Mike Bartley

When the bubble bursts, the American LLMs will be switched off because there will be no more money to pay for electricity. I wonder what the situation with the Chinese LLMs will be.

A drawing of a robin perched on a small stump facing right.

"Robin", graphite on paper, 6x6", 2025 - $150(Cdn) #art #birds

A rain-slick backalley containing two men, both tall and dressed predominantly in black, each walking a cat on a leash

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

‘Major milestone’ as 30-year mining permit granted Another milestone has been ticked off in Santana Minerals’ large-scale Bendigo-Ophir Gold Project with the granting of a 30-year mining permit....

"in 2022/23, gold miners paid $7.7 million in royalties on approximately $680 million of gold produced. "

A massive scar in Central Otago is about to happen for absolute pittance. We are an unserious country.

www.odt.co.nz/regions/cent...

An infrared photo of a hawthorn tree on a hillside. Bright sunlight shines from the left of the image. The sky is clear and dark.

A hawthorn tree and a clear sky.

#infrared #nature #photography #monochrome

Lord Simeon is such a fuckwit it is not funny to the point he demeans Parliament being there as Minister and MP

East Auckland deserves better

Flooding the biscuit tin with bullshit.

RIP to the 🪦 Prostate Cancer Screening bill 🥀, we barely knew you.

Aside from being a propaganda tool, flooding the biscuit tin with bullshit lessens the chance of more worthy bills being drawn. The NZ First party is a malignant cuckoo in the nest of democracy.

The trap in this story looks like one of these from an NZ company — I have two I'll be setting out www.hawkeye.kiwi/products/pes...

London doesn't smell like diesel anymore

Nick Pettigrew @Nick_Pettigrew Polio was eradicated because Jonas Salk chose not to patent the vaccine, if you want a perfect example of a socialist act. Quote Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63 · Jun 24 Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

Screenshot from pledge me with a pic of my boat anchored in Mansion House Bay, Kawau Is. and text that reads: Mobiluncus NZ $3,000+ A day boat trip for 4, departing Gulf Harbour for fishing or sightseeing (with or without Siouxsie!), plus a three e-book BWB Texts bundle (Siouxsie's Antibiotic Resistance: The End of Modern Medicine?, as well as Silencing Science by Shaun Hendy and Why Science is Sexist by Nicola Gaston) and a Toby Morris-designed e-thanks.

#kikorangi folks, the boat day for Siouxies crowdfunding pledge is on my boat.

Bluesky special offer: could extend the number of guests to 8 if message me to discuss what you want to do. Eg. It’s tricky to all fish at the same time with 8 & we would need to be tidy.

Get a group & do it!

A figurative lilac pattern on a white wallpaper background. On top is a hand embroidered Wren in profile facing to the left.

"Wren on lilac and white"
Thread painting - hand embroidered artwork

#birds #Wrensday #WildlifeArt #embroidery

Vivid red pōhutukawa flowers flowers against clear blue sky.

A cluster of three vivid red pohutukawa flowers in the midground.

Pōhutukawa flowers (Metrosideros excelsa) by motorway overbridge. There have been a few early-flowering ones but it looks like the season proper is starting to get underway. #pohutukawa #pohutukawageddon #flower #SomethingBeautiful

A pencil drawing of a junco perched on a branch facing left.

"Junco", graphite on paper, 5 1/2 x 13", 2025 - $150(Cdn) #art #birds

I always thought that windshield looked like a guillotine

Sunrise, Wednesday, 5 November, from Okitu Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand.

Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️.

A soft pastel painting of a paraglider with a red wing flying beneath cumulus clouds and a blue sky. Painted by Kerrie Ann Gardner.

I’m dreaming of doing this again. For the last few weeks the weather’s been too rough, but hopefully it’ll settle down soon. 🤞🏽

Soft pastel on Pastelmat.

Government announces a series of changes to NZ’s climate change law

Well that's not great.

environment.govt.nz/news/governm...

The Waimakari valley from the Bealey Spur track, with wife for scale

There are a few reasons why we live here. This is one…

A painting of a forest landscape filled with fireflies, the painting uses a palette of mostly blue and green with a little yellow on the fireflies. The painting has a soft appearance due to a series of gouache washes. An original art work, please note that the frame is not included. Gouache and mixed media painting on acid free watercolour paper. 6 by 8 inches (15.24 by 20.32 cm).

A forest with fireflies. This little illustration was painted with a series of gouache washes, giving it a very soft feel.
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#Landscape #LandscapePainting #Forest #Fireflies #OriginalArt #Drawing #Gouache #MixedMedia #Painting #Artwork #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #bsnm

Luxon has become the default face for toxic landlords on left-wing pages across the world. This one's from Germany 😆😂

It felt current at the time. We were about to be incinerated in a thermonuclear fire because great powers were stupid.

SHARE OF GLOBAL POPULATION BY INCOME VS SHARE OF CONSUMPTION-BASED CO2 EMISSIONS, 2023 TOP 10% (TOP 1% WITHIN) The richest 10% are responsible for 48% of emissions MIDDLE 40% The middle 40% are responsible for 44% of emissions 50% BOTTOM (10% WITHIN) The poorest 50% are responsible for 8% of emissions Source: Oxfam

“a person from the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than the poorest 50% emit all year”
A stark visual from ‘Climate Plunder: How a powerful few are locking the world into disaster’ by @oxfaminternational.bsky.social

policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl...

Are US billionaires really building bunkers in NZ? A new documentary sets out to find the truth in The Hunt for the Bunker People.

I have a feeling that I've heard of this story before. An American bunker provider "Rising S" pushing stories that they've supplied bunkers to NZ. Baz Mcdonald made a film about it. Never found any evidence.

www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainmen...

The roadside corner of Farmer's at Tauriko showing heaps of solar panels on the walls.

No panels in the carpark or on the roof yet but the new Farmer's extension at Tauriko shopping centre in Tauranga has solar on two walls.

Which billionaire was that? It would have been a story here if it happened.

Let's see this in New Zealand

Seabed mine could produce devastating sediment flows, panel told A controversial seabed mining project could lead to sediment flows which knock over rigs and damage wind turbines, the fast-track panel has heard.

Wow.

A new report presented to the Fast Track panel shows the TTR Taranaki seabed mining project could lead to sediment flows which knock over rigs and damage wind turbines - and have impacts that last for a thousand years!
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/28/s...