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pezmico

@pezmico@mastodon.nz

342.53 ppm
Tāmaki-makau-rau, Aotearoa. Ngāti Te Ata land.
Cis mostly straight, LatAm migrant. dad.
Labels suck but eco-anarchist kinda fits.
Work in news and hope for better.
ZeroCovid. Don't catch, don't spread.
Mask and fight for clean air.
Better transport: + bicycles, - cars
Love music, film, books, games and languages.

The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently. - D. Graeber

🚲🌱🐋 Solar punk

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pezmico, to random
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Send sick kids to school.
Send sick workers to work.
Mask the disease with pseudoephedrine
(no actual masks)
Reduce and remove vaccinations and testing.
Ignore air quality.

This is our covid non-response from July.
It's foolish and against the current scientific evidence.
It's going to hurt and kill so many people.
Everyone is vulnerable.

pezmico, to NewZealand
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So no (free) vaccines anymore (still unclear whether they can be paid for privately), no testing, no isolation, no clean air, no masks...

Kids who are under 5 today will never be vaccinated according to these new guidelines.

only endless disease, disability and death.

Seems bad.

pezmico,
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Also no jobs, no environmental protection, no trains , no public transport...

I love this place but the case for staying here is getting weaker and weaker ...

pezmico, to random
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Weird how nearly every woman who reaches a position of power in politics is like "PhD in x, y, and z, speaks 3 languages, has been recognised for community building work in a, b, and c, has written 10 research papers and won 2 literature prizes."

While every man is like "He's very wealthy and knows business, loves beer".

Just normal patriarchy things, I guess.

(Also the questions about whether or not they'll be up to the task are always for the women not the guys)

pezmico, to Mexico
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has elected its first ever woman president. And she is an anti-zionist Jewish climate scientist from the left of the political spectrum. 🇲🇽

Mexico election 2024 results live: Claudia Sheinbaum takes early lead | Elections News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/6/3/mexico-election-2024-results-live-will-sheinbaum-win-the-presidency

pezmico, to cycling
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One of the mums at our playcentre arrived by bicycle for the first time.

Later in the day she told my partner that she was inspired by us always coming on our bikes. 😀

Changing minds, one trip at a time!
🚲💪

pezmico, to NewZealand
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“Nicola Willis told the country there was no money, but there’s plenty - it’s just that it’s all going to the rich. This budget is class warfare, rich against poor.”
— People Against Prisons Aotearoa, press release

pezmico, to random
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Toitū te Tiriti. :tinoflag:
Toitū tāngata whenua. ✊🏽

#ToitūTeTiriti

pezmico, to NewZealand
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Slavery was legal.
Apartheid was legal.
Child labour was legal.
The Holocaust was legal.
Colonisation has always been legal.

So what if striking for what is right is illegal?

pezmico, to random
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I know most of you are not as much of a dummy as I am, but there will be a few like me who didn't know:

The upskilling platform LinkedIn Learning (previously Lynda.com) for which pricing starts at about $27 NZD/month, is FREE with your Auckland Library card (and many other library cards too.)

So there you go.
As if I needed another reason to love the library.

https://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/Pages/linkedIn-learning.aspx

ConnyChiwa, to random
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I need some mastodon magic, please.
I'm looking for countries that have introduced or broadened Indoor Air Quality laws since 2020. I'm particularly interested in the implementation/enforcement of those laws, especially in schools, healthcare, public transport...
I'm aware of laws in France, Belgium and Ontario but haven't found much on how it's going.

Please boost for reach!


pezmico,
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@ConnyChiwa Latvia has real-time monitoring of air quality in every classroom of every school in the country.
https://co2.mesh.lv/

pezmico, to NewZealand
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So in today's Q&A, the Minister of Education was asked what does she think should be done now that schools have become a meat grinder chewing through teachers, relievers, aids and students and if sending sick kids to school would make it worse. (my paraphrase)

Her answer was that they recognise that and are working hard on making sure more meat is available to throw into the grinder. (my paraphrase again)

No actual solutions there. No ability to adapt to reality.

pezmico,
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@samhainnight we all live in the bad place now. 😔

pezmico,
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Someone please send this to Education Minister Stanford.

Long shot, but she might catch an idea or two.

https://www.covidsafetyforschools.org/

I might email it to her too later.
I am tired of these people being so willfully ignorant.

pezmico,
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Maybe today's kids are different.

But when I was sick I didn't do much learning. Even as an adult, being sick means barely being productive.

I'd think sending sick kids to school doesn't help their learning at all.
It helps assistance stats.
It helps disease spread among other kids and teachers.
It also probably helps keep parents at work.

Not much else.
But we know this govt is allergic to evidence.

pezmico, to dating
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I'm deeply in love with my partner, so I'm not on the dating market anymore (sorry ladies and all of you incredibly beautiful androgynous folk)...

But if I was single I'd be very excited that this covid safe dating website is out!

https://www.covid-chemistry.org/

Can't begin to imagine how hard it must be being covid cautious and trying to date these days.

Hopefully this helps bring more love to the world.
❤️🌎😷


@novid

pezmico, to random
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Reality is that you only really need to wear a mask and consider air quality if:

-you breathe air regularly.
-you care about your brain, heart, immune system, lungs, kidneys, bones, teeth, eyes, liver or other organs.
-you ever have other people around you.

#MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver

pezmico,
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I because breathing is one of my favourite things to do. 😷

I am constantly doing it, literally can't stop.

I'd consider it an addiction but so far it hasn't affected my life negatively.

And because I don't plan to give it up, better do it safely. ✌️

pezmico, to random
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Today's is , while I have a personal mission of posting at least one Manu Chao song every friday.

You'd think my plans would be foiled because Manu is not from Colombia, Argentina, New Zealand or Japan (countries I might somehow call home).

You'd be wrong though!

Here he is with Colombian band Bomba Estereo (who were my literal neighbours once, many years ago)

Bomba Estereo & Manu Chao - Me Duele
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHnYYDleEgw

pezmico,
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but wait, there is more!

Manu Chao also made a film with a Colombian indigenous community from the amazon: the Tikuna.

So here is a song (in portuguese) with Dani Lança from Brazil, and images of the colombian Amazon jungle and the Tikuna people.

Manu Chao y Dani Lança -ACONTECER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI6BN4esu1Y

pezmico, to random
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Perhaps the books are Hamas too. /sarcasm

#freePalestine #ceasefireNow #endTheOccupation #fromTheRiverToTheSea #sanctionIsrael

pezmico, to random
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Everyday is #MaskUp day.

But these days are particularly so.

The research is out, the science is clear:
Respirators work.

Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/cmr.00124-23

pezmico,
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If you follow me, you likely don't need to hear this anymore but still spread it around:

Masks work.
Respirators are better.
It should be very normal to wear one.
😷

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/05/university-of-otago-s-michael-baker-among-health-experts-calling-for-better-face-mask-use-in-new-zealand-after-international-study-on-effectiveness.html

#Mask4YourMates #MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver

pezmico, to NewZealand
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The First Home grant was what allowed my whānau to finally be able to afford a modest townhouse in South Akl.

We love our little home. 🏘️
It is infuriating that a similar opportunity won't be available anymore to people like us.

(And I get that it was an inefficient subsidy on demand, but in a market as cooked as NZ's it was a helpful tool. One that should not be removed until the supply variables in the equation are solved. And currently they are only getting worse, thanks CoC)

pezmico,
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@simon_brooke yes, that would be far better.

Unfortunately, it's not what the current govt of Landlords is doing.
Nor is it what has been done in the last 40 years here.

But ppl need homes now and that grant was the way first home buyers could hope to compete in an investor's market.

If it was removed as social housing was built on mass, and profits were taxed, my opinion would be different. Right now it feels like ditching the lifesaver without rescuing the castaway from the raging ocean.

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