Clever Hansel 💗💜💙

The inter-tidal zone between the two being a truly awful John Waters moustache I grew during lockdown to freak colleagues out on Zoom

Struck by the sudden highly millennial-coded realisation that almost everything I did in the '10s was painfully ironic, and almost everything I have done in the '20s is painfully sincere

An illustration of Taranaki maunga with the words 'Remember Parihaka Fifth of November'.

Remember, remember.

And the knock-on effects from *that* include things like making it harder/slower to access healthcare - which is one way climate change disproportionately affects disabled people, and relates to OP's question!

And landslides too, in steeper suburbs. A veritable buffet of options! Not sure how your neighbourhood will fare, but the central suburbs are very exposed to sea level rise, so when the arterial transport routes that pass through them are affected, there are knock-on effects for the whole city.

I have some not-great news about how impacted by climate change we're likely to be, though...

Welp, time to reset the giant novelty counter again environment.govt.nz/news/governm...

*being dunked into a flushing toilet* this is classic ad homineglbbbbglbglbglbb

'my job is Email' 'my job is Spreadsheet' This is comms erasure. My job is Canva, PowerPoint and seven thousand Chrome tabs.

My phone keeps autocorrecting LinkedIn to KinkedIn, and honestly I think FetLife is missing a branding opportunity

NZ climate journalism summed up in 2 articles:

RNZ:
govt guts climate disclosures regime, a key tool for delivering Paris Agreement commitments www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Also RNZ:
govt lifts burden on finance industry (actual climate change impacts not mentioned) www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

(this is genuinely cool citizen democracy stuff, my brain is just cooked from spending too much time at the intersection of personal and professional social media)

Ping @leolastname.bsky.social

Screenshit of LinkedIn post by Nicole Curato, Professor of Democratic Governance: Can global citizens' assemblies give voice to the stateless, the displaced and the unrecognised?

When I was
A young boy
My father
Took me into the city
To see a marching band
He said –

First-ever Moriori language week a ‘long time coming’ Moriori people, tchakat henu (tangata whenua) of Rēkohu, the Chatham Islands have much to celebrate with the first-ever Moriori language week kicking off this November.

Moriori people, tchakat henu (tangata whenua) of Rēkohu, the Chatham Islands have much to celebrate with the first-ever Moriori language week kicking off this November.

As was something of a habit bsky.app/profile/clev...

Headline: David Seymour hoists himself with his own petard, providing small moment of levity. Apr 2, 2019.

The Government MPs maintained big smiles throughout Question Time, handing a bucket of lollies passed down the front bench, National MPs - including the man obliged to lose to Seymour every election, Paul Goldsmith - could be seen openly laughing, with Maggie Barry wiping what looked to be tears from her eyes.

And if you're thinking, huh?, wait, I thought he missed the vote on that firearms bill –

– you're correct.

Seymour also missed that vote, in that same year, because he was late, because he spent too long bragging to reporters on the tiles about how hard he was going to vote against it.

screenshot: ACT misses climate vote, allowing bill through unanimously

Look, it's the least of our worries given the NZ govt's decision to weaken climate change targets

BUT

as a committed pedant i cannot let David Seymour claim unchallenged that he was the only MP to vote against the current target.

Because he didn't - he missed the vote, lol. The bill passed 119-0.

a cartoon character is wearing a pink hat and making a funny face Alt: Louise Belcher from the cartoon Bob's Burgers, staring with one eye twitching

Climate change isn't happening, except it is and it's natural, except it's not and it's a scam by UN/WEF (((globalists))), except it is and it's HAARP geoengineering, except it's a good thing actually because CO2 is plant food and truth is unknowable and science is just a matter of opinion!

I feel like screaming. Mis/disinfo is hobbling every part of the climate change response - the premise (CC is a hoax), the cause (govt weather control), the means (the UN wants to ban meat), adaptation (managed retreat is a govt land grab), to emergency response (scammers targeting ppl in disasters)

[wearily resetting my giant novelty Days Since Last Hera Lindsay Bird Tweet Moment counter from 05 to 00] #nzpol

I'm spicing up my work day by dropping mispronunciations into meetings and seeing who pulls me up on them. So far no one has reacted to me pronouncing awry to rhyme with jewelry. Time to escalate: pronouncing whack-a-mole to rhyme with guacamole.

the exposed moral wound of fossil extraction is real and is worth knowing the torn bloody edges of, but you can't get people to participate in other modes of living by just showing them the wound and asking them to feel how much it really hurts.

Good to see mainstream media also highlight the threat VFF poses to New Zealand's liberal-democratic firmament, though it's much, much greater than presented in this article. | Behind the boring promises: the protesters trying to reshape local democracy www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

A photo of Voices for Freedom coordinators at their VFF Connects event in 2022. The background has an illuminated VFF sign. Three people are wearing VFF t-shirts and many are wearing a lanyard. There are eight people circled in red.

🚨 Voices for Freedom and Local Elections 🚨

Last local elections VFF encouraged people to run for local council. Their plan was semi-successful, electing dozens of councillors and board members. This time around, they're far more organised. Read: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

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Small billboard reading Rodney Cook for Council, with a slightly smirking Pākeha man in a collared shirt and tweed waistcoat, looking like he's just burst through the bright orange background. His hands are striking a dynamic 'nothing up my sleeve' pose.

He may be a perfectly nice fellow, and I know nothing about his policies, but this council candidate's hoardings make him look like an amateur stage magician

One of my favourite things about flying is all the no smoking signs, alongside all the built-in ash trays. A+ environmental storytelling.

Never in my life have I encountered a city that combines such lethal traffic with such a love of looking at their phones while walking

I'm in Bangkok for 48 hours for work, here's my guide as a pedestrian -

Traffic lights on green: cross here if you're brave

Pedestrian crossing: cross here if you're suicidal

Anywhere else: hopital

I know I harp on this all the time, but the authoritarian personality is the skeleton key here. The authoritarian believes, at a brainstem level, that all of society is a hierarchy and that one of the benefits of being high on the hierarchy is that you get to abuse others below you.

I took stats as a senior year elective, and on the first day the teacher said 'Stats isn't math' and proceeded to teach the course essentially as social science / how to spot bad reporting. To this day it's probably the most impactful class I've ever taken, including everything I did at uni.