Mark McGuire

Former design academic (U of Otago)
No longer active here.
Writing on StreetPhotography at on Instagram

[Mark McGuire @mark_mcguire]

I'm no longer active on X (or Twitter). My work, bio, and links can be found at https://t.co/t3Ushgbslp

[Mark McGuire @mark_mcguire]

The Twit marked his target with an X, then proceeded to tweet himself in the foot.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Disney, Apple and Lionsgate halted ads on X as Elon Musk faced a furor over his endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory on the social media app, formerly known as Twitter. https://t.co/mdmTY7VqLs

[Mark McGuire @mark_mcguire]

I don't come here much anymore. Since Elon Musk canceled the bird, the garden just hasn't been the same.

[Mark McGuire @mark_mcguire]

To quote a soon-to-be-released National Party ad,

If we’re all going to hell in a handbasket, you might as well have an extra hundred bucks to spend when you get there.

[Mark McGuire @mark_mcguire]

@shawnmicallef I’m reminded of a marketing slogan for the King Toronto Condominiums — “How do we use architecture to create community?”. Better to ask “How can we use community to create architecture?”.
https://t.co/d7oFk9FINC

[Mark McGuire @mark_mcguire]

I published my second weekly post for my Substack newsletter about Street Photography. This one is about photographing silence. https://t.co/R0a5a10o4U

#StreetPhotography #Photography #Substack

[Mark McGuire @mark_mcguire]

I started a Street Photography newsletter on Substack to discuss street photography and share resources. The first post has been published. I invite you to subscribe if you would like to receive them by email. https://t.co/1xd60MEaWR #StreetPhotography #Photography #Substack

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Why Every Twitter User Should Archive and Lock Down Their Data | Wirecutter https://t.co/C1HrQPM5tN via @wirecutter

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https://t.co/3zar5rz6M4

[Mark McGuire @mark_mcguire]

“Let us eat and drink, and leave without paying our bill. For tomorrow we die and will have no further need of this place.”

— The world’s billionaires, oil and media barons, corporations, and financial markets, supported by their political servants

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

COP27 is the culmination of 50 years of deliberate, engineered failure.
The world's governments look like a death cult, built around the demands of elderly billionaires.
My column.
https://t.co/SBkeVyvsb8

[Mark McGuire @mark_mcguire]

Someone shouted "Musk" on a crowded social media platform and people ran for the exits.

I'm now sheltering at @[email protected] (I'm also @mark_mcguire on Instagram & Flickr).

[Daniel Benneworth-Gray @gray]

how to download a backup of your tweets:

settings and privacy > your account > download an archive of your data

[Mark McGuire @mark_mcguire]

@erinkburrell That would be nice, but I'm still waiting for my car that folds up into a little briefcase.

[Mark McGuire @mark_mcguire]

New Zealand is "rapidly becoming an international outlier" with its lax approach to the pandemic. #Covid #Covid19 #Masks #WearAMask https://t.co/xTE8KQL50e

[Mark McGuire @mark_mcguire]

Labour and National Governments in New Zealand have ensured large dividends for investors in electricity generation and retailing. The result is expensive electricity and a lack of investment in renewable energy.
https://t.co/sZeln2i2eF

[Rupert Read 🌍 🔥 @GreenRupertRead]

Is THIS civilisation finished? Looks like it. But what comes next? That’s where you come in…

My new short film OUT OF THE ASHES, written by me & @frannyarmstrong and directed by @ageofstupid animation director Martyn Pick.

Please watch and RT!

#Climate #Cop27 #RealityCheck

[Mark McGuire @mark_mcguire]

This podcast @lawfareblog podcast is worth listening to.

Someone shouted "Musk" on a crowded social media platform and people are pouring into the street.

[Lawfare @lawfare]

For folks who think Mastodon is too complicated, @ARozenshtein says that "everything comes with a learning curve" and some have forgotten we all had to learn how to use Twitter in the first place.

Hear more of his conversation with @qjurecic and @Klonick: https://t.co/2zevfHNyS9

[Lawfare @lawfare]

For your commute home: new #ArbitersOfTruth, @qjurecic interviews @ARozenshtein and @Klonick to hash out the questions about the future of the internet sparked by Musk’s reign and the new popularity of Mastodon.

https://t.co/jtSYL0nG6p

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

It has taken a long time, but we're at last getting to grips with the enormous environmental impacts of the livestock industry. The struggle to defend the living planet against its predations will be familiar to anyone involved in fighting the fossil fuel industry 20 years ago.🧵

[Mark McGuire @mark_mcguire]

"My main concern is about whether we can provide enough entertainment for those people on cruise ships, as opposed to Covid.”
— Dunedin NZ Mayor Jules Radich

They must have a cinema on the ship. Perhaps they could screen 'Contagion'. I hear it’s very entertaining.

[The Guardian @guardian]

Cruise ship Majestic Princess to dock in Sydney with 800 Covid cases on board https://t.co/Lq40xP5iTI

[Mark McGuire @mark_mcguire]

“Monetary policy is a blunt instrument.”
— Paul Conway,
The chief economist of the Reserve Bank of NZ

Q. Who enriched property owners and killed housing affordability in NZ?

A. The NZ Government and the Reserve Bank, in the living room, with a blunt instrument.