabetic .. woah. Sputnik 6 T Gray looks on.

picture of cake under a bowl - wih an ai generated version of Sputnik the cat looking on

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Predicting onset of symptomatic Alzheimerʼs disease with plasma p-tau217 clocks OMG you KNOW they serious when they busting out the plasma p-tau217 clocks

A proof-of-concept study published in Nature Medicine reports a method to predict when someone is likely to develop symptoms of Alzheimer's disease using a single blood test.

Link to the article in the comments. Or rather, here. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04206-y

Predicting onset of symptomatic Alzheimerʼs disease with plasma p-tau217 clocks

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Predicting not just if, but also when, cognitively unimpaired individuals are likely to develop onset of Alzheimerʼs disease (AD) symptoms would be useful to clinical trials and, eventually, clinical practice. Although clock models based on amyloid and tau positron emission tomography have shown promise in predicting the onset of AD symptoms, a model based on plasma biomarkers would be more accessible. Using longitudinal plasma %p-tau217 (the ratio of phosphorylated to non-phosphorylated tau at position 217) from two independent cohorts (n = 258 and n = 345), clock models were used to estimate the age at plasma %p-tau217 positivity. The estimated age at plasma %p-tau217 positivity was associated with the age at onset of AD symptoms (adjusted R2 of 0.337−0.612) with a median absolute error of 3.0−3.7 years. Notably, the time from %p-tau217 positivity to onset of AD symptoms was markedly shorter in older individuals. Similar models were constructed with data from one p-tau217/Aβ42 immunoassay and four plasma p-tau217 immunoassays. These findings suggest that the time until onset of AD symptoms can be estimated using a single blood test within a margin of error that is acceptable for use in clinical trials.

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Imagine if you'd been able to hear that deep deep thumpin bass throughout all this and then it did *that* omg youtu.be/sQGOlawi6n0?...

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Underworld - Born Slippy (Glastonbury 2016)

YouTube video by BBC Music

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I dunno if insta is ok on here but omg this so nails one of the super important and underlooked differences.. .. also it doesn't have to be that way !

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

This is why it takes me so long to move a box of books from one box to another .. lol moving a box from one place to another... Cause I stop and send photos to the other place I mean here

Front pages two NY Posts I managed to keep through multiple stuff edits.. "9/11 Bombshell: Bush Knew" (2002) "They said it couldn't happen. President Trump"(2016 day after election)

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I'm obviously concerned about their results - but happy for the scientists who did this great work. What makes me irrationally angry, however, is the use of the word 'scaling' in the expression "I can't imagine anything else in my professional life scaling that experience up."

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Antarctic expedition collects evidence that ice sheet melted during previous warm period

Sediment collected from deep beneath the Antarctic confirms what scientists feared.

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

This is a CAT checkpoint. Share the most recent cat image on your mobile device. This is Sputnik 6 Thompson Gray, also no longer with us. Not the most recent cat image because that one makes me cry. This is from happier times. #Sputnik #TheOneWhoKnocks

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

My daily act of rebellion is refusing to answer this question. If you say yes it prints a receipt. If you say no, it says prints one anyway. And I know - something to do with fuel discounts. No! I will not abide. There is only one solution. I refuse to even participate in this farce!

Would you like to print a receipt? Question on a self check out at new world

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The US fundamentally incapable of being taken seriously right now .. I see we're just gonna let the START II treaty lapse (of 'end of cold war' 1993, fame)... But not that all sides don't want to continue it in some form. Rubio waffling on about China. Media pretending it makes sense. But no.. 1/2

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dumnezilla @dumnezilla.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

two Takahē and their 8 week old chick

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This person - whoever they are - just so on point. And bringing the receipts big time!

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

One of the very wicked but hugely important problems divine.video has been put on this earth to solve

Brandy Jensen @BrandyLJensen

I hate that Al has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 20/11/2025

People who I want making decisions about my treatment: doctors People I do not want making decisions about my treatment: politicians

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

OMG so good .. lovely dark fantasy

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

You're not in the minority at all this bill is terrible law, bad for kids and a gift to surveillance capitalism b416.nz has some good info

b1416.nz

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

"..we need to destabilize the streets" echoes of where a current administration is trying to take things Without much luck so far .. so far.. may peace reign

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

How do I retweet this twice... We really need some of the state level prosecutors to "do the thing".. this is right up there with things we need people to be doing.. not me obviously but some prosecutor, somewhere, surely..

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

What I don't love about this is that they put authoritarian on the left instead of the right, I mean duh, or at the very least in the middle What I like is the way it's green in the bottom left for a kinda left progressive anarcho-libetarian thing which kinda works for me

Political identity squares colored red, blue (for left right) and lighter yellow libertarian, on the bottom right corner and then green in the bottom left under authoritarian left

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

So, the President of United States, the President of Egypt, the Emir of Qatar and the President of Turkey just signed an agreement to bring to an end the conflict between Hamas and Israel. Are there a couple of important names missing from that list? What am I missing here?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 07/09/2025

Few people know that in the protocols not platforms paper I urged people to leave parts of the protocol uncompleted so that Rudy would create it. 😂 (Meanwhile people pointed out to that dude that the relay code has been available (open sourced) since early 2023 & he claims they just released it 🤦)

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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I wouldn’t say I’m in favor of AoNZ becoming a republic, but I’d travel the length of the country to listen to Nga wai hono i te po speak about our future, whereas I wouldn’t bother crossing the road to listen to King Charles #nzpol www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

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New Māori queen brings hope for New Zealand in first speech: ‘Being Māori is forever’

In her first public address, Nga wai hono i te po spoke of unity and said Māori must ‘walk a new path’

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Miles / @utunga @utunga.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I swear someone just gave me a sort of passive aggressive sarcastic :care: emoji on idiotbook.. or is that just me reading into it ;-) ?

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 27/08/2025

oh shit, a state prosecutor may actually do the thing

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