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Press Release: Polls show NZers want long term solutions, a new economy, and further tax on the ultra rich — WEAll Aotearoa - Wellbeing Economy Alliance Aotearoa NZ Two Talbot Mills polls have revealed New Zealanders overwhelmingly want politicians to think long-term with future generations in mind; our economic system to change; and for the ultra rich to be taxe...

“Two Talbot Mills polls have revealed New Zealanders overwhelmingly want politicians to think long-term with future generations in mind; our economic system to change; and for the ultra rich to be taxed more to fund public goods like healthcare, housing and climate action.” #nzpol

I do love that a small handful of humans are like, “You will NOT go extinct. Not on my watch!”

While kākāpō are all like, “Hey, watch me! I’m adorable and TERRIBLE at keeping myself alive! *stumbles around* Whoa… *loses balance* whoaaaaa… ok, I think I’m good… Nope… Not good, catch me!”

¡Felicidades!

Congratulations, #Chile for becoming the first country in the Americas, and the second globally, to eliminate #leprosy disease.

A true milestone for public health! And a testament to what leadership, science, and solidarity can accomplish.

Read more 🔗 bit.ly/4b3Hpga

I’ve been notified about another death in ICE custody.

This marks a stunning 40 deaths during the second Trump administration.

This cannot continue. There must be real accountability for ICE and DHS.

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

It's not THAT hard to avoid taking money from a sex offender:

www.science.org/content/arti...

a tiny light brown dachshund is being held up by a human who is out of frame. they are at a beautiful snowy mountain range that looks straight out of a Pinterest photo. the dachshund pup, Frankie, is wearing a full body puffer jacket that matches her light brown fur perfectly.

This is Frankie. She just got a fancy new puffer and thinks she’s better than everyone now. And she is correct. 13/10 (IG: frankielasaucisse)

Miles of Memories – A Future of Care - Arohanui Hospice Beetling along in a 1926 True Blue Oakland open tourer started a love affair with vintage cars for Esmee and Ian Rowden of Palmerston North. It began in 1999, w

It's fairly typical that when my lovely dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer in January, one of his very first items of personal admin, while in hospital between surgeries, was deciding to donate his and Mum's classic car for a Hospice fund-raiser. 💚

www.arohanuihospice.org.nz/miles-of-mem...

It's outrageous that kids are left so defenceless.

Michael Baker : "the most likely driver of this wave is actually what we call waning immunity.”

People had been getting complacent about their boosters, and there hadn’t been a wave in a few months, so immunity was dropping, Baker said."

Rennie continued: "It's a lesson in regard to that and if you have a celebration behind closed doors and no-one knows what goes on, then that's where it ends regardless of what happens. That's the cross you bear being a professional athlete." 7/

sorry team we’re all full up on horrors for now. can’t fit in any new horrors until at least August I reckon

Love that soundtrack!

Hipkins going all out for my dying bestie, the international rules-based order: "For the US to claim that it was a preemptive act of self-defense because they were aware that Israel was going to attack... shows absolute contempt for international law."

My Turkish eggs

Menu in front of window with rainbow over the bay

New Hotel Catalina (old Spruce Goose building) is v good!

😭💚

Nicola Willis told us to jolly our way thru the bad economy before, now we're "impatient" for yearning for a time we can afford mince & butter

Man it gets up my nose considering she owns 4 properties, earns a finance minister salary of $288,900 & is directly responsible for the bad economy #NZPol

Trump and Netanyahu’s attack on Iran is an illegal act of aggression | Kenneth Roth Their actions are no different from Putin’s invasion of Ukraine or Rwandan president Paul Kagame’s invasion of the Democratic Republic of Congo

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hail?!

In the story of Humpty Dumpty it is never said that he is an egg. However, it is never said that he is NOT an egg. This means that any character in ANY story could be an egg unless explicitly stated otherwise. Keep that in mind when you read a Jack Reacher novel

Also her latest is in the Dreamhunter world!

A television and a wall showing lots of hanging pictures. There's a cat tree just in shot, and if you look carefully, a mysterious predator hangs upside down from it.

Took me longer than it should have...

📸 Mobile_Evening1723

We're probably getting pretty close to 700 science jobs lost over this term of government, directly linked to reforms/cuts. And believe me: the country wasn't overflowing with them to start with.

In the year of our Lord 2026, why is inserting pictures into a Word document such a debacle?

Three cheers for the bus drivers of Pōneke, who have been universally kind and generous to my bus-taking kids over the years.

They invariably let kids on for free if their card is low or misplaced, and make life much easier for us all.

Hip, hip, hooray!

Textes from Sisyphus:

UGH You are not goinge to BELIEVE what just happenid AGAYNE

!!!

The National Library still hasn’t paid hundreds of authors. It has ‘no definitive timeframe’ for a fix In what's being referred to as ‘a fucking saga’, 318 writers have been told they won’t receive public lending right money, even though they were told they'd successfully registered for the annual payment....

The National Library still hasn’t paid hundreds of authors. It has ‘no definitive timeframe’ for a fix

Absolutely incredible technique. No notes.

Fifth time lucky!

Today I visited four service stations that allegedly had car vacuum cleaners - two BP ones out of order and two non-existent entirely despite the Z website listing them on its map...