Mark Darbyshire🌱🏳️🌈
@markd.nz
He/him. Actor, analyst, and JP in Ōtautahi, Aotearoa. Cult survivor, atheist, vegan, gay. Chairing too many committees. Let's build a sustainable, just future!
Web: https://markd.nz
Blog: https://remarks.nz
Mastodon: @markdarb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Web: https://markd.nz
Blog: https://remarks.nz
Mastodon: @markdarb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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Mark Darbyshire🌱🏳️🌈
@markd.nz
· Nov 18
Kia ora! I've joined at last.
I was reluctant. Bluesky is built and governed in a way that runs counter to the spirit of the open web.
But an extraordinary number of people have gathered here because they care. I want to be part of that.
Let's strive for a truly open web. Together.
#intro
I was reluctant. Bluesky is built and governed in a way that runs counter to the spirit of the open web.
But an extraordinary number of people have gathered here because they care. I want to be part of that.
Let's strive for a truly open web. Together.
#intro
Here's a lovely review from @jojoinabox.bsky.social on the Backstage Christchurch Facebook page (or I've pasted below some very kind bits about me). #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #theatre #review
Backstage Christchurch - Theatre Reviews
| NEW REVIEW |
Canterbury Repertory Theatre has brought the grimmest heart of Dartmoor to Ōtautahi Christchurch in a new production of The Hound of the Baskervilles. As a longtime devotee of Sherlock....
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November 20, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Here's a lovely review from @jojoinabox.bsky.social on the Backstage Christchurch Facebook page (or I've pasted below some very kind bits about me). #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #theatre #review
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Good news, I'm reviewing theatre again! The review is only available on FB, sadly, but if you still have an account you can read it here: www.facebook.com/share/p/1AXC...
Tl;dr, Canterbury Repertory Theatre have just opened a BRILLIANT production of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Go see it!
Tl;dr, Canterbury Repertory Theatre have just opened a BRILLIANT production of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Go see it!
Redirecting...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Good news, I'm reviewing theatre again! The review is only available on FB, sadly, but if you still have an account you can read it here: www.facebook.com/share/p/1AXC...
Tl;dr, Canterbury Repertory Theatre have just opened a BRILLIANT production of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Go see it!
Tl;dr, Canterbury Repertory Theatre have just opened a BRILLIANT production of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Go see it!
We're opening! I would love to see some friends there tonight.
This is the most technically ambitious production I've ever been in, and the most demanding on me personally. It's looking and sounding amazing and I can't wait to share it with our first audience.
#Ōtautahi #Christchurch #theatre
This is the most technically ambitious production I've ever been in, and the most demanding on me personally. It's looking and sounding amazing and I can't wait to share it with our first audience.
#Ōtautahi #Christchurch #theatre
I've grown my first ever moustache for this so you have to buy tickets. It's a privilege and a pleasure to be playing Dr Watson in this wonderfully creepy production under the directorship of Ross Gumbley. #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #theatre www.repertory.nz/show/the-hou...
November 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
We're opening! I would love to see some friends there tonight.
This is the most technically ambitious production I've ever been in, and the most demanding on me personally. It's looking and sounding amazing and I can't wait to share it with our first audience.
#Ōtautahi #Christchurch #theatre
This is the most technically ambitious production I've ever been in, and the most demanding on me personally. It's looking and sounding amazing and I can't wait to share it with our first audience.
#Ōtautahi #Christchurch #theatre
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There is more than enough to go around. We just need to organise that.
This is how a matriarchal world order would arrange things:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800925003027
This is how a matriarchal world order would arrange things:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800925003027
November 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
There is more than enough to go around. We just need to organise that.
This is how a matriarchal world order would arrange things:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800925003027
This is how a matriarchal world order would arrange things:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800925003027
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
These past few weeks it's felt like everything is urgent, so I do the most urgent things and the others just have to wait.
November 14, 2025 at 2:38 AM
These past few weeks it's felt like everything is urgent, so I do the most urgent things and the others just have to wait.
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Terrifying if literal: my feet are killing me.
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Terrifying if literal: my feet are killing me.
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The only thing that billionaires have ever personally created is innovative ways to profit off of violations of the social contract which have been enabled by the explosion of democratized technology and to which our legal and social systems have yet to adequately adapt to.
Fuck 'em.
Fuck 'em.
November 9, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The only thing that billionaires have ever personally created is innovative ways to profit off of violations of the social contract which have been enabled by the explosion of democratized technology and to which our legal and social systems have yet to adequately adapt to.
Fuck 'em.
Fuck 'em.
I've grown my first ever moustache for this so you have to buy tickets. It's a privilege and a pleasure to be playing Dr Watson in this wonderfully creepy production under the directorship of Ross Gumbley. #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #theatre www.repertory.nz/show/the-hou...
November 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I've grown my first ever moustache for this so you have to buy tickets. It's a privilege and a pleasure to be playing Dr Watson in this wonderfully creepy production under the directorship of Ross Gumbley. #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #theatre www.repertory.nz/show/the-hou...
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The story you are about to see has been told before. A lot. And now we are going to tell it again. But different.
This time, we're bringing Mastodon in for the fun.
Sign-ups open on November 10th.
Check out secretsanta.nz for more information
This time, we're bringing Mastodon in for the fun.
Sign-ups open on November 10th.
Check out secretsanta.nz for more information
November 3, 2025 at 3:18 AM
The story you are about to see has been told before. A lot. And now we are going to tell it again. But different.
This time, we're bringing Mastodon in for the fun.
Sign-ups open on November 10th.
Check out secretsanta.nz for more information
This time, we're bringing Mastodon in for the fun.
Sign-ups open on November 10th.
Check out secretsanta.nz for more information
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www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
My step Dad, my children’s Grandpa who has had an extraordinary career.
My step Dad, my children’s Grandpa who has had an extraordinary career.
‘They’re not wolves – they’re sheep’: the psychiatrist who spent decades meeting and studying lone-actor mass killers
Paul E Mullen has had a front-row seat to the men behind some of the worst public massacres. He says it’s possible to ‘disrupt the script’ for future violence
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
My step Dad, my children’s Grandpa who has had an extraordinary career.
My step Dad, my children’s Grandpa who has had an extraordinary career.
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The countdown to sign-ups for #SecretSantaAoNZ is on! Will you be a day one signer-upper?
The story you are about to see has been told before. A lot. And now we are going to tell it again. But different.
This time, we're bringing Mastodon in for the fun.
Sign-ups open on November 10th.
Check out secretsanta.nz for more information
This time, we're bringing Mastodon in for the fun.
Sign-ups open on November 10th.
Check out secretsanta.nz for more information
November 6, 2025 at 4:51 AM
The countdown to sign-ups for #SecretSantaAoNZ is on! Will you be a day one signer-upper?
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I've had over a decade of people telling me EVs are too big and too expensive
Suddenly when we have a cheap and small one it's not big enough lol
Suddenly when we have a cheap and small one it's not big enough lol
Who would have thought that the announcement of the BYD Atto 1 selling for under $30k NZD would anger so many people on Facebook? It's crazy. Me and the other moderator have removed so many seething comments from people who feel threatened by this smöl car. 🤷
November 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I've had over a decade of people telling me EVs are too big and too expensive
Suddenly when we have a cheap and small one it's not big enough lol
Suddenly when we have a cheap and small one it's not big enough lol
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Thank you to Andrew Cuomo for draining millions of dollars from New York billionaires into his hopeless campaign. Doing his best to help with wealth redistribution! 🙏🏼
November 7, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Thank you to Andrew Cuomo for draining millions of dollars from New York billionaires into his hopeless campaign. Doing his best to help with wealth redistribution! 🙏🏼
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Ahead of #COP30 a new article from me, unpacking whether New Zealand's 2035 Paris Agreement target (a 51-55% reduction) meets Paris Agreement criteria.
TLDR lol no.
(outside the paywall, thanks Carbon News!)
TLDR lol no.
(outside the paywall, thanks Carbon News!)
Carbon News
Carbon News NZ Climate Policy Carbon Markets
www.carbonnews.co.nz
November 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Ahead of #COP30 a new article from me, unpacking whether New Zealand's 2035 Paris Agreement target (a 51-55% reduction) meets Paris Agreement criteria.
TLDR lol no.
(outside the paywall, thanks Carbon News!)
TLDR lol no.
(outside the paywall, thanks Carbon News!)
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How your phone looks at you while it monitors your weekly screen time.
November 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
How your phone looks at you while it monitors your weekly screen time.
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At every turn, the Government has opted for whatever would actually lead to more pollution and a warmer world – even if it costs more, jeopardises NZ’s reputation, overturns a campaign promise or clashes with the Government’s other priorities.
The long retreat:
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...
The long retreat:
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...
Govt's climate strategy: Let it burn
Comment: The Government has relentlessly pursued policies that boost climate pollution – even if they cost more or jeopardise NZ's reputation, Marc Daalder writes
newsroom.co.nz
November 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
At every turn, the Government has opted for whatever would actually lead to more pollution and a warmer world – even if it costs more, jeopardises NZ’s reputation, overturns a campaign promise or clashes with the Government’s other priorities.
The long retreat:
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...
The long retreat:
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...
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Asked whether he’s sure technology will allow the Government to meet its climate goals, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts replies: ‘Can we be sure about anything in life?’
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/g...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/g...
Gutting of Zero Carbon Act crashes bipartisan climate consensus
It took more than a year of painstaking cross-partisan negotiation to land the Zero Carbon Act. Now, the Govt is gutting it unilaterally, Marc Daalder reports
newsroom.co.nz
November 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Asked whether he’s sure technology will allow the Government to meet its climate goals, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts replies: ‘Can we be sure about anything in life?’
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/g...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/g...
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FYI this is what you do when your business is great and you are very liquid and creditworthy
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
FYI this is what you do when your business is great and you are very liquid and creditworthy
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Almost one billion children have died globally since 1950
November 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Almost one billion children have died globally since 1950
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Everyone is hope scrolling now
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Everyone is hope scrolling now
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Years of consensus building up in smoke within 24 months. The next strategy for the climate movement should be rapid deployment to make it harder to burn it all up.
When I wrote this just two-ish months ago, the premise was that the architecture of the CCRA (zero carbon act) remained, but the policies that sustained it had been hollowed out.
With the CCRA changes today, I feel like that no longer holds
www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
With the CCRA changes today, I feel like that no longer holds
www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
How Jacinda Ardern’s ‘groundbreaking’ climate law has become ‘a shell’
The Zero Carbon Act promised to lock climate ambition into law. But with key policies repealed, delayed or watered down, the once 'world-leading' legislation has become a husk of its former self.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Years of consensus building up in smoke within 24 months. The next strategy for the climate movement should be rapid deployment to make it harder to burn it all up.
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Reasons I’d like to go to New York:
Musical Theatre
Musical Theatre
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The Mayor
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The Mayor
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November 5, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Reasons I’d like to go to New York:
Musical Theatre
Musical Theatre
Musical Theatre
The Mayor
Musical theatre
Musical Theatre
Musical Theatre
Musical Theatre
Musical Theatre
Musical Theatre
The Mayor
Musical theatre
Musical Theatre
Musical Theatre
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Dare to be different
November 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Dare to be different