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firsts “since WWII” sure are piling up

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hoping I don't wake up to headlines that the AfD has come to power in Germany

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💥"Europol issues an Intelligence Notification calling attention to the rise of online cult communities dedicated to extremely violent child abuse " #Sensitive #important www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/...

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Tonight's watch is 1989's Girlfriend from Hell I wonder if making the DVD cover look like a sun-damaged box you'd find in a video store was intentional, I assume that's how most people encountered this movie

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The New Nation Party is no longer registered with the electrol commission. The NNP was briefly under the FreedomsNZ umbrella (with the Brian Tāmaki and Sue Grey parties) but pulled out before the last election https://elections.nz/media-and-news/2025/new-nation-party-no-longer-registered/

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Turns out that profit-seeking multinational corporations are not reliable allies on climate or LGBTQ rights. Whodaguessed?

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A right to repair bill is getting it's first reading in parliament tomorrow, it would require manufacturers to provide parts and resources for their products to be repairable Would be great for consumers and for reducing waste if it passes

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

It's here again

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I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

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man this is legit no different than a 4chan /pol/ post. like truly no difference, down to the ASMR gag. from the white house account.

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“As far as I can tell, the current foreign policy priorities of the US government seem to involve terrorising the people of Gaza, annexing Canada, invading Greenland, and bullying Panama. We felt confident that a review of our materials would not find them to be aligned with those priorities.”

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Here's a story about the community counterdisinfo school I have been helping get started, @darktimesacademy.bsky.social. We had to tell the Trump State Department to take a hike after they started demanding student lists and class materials

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#NZpol The challenge for any incoming and Left-leaning government is to abandon this ethos fully and finally. Or movements like this will just keep coming back, and every time they do, they will simply increase their capture of lost people AND their ferocity to 'correct' society as they see fit.

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I thought boy racers were an extinct subculture, but the ready availability of Lynx Africa scented car air freshener has me questioning that assumption

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So how do we even talk about sustainability with <gestures around>? If you want to hear from some of New Zealand's best thinkers and sustainability experts, please join us for this 8 week class!

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save us, burning skeleton of kindness, you're our only hope

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Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window

submitted 6 days ago • 218 comments

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

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Don't trust my Letterboxd reviews, it's essentially this: ⭐,⭐⭐,⭐⭐⭐ - I put this on when I couldn't sleep, how badly did it make my eyes hurt? ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - I enjoyed watching this film with people I love ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - I enjoyed watching this film with people I love, we ate nachos

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

I watch the old Twilight Zone with the episodes on shuffle so I never know if I'm going to get an allegory on race relations in 1960s America or a fanciful tale about a guy who finds a weird clock

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Some good news, at least: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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Neo-Nazi terrorist and convicted mass murderer Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, cited this same Napoleon quote in his manifesto.

submitted 8 days ago • 495 comments

A point to consider.

submitted 7 days ago • 1262 comments

The Order is definitely worth a watch, and like any film about white nationalists in the US, a little uncomfortably topical https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/aug/31/the-order-review-jude-law-leads-neo-nazi-hunting-thriller-with-confident-authority

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Debating reactionaries is never a good idea You might win on 'facts', but you'll always lose politically: they are not arguing in good faith, they want their ideas to become seen as acceptable in public discourse And by debating them, you're giving them what they want It really is that simple

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Alternative Jewish Voices and Dayenu: "The NZJC is an extremist voice. Their politics are harmful, and their actions jeopardise the good standing of Jews in Aotearoa." https://ajv.org.nz/2025/02/16/an-open-letter-to-the-prime-minister/

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What an odd moment to be in agreement with the Mayor of Auckland, and yet here we are.

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

submitted 8 days ago • 274 comments

Hey it’s apparently all Nazis all the time tonight- let’s stop using degenerate as a pejorative. It was literally used on people who “degenerate” the “master race”. Meaning mixed race people, queer people, disabled people, and other such undesirables.

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Two pride events in one day disrupted by Destiny Church https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-rainbow-parade-destiny-church-members-disrupt-procession-storm-ponsonby-rd/GAYYCR3YSRHLLEYLZ55Y4DWTIA/

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Life expectancy in Gaza has dropped from 75.5 years to 40.6 years https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02810-1/abstract?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3F99FCiO7aUK4ZmCkTVkkQc_kIAlI1X4_REv4Jo8HaQvN0mTTjQMgjN5s_aem_HAUojJ7htkq1k_htaTY6AA

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Journalists - you do not have to pad out your articles with Brian Tamaki's violent, defamatory quotes. You can simply report that he used social media to spread false allegations and bigotry, and cover what that has led to.

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Destiny Church are disrupting pride events in Tāmaki Makaurau https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/541977/pride-and-rainbow-event-in-auckland-disrupted-by-destiny-church

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The Gulf of Mexico controversy seems silly. No purpose in renaming it, but if it is called Gulf of America in the US, Mexico is part of America anyway. It's not like he's insisting we call it Gulf of Trump

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