Ciara 🇳🇿🏴🇮🇪
@ciaraarmstrong.bsky.social
Socialist. XStitching to take focus off my chronic pain. Can’t work, so Kofi tips very welcome. #ToitūteTiriti. #FreePalestine🇵🇸 #EDS https://ko-fi.com/ciaraaxstitch
Permanently Disabled kids shouldn’t have to face a future living on a benefit that’s not enough to survive on, where bi-yearly they have to prove they still have an incurable condition. That’s not a future they deserve, it’s dehumanising, it’s depressing & it’s unacceptable. They have worth. #nzpol
My unpopular 2 cents about latest Roy Morgan polling, and just in general actually. #nzpol #Kikorangi
I'm thinking of where I've seen hopeful messages that engage young voters by promising them a better future and committing to material improvements to society in the last decade, and how studiously major parties ignore or oppose those politics.
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 3d ago'Things are screwed anyway, why try?' Youth voter enrolment rate plummets
The economy will recover when actual nation builders not parasitical wealth extractors are on the Treasury Benches Vote Greens to give Labour backbone these elections www.nzherald.co.nz/business/slo...
It’s too late for the economy to save National now
OPINION: The economic recovery has stuttered too much to lift the voter mood by November.
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The Great Replacement theory is racist, deeply misogynistic, and explicitly linked to anti-abortion and reproductive control. It’s important to say the quiet part out loud - this government has given plenty of reasons to be confident these views will be further embedded if power is retained. #nzpol
henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 4d agoWinston Peters wants to pay people up to $45k, tax free, to have three kids. It’s a policy with a very nativist bent that will naturally draw comparisons to the “great replacement theory” conspiracy. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...
Still no comprehensive policy for disabled/chronically ill from the Labour Party. The Green Party remains the only party with policy that would materially improve the lives of people like me…. 100 days till the election. My future is literally in the hands of the voting public. Which sucks. #NZPol
Ciara 🇳🇿🏴🇮🇪@ciaraarmstrong.bsky.social · 2w agoUnless Labour rolls out an amazing disability policy, as a disabled person, I’m begging you all to vote for the Greens. So far they are the only party who would massively, materially change my life, and the lives of disabled & chronically ill Kiwis, for the better. @nzgreensglobal.bsky.social
Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.
“Every day, powerful men are making decisions to increase the profits of a few at the top. And you pay the price.” “We will ensure the super rich and big corporations pay their fair share of tax so we can fund the critical services people rely on.” Sounds like a logical, smart, solid plan to me ✅
Greens reveal campaign slogan, priorities, and call for end to ‘bloodsport politics’
The party helds its AGM in Auckland on Sunday.
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These people hold an extreme ideology where an asset is only an asset when privately owned, the very same thing is a wasteful cost in public hands. This is the propaganda front for the actually unpopular idea of wealth concentration in the hands of a few. Coincidentally who happen to fund them.
They promised to be laser focused on the cost of living last election campaign and we all know how that went…. #nzpol
Dylan Reeve@dylanreeve.com · 2w agoMan, if only National had been in power for the last few years and been able to do all these things they've suggested recently.
now someone needs to ask him if paul henry will serve as a minister in his government, and then start reading a list of racist, sexist things he said. and then ask him how he plans to form a government when he's polling at 28%, and he's ruled out both coalition partners 🤣
Sacha@sachadylan.bsky.social · 2w ago“After several instances of poor behaviour, some politicians will claim he has changed. His lack of contrition after comments about one of my MPs’ maternity leave this evening shows he hasn’t". #NzPol
“The Finance Minister should stop pretending that inflation is a mysterious visitor from overseas, that he has no control over,” Nicola Willis, Stuff 2022 #nzpol
It's genuinely pathetic to witness this govt desperately pretend that all the fuckery of the last 3yrs is, somehow, not their fault and, if you vote them back in, they are the only ones who can fix it #NZPOL
I’d like the Greens disability policy enacted so I don’t have to post asking for support from people on the interwebs. #NZPol #Kikorangi #DisabilityJustice @maramadavidson.bsky.social
Ciara 🇳🇿🏴🇮🇪@ciaraarmstrong.bsky.social · 7mo agoIf you want, you can be a regular supporter of me stitching for my sanity. I have memberships on Kofi for $5 a mnth. I’ll post updates on pieces I’m working on & new pieces I’ll be trying. As a chronically ill person who can’t work, every bit helps. 💗 #CrossStitch #Kikorangi ko-fi.com/ciaraaxstitch
Also, a warning that ability is not static. An able person could experience disability tomorrow. We are all the potential benefactors of good disability policy. Disabled people who advocate for, campaign for and demand their rights and wellbeing are doing us all a favour. Pay it back with a vote.
Ciara 🇳🇿🏴🇮🇪@ciaraarmstrong.bsky.social · 2w agoUnless Labour rolls out an amazing disability policy, as a disabled person, I’m begging you all to vote for the Greens. So far they are the only party who would massively, materially change my life, and the lives of disabled & chronically ill Kiwis, for the better. @nzgreensglobal.bsky.social
For some people, voting is about ~vibes~, or how it might impact their wallets, but for an increasingly growing number of people, how people vote can literally be the difference between a life of quality or an agonising struggle to not die.
Ciara 🇳🇿🏴🇮🇪@ciaraarmstrong.bsky.social · 2w agoUnless Labour rolls out an amazing disability policy, as a disabled person, I’m begging you all to vote for the Greens. So far they are the only party who would massively, materially change my life, and the lives of disabled & chronically ill Kiwis, for the better. @nzgreensglobal.bsky.social
Unless Labour rolls out an amazing disability policy, as a disabled person, I’m begging you all to vote for the Greens. So far they are the only party who would massively, materially change my life, and the lives of disabled & chronically ill Kiwis, for the better. @nzgreensglobal.bsky.social
The NGO is 'outraged' by Israel's treatment of the health professionals and warns that 'silence has become complicity' https://aje.news/wc94r5
trump has also debanked Italian citizen Francesca Alabanese for her work at the UN to condemn Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. she is on an international blacklist created for terrorists and it is also illegal for anyone to bank for her — she must live entirely economically isolated and on cash
The complicated life of Francesca Albanese: A rising figure in Italy but barred from every bank by Trump’s sanctions
The UN special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories has become a leading voice in her country, but she is on a US blacklist as if she were a terrorist and can only use cash
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@ninjakitty.bsky.social Happiest of birthdays 🎉💗🫶🏼💗💗
Rough sleeping, ‘move on’ orders yet empty Kāinga Ora homes & a CANCELLED building schedule of Kāinga Ora homes AND the land sold off…This coalition government is an abject failure for the people of Aotearoa/ New Zealand. Meanwhile a struggling construction sector & rampant youth unemployment #nzpol
I'll say it again for the 100th time. Poverty begets crime. You cannot be "tough on crime" whilst increasing poverty faster than we've ever seen before.
If you want, you can be a regular supporter of me stitching for my sanity. I have memberships on Kofi for $5 a mnth. I’ll post updates on pieces I’m working on & new pieces I’ll be trying. As a chronically ill person who can’t work, every bit helps. 💗 #CrossStitch #Kikorangi ko-fi.com/ciaraaxstitch
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“Cornell researchers found that at the current rate of AI growth, the burgeoning industry could represent 24 to 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, the equivalent of adding five to ten million cars to US roadways.”
The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible
The extent of the pollution being put out by thousands of data centers is shocking. Some developers are exploiting regulatory loopholes.
futurism.com
The Western European paranoia about burkinis really needs to go away, and hopefully courts ruling against businesses for discrimination speeds that along. Telling women how to dress is inherently antifeminist, whether you're telling them to take clothing off or put clothing on.
Austria hotel’s burkini ban discriminatory, court finds
In a ruling made public this week, the Salzburg Court found that the hotel in the western ski resort of St. Johann im Pongau had discriminated against two Austrian Muslim women by preventing them from...
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Mānawatia a Matariki! #NZPol #Kikorangi #Matariki #ToituTeTiriti
