Lauren M

Climate change: Doom versus gloom Should we hope for the best and prepare for the worst when tackling climate change?

"Thinking through the implications of 4C warming shows that the impacts are so significant that the only real adaptation strategy is to avoid that at all cost because of the pain & suffering that is going to cost. There is no science on how we are going to adapt to 4C warming" @neiladger.bsky.social

Also, 'Bert Newton's Corpse' is a punk band I'd go to

Can't wait to hear a white woman sing something about how love truly is the answer so stop worrying about all that other inconsequential stuff you plebs; and do the 'Live Laugh Love' press tour to accompany it telling us how this song is for 'everyone, to bring us all together.'

Don't hold back.

Ah yes the well known 'Money armour' that reliably protects workers from dying when hit by a bomb

‘The most bitter news’: Iran reels as more than 100 children reportedly killed in school bombing The building appears to be among many devastated in Trump’s ‘major combat operations’ as long expected attacks arrive

I don’t know what to say to monarchist relatives texting me asking me why I am not celebrating. How does one celebrate this? One replied to me, “You have to crack a few eggs to make an omelette.” I’m just not going to reply.

feeling compelled to post this new yorker reject from years ago, for some reason

Strike: when we bomb someone
Attack: when someone else bombs us

Boop

Well, yes, trans people are getting drugs; yes, from entirely unregulated sources; yes, without counselling; yes, without blood tests; yes, they are self-administering; yes, without clinical oversight; yes, risking long term harm; yes, it is highly suboptimal.

What did you think would happen?

the plan, such as it is, appears to be “bomb a country of 90 million people that is already facing a water crisis into a failed state, walk away and declare victory”

this is a monstrous nightmare regardless of whether or not it “works”

US intervention in Iran is not benevolent. But Iranians do not have the privilege of choice 'To the critics of the Iran intervention, I ask: the Iranian populace has been dying from cancer for 47 years — what treatment options do they have?'

Important piece by Dr Hessom Razavi: "frequently left-leaning Western armchair commentators with minimal skin in the game...display scant awareness or a cool indifference towards those who are most at risk: the Iranian people themselves, in their tens of millions".
www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/02/u...

If white supremacists can hold rallies then people can have a memorial for whoever they like. Can't choose who gets freedom of expression and this certainly doesn't meet the category of hate speech or actively harming people, much as lots of us personally wouldn't agree with it

In a time of fascism, tech-bro consolidation, climate breakdown, war and inequality, I would very much like to be led by someone who's not a blithering idiot and has actually put in the work to understand these situations

Here’s Luxon saying NZ supports “any action” to stop Iran and me following up to ask if that would include carpet bombing (vid via RNZ)

Appreciate you challenging him - given everything that's happening in the world and how it could affect us, it's not being petty or point-scoring to really drill down on this

I said on another post- this simply isn't acceptable from our Prime Minister, whoever they are. They should be all over this, for many reasons, and to not be is failing the country and the role. I'd say that of anyone standing at that dais who put in a (non) performance like that.

They’re really trying to do drive-thru colonization

I know we're not allowed to say it out loud but it'd sure be good to know why a fascist America run by a sundowning, violence-loving pedophile having nukes is fine but Iran having them is not

Normally I applaud people for saying they don't know something but sure seems like you probably should be informing yourself enough to take an educated stance on this when you're THE LITERAL PRIME MINISTER

'So cool how complex society just happens!'

Once more: lots of people running the show have either forgotten or never understood that things like stable government, taxes and a not-fucked environment might actually be important

No, because you can't threaten a thing that doesn't exist.

#nzpol

Like clockwork, fossil fuel companies will profit from war.

'You can't afford to eat and we've given all your money to landlords but for God's sake stop being so impatient.'

A somewhat related thought I had last night.

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Oh word? The major consequences of a war haven't been felt within 36 hours and therefore nothing bad could possibly happen?

Duncan, I can't find on here who is actually participating- are you able to confirm?