tristam
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design, academia. more aviation references required. te whanganui-a-tara.
* this account includes a tweet archive 2007~2024.
* this account includes a tweet archive 2007~2024.
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
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We’re looking for innovative, evidence-based ideas that help local communities, organisations, and decision-makers prepare for climate challenges.
👉🏽 Read more: adaptationfutures2025.com/ecr
📺 Watch the introduction video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSa8...
👉🏽 Read more: adaptationfutures2025.com/ecr
📺 Watch the introduction video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSa8...
ECR Challenge
The winning team will be awarded NZD$10,000 and NZD$ 5000 for two runner-up proposals, We’re looking for innovative, evidence-based, and forward-thinking proposals that…
adaptationfutures2025.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
We’re looking for innovative, evidence-based ideas that help local communities, organisations, and decision-makers prepare for climate challenges.
👉🏽 Read more: adaptationfutures2025.com/ecr
📺 Watch the introduction video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSa8...
👉🏽 Read more: adaptationfutures2025.com/ecr
📺 Watch the introduction video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSa8...
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And here we go again!
Last day to make a submission on the Fast Track Amendment Bill
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
Last day to make a submission on the Fast Track Amendment Bill
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
Fast-Track Amendment Bill submission guide - Greenpeace Aotearoa
In a vicious escalation of the Government’s war on nature, the Government is proposing changes to the Fast Track Act that would make it even more dangerous and undemocratic.
www.greenpeace.org
November 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
And here we go again!
Last day to make a submission on the Fast Track Amendment Bill
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
Last day to make a submission on the Fast Track Amendment Bill
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
… increasingly the calls to “fix it”, should become “reinvent it”.
🧪 Very disturbing findings.
“Our findings show that ALAN disrupts the fundamental energetic constraints on ecosystem metabolism, warranting the inclusion of light pollution in global change and carbon–climate feedback assessments.”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
“Our findings show that ALAN disrupts the fundamental energetic constraints on ecosystem metabolism, warranting the inclusion of light pollution in global change and carbon–climate feedback assessments.”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism - Nature Climate Change
The authors combine light intensity data with eddy covariance observations from 86 sites to show that artificial light at night increases ecosystem respiration and alters carbon exchange, with impacts...
www.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
… increasingly the calls to “fix it”, should become “reinvent it”.
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
is that you MacOS Tahoe?
Life as a Tahoe?
to much? sorry…
(sidebar: road rage is a symptom of the inhuman reliance on private transportation in public space. in that case why does no one talk about the in-debilitating rage and low productivity caused by shittily designed software?)
#ux
Life as a Tahoe?
to much? sorry…
(sidebar: road rage is a symptom of the inhuman reliance on private transportation in public space. in that case why does no one talk about the in-debilitating rage and low productivity caused by shittily designed software?)
#ux
November 12, 2025 at 1:52 AM
is that you MacOS Tahoe?
Life as a Tahoe?
to much? sorry…
(sidebar: road rage is a symptom of the inhuman reliance on private transportation in public space. in that case why does no one talk about the in-debilitating rage and low productivity caused by shittily designed software?)
#ux
Life as a Tahoe?
to much? sorry…
(sidebar: road rage is a symptom of the inhuman reliance on private transportation in public space. in that case why does no one talk about the in-debilitating rage and low productivity caused by shittily designed software?)
#ux
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#nzpol, this applies also to a country like New Zealand when it chooses to force homeless people to 'move on' rather than choosing to help them
November 9, 2025 at 8:36 AM
#nzpol, this applies also to a country like New Zealand when it chooses to force homeless people to 'move on' rather than choosing to help them
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Andrea Vance has gotten her teeth into this useless, venal, no-ideas govt and she’s not letting go.
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
While tourists dine under stars, the homeless sleep under them
The government is moving fast: clearing the slums for the sommeliers.
www.thepost.co.nz
November 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Andrea Vance has gotten her teeth into this useless, venal, no-ideas govt and she’s not letting go.
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
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Have they considered low unemployment, a liveable wage, affordable housing and breaking overpriced supermarket duopolies?
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Have they considered low unemployment, a liveable wage, affordable housing and breaking overpriced supermarket duopolies?
Mamdani and Obama are different, sure. However, connecting their victories isn’t unreasonable. Their respective victories say, in their relative political environments — and to anyone paying attention! — that there other ways to govern. A different, more equitable society is possible.
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Mamdani and Obama are different, sure. However, connecting their victories isn’t unreasonable. Their respective victories say, in their relative political environments — and to anyone paying attention! — that there other ways to govern. A different, more equitable society is possible.
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AOC: I have to tell you, in my traveling across the country, I am hearing and have been seeing consistent things from everyday people. And it is that they are terrified, they are frustrated, they are angry, and they are shocked by a president violating the values that we hold dear
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
AOC: I have to tell you, in my traveling across the country, I am hearing and have been seeing consistent things from everyday people. And it is that they are terrified, they are frustrated, they are angry, and they are shocked by a president violating the values that we hold dear
two massive democrat wins today. trump can jump.
poetic justice doesn’t come much sweeter:
“… while you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose […] If that must be true, let the prose we write still rhyme and let us build a shining city for all.”
— Zohran Mamdani, mayor elect of NYC.
“… while you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose […] If that must be true, let the prose we write still rhyme and let us build a shining city for all.”
— Zohran Mamdani, mayor elect of NYC.
has Mamdani won yet?
November 5, 2025 at 5:24 AM
two massive democrat wins today. trump can jump.
poetic justice doesn’t come much sweeter:
“… while you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose […] If that must be true, let the prose we write still rhyme and let us build a shining city for all.”
— Zohran Mamdani, mayor elect of NYC.
“… while you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose […] If that must be true, let the prose we write still rhyme and let us build a shining city for all.”
— Zohran Mamdani, mayor elect of NYC.
has Mamdani won yet?
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
poetic justice doesn’t come much sweeter:
“… while you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose […] If that must be true, let the prose we write still rhyme and let us build a shining city for all.”
— Zohran Mamdani, mayor elect of NYC.
“… while you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose […] If that must be true, let the prose we write still rhyme and let us build a shining city for all.”
— Zohran Mamdani, mayor elect of NYC.
i’m myopic.
no seriously, i need glasses for long distance vision. i’ve forgotten my glasses two days in a row.
i clearly don’t want to see what’s coming.
no seriously, i need glasses for long distance vision. i’ve forgotten my glasses two days in a row.
i clearly don’t want to see what’s coming.
November 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
i’m myopic.
no seriously, i need glasses for long distance vision. i’ve forgotten my glasses two days in a row.
i clearly don’t want to see what’s coming.
no seriously, i need glasses for long distance vision. i’ve forgotten my glasses two days in a row.
i clearly don’t want to see what’s coming.
… tell me this donkey doesn’t already own the farm.
November 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
… tell me this donkey doesn’t already own the farm.
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Plot twist: the donkey committed deed fraud and does, in fact, now own the farm
November 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Plot twist: the donkey committed deed fraud and does, in fact, now own the farm
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Siouxsie took on an institution that failed to protect her and other academics from death threats, whilst doing fantastic #scicomm for the common good. She won against UOA. And is left with a house-size debt even after being awarded costs. Give a little back if you can 💚 🚨
At a time when academics are under sustained right-wing attack, Dr Siouxsie Wiles stood up to the neoliberal regime of university management and won, but it came at a cost. If you can, please consider supporting Siouxsie, one of the most courageous scholars I know.
www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
Support Dr Siouxsie After She Supported Us! | PledgeMe
Support Dr Siouxsie to recover some of the money she spent fighting her legal case to protect employees experiencing online abuse
www.pledgeme.co.nz
October 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Siouxsie took on an institution that failed to protect her and other academics from death threats, whilst doing fantastic #scicomm for the common good. She won against UOA. And is left with a house-size debt even after being awarded costs. Give a little back if you can 💚 🚨
more artists, designers and authors (of all stripes) should follow del Toro’s lead here.
… and if you don’t have a profile or massive audience then talk to young creatives. explain your position, tell them how you have worked and created with your own eyes, hands & heart…
… and if you don’t have a profile or massive audience then talk to young creatives. explain your position, tell them how you have worked and created with your own eyes, hands & heart…
“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
www.npr.org
October 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
more artists, designers and authors (of all stripes) should follow del Toro’s lead here.
… and if you don’t have a profile or massive audience then talk to young creatives. explain your position, tell them how you have worked and created with your own eyes, hands & heart…
… and if you don’t have a profile or massive audience then talk to young creatives. explain your position, tell them how you have worked and created with your own eyes, hands & heart…
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The media and opposition in nz is giving too much benefit of the doubt to this govt for my liking. They are cozying up to the worst people in America and it’s really bizarre and concerning. Where is the pushback?
October 24, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The media and opposition in nz is giving too much benefit of the doubt to this govt for my liking. They are cozying up to the worst people in America and it’s really bizarre and concerning. Where is the pushback?
… in person interaction has always required representation of role, reputation & relationship alongside deliberation. online platforms should be no different: do not offer unvetted contributions into civil society where the issues are key to social cohesion & government…
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First things first: come and get your flowers @newsroom.co.nz ... Always giving us the news that matters. Wee thread below.
'Coordinated, largely online campaigns' make it harder for politicians to consider good-faith submissions on laws
October 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
… in person interaction has always required representation of role, reputation & relationship alongside deliberation. online platforms should be no different: do not offer unvetted contributions into civil society where the issues are key to social cohesion & government…
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Mark Mitchell wants to cut down all the trees around powerlines.
How about we force lines companies to invest in undergrounding critical infrastructure like they should have been doing for the last 30 years.
We need more trees for biodiversity, wind breaks & reducing urban heat islands, not less.
How about we force lines companies to invest in undergrounding critical infrastructure like they should have been doing for the last 30 years.
We need more trees for biodiversity, wind breaks & reducing urban heat islands, not less.
October 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Mark Mitchell wants to cut down all the trees around powerlines.
How about we force lines companies to invest in undergrounding critical infrastructure like they should have been doing for the last 30 years.
We need more trees for biodiversity, wind breaks & reducing urban heat islands, not less.
How about we force lines companies to invest in undergrounding critical infrastructure like they should have been doing for the last 30 years.
We need more trees for biodiversity, wind breaks & reducing urban heat islands, not less.
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$300 of benefits to every $1 spent. That is the Benefit Cost Ratio of Bike lanes supporting bikes in urban areas.
$0.33 of benefits to every $1 spent. That is the BCR of 15 of the 17 Roads of National Significance
Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
archive.ph/bs1Qj
$0.33 of benefits to every $1 spent. That is the BCR of 15 of the 17 Roads of National Significance
Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
archive.ph/bs1Qj
October 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
$300 of benefits to every $1 spent. That is the Benefit Cost Ratio of Bike lanes supporting bikes in urban areas.
$0.33 of benefits to every $1 spent. That is the BCR of 15 of the 17 Roads of National Significance
Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
archive.ph/bs1Qj
$0.33 of benefits to every $1 spent. That is the BCR of 15 of the 17 Roads of National Significance
Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
archive.ph/bs1Qj
wtf is she doing?
the opposition parties in NZ must not forget foreign policy in the 2026 election.
the opposition parties in NZ must not forget foreign policy in the 2026 election.
Collins seems to be in the US overtly auditioning to be their chosen puppet leader for NZ
Hiding the FBI visit from the PM was pretty worrying, the constant obsequious PR she's doing in the US with their military and security apparatus should be ringing alarm bells
Hiding the FBI visit from the PM was pretty worrying, the constant obsequious PR she's doing in the US with their military and security apparatus should be ringing alarm bells
October 22, 2025 at 8:33 AM
wtf is she doing?
the opposition parties in NZ must not forget foreign policy in the 2026 election.
the opposition parties in NZ must not forget foreign policy in the 2026 election.