Roaring Marmot
@roaringmarmot.bsky.social
Holding forth on the things that gladden my heart...or really rip my nightie.
It’s pretty clear that’s not what happened at all and this is like the 3rd different outlet I’ve seen saying as much
Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋@poppyhaze.bsky.social · yesterdaySo the US military killed everyone on a medevac plane by testing a GPS weapon. futurism.com/science-ener...
If you’d like to read the report exposing the anti trans people ‘Gender Critical’ movement in the UK - which sadly Amnesty took down after bottling it due to legal threats from the Edinburgh Funder - here it is. Like_a_snowball_final_.pdf - Google Drive drive.google.com/file/d/1PSsa...
Hello NZ govt 👋, maybe this is a better approach than building more prisons & punishing beneficiaries? Hard to argue with the numbers #nzpol
Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 13h ago
One seriously old sock ~ child’s split-toe left-foot sock, multi-striped with plant-based pigments, 1,700 years old, from ancient city of Antinoupolis, Egypt. (The right-foot one hasn’t been found, so maybe check your sock drawer) www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
At some point we — all of us — have to have a serious conversation about priorities. We can't just keep squeezing corporate profits out of everything and insisting everyone just make do somehow.
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 21h agoOlder Kiwis choosing between 'starving or heating' as price increases bite
PPP's in the context of health (and other human service delivery) historically don't work. PPP's are a hangover from Friedman style economics that were proven to fail with GFC. of 2007. It is a failed experiment. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
'Shocking': Hospital inquiry urges axing of public-private partnership
A parliamentary committee has handed down its findings after an investigation into a Newcastle hospital where staff reported maggots falling from the ceiling.
abc.net.au
Anyone who refuses care from a non-white member of NHS staff should be told to pay to go private.
Charles EP Murphy@cepmurphy.bsky.social · yesterdaynews.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest
I am so triggered by RJK Jr's comment about ICU's being empty during #COVID. I re-read what I wrote after one of the surges. How do others forget. The trauma was--and is--real.
I'm An ICU Doctor. I’m Haunted By What I’ve Seen During The Recent COVID-19 Surge.
“I can’t stop thinking about the 40-something man who told me, ‘I can’t die like this. I just got engaged and have a 6-month-old baby.’ I encouraged him to be positive, but that didn’t stop him from d...
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The Electoral Commission has told staff to turn away voters who aren't on the printed roll and who say they're unenrolled, but has no plans to count how many people will be affected. newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/03/t...
Tens of thousands could be turned away from voting – but no one is counting them
The Opposition says people who think they're not enrolled should lodge special votes rather than being turned away from voting entirely.
newsroom.co.nz
One year $150M contract to a small Texas firm that lacks immigration law experience
Politico@politico.com · 20h ago26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court
I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.
Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d agoRFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>
A federal appeals court says the Trump administration wrongly terminated a multibillion-dollar initiative to boost clean energy programs.
Divided federal appeals court says Trump administration was wrong to terminate climate program
A federal appeals court has ruled that the Trump administration improperly ended a multi-billion-dollar program for clean energy projects.
bit.ly
The writing is on the wall even for petrostates www.cnn.com/2025/11/17/c...
This oil-rich country has stood in the way of climate action. It’s quietly building a clean energy empire | CNN
The planet’s ultimate petrostate is making a bet on clean energy — even as the Trump administration seeks to strangle solar and wind.
cnn.com
You’d think this would be a bigger deal to the commentariat obsessed with signaling their affinity for the working class by deriding office workers and what they describe as “HR Ladies” etc.
Liz Shuler@lizshuler.bsky.social · yesterdayAt least 530 workers died from heat-related causes on the job last year. As temperatures rise, workers need stronger protections. Every worker deserves water, shade, rest and the right to come home safely at the end of the day.
“Because we don’t want to. We like this and it’s what we want. It’s everything we worked for our whole careers. Does that make sense?”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"
oh my god he hit the reflecting pool with a "two weeks" dawgggggg that thing's never opening again
The first 6 months of 2026 saw 1,411 businesses liquidated, up from 1,296 last year and putting NZ on track for the worst year in almost two decades. 97% of NZ businesses are SMEs: tradies, cafés, retailers and family businesses doing the heavy lifting. This is who Luxon is telling to grow up.
My editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:
We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
theguardian.com
Meanwhile in Aotearoa, not a single high speed railway line…. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The most dynamic countries are surging ahead with high-speed rail. Others, like Britain, are stuck in the station | Christian Wolmar
Around the world, these trains have boosted economies, development and prestige. The costs of missing out are high, says transport writer and author Christian Wolmar
theguardian.com
A senior official at the European Central Bank "said it was clear the rising frequency of natural disasters linked to global heating posed a threat to financial stability... more work needed to be done to assess the risk from the collapse of ecosystem services" www.theguardian.com/business/202...
ECB official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’
Exclusive: As wildfires rage across Europe, Frank Elderson tells the Guardian nature loss poses a growing risk to the global economy
theguardian.com
My sister has moved house so I told her she needs to update her details on the electoral roll because same day registration is no longer possible. She had no idea about the changes. Will there be an advertising campaign? Otherwise people won't know and will be turned away on election day. #nzpol
The #climatecrisis is driving drastic measures. In Romania the navy has carried out a controlled explosion to deepen the channel of the Danube to keep water flowing to the Cernavoda nuclear plant's cooling systems.
Just found this website lidarfinder.com New to me, and I absolutely love it.
LiDAR Finder — Free LiDAR Map of England & Wales
Free interactive LiDAR map of England and Wales. Explore hidden archaeology, ancient features and terrain history using DEFRA's open elevation data.
lidarfinder.com
To whom it may concern: There are Africans in the Iliad source material. In the Little Iliad, Memnon, prince of Aethiopia, leads an army of Aethiopians to Troy after Hector’s death. There are Africans in Minoan art. Bronze and Iron Age Greeks travelled widely. (1)
Free speech (but only for them)
I Am Incorrigible@imincorrigible.bsky.social · last wk.As Nigel Farage expresses performative outrage over a cartoon on a t-shirt, I'm old enough to remember 2019 when Nigel Farage said he would "take the knife to civil servants" just five weeks after a civil servant was knifed in an attack outside the Home Office. #r4today
In the 1600s, some 21,000 runaway slaves in Brazil founded an independent kingdom in the interior that lasted nearly a century (1612-1694) It had a capital of 5,000, its own king, provincial chiefs, judges, priests, and an army that raided Dutch and Portuguese plantations
Human rights experts have reacted with horror at Home Office plans to use provably racist AI tech on asylum seeking children
Human Rights Network blasts Home Office plan to use racist AI on asylum-seeking children
Human rights experts have reacted with horror at Home Office plans to use provably racist AI tech on asylum seeking children
thecanary.co
