Lauren M

There was a shit-ton of coverage here in NZ when 27 girls died in the Camp Mystic floods in Houston last year. There has been noticeably less about this

Iran: look, it's simple. We literally just paint the silhouette of a plane on the ground. We literally just nail together some boxes in the shape of a tank. We literally just pull looney tunes shit. Their AI will make them spend $100 million to destroy $5 of arts and crafts.

the US: grok is this

If we wouldn’t measure our health using just one indicator, why do we measure economic success that way? — @timjackson.org.uk on BBC Sunday Morning Live

cc #BeyondGDP #PlanetaryBoundaries #PostGrowth #Degrowth #ProsperityAshealth #WellbeingEconomy #DoughnutEconomics

For #FossilFriday, check out the St Bathans goose (Meterchen luti) that lived in #NZ 14-19 Mya (tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....), making it ten waterfowl species that lived around the giant palaeolake Manuherikia theconversation.com/meet-the-old.... Artwork by Sasha Votyakova/Te Papa CC BY-NC-SA.

If we do a whip-round in Ponsonby I'm sure we can outbid the nations with 100,000,000 people

Many are saying etc

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The local impacts of the war in Iran are completely foreseeable, except to the New Zealand government for which the easily accessible and common sense information below will come as a total shock as soon as disruptions hit April’s scheduled deliveries

No you don't understand, we are the Most Special Little Country and nothing truly bad can ever happen here

'How can you even think about fucking at a time like this?'

As evidenced today 🙄 Oh, this man who has displayed these qualities for months suddenly needs multiple articles about these qualities? Oh the climate denial and racism and wrecking women's pay was a few lines but this needs COLUMNS? Showing their whole asses yet again

Not to mention that if shit really hits the fan, we can make our own electricity in actually useful quantities

I know a few people like her; try something new and then make it their whole personality for a while, rinse and repeat. Extra-embarassing when you're famous (although yeesh, they probably never stood a chance growing up the way they did)

I genuinely can't gauge the Newsroom editorial tone these days. Milne the other day essentially equated taxing the rich with fascism (did the whole 'well this is leftist extremism and it's the same playbook as the far right') so who fucking knows

... And as you astutely pointed out in your other thread, it's sucking ass a lot faster these days because just treading water doesn't cut it the way it used to

An image from a National party event showing an overwhelmingly grey haired white skinned crowd from behind

White boomers really aren't beating the 'Fuck everyone who's not us' allegations are they #nzpol

So much to agree with here

Don't worry I'm just pulling your leg! My pop got the same as he aged, like he fucking hated the right but his hatreds got less specific

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

Climate change goes to the Oscars Several Academy Award-nominated films told stories dealing with global warming. More movies like this, please!

NEW: Five Oscar-nominated films have storylines dealing with climate change. That's the most ever.

"This is the world we live in. Filmmakers are experiencing climate change in their lives."

Here's the list, and why it's such a big deal: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/climate-ch...

The siphoning money upwards bit

Ah, the median voter

All you need to know about the richest horse race in New Zealand, the NZB Kiwi If you think the biggest paydays in New Zealand sport belong only to rugby tests or international cricket, think again.

The gilded age, 'Old world is dying new one struggles to be born etc' stuff always feels starkest in weeks when so many people are suffering and we're doing '4 million bucks if horse runs fast.'

Oh absolutely, he's utterly vile but his version of vile has some distinct differences to most of the caucus at the moment. Honestly it's just a cesspit though, they've essentially all abandoned any evidence or morals

Oh absolutely, it's the 'Well that person looks like my ideal vision of a politician (or at least what my internalised conditioning says they should look like) so uh I guess everything else they do is fine.'

It is genuinely hard to realise every day that you're living in a completely different reality than some people

Wellington council budget cuts = big climate cuts and a lower rate rise This year’s rates increase will be 7.4% as opposed to the forecast 9.4%, which was itself down on earlier predictions - if all cost-cutting recommendations are adopted.

Our Climate Change programmes are working! Last year Wellington city reduced emissions by 5%. Now is not the time for Climate cuts! We’ll only have to pay more later!

I want to hear in their own words, how they can justify this to the children who will have to live with climate breakdown

Bishop feels like the only one who MIGHT represent a change of direction. So many of them are neck-deep in extremely right-wing circles that they'd just be puppets and 'Luxon with a new hat' - or worse in the case of some of the real mask-off crowd like Brown

October 7 was a clarifying and radicalising moment for all decent, thinking people. And in New Zealand none of its warnings were heeded: there were no moral corrections and geopolitical realignments; no urgent action to secure energy independence and a measure of supply chain resilience; nil

It's a fun show and she's great in it. All the Firefly women were/are so likeable. The men?? 😬