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Aotearoan born Samoan Artist and Academic
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A kid last week told me that I looked like Steve. I asked her who was Steve and she said 'he's from Minecraft' Turns out Steve was a character played by Jack Black. A friend took this photo of me a week ago. Well played Steve. Well played. #jackblack #aminecraftmovie #samoanjackblack

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves... If we become even slightly more violent, shortsighted, ignorant, and selfish than we are now, almost certainly we will have no future. - Carl Sagan

Like a bat in the sky

Telecoms in #Gaza have been disabled, thus entrenching the isolation of this besieged population. One way to help Gazans stay connected is thru e-sims. Here is a brilliant campaign led by disabled activists which has sent thousands of e-sims since Oct 2023. It’s easy to donate & a v useful thing.

AI is using up water & energy, causing pollution & scarcity, effectively killing the planet but more so, killing off brain cells & critical thinking & research skills - been saying it for years, was mocked by dudebros for years. And here we are, in the pre-era of every bad sci-fi movie involving AI

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

By popular demand, here is another glorious clip from the early-2000's Fox reality show Man vs. Beast - specifically the one in which Olympic sprinter Shawn Crawford raced a zebra. That's right, a zebra. The analyst's keys to victory for the zebra was that the zebra "must realize he's in a race."

Don't let the ACT party control Parliament. This bill would guarantee the primacy of private property and impose a regime of “meta regulation” to permanently constrain the ways that any government can regulate. It would institutionalise presumptions of self-regulation, or no regulation at all.

Why is this not in a Gaza news feed on Bluesky ? x.com/hippyygoat/s...

This is the way

What idiot thought flying a drone near Auckland airport at 600m was a good idea? Even I'm not that reckless. www.stuff.co.nz/travel/36072...

Surprise! It was slavery all along.

Nidal Umairah tried to talk to Israeli soldiers before he was attacked, and then killed, along with his brother Khaled.

Protestors shown stopping more instances of looting of community businesses. It is also noted that the would be looters across multiple videos in different areas are wearing matching outfits. #3E

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

Musk is weeeeeeeaaaaaaaak! All bluster until the drugs wear off.

Trump saw what happened in Tiananmen Square and the lesson he took away was 'kill the protesters'. Give that orange blimp a helmet and a riot shield and make him do his own dirty work.

We’re gutting ourselves not-so-slowly

"Trump Always Wanted To Use the Military To Attack Opponents. Now He’s Doing It" In this short explainer video, with receipts!, I unpack the president's autocratic love for violence against protesters as he escalates in LA, including his praise for China after Tiananmen Square. zeteo.com/subscribe

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In today’s NZ Herald #Trump #lariots2025 #ICEProtests

Please strike up convos with your whanau, housemates, friends, colleagues & neighbours about this ⬇️ aspect. NZ mainstream media isn't offering an overview to the public, nothing about His Atlas & Frontier overlords or the international multi national companies who're excitedly drooling over our #RSB

I have a new hero. This owl stole a child's hobby horse and flies around with it!

Eli Roth is a cunt. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

New Zealand is failing to protect its vast ocean resources. We owe it to the world to act | Helen Clark and Kayla Kingdon-Bebb

Act fumes at Hastings council’s Māori ward videos, mayor says ‘we make no apology’ for them. On ya Hastings; keep up thd good work. You’re rattling ACTs cage! #nzpol

Greta Thunberg and other human rights defenders have been kidnapped by Israel on international waters. The aid they were delivering to Gaza that includes baby formula & medical supplies has been stolen. The ship Madleen was attacked with drones & will be forced to port at Ashdod Port. #3E #FreeGaza

"Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life." - Carl Sagan

LAPD out there like

I was shocked to learn that "The rate of workplace death in New Zealand is 60 percent higher than Australia and 500 percent higher than the UK, (and) that our rate of serious injury is 35 percent and 330 percent higher respectively than those two countries."🧵

Incredibly concerned to see the forcible interception of the Madleen in international waters, and thinking of all those who were on board and have been detained. UK must condemn this breach of international law and immediately demand their release.

#Madleen PRESS RELEASE @tepaatimaori.bsky.social (9 June 2025, 2:10pm) "This is not an arrest, it as an abduction. We have grave concerns for the safety of the crew. Israel have proven time again they aren’t above committing violence against civilians." @whaeadeb.bsky.social 🇵🇸 ✊ tinyurl.com/5n73847j

#Madleen "If you are seeing this video we have been intercepted" @gazafreedomflotilla (10 mins ago) #Gaza 🇵🇸 "The Swedish government must protect their citizen! Greta Thunberg has been kidnapped by the Israeli military... Email the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs NOW: www.government.se/contacts

“History’s verdict is already in on van Velden’s safety reforms The Government is instructing WorkSafe to be kinder and more supportive to businesses, and to shift its focus from enforcement to advice. We know from bitter history where this leads.” #nzpol Van Velden will have blood on her hands.

...creativity is inherently unsafe...

extraordinary that Thiago Ávila is able to keep getting these videos out from #Madleen while it's under attack. ever strident, clear and committed af ✊❤️ "Our team is doing well. We do not fear them." (5mins ago) 🇵🇸 #Gaza

If you support an entity that thinks stopping food & aid for the people THEY are starving is self defense, you're an asshole. October 7 was a tragedy, not a license to commit genocide faster than before. We're all complicit until Palestinians are free to live on the land of their ancestors.

💥 #Madleen "We are being attacked. Please sound the alarm" - @hiagoavilabrasil (10:15am, NZT) 💥

🚨 #Madleen video clips are frightening. #Madleen is "under attack" as of the last few minutes. Quadcopter drones ("the really dangerous ones") are overhead and "substances" are being thrown on the boat ("chemical weapons"?). The boat's radios are being jammed with random noise.