Ko te kōrero e ngaro ana i te pūrongo rā, ko te kōrero e pā ana i te whenua me tāna ake mana – this false dichotomy of "individual liberty" versus "collective will" is an aspect of Eurocentric worldviews trapped in their own skulls www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...

Just in case you wanted to confirm the evidence. . teora.maori.nz/wp-content/u...

Rawiri Jansen koinā e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

“I couldn’t, in all honestly, remain in my roles. The government didn’t seem interested in listening to genuine public health advice.” — Collin Tukuitonga.

Excellent piece from Anna Sturman and Matthew Scobie connecting the sometimes seemingly disparate attacks on social life by this govt into a coherent project of butchery, extraction and destruction. e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

e-tangata continues to be the rare player in our subservient media sphere consistently publishing pieces that critique power rather than defer to it e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

Neglect the Arts, your society will burn, and you won't know why

Dr Janelle Trees gave a super talk about palliative care from an Indigenous Australian perspective, accompanied by her artworks #PRIDoC2024 #PalliativeCare www.janelletrees.com

Guiding principles for implementing Cultural Safety in the RACGP #PRIDoC2024

Every right entails a duty. Every Māori person has duties (ngā here, obligations) to Papatūanuku, Whakapapa, and Hapori (just for starters). Te Tiriti protects Māori capability to exercise those duties. Te Tiriti establishes rights for Tangata Tiriti, the price includes duties to Tangata Whenua.

Big thanks to Prof Holly Thorpe and team for writing about our work in TeTairāwhiti and Hawkes Bay theconversation.com/lessons-from... #Gabrielle

NULL is cool because it's zero but it's so extremely zero it's not even zero any more.

"The only thing better than having someone else pay your mortgage is to have someone else pay your mortgage and that someone else not even live in your house and also you have no mortgage."

Local Water Done With Wells! The obvious answer 😁

It's not a discussion when you're giving orders

"Koia nei ngā tohu o te kohi i mua atu o te wā e kitea ai e te katoa. He pukupuku ētahi kei runga ake o te ā o te kakī (TTT 1/8/1929:1053). / These are the symptoms of tuberculosis before the time that it is fully evident. Some are lumps above the collar-bone." #TeAka maoridictionary.co.nz

This was interesting for insights about political volatility of the financially precarious "lower middle class" drive.google.com/file/d/1KAzb...

A pretty solid rundown in case anyone was still doubting the presence of racism in Pākehā NZ's very dna.

Lots of wisdom in here "We also have a government that appears to want to exit from services that improve community safety and social cohesion, so it can invest in evidentially ineffective law and order policies."

Eat your greens

"Licensed by the world’s shame, riding on Western fear and suspicion of Muslims, Zionist Israel today is an obliterating war criminal. Its leaders flaunt their genocidal intent."

"The wrong place at the wrong time" looks like NZ in 2022 to me CW violence i.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-dai...

In support of the Palestinian people

Having been through my own health experience recently, here's a shout out to Nurse Specialists wherever you are 👍🏽

when I see news about teachers being attacked for doing the right thing I recall Blair Peach, the teacher from NZ who was killed by cops when he was taking part in an antiracist protest in London in 1979, and how I only know about him because of Linton Kwesi Johnson www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrDf...

Don’t worry, I am voting. My vote will be for the most vulnerable in society.

A little early perhaps to be writing memoirs as a member of Generation X, but we have lived through a time in which there was significant improvement in the quality of margarine.

One reason our society valourises passions is to avoid having to confront principles

When facing the "All we need is STEM!" approach to education, my usual response is: Developing the vaccine was the STEM problem; distribution & getting shots in arms was the Social Science problem; getting people to trust it & combatting misinformation was the Humanities problem-- which did we fail?

Every old headbanger should watch this again once in a while youtu.be/S0Vyr1TylTE?...

The Second Law of Thermodynamics has got a lot to answer for.

According to Google Translate, "Fallacia Romani fecit" is "the Fallacy that the Romans did it"

Everyone still doesn't have the vote in NZ – that won't happen until the voting age goes down to zero.

All Government Bailouts should be Treaty Settlements

There's something Lovecraftian about a Linear Accelerator

So a reintroduced $5 prescription charge would be a Cancer Tax then

To my mind this is also a way of being better off

40 years of Swordfishtrombones https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/20/tom-waits-frank-trilogy-reissues-swordfishtrombones-rain-dogs-franks-wild-years

Shake Hands With Danger (thanks, YouTube) 😁😯 https://youtu.be/v26fTGBEi9E

31 August 1974 when our country went off the rails

"We poisoned their asses / With poisonous gases [lungs, actually]" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/10/pak-n-save-savey-meal-bot-ai-app-malfunction-recipes

@mementomaori.bsky.social kua whakarongohia te karanga o tētehi wāhi kikorangi. Auē! Ha! Hi!