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iggypops.bsky.social
Achieved grand dadness, volunteer, retired IT guy, cyclist, family proud, motivated to slow climate change and save natural world.
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The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach. www.tsunami.gov

submitted 4 days ago • 276 comments

URGENT: Public consultation on the Arms Act rewrite closes THIS FRIDAY at midnight Feb 28. The Islamic Women’s Council of NZ & I personally oppose these changes. We fought hard for strong firearm regulations after 15 March Terrorist Attacks. We must speak up now. 🧵1/7 #GunControlSoNeeded

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

I joined InternetNZ last night because I've seen that the Free Speech Union has suddenly taken an interest and is trying to unbalance it in their favour. If you want to balance that out you might want to join too? I'm happy to fund if $$ are an issue! internetnz.nz/membership/

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/o.... New Zealand is a special place and his move to totalitarianism in usa could easily infect us here. USA shows how much and so fast our social norms could change.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Three clear themes came out of the panel - city leaders need to listen to rich privileged folk, they need to respect rich privileged folk ahead of the wishes of the electorate - that voted for progress - and they need to bring in more innovation based on the reckons of rich privileged folk.

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

youtu.be/8rnfywUFFSU

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Today, I highly recommend giving Pope Francis' 2023 encyclical, Laudato Deum, a read. He minces absolutely no words about the injustice of climate change and how it disproportionately impacts those who've done the least to cause it. I felt like my screen would burst into flames while reading it.

submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

www.theguardian.com/environment/.... Dog lovers unintentionally killing birds in nz? What chemicals are being recommended by our vets for fleas? @forestandbird

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

So many people searching for ways to influence the views of people by adjusting the results of queries to LLM chats. techcrunch.com/2024/12/19/t...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Christmas Eve, y'all. May 2025 be a year of peace. And where it is not, may it be a year of strength, courage, and solidarity.

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

The current NZ government is relentlessly intent on defunding the public health system, with the intent of privatising, more like the US system. But why on earth would we want to be more like a system that customers hate? mailchi.mp/jacobinmag.c....

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

some data analysis of bike thefts - but it doesn't help me get my bike back ! medium.com/@flexpoly321...

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments