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My wife teaches English, and is just about ready to say pen and paper not laptop for essays. AI, AI, AI. So many tools out there and AI detection tools don't work.

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Never forget: NZ Govts for 50 years have bought into an economic management model that relies on keeping a bufferstock of kiwis unemployed & desperate. Jobs are kept scarce, so that kiwis sell their labour at poverty-wage prices. If unemployment is too low, Govt's henchmen at RBNZ crash the economy.

submitted 5 hours ago • 8 comments

Sweet baby Jesus

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He caught Covid at the place where he was getting chemo 🤬

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It has been over 9 weeks of siege on #Gaza, with the State of Israel banning the entry of all humanitarian aid, medical, and commercial supplies. UNRWA has thousands of trucks ready to enter and our teams in Gaza are ready to scale up the delivery. The siege must be lifted.

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Ferd, who is a very busy lad, is performing with these folks on Friday. I suspect it will be a very fun show.

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A new documentary on the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh reveals that Israeli soldiers use her photo for target practice. This exposes the Israeli mentality that journalists are "fair game", and that the killing of journalists in Gaza is no accident.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Israeli soldiers used the photo of a famous Palestinian-American journalist for target practice. She was killed while Biden was in power, and this was over a year before Israel would start killing more journalists in Gaza than most conflicts around the world combined

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

Because brown lives dont matter. Because white colonialism doesn't count. Because its not Europe. Because theyre not Christian. Because theyre holocaust guilt ridden. Because if it wasnt israhell, the white west would be in there... #GenocideEnablers

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

I haven’t eaten inside a restaurant since February 2020. Why? ~400,000 peer-reviewed journal articles.

submitted 7 hours ago • 13 comments

It can make you feel like you’re going mad. How phony and superficial it all is. How we’re a year and a half into history’s first live-streamed genocide and our whole society is acting like everything’s peachy. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/it-is-frea...

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

Waterboys soundcheck today in Gateshead. Rock and roll! Volume up 🤟

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It Is Freakish and Insane How Our Society Averts Its Gaze from Gaza. It’s like if we were all going around physically drenched in human blood, with blood flooding our living rooms and severed limbs strewn about our bedrooms and kitchens - but nobody was talking about it. Caitlin Johnstone

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They target homes without warning over children's heads #Seentv #SeenPalestine #Palestine #Gaza #Bisan #BeitLahia #SiegeOnGaza #AidInGaza #Famine #SeenPalestine#PalestinianLivesMatter #GazaGenocide #PalestineWillBeFree #StopGenocide #khanyunis #gaza_under_the_bombing #FreePalestine #Gaza

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

@gratchek.bsky.social I apologize for communicating like this 💔I'm from Gaza and my children and I are very hungry😭We need you please help us with your donation of anything that will save us We're falling to the ground from extreme hunger 😭Please Share my story and donate😭Link in bio 🙏🏻

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Why isn’t there a “coalition of the willing” to stop the mass starvation and genocide in Gaza?

submitted 22 hours ago • 43 comments

I support MAiD, with clear consent and guardrails. But Ontario's chief coroner says that's not always happening. Same-day approval, shaky consent, pressure from caregivers. When death becomes the path of least resistance for the vulnerable, we risk adopting a subtle, voluntary form of eugenics.

submitted 15 hours ago • 14 comments

NZ Mum denied paid parental leave after extremely premature birth: www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...

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I just found out that the local resthome has a covid outbreak, lots of oldies and staff with it, several residents have died. Arohanui to their whanau. A pox on this govt and the last one for not legislating for indoor air or respirator use.

submitted 11 hours ago • 9 comments

This is something I wrote at the time of Nicky Hager's expose of Dirty Politics 1.0 - I'd stand behind it again today. The fact that some of the same people are still at it, and still able to exert some influence over our public discourse, makes our country a worse and uglier place.

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

Chlöe has a bill, supported by all three opposition parties. 6 coalition MPs needed to support it to be debated in parliament. I emailed my MP. Kia ora XXX - I am one of your constituents in XXX . Israel is currently carrying out a genocide in Palestine with impunity. 1/?

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Why does it feel like able bodied leftists and liberals care so little about us disabled people? No one really fights for us until they become disabled themselves. If its not enough to just have empathy for us, remember most people are one serious illness or injury away from becoming #disabled

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@sallypoastes.bsky.social 🙏🏻Please help me by sharing or donating bsky.app/profile/imkl...

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Thank you to everyone who has reposted. We still have a long way to go and just 24 hours left. Please can you sign & RT our petition. 🙏

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I tried learning piano but it’s a difficult instrument to pick up.

submitted 19 hours ago • 6 comments

The latest pick for Surgeon General seems to echo the New Thought movement. 🗃️ “Perhaps the body is simply the material ‘radio receiver’ through which we can ‘tune in’ to the divine." “Humans are out of alignment with the Earth and depleting its life force." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Wordle 1,422 5/6* ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 😡Bstard !😆

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This is grim. I’m pretty sure this swan in Hyde Park is nesting, and it’s surrounded by plastic waste that’s washing up from the Serpentine. It’s so representative of our relationship with the natural world. It’s shameful.

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Rescued during the devastating 2022 drought, Kilulu arrived in dire condition, weak from dehydration and hunger. But with time, care, and the friendship of his fellow orphans, he made a remarkable recovery. Now, Kilulu is known for his dramatic flair and playful spirit: swt.bio/kilulu

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

A milestone moment, in miniature form, for Makireti: Our ex-orphan has become a mum! We have named him Makimaki, after a distant dwarf planet; a fitting name for the newest little planet in our elephant galaxy: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/news/updates/makireti-makimaki #Family

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@toolongcovid.bsky.social @captcaffiend.bsky.social

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oh can I upload themme fatale's amazing instagram speech about covid now? in only 2 parts instead of 4? here it is then! (I'll try to embed description & transcript, but will attach them as alt text in a reply too) note: there are now even more studies to back up what they say.

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I saw my cardiologist on Thursday and she basically said get all your vaccines and rsv is looking very bad this year. So if you’re in the Southern Hemisphere get some masks in case you get sick and don’t want to spread it to others.

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#NZ “And clearly Brooke Van Velden, Nicola Willis, and Nicola Grigg, have all decided they’re OK with kicking the hardest working, most systemically undervalued women in society in the teeth.” www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350...

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As it seems my local paper isn't going to publish my letter to the Ed (TBF it has published a lot of similar opinion in the last few days) so I just want to say it think it is rhetorically useful to spread "The National government is passing laws to remove rights faster even than the current US one"

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This kid runs circles around the reporter

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This video makes me incredibly sad as well as infuriated. The internet was created with public funding and for free public use, but the government sold it to the private corporations without even asking for people's consent. Now the companies control the people's narrative. youtu.be/oLLxpAZzy0s?...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

India Pakistan conflict. Big and serious World news. #1newsnz mostly talks about how it affects cricketers

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Wildlife Law Change A Deep Betrayal Of Public Trust #nzpol

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It has come to my attention that some Palestinians in Gaza have no money whatsoever because they haven't been able to raise funds due to lack of internet. So I am focusing on raising funds for esims right now through the wonderful Crips for eSims itch.io/b/2965/crips...

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