My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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BP's quarterly profits more than doubled to £4.2 billion in the three months to the end of June. These are the profits of war and climate chaos. It's time to make the biggest polluters pay.

Released from ICU this afternoon and now home. Photo shows the impact that the back of my S-Works helmet took after I was thrown from my bike 20 yards through the air at 60 km/h and landed in rocks and sand. Without this helmet I’d be dead. E-bike and e-scooter yahoos take note.

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Today's chart after ACT got another $25k The system is rigged

5 August 1928 | A French Jewish girl, Bella Rubin, was born in Paris. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 19 July 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy together white her mother Marta and a younger sister Micheline. They were all murdered in a gas chamber.

Once you've owned an EV, you'll never want an ICE car again

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 13h ago

EV enthusiasm continues as research detects lasting consumer shift

Plasma time Pls donate in you can

Brian Tamaki's "hit list" video has turned up on YouTube and it's incredibly disturbing. Starts with Tamaki rambling incoherently about targets, then another guy taking it up a notch – then, at 07:48 a tall, blond young man starts screaming about killing people ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC0S...

Destiny Church Brian Tamaki's 'Hit List' Threats

YouTube video by New Zealand Conspiracy Loons

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#Seymour’sSlop - we’re back to Super Cheesy Pasta again!! 😬 #nzpol (Read the alt text)

Continuing the trend of Toyota EVs not being very good: “Just doesn’t quite get it right and most of that comes down to the underpinnings which feel outdated.”

I’m Not Convinced… Subaru Uncharted AWD 2026 Review

YouTube video by Chasing Cars

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SirSteven@steven.eurosky.social · 2d ago

Good to see MKBHD ripping into the piss-poor Lexus ES EV. Far too many American reviewers fawn over substandard American market offerings and fail to give context about precisely how bad they are youtu.be/QQ97R1nhq4M?...

What else is there to say, utter incompetent management by the business daddy party #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Unemployment rises to 11-year high of 5.6%

Unemployment rose to its highest level in nearly 11 years as the growth in the workforce outpaced the number of jobs being created.

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Hard to keep up with the number of times he's been plucking the magic money tree for his own comfort. Wonder if the flights coincided with the public getting to know him better and not liking what they saw. #NZPol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

PM took Defence Force flight home after National Party fundraiser

The PM described the fundraiser as a 'meeting' when interviewed.

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Free & open for all: Unemployment rate up to 11-year high of 5.6%; Underutilisation rate up to 13-year high of 13.8%; Youth underutilisation up to 37% of workforce; Yet 111,000 work visas were granted & the RBNZ hiked to take 'heat' out of the economy. #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

Unemployment worse than forecast & real wages fall

Unemployment rate up to 11-year high of 5.6%; Underutilisation rate up to 13-year high of 13.8%; Youth underutilisation up by 21,500 in a year to 37% of youth workforce; Yet 111,000 work visas granted

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Unemployment hits 11-year high under Luxon's Government. 49,000 more New Zealanders are out of work than when this Government took office, according to figures released by Stats NZ this morning showing 171,000 people unemployed and actively looking for work.

11-year high of 5.6% unemployment. Fixing the basics, like fuck. Absolute economic vandals. #nzpol

Unemployment is at 5.6%, according to new data from StatsNZ. 171,000 New Zealanders are unemployed, and the labour market is in crisis. We need a change of direction. #nzpol

Unemployment rate highest in more than a decade – labour market in crisis NZCTU

Today’s unemployment rate of 5.6 percent is the highest rate in more than a decade and shows a labour market clearly in crisis says Sandra Grey, President of the NZ Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Ka...

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ACT: “It’s a graphic not a graph” Professor Thomas Lumley: “It’s clearly giving bar charts” www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... #NZPol

ACT's 'visually misleading' post: Is it a graphic or a graph?

An ACT Party post about the gap between new medicines funded in Australia and New Zealand is "visually misleading," according to a statistics professor.

rnz.co.nz

Toxic ideologues working for private, self & corporate interests 🤢🤮 Government poised to ram through reckless demolition of environmental protections #nzpol

Government poised to ram through reckless demolition of environmental protections - Greenpeace Aotearoa

Parliament is set to vote today on what Greenpeace says is the most reckless demolition of environmental protections in a generation. 

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'The fire's right there' - Families recount fleeing Washington state wildfires

Some have returned to find their homes reduced to ash and rubble, with only the charred trunks of trees rising from the smouldering ground.

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This is the single issue that drives my voting.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · yesterday

My editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:

National Guard deployment to Washington, DC will cost US roughly $1.4bn https://aje.news/mzpuxl

Everybody get solar. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Transpower issues power warning

Transpower has issued a warning that there might be an energy shortfall on Friday morning.

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"It's actually a real crisis for people. I don't think people really understand or like to think that we have older people who are actively living in poverty in our country," #nzpol

Older Kiwis choosing between 'starving or heating' as price increases bite

An advocate for older people says recent cold temperatures combined with the cost of power and other goods have produced a crisis point, with many people forced to choose between food and heating.

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It made me feel better, even if it's ripped off within a day #nzpol #BHN

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NHS must plan for heat and wildfires, says Cambridge academic

Kim van Daalen says healthcare systems "are becoming more strained" due to the heat.

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Sauce. This was the solution considered. Give me strength.

BusinessDesk@businessdesknz.bsky.social · 21h ago

As schools reported throwing out nearly one in three Compass lunches late last year, the Ministry of Education looked into adding sauce to make the meals more appealing but shelved the idea over cost.

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'Hotter and hotter and hotter' - Europe's new climate in seven charts

Temperature records were smashed in June - and scientists warn this is a sign of things to come.

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This sucks ass. When I start my car I want to be able to put my foot on the pedal and drive off. I dont want to watch an ad. A distracting ad. Right in the middle of my console. Again. This sucks ass.

4 August 1936 | A Romanian Jewish boy, Jacob Arye Katz, was born in Satu Mare. In 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- ▶ Gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck