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Anthropology / archaeology, mechanical material culture, graf n tags.
#ThRiteHandSideOfThTrain
Yartapuulti / the Wairarapa
#ThRiteHandSideOfThTrain
Yartapuulti / the Wairarapa
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Heads up folks, there's a wee bit of rain on the way
November 30, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Heads up folks, there's a wee bit of rain on the way
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I’ve added an Excess Deaths Comparison page to my analysis on that topic. Here I’m comparing the UK, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand, to June 2025.
My method projects "Expected Deaths" using a linear regression on the weekly deaths (4-week average) from a baseline of 2015-2019 deaths.
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My method projects "Expected Deaths" using a linear regression on the weekly deaths (4-week average) from a baseline of 2015-2019 deaths.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I’ve added an Excess Deaths Comparison page to my analysis on that topic. Here I’m comparing the UK, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand, to June 2025.
My method projects "Expected Deaths" using a linear regression on the weekly deaths (4-week average) from a baseline of 2015-2019 deaths.
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My method projects "Expected Deaths" using a linear regression on the weekly deaths (4-week average) from a baseline of 2015-2019 deaths.
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The results for Australia are a bit depressing tbh. After a start similar to NZ in 2020-21, the impact in late-2021-22 was more than twice as severe as in NZ. NZ skipped 2 big waves by keeping their quarantine going until Feb-April 2022.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The results for Australia are a bit depressing tbh. After a start similar to NZ in 2020-21, the impact in late-2021-22 was more than twice as severe as in NZ. NZ skipped 2 big waves by keeping their quarantine going until Feb-April 2022.
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Today's new #garden post - bits and bobs from November. jury.co.nz/2025/11/30/b... Starting with a new community garden in church grounds.
Bits and bobs – garden thoughts from November
It is an instant garden approach and sometimes that quick result approach is the very best way to reward effort and encourage further learning. The magnolia in winter I have various photos of the m…
jury.co.nz
November 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Today's new #garden post - bits and bobs from November. jury.co.nz/2025/11/30/b... Starting with a new community garden in church grounds.
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I was really thrilled to get to work on The WIRED Guide to Digital Opsec for Teens with @aumasson.jp. I think we did a good job but also apologies in advance to the teens that we tried to make jokes and generally Be Chill. Also no paywall to make it easier to share! www.wired.com/story/digita...
The WIRED Guide to Digital Opsec for Teens
Practicing good “operations security” is essential to staying safe online. Here's a complete guide for teenagers (and anyone else) who wants to button up their digital lives.
www.wired.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I was really thrilled to get to work on The WIRED Guide to Digital Opsec for Teens with @aumasson.jp. I think we did a good job but also apologies in advance to the teens that we tried to make jokes and generally Be Chill. Also no paywall to make it easier to share! www.wired.com/story/digita...
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This is a powerful read if you want to know how to talk to a person with LC about how they are doing, in a truly genuine way.
"The problem with Long COVID is that most of society would rather not see it. We want to believe the pandemic was just a bad dream we awoke from years ago. (When I hear someone say during COVID, in the past tense, I want to flip a table.)"
#LongCOVID
Source: archive.md/7Rer1
#LongCOVID
Source: archive.md/7Rer1
November 29, 2025 at 6:03 AM
This is a powerful read if you want to know how to talk to a person with LC about how they are doing, in a truly genuine way.
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So many stories I have read this morning are full of death, anger, meanness and misogyny
This story is full of hope and community
Truly an island of calm amidst the chaos
This story is full of hope and community
Truly an island of calm amidst the chaos
From $50 rentals to burying the dead, this island governs itself
Twenty years ago, Cape Barren Island was handed back to its traditional owners. Today's children are proof of the life-changing power of that act.
www.abc.net.au
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
So many stories I have read this morning are full of death, anger, meanness and misogyny
This story is full of hope and community
Truly an island of calm amidst the chaos
This story is full of hope and community
Truly an island of calm amidst the chaos
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My cousin lives in this community and told me this outrageous story last night. I hope it will be widely shared.
The backstory is that the community is a fishing community and they really wanted the helicopter since you know...fishing is risky.
New Details: Court orders Coast Guard helicopter to be returned to Newport
A federal judge in Eugene has issued a temporary restraining order to have the U.S Department of Homeland Security return the Coast Guard’s rescue helicopter to Newport, according to the
www.newportnewstimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
My cousin lives in this community and told me this outrageous story last night. I hope it will be widely shared.
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The most maddening thing about this is that restoring inanga spawning habitat is really easy. Like, the easiest, fastest results I've seen in any project. We've got to stop monitoring towards extinction and actually start spending money on fixing the problems! www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Whitebait species at risk from declining state of waterways
A new freshwater fish report has found 28 percent of species are facing extinction and 32 percent are at risk of becoming threatened.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The most maddening thing about this is that restoring inanga spawning habitat is really easy. Like, the easiest, fastest results I've seen in any project. We've got to stop monitoring towards extinction and actually start spending money on fixing the problems! www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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I've read it and it would make a fantastic gift for the tamariki in your life. It's a rollicking read.
Set in New Zealand and based strongly in Māori mythology. A perfect alternative to the boy wizard.
Set in New Zealand and based strongly in Māori mythology. A perfect alternative to the boy wizard.
Hey, gonna shamelessly plug my wares:
Charlie Tangaroa and the God of War is now a year old and, sadly, despite brilliant reviews, has kinda been ignored. It's a bit longer than book 1 but is very exciting
Please buy my book
bookhub.co.nz/p/charlie-ta...
Charlie Tangaroa and the God of War is now a year old and, sadly, despite brilliant reviews, has kinda been ignored. It's a bit longer than book 1 but is very exciting
Please buy my book
bookhub.co.nz/p/charlie-ta...
bookhub.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I've read it and it would make a fantastic gift for the tamariki in your life. It's a rollicking read.
Set in New Zealand and based strongly in Māori mythology. A perfect alternative to the boy wizard.
Set in New Zealand and based strongly in Māori mythology. A perfect alternative to the boy wizard.
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You may be shopping today or avoiding shopping today- whatever you're doing may I recommend looking and listening for the birds all around you? A never-fails joy in any season. #BlackFriday #birds #birding #nature
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
You may be shopping today or avoiding shopping today- whatever you're doing may I recommend looking and listening for the birds all around you? A never-fails joy in any season. #BlackFriday #birds #birding #nature
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This latest piece from @zoestodd.bsky.social once again articulates all the things that have been swirling in inarticulacy for me lately. Please give it a read!
zoestodd.com/2025/11/26/h...
zoestodd.com/2025/11/26/h...
Hollow-gram Indigeneity and the superficiality of colonial consumption (or: the unbearable flatness of fraud)
“Tribes are not vestiges of the past, but laboratories of the future.” — Vine DeLoria, Jr. (1965), quoted in Wilkins (2018). [alt text: image of a cream and light blue crayfish on…
zoestodd.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This latest piece from @zoestodd.bsky.social once again articulates all the things that have been swirling in inarticulacy for me lately. Please give it a read!
zoestodd.com/2025/11/26/h...
zoestodd.com/2025/11/26/h...
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I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
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Nothing to see here just Sam 'bed leg' Uffindell lying his god damned arse off again.
I didn't know young people who are pushed onto the dole spend 18 years on it.
Fucking lying piece of abusive lying shit.
I didn't know young people who are pushed onto the dole spend 18 years on it.
Fucking lying piece of abusive lying shit.
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Nothing to see here just Sam 'bed leg' Uffindell lying his god damned arse off again.
I didn't know young people who are pushed onto the dole spend 18 years on it.
Fucking lying piece of abusive lying shit.
I didn't know young people who are pushed onto the dole spend 18 years on it.
Fucking lying piece of abusive lying shit.
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NZ has had two major reforms of subnational government so far: 1876 and 1989
As the guy who literally wrote a book on the demise of that first system, *and* as someone who generally supports more unitary authorities, my considered opinion is that this proposal is completely insane
As the guy who literally wrote a book on the demise of that first system, *and* as someone who generally supports more unitary authorities, my considered opinion is that this proposal is completely insane
No more regional councils - major shake-up of local government announced
The government says it is not a power grab, but about "making local government fit for purpose".
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
NZ has had two major reforms of subnational government so far: 1876 and 1989
As the guy who literally wrote a book on the demise of that first system, *and* as someone who generally supports more unitary authorities, my considered opinion is that this proposal is completely insane
As the guy who literally wrote a book on the demise of that first system, *and* as someone who generally supports more unitary authorities, my considered opinion is that this proposal is completely insane
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Look at all of those babies.
They were sitting right outside the door.
They were sitting right outside the door.
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Look at all of those babies.
They were sitting right outside the door.
They were sitting right outside the door.
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No clear benefit? For a tug that has performed recent rescues? And with an ageing Interislander fleet clinging to grim life until replacements come along in a few years? On a notoriously turbulent body of water? Oh, well then. What could go wrong!
Transport Minister Chris Bishop blames “a significant escalation in costs and little clear benefit” for calling it quits on a replacement.
Cook Strait rescue tug going with no replacement
Transport Minister Chris Bishop blames “a significant escalation in costs and little clear benefit” for calling it quits on a replacement.
dlvr.it
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
No clear benefit? For a tug that has performed recent rescues? And with an ageing Interislander fleet clinging to grim life until replacements come along in a few years? On a notoriously turbulent body of water? Oh, well then. What could go wrong!
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yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
I have loved Jimmy's music for years. Lots to dance to and some truely beautiful tracks to cry to (especially Many Rivers to Cross).
Many music lovers are sad to hear of the passing of Jimmy Cliff, at 81. He was much-loved in Aotearoa, with the film The Harder They Come having quite an impact on the NZ reggae scene. www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/reg...
Reggae Aotearoa Timeline - Article | AudioCulture
www.audioculture.co.nz
November 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I have loved Jimmy's music for years. Lots to dance to and some truely beautiful tracks to cry to (especially Many Rivers to Cross).
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White-nationalist homestead communities gather the most antisocial people with the most corrosive beliefs—and, somehow, it all goes wrong. Henry Luzzatto writes on past and present miserable experiments in far-right communal living.
That’s All, Volks! | Henry Luzzatto
The folk community cautionary tale of the hippie-Nazi commune Volksberg.
thebaffler.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
White-nationalist homestead communities gather the most antisocial people with the most corrosive beliefs—and, somehow, it all goes wrong. Henry Luzzatto writes on past and present miserable experiments in far-right communal living.
Important science🧵from my beloved home country.
Biology isn’t tidy. Data about genes, proteins, and metabolites is enormous, incomplete, and constantly changing — yet many models still assume everything is fixed and error-free. That’s not reality 🧪🧵
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Important science🧵from my beloved home country.
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Fossil fuel companies were given confidential drafts of legislation during their (successful) two-year campaign to weaken oil and gas regulation and overturn the offshore exploration ban - new reporting from me via the OIA
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
How the oil and gas industry helped rewrite New Zealand’s drilling rules
A paper trail shows just how far ministers went to accommodate the oil and gas industry's wishlist.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Fossil fuel companies were given confidential drafts of legislation during their (successful) two-year campaign to weaken oil and gas regulation and overturn the offshore exploration ban - new reporting from me via the OIA
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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"Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone" Smashing column by @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org & @maiyazize.bsky.social #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone
In the final days of October, the Federal Government quietly inserted a last-minute amendment into an unrelated bill. It has been trying to rush through a change that would allow police and the Home A...
thepoint.com.au
November 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
"Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone" Smashing column by @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org & @maiyazize.bsky.social #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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The World Health Network (WHN) is gathering stories to raise awareness about Long COVID. We want to hear from those with lived experience — patients, caregivers, clinicians, and advocates — so we can share your stories and help others understand the impact of Long COVID.
November 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The World Health Network (WHN) is gathering stories to raise awareness about Long COVID. We want to hear from those with lived experience — patients, caregivers, clinicians, and advocates — so we can share your stories and help others understand the impact of Long COVID.