Bella

Bella

@belladam99.bsky.social

I am a firm believer that if the planet doesn’t work, we will not be able to live on it. So all efforts must be made to reduce our harm on the natural systems we rely on.

88 Followers 81 Following 231 Posts Joined Nov 2024
13 hours ago

Et Tu, Bro?

Orange Julius promised his podcasting paisanos he wouldn't be crossing any Rubicons into Mideast wars, but when in Washington, he does as the neocons do. If Rogan no longer comes to praise the Donald, will countrymen still lend him their ears?

by Maureen Dowd

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18 hours ago
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Georgia O'Keeffe, Petunias, 1925 #WomensArt

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22 hours ago

Oh Habermas, what a loss. Thank you for everything!

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1 day ago

To lose one strait controlling the global oil supply may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
- Oscar Wilde

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3 days ago

Come on Jones, keep digging!

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6 days ago
Reimagining fuel resilience, and how to get it New Zealand is more exposed to fuel supply disruption than comparable countries and urgently need a resilience plan, yet a bill before Parliament just tinkers with fuel stocks, writes Simon Terry

Reimagining fuel resilience, and how to get it newsroom.co.nz/2023/08/21/r... — shameful that this article is three years old and the govt has just sat on its hands

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1 week ago
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Hipkins, you don’t go back to your ex unless they’ve changed The only thing all this strategic playing safe has done is show us how little Hipkins has changed, writes Verity Johnson.

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609... — touché, the mood of the nation set out perfectly

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1 week ago

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1 week ago
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Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

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1 week ago

They also have babies only a mother could love

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1 week ago
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It's reassuring that despite the cost of living crisis, the sustained recession, and our general malaise, our splendid banks can still make $30m a day in profits. But, wait, don't judge... (1/2)

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1 week ago

How’s the argument going for an LNG terminal, NZ? Still think importing our energy is a good idea? Still want to spend billions on it?

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2 weeks ago

Operation Epstein Fury is the most sophisticated military operation in the history of the United States.

by Pete Hegseth

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2 weeks ago

Heartbreak

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2 weeks ago
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Yes. We need a moratorium on data center construction.

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3 weeks ago
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What I'd say to you is that we need to look harder at dynamic economies like Singapore, and ask, what can we learn from them? How are they financing their massive investment in infrastructure, for example?

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3 weeks ago
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Is that carb ultra-processed? Here's a test even a kid can do The latest nutrition guidelines urge Americans to avoid highly processed food. But when it comes to carbs, many people don't know which ones are ultra-processed. Here's an easy way to find out.

The latest nutrition guidelines urge Americans to avoid highly processed food. But when it comes to carbs, many people don't know which ones are ultra-processed. Here's an easy way to find out.

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3 weeks ago
Painting of a stylised landscape with tall trees on exaggerated thin and long trunks, green fields and hills

Trees in the Sky, 1939 by Canadian painter Emily Carr #womensart

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3 weeks ago
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The many knives in Chris Bishop’s back OPINION: The Housing Minister’s latest backdown may not be the last. His experience will turn off other politicians keen to take a punt on our knottiest issues.

www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360... - after what bishop has done to the environment laws, this is a joy to read

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3 weeks ago

This country needs a ministry of water. Not for it to be completely disregarded

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3 weeks ago

There’s a key word missing: “super-agency tasked with transport, planning, housing, urban development and local government policy”, actually two

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1 month ago

Amazing how he speaks like he hasn’t been in Government for the last three years. Those problems getting worse? Your faults!

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1 month ago

My 2c is on wanting us to use plastic bottles

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1 month ago
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Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?

www.theguardian.com/news/2026/fe...

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1 month ago

Oh oh which one???

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1 month ago

Donald Trump and the Republicans are threatening to destroy representative democracy while killing civilians, taking massive bribes, destroying alliances, and exploding costs. That's why it's so critical that the Democrats find candidates who are inspiring enough to get me to vote.

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1 month ago

Not fair! Truss was jettisoned before she could hit the bottom

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1 month ago

Nice analysis, this was particularly insightful: “What we see is a collection of odds and ends, mostly around identity and culture rather than climate and the economy.” The Opportunity Party is on the right track here but may not be sufficiently populist

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1 month ago
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Here’s what flood risks means for the housing market Once-in-a-hundred-year storms are no longer that rare and are leaving a swathe of property damage. Here’s what that means for the housing market.

www.thepost.co.nz/business/360... - good article but forgets the international component, our insurers need insuring too and climate related disasters are hitting everywhere, insurance retreat is massive in the US, it may all fall over very quickly. We need a plan

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1 month ago

Seriously
Dreadful news

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