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AlastairJNZ

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Kia ora! Aotearoa/ NZ. Opinions my own and do not represent those of any employer etc.

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Wordle 1,118 3/6* 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Ata mārie!

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This will be an interesting day to reflect on in the future. "Battery cells at $50/kWh means the technology to decarbonize most of road transport globally is already here, as opposed to in some future scenario." EVs are cheaper than ICE now. Today.

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Wordle 1,117 3/6* 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Connections Puzzle #393 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸ’₯ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨

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Wordle 1,115 3/6* 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟨🟩🟩🟨🟩so close!! 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

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The Heritage Foundation β€œdon’t make us kill you, Democrats” statement may mark one of those moments people will read about in 100 years (hopefully!) and think to themselves β€œwhy didn’t they freak out when they heard the extremists say that?” (Sadly, it’s just not how humans work most of the time)

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Wordle 1,113 5/6* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸ˜…

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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

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Connections Puzzle #391 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ

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One of the most head-spinning but largely unchallenged fossil industry lies in Australia is a monthly "warning" issued that there's a "gas shortage" which requires a million new gas fields to be opened up. More gas is burned *just to process gas exports* than is used domestically in manufacturing.

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Connections Puzzle #390 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩πŸŸͺ🟩🟩 🟩πŸŸͺ🟩🟩 🟩🟩πŸŸͺ🟩 πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸ™„ πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ

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Long diversion home for this flight to Hong Kong πŸ‘€

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Connections Puzzle #389 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺeasy one for a change!

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Sturt's desert peas (Swainsona formosa) near Roxby Downs. The floral emblem of the state of South Australia. From my archives.

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Connections Puzzle #388 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ

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Wordle 1,110 5/6* ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Got lucky at line 4! Connections Puzzle #387 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺ🟩🟩πŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ

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"With fear for our democracy, I dissent," is about as bedrock and terrifying and vital a statement as you're going to get. That's a line you spraypaint on walls, that you ink into your skin. And it's chilling that it is necessary to say at all.

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Wordle 1,109 3/6* 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Thread - this is happening now in the US and we’re on the brink in AoNZ with the current government

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stumbled onto this lynda Barry comic again which always makes me a little verklempt

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Connections Puzzle #386 πŸŸͺ🟦🟩🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ🟦🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ

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Wordle 1,108 6/6* 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸ˜…

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Idk if I'm stating the obvious, but justices never write/speak like this. She's telling the world this is a five-alarm fire and the coup is on.

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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here

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The article doesn’t mention the economic cost to Nz based contractors working on the design & construction for several years now unemployed. Ther must be breach of contract there & now every contractor will build in massive breach of contract clauses for govt work ( we end up paying for )

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Over 140 suppliers to Hyundai are impacted by Nicola Willis’s decision to cancel the ferry contract. That will cause HMD much shame & embarrassment. I must underscore how absolutely humiliating this is for New Zealand. We look unreliable & untrustworthy

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β€œThe New Zealand Government and its allied mining industry lobby groups are playing a hypocritical game on climate change and mining.”

- Russel Norman

www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3503...

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This decision substantially undermines the ability of the US government to regulate for the protection of public safety or the environment

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Connections Puzzle #385 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Good to see some planning in one country at least for the real possibility that avian flu transmission in humans becomes more widespread πŸ§ͺ

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Wordle 1,107 6/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸ˜…

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Big chunks of Texas were under heat warnings this past week β€” with heat indexes hitting 115Β°F. Reminder that Texas Gov. Abbott signed legislation that prohibits cities from mandating employers to provide workers with rest and water breaks. This is the GOP's vision for America.

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I don’t understand why, as you put it, Tr*mp being a felon, a man found liable for sexual abuse, an inveterate liar, a demagogue, a threat to your democracy and to your Constitution isn’t sufficient for Biden to win in a landslide, no matter how lacklustre he might be?

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Heads up: $5 charge on prescription meds applies from Monday. Get your scripts filled today
#nzpol

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Connections Puzzle #384 🟦πŸŸͺπŸŸ©πŸŸ¨πŸ™„ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ

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