Judy Martin
@southernrata.bsky.social
Accidental care-taker of a community resource recovery hub (OneCoast.org). Also accidental solo taichi teacher. Always indifferent house-keeper. Community is everything.
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Says, Populist politicians deliberately try to undermine trust between people by manufacturing conflict, preying on fears instead of rising above, deliberately undermine trust in institutions and frame themselves forward as the "only ones who can be trusted", and undermine trust in media
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Says, Populist politicians deliberately try to undermine trust between people by manufacturing conflict, preying on fears instead of rising above, deliberately undermine trust in institutions and frame themselves forward as the "only ones who can be trusted", and undermine trust in media
Tfw when you've been wondering if your former boss is still alive then you open a Guardian article and it's about him and his book!
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
‘They’re not wolves – they’re sheep’: the psychiatrist who spent decades meeting and studying lone-actor mass killers
Paul E Mullen has had a front-row seat to the men behind some of the worst public massacres. He says it’s possible to ‘disrupt the script’ for future violence
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Tfw when you've been wondering if your former boss is still alive then you open a Guardian article and it's about him and his book!
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
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Never think of money in absolute terms. It's a *relative* concept
For example, if everyone had a billion dollars, it would be the equivalent of everyone having 0 dollars. It’s the relative differences in money holdings that give a billionaire power in society, rather than absolute amount held
For example, if everyone had a billion dollars, it would be the equivalent of everyone having 0 dollars. It’s the relative differences in money holdings that give a billionaire power in society, rather than absolute amount held
November 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Never think of money in absolute terms. It's a *relative* concept
For example, if everyone had a billion dollars, it would be the equivalent of everyone having 0 dollars. It’s the relative differences in money holdings that give a billionaire power in society, rather than absolute amount held
For example, if everyone had a billion dollars, it would be the equivalent of everyone having 0 dollars. It’s the relative differences in money holdings that give a billionaire power in society, rather than absolute amount held
Actually, the last stanza isn't too bad?
yes it's very fun to joke about Shelley's Ozymandias, but imagine how hurtful it must have been to be Horace Smith, one of poetry's greatest losers, who challenged Shelley to a friendly sonnet contest on the topic of Ramses II. Shelley wrote Ozymandias and well, here's Horace's lumpy clay pot
October 31, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Actually, the last stanza isn't too bad?
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A woman told me today I looked like my cat. I took that as a compliment. Who doesn’t want to look fluffy and relaxed 99% of the time, all the while being capable of fending off evildoers, trolls, and younger bros with a ninja-like back leg whenever needed? 😸
October 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
A woman told me today I looked like my cat. I took that as a compliment. Who doesn’t want to look fluffy and relaxed 99% of the time, all the while being capable of fending off evildoers, trolls, and younger bros with a ninja-like back leg whenever needed? 😸
I've just seen a live spider trapped inside the two glass layers of our microwave. How it got in, no idea, I'm just worried it will metamorphose into something sinister when I microwave my breakfast oats!
October 2, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I've just seen a live spider trapped inside the two glass layers of our microwave. How it got in, no idea, I'm just worried it will metamorphose into something sinister when I microwave my breakfast oats!
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We disaggregate the global results into country clusters by income. Median results show the richest 20% of countries (home to 15% of people) are responsible for over 40% of ecological overshoot in 2017, while the poorest 40% (home to 42% of people) experience more than 60% of global deprivation. 3/
October 2, 2025 at 6:52 AM
We disaggregate the global results into country clusters by income. Median results show the richest 20% of countries (home to 15% of people) are responsible for over 40% of ecological overshoot in 2017, while the poorest 40% (home to 42% of people) experience more than 60% of global deprivation. 3/
lithub.com/rebecca-soln...
This gem turned uo on my feed this morning including,
"Which is why the person who said, or rather typed, offhandedly “people should bike more” really means all people need to bike everywhere under all circumstances and is callously indifferent to people who...etc"
This gem turned uo on my feed this morning including,
"Which is why the person who said, or rather typed, offhandedly “people should bike more” really means all people need to bike everywhere under all circumstances and is callously indifferent to people who...etc"
Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media
1) Do not read the whole original post or what it links to, which will dilute the purity of your response and reduce your chances of rebuking the poster for not mentioning anything they might’…
lithub.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
lithub.com/rebecca-soln...
This gem turned uo on my feed this morning including,
"Which is why the person who said, or rather typed, offhandedly “people should bike more” really means all people need to bike everywhere under all circumstances and is callously indifferent to people who...etc"
This gem turned uo on my feed this morning including,
"Which is why the person who said, or rather typed, offhandedly “people should bike more” really means all people need to bike everywhere under all circumstances and is callously indifferent to people who...etc"
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A valiant showing by takahē, eighth place with almost 10k votes. Next year, takahē fans; next year we will post the roundest borb to the victory it deserves
And now... 🏅A few words from our winner🏅
#BOTY2025 #BirdoftheYear2025 #BirdoftheYear #NZBirdoftheYear
@thomassainsbury
#BOTY2025 #BirdoftheYear2025 #BirdoftheYear #NZBirdoftheYear
@thomassainsbury
September 29, 2025 at 6:33 AM
A valiant showing by takahē, eighth place with almost 10k votes. Next year, takahē fans; next year we will post the roundest borb to the victory it deserves
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Phew. I should add that my main beef is with the whole medieval monetarist model. Ratcheting down interest rates to persuade us to borrow more money to spend and stimulate the economy, and then crashing the economy when we get an external price shock is seriously stupid.
September 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Phew. I should add that my main beef is with the whole medieval monetarist model. Ratcheting down interest rates to persuade us to borrow more money to spend and stimulate the economy, and then crashing the economy when we get an external price shock is seriously stupid.
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Clearer every day that any authentic human future will need to take place off-line
September 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Clearer every day that any authentic human future will need to take place off-line
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people pretend that debate signals and defends a commitment to high minded politics. what it elevates instead is performative dishonesty as a basic mode of politics
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
September 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
people pretend that debate signals and defends a commitment to high minded politics. what it elevates instead is performative dishonesty as a basic mode of politics
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Is the taxman a robber, a provider, a redistributor, a technocrat or an anchorman?
A guide for how to think about the politics of tax
www.asomo.co/p/the-five-f...
A guide for how to think about the politics of tax
www.asomo.co/p/the-five-f...
The Five Faces of the Taxman
He cometh, but who is he and what does he want?
www.asomo.co
September 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Is the taxman a robber, a provider, a redistributor, a technocrat or an anchorman?
A guide for how to think about the politics of tax
www.asomo.co/p/the-five-f...
A guide for how to think about the politics of tax
www.asomo.co/p/the-five-f...
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Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media
Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism www.ft.com/content/9251... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism www.ft.com/content/9251... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media
Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism www.ft.com/content/9251... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism www.ft.com/content/9251... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
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Some key features on this strategy incl. Engagement bait: Binary YES/NO polls with Facebook reaction emojis, assigning the angry emoji to "NO" responses. This format generates high emotional engagement that Facebook's algorithm rewards with increased visibility beyond the original follower base.
September 9, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Some key features on this strategy incl. Engagement bait: Binary YES/NO polls with Facebook reaction emojis, assigning the angry emoji to "NO" responses. This format generates high emotional engagement that Facebook's algorithm rewards with increased visibility beyond the original follower base.
Really missing your rural weather app @metservice.com 😢 (that's android phone if it makes a difference)
September 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Really missing your rural weather app @metservice.com 😢 (that's android phone if it makes a difference)
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What was that you said Shane Jones?!
That coal mining on the Denniston Plateau is needed for electrical production “to keep the lights on” in Aotearoa? When in reality it’s headed straight to Lyttelton Port and then off overseas for steel production.
His words complete crap and...
#ClimateAction
That coal mining on the Denniston Plateau is needed for electrical production “to keep the lights on” in Aotearoa? When in reality it’s headed straight to Lyttelton Port and then off overseas for steel production.
His words complete crap and...
#ClimateAction
September 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
What was that you said Shane Jones?!
That coal mining on the Denniston Plateau is needed for electrical production “to keep the lights on” in Aotearoa? When in reality it’s headed straight to Lyttelton Port and then off overseas for steel production.
His words complete crap and...
#ClimateAction
That coal mining on the Denniston Plateau is needed for electrical production “to keep the lights on” in Aotearoa? When in reality it’s headed straight to Lyttelton Port and then off overseas for steel production.
His words complete crap and...
#ClimateAction
Classic kiwiana here...
Farmer hit by lightning praises gumboots for saving life www.rnz.co.nz/news/country...
Farmer hit by lightning praises gumboots for saving life www.rnz.co.nz/news/country...
Farmer hit by lightning praises gumboots for saving life
A Westport dairy farm manager is praising his gumboots for saving his life.
www.rnz.co.nz
September 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Classic kiwiana here...
Farmer hit by lightning praises gumboots for saving life www.rnz.co.nz/news/country...
Farmer hit by lightning praises gumboots for saving life www.rnz.co.nz/news/country...
This is a great story - what is happening to our kelp down here?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘The forgotten forest’: how smashing 5.6m urchins saved a California kelp paradise
Pollution, warm oceans and hungry urchins devastated Pacific kelp. Now, thanks to divers with hammers, one of the world’s most successful rehabilitation projects has helped it rebound
www.theguardian.com
August 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This is a great story - what is happening to our kelp down here?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Newly yarnbombed outside Tūranga! ^DR
August 30, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Newly yarnbombed outside Tūranga! ^DR
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Will have a 20th anniversary piece on Saturday. There's so much the response to Katrina tells us about we really are in disaster (plot spoiler: most people good and resourceful, elites panic, racists use fear to justify violence, media often fails).
August 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Will have a 20th anniversary piece on Saturday. There's so much the response to Katrina tells us about we really are in disaster (plot spoiler: most people good and resourceful, elites panic, racists use fear to justify violence, media often fails).
Snow White. The transformation of the evil queen into the old crone scared me witless.
A WWII film that I think now mustve been Battle of Midway. My father took me go see it when I was about eight. When the ship's sinking and there are men in the water and then the leaking fuel catches fire.
August 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Snow White. The transformation of the evil queen into the old crone scared me witless.
"The tax preference (deductible costs and tax free capital gains for investors), is a root cause of unaffordable home ownership that must be addressed. The politics are hard, but leadership is not just about promoting the vested interests of selected stakeholders"
“A graduate starting salary is now between $50,000 and $60,000 pa. if you can get a job. That house is now over 35 times that starting salary.“
Article by Dr. Rod Carr, former chair Climate Change Commission.
Article by Dr. Rod Carr, former chair Climate Change Commission.
Housing affordability: a crisis of our own making
OPINION: Our generation broke the market for owner-occupiers by preferencing residential property over other investments in our tax system.
www.thepost.co.nz
August 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM
"The tax preference (deductible costs and tax free capital gains for investors), is a root cause of unaffordable home ownership that must be addressed. The politics are hard, but leadership is not just about promoting the vested interests of selected stakeholders"
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Interesting myth busting article in the press today, important take aways are
1) Cycleways only contribute 0.11% of the 5% rates rises.
2) The largest contributor to our rates is critical water infrastructure, with a whopping $2 billion 1/3
www.thepress.co.nz/a/nz-news/36...
1) Cycleways only contribute 0.11% of the 5% rates rises.
2) The largest contributor to our rates is critical water infrastructure, with a whopping $2 billion 1/3
www.thepress.co.nz/a/nz-news/36...
What cutting cycleways would really save ratepayers
Cycleways have become a lightning rod for frustration over rising rates and are seen as a symbol of perceived council excess.
www.thepress.co.nz
August 23, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Interesting myth busting article in the press today, important take aways are
1) Cycleways only contribute 0.11% of the 5% rates rises.
2) The largest contributor to our rates is critical water infrastructure, with a whopping $2 billion 1/3
www.thepress.co.nz/a/nz-news/36...
1) Cycleways only contribute 0.11% of the 5% rates rises.
2) The largest contributor to our rates is critical water infrastructure, with a whopping $2 billion 1/3
www.thepress.co.nz/a/nz-news/36...