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James Nisbet
@bandit.nz
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I design experiences, and vote for the climate in every election. Big fan of #bioswales. Views are my own.

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Curtis looks like a bad guy from Red Alert lmao
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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There's a reason I don't spend my evenings and weekends on climate startups anymore
October 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Hundreds of hours spent building "nitro" nonsense, but no aliases for emoji

That's a bit Sad @discord.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Business Desk has the best photo choices
September 17, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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FAFO hits hard when it's an entire country.

Excerpt from Bernard Hickey's The Kaka newsletter today
An excerpt from Bernard Hickey's newsletter The Kaka today: "A record-high 201 New Zealanders emigrated each day on average in the year to the end of July, with 58% going to Australia. Australia’s labour market is now accelerating ahead of New Zealand’s stalled market, further widening the 30% wage premium over the Tasman and providing job openings there while there are none here. Both long and short term policy decisions by the New Zealand and Australian Governments and Reserve Banks have driven the widening gap over both the last 30 years, and the last two years in particular. Australia introduced compulsory savings, kept strong unions and kept a capital gains tax on residential property. The Reserve Bank of Australia stayed focused on both jobs and inflation. New Zealand did none of that. Australia also emerged from Covid with lower interest rates and more expansive government spending. New Zealand did the opposite, hiking interest rates at the same time as a fiscal policy tightening."
September 11, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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August 5, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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New "Follow" feature on The Verge to personalise your experience. First thing I did was follow @lopatto.bsky.social 💪🧠
July 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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I would rather stab out my eye with a fork, Bozos
July 17, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Sad that we have to rely on the UK and Spain for this sort of research. Sleepwalking into oblivion

www.icm.csic.es/en/news/majo...
Doc of the day: SMOC reversal A paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal by European and US climate scientists titled: “Rising surface salinity and declining sea ice: A new Southern Ocean state revealed by satellites.” has found a major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean. The study’s main finding is both surprising and alarming: since 2016, a sustained increase in surface salinity has been detected in the region between the polar and subpolar gyres of the Antarctic Ocean. This change in water composition suggests that the deep ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere—known as the SMOC—is not only being altered, but has reversed. That is, instead of sinking into the depths, surface water is being replaced by deep water masses rising to the surface, bringing with them heat and carbon dioxide (CO₂) that had been trapped for centuries. “We are witnessing a true reversal of ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere—something we’ve never seen before,” explains Antonio Turiel, ICM-CSIC researcher and co-author of the study. “While the world is debating the potential collapse of the AMOC in the North Atlantic, we’re seeing that the SMOC is not just weakening, but has reversed. This could have unprecedented global climate impacts.” Turiel said via this ICM (Institut de Ciències del Mar)
July 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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My wife's photo today looks like the official tourism shot!
A photo of Wellington's red cable car, with Wellington City visible in the background, with a clear blue sky
July 1, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Ah yes, I'm sure the findings of all those studies on harsher punishments were wrong
Screenshot of a headline from RNZ "Watch: Justice Minister introduces stronger penalties for low-level theft Shoplifters could be issued on-the-spot tickets up to $1000 as part of the government's latest crime crackdown."
July 1, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Construction jobs have fallen by 12,723 in the last year according to StatsNZ. Treat your customers like shit and gouge them at every opportunity, guess what happens?
A graph showing "annual company liquidation volumes". Construction is miles ahead of the other industries at 758 liquidations in the last year. The next highest is Property at 285
June 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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A story in 2 emails. Been cancelled for well over a month and surprisingly don't miss it

At least my money is now not going to wrestling, NFL, reality TV, and a bunch of random Danish shows @netflix.com
Screenshot of an email inbox with 2 emails from Netflix. The first: "Price update coming soon", the second: "Your membership has been cancelled"
June 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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So we're means testing 18 and 19 year olds, but not over 65s?

Riiiiiiight #nzpol
Tightening of benefits for unemployed young people In a surprise change, Social Development Minister Louise Upston has announced 18 and 19-year-olds will now have their Jobseeker and emergency benefits tested against their parents' incomes. The policy is forecast to save the government about $163 million over four years, but the income levels parents will be tested against have not yet been decided by Cabinet.
May 22, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Getting pumped this shit must mean Google thinks I'm a boomer now

FML
May 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Bro, chill @burgerfuel.bsky.social
May 18, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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From the Wikipedia article on it. Bonkers

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_c...
The strength and longevity of Roman 'marine' concrete is understood to benefit from a reaction of seawater with a mixture of volcanic ash and quicklime to create a rare crystal called tobermorite, which may resist fracturing. As seawater percolated within the tiny cracks in the Roman concrete, it reacted with phillipsite naturally found in the volcanic rock and created aluminous tobermorite crystals. The result is a candidate for "the most durable building material in human history". In contrast, modern concrete exposed to saltwater deteriorates within decades.
May 15, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Guess National learned absolutely fuck-nothing the last time they did this
Kāinga Ora this week sold a state house and a large section in Mt Albert to a single family for 38% below CV after listing it for less than a week, ending its plans to build five homes on the section and two other adjoining sections, which are also listed for sale at substantially below CV for quick sales.
May 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Cursed image @theverge.com
May 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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I got tired of waiting for this so wrote my own custom CSS. See alt tag
Custom CSS for the mail view of Fastmail to make read messages faded out by grayscaling the avatar on them * { scrollbar-width: thin; } .v-MailboxItem.is-read .v-Avatar-img, .v-MailboxItem.is-read .v-Avatar-blank { filter: grayscale(1); opacity: 0.6; }
May 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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No-brainer legislation. The cruelty inflicted on pigs overseas in particular is disgusting and inhumane

www.rnz.co.nz/news/country...
"It's also upholding farmers' interests because for too long they've had to compete with cheap and cruel imports from around the world and we just don't think that's right. "We don't think it's right by the animals, and we don't think it's right by the farmers as well."
May 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Screenshot of a CNN news headline stating: "Second US Navy jet is lost at sea from Truman aircraft carrier"
May 7, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Hey Dutton #auspol
May 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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This is not a drill. Grapefruit Frujus for sale at Wellington Zoo!
April 14, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Alright Sora is pretty funny
An image generated by Sora (an LLM) depicting a retro poster of a Barbie play house that's dilapidated. There's a young girl smiling and brushing the hair of one of the Barbies. It's entitled "Barbie Dream Crack House" An image generated by Sora (an LLM) depicting a retro poster of a Barbie play van with a meth lab. There's a young girl smiling and playing with one of the Barbies as she mixes chemicals. It's entitled "Barbie Mobile Meth Lab"
April 11, 2025 at 4:13 AM