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Listen here to Nimoy’s 1975 recording of Ray Bradbury’s 1950 science fiction short story (and chapter in “The Martian Chronicles”) “There Will Come Soft Rains,” which hauntingly envisioned one potential future arising from unconstrained nuclear testing and arms races. archive.org/details/brad...
1 in 3 NZ infant hospital admissions is acute respiratory illness. RSV drives a lot of it. Medsafe just approved nirsevimab (single injection, ~80% effective). Pharmac has it on the 'Options for Investment List' but not funded. Solution's on the shelf. Babies stay in hospital. #nzpol
Medsafe approves RSV prevention medicine for babies, Pharmac urged to fund
Cardiac and Respiratory Foundation chief executive Letitia Harding and paediatrician Maneesh Deva both urged Pharmac to fund the medicine.
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“The global AI economy is being built on a foundation that replicates, with algorithmic precision, the colonial extraction of previous centuries… This is the new colonialism…of the server farm and the terms of service agreement”
Teddy Wilson@reportbywilson.bsky.social · last wk.Techno-Fascism: AI, Accelerationism and the New Far Right
Bill Oddie, what a lovely bloke. He wrote us a letter when we started making The Young Ones, wishing us the very best, and warning us against interference from higher up. He didn’t know anyone in the cast personally. It just came out of the blue. Lovely thing to do.
The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.
No other species on earth knowingly contaminates the food it needs to eat, poisons the water it needs to drink, and pollutes the air it needs to breathe. Only humans are dumb enough to do that.
Has anyone got a copy of the run sheet for Donald Trump’s next speech? I need to know what time the assassination attempt has been planned for.
Most of us, the working class, have been systematically robbed for decades, and it's now reaching a boiling point, just like our planet is. And those two things are very much connected.
Dear republikkans, if you don't like the diversity of this country, then leave.
You cannot have endless extraction on a planet with fixed boundaries. Soil depletes. Water tables dry up. Ecosystems collapse. True sustainability isn't about doing the wrong things slightly better; it’s about redefining what "progress" looks like.
So which NZ parties are willing to give up their corporate donations?
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · last mo.Just 10 people have already poured $617 MILLION into this year’s midterm elections. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. This is not sustainable. We need to get Big Money out of our democracy.
#nzpol The coalition of c**ts is removing all assistance for disabled people who have a partner who earns $67,346 per annum. These arsewipes are making disabled people, children, the poor, women and our environment pay for roads and guns. Sign, share petitions.parliament.nz/0e32836b-625...
Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.
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Remember, if your RW friends get OTT about the Green tax rates - here are the current rates in Australia
“…in one year, the current Government awarded landlords more money than has been paid out to Māori in 40 years as compensation for historical wrongs.” Dr Neal Curtis. (2.9b v 2.7b) #AoNZpol
I'm so sick of this racist bs from our government. This is the Kiwi version of DOGE. Punching down on anyone who dares step up in support of Maori and Pacifika. It has to stop. In November, we can do it. Vote accordingly! #nzpol
MeatMechSuit@meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 2mo agoRemoving Māori and Pasifika as a criteria for access to diabetes drugs. Disestablishing the Māori Health Authority. Removing heads of Medical Council for advocating for Māori. When is someone going to gather all the evidence and take this govt to The Hague? #nzpol
Is it even a surprise the Luxon staffer who secretly accepted law change orders from Fonterra & Z is Matt Burgess, NZ Initiative? Of course he was also a guest speaker for Taxpayers Union. Both Taxpayers Union & NZ Initiative are registered partners of Atlas Network
Literally EVERYTHING we are fighting about & for could be solved by taxing the rich. EVERYTHING Fucking housing, fucking energy, fucking social inequality, fucking environment, fucking cost of living, fucking everything. STOP VOTING NEOLIBERAL SOCK PUPPETS FOR THE MEGA RICH End of transmission
Inedible school lunches, no school bus, & bene-bashing of the already poor & struggling mark the cruelty of this government, and all #AtlasNetwork #Zionist governments worldwide. Despite causing #poverty, they hate the poor, sick, elderly, young & vulnerable #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/andrewdi...
