Dan Bloomer

20x faster than me

Peter Whittall now lives in Australia. He is CEO of Illawarra Diggers Aged and Community Care, in Wollongong. A place for “diggers” who got to be old.

There are lines that are breathtaking and then there are lines that stop all the clocks. Wonderful and powerful work by @johnjcampbell.bsky.social.

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Been listening to The Hoon, from Bernard Hickey and friends. As an informative panel, I don't know anything that comes close in the areas they discuss. Ka pai, the Kaka

Prob too busy, putting signs up in Chenai....

But did you see a John Oliver?😅

Posted info about a field walk at our Carbon Positive research site in Hastings NZ this Thursday: Carbon Positive Field Walk this Thursday. www.landwise.org.nz

The Electric Spatula: Killing Weeds with Pulsed Microshocks from a Flat-Plate Electrode Seeking an easy-to-deploy, energy-efficient, non-herbicide weed control method, we tested a flat-plate electrode to apply pulsed electric microshocks (PMS) to a grass and four broadleaf weed species. ...

Pleased to have my latest electric weeding research published open access in 'Agronomy'. Many thanks to co-authors, reviewers and editors: the process certainly improves the quality of the final product. www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/13...

Agree

@chloeb222.bsky.social Hi!

Drop something colourful from your gallery: natural colour, gourds in market.

A shout out to Toby Morris and the power of his work. I have an online course that talks about inequity and today a participant spoke about how this comic changed their viewpoint entirely. How they had thought we all start at the same place.
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Well it's not like he'll be taking his houses with him.

Tasting notes?

Recovering from Cyclone Gabrielle · Plant & Food Research Cyclone Gabrielle was a devastating event that caused widespread damage to the pipfruit growing region of the Hawkes Bay. We speak to Jim Walker and Peter Welch about the effects to the industry

Recommend this Plant and Food Research podcast. @rhbloomer.bsky.social, Jim Walker, and Peter Welch discuss the impact of and recovery from Cyclone Gabrielle in Hawke's Bay orchards. www.plantandfood.com/en-nz/articl...

I'm a long way off 12, but Steampunk HQ in Oamaru was good! Elephant rocks too, and the whale fossil if they're into that sort of thing, but both a bit of a drive.

"We Spent 25 Years Doing Virtually Nothing" Why New Zealand is one of the developed world's worst climate laggards

Kicking-the-can-down-the-roadism is happening again - seems like a good time to re-up a story I wrote about political climate inertia at the time the IPCC released its latest assessment northandsouth.co.nz/2021/10/18/n...

Very pleased to get my literature review of non-herbicide weed management options, electric weeding, and robots published Open Access. Part of the Special issue in the NZ Journal of Agricultural Research. Lots of other goodies in there too! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

That's weird! Surely it should be Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Queenstown....

Cartoon title: BIKE LANE BULLIES A giant monster truck 4X4 pumping out poisonous fumes with an exceptionally angry white male driving with veins on his head and face ready to explode sidling up to a cyclist. He's shouting out his window with a raised fist, "YOU'RE A BLOODY MENACE TO SOCIETY!" On the footpath a guy and his little girl ride a bike. Casually. Calmly. Going about their business and day not interfering with the driver or anyone else. The self entitlement of the driver is on full show.

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz & online at www.stuff.co.nz

Cyclists! Pesky buggers - using no fuel, needing no WOF's, getting fitter, not going excessively fast on motorways, not ploughing into front rooms or bedrooms whilst people sleep... sheesh! How dare they?!

#ClimateCrisis

Got some helpers in grazing our "Carbon Positive" conventional cropping treatment plots.