picture showing continuing shitsshow jobs situation - job running well below 2024 figures, which were below 2023 figure. you get the drift.

Few DMs on GDP. Meh. It's a stupid consumption measure & the revisions are doing my head in.
I am also much more interested in the real story: the chronic jobs shortage and the 400,000 kiwis wanting work / more work. There's stuff that needs doing ffs! What a waste!
But, OK... jobs *&* GDP [🧵 1/n]

Ditto Beevor's "Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921", all of which reads different under current US hegemony.

Mate works in Akl construction. Been slow but steady for him. Mind you he's marble and granite. Making pretty things for rich people is more reliable than ol' cement. Seen the price of a #Birken?!

The enshitiffication of #Aotearoa #NewZealand continues...

A unique confluence of capitalism’s hellbent destructive innovation in the search for profit with the Christian eschatological appetite...

Even with a hyphen it's dumb.

"The politics of academic deception: A conjunctural analysis"
My response to Matthew Hannah in Dialogues in Human Geography
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

graph shows GDP growth forecasts slipping back year-on-year with each budget forecast

Drunk in charge of BEFU data. Quick 🧵
It's cruel and all that, yes, but we're so back, right? Jobs and growth are coming?
Here's a comparison of Treasury growth forecasts from the last four budgets. 'Growth' keeps moving the goalposts it seems. It gets worse. [1/n]

Carbon capture: Pivotal project for cutting greenhouse gas emissions looks shaky A huge chunk of the nation's next emissions budget rests on a single project, which the owner now says probably won't happen.

Admission this week that NZ corporate carbon capture not programme not viable. This was to account for ⅓ of the country's Paris commitments. #MfE has no Plan B... www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Brits but only if they are heavily weighted towards the north and North West.

Feijoa loaf

Oh fuck off mate🤣 Twitter still open for snark!

He's still a NZ citizen. Vampires bide their time...

Oh right. He's not the worst wealthy seppo to try and influence New Zealand but as that list is headed by Peter Thiel, it's a low bar.

What's the James Cameron connection? He's very vocal in Aotearoa New Zealand now...

Rereading #SamuelBeckett bc what the fk is one to do?

New Zealand situation nowhere near as dire BUT we would be naive not to see this as a desired strategy by political elites elsewhere.

Thanks. And this is appalling😬😢

The direction of the administration re: emergency management is becoming clear. Let us tour the changes to the hazard mitigation plan process.

#1 - no longer need to document engagement with representatives of NGOs or CBOs working with underserved communities and socially vulnerable populations.

Explain CBOs pls

Disaster Researchers for Justice Meeting: Tues April 8 at 7pm est

Josh Morton from the International Association of Emergency Managers will join us to speak about the current and future state of emergency management practice.

Please register in advance here: kaist.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I miss YXE but my 7 years there showed Canada is absolutely a part of the US economy. Clear borders, porous boundaries.

Been involved in ethics processes in two countries as Indigenous rep. Have certainly caught some high-level racist b.s. but also some low-level inexperience. A necessary but insufficient aspect to good research. And yeah, mainly covers institutions butt!

Transmedia Geographies - Rutgers University Press Looking at the US, New Zealand, and Central America, this book considers how cultural politics has been deeply reworked in our contemporary media environment...

I’m so pleased to announce that our book Transmedia Geographies: Decoloniality, Democratization, Cultural Citizenship, and Media Convergence is now published by Rutgers University Press www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/9781978830066/

"Based on measurements gathered so far, the asteroid has a 1.3% chance of smashing into Earth on 22 December 2032, or put another way, a nearly 99% probability of barrelling past without incident." #GlassHalfFull #GlassHalfEmpty #Asteroid #DRR

A whanaunga of the Sutherland family lent this to me. The author was a staunch advocate for Māori in science and research #Booksky #Maori

I want to establish a new subdiscipline in sociology: Urgency Studies. (And after 10 years of that, start an offshoot, Critical Urgency Studies...)

No, or rather there were online aspects during COVID but we were back f2f when we launched the role-playing scenario in class. I'll see what I can share :)

We designed both a table-top exercise and a community-based training scenario for Indigenous communities. Track down Dr. Lilia Yumagulova, University of Saskatchewan.

West Coast, Aotearoa New Zealand