Dr Sharon Bell

Me right at this very minute. “Break into three groups! Take the poster paper and markers!” 😂😭

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

I love to see the newest member of ASEAN getting amongst it. I’m a big fan of solidarity with the people of Myanmar over “non-interference” when it comes to war crimes.

www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmar...

I have to support this wormy little guy cuz my kid did the illustrations!

Actually snort laughed.

Cultivating re-existence: women’s care work and political placemaking on the Myanmar-Thai river border Across the world, conflict and capitalist dispossession inflict brutal violence on agricultural and resource-dependent populations. Drawing on ethnographic research among Indigenous Pgha k’nayaw co...

Super happy to share this new article where I explore the difficulties faced by displaced women on the Myanmar-Thai border and caring for borrowed lands along the Salween River serves as an act of re-existence that emplaces them against entangled forms of crisis
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

AccuWeather screenshot showing 100% humidity

How’s this for the humidity I had last night on this work trip 🥵 (not Auckland).

Ministers get regular briefings so the green shoots messaging is just straight up lying

If there is a recovery going on in the economy, it's not happening for working people. The cost of living is rising again. Work is harder to find. A tax cut doesn't help you if you don't have work. We need a real plan from the government, not another slogan.

Screen grab from Stats NZ, showing that unemployment is up to 5.4% in the December quarter.

Bloody hell. More people out of work.

Time to stop wittering about "green shoots" and face the reality: this government is failing New Zealanders. #nzpol

www.stats.govt.nz/indicators/u...

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Five Years of Darkness

Tomorrow - Feb 1 - marks 5 years since darkness again fell on Myanmar, when the military staged a coup and embarked on a brutal campaign of terror against its own citizens that included dismantling the infrastructure that allowed people to stay informed.

kite-tales.org/en/article/f...

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Many former refugees from Myanmar have resettled in Aotearoa New Zealand & rebuilt their lives. The military junta magically “won” the recent election & brutally suppress any opposition while bombing hospitals & schools. Keep telling these important stories that highlight how connected we all are.

🇲🇲 The election is done Now what?

With Myanmar's farcical election done, I think it's MORE important now to pay attention. The military thinks (or is happy to pretend rather) this has given them the mandate of the people. That is not true and we cannot, even a scooch, fall for it!
darimulut.substack.com/p/the-electi...

Blardy stoked to see this move.

Evergreen reminder that this was something she came up with, not something she was advised to do. In fact she was pretty specifically advised it was a terrible idea (it was) but she went ahead with it anyway because something something Not Real Science

Judith Collins resigns after a near quarter century in politics She has been in Parliament for more than 20 years, as the MP for Clevedon, and then Papakura.

good riddance to Minister Judith Collins, who orchestrated the present gutting of New Zealand's science funding establishment

I've not seen or heard any coverage today that mentions this tiny detail, affecting 100s of millions of public dollars and endangering NZ's entire intellectual community

Awesome!

If this billboard is anything to go by, it would seem that the National party's economic plan is struggling because they are employing children to do the work of transforming the economy!

#nzpol Data released by Stats NZ today shows that the cost of living rose at its fastest rate for 18 months. Prices rose for 80% of items in the CPI basket, meaning growth in prices was broad-based. Minimum wage workers are now facing a 3rd year of real terms cuts in wages. A thread

We walked out after getting married to Thunderbirds Are Go.

Allow me to summarise

Everything is fucked, broken, not working, worse than ever, BUT it's not as shit, fucked & broken as we predicted, so 'finance in better shape'

There's not a single thing in that article that is even slightly acceptable

Absolutely. It’s not politicking…it is clearly demonstrating that we will have more of this and more lives lost if we let these current ghouls keep control of climate policy. Where is the leadership anywhere?

National FB ad saying in 2026 they'll fix the basics

Fix it from who? The fuck have you been doing the last 3 years, you festering cyst of a government?

Gals is it too spicy to point out that the major parties insisting Nothing Can Be Done So Why Bother is effectively voter suppression, and it's particularly dangerous because the far right *don't care and will still turn out for hate and bigotry* while the left are bullied to be more moderate?

Uggghhhhh

OMG yes.

Ohhh relevant to my interests. I just bought myself binoculars. 🤓

The recovery you want has been further delayed The government will be desperate to tell a story that things have improved. The data tells us that we have spent two years regressing. Let’s not make it another 4.

#nzpol - I have had a look at these 'green shoots' ahead of the Prime Minister's State of the Nation Speech on Monday. The data tells us that we have spent two years regressing. Let’s not make it another 4. More at: craigrenney.substack.com/p/the-recove...