Steve Taylor AngelWings Ltd

The struggle to develop and secure locally based, community owned renewable energy is key to world peace…

Great to sit with a local church leadership team this morning and reflect on spiritual practices in ministry and mission. I offered 3 spiritual practices which were appreciated. Then I shared 6 benefits of spiritual practices, drawing on my research with 10 congregations over the last 18 months.

Dusk settles over the Maungatua hills. Lovely evening for an Ōtepoti Dunedin airport pickup.

Just astonishing that in a democracy like the US it only takes one President to start a war.

This is my research box for a qualitative research projects.

Candle to encourage silence. Cheese and crackers. Research diaries for participants. Manila folder with survey forms. Pen and my own research diary to keep notes.

Having a research box is such fun.
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As David Seymour offers advice to major NZ business I remind myself that he has no recent business experience. He is paid by the public purse and only stands to speak in parliament because of lack of a free market in his electorate.

These negotiations are occurring with no public announcement, no parliamentary oversight, and no consultation.

The public is being kept in the dark while the Government negotiates the handover of our most sensitive personal data to the Trump administration.

The Government is currently negotiating an Enhanced Border Security Partnership with the US Department of Homeland Security that would grant US agencies, including ICE, automated, direct access to New Zealanders' biometric data and identity records.

Screenshot of the Knowledge Commons homepage

Another day, another report of a for-profit academic website exploiting user data 🙄😫

Create an account on Knowledge Commons (hcommons.org)! We're a nonprofit where users can create websites, upload works to our open access repository, and so much more. And guess what? We don't sell your data! 💖

They are looking for a new keeper for Quarantine Island/ Kamautaurua in the middle of the harbour. It's on seek, if you think that you might be keen.

Hipkins' speech wasn't boring by accident Chris Hipkins’ state of the nation speech was relatively subdued, but Labour’s leader was more freewheeling in his thinking away from the autocue.

'Quite why his opponents got to have the first assessment and most prominent headlines on the Labour leader’s speech is a mystery of the political-media industrial complex.'

Tim Murphy also pts out National had released less policy at the same time of election cycle.
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That and/or drug rehab. Although there’s significant research including the Hamilton city pilot that shows housing alone is v helpful

Monochrome photograph featuring a Black woman crouching in the corner of an interior wearing boots, jeans and a t-shirt looking outwards half smiling

Tracy Chapman (b.1964), award winning US singer-songwriter #WomensArt

Delighted to be researching with 6 congregations in Lent26, using quant and qual methods to study social impact of Lenten practices.

Very grateful to congregational leaders, private funder + the psychology-engaged theology Crosstraining/Templeton fellowship.

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facebook post from Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou: "Kia hiwa rā, kia hiwa rā! Kua taki te koukou o te ruru. Kua riro atu rā tētahi i te rika kaha o aituā. Ka tū te rāhui, ā, ka rere kā tai o aroha ki te whānau i tēnei wā pōuri. This is to respectfully advise that Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou has now placed a rāhui (a temporary closure) in respect for the mate/ drowning at St Clair beach earlier today. The rāhui covers an area of Saint Clair and St Kilda beach for 3 days lifting at midday 21st February. It applies to the gathering of kaimoana/seafood and recreational activities. Please network to the public, your whānau/family, friends and contacts"

CW: death

Ōtepoti: Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou has placed a rāhui in respect for the mate/ drowning at St Clair beach earlier today

The rāhui covers an area of Saint Clair & St Kilda beach for 3 days lifting at midday 21st Feb

it applies to the gathering of kaimoana/seafood and recreational activities.

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.

I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion

People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

National struggles for traction as NZ First gains ground Labour and Chris Hipkins maintain their advantage, National stalls, and NZ First continues to rise in the latest The Post/Freshwater Strategy poll.

New Post/Freshwater poll has Labour seven points clear of National:

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NZ has not really come to terms with how far developed the disinfo networks were that led to riots and flames on the parliament grounds.

It's been brushed off as individual cookers without much serious introspection in public of the information ecosystem and funding conditions that led to it.

'academia is a calling', I whisper to myself, as I rewrite my CV so that it conforms to yet another new bespoke and required format, somehow doing this twice (in two different formats) for the same grant application

He lived at home for most of his uni life.

Embroidery with significant symbols and motifs in reds and green on a cream background

Palestinian tatreez is a deeply rooted, intricate form of traditional hand embroidery and cross-stitch (falahi) that refrences identity and heritage #WomensArt

Crap for the fish.

Stunning piece of art.

why go on a writing retreat I’ve been thinking about all the writing that I need to get done this year. There’s three book contracts, yes three, and a host of papers which are undoubtedly going to need revising. Looking…

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Thanks. Congratulations. Good luck. If you want help to letterbox I’d be glad to assist

Very cool. Thanks

I got Hong Kong Baptist University to purchase a copy! library.hkbu.edu.hk/record/?ID=a...

The presentation builds on my IASH Research Fellowship in 2024 into grassroots digital activism.

My thanks to the organisers for all their work to draw together a 3 day hybrid conference.

More about my paper and the feedback is here emergentkiwi.org.nz/archive/clim...

It was a late night, but very pleased to present at paper at the Digital Marginality & Plural Subjectivities conference hosted by @iashedinburgh.bsky.social. My paper, titled “Climate justice and the performing of prayer in digital spaces across transnational margins,” explored visual eco-praxis.