Craig Cliff
@craigcliff.bsky.social
Writer in residence at my house | Climate change mahi at University of Otago | Dad life Ōtepoti
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This is what I expected from the government, but it's incredibly disappointing that Autism New Zealand should go along with it. We need to make "regular" schools cater to neurodivergent students — which will benefit everyone! — not segregate difference.
Government announces new charter school for secondary students with autism
The government has announced the Autism NZ Education Hub will start in Term 3 for neurodivergent secondary students who are struggling with traditional schooling.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 31, 2025 at 3:55 AM
This is what I expected from the government, but it's incredibly disappointing that Autism New Zealand should go along with it. We need to make "regular" schools cater to neurodivergent students — which will benefit everyone! — not segregate difference.
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Copy-paste this for New Zealand, eh (and no doubt a few other purportedly green island nations) 😬🐄🚙💩
Wouldn’t it be lovely to live up to our ad campaigns and film exports, and the gorgeous images we slap on our products, and all the stories we tell our kids about how this is a great place to live?
Wouldn’t it be lovely to live up to our ad campaigns and film exports, and the gorgeous images we slap on our products, and all the stories we tell our kids about how this is a great place to live?
My impression of Ireland after cycling around for a few days is that it’s a beautiful country with really lovely people. It’s too bad about the smell of cow poop and car exhaust.
Also, @hannahdaly.ie and her Dad are awesome.
Also, @hannahdaly.ie and her Dad are awesome.
August 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Copy-paste this for New Zealand, eh (and no doubt a few other purportedly green island nations) 😬🐄🚙💩
Wouldn’t it be lovely to live up to our ad campaigns and film exports, and the gorgeous images we slap on our products, and all the stories we tell our kids about how this is a great place to live?
Wouldn’t it be lovely to live up to our ad campaigns and film exports, and the gorgeous images we slap on our products, and all the stories we tell our kids about how this is a great place to live?
Friday packages are the best. Can now plug those unsightly gaps in my Geoff Cochrane collection! Thanks @thwupbooks.bsky.social
August 8, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Friday packages are the best. Can now plug those unsightly gaps in my Geoff Cochrane collection! Thanks @thwupbooks.bsky.social
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Amazing visualizations..share these with any climate change skeptical friends. 🧪
thebulletin.org/2025/07/how-...
thebulletin.org/2025/07/how-...
How clear and simple data visualizations bring the climate crisis home
Climate change is a slow-moving disaster. We need graphics that capture both its pace and its impact.
thebulletin.org
July 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Amazing visualizations..share these with any climate change skeptical friends. 🧪
thebulletin.org/2025/07/how-...
thebulletin.org/2025/07/how-...
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no, monks can't fly, you're probably thinking of air friars
July 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
no, monks can't fly, you're probably thinking of air friars
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25 attempts at a biography of the legendary Terry Voss
Short story: Collective Tissue, by Craig Cliff
newsroom.co.nz
July 12, 2025 at 7:24 AM
25 attempts at a biography of the legendary Terry Voss
Tried spotting hoiho 🐧 on this, the shortest day of the year, at Roaring Bay in the Catlins, but no dice
June 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Tried spotting hoiho 🐧 on this, the shortest day of the year, at Roaring Bay in the Catlins, but no dice
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Farewell to the great Maurice Gee. His novels go on looking clearly at the world and introducing us to ourselves.
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
Writer Maurice Gee has died
The prolific and unassuming writer died in Nelson.
www.stuff.co.nz
June 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Farewell to the great Maurice Gee. His novels go on looking clearly at the world and introducing us to ourselves.
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
The optimist in me says this 'Gen-AI as Polyester' take sounds likely.
Unfortunately, having just read "Careless People" and watched "Mountainhead", I'm 99% pessimist today.
AI art is only a stage-gate to somewhere much darker.
culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our...
Unfortunately, having just read "Careless People" and watched "Mountainhead", I'm 99% pessimist today.
AI art is only a stage-gate to somewhere much darker.
culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our...
GenAI is Our Polyester
The best way to understand generative AI art and aesthetics is to consider how previous "synthetics" lost value in the long-run
For the first half of the 20th century, white-collar workers wore busin...
culture.ghost.io
June 4, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The optimist in me says this 'Gen-AI as Polyester' take sounds likely.
Unfortunately, having just read "Careless People" and watched "Mountainhead", I'm 99% pessimist today.
AI art is only a stage-gate to somewhere much darker.
culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our...
Unfortunately, having just read "Careless People" and watched "Mountainhead", I'm 99% pessimist today.
AI art is only a stage-gate to somewhere much darker.
culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our...
Aurora from Blackhead Beach, Dunedin
June 1, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Aurora from Blackhead Beach, Dunedin
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Dodgers broadcast was discussing the science behind the perception of time between children and adults. After hearing the explanation, the color commentator pauses and asks, "Am I gonna feel any better?"
Andy Pages then smashes a dinger into space, thus ending the existential crisis on commentary.
Andy Pages then smashes a dinger into space, thus ending the existential crisis on commentary.
May 16, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Dodgers broadcast was discussing the science behind the perception of time between children and adults. After hearing the explanation, the color commentator pauses and asks, "Am I gonna feel any better?"
Andy Pages then smashes a dinger into space, thus ending the existential crisis on commentary.
Andy Pages then smashes a dinger into space, thus ending the existential crisis on commentary.
It has always been important to count blessings... Like discovering your wife's second cousin has a crib in Aparima Riverton and it's available this week.
April 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
It has always been important to count blessings... Like discovering your wife's second cousin has a crib in Aparima Riverton and it's available this week.
Still bathing in the afterglow of a fantastic morning event on campus, a collab with the DCC. The end of daylight saving doesn't have to be the end of active commuting!
April 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Still bathing in the afterglow of a fantastic morning event on campus, a collab with the DCC. The end of daylight saving doesn't have to be the end of active commuting!
Trying to enjoy [sic] a post-climate apocalypse audiobook, but keep getting thrown by mispronunciations. Who says dungarees with a soft "g"? And my guy keeps saying "cachet" when he means "cache". What surprises will the remaining 11 hours hold?
March 7, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Trying to enjoy [sic] a post-climate apocalypse audiobook, but keep getting thrown by mispronunciations. Who says dungarees with a soft "g"? And my guy keeps saying "cachet" when he means "cache". What surprises will the remaining 11 hours hold?
Love stories like Bill Fay. 41 year gap between 2nd and 3rd albums. And what a return. Plus a further two albums (and maybe more posthumously). R.I.P. Bill. There is a valley
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February 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Love stories like Bill Fay. 41 year gap between 2nd and 3rd albums. And what a return. Plus a further two albums (and maybe more posthumously). R.I.P. Bill. There is a valley
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Jumping on line and going on again about Adaptation Futures 2025 as it’s the biggest climate adaptation event- held in both virtual & in person formats because we can’t keep flying to save the planet but come and stay longer - first time NZ & Pacific has hosted this
February 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Jumping on line and going on again about Adaptation Futures 2025 as it’s the biggest climate adaptation event- held in both virtual & in person formats because we can’t keep flying to save the planet but come and stay longer - first time NZ & Pacific has hosted this
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This is absolutely crucial advice. Read it. Read it again. Repeat it to yourself. Do not allow yourself to be overloaded. OVERLOAD IS A DELIBERATE TACTIC.
February 1, 2025 at 1:30 AM
This is absolutely crucial advice. Read it. Read it again. Repeat it to yourself. Do not allow yourself to be overloaded. OVERLOAD IS A DELIBERATE TACTIC.
Roadtrip goals: picked up a haskap plant from St Mary's Berries, Makikihi. The rare fruit for which Dunedin might not be cold enough.
January 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Roadtrip goals: picked up a haskap plant from St Mary's Berries, Makikihi. The rare fruit for which Dunedin might not be cold enough.
Never in my lifetime had a player on my favourite team ever had a signature shoe, so it was pretty cool to open up a pair of Fox 1's for my birthday last week. Time to hoop 🏀
January 16, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Never in my lifetime had a player on my favourite team ever had a signature shoe, so it was pretty cool to open up a pair of Fox 1's for my birthday last week. Time to hoop 🏀
2025 READING
Kicking the year off with some op shop finds for camping and an audiobook from the author of Beach Read ⛱️
Kicking the year off with some op shop finds for camping and an audiobook from the author of Beach Read ⛱️
January 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
2025 READING
Kicking the year off with some op shop finds for camping and an audiobook from the author of Beach Read ⛱️
Kicking the year off with some op shop finds for camping and an audiobook from the author of Beach Read ⛱️
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I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
The Southerner is back! (for four days in late autumn). Worth celebrating this baby step, and hopefully one day there'll be an option where the price point and timing works for students. www.stuff.co.nz/travel/36052...
Stuff
www.stuff.co.nz
December 19, 2024 at 8:43 PM
The Southerner is back! (for four days in late autumn). Worth celebrating this baby step, and hopefully one day there'll be an option where the price point and timing works for students. www.stuff.co.nz/travel/36052...
That rare feat in a bio of the comparison double-drag
April 1, 2024 at 10:19 PM
That rare feat in a bio of the comparison double-drag