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In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

This should be fully funded

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live KPop Demon Hunters - SNL

I missed snl last weekend but I enjoyed this bit of silliness
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This has been the vicious fucking thing about the "Jobseeker Benefit" ever since Paula Bennett coined it in 2013

In addition to keeping people in poverty it's been a term of propaganda forcing us all to accept the frame of welfare as economic obligation instead of social support

Everything is reversible with sufficient political will

There are MPs in parliament who have the personal lived experience of being part of the John Key administration that combined the sickness and jobseeker benefits. It ain't ignorance. Even if they aren't listening to advice, they were there on the day in the past.

UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

Another benefit of Brexit ... the UK has returned to its traditional role as the dirty man of Europe.
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Remember when labour restored the sickness and artists benefit and increased the benefit to livable levels? Oh wait, never mind, that never happened because labour is a right wing party

Junk

Guess all the Shakespeare studied at school in the past and lauded in the english curriculum rewrite was reaaallllly useful 🙄

Dozens of protesters arrested at Aerospace Summit in Christchurch 'We need to stop hiding behind this thin veneer of space exploration,' said one of the organisers. <br />

We condemn police brutality against @peaceactnotautahi.bsky.social members and supporters who engaged in peaceful direct action to oppose NZ arms and aerospace companies' collaboration with the American military industrial complex and the Israeli genocide in Gaza. thespinoff.co.nz/society/08-1...

This.

If Dolly needs prayers, you fucking pray, or meditate, send positive thoughts/vibes/whatever, because she’s a national treasure and we must protect her at all costs.

What did the cat order?

Sounds like lawyers were involved in drafting these statements. No one talks like that in real life

@infinitescream.bsky.social

“Would you like to buy some drugs?” No I’m fine thanks. I’m a novelist. I already hallucinate every day free of charge.

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Trust me - from close proximity - for a 19 year old struggling with mental health challenges job-seekers is terrifying but these changes will make things far, far worse for so many of our young people. Imagine extra funding to support 18/19 year olds through this tough time?

The Big As Strike

Takes a village to fight this government.
(Possibly pitchforks and torches too?)

It's particularly stupid that it was about automation of the welfare state, after they had to have an inquiry after the last time they did it

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If you'd asked me which celebrity would posthumously unveil a list of people she wanted fired into the sun, I would not have guessed Jane Goodall

Love her snark!

Infuriating

The Nursing Mirror, October 7th 1981 - forty-four years ago today. Melvin Ramsay. #myalgicencephalomyelitis #myalgice

BC Electoral Reform Committee: 93% support for proportional representation in public consultation 93% of those who participated in the public consultation of the BC Electoral Reform Committee with an opinion on the voting system recommended proportional representation.

BC Electoral Reform Committee: 93% support for proportional representation in public consultation - Fair Vote Canada www.fairvote.ca/06/10/2025/b...

A screenshot of a photograph of Anne Frank. It’s a black and white photo and is a side profile of her head looking towards the left of the page. There is black text above the photo and it says: “ the people who hid Anne frank were breaking the law. The people who killed her were following it.”

Just a simple reminder for today.

The green-lane-as-tunnel type of interdimensional portal is one of my favourites.

ACT MP asks Parliament to limit use of ‘genocide’ when describing Gaza war Despite being in a party committed to freedom of speech, Simon Court asked Parliament’s Speaker to consider restricting the use of the word ‘genocide’ to describe what’s happening in Gaza.

refusing to recognise Palestine statehood wasn't enough for Simon Court; now he wants to stop MPs from using the word genocide to describe...GENOCIDE. fuck this guy and fuck the 'Free Speech (except when we don't like what you're saying)' ACT party.

#nzpol

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The Even Greater Strike