Yay: New Zealand Government to declare a climate emergency
The Government will declare a climate emergency … Climate Change Minister James Shaw said.
We are in the midst of a climate crisis that will impact on every aspect of our lives…
Not just ‘change' but ‘emergency’!
I’ve updated my post Countries of follow on Micro.Blog. I think I follow folks from 25 different countries on Micro.Blog.
A reminder for future me: to get a list of who I’m following on Micro.Blog, given my site is hosted by MB:
- log in on the web
- visit micro.blog/Miraz/fol…
Interesting: some names on that list are very familiar; others I never see posting.
Fascinating — why vaccine trials don’t need to take years. A Clinical Trials Expert Explains Why We Should Feel Optimistic About COVID Vaccines: > as a clinical trials doctor, I am going to tell you what I do for most of those ten years – and it is not very much.
☛ Funding. 🦠
While watching Rene Ritchie: 8GB vs 16GB for M1 Mac — The TRUTH About RAM! I suddenly flashed back to those days of using Ram Doubler. Remember that?
Oshi, my little shining light this morning. 🐶
The sappy holiday movie My Christmas Inn was pretty anodyne. 🎬
It reminded me a lot of the much better Christmas Under Wraps where a doctor visits a charming remote Alaskan town then stays.
Still, there are worse ways to spend 90 minutes. Cheerful, happy.
You know, I really enjoyed reading an advance copy of The Case of the Lady in the Luggage by @Cheri. And it turns out I loved reading the published book all over again. 📚
I’m just loving the Crash Course Linguistics series.
It’s superbly presented, clear and includes signed languages as well as spoken languages.
In the screenshot: metathesis where sounds (or signs) are switched — ‘thrid’ became ‘third’, but ‘three’ remained.
I love language!
These black clouds are looking pretty darned threatening.
Note to future me: this Kungfood Teriyaki Chicken was delicious. Also: no onion. 😀
This Japanese-inspired meal has a generous portion of flavourful, sweet & salty Teriyaki Chicken … Served with a side of Jasmine rice and sprinkled with toasted sesame seeds.
The small victories in life are important — Thankfulness for Tiny Triumphs:
We’d be helpless in so many ways if we weren’t victorious in regularly finding doable ways to manage our changing capacities and overcome the hurdles we face daily.
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Still with Christmas movies, I watched A New York Christmas Wedding. Makes a change to see lesbians finding love in a sappy seasonal movie.
a lesbian wedding, officiated over by a priest …filmed in a real NY Catholic Church. … Even the priest declares that love is love.
Jupiter and Saturn in the evening sky around Christmas: We’re About to Witness a Super-Rare Planetary Alignment Not Seen in 800 Years.
…alignment hasn’t occurred since the Middle Ages will happen again in March 2080. After that, Jupiter and Saturn won’t get as close until 2400.
I hope this Radio NZ interview video is available beyond NZ. Take 30 minutes to watch: Dolly Parton: ‘I’m proud to be an example for a strong woman’
“They had a sign saying ‘Dolly for president’ and I said ‘no thank you’. We’ve had enough boobs in the White House.
What a woman!
I spent an hour today weedeating a metre wide strip on either side of the first leg of our private lane. Hard work.
Kiwis: Tradespeople:
Trading stereotypes for a job well done: A directory of women and gender diverse people working in the trades in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Heh, why we don’t blow stuff up with marshmallows, even though they have more energy than TNT: Dangerous Marshmallows?!:
Burning a marshmallow can release more energy than detonating an equal mass of TNT…
Thanks MinuteEarth.
The movie Netflix ☛ Joyful Noise starring Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton had plenty of great music. We enjoyed it.
In the film, two strong-minded women are forced to cooperate when budget cuts threaten to shut down a small-town choir.
Lingthusiasm Episode 50: Climbing the sonority mountain from A to P was particularly interesting, introducing linguistic concepts and terms I’d never heard before, such as sonority and mirroring.
“Bnick” contains English sounds, but doesn’t feel very likely as an English word.
