Sounds similar to the narrative we heard from the Minister the other day #nzpol

“At SPREP we have developed model legislation that safeguards Indigenous Knowledge & recognises it as something to be protected and respected when it is used.” Director General of SPREP, Sefanaia Nawadra, closing the Indigenous Forum of @adaptationfutures.bsky.social #AF2025

Professor Steve Ratuva opening the panel at @adaptationfutures.bsky.social #AF2025 reminding us of the critical time we are in for adaptation and rollbacks of Indigenous Rights.

“Indigenous peoples have lived through upheavals before… including ice ages and colonisation… our knowledge systems are built for adaptation.” Hetxw’ms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson at @adaptationfutures.bsky.social #AF2025 Indigenous Forum

“We recognise that Indigenous communities are already doing the adaptation work.” Hetxw’ms Gyetxw Brett D Huson shares a vision for an Indigenous Climate Adaptation Network at the Indigenous Forum of @adaptationfutures.bsky.social “It’s a living breathing community of relationship.” #AF2025

‪“We [Indigenous Peoples] are not asking to join the adaptation agenda - we ARE the adaptation agenda.”‬ ‪“If being Indigenous is to adapt then adaptation must become Indigenous.”‬ ‪Marama Royal at @adaptationfutures.bsky.social Indigenous Forum #AF2025‬

“We were the first responders… that’s what we do as Māori” Marama Royal speaking of Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei response to the Auckland Anniversary Floods and Cyclone Gabrielle & the need for Māori leadership in the emergency management space to be recognised & formalised #AdaptationFutures2025

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Fucksake. It's quite clear now that they only looked at this benefit policy as political marketing and took no advice on who it would impact – which includes young people with serious health issues and disabilities. Just feckless and cynical. Shame on them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Fun fact: when you have Long Covid but can’t work you have to go on the Jobseeker benefit because GPs can’t say whether you’ll still have Long Covid in two years - so teens with chronic conditions are now conceivably navigating absolutely debilitating symptoms while also getting zero govt support 👍🫠

imagine being the MP for southern māori and thinking the party of eruera tirikatene doesn’t have the right to stand in it. idiot

USA: Mask rules are returning to Bay Area health care settings from Nov 1 as COVID, flu, and RSV cases rise. Counties including Contra Costa, Santa Clara, Sonoma, Napa, San Mateo, and Santa Cruz will require masks for workers, and in some cases patients and visitors, through spring.

no-one, certainly no-one in the public sector, could have predicted that the population would continue aging

Disabled Māori face higher rates of hardship, poor health, and exclusion. Huhana Hickey calls it what it is: poverty by design.

The govt’s plans to means test benefits for 18 & 19 yos will put disabled, queer, Māori & other marginalised young adults at risk. While I’m glad the disability rights angle of this issue has got traction (and was glad to speak to TVNZ) the Minister’s response was appalling. #nzpol

"calling parents to accountability" sounds like we're all a bunch of wastrels because we can't feed four adults (or more) on two adults' shitty wages. Infuriating #nzpol

When they signalled this in the budget we @dpanz.bsky.social raised concern because of the dangerous & detrimental position this also puts disabled, queer, and young adults experiencing abuse in. Absolutely wild that young *adults* are now forced to be financially tied to parents at 18 & 19yo.

Spotted this gem in a footnote on page 62 of Treasury's He Tirohanga Mokopuna "Between 25% and 30% of everyone born in New Zealand is living overseas by age 30, and emigration rates are even higher among those with tertiary qualifications" Radical idea here - how about stop shitting on our young?

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

And during all of this, we have fewer disability reporters at national publications than when we started the year.

Finally! 900 days of Arabic, with a little Japanese, Spanish, and French thrown in. I completed the Arabic course about a month ago but am actually finding the revision lessons better than the main course! #LeanArabic #DuoLingo

And that's assuming that the technology can do the work of a junior at the quality of a junior. If it can't, that only speeds up the destruction because now seniors have to babysit the sabotage machine, reducing the amount of senior-level work getting done. Gen AI can't do junior work.

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

I know I’m super late to the party but I’m so enjoying finding old Twitter mutuals on here ☺️ When I first joined it was with an awesome group but there were still a lot of folks and the vibe missing. Now it’s like a nice nostalgic treasure hunt seeing people pop up whose yarns I have missed!

That’s an insultingly pathetic offer. Pay equity claims have been dismissed so there’s no path to a more reasonable pay scale, and now they’re being offered three years of effective pay cuts because inflation will significantly outstrip the rises. #nzpol

Agreed - this is also why I hated the whole declaring a state of “climate emergency” push because we know what shitty govts like to do under urgency 🙃

Just remembering that scandal episode where the president was incapacitated but they kept it from the public.

Te Pāti Māori will introduce: Wealth Tax. Foreign Companies Tax. Land Banking Tax. Vacant House Tax. GST off Kai

Someone de-influence me from getting a Masters please 🙏🏽 I am pretty sure I have no EFTs (student loan capacity) left & the majority of the papers are topics I already have “real world experience” in. OTOH: Institution ticks box & gives me paper to verify I know the things? Es bueno no?

Have been snowed under trying to maintain so many social media and email inboxes, but I miss keeping in touch with my wonderful online Indigenous and disabled community. Has anyone found any apps that consolidate things or useful ways to manage?

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Refuse to debate the worth of others. Fascism thrives on the concept of “us versus them”. It says that certain groups (immigrants, trans people, disabled people etc) are less than. It blames the world’s problems on the “lesser” group so people won’t fight for them. All of us have value.

2/2 "Rangatiratanga—guaranteed in Article 2 of the Treaty—isn’t about establishing additional social or legal rights for individual Māori citizens, over and above those of the rest of the population. It’s also not about challenging the Crown’s right to govern" Actual rakatira behaviour looks like👆🏽

He kupu pono, he kupu whakaaraara, he kupu whakahirahira. "We are not the radicals." "It’s simply not true that the rangatiratanga rights of iwi Māori are incompatible with the idea of ‘equal rights for all’ or democracy." 1/2

"We are not the radicals" "A nation is not a blank canvas! It’s an inheritance. It’s our inheritance - all New Zealanders." His speech in full with an NZSL interpreter is available to watch or read here: ngaitahu.iwi.nz/connect-2/co...

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You think this won't happen to you and it may not. That is possible. But it might. And you might be the reason it happens to someone else.

I swear to fucking god. I just searched to see if one of the HR people who were a key part of facilitating the disability discrimination I experienced was still at my former employer. AND GUESS WHAT? THEY ARE. GUESS WHAT THEY DO NOW FOR THAT EMPLOYER??? Equity and inclusion.

Disabled & marginalized people have been mistreated for years. What Trump is doing doesn’t surprise us….We’ve exhausted ourselves trying to warn others. What hurts is seeing how many people are “ok” with fascism. Are content to look the other way as atrocities happen in front of them /1

My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

a nazi speaking at a nazi rally. it’s really not deeper than that.

A few security and privacy tips for using Signal. 1) Signal doesn't provide any additional privacy or security by default unless you a) configure it, and b) are messaging other Signal users. Texting your friends who don't have it is not protected

Well, the new administration already took down the White House #Accessibility Statement. Original page from the WayBack Machine here: web.archive.org/web/20250118185419/https://www.whitehouse.gov/accessibility/ Broken link: whitehouse [dot] gov [slash] accessibility #a11y #Accessibility #disability

They're intentionally making government websites less accessible.

People who aren’t afraid of COVID (specifically long COVID) have no idea how broken the medical system is. They still think a physician will save them if they develop LC and it’s going to take a lot work not to say “I told you so” when reality smacks them in the face

Is anyone aware of any well-organised mutual aid efforts fundraising for plane fares out of the US to countries that allow people to request asylum on arrival?

This is my whenua. My ancestors are buried here, as is my umbilical cord & I hope those of my descendants. I can’t imagine the pain if I lost access to this sacred place or if my whānau were attacked the way Palestinians are right now. #Indigenous4Palestine #LandBack ✊🏽

Given the fact there is supposed to be flooding almost throughout all of New Zealand over the next 72 hours on top of the flooding that has already happened you would think that climate change might be more of a concern considering the impact it is currently having.

Bombastic side eye to all the climate orgs who cover up, enable and propagate gatekeeping, institutional gaslighting, and otherwise toxic behaviour in our movements and then leave BIPOC and marginalised activists and orgs to clean up the mess.