Tree man from Aotearoa
@dfromaotearoa.bsky.social
‘He rangi tā Matawhāiti, he rangi tā Matawhānui'
'The person with a narrow vision sees a narrow horizon, the person with a wide vision sees a wide horizon."
Technocrat - and tree stuff.
Banner: Urtica ferox - IYKYK
'The person with a narrow vision sees a narrow horizon, the person with a wide vision sees a wide horizon."
Technocrat - and tree stuff.
Banner: Urtica ferox - IYKYK
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Tableau No. 2/Composition No. VII by Piet Mondrian, 1913
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137534
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137534
December 3, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Tableau No. 2/Composition No. VII by Piet Mondrian, 1913
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137534
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137534
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Masterful. Not a word wasted.
If Pete Hegseth was drunk when he ordered the second strike on the Venezuelan sailors, then he cannot be held accountable for their deaths.
December 3, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Masterful. Not a word wasted.
Wow! Sir Brian Roche on Checkpoint.
Marvelous Sir Humphrey-ing!
Marvelous Sir Humphrey-ing!
December 3, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Wow! Sir Brian Roche on Checkpoint.
Marvelous Sir Humphrey-ing!
Marvelous Sir Humphrey-ing!
Not sure why, but something about privatising benefits and socialising costs springs to mind.
It appears the directors of some companies have worked out how they don't need things from the environment for their families to continue to be healthy, housed, fed and safe inside a community?
It appears the directors of some companies have worked out how they don't need things from the environment for their families to continue to be healthy, housed, fed and safe inside a community?
Emissions Trading Scheme: Year's final auction fails to sell a single carbon unit
Emissions Trading Scheme: Year's final auction fails to sell a single carbon unit
An experienced trader says government back-tracking on climate change has tanked the price that emitters have to pay for carbon units.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 3, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Not sure why, but something about privatising benefits and socialising costs springs to mind.
It appears the directors of some companies have worked out how they don't need things from the environment for their families to continue to be healthy, housed, fed and safe inside a community?
It appears the directors of some companies have worked out how they don't need things from the environment for their families to continue to be healthy, housed, fed and safe inside a community?
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You can make a submission to push MPI to protect hoiho - greenpeace.nz/hoiho
Speak up for hoiho! Make a personal submission today
Hoiho, the yellow eyed penguin, is one of the rarest penguins in the world, yet its South Island population is collapsing. Speak up today to support the endangered hoiho and protect their habitat.
greenpeace.nz
December 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
You can make a submission to push MPI to protect hoiho - greenpeace.nz/hoiho
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Whom among us….
Raccoon gets drunk at a Virginia liquor store and passes out in bathroom
Raccoon gets drunk at Ashland ABC store and passes out in bathroom
Talk about a trashed panda.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Whom among us….
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Better than Australia. This is the most important thing...
Worldwide mortality experience since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2024) shows excess deaths over that period in almost every country measured. Australia (+6%) was below average, and New Zealand (+0.1%) the lowest we measured.
December 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Better than Australia. This is the most important thing...
"Too small to matter..."
This Irish article could as easily apply here in Aotearoa, particularly with the approach of the current government.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
This Irish article could as easily apply here in Aotearoa, particularly with the approach of the current government.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
‘Too small to matter’ is the laziest-possible excuse in climate debate
At a time of crisis, co-operation is the only way to resolve the climate collective-action problem
www.irishtimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
"Too small to matter..."
This Irish article could as easily apply here in Aotearoa, particularly with the approach of the current government.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
This Irish article could as easily apply here in Aotearoa, particularly with the approach of the current government.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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This is turning into one of the biggest Zoom meetings since the pandemic. Don't forget to register in advance if you want to join. 1400 GMT *this Friday* (December 5th): us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, which explores how a new scientific concept, ‘soilsmology’, is shaking up our und...
We are delighted to invite you to the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, ‘Soilsmology: Transforming our Understanding of Soil’, which explores how an eme...
us02web.zoom.us
December 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This is turning into one of the biggest Zoom meetings since the pandemic. Don't forget to register in advance if you want to join. 1400 GMT *this Friday* (December 5th): us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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🇺🇦🇮🇪 The Irish Parliament after Zelensky’s speech.
December 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
🇺🇦🇮🇪 The Irish Parliament after Zelensky’s speech.
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Thinking a lot about this moment from literally the first chapter of "1984."
December 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Thinking a lot about this moment from literally the first chapter of "1984."
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Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Reminds me a bit of this photo: A forest spirit in the trees, late September on the island of Usedom.
December 2, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Reminds me a bit of this photo: A forest spirit in the trees, late September on the island of Usedom.
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🔻 BBC: 🇬🇪Georgia’s ruling party "Georgian Dream" used a World War I–era chemical agent called 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗶𝘁 against pro-European protesters.
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December 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
🔻 BBC: 🇬🇪Georgia’s ruling party "Georgian Dream" used a World War I–era chemical agent called 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗶𝘁 against pro-European protesters.
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If I make it to the UN tribune then this is my speech
If Ukraine ever falls none of you fuckers will ever rediscover the technology behind kickass coffee shops, top tier humane service and small business that can survive crisis, war and even Гетьманцев.
Help Ukraine win to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created.
Help Ukraine win to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created.
December 2, 2025 at 6:20 AM
If I make it to the UN tribune then this is my speech
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84Mt of CO2 is around NZ$38billion of extra damages to the global climate (disasters, lost productivity, failed crops, ...) [w/ US EPA social cost of carbon].
not performative it's deadly serious. Our emissions are a small global share, but they still have a very real impact.
not performative it's deadly serious. Our emissions are a small global share, but they still have a very real impact.
December 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM
84Mt of CO2 is around NZ$38billion of extra damages to the global climate (disasters, lost productivity, failed crops, ...) [w/ US EPA social cost of carbon].
not performative it's deadly serious. Our emissions are a small global share, but they still have a very real impact.
not performative it's deadly serious. Our emissions are a small global share, but they still have a very real impact.
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My President told me Jim Comey keeps eating his prosecutors so I asked how many prosecutors he has and he said he just goes to Mar-A-Lago and gets a new prosecutor afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding prosecutors to Jim Comey and then his Attorney General started crying.
The Justice Department could present a new indictment against James Comey to a grand jury as soon as this week.
Justice Department could present a new indictment against James Comey to a grand jury this week | CNN Politics
No matter what, prosecutors will likely present new indictments against the former FBI director and New York Attorney General Letitia James to grand juries in the Eastern District of Virginia.
www.cnn.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM
My President told me Jim Comey keeps eating his prosecutors so I asked how many prosecutors he has and he said he just goes to Mar-A-Lago and gets a new prosecutor afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding prosecutors to Jim Comey and then his Attorney General started crying.
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There it is. We just reneged on Paris. FYI @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social & @ukparliament.parliament.uk
“Under questioning in the meeting, Willis also confirmed the government had no intention of buying offshore carbon credits to meet the 2030 Paris agreement as part of a "performative awards ceremony" even if that meant it would breach its commitment.”
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
'A bit tired, a bit ratty': Heated exchange between Willis and Labour MPs at Parliament
The Finance Minister has called the opposition's behaviour "unbecoming" after accusations of name-calling and conspiracy-thinking.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 2, 2025 at 1:06 AM
There it is. We just reneged on Paris. FYI @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social & @ukparliament.parliament.uk
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Sovereignty? Democracy? Sorry, but we can't afford those anymore. We'll be sued if we try to defend them.
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Sovereignty? Democracy? Sorry, but we can't afford those anymore. We'll be sued if we try to defend them.
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
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presented without comment
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
presented without comment
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The whole thing about American right wing politics is its lumpen and petite bourgeois.
The "If only Trump knew about this" response is such medieval peasant behavior. He knows: he's happy that he is taking stuff away from you.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival
Biden earmarked billions for former coal communities in Appalachia – and his successor came and took it away
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The whole thing about American right wing politics is its lumpen and petite bourgeois.
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China has gone from 52% plug in EV sales in the summer to 59% in October. That’s the very steep part of the diffusion S curve right there. Also, the NEV requirement in 2025 is 48% - they are ahead of their target.
November 30, 2025 at 7:19 AM
China has gone from 52% plug in EV sales in the summer to 59% in October. That’s the very steep part of the diffusion S curve right there. Also, the NEV requirement in 2025 is 48% - they are ahead of their target.