Katya

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Woke socialist, stray cat magnet, Tūī feeder, she/her/ia. Living in Tāmaki Makaurau. I was katya@critical_gaze on twitter.

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Luxon is an idiot and anyone who claims otherwise is lying, or they are also an idiot.

He's totally going to tank the economy in so many ways, we could do with that not being done right now considering the global position of everything, this part of Craig Renney's thread about inflation made my sphincter clench

Figment has curled himself into as tight a ball as possible.

The rain definitely increases demand from Tūī. It was relatively quiet yesterday but certainly not so today.

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Amazing story about what happens at the VA Hospital when you ask the Project 2025 question: "How are you going to pay the utility bills when Social Security and VA benefits get cut?" tweet: x.com/FlindyD/stat...

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13yo and I are amusing ourselves at breakfast by looking up “raccoon” on google translate and seeing how many languages were like “yup, that’s a bear doing its laundry” - German: Waschbär (washbear) - Danish: vaskebjørn (wash bear) - Bulgarian: миеща мечка (washing machine bear)

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There’s some evidence that Trump’s core support is people with a grievance against the modern world, which took away the time when they were the top dogs. Anyway, here’s another group: divorced men.

Maybe they should just try travelling by train.

You can escape this Royal Caribbean cruise aboard a virtual train ride - https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/16/24199880/royal-caribbean-utopia-of-the-seas-cruise-trains-immersive

You can escape this Royal Caribbean cruise aboard a virtual train ridewww.theverge.com More vacation screen time for the kids.

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Hey, want some good news? My town took a community approach to dissuading red-billed gulls from nesting in the CBD and nests dropped from 150 to 7 in a year. Even better? The local cliffs at the point saw nests go from 500 to 1300 in the same time. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3503...

Stuffwww.stuff.co.nz

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The coalition's climate change plans are best summed up as "someone will do something... at some point... *shrug*." NZ no longer on track for net zero under Govt's new climate plan newsroom.co.nz/2024/07/17/n...

NZ no longer on track for net zero under Govt's new climate plannewsroom.co.nz Tree-planting and carbon capture technologies are at the centre of the Government's new climate change plan.

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Every state is more "purple" than people think. More Californians than Texans voted for Trump in 2020; more Texans than New Yorkers voted for Biden in 2020. If we ditched the Electoral College and instituted Ranked Choice Voting, politics would look very different on every level than they do now.

I went to Bowling Green and then lived in the Cleveland area after for about 10 years. The state is not as backwards as the rest of the country thinks.

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No words.

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PM Luxon's negotiating skills in DC were so good he got us signed up to a US military alliance against our largest trading partner.

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That Vance is a direct line to Thiel and Andreessen is truly important. Trump wants their money. Thiel wants to sell billions in Palantir contracts to power Trump’s mass surveillance/ethnic cleansing infrastructure. Pence was the Christian Nationalists’ guy. Vance is reactionary capital’s.

Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

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New Zealand national incidence of bronchiectasis “too high” for a developed countryadc.bmj.com Aims: To prospectively estimate the incidence of bronchiectasis among New Zealand (NZ) children, to consider aetiology and severity, and to evaluate regional and ethnic variation. Methodology: NZ pae...

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Just between us, I'm extremely confident that no matter where Luxon and Peters are they're A-OK with the "Don't blame us - the filthy wokes are giving all your pills and surgeries to those greedy darkies" dog-foghorning. #nzpol

Pulling this shite while Luxon and Peters are out of the country ….

Watch: Considering Treaty of Waitangi is inappropriate, Seymour tells Pharmacwww.rnz.co.nz Associate Health Minister David Seymour has told Pharmac it is inappropriate for the agency to keep considering the Treaty of Waitangi's place in the health sector.

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No, discussion is NOT closed - the Minister used his office staff and ministerial title to arrange a dinner with mining companies invited to submit fast track applications. Which wasn’t diarised. Then blamed his staff. Um, WHAT? Great work by Newsroom here. #nzpol

Jones’ staffer arranged undeclared dinner with mining companiesnewsroom.co.nz Resources Minister Shane Jones refuses to answer fresh questions about an undeclared dinner on the South Island’s West Coast which, newly released emails reveal, was arranged by his staff.

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this shocked me - not that the widow didn't want to talk to Biden, but that no one around Trump told him it'd look much better if he called the widow of his supporter who was killed by a bullet meant for him.

President Biden tried to call the widow; she wouldn't talk to him. Trump didn't bother. www.cnn.com/2024/07/14/p...

Very good article from Simon Wilson in the NZH this morning. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/from-buil...

Glad the rain and wind has stopped but my back garden is very foggy this morning.

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Here are the 3 things you need to know about Trump's VP pick. 1. For years, J.D. Vance has amplified the white nationalist great replacement conspiracy theory, echoing deadly domestic terrorists describing non-white migrants as an invading force.

@ninjakitty.bsky.social

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I dunno, considering the fuckery of pre-Trump GOP picks like Thomas, Roberts and Alito, it feels like Bush v Gore was the canary’s last song, and we’ve just been breathing in carbon monoxide for the last two decades, wondering why our vision is getting fuzzy at the edges

Institutions work until they don’t. It’s banal but true. Courts as institutions worked when Trump tried to steal the election, but FedSoc has been chipping away at them for decades, and I think it is very rational to doubt they will work any more to restrain an executive.

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Just going to put this one here: "Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance argues against need for rape and incest exceptions in abortion laws" - WaPo 2021

Breaking News: Donald Trump selected J.D. Vance, the Ohio senator and “Hillbilly Elegy” author, to be his running mate. nyti.ms/4d1NIjo

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If you care about women's rights, protecting Medicare and Social Security, or safeguarding democracy on the whole, you should be concerned about Project 2025. Last week, writer Jay Kuo broke down this radical agenda for a second Trump term in a piece of essential reading from The Big Picture.

Breaking Down Project 2025thinkbigpicture.substack.com We took on Project 2025 issue by issue so you don't have to.

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not really sure that choosing the authoritarian oaf for vice-president really does much to distance the campaign from project 2025’s “government by authoritarian oaf” vision

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AOC is right.

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This seems completely of a piece with everything about this government: they make a bullet point list of some bullshit they think they're going to achieve without doing any basic background research (see: ferries, boot camps, smokefree repeal) and then say "but it was in the coalition agreement!"

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Current Tribunal drama over the Treaty Principles Bill: Tribunal asked the Crown which constitutional law experts they have consulted on the bill; Crown said as fancily as possible "none"; Tribunal said "well are you gonna? who?"; Crown said "do you really need to know?"; Tribunal said "uh, yes!"

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Aotearoa NZ peeps - the Law Commission is currently seeking submissions on trans rights in the law, including whether trans rights should be made explicit in the Human Rights Act (as many of us have been arguing for for a while). Have your say (because the terves certainly will!)

A review of the protections in the Human Rights Act 1993 for people who are transgender, people who are non-binary and people with innate variations of sex characteristicswww.lawcom.govt.nz

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Because I like watching the bears catch salmon at Brooks Falls in the Katmai National Conservancy, YouTube occasionally decides I must like livestreams and suggests random ones. Today's was the baptisms at Calvary Chapel Delta. ... Okay then. Here, watch bears. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1Yo...

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