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Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · 22m

Stop asking ANYONE how they feel
Also, stop vox pops totally, asking random people for an opinion of some arcane, convoluted issue about which they have barely heard is undermining the social fabric
Also, <news story about XYZ> "now to Anna on site, what's been the reaction?" Stop wasting our time

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Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · 35m

Fair enough, and given the determined effort to collapse the US economy in the hands of the current regime, demand for, and ability to pay for, all fuels, globally, may be cutting across all those projections

Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · 12h

Fair point. Thanks for that.
Some questions
What is Argentina using that is worse than FF
why is the US projected to go from -16% to +8% - how does it look beyond 2030?
And what IS happening in the sector to get palms out of the game?

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Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · 14h

Weak?
Unambitious?

Piss off

Corrupt
Destructive
Craven
Suicidal
Scandalous
Pandering
Egregious
Stupid
Ignoble
Mendacious
Mindless
Ghoulish
....

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Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · 14h

Anthem

Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (HQ)

YouTube video by mongchilde

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Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · 14h

How
Much
Evidence
Do
We
Need

that they don't give a rat's arse about what we think, or want, or need
ESPECIALLY when it comes to some fascism-enabling toxin strained from Seymour's diapers

Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 17h

The select committee report on the Regulatory Standards Bill is in.
📝166,000 submissions.
❌98.7% opposed.
Yet National are going to continue supporting it.
🗣New Zealand could not have been louder, but Luxon still isn’t listening.

Regulatory Standards Bill:
Select Committee Report:
166,000 submission total
0.7% supported
0.6% unclear
98.7% opposed

AUTHORISED BY DUNCAN WEBB MP, PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS WELLINGTON

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Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · 14h

My wife grows fine basil as well so we have a selection of greenery for pesto, made
<ahem, flosses teeth, combs eyebrows>
with our own roast macadamias
and olive oil.

The "parmesan" is just some of my cheese I forgot that dried out in a fridge drawer and we ground it anyway

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choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 18h

ivy-educated investors and economists, the titans of finance, hunting through bond portfolios with a Clousseau-esque magnifying glass for “hidden risks” while NVIDIA LOANS OPEN AI $1 TRILLION IN DEAL TO BUY CHIPS FROM NVIDIA scrolls endlessly on CNBC over their shoulder

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Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · 14h

Hah, my parsley hung on over winter and now I can't tell one from the other, I had to get its parselyport to be sure

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Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · 16h

"The Government may need to “adapt” its strategy for this war on road cones": van Velden
Imagine being so hap[less that you declare war on road cones, fucking ROAD CONES

And STILL lose

That takes some serious loser vibes

Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 20h

National/ACT Coalition government spends over $100,000 a year on a road cone hotline that increasingly hardly anyone uses - with each call leading to less than one road cone removed.

And they took this funding from real worksafe work

WTAF #nzpol #kiwi

After 5 months of the heralded ‘tipline’, just 204 road cones are confirmed gone

In Whanganui, information from the Government’s own Road Cone Tipline had actually led to more cones being put out than taken away. In Wellington, 110 complaints resulted in just two cones being remov...

www.stuff.co.nz

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Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · 17h

Yep, right after they launch "Local Water not nearly as fucked up as you might think, no really"
AND
after Winston stands before us with the keys to those bright new ferries and cries, "gentlemen, start your.. what? Well it was here yesterday, I saw it, right after my midday single malt"

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Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · 17h

Sometimes they come so very close to grasping the nettle
But then they fall away to magical incantation, "if we say it loud enough and often enough and believe and pray hard enough, the underlying laws of physics and maths WILL manifest our fantasies"

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Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · 21h

They are betting that, with the rise of the hard right across Europe, Farage in the UK and Trump in the US, the "we don't give a fuck about the ecosystem, just show us the money" faction will rule everywhere that matters to them

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Cam Bennett @cambennett.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like I misunderstood what they meant by back on track

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Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · 21h

#nzpol
There are a very, very few of our pollies with this level of political courage, and NONE in government

Can you imagine even ONE mayoral candidate even contemplating this level of grounded, explicit, commitment, to ANYTHING?

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · 22h

Remember all that talk about how the future would be characterised by "The Paperless Office™️"?
And WE all went out and bought printers crying "hahahaha, we'll use even MORE paper"
And THEY went, "be my guest suckers"

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Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · 22h

I hear that 3 lines is about enough to get you off the planet for a while

Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · 22h

Mother of god that 2nd hangup is death on wheels, I'd be getting an experienced arborist in just to keep the area safe for the rest of us

Also, is it true that a major cause of death among beavers is being hit by falling trees?

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Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · 22h

Glad to see you too using "figurehead", pointless, barely decorative, nailed to the bowsprit, oblivious to everything that keeps him in front

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Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · 22h

THIS is an astonishing bit of video and well worth your time because it documents the transition from testosterone-fueled he-manery to science and mathematics - the US-friggin-AF
If you want to give Hegseth an embolism, make him listen to it, even the conclusion should blow his aorta

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Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · 1d

To be fair, pretty much any and every decision we have made will be irrelevant as the keystone to the entire global economic system is hell-bent on blowing itself up
& without a socially responsible, numerate, scientifically aware electorate and government, we are screwed, and on our own

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Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · 1d

Do we have a date for the end of palm oil production? Because until we do, regardless of being the outlier, it is still an actual part of the mix and contributes to the average. The climate doesn't care what the source is, or where it is produced, it just soaks up the CO2 and applies the physics

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Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · 1d

After the elections this week, the main thing we are stuck with is will be more and more and more damage from water.
Regardless of the options, a racist, infrastructurally ignorant, entitled, stupid, chunk of the electorate has decided that we will have the worst of all possible futures

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Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · 1d

Sweating the assets is a very popular form of exercise for some classes
Buy cheap, sweat them till they drop dead and walk away
After a leveraged buyout of course

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Earl Mardle - Death Cult Govt - Squalour, poverty & Disease @rlmrdlnz.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, I hesitated because I know how triggering it might be, but I couldn't find a better one
I can get on my high horse about stupid people as well as anyone, but I also try to ask what state I would have to be in to make that particular decision, and it often scares the crap out of me

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