Lauren M
@elenem.bsky.social
Mum, cricket lover, cargo biker, gardener; always wanting more climate action, always wanting more climate justice. Re-skeets for interest, not always endorsement. Says 'fuck' a lot. Aotearoa/NZ.
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TL;DR:
I want Labour to be whatever version of itself will inspire the highest proportion of its supporters as a route to gathering momentum, outside of relying on mainstream media coverage to be remotely fair and balanced.
And encouraging new-voters/maybe-voters will be most important.
I want Labour to be whatever version of itself will inspire the highest proportion of its supporters as a route to gathering momentum, outside of relying on mainstream media coverage to be remotely fair and balanced.
And encouraging new-voters/maybe-voters will be most important.
November 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
TL;DR:
I want Labour to be whatever version of itself will inspire the highest proportion of its supporters as a route to gathering momentum, outside of relying on mainstream media coverage to be remotely fair and balanced.
And encouraging new-voters/maybe-voters will be most important.
I want Labour to be whatever version of itself will inspire the highest proportion of its supporters as a route to gathering momentum, outside of relying on mainstream media coverage to be remotely fair and balanced.
And encouraging new-voters/maybe-voters will be most important.
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It's always good to know who is running the country
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
I'm not sure what has happened to all those anonymous social media accounts that used to complain about "Maori elite"
#nzpol
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
I'm not sure what has happened to all those anonymous social media accounts that used to complain about "Maori elite"
#nzpol
‘Pretty disappointed’: Mowbray’s personal text to PM amid social media lobbying
The Herald has obtained texts and emails between the PM and the high-profile lobbyists.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
It's always good to know who is running the country
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
I'm not sure what has happened to all those anonymous social media accounts that used to complain about "Maori elite"
#nzpol
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
I'm not sure what has happened to all those anonymous social media accounts that used to complain about "Maori elite"
#nzpol
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“For global warming, organisms can migrate towards the poles if they’re really lucky, but ocean acidification is everywhere. It’s absolutely pervasive and totally underreported. The sea is already 30 per cent more acidic than it was in pre-industrial times.”
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
How a beautiful curtain of bubbles led to a bleak undersea discovery
A carbon dioxide seep on a reef in Papua New Guinea is being used as a time machine to see into the future of the world’s coral.
www.smh.com.au
November 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
“For global warming, organisms can migrate towards the poles if they’re really lucky, but ocean acidification is everywhere. It’s absolutely pervasive and totally underreported. The sea is already 30 per cent more acidic than it was in pre-industrial times.”
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
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‘Carney doesn’t actually want a pipeline or think one will get built, he’s just a duplicitous weasel’ is not the defence you think it is.
November 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
‘Carney doesn’t actually want a pipeline or think one will get built, he’s just a duplicitous weasel’ is not the defence you think it is.
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I am allowed to fail students for AI use, and I do, and I say I will, repeatedly and emphatically. As a result, I wind up having to fail very few students for AI use.
I read the thread and know why they're not failing the students. They gotta let colleges fail the students for the sake of the curriculum and other students
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I am allowed to fail students for AI use, and I do, and I say I will, repeatedly and emphatically. As a result, I wind up having to fail very few students for AI use.
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The number of people who refuse to look at Carney's actual track record as PM and insist on writing fan fic about how he's secretly a compassionate and clever genius is just weird.
November 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The number of people who refuse to look at Carney's actual track record as PM and insist on writing fan fic about how he's secretly a compassionate and clever genius is just weird.
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Imagine showing a petrol engine to someone who had only known electric vehicles, and trying to convince them to switch to petrol. No-one would choose the dirty, noisy, less efficient, more expensive vehicle. This isn't 1910, hostage to gender insecurity. We can just choose the better tech.
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Imagine showing a petrol engine to someone who had only known electric vehicles, and trying to convince them to switch to petrol. No-one would choose the dirty, noisy, less efficient, more expensive vehicle. This isn't 1910, hostage to gender insecurity. We can just choose the better tech.
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Climate change kills - and the culprits are still free www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Escalated heatwave mortality risk in sub-Saharan Africa under recent warming trend
Nighttime heat exposure is driving increased vulnerability to heatwaves across African populations amid recent warming.
www.science.org
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Climate change kills - and the culprits are still free www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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On this week's #SundayShot, @roycerk2.bsky.social rolls off the plane from @cop30brazil.bsky.social to join Lorena Allam on the panel. Plus an interview with newly minted @walkleys.bsky.social-award winner Yaara Bou Melham on her powerful documentary feature KURLU COUNTRY.
Join us!
Join us!
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
On this week's #SundayShot, @roycerk2.bsky.social rolls off the plane from @cop30brazil.bsky.social to join Lorena Allam on the panel. Plus an interview with newly minted @walkleys.bsky.social-award winner Yaara Bou Melham on her powerful documentary feature KURLU COUNTRY.
Join us!
Join us!
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Important research in its own right - but also a lesson that we still do not know enough about biogeochemical feedbacks to foresee how the Earth will respond to our unprecedented CO2 'experiment'.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Earth system models overstate carbon removal: New findings suggest nitrogen fixation is 50% lower than thought
High levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide intensify climate change, but high carbon dioxide levels can also stimulate plant growth. Plant growth removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, partially m...
phys.org
November 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Important research in its own right - but also a lesson that we still do not know enough about biogeochemical feedbacks to foresee how the Earth will respond to our unprecedented CO2 'experiment'.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
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‘Taking action is not a sacrifice, it’s not even a problem, taking action is the opportunity here’ @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Add your signature to the open letter to Keir Starmer and all public service broadcasters.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-keir
#climatecrisis #netzero #NEB2025 #cop30
Add your signature to the open letter to Keir Starmer and all public service broadcasters.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-keir
#climatecrisis #netzero #NEB2025 #cop30
November 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
‘Taking action is not a sacrifice, it’s not even a problem, taking action is the opportunity here’ @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Add your signature to the open letter to Keir Starmer and all public service broadcasters.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-keir
#climatecrisis #netzero #NEB2025 #cop30
Add your signature to the open letter to Keir Starmer and all public service broadcasters.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-keir
#climatecrisis #netzero #NEB2025 #cop30
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This is civil disobedience‼️ We've asked 'nicely' for decades. Disobeying institutions that abuse power to deliberately harm those less powerful is a vital tenant of a healthy democracy. There is still time to join is at #RisingTide 👇🏽
www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025
www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025
November 29, 2025 at 5:04 AM
This is civil disobedience‼️ We've asked 'nicely' for decades. Disobeying institutions that abuse power to deliberately harm those less powerful is a vital tenant of a healthy democracy. There is still time to join is at #RisingTide 👇🏽
www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025
www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025
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"We need to wake up here. The World needs to wake up. Not just in terms of trying to cap this at 1.5 degrees C, limit emissions, and limit the warming. But also we need to adapt to this. So the governments need to wake up in terms of preparing... to reduce the impact, as well as increase resilience"
What's causing record floods, typhoons in Thailand, Vietnam and Philippines? The World | ABC News
YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 3:33 AM
"We need to wake up here. The World needs to wake up. Not just in terms of trying to cap this at 1.5 degrees C, limit emissions, and limit the warming. But also we need to adapt to this. So the governments need to wake up in terms of preparing... to reduce the impact, as well as increase resilience"
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Every right-wing “grassroots”organisation in New Zealand is just Jordan Williams, David Farrar, and one randomly-selected Atlas Network apparatchik in a trenchcoat
There's a new "grassroots" website automating supportive emails to Erica Stanford / signatures on an open letter endorsing her attacks on te Tiriti and you have until the end of this skeet to guess who registered the domain name
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Did you guess Jordan Williams' Campaign Company? Gold star
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Did you guess Jordan Williams' Campaign Company? Gold star
November 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Every right-wing “grassroots”organisation in New Zealand is just Jordan Williams, David Farrar, and one randomly-selected Atlas Network apparatchik in a trenchcoat
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Watch, @fisherdanar.bsky.social , @davidho.bsky.social and me talk about corporate capture, cat capture and where we think things climate could be in 5 years. cece.american.edu/copout-episo...
November 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Watch, @fisherdanar.bsky.social , @davidho.bsky.social and me talk about corporate capture, cat capture and where we think things climate could be in 5 years. cece.american.edu/copout-episo...
Stuff might actually be trying to do some climate coverage after just forgetting about it lately. Opportunity here to tell them how it's affecting you #nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
Flooded nine times in six years, residents say their cul-de-sac is in the ‘too hard basket’
“I’m at the mercy of whoever can get a boat.”
www.stuff.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Stuff might actually be trying to do some climate coverage after just forgetting about it lately. Opportunity here to tell them how it's affecting you #nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
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Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...
Nature Beat #87
Updates, stories, resources and opportunities
thenaturebeat.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...
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The basic policymaker mental model for climate action assumes:
- maintaining status quo is a win
- we have plenty of time
- electricity is the only source of pollution
All 3 are false, to the benefit of the wealthiest enterprise in human history, at the expense of all life on earth (including us)
- maintaining status quo is a win
- we have plenty of time
- electricity is the only source of pollution
All 3 are false, to the benefit of the wealthiest enterprise in human history, at the expense of all life on earth (including us)
Mark Carney has had to 'step forward and backwards and it all sort of cancels out' headspace on climate for quite some time.
It's the logic of carbon offsetting: if you operate a coal plant, but you also build some renewable energy, the latter cancels out the former 🫠
medium.com/lobbywatch/n...
It's the logic of carbon offsetting: if you operate a coal plant, but you also build some renewable energy, the latter cancels out the former 🫠
medium.com/lobbywatch/n...
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The basic policymaker mental model for climate action assumes:
- maintaining status quo is a win
- we have plenty of time
- electricity is the only source of pollution
All 3 are false, to the benefit of the wealthiest enterprise in human history, at the expense of all life on earth (including us)
- maintaining status quo is a win
- we have plenty of time
- electricity is the only source of pollution
All 3 are false, to the benefit of the wealthiest enterprise in human history, at the expense of all life on earth (including us)
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I don't think it's all of it by any measure but I do absolutely believe that the political media's raging anti-intellectual streak has got worse with time and has ended up influencing the way MPs talk, and what they choose to talk/think about
I don’t think this is a “politicians have got dumber” issue for the most part. If you look at the *actual CVs* of previous cohorts of MPs, their background is not radically different when you account for, you know, the fact the economy is different! It is primarily a media and ecosystem issue.
We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply:
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I don't think it's all of it by any measure but I do absolutely believe that the political media's raging anti-intellectual streak has got worse with time and has ended up influencing the way MPs talk, and what they choose to talk/think about
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I agree with @doctorvive.bsky.social
"The fossil-fuel industry and the governments that support it are literally colluding to stop you from creating a world that runs on safe energy. They are trying to maintain the fossil-fuel economy... We are against them, and we are going to fight for dear life"
"The fossil-fuel industry and the governments that support it are literally colluding to stop you from creating a world that runs on safe energy. They are trying to maintain the fossil-fuel economy... We are against them, and we are going to fight for dear life"
People Love to Say “We” Are Causing Climate Change. But Who Is We?
Everyone is not equally complicit here.
slate.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I agree with @doctorvive.bsky.social
"The fossil-fuel industry and the governments that support it are literally colluding to stop you from creating a world that runs on safe energy. They are trying to maintain the fossil-fuel economy... We are against them, and we are going to fight for dear life"
"The fossil-fuel industry and the governments that support it are literally colluding to stop you from creating a world that runs on safe energy. They are trying to maintain the fossil-fuel economy... We are against them, and we are going to fight for dear life"
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The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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This is a “success” story of immigration policy. Not mentioned in the “who should get credit for bringing down migration” debate this morning.
She would be fleeing a climate disaster. So if you’re wondering how we’ll deal with that in future, it’s this x500 million.
She would be fleeing a climate disaster. So if you’re wondering how we’ll deal with that in future, it’s this x500 million.
UK rejects visa for girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa
Lati-Yana Brown’s parents had asked for application to be expedited so she could join them in UK after house ruined
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:56 AM
This is a “success” story of immigration policy. Not mentioned in the “who should get credit for bringing down migration” debate this morning.
She would be fleeing a climate disaster. So if you’re wondering how we’ll deal with that in future, it’s this x500 million.
She would be fleeing a climate disaster. So if you’re wondering how we’ll deal with that in future, it’s this x500 million.
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Loved seeing Te Komititanga full of people celebrating the lighting of Te Manaaki, Auckland’s Giant Christmas Tree.
Hard to believe a few years ago this civic space was a four lane road. It’s much better now and it is used by tens of thousands more people each day.
I 💚❤️ AKL
Hard to believe a few years ago this civic space was a four lane road. It’s much better now and it is used by tens of thousands more people each day.
I 💚❤️ AKL
November 28, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Loved seeing Te Komititanga full of people celebrating the lighting of Te Manaaki, Auckland’s Giant Christmas Tree.
Hard to believe a few years ago this civic space was a four lane road. It’s much better now and it is used by tens of thousands more people each day.
I 💚❤️ AKL
Hard to believe a few years ago this civic space was a four lane road. It’s much better now and it is used by tens of thousands more people each day.
I 💚❤️ AKL
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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This is the biggest deal. SHARE IT EVERYWHERE.
Y’ALL. PATHA RELEASED THE NEW GENDER AFFIRMING CARE GUIDELINES. THE ONES THE GOVT SUPPRESSED
GET IN IT
patha.nz/resources-an...
GET IN IT
patha.nz/resources-an...
Clinical Guidelines | Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa Inc. (PATHA)
patha.nz
November 28, 2025 at 5:40 AM
This is the biggest deal. SHARE IT EVERYWHERE.