Gareth

Gareth

@grenow.bsky.social

Self-reinvention is a way to stay young, as long as you can remember what you were. I recall being an author, journalist, photographer, truffle grower, climate change writer, magazine editor and publisher, but who can be sure? Born at 313ppm

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Bronwyn Hayward
@bmhayward.bsky.social

Last day! NZ National restricted general roll voting regulations for the first time in 40 yrs To reporters please don’t repeat spin- the change won’t speed up counting - And let’s not shrug & say just 2% fewer voters enrolled It’s 300,000 NZers prevented from voting That’s an entire NZ town

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D Jukic She/her
@dejanajuk.bsky.social

This is a brilliant article. “How to vote? In my view, if your electorate has a progressive candidate who could win, vote for them. But whatever else you do, party vote Green. It’s not just that there’s so much at stake, although there is. It’s that this is a moment of so much opportunity.” #nzpol

simonwilsonhopetown.substack.comThe age of hopeSo much noise and so much confusion, and yet what a time for hope this is. Hope and hard work, that is, because despite appearances this election is not about gangs and race.
Gareth
@grenow.bsky.social

Earliest ever swim in our unheated outdoor pool. Late November was the previous record, but today the water reached 24C…

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Paul Brislen
@brislen.nz

Exactly!

Steph Phillips@freestylesteph.bsky.social

All Hipkins should have said You’re distracting from the big issues all people in New Zealand have a story to tell and we are here to listen to all people If pushed- he replies Key & Muldoon did it That’s why he’s not a leader leaders can explain a complex issue simply and he couldn’t 

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Odd This Day
@oddthisday.bsky.social

According to legend, it’s 31 years to the day since the Financial Times killed one of Britain’s finest poets? They didn’t mean to. It’s just that Gavin Ewart was 79, and the day before they’d bought him a lunch that involved enough booze to fell an ox. A glorious story, but is it true...?

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Pip Adam
@pipadam.bsky.social

It's absolutely impossible to express how much this means and how unbelievable it seems.

Ursula K. Le Guin@ursulakleguin.com

Congratulations to Pip Adam, recipient of the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Audition!

Gareth
@grenow.bsky.social

Heat waves become heat storms as the planet warms. Better plan for a hotter future, wherever you live. Meanwhile: where's the climate emergency in NZ's election debates? #nzpol

Reuters@reuters.com

Supersized heat waves used to be rare. No longer. A Reuters data-driven examination of global temperatures reveals the emergence of what we call heat storms. They now swarm the planet, upending life around the world. reut.rs/4zBUXtM

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Paul Brislen
@brislen.nz

Sixty years, tomorrow. They gave the man in charge a knighthood. They made the local community pay for the remembrance garden. No-one held to account. I always think of the dinner lady, Nansi, who shielded five kids with her body and died in the process but they all lived. #Aberfan

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Kent Duston
@kentduston.bsky.social

And this is our periodic reminder that billionaires serve no useful economic, social, or cultural function. If billionaires didn’t exist, there wouldn’t be the slightest negative impact on our country or our people #nzpol

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷@paullecomtephoto.nz

26 Billionaires in NZ. Top 150 wealthiest individuals and families hold a combined wealth of $129 billion. Their wealth has DOUBLED from $60b just 10 years ago. But we are loosing our fucking shit about a wealth tax. Cry me a fucking river.

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Musical Chairs
@musicalchairs.bsky.social

Sorry, I'll explain. We currently react to inflation by reducing the disposable income of spenders so that demand falls and unemployment goes up. We use a bufferstock of unemployed people to keep workers desperate, so wages are suppressed and we don't get a feedback loop (wage 🔄 prices) [🧵 1/n]

Musical Chairs@musicalchairs.bsky.social

Simply the best socio-economic policy anyone can vote for this election. If I was splitting hairs, I would say that the six months wait is about six months too long, but it's still a great start.

Gareth
@grenow.bsky.social

In which the author of an excellent novel describes its genesis. (No giant hogweed involved).

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

A thread in 20 photographs, telling the story of the long and fraught road of a novel that came back from the dead...

Gareth
@grenow.bsky.social

I would quite like to know what the Latin for “solved by cycling” is, because I have formed many a paragraph while travelling local roads.

Gareth
@grenow.bsky.social

“I expect that this super El Niño event will drive multiple climate regime shifts like we’ve seen after past events,” says Jeff Masters. “Regime shifts tend to cause significant disruptions to ecosystems and to the humans that depend on them.” www.newscientist.com/article/2592...

newscientist.comThe world may never go back to how it was after this monster El Niño | New ScientistThis El Niño is forecast to end around June next year after smashing all records, but its impacts could persist indefinitely in some parts of the world