For fucks sake

Gang, at this point I’m too disillusioned to expect all of you to mask always (even though you should), but for the love of GOD, please at least mask at airports and on planes when you travel to events!!!

Last weekend, Destiny Church escalated its attacks against the queer community. Destiny wants to drive queer New Zealanders back into the closet. PAPA won't let this happen. We stood for queer liberation as No Pride in Prisons and we stand for it now.

Really wild how people continue to act like RFK Jr.’s problem is his remote history of heroin addiction in sustained recovery and not the fact that he’s a sociopathic, science denying, con artist, who wants kids to die so he can make a buck, which has nothing to do with him using heroin decades ago.

Israel's cheerleaders are gratuitously lying about the collapsing ceasefire. Israel always saw the ceasefire as a temporary ruse, and has systematically violated it. Ignore the lies. This is the truth 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israel-is-...

Really amazing piece on the loss of friendships and communities in the ableism that is the world 'moving on' from covid 🩵

Reminder that substack loves nazis ❤️

Pro tip: Wearing a mask is a powerful protest tool that visually communicates the reckless denial of anti-vaxxers, fossil fuel shills etc. Wearing a mask at a protest is also praxis. Not only are you protesting those who will spread harm, you are actively stopping it yourself.

Every disaster movie starts with scientists being ignored. Good thing we’re not doing that.

What in the neoliberal hellscape is this

Israel released 90 hostages in Gaza then took 90 new hostages in the West Bank. This is what Israel does and this is the vile colonial violence it’s founded on, beyond any kind of reform

Keen to get off insta/fb/whatsapp now that meta is extra fucked - where we going for alternatives other than here?

Nazis: "that's a nazi salute" Historians: "that's a nazi salute" Average person: "that's a nazi salute" The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."

You spend years platforming and agreeing with Nazis and the next thing you know people are not charitably interpreting a hand gesture

You can honor David Lynch by wearing a mask in public. He had to begin isolating at home because he has emphysema- a COVID infection would likely be fatal- and no one wears masks anymore. Millions of others like him (including myself) were left behind when COVID measures were abandoned

Goddamn.

It's critical that governments get PERMANENT year-round free N95 mask programs in place. Waiting until a wildfire or an outbreak to distribute free masks is too late. People need to have access to the tools that will protect them in advance of being exposed to the threat.

Now that you’ve seen Meta go full mask-off, lets remember that Substack has the same agenda.

Wikipedia is the last major, visible platform for facts that they can’t buy. The attacks are going to be merciless.

This is a great roundup of all the (nz) govt submissions due in the next week or two! All very important!

Fact-checking wasn’t “biased” against conservatives. Conservatives just shared more false content. If there’s a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it’s not “biased” for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team.

Wtf

Everyone remember

Read!

After a fairly fraught week I just want to take a moment to take a moment to say that IMO violence and the taking of a human life is almost always morally wrong. However, I think there is also a message that everyone should hear: 1/

wtf wtf goddamn even economics is a social science, where do you think 'the economy' comes from

Given that most Māori and Pacific scholars are based in the humanities and social sciences fields, this will disproportionately impact those groups. Fun times.

Perhaps worth talking about *why* external grants like Marsdens are crucial for many, many types of social science and humanities research. Point 1 is that with narrow exceptions, universities don't pay for reseach beyond an academic's salary & office space. Anything else needs a grant to happen.

Great points here! Particularly about the nz covid inquiry recommending reduced restrictions during next pandemic to preserve 'normal life', which completely discounts the long term impacts of letting a virus like covid loose in the community (e.g. mass disability) #longcovid

As we enter the festive season, please bear in mind that up to half of all COVID infections are asymptomatic. Protect yourself and others to avoid infection. Each one increases your risk of Long COVID

This is a good read! I've experienced many of the same things over the last few years, firstly through my immunocompromised partner, and now more recently with long covid myself. The isolation and rejection by communities who once sustained you is heartbreaking and horrible. #LongCOVID

Eru Kapa-Kingi, speaking at the hīkoi: “Pākehā mā, you should not fear Māori liberation. Because Māori liberation goes hand in hand with the liberation of all people who live in Aotearoa... Everyone gets a feed on this marae. No one gets left behind." #ToitūTeTiriti

Closing in fast on 200,000 signatures. The current count (194,339 right now) is the same number of people as 6.7% of voters in the 2023 general election, more than the entire NZ First vote. 250,000 would beat the entire Act Party vote. #ToitūTeTiriti

"There are federal agencies no one has ever heard of" Okay but like most people cannot name the valves in their heart or their functions I probably wouldn't recommend pulling them the fuck out

Biggest fomo of my life missing out on the hikoi today, but cheering everyone on from my sickbed - toitū te tiriti!!

incredible work by this sign-holder popping up just as TVNZ crossed live to the hikoi

We're in a Covid wave and RATs are only funded till the end of June. Tell your MP, tell the Minister of Health to keep funding them. You can use Aotearoa Covid Action's open letter to help covidaction.nz/en/keepratsf...

Make no room for Brian Tamaki's Zionist hatemongering in our city, Pōneke - our Palestinian comrades need all of us to stand-up NOW. Please join us in solidarity with Gaza and against imperialism, 12pm, cnr Lambton & Whitmore St. ✊🖤❤️🤍💚

“a state in which Palestinians can live in their homeland as free & equal citizens, neither dominated by others nor dominating them. When we call for a free Palestine from the river to the sea, it is precisely the existing system of domination that we seek to end” https://tinyurl.com/bd777ndy

Hello bluesky, #freepalestine !