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Holy Cow! This Is Serious, by The Sand Spiders track by The Sand Spiders

New #punk #rock from The Sand Spiders: 'Holy Cow! This Is Serious'.

"holy cow!
this is serious
the man in the mask
ain't a superhero
this is pearl harbor
without the zeros"

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That is one mightily effective party political broadcast, and it really is not often I have ever been able to say that after a lifetime watching them.

Indonesia blocks access to Musk’s AI chatbot Grok over deepfake images Indonesian minister says deepfakes are a 'serious violation of human rights, dignity, and security of citizens' online.

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No, we do not need to give US billionaires free reign to spew hate, CSAM, and m/disinformation. No AoNZ gov agencies should be on a platform as vile as “X”. #nzpol

Great time for our useless government to cancel flu tracking.

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Every political party says they want more good paying jobs, but what causes a business to hire?

Increased demand.

Demand the Government support people experiencing homelessness! Everyone should have access to decent, secure and permanently affordable housing. But right now, many people in our communities are experiencing homelessness – living on couches, in cars, in overcrowd...

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Water View - The Sand Spiders Hey! Who doesn't love a Water View, right? Coming soon... Photo by Ludovico Ceroseis on Unsplash 1 go ask a farmer if you wanna know if seasons are changing don't need a science book to tell you thin

New song looking on the bright side of #climatechange - everyone gets a water view! - The Sand Spiders.

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Say YES to “Access” #YesToAccessNZ | Words shape worlds Why this matters ““Commit to replacing ‘inclusion’ with ‘access’ on 3 December. Maybe it sticks. Maybe it doesn’t. Maybe it’s the first step toward a more equitable Aotearoa.”  Access is a right,...

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Move the UN headquarters out of the US. It's a totally broken rogue state.

Squeezing a bigger slice of the tax pie from big tech companies The whole world is trying to chase down the likes of Google, Microsoft and Meta for more income tax, and New Zealand is no exception.

Tax the bastards and tie the rate to the Trump tariffs. #nzpol

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The large majority of Zionists are not Jewish, but evangelical Christians who eagerly anticipate Armageddon and expect that Jews will either convert or burn in hell. Zionism is not Judaism and Judaism is not Zionism.

Dear tech-bro oligarchs,

Every time I am forced to scroll past a bad A.I. summary of an email, my implacable hatred for you grows stronger.

Your LLMs are garbage. We don't want them.

We don't want your expensive, resource-guzzling bullshit machines to think for us. Stop trying to dumb us down.

Nuclear Options At The End Of The World What kind of people spend their lives making bombs that could end all life on Earth then call it defence, call it safety?

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The Future Of Humanity Will Be Decided In Gaza There’s a reason the Nazis loom so large in our history, a reason why the story of their defeat is a collective cultural reference point, depicted regularly in films, books and music.

The future of humanity will be decided in Gaza open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...

Clean Air in Schools Covid can have substantial impacts on peoples’ health. Although Covid initially enters the body through the respiratory system, it can affect virtually every bodily system and organ. There are no adva...

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So Low Solo So Lonely - The Sand Spiders Photo by Sasha Freemind on Unsplash I know you know what's coming the wars and storms even make the news but we don't talk about it cos what's the use you don't wanna know I want the wait to be ove

New #punk #rock #song from The Sand Spiders: So Low Solo So Lonely.

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These foreign tech giants are just leeches
#nzpol

'Ruining civilisation' - Labour's David Parker on social platforms

📢 The comments were made in an interview on Q+A about the current waves of global instability rocking the globe.

A person leaving a dark silhouette of a house with a backdrop of red flames across the sky.

Latest #heavyrock from The Sand Spiders:

No Place Like Gone
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Israel is mass murdering journalists and Aussie media loves that shit - The Shot In just 18 months, Israel has murdered 209 journalists. This is a journalist murderfest more grotesquely deliberate than any other conflict in history.

Here's me. 'Israel is mass murdering journalists and Aussie media loves that shit'

Is Rachel Reeves constrained by the City? Is the City really stopping Rachel Reeves from doing what Labour wants, or is she just using it as a convenient excuse for her neoliberal austerity? This is the audio version: This is the transc...

A narrative is recited almost everywhere: that Rachel Reeves is being "forced" to cut benefits, and is faced with "hard choices" or "no choice". This story, a staple of neoliberal doctrine, is completely false, as @richardjmurphy.bsky.social explains: www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...

Chants of TAX THE RICH! From today’s Indivisible empty chair town hall for Darrell Issa - who just so happens to be the richest person in Congress. @velshi.bsky.social @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com @maddow.msnbc.com @indivisible.org

These crimes were hidden for generations. Now Australia's having a moment of truth Australia has a painful past. For the first time, the country has been grappling with recording the stories of that history in a truth-telling commission.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
A major investigation is underway, an Australian first, unearthing a long-buried history hidden from the national narrative.

It’s called Yoorrook, the Wemba Wemba word for “truth”.
•Warning: distressing content.
#mobsky

YouTube video by Simon Clark Can we power the world with only clean energy?

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American Fascism, Expanding Seas, Mass Disability The US immigration agency ICE has detained two Germans, a Brit and a Canadian tourist in recent weeks as America’s illegals panic ratches up a notch.

New article up about some things including how Obama built the ICE deportation machine for Trump, the creative AI dystopia and Starmer's cuts in the context of the long covid disabling event open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...

Long COVID Awareness Day 15 March 2025

Today, March 15, 2025, is #LongCOVIDAwarenessDay.
We stand with those affected, advocate for research, and raise awareness for better care and recovery. 💙

#LongCOVID #COVIDisNotOVER

A Multi-coloured sign board SAY IT LOUD! WE'RE WOKE AND WE'RE PROUD! "GLAD TO BE SMART" AT THE BOTTOM

A UK Protest with various signs. At the front is a male white man, older, with the sign "WOKE AND PROUD" Other sigsn says "Cut war not refugees"

T-shirt: PROUD TO BE WOKE

I just want to SHOUT

PROUD TO BE WOKE
Proud to be me

#nzpol
#aotearoa

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