Siobhán

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It is a very particular thing with this Government that businesses are the only things that drives economic growth, whereas people just, I dunno, have babies and breath too much.

This government is undermining climate policy by slashing funding to independent Climate Commission
every year (in real terms - much bigger in nominal terms)
2022: 16 million
2023: 19 million
*Election*
2024: 17 million
2025: 15 million

#ScorchedEarthBudget #BackwardsBudget #Budget2025

Pōneke friends, can you get to parliament on Tuesday:

Oh thank you... IG hurts my brain so much, so I really appreciate you being a vessel 😍 (although I would prefer we didn't need human vessels and this wasn't even happening to begin with, wtaf....💀)

Yes yes, I’m hanging on everything say, thank you for shedding light on this

Can all ma friends in Aotearoa make sure you’re not letting this vvvvvv important article pass you by, which may be buried under the inane pieces we normally call “news”

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Stuff news article detailing Microsoft selling services to Israeli military with advert for Microsoft Windows 11 within the copy

Advert for (Microsoft product) windows 11 within an article about Microsoft (maker of product in advert) selling advanced AI (hmmmm) to Israel military (currently causing a genocide)? Really @stuff.co.nz ????

Part II: The Connecting ⚡️💡 The second part of The Earnestly Incomplete Non-Guide for the Disillusioned, the Lost and the Totally Bewildered

Alt title: “How to Co-habit With Someone Who Is Realising That Everything Is Connected & That Is Looks Nothing Like Any of Us Were Taught in School, & You Might Have to Be Very Patient While Your Person Reframes Their Entire Existence”

Tip:have cake ready

siobhanfriel.substack.com/p/part-ii-th...

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What the bejesus is happening in Aotearoa NZ — " tax breaks for tobacco companies are being funded by cutting women's pay rises and backpay"
THANK YOU to all my friends out there at the snap protests

omigod 👇🏼 gosh, we humans are so ridiculous 🫣

this makes my soul feel warm and nice

Why You Might Be Feeling a Bit Crazy: The Maddening Paradoxes of our Time Listen now (42 mins) | Today we’re talking about the most fundamental of cosmic laws.

If you feel like you’re quietly losing your mind while the world carries on like everything’s normal, then I have good news: You are not only quite sane indeed, but pretty amazing. Let’s be friends.

How to Explain Your Terrible Sense of Fear & Dread to Someone Who Really Doesn’t Seem to Care Why you feel it and why they might not (and what to do next if you need a thing to do)

It may be 1) surprising then 2) bewildering, then 3) hurtful to realise the people we care for have wildly different opinions on stuff that really matters to us. I hear ya, friend ⬇️

this makes me a little homesick for Somerset, for spring, for the oaks I used to hide behind when I was young and called in for tea.
Now I am in Aotearoa, and while there are english oak trees here, it's late autumn and they are sleeping. Also, no one calls me in for tea anymore. Which sucks.

How to Get Your Citizens to Think They Are The Problem (& Not You): A Cheat Sheet for Psychotic Systems Making your people blame themselves for your systemic and structural psychosis will help you scale. You got this

Every psychotic system needs a cheat sheet

oh wowwww a doco!

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Join us:

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yayyyyyyyyyy #cancerrising

Thanks, wise one

love this book!

I'm reading it now and loving it! My life is now about becoming a great hag.

er, yay? ⬇️

I'm a volunteer editor so I'm totally biased, but the latest edition is poignant, a bit painful, and utterly beautiful.

From what I see in my feed, I think a few of you will like it.

Check out the latest issue here, hot off the press: journal.workthatreconnects.org/march-2025/

Love to all 💛

The #WorkThatReconnects network, the organisation that continues to strengthen the practices and principles developed by #JoannaMacy and her colleagues, publishes the bi-annual Deep Times Journal. The journal is filled with heart-led art in service to these times.

We are in the middle of a climate apocalypse. But do we really care? The problem with the soft apocalypse is that it is still an apocalypse. It still ends in collapse. We tell ourselves we have time, that the worst is always just ahead, that we will act when we must

“We tell ourselves we have time... But by the time catastrophe demands full recognition, it is often too late. Or, maybe one day, we wake up… and realise we have adapted to the point of extinction” -Olimita Roy

#JustCollapse - the only thing that still makes sense

indianexpress.com/article/opin...

An Earnestly Incomplete Non-Guide for the Disillusioned, the Lost and the Totally Bewildered Oh there you are! Good. Come sit with me a minute

If you're stumbling around, disorientated and alone, on the foggy alpine plateau that is being a human right now.... come and sit by my rock cairn. I have snacks.

It’s Friday and there is no better way than to boost some amazing activists and organizations.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You uphold democracy and freedom.

Please hit follow all and repost

Thank you. I promise to include people who interact on my next pack

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