Tim Gummer Is Changing It Up

People line up on a sidewalk at dusk in a line, holding lighted candles.

Happening now on 50th Street in Minneapolis. Lined up over a ten block stretch.

I think Paul mcCartney described it as the best song ever written. Also fascinating that the version GC received was an 'unfinished concept' from Jimmy Webb, but he recorded it anyway, and just added a simple baritone pitched guitar melody solo. And its fecking perfeck!

Though Cory Doctorow is generous with the liberal interpretations of his supurbly descripitive term - imma kinda curious that I've not heard him personally apply it to neolib running down of state services. Enshittification it is nonetheless and this is a great, readworthy piece.

Time to end the enshittification of New Zealand I live in the great green heartland of New Zealand; a biologically ruined grassy waste created to serve cows. And when out in this countryside – dead rivers rich with brown foam, man-made fountains of...

“Wellington's sewage spill is just one of many examples of public service and infrastructure enshittification, begun by Roger Douglas and Ruth Richardson, and continued by neoliberal factions across government, business, media, finance, and the public.” - Josh Drummond

A must read folks #nzpol

Government tweaks law so contractors can't challenge employment status retrospectively The workplace minister says it has nothing to do with the Supreme Court's Uber decision.

More anti worker shitfuckery from the Princess of Darkness
#nzpol

It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Y'know Waymo's fully autonomous vehicle 'breakthough'… it's kind of not a thing.
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I make sure that poetry is the first thing i read, most mornings, ahead of fiction, ahead of the dumpster fire that is daily news, and dare i say, that means also y'all, dearly beloved bluesky. But POETRY - it's great and these books will be great too - can't wait.

New Zealand's corruption-free reputation takes hit for fourth-year in a row - survey Transparency International's latest Corruption Perception Index had New Zealand fall two points.

& with growing support for NZfirst, expect more foxes running hen houses. Oh #nzpol, as a wise woman once said, you don't know what you've got till it's gone.
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A reason to be cheerful! - its worth a gander

Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout

Last year China installed more than half of all wind and solar added globally. It's hard to grasp what that looks like, but photographer Weimin Chu has done just that e360.yale.edu/digest/china...

& wants to pay LNG terminal through a type of H/P ‘lease’ increasing the4 $1Bn up-front cost to $2.7Bn over the 15 yr lifespan, even though it may never be used. [HT @bernardchickey.bsky.social ]

Progressives & media need to make clr the dumbfuckery here: Govt chose not to compare this LNG import option against investing same in solar panels and batteries to allow hydro lakes lake storage, only comparing LNG against new coal&diesel ‘peaker’ plants.

gawd i thought this slop was fringey slater//TU stuff - but apparently this is where 'mainstream' 'centre right' politics is at RN. And yeah - don't doubt they absolutely can get back in - if we don't get off our devices and do F2F politics for change

Can we just not put all these snow flake white fascists onto a World Ship and send them to an M Class Planet say 200 light years away

Then the rest of us can get back in living in a Civilised World

Submission — Gun Control NZ

Bonkers that we have to do this but please just do…
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Jaysus

PETITION: No minerals deal with Trump Join the call. Tell Luxon you don't want a minerals "deal" with Trump

Action Alert ‼️

Luxon is doing secret deals with Trump to give US access to critical minerals in Aotearoa.

Think out-of-control mining of the seabed, conservation land, mountains and beaches. Would anywhere be safe?

Sign the petition and pass it on👇
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If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

Cries of 'shame on you' as Clutha councillors vote on looking into vehicle-free zones on beaches There was anger in the public gallery as Clutha council voted to drop an investigation into safe zones on beaches to protect wildlife.

The most car-addicted, car-intensive country on earth cannot manage to even spare its own, once beautiful, beaches. #Clutha councillors wouldn't know shame if it slapped them with a wet bus-ticket. #carbrain
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Image showing the healthcare index listing top 40 healthcare systems globally. Top is Taiwan with 87.1 rating. 40th and bottom is US with 67. Just above them at no. 37 is NZ rated at 68.2

Confirmation of the fragility and non-universal nature of our health system. #NZpol

Dear ICE/DHS/CBP you have no idea what level of compassion and love for our neighbors you have opened up in Minnesota!

3,000+ cyclists in 20° weather biked seven miles for a man we loved, a city we love, and ALL of our neighbors that we love.

Whose Streets?
Our Streets!

Inspired by Silke's version, I have Double fixed it.

mmm… the problem is people, & their shortsighted voting choices: "split along party lines, with those who voted for the governing parties supporting the repeal of the offshore oil and gas exploration ban and those who voted for the Opposition disapproving of the move"

I feel the clearer air already with the reduction in cars in Tāmaka=i Makaurau city centre; though over Hopetown bridge, alas, all hope is lost. So, #auckland, more of this pls, further, sooner.

This summer sponsored by BP

the 'Mariuplisation' of gaza, (presented via AI slop)
no different from Russian genocide

The tragic loss of lives in NZ flooding events this week are climate change deaths. Media and govt are avoiding the topic.

Leaders and commentators must acknowledge the emerging reality of ordinary summer rainstorms carrying volumes of water akin to tropical cyclones of previous decades.