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All things planet and people. Personal acct. Toitū te Tiriti!
Heh. Gave the dogs their morning raking (two double-coated dogs, neither small, in spring blow O_o) and the sparrows and other wee borbs have already cleared it all :D
Remember, folks: that floof is prized nest material for wee dinosaurs. Don't chuck it'
Remember, folks: that floof is prized nest material for wee dinosaurs. Don't chuck it'
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Heh. Gave the dogs their morning raking (two double-coated dogs, neither small, in spring blow O_o) and the sparrows and other wee borbs have already cleared it all :D
Remember, folks: that floof is prized nest material for wee dinosaurs. Don't chuck it'
Remember, folks: that floof is prized nest material for wee dinosaurs. Don't chuck it'
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For anyone passionate about The Huia or commuter rail, Waikato Regional Council are looking for feedback on the service. Open to anyone. Share it around #nzpol #transit #nz yourvoicematters.waikatoregion.govt.nz/future-of-te...
Future of Te Huia
The Te Huia passenger rail service has been operating between Waikato and Auckland since 2021. Whether you have travelled on Te Huia or not, we want to hear your thoughts about the service and what it...
yourvoicematters.waikatoregion.govt.nz
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
For anyone passionate about The Huia or commuter rail, Waikato Regional Council are looking for feedback on the service. Open to anyone. Share it around #nzpol #transit #nz yourvoicematters.waikatoregion.govt.nz/future-of-te...
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"According to the publication, the communications could demonstrate willful infringement, potentially leading to enhanced damages of up to $150,000 per work, a massive increase from just $750."
The fact that it was ever at $750 is a slap in the face.
The fact that it was ever at $750 is a slap in the face.
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
"According to the publication, the communications could demonstrate willful infringement, potentially leading to enhanced damages of up to $150,000 per work, a massive increase from just $750."
The fact that it was ever at $750 is a slap in the face.
The fact that it was ever at $750 is a slap in the face.
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Consequences?
OMG it's the inequality, you ultramaroons!
#nzed #nzpol #ubi #unemployment
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
OMG it's the inequality, you ultramaroons!
#nzed #nzpol #ubi #unemployment
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Consequences?
OMG it's the inequality, you ultramaroons!
#nzed #nzpol #ubi #unemployment
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
OMG it's the inequality, you ultramaroons!
#nzed #nzpol #ubi #unemployment
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Also, if you'd like to get yourself a copy of Tiny Moments of Joy, you can find it here. (Huge thanks in advance for buying author direct and helping us keep this writing business going.)
www.swashbucklerpress.com/tiny-moments...
www.swashbucklerpress.com/tiny-moments...
Tiny Moments of Joy | Swashbuckler Press
Delightful moments captured from people watching in a small city in Aotearoa New Zealand.
www.swashbucklerpress.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Also, if you'd like to get yourself a copy of Tiny Moments of Joy, you can find it here. (Huge thanks in advance for buying author direct and helping us keep this writing business going.)
www.swashbucklerpress.com/tiny-moments...
www.swashbucklerpress.com/tiny-moments...
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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Drax received logs from cutblocks in BC containing 90% old growth forest, a Canadian investigation found.
So it’s receiving £2m a day in UK green energy subsidies to burn old growth forest 🤔 www.theguardian.com/business/202...
So it’s receiving £2m a day in UK green energy subsidies to burn old growth forest 🤔 www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Drax received logs from cutblocks in BC containing 90% old growth forest, a Canadian investigation found.
So it’s receiving £2m a day in UK green energy subsidies to burn old growth forest 🤔 www.theguardian.com/business/202...
So it’s receiving £2m a day in UK green energy subsidies to burn old growth forest 🤔 www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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It ys a such challenging, turbulent, scarye tyme. My greatest wisshe ys that you may fynde sum small moment of peace, delight, mirthe, pleasure, discoverye, connectioun, or fascinacioun that doth make yower day just a litel bettir. Ich wisshe thys for thee wyth all of myne hearte.
November 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It ys a such challenging, turbulent, scarye tyme. My greatest wisshe ys that you may fynde sum small moment of peace, delight, mirthe, pleasure, discoverye, connectioun, or fascinacioun that doth make yower day just a litel bettir. Ich wisshe thys for thee wyth all of myne hearte.
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Taking Caturday to the next level...
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Taking Caturday to the next level...
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This New Yorker story on how America's AI-driven boom in data centres began, how they're used and the implications of their proliferation is a very useful read. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Inside the Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid
A data center, which can use as much electricity as Philadelphia, is the new American factory, creating the future and propping up the economy. How long can this last?
www.newyorker.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This New Yorker story on how America's AI-driven boom in data centres began, how they're used and the implications of their proliferation is a very useful read. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Pacific civil society warn of growing militarisation and mining pressure on the ocean
Pacific civil society warn of growing militarisation and mining pressure on the ocean
Pacific civil society groups say 2025 has been a big year for the ocean.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Pacific civil society warn of growing militarisation and mining pressure on the ocean
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We need more political analysts saying out loud just how much we are crying out for the kind of sea change we’ve just witnessed in New York - and how across the board, we’re just not meeting that need or this moment.
Thinking about next year’s election feels like I’m playing a game of shag, marry kill
“We want mince to be affordable again. For butter not to be $15. To be able to pay your power bill. To feel like you can stay here as a retiree - and a young person,” says Verity Johnson.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
We need more political analysts saying out loud just how much we are crying out for the kind of sea change we’ve just witnessed in New York - and how across the board, we’re just not meeting that need or this moment.
November 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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I could try to make moral arguments about spending your Spotify fee on one Bandcamp album a month.
But let's go simpler. It is *so easy* to just switch from Spotify to Tidal, Apple, or Qobuz! You won't barely notice the difference! You can move your playlists! The audio quality is better!
But let's go simpler. It is *so easy* to just switch from Spotify to Tidal, Apple, or Qobuz! You won't barely notice the difference! You can move your playlists! The audio quality is better!
Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I could try to make moral arguments about spending your Spotify fee on one Bandcamp album a month.
But let's go simpler. It is *so easy* to just switch from Spotify to Tidal, Apple, or Qobuz! You won't barely notice the difference! You can move your playlists! The audio quality is better!
But let's go simpler. It is *so easy* to just switch from Spotify to Tidal, Apple, or Qobuz! You won't barely notice the difference! You can move your playlists! The audio quality is better!
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The LLM thing is remarkable because if anyone was like "I never went to medical school anyway here's my magic anti disease device pls give 100 billion" they'd be laughed out the room or beaten with sticks but we're supposed to let guys who never read a book hand us an app claiming it'll write them
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The LLM thing is remarkable because if anyone was like "I never went to medical school anyway here's my magic anti disease device pls give 100 billion" they'd be laughed out the room or beaten with sticks but we're supposed to let guys who never read a book hand us an app claiming it'll write them
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The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
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Layoffs are reaching their highest levels since the pandemic, but America's corporate elite have never been doing better.
Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged?
Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged?
November 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Layoffs are reaching their highest levels since the pandemic, but America's corporate elite have never been doing better.
Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged?
Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged?
Absolutely amazing :)
Also: go read Children of Time and sequels, by @aptshadow.bsky.social, if you've not already <3
Also: go read Children of Time and sequels, by @aptshadow.bsky.social, if you've not already <3
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
November 8, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Absolutely amazing :)
Also: go read Children of Time and sequels, by @aptshadow.bsky.social, if you've not already <3
Also: go read Children of Time and sequels, by @aptshadow.bsky.social, if you've not already <3
To this day I still walk between places with my head stuck in a book :)
A young human (7?) is lost in a comic book.
Walking along slowly.
Reading as he goes.
Meanwhile, Mum has a shepherding hand on his back. Guiding him through the markets.
A bag full of leafy celery slung over her shoulder. (4)
Walking along slowly.
Reading as he goes.
Meanwhile, Mum has a shepherding hand on his back. Guiding him through the markets.
A bag full of leafy celery slung over her shoulder. (4)
November 8, 2025 at 3:27 AM
To this day I still walk between places with my head stuck in a book :)
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🧵Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A small human (4?) wearing a frilly crocodile print dress has a VERY important announcement to make.
Looking up at Mum, she announces very solemnly: "My brain has a thought inside."
Mum treats this information with the seriousness it deserves. (1)
A small human (4?) wearing a frilly crocodile print dress has a VERY important announcement to make.
Looking up at Mum, she announces very solemnly: "My brain has a thought inside."
Mum treats this information with the seriousness it deserves. (1)
November 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
🧵Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A small human (4?) wearing a frilly crocodile print dress has a VERY important announcement to make.
Looking up at Mum, she announces very solemnly: "My brain has a thought inside."
Mum treats this information with the seriousness it deserves. (1)
A small human (4?) wearing a frilly crocodile print dress has a VERY important announcement to make.
Looking up at Mum, she announces very solemnly: "My brain has a thought inside."
Mum treats this information with the seriousness it deserves. (1)
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This is also one of MY favorite things that’s ever happened on the internet!
November 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This is also one of MY favorite things that’s ever happened on the internet!
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#30DayMapchallenge Day 8, Urban.
People don't realise what a big deal it is for acceptance of place names to change in such a short time without wars/dictators/invasion/etc. Just people, within a generation, deciding it is the right thing to do. mapdata::NZHires baseman + Affinity Publisher.
People don't realise what a big deal it is for acceptance of place names to change in such a short time without wars/dictators/invasion/etc. Just people, within a generation, deciding it is the right thing to do. mapdata::NZHires baseman + Affinity Publisher.
November 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
#30DayMapchallenge Day 8, Urban.
People don't realise what a big deal it is for acceptance of place names to change in such a short time without wars/dictators/invasion/etc. Just people, within a generation, deciding it is the right thing to do. mapdata::NZHires baseman + Affinity Publisher.
People don't realise what a big deal it is for acceptance of place names to change in such a short time without wars/dictators/invasion/etc. Just people, within a generation, deciding it is the right thing to do. mapdata::NZHires baseman + Affinity Publisher.
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Julie Ahringer from @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social @geneticscam.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk gives talk on decoding genome regulation during development. Exploring how chromatin accessibility changes throughout development enable single cells to become multicellular organisms.
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Julie Ahringer from @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social @geneticscam.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk gives talk on decoding genome regulation during development. Exploring how chromatin accessibility changes throughout development enable single cells to become multicellular organisms.
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I love salmon, but I haven't bought Tassie salmon for a very long time (and, in many supermarkets, that is all that's available) ... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Antibiotic approved for Tasmania's farmed salmon — but maybe don't eat fish caught nearby
The industry's use of the drug is in response to an "endemic" bacterial disease that caused the deaths of up to 15,000 tonnes of salmon from January to April, resulting in dead fish material washing u...
www.abc.net.au
November 7, 2025 at 6:20 AM
I love salmon, but I haven't bought Tassie salmon for a very long time (and, in many supermarkets, that is all that's available) ... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...