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Kia ora Solarpunk / NeoLuddite / Astrophotographer #ClimateEmergency Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · Feb 6

Kia ora everyone, I’d like to start out here on this platform with a message of peace, in the spirit of friendship and mutual aid extended to all the people of the world
❤️ 🖤 🤍 💚

Photograph of a handmade protest sign held up high. Text reads: “PEACE FOR GAZA”

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 7h

Te Pati Maori burn a paper in front of Parliement steps. Brownlee is livid.

When David Seymour drove a Land Rover up Parliament steps then lied that he wasn't warned not to, until footage emerged, Brownlee said "Let the public decide what they think of it, not me" #nzpol

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 4h

I think it was the obvious play from day 1.

They’ve been telling us for years that they just want to completely plunder and collapse the govt, exactly like the Russian oligarchs did to the Soviet Union.

There it only took 1 month to offshore all public assets into private oligarch accounts.

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Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 5h

Feels like a good time to say that the attitude among Ministry leadership is that teachers can suck it up and do what they're told.

Pat Brittenden @patbrittenden.bsky.social · 7h

#BHN The government keeps telling NZ that the unions need to get back to the negotiating table, while the government also refuse to accept a date for the unions to get back to the table to negotiate #nzpol #NZPolitics @chewienz.bsky.social

This is an important video to share today #megastrike

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 5h

It's simple, a lot of dems are nazis who want to do nazi shit, and their objection to the Trump administration isn't the nazi shit, it's the aesthetics they object to. Trumpism is brutish and ugly and puerile, a gross fascism that wallows in naked greed and corruption, but they'd be better at it.

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 4h

Imagine arguing this about household chores

“I’m a ‘doing the dishes minimalist’ which means I’m going to wash one plate a day”

You’d just have a steaming pile of mouldy dishes piled up after a week: the problem severely worsening instead of getting better

“Climate change minimalist” is idiotic

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 8h

At #COP30 next month in Brazil, the animal ag (and broader ag) industry is likely to be as active as the fossil fuel guys obstructing commitments to emissions reductions. I got a crash course on how they work from the great @profsecchi.bsky.social and Kathrin Lauber and terrific new @cssn.org book

Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 8h

There's increasing awareness of the role the animal ag industry plays in climate obstruction, but this new book brings all the peer-reviewed research on the subject together in one place and it's 🤯.

drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

S14, Ep7 | How the Animal Ag Industry Obstructs Climate Policy

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

drilled.media

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Nō 𝔸𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕒 @wittyeti.bsky.social · 5h

Imagine, it's 1893 and women are given the right to vote in Aotearoa.

Then two years later the govt didn't like the work involved counting the extra votes, so reversed it.

This needs to be a one term govt or I'm gonna have to learn how to swim.

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New Zealand guts climate policy it bragged about on the world stage

The law was once held up internationally as a model of transparency. The government just weakened it.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 6h

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 5h

Snort #nzpol

Firefighters' union reps at a table, the other half of which is meant to have government negotiators at it. But they aren't there

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 6h

If you keep lowering your standards to “win” against the other side, eventually you’ll just be on the other side

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rusty54.bsky.social @rusty54.bsky.social · 7h

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 8h

🚨BREAKING: The State of Arizona filed a lawsuit accusing House Speaker Mike Johnson of violating the Constitution by refusing to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. The plaintiffs argue that Johnson’s delay has deprived hundreds of thousands of Arizonans of representation.

News Alerts

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 7h

And he was found guilty but wants a payout?

Gotta hand it to him he’s inventive

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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 12h

There’s approximately 0% chance Collins was unaware of the optics here.

Really getting the sense that National are intentionally ramping up the importation of the combative “Own the libs and damn the policy” constant culture wars style of politics from the US. #nzpol

David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 21h

You’re never too old to make worse friends than Slater

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 20h

Mike Johnson has given the house a very very very very very very very very very long vacation because he’s worried about the Epstein files

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Raskin with Jeffries: "It's an alarming situation where now we have many of these January 6 defendants who have been picked up on other defenses. The Department of Justice is not zealously prosecuting them for other crimes they have committed ... it's a very dangerous situation."

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 8h

“Addressing climate change costs too much”

Hey siri how much does it cost to replace ALL THE GLASS in Wellington city?

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 8h

I’m looking at this and thinking

As climate change worsens …

… is the concept of “glass windows” even viable in nz anymore? Probably not

The wind is just going to cut straight through glass windows in many cases

And weather like this will probably be a weekly occurrence within a few years

T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 8h

Pie is feeling what it feels like to exist in 2025 that’s all

We all feel this way don’t we?

T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 8h

Me, looking at Wellington lately:

“I wonder if ‘all glass windows breaking’ is going to be the cost of climate change in nz soon, literally: ‘Glass windows don’t work here anymore’”

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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 9h

It takes a special political talent to literally cuddle up to people whose regime is much less popular than your own historically-unpopular regime

Say what you like about Winston cuddling up to Farage, but he can at least see that Reform is more popular than any party in NZ

David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 21h

You’re never too old to make worse friends than Slater

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Malcolm RF 💚🇳🇿 @p-no-nwa.bsky.social · 10h

This is the future the Federated Farmers want. And their buddies in government will always be there to bail them out with our tax dollars. #nzpol

Questions for MetService about warnings issued for 'badly impacted' Waitomo District

The mayor says the district was hit by "severe storms" and a red warning should have been issued.

www.rnz.co.nz

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PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 22h

PERFECTLY NORMAL

October heat records broken across Australia as Sydney braces for temperatures way above the norm

Birdsville sets new high as BoM forecasts more record hot weather, with heatwave warnings in place in some states

www.theguardian.com

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 20h

Tech does holy damage because the electrons in circuitry are not dissimilar to the electrons in the neurons in your brain, and god is just the pool of collective consciousness

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jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social · 1d

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1681

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