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Jo Fountain

@jofountain.bsky.social

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Rural social scientist - food resilience, agritourism, climate change, regional resilience. Also mum and grandma, love cats, books, and growingmy own food..

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Jo Fountain @jofountain.bsky.social · 7h

It does indeed

Jo Fountain @jofountain.bsky.social · 7h

Sarah said on a FB post that there was someone other than Samantha she would support, but can't remember who. She also seemed to rate Payne as a good guy

Jo Fountain @jofountain.bsky.social · 8h

Voted Sarah and Karim and Samantha too.

Jo Fountain @jofountain.bsky.social · 8h

Think it is more than 6. Malvern, Ellesmere, both at large councilors at least two in Springs, the subdistrict Bex stood in, one in rolleston plus mayor = 9

Jo Fountain @jofountain.bsky.social · 8h

'Fastest growing district in the country' has a rough thee years ahead #nzpol

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Jo Fountain @jofountain.bsky.social · 8h

I voted for the three non-cookers!

Jo Fountain @jofountain.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah we have a mayor who described Jacinda as a tyrant, and she's not the worst of them; so many cookers! Really hope Sarah gets up in my ward and knocks out the ACT dude. Feel for my friend and hard-working councilor Sophie McInnes who will have her work cut out for her.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

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Jo Fountain @jofountain.bsky.social · 12h

Actually, perhaps two weren't mentioned

Jo Fountain @jofountain.bsky.social · 14h

As far as I can see only one elected councillor was not named by Paul, and she is a friend of mine and I feel very sorry for her. Sam Broughton lost in a landslide

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Jo Fountain @jofountain.bsky.social · 14h

Waikirikiri Selwyn has just voted in ALL the red flag candidates #nzpol

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Jo Fountain @jofountain.bsky.social · 14h

Just seen the Selwyn results 🤯

Jo Fountain @jofountain.bsky.social · 14h

Selwyn Waikirikiri has voted in ALL of Paul's red flags 🙄 #nzpol

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Jo Fountain @jofountain.bsky.social · 17h

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Jo Fountain @jofountain.bsky.social · 18h

Sitting in Lincoln Library... huge numbers of people coming in to vote in Waikirikiri Selwyn #nzpol

Jo Fountain @jofountain.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. But don't know which is which.

Jo Fountain @jofountain.bsky.social · 3d

Not looking great for National (and yes, know this isn't scientific, but these Stuff polls are often pretty Right-leaning

Jo Fountain @jofountain.bsky.social · 3d

Really excited to be one of the social scientists funded to be part of this. Looking forward to hearing my friend and colleague Nick talking about the project on Checkpoint 😊

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 3d

New Zealand's resilience to climate change the focus of new $12m research programme

Acting early on adaptation to climate risks will avoid costly losses in the future, says the programme head.

www.rnz.co.nz

Jo Fountain @jofountain.bsky.social · 3d

Think some shift to Green from disillusioned Labour voters wanting to see some guts (and policy) from Hipkins

Jo Fountain @jofountain.bsky.social · 4d

Good to see some push back from the media for a change