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Vacuous. America has overplayed its hand. People like this will be OK. The voters will not.

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"It is China that has escalation dominance in this trade war" but no, let's watch America dwindle as others work together and it continues with its dogma, wearing its Trumpian inside trading coloured glasses. One of the better summations I've heard in the last few days. youtu.be/u9k7132Iyeo?...

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

Cool graphic from Rewiring Aotearoa on the potential for EV car batteries to be charged during low demand periods (primarily over nightl and then help feed the grid during peak demand.

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Somebody told @dannymichelmusic.bsky.social that musicians should stay in their lane and not make political comments. So he did the right thing - he wrote a protest song. "But we ain't for sale, like one of your cars And the northern star- that one's ours!"

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A council in Aotearoa New Zealand blames eels for their own demise & deaths and not as @mikejoyecologist.bsky.social says ECAN allowed catchment of Te Waihora become polluted to where it's classed as one of the most polluted in NZ with a Trophic Lake Score of 7.1 www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/thousands...

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Everything's okay elsewhere, Aotearoa New Zealand Climate Change Minister Simon Watts, we can adapt as they are. Yeah, right! Scroll on

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"Under both red and blue governments, the wealth of the richest 200 Australians has risen from the equivalent of 8.4% of GDP in 2004 to 23.7% of GDP in 2024. "

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..the word currency never meant money before colonialism the word means flow what's flows into life the flow of the nutrition cycle the water cycle the energy cycle the flow of breath from trees to us.. a speech worth listening to youtu.be/KweRFQdSEwU?...

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Unlike other species, some of us lack empathy for our own, let alone other species. What chance does a monkey have when faced by a human fueled by greed??? #Colombia #speciesists

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Economists are blamed for a lot but wherein lies the problem? Of course I'm talking about the neoliberal genre. Here's a good interview from a number of years ago about the education of economists youtu.be/NR6NJNOp3QA?...

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Heavens to Murgatroyd! Winne Willis winning with wool? Election in 18 months. The coalition taking the microplastics out of carpet. Guess all the ancient forests felled were for good reason... youtu.be/Y6XW1-lR5Zk?...

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Decision against grifters trying to "acquire" conservation land by stealth in AoNZ. This may only be temporary until they play the Shame Goodbye Freddy Jones card, fast track. Quarrying company denied Supreme Court appeal www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...

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Some excellent views here espoused by one of AoNZ's great actors, emphatically not a celebrity, a man of the people. Talks about the demise of the US, AoNZ changes et al. Worth a listen.

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Keep getting fired up @markwarner.bsky.social. You and others who share your sentiments have many friends on distant shores who watch in dismay for your need to fight the good fight. We feel for those under siege in their own country and acknowledge your efforts.

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To live such an existence to cause such misery that your passing is remembered like this, shameful. Yet there are those that walk this earth amongst us of that ilk. #Thatcher #neoliberalism youtu.be/cStfEz3Nu-c?...

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When he writes them like this and sings them to us in all big and small corners of AoNZ, no wonder the love is widespread. We wish you well, Adam. youtu.be/TEUn9AKsQ6o?...

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Have you seen the Milky Way with your naked eye? A good talk about ALAN (not a human male) youtu.be/SOZ0dG_NG2k?...

submitted 147 days ago • 1 comment

This reminds me of the extinct Huia, and it's birdsong BUT not recorded ONLY in a recording of a whistler mimicking it from memory in this 1949 radio item. Lest we forget. www.ngataonga.org.nz/search-use-c...

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In case you missed it. Limits to wealth.

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Biodiversity collapse reminder : 50% of species are beetles with extinction rates at 1-2% per year spells disaster. Got to 40 min if short of time youtu.be/qJwsJhFK98o?...

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

USA was built on these principles, "sucking the life of goodness" as in this song about England. The lyrics apply to all those grifting politicians all the way to the bottom of the planet incl New Zealand. youtu.be/F8O1E-2jfpE?...

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

The human species are totally worthless for the universe and this earth! There are only TWO real human achievements that have contributed to a more beautiful and soulful Earth and they are Art and Music...and the universe still doesn't give a f**k! This one hits hard if you sit with the painting..

submitted 124 days ago • 5 comments

What makes this visual even more stunning is that it was made possible by people who said their #1 concern when voting was the economy. What idiots.

submitted 6 days ago • 591 comments

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

submitted 6 days ago • 558 comments

⚒️🧪 Reported mud volcano eruption on Munaung Island, Rakhine state, Myanmar. Rakhine state hosts many big mud volcanoes, including several on Munaung Island. Video from Htun Htun Naing

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments