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A.J. Ponder

@ponderbooks.com

Author at https://ponderbooks.com Poet. Builder of worlds. Player of games. He, she, they.

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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d ago

We should never forget how the BBC has changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage and other rightwing extremists, while shutting out progressive voices.

Nicolas Chinardet@zefrog.eu · 3d ago

And why is #r4today giving (yet again) such prominence to a hair-brained scheme that has little chance to ever be implemented? A GE is unlikely soon and the threat of Reform winning it is apparently receding. What is the justification for legitimising it?

Sacha@sachadylan.bsky.social · 4d ago

'Children only get one chance at childhood. A baby hospitalised this winter cannot wait for a stronger economy. A child growing up in poverty cannot pause their development until political consensus emerges.' - Claire Achmad. #NzPol

The plight of our children can't wait for politics

Children can't vote but inherit the consequences of government and societal failures for the longest time, writes outgoing Children's Commissioner Claire Achmad in a final plea

newsroom.co.nz

🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝@pepperraccoon.com · 4d ago

Hey, Trash Panda Gang, can you help support Bec’s family? They‘ve been left without her and need some community uplift: givealittle.co.nz/cause/please...

Please help support Becs and her beautiful family

Supporting Becs Flanagan's family by easing the financial burden during this heartbreaking time.

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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝@pepperraccoon.com · last wk.

One of my kindest and best customers died this week. No warning, she was young, I didn‘t know her personally that well, but we were in the DMs often and she was always so lovely. Life is strange, death is sudden. 💔

Jennifer Ward@jenospeno.bsky.social · 5d ago

The National-led coalition government passed legislation in December 2023 to remove the requirement for the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) to support maximum sustainable employment when making monetary policy decisions. THEY are the Ghouls. The RBNZ now has NO mandate to protect workers #nzpol

A.J. Ponder@ponderbooks.com · 6d ago

#NZpol We should not be fooled. TOP have not proposed a #UBI They have proposed a RW #NIT designed to carve out the mechanisms that support our most vulnerable people. A well-designed UBI should blunt wealth at the top while eliminating poverty & allowing everyone access to community.

CEO Johnny Cans@oldmatecans.bsky.social · 6d ago

Ironically it's the same Minister responsible for Local Water Done Well being rushed to fuck, and the ratings system remaining broken - it's Simeon Brown! He binned the Future For Local Government report, years of work, and adopted none of it. Why? Too busy messing up water, roads and health.

Prosanta Chakrabarty@prosanta.bsky.social · last wk.

From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation iucn.org/news/202607/...

From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums

The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,...

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Annalee Newitz@annaleen.bsky.social · last wk.

FYI there is no "real" reason why Rome "fell." Its power waned for the usual, mundane reasons: widening gap between rich and poor, inability to maintain infrastructure, incompetent leadership, pointless wars, endless persecution of marginalized groups who performed vital labor, etc.

A.J. Ponder@ponderbooks.com · last wk.

We could have had 3 waters and worked to fix NZs water quality throughout the country. But no. This ghoulish government wants to squeeze us dry so they can give tax cuts to their cronies - tobacco & mega-landlords

Tax Wealth not Wages@progallthethings.bsky.social · last wk.

Wellington water bills. Folks getting $3,000 plus water bills on top of rates. This is the price of Luxon riding Act's overtly racist stop three waters TPU/groundswell sock puppet campaign into govt. This all on National. This is the price of racism. Vote them out. #nzpol

Tax Wealth not Wages@progallthethings.bsky.social · last wk.

Wellington water bills. Folks getting $3,000 plus water bills on top of rates. This is the price of Luxon riding Act's overtly racist stop three waters TPU/groundswell sock puppet campaign into govt. This all on National. This is the price of racism. Vote them out. #nzpol

Kevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti)@krveale.bsky.social · last wk.

This kind of thing is Media Studies 101 by the way. And the students are *onto it.* #nzpol

Kevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti)@krveale.bsky.social · last wk.

"Let's take the politics out of [thing]" is *one of the most political statements you can make.* It is active campaigning for an invisible, unquestioned and very-unequal landscape of power. This kind of shit is why TOP is *actively frightening.* They're not idiots. It's worse than that. #nzpol

Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · 3y ago

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

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