Regulation of AI and platforms helps counter mistrust and misinformation. Without it, the reflex when seeing real footage is "it's AI". An important overview of what happened online over the last few days: thespinoff.co.nz/society/26-0...

Does anyone else think about how many people we have watched die on video in recent years compared to the whole of the 90s and 2000s? Like this week alone, I know of 5+ videos on non video focused platforms of human beings dying.

I cackled aloud reading some of this thread. The world is on fire but at least I can still laugh at how bad at capitalism capitalists can be

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A Children’s revolt within the Dilley concentration camp. LET THEM OUT

We are living in a world with concentration camps in multiple countries at the service of multiple states. This is the era your grandchildren will look back on and ask what you did to help.

We shouldn't need to share children's individual stories for folks to recognise that trans children matter. That trans children, like all children, shouldn't be persecuted & harmed by law, by policy, by the State. For academic work on trans children's rights, see here: bsky.app/profile/did:...

"...we maintain this weird double standard: Soldiers in combat zones must refuse unlawful orders, but civilians facing unlawful force from domestic law enforcement must submit." publicseminar.org/2026/01/the-...

This recent one from Steven Salaita is the first one that came to mind for me stevesalaita.com/palestine-so...

Thanks @dimsie.bsky.social and @emrsin.bsky.social for your leadership and your template - done. ([email protected])

Have you done your anarchist callisthenics today?

If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine

This is the first thing they teach you in media training: don’t debunk, don’t repeat, don’t platform the oppositions views. Say your bit in response, but reject pressure to conform to the proposed framing.

It’s true that (white) people are upset about the state of the US now that police violence has extended to people who look like them. And also Nazis and the KKK ilk have a long history of offing race traitors also.

Just like 1918 Samoan Influenza, when this country has done the wrong thing in the past, we should be able to learn from that (in this case the wrong thing in 1976) and actually do the right thing. (screenshot from nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/1981... )

Seriously. Last time we had a big wave of “omg don’t be so dramatic it will be fine” it was 2016 and look at where we ended up after all that.

Honestly, if you’re still going to the US for tourism purposes at this point? Fuck you, you’re part of the problem.

We have a moral duty to bear witness to the times we are living in. That doesn’t translate to “watch every video of someone dying”, that means learn about history and understand that it influenced how we got here today, because we have a responsibility to address it.

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We cannot support others, or ourselves, in a hypoaroused freeze state. Emotional regulation practices and finding moments of peace, connection, aren't frivolous nice-to-haves, they are what keep us going. The more of us who remain regulated and energised to support each other, the stronger we are.

For those of us not on the frontlines, sustaining ourselves mentally and emotionally is how we can continue to provide support to those who are. When terror and exhaustion are a counter-insurgency tactic, we have to respond accordingly.

I live for the genre of videos where dancers impersonate random other videos.

Oh look, another day, another bout of depression fueled by having to sort out yet another meal that will, aspirationally, not make me feel worse than whatever I feel now

Has anyone used this??

We need people to do childcare, cook, clean, knit socks for the revolution. Caring roles, the arts, domestic skills are all so essential. What ever you’re good at, do that for justice.

'But while this warning was duly reported, it has barely interrupted the largely episodic nature of climate coverage in mainstream media, which continues to look from day to day as though we weren’t on the precipice of irrevocable disaster.' timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2024...

I find is really baffling how people who work in CVD research spaces are not all charging forward with this new possibility

I hope we have enough public health workers left in NZ that we can have a sustained push on measles vaccine, because by all indications it is going to get bad

Who are the cool, up-and-coming early career trans women and transfem non-binary people doing scholarship in women's and gender studies - particularly outside North America? I'd love to hear about their work!

You cannot make me be friends with this capitalist surrogate. You can’t sit here!

I will be looking for an RA soon as my amazing postdoc has got a permanent role on our team. I will be looking for an emerging Māori researcher who has a social science background preferably :) dm me if you know of anyone or want to kōrero

Recently I’ve gotten to use out of “I don’t accept that”. This is pretty good too 👇

Content note: food Ok just today, I’ve seen so many of fellow disabled folks on here talking about HOW EFFN HARD FOOD IS What’s your fave low effort meal? Or alternatively, what’s your biggest beef with how fucking inaccessible food is!!??

Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman's veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn't been one since. That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.

"People have become sicker after the pandemic, but without COVID-19 testing it's difficult to understand why." "Many people have had COVID-19 multiple times, and each infection carries a risk of long-term effects. Research also suggests that repeated infections may affect the immune system."

This is becoming increasingly relevant here in NZ as they pass more laws to impede voting. 👇👇👇

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Love this.

Anyone in Aotearoa gasping in horror at the ICE NIGHTMARE in the States needs to learn their history!! 😡😡😡 NZ is, was, and continues to be Racist AF!! #nzpol

Act local #kikorangi

Another day, another caregiver in crisis. Just a pointed reminder that every day we're confronting international power grabs by politicians & technocrats, people still face dementia & other age-related illnesses in societies that disincentivize our caring for one another. These values are linked.

And for those who can't travel, I think it important to mention he is giving lectures at other centres- And for instance the Otago ones Arte being shared via Zoom (see the Otago events calendar www.otago.ac.nz/news/events for details) bsky.app/profile/carl...

PLEASE if you can help with funds for Te Araroa whānau to help Manaaki Matakāoa get shit done, helping whānau in need during the floods that have destroyed their whenua and have cut them off from everyone. www.manaakimatakaoa.com

Once we have universal basic income, general strikes become more doable (in fact, all strikes do). More people could join them, and they could last longer in duration.

For something completely different: does anyone know someone who does upholstery in Dunedin who would be willing to do an estimate/valuation on this shitty chair?

For something completely different: does anyone know someone who does upholstery in Dunedin who would be willing to do an estimate/valuation on this shitty chair?

she mentions it in passing but look up 'Starlight Tours', this is a method Canadian police have used to kill indigenous men for decades