bootstheory.bsky.social
Feminist, leftie, māmā. Tangata Tiriti, she/her.
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If you don’t want your kids to leave the religion you raised them in, don’t raise them in a sucky religion that only takes hold if they never learn anything new.
You don’t have a right for your kids not to question you.
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It's a statistical term referring to probability, not a prediction. Yes, it should be explained better but it's not a conspiracy (ie using the term isn't the problem, the near total erasure of climate change in weather reporting is the problem)
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Omg she what
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Thanks <3
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I know that good journalism is difficult and valuable work but if RNZ really wanted a piece about "the treatment and care provided to a seriously ill person" I could write a better one with ten minutes on Google. I just DID. They published transphobic propaganda and they're gaslighting us about it.
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Oh hey and here's a weird thing, RNZ itself has repeatedly reported on the findings of the Counting Ourselves survey than *one in five* trans and nonbinary people have been homeless, many of them because their families WEREN'T SAFE. Also not even referenced in passing by Ruth Hill.
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8 mentions of eating disorders including the trigger warning and support agency links at the end. No mention of the refresh of the ED services strategy announced by Matt Doocey in February. Not even a cross link to the "wellbeing" piece RNZ posted THE SAME WEEK about ED and the cost of living
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The word "motel" appears 12 times in the article, all to describe where Alex was living. It is not even spelled out in the article that the motel itself IS the "emergency accommodation" he was placed in, unless you count the motel owner saying "We are a motel, not social services."
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Not a single line is given to explaining how emergency accommodation works, why motels are used for emergency accommodation, or the many public criticisms of this practice going back YEARS. Ruth Hill couldn't even link to an article on *RNZ's own website* from *two months ago* about the policy
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Sorry this will drive me to distraction if I don't have a rant. There are *three* mentions of "emergency accommodation" in Ruth Hill's article, two of which are stating where Alex died. The third: "Family Works, a service run by Presbyterian Support, found the teenager emergency accommodation."
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BRAVO
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Istanbul's where Adams is running
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The kicker? Their director of advocacy is Helen Joyce who the NZ Free Speech Union is hosting in Aotearoa New Zealand soon. Yes, the free speech lot are bringing her over because apparently we don't have enough homegrown transphobes.
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TIL 😮
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My strongest memories are that, and how utterly punchable Guy of Gisborne was
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I always disliked blond Robin, like how dare you rock up and try to replace the OG
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Literally read the first post in this thread again
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And the thing is, I don't think you can define or guideline or language your way out of this, the system has to be built and *resourced* around people-centered values instead of economics. As long as it's about money instead of people this will keep happening
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But the point is, they *don't* publish the results when those results go against fatphobic assumptions about health and diet. See also "the obesity paradox" ie "whoops it turns out some fat people have higher survivability than "normal" people, better not let that shake our core ideas about fatness"
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For example "patients shouldn't wait more than 6 hours in the ED" is a good goal. But making "% of patients in ED < 6 hours" your primary target without addressing the actual causes just leads to inappropriate discharges, etc.
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To jump really big picture, this is why socialism and environmentalism are inextricable to me. We have to care about people AND planet because to value one and not the other is ultimately a recipe for planetary death or mass murder.
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This is why Ministers of Social Development love talking about people moving off benefits (but not if those people got good, fulfilling, well-paid jobs) or having fewer people in emergency housing (but not where those people are living now). And we need a media who will ask them the *next* question
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Legend!
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The point is we make it clear that the wealthy aren't paying a fair share and to hold massive wealth while others are cold and hungry is immoral. Which is what most people already think
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This isn't really accurate. The majority of NZers support a wealth tax, or taxing the wealthy more. Using phrases like "more equitable" actually clouds the issue.
www.bettertaxes.nz/poll_shows_n...