Cover of journal: Broad Sound Spotlights The Sunset Tree At 20. Cover illustration is a luminous watercolor depicting a tree on a hilltop with sunset behind

Image of Broad Sound issue opened to “Something Even Like A Prayer”, my piece on This Year

The new @broadsoundmag.com offering is really lovely and full of smart, moving stuff (blown away by @goblins.download’s comic for one thing). Just delighted to be part of this project and happy there’s a printed volume to peruse

sweet. i have full control over my home network ofc, and if there's shit i can add later to stream locally between devices or otherwise transfer files wirelessly esp on mobile that would rule

yeah, it's really just what's going to be stable/easy to set up and keep going and not look terrible from three metres away haha. too many options! i wasn't intending to run anything like kodi but maybe i should? we can take this to discord maybe!

can of worms question: best linux distro/env/etc for a mini pc hooked up to a tv for media? needs to be easy to use from across the room with kb/trackpad, will be streaming as well as playing stored media. i haven't done this in a hot minute haha

I knew the RNZ story was a poorly written piece of propaganda product placed by an anti-trans group, but reading this made it clear that it was FAR worse

People have been calling for the "journalist" to resign, but the abhorrent and multiple failures should see multiple people removed for good

Screenshot of a tweet Ellory smith @ellorysmith We spent four days talking about Waymos but there were two political assassinations in MN and it’s crickets 2832 reposts, 40 quotes, 29.8k likes

People will tell you that they view property destruction as equivalent to violence against a person, but that's not true. They think property destruction is worse

Had time to take this in now, and it seems from some of the things Alex has said that his parents were abusive as well as transphobic - there is some super controlling shit in there. A lot of people in a lot of news organisations need to think about how they just accepted the parents' narrative.

Stop conflating being transgender with being sick This week, RNZ reported on a tragic death. In the process it perpetuated many harmful messages about young trans people.

Stop conflating being transgender with being sick
thespinoff.co.nz/society/13-0...

tumblr post tsaescii Follow Oct 1 spreading my attention across several things at once to make no progress on any of them at maximum efficiency . . .

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

You can see the bloke aim at her

The NZ police use these. last weekend they were firing them at boy-racers in Levin.

Screenshoot 1: A Facebook post from Debbie Ngarewa- Packer, featuring a press release from Te Pāti Māori. The post condemns the Israeli navy’s armed interception of the civilian aid vessel Madleen, carrying food, medical supplies, and activists including Greta Thunberg. It states that communications have been cut and the safety of the crew is unknown. The post accuses Israel of a pattern of violence against civilians and labels the act an abduction. It calls the blockade and starvation campaign “genocide” and urges the New Zealand Government to demand safe release of the crew, safe aid passage to Gaza, name the actions as genocide, and sanction Israel. The post ends by referencing the Mavi Marmara incident and affirms solidarity with Gaza and the Madleen. Screenshot 2: A protest scene featuring a crowd with Palestinian flags and signs. In the foreground, a person with a Te Pāti Māori jacket raises their fist. Overlaid red text reads: “Israel’s block on aid” and “Te Pāti Māori Demand Safe Passage of Madleen to Gaza.” The Te Pāti Māori logo appears at the bottom.

Screenshoot 1: A Facebook post from Debbie Ngarewa- Packer, featuring a press release from Te Pāti Māori. The post condemns the Israeli navy’s armed interception of the civilian aid vessel Madleen, carrying food, medical supplies, and activists including Greta Thunberg. It states that communications have been cut and the safety of the crew is unknown. The post accuses Israel of a pattern of violence against civilians and labels the act an abduction. It calls the blockade and starvation campaign “genocide” and urges the New Zealand Government to demand safe release of the crew, safe aid passage to Gaza, name the actions as genocide, and sanction Israel. The post ends by referencing the Mavi Marmara incident and affirms solidarity with Gaza and the Madleen. Screenshot 2: A protest scene featuring a crowd with Palestinian flags and signs. In the foreground, a person with a Te Pāti Māori jacket raises their fist. Overlaid red text reads: “Israel’s block on aid” and “Te Pāti Māori Demand Safe Passage of Madleen to Gaza.” The Te Pāti Māori logo appears at the bottom.

#PRESSRELEASE

TPM Demands Safe Passage Of Madleen To Gaza

“This is the Mavi Marmara all over again - but the world has no excuse for silence now. We stand with the people of Gaza. We stand with the Madleen”.

@whaeadeb.bsky.social

#NZPol
#JusticeForPalestine

www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA25...

A page from Let This Radicalize You by Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes, the chapter called "Violence" in Social Movements, page 111. Under the heading "They Will Call You Violent" the text reads: If your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because violence is an elastic term often deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo. Conditions that the state characterizes as "peaceful" are, in reality, quite violent. Even as people experience the violence of poverty the torture of imprisonment, the brutality of policing, the denial of health care, and many other violent functions of this system, we are told we are experiencing peace, as long as everyone is cooperating. When state actors refer to "peace," they are really talking about order. And when they refer to peaceful protest, they are talking about cooperative protest that obediently stays within the lines drawn by the state. The more uncooperative you are, the more you will be accused of aggression and violence. It is therefore imperative that the state not be the arbiter of what violence means among people seeking justice.

Be careful, friends, when you read accounts of what is happening in LA. We will hear a lot about violence, and it is essential to remember who is defining that term.

"When state actors refer to peace, they are really taking about order..." (@prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social)

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

my systems have mostly been iterated on over a decade and become pretty reliable, so not filling out my planner at all is [klaxons], but lesser notes go from "not using stickers/colours" through "only filling out tomorrow's tasks and not even doing a brief 'proud of/grateful for' end of day note"

yeah, for sure! i think there's trends anyway, so i keep my categories broad. like my habit tracker lumps lifting and going for a run together in one box, crafting/making music, drawing/writing, reading/social time. i track dates w my wife and w myself, how much i'm relying on weed or valium, etc

this is something i've already been intuitively working with (though the indicators shift with seasons and cycles and new life routines and all that — adhd etc etc) but i had never articulated it like this! i really love this + am sharing w biology nerd friends immediately

They're going to try memory holing this later so you won't remember resistance.

They did it with Ferguson over a decade ago, so thoroughly that a lot of Americans don't recall it.

They did it with the BLM protests 5 years ago, less success but we'll see by 2030.

They'll try again. Don't let them.

PM’s press secretary ‘recorded sex workers without consent’ Christopher Luxon’s deputy chief press secretary quits after Stuff investigation into allegations he secretly recorded sessions with sex workers.

Appreciation to the sex workers for talking to me because they knew this was in the public interest.

And I think we need to have a conversation about some of the wider issues here.

Unresolved trauma and stress don't make you do that btw. But you know that.

i hope so!!!

i can't wait for youse to see the comic i got to contribute to this! the sunset tree was my first tmg album, introduced to me by my now-wife when i was a teenager who needed it. it's so special to be able to celebrate and give back to it, in this way.

i suspect some of the apps have started defaulting to these for shops that don't do descriptions and haven't turned it off :'(

where and how can i get one of these!!!!!

the uk's far — if you can afford it i think getting elastomeric respirators (safety p2 silicone/etc w filters) is great. i drool when asleep and other masks would become useless! don't unmask when the plane is on the ground, in the air filtration is a lot better so eating/drinking is lower risk

omg it looks so good