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Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

“We must stop expecting carbon offsetting to work at scale. […] We have assessed 25 years of evidence and almost everything up until this point has failed.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Watch: Christopher Luxon defends cuts to benefits for youth The prime minister says businesses are 'crying out for young people' as advocates decry the changes as a punishment.

“Luxon said the government did not want to "send a message to young people" that they could "just drift into welfare and that's it".

I know someone with *two* entry level roles who got *hundreds* of applicants.

There aren’t enough jobs.

Media accepting this propaganda at face value is concerning.

YouTube video by Peter McLennan Chris Knox: Songs Of You And Me - a documentary about Chris Knox (1995)

There's a biography of Chris Knox out this week - the author Craig Robertson contacted me a few years ago, as back in 1995 when I was at Ak Uni, I made a half hour documentary on Chris and he wanted to see it.
Anyway, I dug out the digital file and it's now online, enjoy! youtu.be/VQjvic02S8M?...

Wright Family Foundation posts $42 million operating profit, boosted by a 17% increase in govt funding to $306 million Other beneficiaries of the National-ACT-NZ First Coalition include $300million to big tobacco, and $500 million to big tech

Former National Party Cabinet Minister Tony Ryall got an ~11% pay increase to ~$313,000 as Best Start CEO, showing that money is contagious in National Party circles. Meanwhile Luxon tells unemployed job seekers to "stop playing Playstation" #nzpol #Kiwi

🚨A new under-reported NZ Bill: Summary Offences Amendment Bill closes 2pm Mon 6 Oct.
The Bill risks criminalising legitimate protest, is vague, unnecessary, gives wide Police discretion, allows arrest without warning, & could chill free expression.

Submit:
www3.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

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NEW THIS WEEK ON FEEDING TUBE RECORDS

JOMF "Give Me Shelter" LP
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ERICA DAWN LYLE "On Fire" LP (co-release with half-a-million)
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"Solar energy is anticipated to be the world’s main source of energy by 2050" hell yeah

Spain’s rapid wind and solar growth has CUT the link between gas and electricity prices 🌪️☀️

🇪🇸’s decoupling of gas and electricity prices happened faster than in other European countries, making it one of the cheapest power markets in Europe.

https://loom.ly/8DEmqVc

SOUND DIMENSION: FMB, by WET TUNA 2 track album

wettuna.bandcamp.com/album/sound-... new Wet Tuna alert. Perfect Friday buzz. 🍖🍩🥇

Anyone here register for a .music TLD? I did so and found the whole experience disappointing and not useful. I was not able to use the addresses as my own website instead I was relegated to a lame info page.. They now want to charge me lots of $$ for another year?

Stop Indonesia’s bill to censor LGBT+ lives online Indonesia is moving to ban LGBT+ content across digital platforms. Activists warn this will fuel harassment and arrests. Urge lawmakers to reject the Broadcasting Bill and defend free expression – cen...

Indonesia is moving to ban LGBT+ content across digital platforms. Activists warn this will fuel harassment and arrests. Urge lawmakers to reject the Broadcasting Bill and defend free expression – censorship is not protection. a.allout.org/s/W7EXN/

Yousef Sammour has been abducted by the IOF from the Global Sumud Flotilla

Please share this information

#NZPol

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There is an ep of podcast called Life Of The Record the discusses the recording of their stunning 1st album. It's great.

A fake paperback book cover with an illustration of a nude woman in a crown riding a giant bat. The title of the book is "Halloween Shmallowenn--This is me from now on".

Happy October 1st
#PulpSabotage

This is essential

The Mold Squad

The Gold Father

Heya NZ folks, is anyone able to point me at a rundown of the Wellington candidates so I don’t inadvertently vote for any crackpots?

In case you're not aware, Carole Cadwalladr is the journalist who exposed Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal in The Observer. Very excited to see what she and her peers will do over at The Nerve! www.thenerve.news Independent journalism is so important.

Lobby card for Night of the Living Dead, featuring stills from the film, including screaming faces, arm biting, and marauding zombies generally. At the top, the tagline: THEY WON’T STAY DEAD!

So, it’s the 57th anniversary of the first showing of Night of the Living Dead, in Pittsburgh, when a movie made for a little over $100,000 created (according to Jason Paul Collum, author of ‘Assault of the Killer B’s’) “a permanent shift in modern horror cinema”

YouTube video by Garys Economics The first politician on Gary's Economics

#BHN Are you serious Chloe Swarbrick? Can you please introduce me to your new best bud so we can have a chat 🤣🤣🤣

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl_L...

The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns According to a research note recently sent to clients by Deutsche Bank, the AI boom is currently helping the US economy avoid a recession but it cannot...

"So... the bubble's about to burst, how should we spin it?"

YouTube video by bigfootpegrande Don Cherry - It's not my music (1978 Urban Lasson Documentary - feat. Naná Vasconcelos & Much More)

DON CHERRY "DET ÄR INTE MIN MUSIK" a.k.a. "IT IS NOT MY MUSIC"

Swedish TV documentary from 1978
Produced and directed by Urban Lasson

youtu.be/MCdIV1ADchQ?...

photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

YouTube video by The Sick Man Of Europe The Sick Man Of Europe Fade/Form (The Bunker Tapes)

NEWS!

Fade/Form (The Bunker Tapes) is a live document of @thesickmanofeurope.bsky.social's evolution from the studio to the stage.

- 4-track digital mini-album
- limited edition 5-track cassette
- full-length performance video

youtu.be/F4E09qBKmKE?...

Add your name in opposition to new oil exploration Together we fought long and hard to ban offshore oil and gas exploration and will resist it restarting under the National Government.

Add your name to the promise that we will not allow more oil and gas exploration here in Aotearoa.

Help remind the oil industry that they are NOT welcome👇
action.greenpeace.org.nz/petition/cli...

Fishrider?

A dreamy Fazerdaze show in Boston. Been waiting a while to see them & lucky me, they did some headlining shows this past week. A clip of them performing “Cherry Pie.” Thanks for making all the effort to travel across the U.S. from Aotearoa / NZ. “Soft Power” is one of my faves of the last year. 🍒✨