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Huge thanks to @mikehoney.bsky.social for all the valuable COVID data he tracks. His work has become incredibly important for scientists and health professionals, and with so little data available now, it really matters for people who want to stay safe and informed. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Aotearoa Covid Action (ACA) is holding its first ever online open mic night! It will take place on the 6th of December from 8pm to 10pm and is open to all sorts of art forms; singing, playing an instrument, reciting poetry/prose, showing your visual art, etc.

In the coming days some people may mine our cherished ally's passing for attention, but grief is not a competition. Let's try to welcome the chance to mourn together, instead. Holding tonight the idea that ancestors just leveled up.

🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1

So sad to hear of the passing of author and activist Alice Wong.

A group of global experts in medicine, public health, law, and industrial hygiene have come together to urge the World Health Organization to finally recognize and recommend true respiratory protection — N95/FFP2-3 respirators — for all healthcare settings. Surgical masks are not PPE.

Hey @dimsie.bsky.social you know onion mugs, well I have crown lynn vege cups & saucers now. The 1960s were wild

Kiwirail are bringing back the ChCh- - Dunedin Southerner Train for the Labour weekend 🚞 I hope the Southerner does well and is made a permanent fixture, I got to take it in May and it was an amazing trip!

I've had heavy winds and computer issues to contend with today, but sharing this song in support of everyone in AoNZ in the mega-strike. I think we need 21st century protest songs. Happy to post a blue sky on Bluesky. ht - Credit: Photo by Christian Keybets on Unsplash.

Solidarity with the striking workers. Let's look after each other's health while standing up for fair pay and fair working conditions.

Striking? Wear a mask. From Sir Mason Durie's Te Whare Tapa Whā model for health describing health and wellbeing as a wharenui/meeting house with four walls sitting on the land (whenua). The two walls here are: Taha tinana - physical health/the body. Taha whānau - belonging - community & family.

❤️I support Doctors, Nurses, Dentists, Therapists, Teachers & Principals ❤️ I support full staffing, fair hours, equal & fair pay for NZers ❤️ I support public hospitals & public schools ❌ I do NOT support privatisation, PPPs or sale of public infrastructure, services or assets #nzpol #NZ #strike

Collective action, collective care #wearamask #strike #covidsafe

Possibly the most epic sunset I've ever captured. A mothership lenticular cloud above the Māniatoto plains looking at Pātearoa Rock & Pillar Range, Central Otago New Zealand #Nikon #GreatNZRoadie #Weather #NZ paullecomtephoto.nz (available on my site)

While the government may be pushing back saying this is about money, it includes nurses' concerns about staffing levels and safety. Healthcare in NZ needs protecting rather than dismantling and privatising. What you need to know about this week's mega strike www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

When the Tui sits in the Kowhai tree and the sun tips the mountain tops with gold when the Rata blooms in the forest glade, and the hills glow with sunny tints untold. #Photography #Spring #Aotearoa #Kikorangi

“Whichever figure you use, the numbers are enormous, rivaling conditions like ADHD and autism as one of the most common chronic diseases in American youth today.” - we really have created an enormous problem, yet don’t seem ready to face it. 1/

It's not just about salary, it's about working conditions. At ACA we believe teachers and students deserve clean air classrooms, adequate sick leave, and access to vaccines and antivirals. We don't accept the "new normal" of constant sickness and teachers quitting the profession due to Long Covid.

Guess what we did yesterday

Congratulations to the lucky London schools 👏🎉 Thankyou Mayor of London @london.gov.uk For leadership to protect children #HealthyAir is #SafeAir Every Child Deserves a #CleanAirClassroom 🌐 #CleanAir is a Human right

This is shocking bullshit. I know some people don’t understand how the sun works but honestly opposing solar power is up there with daylight saving making your curtains fade faster.

Kanchha Sherpa helped Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary summit Everest in 1953.

Glad to see something evidence-based examining side-by-side immune system dysfunction and comparisons between HIV and Covid. Not glad to see the results 😭 Hand this to dismissive multi-infection people wondering why they're "sick all the time" or "can't get rid of brain fog."

The Drs are striking because the woeful state of our health system is endangering patients (and them) and they simply can’t stretch themselves or their resources any further. It’s a last resort. It is NOT them who need the lecture on ethics. #nzpol #solidarity

More misleading BS from min of Ed, Stanford. #nzpol

Views from bus. Whau River as seen this morning from upstairs on a WX1 electric double-decker bus on the Northwestern Motorway (SH16). #publicTransport #Auckland #TamakiMakaurau #bus #somethingBeautiful

NZ Kea - the world's only alpine parrot. This cheeky soaking wet local of Arthurs Pass just sits outside the store/cafe waiting for naughty tourists to do the wrong thing & feed it.

Sad and frustrating 😞 "Open Polytechnic is preparing to end its delivery of education programmes in prisons. If this goes ahead, it will cut off access to learning for people who already face huge barriers to education. It also means three full-time tutors will lose their roles,[...]"

Could you pls do an old ex-Art History teacher a solid, sign this petition to save the subject in our schools, and pass it on. These philistines need to hear from you all. Thank you petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...

"If you start seeing people resigning or getting fired, or you start seeing stories that seem off...especially if it involves the left going too far on a topic Bari Weiss cares about, it’s worth asking yourself why that might be...”

#nzpol Signed as a former high school Art and Art History student.

The article's header image merges two photographs of people with long COVID. That confuses the message around the importance of masking for these young women. The article itself barely touches upon what these women live with, but it's worth reading. 1/ www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/10/o...

Heartfelt thanks to our young people with #longcovid who took part in this, sharing their stories #kiwi #nzpol www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/10/o...

A new wheelchair-accessible picnic table has been installed near the playground at Dunedin Botanic Garden. Small changes, big impact!

Geat to see this happening. Hopefully we get more mask blocs across the motu.

Inflation on New Zealand is driven largely by the price of oil. The sooner we become an electrostate and get the price of oil out of the bottom lines of food production and freight, the better. We also need to bust the gen-tailer influence on the NZ electricity market and energy policy.

Really should ban myself from “just having a browse” in a book shop

Lots of Tui action at Western Springs Auckland New Zealand at the moment: this one was busy feeding on Karo flowers #birds #photography 📸

#nzpol 🎯💯

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Every other vaccine is given to infants before they are exposed to the disease. In NZ covid vax is gatekept for most kids until they are 5, and then most people can’t get ongoing updated covid vax until after 30 😒 Oh yeah, we also continue to ignore indoor air …

Great news! We have already hit our goal of $1000 for the mask bloc. Thank you everyone for your support. If you'd like to volunteer to store masks and re-stock the box at Newtown Library, sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

“There were plenty of jobs available, such as in horticulture.” Aside from the fact there are only *checks Seek* 100 jobs in horticulture in Rotorua currently, there are hundreds of applications per job, and the market is dire - media may want to ponder if it’s Luxon who needs to get off the couch 🫠

Once we experience the benefits of clean indoor air – imagine getting through winter without needing to take time off work or school – we’ll never want to go back. theconversation.com/why-investme...

We are so humbled to have met our donation goal of $500 after only two days after launching our ACA Wellington Mask Bloc donation page. Its so heartening that people believe in this cause so much that they are still willing to donate in a recession. We have set a new goal of $1000.

74 countries have now ratified a landmark treaty to protect the high seas. Why hasn’t NZ? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Ten days to drop your votes back to a library or a Woolworths! (7 days for a post box). Nice chatting to Birkenhead residents getting on the ferry on this beautiful morning. Look I know voting isn’t always the sexiest thing to, but it’s super important.

Was in Ōtautahi Christchurch when an epic NorWest sunset kicked off. Hagley Park is the perfect place to frame it up. #Nikon #NZ #GreatNZRoadie #Sunset