ChristopherD🇳🇿 🇮🇱🏳️🌈
@chaimd.bsky.social
What can I say? Perpetually moving in search of good SM sites, drinker of wine, maker of good food, Jew who cycles / walks / buses where he/him can bc gah climate change.
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☁️🌊 TOROA: SKYCALL 🌊☁️
🐥 OUT NOW ON STEAM! 🐥
Unravel the fate of the ocean and glide across an ever changing seascape in the hopes of reuniting Toroa with their family 💙
After 5 years of hard mahi, love and dedication, we're so excited to share our first game with you all 🥹
Mauri ora e te whānau!
🐥 OUT NOW ON STEAM! 🐥
Unravel the fate of the ocean and glide across an ever changing seascape in the hopes of reuniting Toroa with their family 💙
After 5 years of hard mahi, love and dedication, we're so excited to share our first game with you all 🥹
Mauri ora e te whānau!
December 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
☁️🌊 TOROA: SKYCALL 🌊☁️
🐥 OUT NOW ON STEAM! 🐥
Unravel the fate of the ocean and glide across an ever changing seascape in the hopes of reuniting Toroa with their family 💙
After 5 years of hard mahi, love and dedication, we're so excited to share our first game with you all 🥹
Mauri ora e te whānau!
🐥 OUT NOW ON STEAM! 🐥
Unravel the fate of the ocean and glide across an ever changing seascape in the hopes of reuniting Toroa with their family 💙
After 5 years of hard mahi, love and dedication, we're so excited to share our first game with you all 🥹
Mauri ora e te whānau!
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Here is New Zealand's warming compared to the global average. We have more fluctuations (because smaller area) & possibly slightly faster warming recently. The estimate for 2025 does not include December which has already broken numerous records. See also: blog.planetaryecology.org/2024/08/28/g...
December 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Here is New Zealand's warming compared to the global average. We have more fluctuations (because smaller area) & possibly slightly faster warming recently. The estimate for 2025 does not include December which has already broken numerous records. See also: blog.planetaryecology.org/2024/08/28/g...
Whatever in the spring rain, Auckland, NZ.
December 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Whatever in the spring rain, Auckland, NZ.
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We’ve found 25 gorgeous gifts for bike-lovers and put them all in this handy guide to make holiday shopping easy this year.
Many are from awesome local businesses. How cool is that?
https://www.bikeauckland.org.nz/news/the-2025-bike-lovers-gift-guide/
#whattobuy
#giftguide
#giftsforcyclists
Many are from awesome local businesses. How cool is that?
https://www.bikeauckland.org.nz/news/the-2025-bike-lovers-gift-guide/
#whattobuy
#giftguide
#giftsforcyclists
December 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
We’ve found 25 gorgeous gifts for bike-lovers and put them all in this handy guide to make holiday shopping easy this year.
Many are from awesome local businesses. How cool is that?
https://www.bikeauckland.org.nz/news/the-2025-bike-lovers-gift-guide/
#whattobuy
#giftguide
#giftsforcyclists
Many are from awesome local businesses. How cool is that?
https://www.bikeauckland.org.nz/news/the-2025-bike-lovers-gift-guide/
#whattobuy
#giftguide
#giftsforcyclists
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Wait, what?! Yesterday, it emerged that Auckland Transport plans to re-open Queen St to all night thru-traffic. Boy racers, start your engines!🏎️🏎️🏎️
But why? And who on earth asked for this? Is this Project K all over again?
@connorsharp.bsky.social has the scoop - and a campaign to restore sanity.
But why? And who on earth asked for this? Is this Project K all over again?
@connorsharp.bsky.social has the scoop - and a campaign to restore sanity.
It's time to stand up for a better Queen Street, again! - Greater Auckland
Here we are again. For the umpteenth time, more changes are being proposed for Queen Street (and Midtown). Unfortunately, these are not good changes, and they include pouring traffic back into the sho...
www.greaterauckland.org.nz
December 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Wait, what?! Yesterday, it emerged that Auckland Transport plans to re-open Queen St to all night thru-traffic. Boy racers, start your engines!🏎️🏎️🏎️
But why? And who on earth asked for this? Is this Project K all over again?
@connorsharp.bsky.social has the scoop - and a campaign to restore sanity.
But why? And who on earth asked for this? Is this Project K all over again?
@connorsharp.bsky.social has the scoop - and a campaign to restore sanity.
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The Rainbow Ride team is proud to announce registrations are now open for our 3rd annual ride taking place on Saturday 28 March 2026. This year we've moved to Humanitix to manage registrations and updates to our participants. Pick your colour and follow this link events.humanitix.com/rainbowride26
Rainbow Ride 2026
Join follow Cantabrians as we form a single rainbow snake biking through town in celebration of diversity, fitness, sustainability and our bike-friendly city
events.humanitix.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:43 AM
The Rainbow Ride team is proud to announce registrations are now open for our 3rd annual ride taking place on Saturday 28 March 2026. This year we've moved to Humanitix to manage registrations and updates to our participants. Pick your colour and follow this link events.humanitix.com/rainbowride26
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This was a fun chat with the Bioprotection Aotearoa team about everything weeds! What's the issue & what can we do about it? So many weeds & so little money! @bioprotection.bsky.social 🌏🧪🌐🌿#invasive #weeds
Under the Lens Ep05 | Weeds hidden in plain sight
YouTube video by Bioprotection Aotearoa
youtu.be
December 7, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This was a fun chat with the Bioprotection Aotearoa team about everything weeds! What's the issue & what can we do about it? So many weeds & so little money! @bioprotection.bsky.social 🌏🧪🌐🌿#invasive #weeds
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I make small, unique & affordable New Zealand art. felt.co.nz/shop/cathshe...
December 4, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I make small, unique & affordable New Zealand art. felt.co.nz/shop/cathshe...
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Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that.
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
resonantcomputing.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that.
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
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The weekend has landed! In the 1990s, for many in Auckland, weekends about dance parties: Deep Hard N Funky, Our:House, Nice'n'Urlich (with Peter and Bevan, who sold some 90,000 albums too), bFM's Oonst, Titanic (on the harbour, with Havoc)... www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/ten...
Ten trailblazing Auckland dance parties and promoters, 1990-2000 - Article | AudioCulture
The dance music scene in Auckland went through a seismic shift during the 1990s. In the previous decade only a handful of clubs took DJ culture seriously. Now there was a growing tide of new promoters...
www.audioculture.co.nz
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The weekend has landed! In the 1990s, for many in Auckland, weekends about dance parties: Deep Hard N Funky, Our:House, Nice'n'Urlich (with Peter and Bevan, who sold some 90,000 albums too), bFM's Oonst, Titanic (on the harbour, with Havoc)... www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/ten...
It was more like we watched the Italians. Horrific.
The scientists were the loudest voices in favour
We understood the risk
We listened to the Italians
Lockdown was the right choice scientifically
We understood the risk
We listened to the Italians
Lockdown was the right choice scientifically
November 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
It was more like we watched the Italians. Horrific.
I think the worst was the stress period of that 48 hours before lockdown. What to do? Furious whanau conversations about bubbles. Manic drives to secure a new laptop. People highly stressed. The final quick dash to the supermarket.
Charming? The quiet & no drivers around - so really safe to cycle.
Charming? The quiet & no drivers around - so really safe to cycle.
What's a charming memory you have from the worst period of the pandemic?
November 30, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I think the worst was the stress period of that 48 hours before lockdown. What to do? Furious whanau conversations about bubbles. Manic drives to secure a new laptop. People highly stressed. The final quick dash to the supermarket.
Charming? The quiet & no drivers around - so really safe to cycle.
Charming? The quiet & no drivers around - so really safe to cycle.
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Sunday music: Sonya Waters (Instigators, Fang, White Swan Black Swan, avoid!avoid) is also a composer in her own right. We are very pleased to share some of her favourite Aotearoa songs, she's made some great selections: www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/son...
November 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Sunday music: Sonya Waters (Instigators, Fang, White Swan Black Swan, avoid!avoid) is also a composer in her own right. We are very pleased to share some of her favourite Aotearoa songs, she's made some great selections: www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/son...
This is a good post - and I agree. We do need to have the right title for the tools of the job.
Not the main problem, but increasingly thinking we need a moratorium on the term "Artificial Intelligence" (both in full and as "AI") because it's clear it means at least three seriously different things and equivocation between those helps to enable this nonsense.
November 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This is a good post - and I agree. We do need to have the right title for the tools of the job.
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Friday's newsletter, for people who have more reading time on a Sunday:
billbennett.co.nz/private-5g-s...
billbennett.co.nz/private-5g-s...
Private 5G, satellites and TDL - this week's NZ telecom news
CentrePort’s new private 5G network, telcos turn to satellites for resilience, the final TDL allocation.
billbennett.co.nz
November 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Friday's newsletter, for people who have more reading time on a Sunday:
billbennett.co.nz/private-5g-s...
billbennett.co.nz/private-5g-s...
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Off the top of your head, is one of these better than the other?
November 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Off the top of your head, is one of these better than the other?
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"LSD had the lowest harm mean score..."
LSD is 100% non-toxic.
Nobody knows what the LD50 rate for LSD is because nobody has EVER died from an LSD overdose.
Constant Alcohol industry mindfuck propaganda is why many people believe that legal = safe.
Wrong. Dead wrong.
#EndProhibition
#nzpol
LSD is 100% non-toxic.
Nobody knows what the LD50 rate for LSD is because nobody has EVER died from an LSD overdose.
Constant Alcohol industry mindfuck propaganda is why many people believe that legal = safe.
Wrong. Dead wrong.
#EndProhibition
#nzpol
A new index challenges common beliefs about drug use and harm in NZ
A common proxy for judging a drug's harm is the extent to which it is linked to dependency.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"LSD had the lowest harm mean score..."
LSD is 100% non-toxic.
Nobody knows what the LD50 rate for LSD is because nobody has EVER died from an LSD overdose.
Constant Alcohol industry mindfuck propaganda is why many people believe that legal = safe.
Wrong. Dead wrong.
#EndProhibition
#nzpol
LSD is 100% non-toxic.
Nobody knows what the LD50 rate for LSD is because nobody has EVER died from an LSD overdose.
Constant Alcohol industry mindfuck propaganda is why many people believe that legal = safe.
Wrong. Dead wrong.
#EndProhibition
#nzpol
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With his ultimatum that Ukraine surrender to Russia, Trump finally wins a prize:
The Neville Chamberlain award for betraying peace, freedom, and justice.
The Neville Chamberlain award for betraying peace, freedom, and justice.
November 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
With his ultimatum that Ukraine surrender to Russia, Trump finally wins a prize:
The Neville Chamberlain award for betraying peace, freedom, and justice.
The Neville Chamberlain award for betraying peace, freedom, and justice.
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PhD student looks at the lie behind the political line: 'NZ can't afford it' #economy #health #payequity #education #infrastructure #publicservices #jobs #Neoliberalism #austerity #AtlasNetwork #nzpol
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
PhD student looks at the lie behind the political line: ‘NZ can’t afford it’
University of Otago student Morgan Edwards believes Kiwis need to understand more about our monetary system and push back harder against public service cuts and other government spending decisions.
www.thepost.co.nz
November 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
PhD student looks at the lie behind the political line: 'NZ can't afford it' #economy #health #payequity #education #infrastructure #publicservices #jobs #Neoliberalism #austerity #AtlasNetwork #nzpol
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
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And this article.
Crayfish 'functionally extinct' in the Hauraki Gulf
Removing too many crayfish & big snapper has skewed the ecology of the #HaurakiGulf and seen the rise of #KinaBarrens
These pieces are nearly 10 yrs old - more #MarineReserves are just happening
www.stuff.co.nz/business/far...
Crayfish 'functionally extinct' in the Hauraki Gulf
Removing too many crayfish & big snapper has skewed the ecology of the #HaurakiGulf and seen the rise of #KinaBarrens
These pieces are nearly 10 yrs old - more #MarineReserves are just happening
www.stuff.co.nz/business/far...
Stuff
www.stuff.co.nz
November 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
And this article.
Crayfish 'functionally extinct' in the Hauraki Gulf
Removing too many crayfish & big snapper has skewed the ecology of the #HaurakiGulf and seen the rise of #KinaBarrens
These pieces are nearly 10 yrs old - more #MarineReserves are just happening
www.stuff.co.nz/business/far...
Crayfish 'functionally extinct' in the Hauraki Gulf
Removing too many crayfish & big snapper has skewed the ecology of the #HaurakiGulf and seen the rise of #KinaBarrens
These pieces are nearly 10 yrs old - more #MarineReserves are just happening
www.stuff.co.nz/business/far...
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Let's remember - the government spends more cleaning up coal damage than it collects in meagre royalties.
Join the movement:
350.org.nz/coal
Stop Denniston’s Coal Monster
Bathurst's monsterous mine proposal relies on ANZ continuing to offer banking services to Bathurst. With enough pressure, we can push ANZ to phase out banking services with not only Bathurst, but all…
350.org.nz
November 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Let's remember - the government spends more cleaning up coal damage than it collects in meagre royalties.
Join the movement:
350.org.nz/coal
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Bike lanes make our cities better for everyone. But we're not building fast enough.
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360... @cyclingactionnz.bsky.social @bikeauckland.bsky.social
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360... @cyclingactionnz.bsky.social @bikeauckland.bsky.social
The Post
www.thepost.co.nz
November 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Bike lanes make our cities better for everyone. But we're not building fast enough.
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360... @cyclingactionnz.bsky.social @bikeauckland.bsky.social
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360... @cyclingactionnz.bsky.social @bikeauckland.bsky.social
For people in NZ, please consider sending an email to the Antartica governing body based in the UK.
act.our-antarctica.com/act/antarcti...
act.our-antarctica.com/act/antarcti...
Tell the CCAMLR Chair to protect Antarctica
A platform for stories, solutions, and community action to protect the ocean, tackle the climate crisis, and help build a more just, equitable planet.
act.our-antarctica.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:43 AM
For people in NZ, please consider sending an email to the Antartica governing body based in the UK.
act.our-antarctica.com/act/antarcti...
act.our-antarctica.com/act/antarcti...
Word.
"Going back decades, Western diplomats have negotiated with the Palestinians they hope exist rather than the Palestinians who actually do."
www.futureofjewish.com/p/palestinia...
"Going back decades, Western diplomats have negotiated with the Palestinians they hope exist rather than the Palestinians who actually do."
www.futureofjewish.com/p/palestinia...
Palestinian identity politics makes peace with Israel impossible.
A society that fails to establish internal peace cannot make peace with others, and no amount of international posturing will change that.
www.futureofjewish.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Word.
"Going back decades, Western diplomats have negotiated with the Palestinians they hope exist rather than the Palestinians who actually do."
www.futureofjewish.com/p/palestinia...
"Going back decades, Western diplomats have negotiated with the Palestinians they hope exist rather than the Palestinians who actually do."
www.futureofjewish.com/p/palestinia...
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Hey peeps! It's been 2 weeks since I launched my crowdfunding campaign, and your support and generosity have blown me away. You folks rock! But with 3 research grant rejections this month & 2 weeks left to go I’ve decided to set a new stretch goal & pivot… 1/8
November 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Hey peeps! It's been 2 weeks since I launched my crowdfunding campaign, and your support and generosity have blown me away. You folks rock! But with 3 research grant rejections this month & 2 weeks left to go I’ve decided to set a new stretch goal & pivot… 1/8