France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.
Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars
The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.
Why aren't we doing this?
Acute harms due to #COVID19, in terms of cases admitted to hospital, continue to decline in Australia.
I so wish we had a national register of longCOVID incidence to compare against.
Data from COVID LIVE covidlive.com.au/report/daily...
"Australia is the only member of the IEA that does not hold the mandatory 90-day fuel reserve requirement, something the country has failed to meet since 2012. The goal was downgraded to 50 days."
[1 barrell=159L; AUS uses 136ML petrol+diesel /day; ~1M barrels]
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
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NHS England’s Model Emergency Department guidance asks trusts to model demand and capacity. The real challenge is residual demand, supply-induced demand and unmet need.
www.stemlynsblog.org/model-ed-capacity-and-de...
Here’s Luxon saying NZ supports “any action” to stop Iran and me following up to ask if that would include carpet bombing (vid via RNZ)
The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes.
$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst".
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….
As a brown person with a non kiwi accent who was born here I would like to know how these people know who a “suspected overstayer” is. The constant Americanisation of this country is so annoying and gross. Why doesn’t Luxon just go back there if he loves it so much. Bro go back to Chicago.
Quick reminder that The Dawn Raids only targeted brown people at a time when our largest group of overstayers came from England.
Post-COVID-19 condition in individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 in autumn 2023 in the Netherlands: a prospective cohort study with pre- and post-infection data.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
When Bad Bunny’s album “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” won album of the year at this year’s Grammy Awards, the moment changed history. https://cnn.it/3Zf5j2D
Done ☺️
When attacks have occurred against other communities, the government has spoken out strongly and acted quickly.
First Peoples are asking why this attack against us is being treated so differently.
Here's what they should do:
nit.com.au/30-01-2026/2...
New Zealand’s land and sea temperatures in 2025 were the highest in 151 years of records, prompting a new campaign from @climateclubnz.bsky.social to swap one car trip a week to walking, cycling or public transport.
newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/16/2...
This is the thing about the "Don't give them the pretext to send in more feds" arguments. The administration is using its own murder of an unarmed civilian as the pretext to send in more agents. They do not need a pretext and will invent them if they want.
ICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter, 7 days before Renee Good, and I hadn't heard about it until today. His vigils went unnoticed. His life came and gone and America forgot to blink.
Two Americas.
I don’t get why human civilisation is not progressing towards understanding that tackling airborne viruses need proactive preventive whole system approaches rather than the constant reactive panic in response to the damage they bring.
An overhead view of a massive crowd of protesters marching down a Manhattan street, many carrying signs. Text overlaid says "NEW YORK"
Large crowds of protesters gathered in cities across the U.S. on Saturday as part of a mass “No Kings” demonstration against the Trump administration. nyti.ms/4hocDS0
Millions of people are expected to attend more than 2,500 "No Kings" protests across the US and internationally.
Organizers say President Donald Trump is leading an increasingly militarized and authoritarian regime in the United States.
Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/48xT2ME
"Aboriginal peoples have been living in this place we call #Australia for at least 65,000 years — surviving and thriving through almost unimaginable changes to the land, the sea and the climate."
"They have the longest continuous cultures in the world."
www.abc.net.au/news/deeptim...
We’re losing so many mothers to childbirth and genocide. It’s our responsibility to act on both | Jacinda Ardern
“I realised during those meetings that people who are not Māori aren’t often exposed to the ongoing effects of colonisation. They seldom take the opportunity to listen to tangata whenua.” — Catherine Delahunty on the campaign to educate voters about Māori wards.
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.
Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.
The system is broken.
#nzpol Data released by Statistics New Zealand shows that the labour market is even more bleak than feared, with the loss of more than 10,000 jobs in just three months. The data shows that there are more than 50,000 fewer jobs than in December 2023. A 🧵 www.stats.govt.nz/information-...
This is the full time series from Infoshare since 2012. comparing each quarter to 12 months prior for working out the percentage change in seasonally adjusted jobs over 12 months.
Will there be a bunch of culture war distractions?
Breaking News: Israeli leaders approved a plan for the military takeover of all of Gaza, against the recommendations of Israel’s military.
Igel is the worst airway ever. The igel is a perfectly decent airway. Discuss. See if you can do it without SHOUTING like my most recent interaction 🙄 #ansky
‘Pull the legislation, and stop hurting Māori’: Former minister Chris Finlayson slams coastal law changes
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
By failing to sanction Israel, EU leaders are complicit in its crimes. They must act now | Josep Borrell
Your periodic reminder that the estimated cost to end hunger in the U.S. is $25 billion.
