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theprogressreport.co.nz
We’ve tested tens of thousands of climate messages at @populares.co

Nobody cares about "net zero" jargon.
People care about jobs, industry and energy independence.

If you’re not talking about that, you’re losing.

My @thenewdaily.bsky.social op-ed 👇 www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
Forget net zero, we need to talk about Australia's next jobs boom
If the past decade of climate politics in Australia was a fight over whether to act, the next one will be a fight over who benefits.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
November 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
patrickleyland.bsky.social
Very keen to read this
audioculturenz.bsky.social audioculturenz.bsky.social @audioculturenz.bsky.social · Oct 9
It's release day for Not Given Lightly, Craig Robertson's biography of Chris Knox, and we're thrilled to share an excerpt. "Songwriting was partly a physical process, he told Russell Baillie..." We're also giving away a copy in next week's newsletter...1/2 www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/chr...
Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly - Article | AudioCulture
An excerpt from Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly, by Craig Robertson (Auckland University Press, 2025), published with permission. -- In the late 1980s Chris Knox worked out his solo songs at home with h...
www.audioculture.co.nz
October 9, 2025 at 4:34 AM
patrickleyland.bsky.social
You know you're on a flight to NZ when there is a fellow passenger wearing gumboots.
August 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
patrickleyland.bsky.social
Agenda for today...
Four vinyl albums on a table. Romance - Fontaines D.C., Lust for Life - Iggy Pop, Mirage - Glass Beams, Songs of a Lost World - The Cure.
August 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
patrickleyland.bsky.social
Cracking start to end weekend.
Three vinyl records: Violator by Depeche Mode, Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails and Rat Wars by Health.
July 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
patrickleyland.bsky.social
Happy End of Financial Year to those who celebrate.
June 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM
patrickleyland.bsky.social
"During Starship’s ascent burn, the vehicle experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly" lol www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship explodes, debris streaks through Florida skies
“Unfortunately, this happened last time too, so we’ve got some practice now,” SpaceX spokesman Dan Huot said on the live stream.
www.smh.com.au
March 7, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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theprogressreport.co.nz
Something pretty exciting I've been working on - a dashboard to track and explore NZ political ads on Meta and Google - categorised by party, government level and electorate. #nzpol theprogressreport.co.nz/ad-tracker/
February 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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chrishipkins.bsky.social
Real men don’t barricade women and children. Real men don’t threaten and intimidate. Real men don’t preach hate. Real men DO show respect, compassion & love. Real men are comfortable enough in who they are to celebrate the diversity of others. Brian Tamaki you are just a boy.
February 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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danilic.bsky.social
QUICK! Cheap $25 tickets over the next 25 hours for our Melbourne Comedy Festival — A Rational Fear election show: www.comedyfestival.com.au/browse-shows...
February 4, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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maddow.bsky.social
Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny:

snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
February 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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astrokatie.com
The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**

* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
www.kcur.org
January 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
patrickleyland.bsky.social
loooooool
January 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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caseynewton.bsky.social
NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.
January 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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restofworld.org
Americans are joining the Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu AKA RedNote en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban.

New from @kinlinglo.bsky.social and @violazhou.bsky.social
restofworld.org/2025/tiktok-...
U.S. TikTokers flock to Xiaohongshu, baffling and bonding with Chinese users
Americans are joining the Chinese social media app en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban.
restofworld.org
January 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
patrickleyland.bsky.social
Amazing how much demand there already is. Even without touching the track, upgrading the rolling stock and adding more services would be wildly popular. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Soaring air fares between Melbourne and Sydney see travellers take 11-hour train
Exclusive: Seats on Sydney-Melbourne train service regularly sold out over holiday period, as one-way flights to Tullamarine average almost $500
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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eey0re.bsky.social
If you subscribe to Microsoft 365 Personal, the 40% price increase is a con to upsell you AI. Your old plan and price is still there called "Classic" - but only if you try to cancel.

Microsoft should be ashamed if not prosecuted.
January 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
patrickleyland.bsky.social
Highly recommend the Yayoi Kusama exhibition at the NGV - just book tickets in advance as it's wildly popular.
Various artworks at the Yayoi Kusama exhibition.
January 4, 2025 at 2:26 AM
patrickleyland.bsky.social
so tired I legitimately think I may have an iron deficiency
December 10, 2024 at 10:07 AM
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caseynewton.bsky.social
Australia's ban on social media for teens under 16 is, among other things, an enormous gift to YouTube www.platformer.news/australia-so...
The first is which platforms will be subject to the law. Albanese has said that TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and X will be covered. But it’s not clear when another platform might meet the criteria and be required to jettison its under-16 user base. Miraculously (for Google), YouTube was granted an exemption to the bill as a service that is “health and education related.” And while YouTube surely does more than its share of educating, its primary use is for entertainment. And YouTube’s embrace of short-form video through Shorts effectively makes it a one-to-one competitor with TikTok, Snap, and Instagram. In one stroke of his pen, Albanese may have just granted YouTube permanent dominance in short-form video to a generation of Australians.
December 3, 2024 at 1:40 AM
patrickleyland.bsky.social
Strong Tim Wilson vibes here www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... #auspol
Coalition frontbencher says voters conned into backing independents
Opposition communications spokesman Paul Fletcher, facing a battle against an independent at the next election, says teals had duped traditional Coalition supporters.
www.smh.com.au
December 1, 2024 at 8:37 PM
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theprogressreport.co.nz
I've uploaded the astonishing new Talbot Mills poll to The Progress Report, so you can see it compared to previous polls and calculate *who* would get into Parliament on these numbers. theprogressreport.co.nz #nzpol
The Progress Report
The Progress Report.
theprogressreport.co.nz
November 30, 2024 at 10:17 PM
patrickleyland.bsky.social
To anyone interested in #nzpol - would love you to give my little side project @theprogressreport.bsky.social a follow! Will probably try and do some cool stuff with the account given how easy to use the BlueSky API is.
November 25, 2024 at 10:04 AM
patrickleyland.bsky.social
Happy Murakami release day to all those who celebrate.
November 19, 2024 at 10:51 AM