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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 52m

'Who pays?' is part of the problem.

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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 1h

Thanks Mike—I watched some of your interviews about water quality in NZ when researching our video. What a shitshow

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Mike joy @mikejoyecologist.bsky.social · 2d

100% brilliant
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-yj...

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 2h

Like political polls, the trajectory matters

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Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 3h

If you have any supermarket-style fruit boxes, complete with top and bottom, or sturdy paper bags to spare, please drop them off at the foodbank, 275 Hereford Street, between 9am–3pm Monday to Friday down the service driveway where the Red Foodbank flag is. Ring the bell if the gate is closed.

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Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 3h

Christchurch City Mission needs our help! They provide 1600 Christmas food parcels for families and people in need through December, but they need boxes! 📦📦📦

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 2h

Ignorance, bliss

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Paul Thistoll @pault.bsky.social · 3h

Here are two suggestions for a more vibrant democracy:

- no urgency unless famine, war, pandemic, etc.
- no press releases or document dumps fri-sun.

Mon - Thursday releases only.

Inspired by the select committee dropping the RSB report late on Friday and yesterday's climate change announcement.

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 3h

emperor, clothes..

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Troy Baisden @troybaisden.bsky.social · 8h

NZ's new methane target:

Represents doing nothing if historic efficiency gains continue, and assumes new mitigations won't work.

Worse, our farmers need to realise it cedes the future of the paperwork they complain about to places like Brussels instead of Wellington.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 5h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 17h

Remember the old rightwing argument that all we needed to do was put a price on climate emissions and let the market do its thing? Well the necessary step was for the Govt to put a price on emissions. The current far right NZ Govt just announced it will never put a price on emissions.

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 4h

what a beast

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 4h

Frankie?

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Bridget Williams Books @bwbnz.bsky.social · 4h

Vincent O’Malley’s 'The Meeting Place' is out this month!

Order from your local bookshop or our website, and join us for the launch on Tuesday.

🗓 Tue 14 Oct, 5.30pm | 📍 Royal Society Te Apārangi, Wellington

Hear Vincent O’Malley speak and get your copy signed ✍️

www.bwb.co.nz/books/the-meet...

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 4h

For roads except PPPs, funding authorities make that decision, not contractors. Short-sighted, for sure.

Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 4h

Has bought that line, yes.

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 4h

Best not to read her as a historian

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Nathan Simms @nathansimms.bsky.social · 4h

No, the 'centre-right' did not "sweep" the local elections. They did well in some areas, but they lost ground in other places. The left held their ground on Auckland Council, and they had gains in both Wellington and Christchurch.

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 4h

“The extra warming caused by weakening the methane target is massive: it is roughly equivalent to tripling all of our other emissions out to 2050."
- @christinahood.bsky.social, climate policy expert.

Story by @marcdaalder.bsky.social

Farmers off the hook on climate means rest of us pick up the slack

Comment: The Government's methane announcement is the policy equivalent of a steaming cowpat on cross-partisan climate consensus.

newsroom.co.nz

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Rob🎸 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 5h

Fucking ironic given our abject capitulation on climate yesterday

Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 5h

Global leaders, scientists gather for New Zealand's largest ever climate event in Christchurch

www.rnz.co.nz/news/country...
#nzpol

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."