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Paula Penfold @paulapenfold.bsky.social · Feb 19

Mac n cheese with ham in latest school lunch programme halal blunder.

When ‘halal friendly’ school lunches come with ham

School lunch provider sends 450 mac and cheese with ham to halal school

www.stuff.co.nz

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Russell J Smith @russelljsmith.bsky.social · Feb 5

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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · Jan 22

A sign of our times: New Orleans now has twice as much snow this winter as Anchorage, Alaska. Weather weirding on steroids, fueled by warm oceans.

We are in a climate emergency.

Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · Jan 22

New Orleans has received more than twice the snowfall as Anchorage this winter — underscoring Southcentral Alaska’s meager snow season as much as the rare winter storm that pummeled that subtropical Louisiana city this week.

New Orleans has received twice as much snow as Anchorage this winter

Less than 4 inches of new snow has fallen in Anchorage since the beginning of December.

www.adn.com

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Russell J Smith @russelljsmith.bsky.social · Jan 22

Low morning sun shining from behind some clouds and reflecting in some water

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Russell J Smith @russelljsmith.bsky.social · Jan 22

Sadly I don’t think we’ll see any other projects like this starting for a while…

thespinoff.co.nz/politics/23-...

The Great North Road upgrade is a triumph for AT – whether the mayor likes it or not

It's taken 10 years to even get to the starting line. Now, at long last, Grey Lynn is getting the road it deserves.

thespinoff.co.nz

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Susie Dent @susiedent.com · Jan 20

Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · Jan 20

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Russell J Smith @russelljsmith.bsky.social · Jan 18

#bluesky

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Russell J Smith @russelljsmith.bsky.social · Jan 15

Skeleton Crew was fun, had a good time watching it 👍🏻 #SkeletonCrew

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · Jan 14

NZ Govt has weakened fuel efficiency standards for vehicles, removed incentives for EVs, blocked funding cycleways, cut funding for public transport. Making NZ more dependent on fossil fuel imports - higher climate pollution, inflation, transport costs. Madness. www.stuff.co.nz/money/360547...

Why petrol prices could soon top $3 a litre

Things have been a bit pricier at the pump recently, and it is only expected to get worse.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Robbie Nicol @robbienicol.bsky.social · Jan 13

Really bold play to pass legislation that means all future legislation has to broadly vibe with your own party's agenda.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jan 10

57 companies are responsible for 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions since 2016.

These companies include fossil fuel giants like Chevron, Shell, and BP, who have been raking in record profits.

The profits of Big Oil should not be more important than the future of our planet.

Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016

Analysis reveals many big producers increased output of fossil fuels and related emissions in seven years after Paris climate deal

www.theguardian.com

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Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · Jan 10

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold.

We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940.

2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

Ridgeline chart showing the distribution of global daily air temperature differences from the pre-industrial reference period (1850-1900), for every year between 1940 and 2024. Each individual year resembles a hill, shaded in a darker shade of red and further to the right for warmer years. The trend is clearly towards warmer years, with 2024 standing out as first year above 1.5C.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Jan 10

No, the world has not breached the 1.5C global warming target.

It’s a climate target - which means it’s an average that must be sustained over at least a decade.

We currently sit at 1.2 C. Which is already very bad.

The science is clear: every bit of warming matters, every action matters.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Jan 10

World breaches 1.5C global warming target for first time in 2024

https://www.ft.com/content/fd914266-71bf-4317-9fdc-44b55acb52f6

World breaches 1.5C global warming target for first time in 2024

Data for warmest year sparks fears climate change is accelerating faster than expected

www.ft.com

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Russell J Smith @russelljsmith.bsky.social · Jan 10

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Jan 8

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Halide + Kino @halideapp.bsky.social · Jan 1

The Halide / Kino 52 week challenge begins today! Week 1’s theme is EARLY LIGHT 🌅

Share a shot here or in our discord to complete 52 weeks of shooting to improve your photography and build a creative habit in 2025 - along with a chance to win some cool Lux merch.

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Russell J Smith @russelljsmith.bsky.social · Jan 8

Pics for this weeks @halideapp.bsky.social challenge #EarlyLight

#HalideChallenge #ShotWithHalide #ShotOniPhone #ProcessZero

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · Jan 8

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project.

"I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."

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Richard Hills @richardhills.bsky.social · Jan 7

Everyone knows we hand in our best work on the last day.

The justice select committee must reopen submissions & parliamentary services must make sure the website is working.

Maybe if they didn’t make the submission period over Xmas break, it would’ve been easier for people.