Yeah Idk if someone should be councillor if they come round to look at a room with water leaking from a burst pipe, that's had no electricity for 2 weeks, and has a rubbish bag where a window once was and says "ah damn I just can't afford it right now"
Massive Attack threaten legal action against the Israeli influencer who accused them of "incitement"
Yet if the movement is leaderless and anarchic, it isn't chaotic. It has guiding principles that allow participants to self- regulate even as the movement constantly reinvents itself. Among those principles is ("do not split"). Protesters use the expression to say that no one in the movement should condemn or obstruct the actions of fellow protesters they disagree with. People who oppose a given action should sit it out, but not try to prevent it.
The use of force, in particular, is a divisive issue. Some insist on the necessity of keeping the protests peaceful, so that they will seem morally legitimate and may gain sympathy from the broader public. Others — especially younger protesters or protesters who consider that the lengthy sit-ins of the Umbrella Movement failed — believe that some measure of force has become necessary; otherwise, the government will simply ignore them. The “do not split” idea acts as a bridge between these two factions by promoting mutual respect for diverging views within the protest movement.
the hong kong protestors used the phrase "do not split" to mean that the radical protest and peaceful protest arms of the movement should refuse to criticize each other.
Today is a good day for everyone to learn about ADS-B Exchange (which includes aircraft that you won’t see on FlightAware:
globe.adsbexchange.com
The public photographs being legal because of an unspecific law is ridiculous, there should be clauses about intent of the photograph and photographing as a form of sexual harrassment
Government members on Finance and Expenditure Committee just voted to use an AI bot to read submissions on the Regulatory Standards Bill🙄. Turns out democracy under this government is real people making submissions and computers reading them. 👎
Perpetual reminder that Worksafe was set up following the recommendations of a completely independent expert Royal Commission responding to mass workplace deaths at Pike River.
screenshot IG @em_emmaline_em on 1 June. "Also if this was a wahine Maori acting like this in public and holding a position of power ... She would be fired by Wednesday. She would be asked to publicly apologise. She would have to go through a rehab programme. She would have to donate $$$ to alcohol related harm. I hope @cisbishop is held to the same standard. I hope the media follow through like they do with wahine Maori. What's that random saying what's good for the goose etc etc."
Kia ora NZ mainstream media,
➡️➡️➡️ make "2025 the year of holding Pākehā men
to the same ridiculous standard
Brown women are held to please." ⬅️⬅️⬅️
@em_emmaline_em 💯 TAUTOKO. FFS
“They attempt to cast themselves as victims. Yet in reality, their legislative efforts are causing harm to working-class women, including a large cohort of Māori and Pasifika women.” — Rebekah Graham.
🚨 "Civil War"
new clip: Mata Reports @mihiforbes.bsky.social
When submissions open on the Regulatory Standards Bill, this is the fire that can drive us; do we want Seymour and his custom-built Ministry of Regulation apparatus to be in control of Aotearoa legislation & policy? #ToitūTeTiriti #nzpol
This Bill is the Crown picking up the pen again not to sign a treaty, but to strike it out.
Line by line.
Clause by clause.
Until nothing is left but David Seymour’s signature.
No time to be polite.
No time to be quiet.
No time to be complacent.
#Vote2026❤️🤍🖤
#ToitūTeTiriti #NZPol #OneTermGovt
A smiling Luxon with the text "Happy Mother's Day. Which I think is 10% less valuable than Father's Day."
@jordanriversnz.bsky.social
Thanks for the accurate content.
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ’and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
#Tolkien
@tolkiensociety.org
#Art by Tom Jung
Hahaha rest of the EP still on the way
This feels like a good time to remind everyone that this is exactly the same shit the Nazis did & the same types of rhetoric they used to justify killing disabled people in the holocaust. Also worth remembering that the killing methods used in concentration camps were tested on disabled ppl first...
Screenshot of the web essay, "The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free"
Current Affairs magazine (@currentaffairs.bsky.social) shows you don't need paywalls for sustainability. 🧱 By embracing a model of free access and reader support, the publication is thriving without locking away knowledge. Learn how: blog.archive.org/2025/03/04/c...
A meme. Nicola Willis' head is superimposed over Donald Trump's on the cover of "art of the deal". The cover now reads "SUNK. The art of the deal. Donald J. Trump with Total Farce". Willis/trump is holding one of the Interislander ferries
One of the standard reactions us west Germans seem to have to the incredibly scary presence of the rightwing AfD in the East is "they're a lost cause".
That's exactly the wrong direction to go.
Listen, you don't need to move to Saxony. It IS scary there, right now, for us lefties.
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Please note there is an active petition on Parliament’s website to remove Destiny Church’s charitable status. It was started last year and closes Feb 28th – great timing! Go sign. And write to your MP. petitions.parliament.nz/a22e0d59-7da...
The year turns. Days and months slip behind us. New works emerge from Ableton Live, ProTools, and also several boxes full with cabling and green circuits. You'll see this account begin to awaken in the coming weeks...
Pic and Hat: @niamhvh-l.bsky.social
#synthsky #synth #moog #nzmusic #ukgarage
I wouldn't have it any other way - ticketting a gig which is all about improving access feels wrong! But, if you'd like to koha toward the cost of supplying masks for these events, & future safe ones too, I have a KoFi which you are welcome to donate to 💌
niamhhollislocke.substack.com/p/tip-jar
Anti-Trump demonstrators in Los Angeles have taken over the 101 freeway to protest ICE deportation raids.
🎥 ktla
Woah, hi, lots of new people. I guess we should do some introductions? I'm a UK-born/NZ-based writer with a Masters in Writing (ecofiction), + a BA (EngLit with History) & BA(Hons)(EngLit - thesis on Tolkien's monsters). I write poetry & creative nofic, and am working on a children's fantasy novel!
My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread
Thanks man!
Make Haste, my most recent single! Been out a few months, part of EP which is on the way at some point.
Just moving my work over here from lesser apps
This TVNZ documentary from 2001 is still one of the best primers/overviews of the 1981 Springbok Tour (& the protests) that's readily available online. Highly recommend watching it, especially given the way things are going
youtu.be/AevAs3rTSyE?...
