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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 1h

Oops, link:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global climate mode resonance due to rapidly intensifying El Niño-Southern Oscillation - Nature Communications

The authors of this study perform simulations with a high-resolution climate model and show that global warming may trigger an abrupt shift in the tropical climate system towards stronger and more pre...

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 1h

New modelling out this week shows that El Niño is gonna oscillate with much more strength and actual kinda phase lock with the North Atlantic Oscillation, increasing its ‘amplitude’ by 20% more than the current models predict.

So even more crazy weather!

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 1h

Instead of a new Medicard we should just use a “One Card”*

*which should have all our state-issued numbers on it, along with a holographic Sauron’s Eye that winks seductively at you when you tilt it

Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 9h

Kiwis love cards? Am I hallucinating or was the introduction of the Community Services Card fraught with opposition, that it was a "branding poor people card"?

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 4h

Possible measles (living with a Yr11 "close contact" at Wellington College) but double vaccinated so 🤷‍♂️... No symptoms but a few spots on his knee appearing today 🤔

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 4h

Very well actually. Gave us very good masks and in a seperate room with the doors shut. Nurse came in wearing the full face shield + yellow suit gear

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AFN Network+ @afnnetwork.bsky.social · 5d

This week, we’re diving into what our Roadmap for Resilience report says about land. How do we need to transform land use to support a resilient, sustainable food system & healthy diets? Our digest breaks it down.
👉 tinyurl.com/2xtynfs5

#UKFoodPlan2050 #AFNRoadmap

DIGEST: Roadmap for Resilience; land transition - AFN Network+

In this Digest, we’re looking at the transformation the Roadmap report says needs to happen to our land, to ensure a more resilient and sustainable sector that supports healthy diets.

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 5h

The difference a few years in underfunding makes… 😑

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 5h

At Wellington Hospital with a suspected measles case and the ED department is absolutely packed.

Patients in beds all along the corridors in every possible space. Last time I came a few years ago there was no one at all outside rooms?!

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 6h

As always, put on a watchlist by Autocorrect 😅

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firstname lastname @catalyst-comet.bsky.social · 12h

"I don't know where to go" go outside

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 14h

Fantastic short video on how a publicly owned grocery chain would work in Canada.

Any #NZPol Food Policy policy nerds on here keen do some analysis on how this might work here in Aotearoa NZ?

Aaron Vansintjan @avansi.bsky.social · 18d

"Instead of the President's Choice, imagine... the People's Choice"

An explainer I made with @breachmedia.ca

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPuE...

Why Canada needs public grocery stores

YouTube video by The Breach

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 15h

Yeah, it’ll have a tiny impact by the time the Nats get back in and cancel it 😑

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 17h

Yeah, between now and the end of Labour's next term in 2029 I'd guess the CGT tax take would be less than one Cook Strait ferry 😅

Or maybe 15-30% of the tax cut National gave landlords.

Absolutely pathetic #NZPol

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 16h

I think about this LeGuin essay a lot. (link in next post; you should read it too.)

Its technology is how a society copes with physical reality: how people get and keep and cook food, how they clothe themselves, what their power sources are (animal? human? water? wind? electricity? other?) what they build with and what they build, their medicine — and so on and on. Perhaps very ethereal people aren’t interested in these mundane, bodily matters, but I’m fascinated by them, and I think most of my readers are too.

Technology is the active human interface with the material world.

But the word is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and specialised technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive exploitation both of natural and human resources.

This is not an acceptable use of the word. “Technology” and “hi tech” are not synonymous, and a technology that isn't “hi,” isn’t necessarily '“low” in any meaningful sense.

We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all. As if linen were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers — as if steel saucepans with copper bottoms and fleece vests spun from recycled glass grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe...

One way to illustrate that most technologies are, in fact, pretty “hi,” is to ask yourself of any manmade object, Do I know how to make one?

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 16h

Content looking pretty empty 😅

large gap in HTML for page linked in previous page

Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 16h

There's a similar model that's growing quickly in Australia but their tech stack and website is painful to look at. But they're up to 15k customers a week and had a $1M injection from a community share scheme a few years ago.

www.boxdivvy.com

Home | BOX DIVVY

Box Divvy is an App that connects you directly with farmers and food producers, and saves you some serious dough on food. At last an alternative to supermarkets.

www.boxdivvy.com

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 16h

But yeah, creating a backend for an entirely new business model single-handly sure is an experience.

I finally added some about pages after a year of figuring out what it was that I'm actually trying to build 😅

coshop.nz/nz/info/how-...

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 16h

Just finishing up a small farm-to-form pilot on my own coshop.nz platform this week, doing maybe 500kg of food a week?

Hopefully will rollout to a bigger coop network to maybe 1.5k -2k orders a week by early next year?

Talking to some big govt funders this week 🤞

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 17h

I remember we used to have one that was set at some ridiculous amount like $200/yr?

Not sure when it disappeared?

Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 17h

Ah yep, had a look at Food Rescue Hero earlier this year but it looked like it was more about impact measuring? One of the orgs I work with has a simple Airtable that did almost everything their app did 😅

Kinda needing the "buying from growers" part. Thanks for the reply though!

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 17h

Yes, like Australia's.

Which is 0% tax on the first AU$18,200. Would mean that almost everyone would get the same amount back "in their pocket" but the biggest impact would be on low income earners.

Would love to see an analysis of the tax impact if we aligned our tax brackets with Australia's?

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 17h

Yeah, between now and the end of Labour's next term in 2029 I'd guess the CGT tax take would be less than one Cook Strait ferry 😅

Or maybe 15-30% of the tax cut National gave landlords.

Absolutely pathetic #NZPol

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 17h

Hiya @borderless.bsky.social 👋

Thinking you might have your finger on pulse on these things...

Do you know of any open source community/region based food co-op software in use in the US? Had a look a few years back and didn't see much.

Or even closed source but NFP?

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Ira @ira.bailey.nz · 17h

I found the CGT Tax support by party vote very interesting!

Lowest support is among Te Pāti Māori voters? 🤔

Only 27.6% support vs 70.7% for Greens voters.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

RNZ-Reid Research poll: Where the public stands on capital gains tax

The latest RNZ-Reid Research poll shows voters are much less firm in their positions than politicians seem to be.

www.rnz.co.nz

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 19h

No you see you can use ChatGPT as a therapist to help you manage your ChatGPT-induced psychosis. Problem solved!

Bénédicte C @benecal.bsky.social · 19h

ONLY 225K are being driven to psychosis, 500K goaded toward suicide and 50M have weirdly emotionally attached to ChatGPT, per week?

We are, unironically, told that now more people can "hopefully" spend $ on mental health care for the damage ChatGPT caused.

“Now, hopefully a lot more people who are struggling with these conditions or who are experiencing these very intense mental health emergencies might be able to be directed to professional help, and be more likely to get this kind of help or get it earlier than they would have otherwise," Johannes Heidecke, OpenAI’s safety systems lead, tells WIRED.

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