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Climate-friendly investor. That guy from the Auckland Street Choir. Quite good at following a list. He/him.
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I’m at the Donald Trump.

I’m at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.

I’m at
December 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
December 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Oh my oh my, what treasures has #SecretSantaAoNZ #OpeningDay brought!

This is really so generous.

The musically themed scarf will be perfect for outdoors performances with the Auckland Street Choir in winter. (I hope you can see the bass & treble clefs in the photo.)

Thank you, mysterious Santa!
December 17, 2025 at 10:03 AM
December 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Here’s an article from this year with the Australian gun lobby boasting that, with surging gun numbers, it was winning the fight against firearms control advocates. Blame guns. Blame anti-Semitism. Blame terrorists. Do not blame everyday Australians who marched for peace.
Australia’s gun lobby says it’s ‘winning’ the fight against firearm control as numbers surge
There are now more than 4m guns in the community – almost double the number recorded in the years after the Port Arthur massacre that prompted a national crackdown
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
News from Bondi shows yet again that anti-semitism is alive and well in Australia.

The shooters appear to have used high-powered rifles.

It could have been even worse if they had semi-automatic weapons. #auspol
December 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
So I chatted with Jesse Mulligan on RNZ today about the Sanctuary Mahi Whenua community gardens.

You can listen in here: www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
What's going on at Auckland's Sanctuary Mahi Whenua Gardens?
An Auckland community is disputing the development of housing on the site of the Sanctuary Mahi Whenua Gardens. The gardens are based on the old Unitec campus site in Mount Albert and have existed for...
www.rnz.co.nz
December 11, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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I dunn0 man, I dunn0.
December 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Me, realizing that Christmas is sneaking up and I'm utterly unprepared.
December 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
If there is a workplace productivity problem summer, surely Simon already knows the answer?

Slushies ! ! !
December 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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December 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
"Politicians in South-East Asia ignore climate change at their own political peril."

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12... #nzpol
A new storm is brewing in South-East Asia. This time it's in the halls of power
Accused of incompetence and apathy in the aftermath of natural disasters, governments across Asia are facing increasing backlash as the impact of global warming intensifies.
www.abc.net.au
December 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Fanny Osborne's stunning watercolours including the only colour depiction of the extinct Adams mistletoe... a Great Barrier Island special edition.

www.rnz.co.nz/life/culture...
Is Fanny Osborne our most impressive forgotten artist?
The mother of 13 lived on Great Barrier Island and did exquisite watercolour paintings of native plants in the early 1900s.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The same argument one hears all too often in both Australia and New Zealand.
If Ireland's emissions are "too small to matter" then I might as well evade my taxes and eat doughnuts for lunch.

Read my latest column about the laziest excuse in the climate debate:

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
‘Too small to matter’ is the laziest-possible excuse in climate debate
At a time of crisis, co-operation is the only way to resolve the climate collective-action problem
www.irishtimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
First Trump take egg, now Kiwi take egg.
Egg nobble behaviour
New Zealand man charged with theft over claims he swallowed $19k Fabergé egg
December 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
So, I'll need to update this piece I co-wrote back in 2022 re NZ's climate target and the need to buy international offsets to meet it:

newsroom.co.nz/2022/10/10/i... #nzpol
NZ's $30b offsetting question: If a tree falls in an overseas forest?
Buying carbon offsets mean transferring of funds to some of the most corrupt nations in the world – there are very serious doubts about whether NZ will get what it pays for.
newsroom.co.nz
December 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Tomorrow's MPI press release.
December 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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As a prof, I am grateful that TP published both the essay itself and the response!

Thank you so much, TPUSA, for showing the public the quality of the writing we have to grade so tactfully and impartially. I don’t think people realize just how bad it is lol
The fact that TPUSA posted the entirely reasonable comments from the instructor here as coming from the “TRANS PROFESSOR” gives away the game.

They’re not defending students, they’re targeting faculty — as always
idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
New Zealanders: “I knew everything over there could kill you.”
The endangered Yellow Mountain Snake.
November 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Nature - no planet B
Spicy food - plant-based
Reading, all kinds
Music, all kinds (choir director)
Tech, all kinds
Family tops the list
Actually, kindness tops the list. House the homeless and fix the mental health system
Aussie in Aotearoa
Tēnā koe e hoa!
#SecretSantaAoNZ
November 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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*Stephen miller to trump, once Mamdani leaves*
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Heartbreaking stories like this are surfacing everywhere at ~1.5ºC of heating.

We are firmly on track to cross 2ºC and at the current heating rate of ~0.3ºC/decade we will reach this in the next ~16 years.

We are utterly unprepared for the climate chaos this will unleash.
‘My husband and daughter went down to the garage in case it flooded. Then I heard a strange noise’ – This is climate breakdown
She was sure that there would be warnings if there was any danger. But then the floods came. This is Toñi García’s story
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:38 AM
And in climate change news, #COP30 has reached the “live demonstrations” part of its agenda.
November 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
George Monbiot addresses a packed house via video for Next Fest 2025 (Sustainable Business Network).

“Our power comes not from our role as consumers, but as civilians”.

#NZ #nzpol
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM