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Add Your name: First Nations communities deserve safety and justice The Invasion Day rally in Boorloo / Perth was subject to a hateful and racist attack. Right now, we need our allies to speak up with us: for safety, freedom and justice. Sign the open letter to Home A...

I just signed the open letter - will you join me? First Nations communities deserve safety and justice. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ad...

👀Heads up Auckland!👀

⛈️You guys have both the risk of broadscale heavy rain and, the risk of thunderstorms with localised downpours of 25-40mm/h.

🔔Keep an eye out for any Severe Thunderstorms Warnings that could be issued for your area.

✔️Check your forecast here: bit.ly/metservicenz

As a climate scientist, I know heatwaves in Australia will only get worse. We need to start preparing now | Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick During black summer, my daughters were too young to know what was happening. Now, amid another Australian heatwave, they deserve answers

"In fact, extreme heat kills more Australians than all other natural hazards combined."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Tens of thousands of stock dead as Victorian bushfire assessments continue More than 228 homes have been confirmed destroyed and 20,000 head of livestock killed by bushfires across Victoria, with authorities warning the total is likely to rise.

PERFECTLY NORMAL

“permanently blind after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round at close range” (note that’s fired at his head) 😔

There’s more, but it’s worth remembering that loss of function or normal life is "damage" too, not "just" deaths.

This brutal mosquito-borne disease may have a cure, but there's a catch No one wants to make it.

This brutal mosquito-borne disease may have a cure, but there’s a catch: No one wants to make it.

From our colleagues at @vox.com:

My father, and a few million other young men of his generation, put their lives on the line. Over 400,000 of them died to rid the world of the same kind of fascist poison that now dominates the Republican party. How is this even possible?

Pic of Ahmed Al-Ahmed the hero of Bondi

Pic of Samir Zitouni the UK train worker hero

2 heroes half a world apart with this in common

👇🏼Ahmed Al-Ahmed disarmed a gunman killing Jews in Bondi, wounded in the process

Samir Zitouni👇🏼seriously wounded saving passengers on his train from a rampaging knifeman

Both Muslim Migrants acting selflessly to save others

#StopDemonisingMigrants

“The Green Party will make dental care free for everyone.

Our health and wellbeing relies on healthy teeth and gums - and everyone should have access to the dental care they need to thrive and participate fully in society.”

Tell the EU: Ban Octopus Farms Seafood corporations want to turn Europe into a testing ground for octopus factory farms, locking these intelligent animals in tiny tanks where suffering is so extreme they even turn to cannibalism.An

Tell the EU: Ban Octopus Farms action.eko.org/a/eu-wide-ba...

When oligarchs buy politicians, capitalism becomes socialism for the rich.

When the game is rigged by giraffes, expect height to be fundamental.

Woman in green

On November 20th, I'm going with my union to stand during an important vote on the Guaranteed Basic Income, which has the potential to change the lives of thousands of working class people. I'm the only anarchist member and I'm going in honor of my late uncle. #union #leftist #workingclass

Trickle down is a failed theory.
Trickle up is the way.
UBI

Westpac's annual profit rises 13 percent Westpac's full year profit rose 13 percent.

Westpac posts an improved full-year net profit of $1.2 billion, up 13% from a year earlier - driven by greater lending and margins, and a fall in impairments. Australian banks continue to make bank off of Kiwis' lending #nzpol #newzealand

Similar to what I’ve previously written, but Ian’s a climate scientist (I’m a biologist)

bsky.app/profile/notj...

Now that NZ dairy farmers are set to get a windfall, perhaps the current government can ask they get back to doing all we can to mitigate methane emissions?

It’s perhaps the biggest "putting it back into the community" they could offer.

What a combo‼️✔️

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Ferocious storm last night! I removed pipes & left mics recording about 9pm. MixPre managed to record six tracks 32/192k for six hours before it filled the 128GB memory card...
You can see the storm slowly petering out...
8040x2 8020x2 8050 + Geophone stuck to roof...
#sounddesign
#gameaudio

The wind in #wellington is forecast to be even stronger tonight... so I am preparing v2 of the aoelian pipes!
8 pipes this time, with 8 mics, gaffer taped to my boom

just waiting for the rain to stop

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

Everything is a distraction from this.

Photo of smiling Marama Davidson and Chlöe Swarbrick behind white text on a green background that says "Want a progressive tax system? Join the Greens today."

Join us 💚

www.greens.org.nz/join

YouTube video by Mountain Tui Nicola Willis's Debt More Than Labour Incurred Over Full Term

John Key left NZ with ~$60 billion debt

Nicola Willis admits Labour borrowed ~$80 billion over 6 years w/ a global pandemic & post Covid inflation

And Luxon's National are on track to borrow $120 billion ($100bn with pay equity stolen) in less time & no pandemic #nzpol #kiwi

Tell the EU: Ban Octopus Farms Seafood corporations want to turn Europe into a testing ground for octopus factory farms, locking these intelligent animals in tiny tanks where suffering is so extreme they even turn to cannibalism.An

Tell the EU: Ban Octopus Farms action.eko.org/a/eu-wide-ba...

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Over a background of a blurred black and white photo of a picket line, white text reads: Thank unions for this long weekend • actually, thank unions for weekends. Period.

Thank unions for this long weekend
…actually, thank unions for weekends. Period.

It’s always a good time to join a union union.org.nz/find-your-un...

Unions are collectives of workers but you can join as a solidarity member to support the work they do. #nzpol