In the Bunnings carpark, I found the solution to people driving urban emotional support utes:

Accidentally tried one yesterday when another team left cut-up pieces in the kitchen after a morning tea: was not expecting savoury so a bit of a surprise. Sharp spice, a nasty chemical aftertaste, but no real flavour if that makes sense? Kinda empty mouthfeel. Can see why they were the leftovers.

No 'gas renaissance' in landmark report charting NZ's energy future

NZ is on track for a 98 percent renewable power system by 2030, a sweeping new report on the energy system has found.

NEW: Ladies and gentlemen, this is the big one! 112 slides of how The #Electrotech Revolution is rewriting the economics and geopolitics of energy⚡

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Glad you enjoyed!

I had wondered about that latter point given how loose the association is — it's not like he has creative control of a project that happens to be done by a mate and their friends for example!

I've seen the wider stable referred to as the Nate Bethea Extended Universe — @oldmatecans.lol surely someone's done a map of them all somewhere, feels like there must be well over a dozen by now?

The latest season of Masters of our Domain @mastersofpod.bsky.social (formerly a Seinfeld podcast, now watching shows set in the ancient world) has been covering this, if it's something you're into.

This was a genuinely interesting conservation story on RNZ — trained ferrets going after another introduced pest.

But then, this little snippet about ⅔ through. I can't be the only one thinking this a SUPER weird set of names to put together??

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“Ideological Sludge”: How New Zealand Is Quiet Quitting Climate Action New Zealand once stood out as a world leader on climate change. In June it became the first country in the world to abandon a commitment to phase out oil, gas and coal.

New article from @drilledmedia.bsky.social out today that links a lot of the current trends in NZ climate action together. Very comprehensive, worth a read! drilled.media/news/new-zea...

Talked to the roaster who owns our local here in Adelaide the other day. (AUD $18pw subscription for unlimited coffees, unreal deal!) He's still going on a stockpile of green beans from last year, as he bet on prices peaking in H1 2025. Harder if you've had to buy roasted beans from wholesalers...

NZ's carbon forestry offsets on trial in High Court case

A world-first legal challenge targets the decades-long reliance of successive NZ governments on planting trees to offset emissions from burning fossil fuels.

AUKUS risks are piling up. Australia must prepare to build French SSNs instead | The Strategist Australia should start planning for acquisition of at least 12 submarines of the French Suffren design. The current AUKUS plan for eight nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) has always been flawed...

A former AU sub guy has been talking about this in the media as a plan b for a while, but it screams IREX-style "the price has now gone up" negotiations with the French.

The wider questions of "why manned subs" at all are the more interesting ones tho tbh
www.aspistrategist.org.au/aukus-risks-...

Always seemed wild to me there's no discernible give way signs at this weird wide painted-slip-lane one next to the school! Almost turns into first-come-first-served.

So we've gone from "noooo you can't put a price on our emissions, there's no technological solution" to "we can't use that solution to reduce emissions, there's no price signal"

China bans export of key minerals to U.S. as trade frictions escalate The restrictions are on "dual-use" minerals gallium, germanium and antimony, that have both military and civilian applications.

Will Shane Jones' pet project mine near Reefton be exempt from US import tarrifs, or is it going to be subject to the antimony laundering rules?
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Very similar mechanics & the same team designing/developing. With the evolutions in rules between BbB reprints, seems like the next step! Looking forward to my copy arriving when they release!

With you & J being such big fans of Bloc by Bloc, have you seen Defenders of the Wild?

Spot the difference....

Back in NZ after 3 weeks' holiday in Japan and Korea. Big takeaway from having infrastructure brain the whole time: we deserve nice things in NZ, and we need long-term plans for transport and concentrated growth to get them.

Is it basic to have gone somewhere purely because we saw it on a Netflix show? Probably. Was the ~1hr line worth it? Definitely.

Stock reduction or caps (via the nutrient limits?) would be one way to avoid the rebound effects of efficiency boosts too

The actual data isn't in the RNZ story (although, weirdly, the LIC corporate emission are) so had to dig around on the LIC site a bit. Their best-performing stock seems to be 15-20% below baseline.

NZ's methane targets are:
-10% by 2030
-24-47% by 2050

The Invisible Killer: New Zealand's Air Pollution Crisis | Newsroom Special Report: Air pollution is behind one in every 10 deaths in New Zealand, shattering our self-perception as a clean, green nation. What are we going to do about it?

Special Report: Air pollution is behind one in every 10 deaths in New Zealand, shattering our self-perception as a clean, green nation.

What are we going to do about it?
www.newsroom.co.nz/the-invisibl...

Newshub finally deliver on an "explosive, game-changer" poll result: