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pezmico

@pezmico@mastodon.nz

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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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Lots of attention given to absenteeism, threats to fine parents, online dashboards for real-time student tracking and all the BS non-solutions.

Instead we could clean the air in schools, normalise masking in risky environments, regularise testing, support adequate isolation. But for that it would be necessary to break out of the collective delusion and admit that .

Relief teacher shortage, rising staff sickness sees schools struggling to stay open
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/517006/relief-teacher-shortage-rising-staff-sickness-sees-schools-struggling-to-stay-open

pezmico,
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You'd expect the teacher unions to be raising hell about this, but they also seem to be caught in the fantasy that covid (and all the other diseases) are fine to catch over and over again, and that workers' health is disposable.

Covid won't get better until there is collective action to materially change the conditions where it spreads.

We know what to do and it's cheaper, easier and better than this endless cycle of death and disability.

The Emperor has no clothes.

pezmico, to NewZealand
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Coordinated and accelerated march to privatise, defund and destroy anything not designed directly to enrich the already rich.
The goal is clearly to make that inequality gap absolutely insurmountable.

It's so grim.
But the worst is seeing so little pushback.

We're already losing so much.
😔
#NZPol

pezmico, to random
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Likely unpopular opinion but I think AT getting rid of free street parking in the CBD is a good call.

Free parking encourages car dependency, wastes precious urban space and discourages alternative modes of transportation.

Here's Donald Shoup, author of "The High Cost of Free Parking", the expert on parking economics why too much of it ruins our cities:

https://thewaroncars.org/2023/01/17/the-high-cost-of-free-parking-with-donald-shoup/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skm6hp99-5A

https://www.shoupdogg.com/

pezmico, to random
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Hypothetically, if one had applied for a cool job and been rejected, and a similar (although not quite the same) position was advertised again in the same company... applying a second time for it would be wise or foolish?

pezmico, to tesla
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"The fake part of Tesla has become more real than the real part of Tesla."

Interesting discussion about the hype behind the stock and the lack of substance in , like anything Musk, has become about image and hype much more than actual innovation or product.

It's all smoke and mirrors with the billionaire class.

Tesla is Choosing Hype over Substance w/ Ed Niedermeyer on Tech Won't Save Us by @parismarx

https://pca.st/episode/a07c34a6-4cd9-4224-8b9a-63b104a67a54

pezmico, to random
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We might be doomed but the sky looks pretty. 🌠

pezmico, to random
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I can tell another wave is getting started because another workmate is off with covid.

Still, am the lone masker in the team.

pezmico,
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workmates talking about buying lotto because apparently today's odds are better than usual while refusing to mask when airborne sickness is already making us short-staffed really says something about humans and our limits in understanding risk and probability.

pezmico,
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@dave 💯
The workmate who is currnetly infected and off is on his third covid ride. His partner is a cancer survivor.
One would think that would warrant some precaution, but he "won't live in fear".

I've tried, but can only do so much.

pezmico,
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@jeremy_pm @dave i mean yes... but also vaccines are increasingly ineffective to mutated strains. Kids under 5 are not allowed any. And the ones approved here in NZ are for XBB, a strain not detected in a few months now. We don't have access to a more effective updated novavax and keep acting ignorant when it comes to clean air and masks.
It's a strategy doomed to fail.

pezmico, to NewZealand
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Well I for one will be sending Winston Peters photographic evidence of my genitalia every time I use a public toilet so he can rest assured I am using the correct one.

pezmico, to Eurovision
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Boycott . 🍉

Free Palestine. 🇵🇸

pezmico, to NewZealand
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Seymour is announcing cuts to the school lunch program today.
They are expected to be mainly a change from hot, healthy, and cooked meals, to prepackaged food.
To cut costs.

May his food always be spat on, anywhere he goes.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/05/newshub-understands-free-school-lunches-will-change-from-hot-to-packed-meals-to-cut-costs.html

#NZPol

pezmico,
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@jonoabroad 💯
Feeding people, and particularly kids, is not a cost.

It's a long term investment, and a very productive one at that.

pezmico, to H5N1
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My timeline is currently a mix of the #MetGala, the unfolding escalation of genocide in #Rafah, images of floodings and worsening climate catastrophe, news of the incoming #H5N1 crisis and the current #Covid public health crisis, and the fascist police state cracking down on principled students in the imperial core.

So yeah.
Pretty dystopian.
We have now achieved Hunger Games levels of reality.

Excellent doomscrolling whiplash though.

pezmico, to Podcast
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I say yes! And further, #BanCars because #CarsRuinCities

Should SUV ads be banned? - by @TheWarOnCars
https://pca.st/episode/ed646d83-cf4a-4076-b243-4e297233b06f

#podcast

pezmico, to random
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Who is afraid of

A downloadable graphic novel.

https://www.celinekeller.com/who-is-afraid-of-degrowth

pezmico, to random
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Israel is committing one of the worst atrocities in modern history.

The attack on Rafah is unlawful and monstrous.
The "evacuation plan" is a bad joke. There are no services or safety in an already overcrowded area.
Even if moving somewhere else was a possibility, there has not been enough time for hundreds of thousands of hungry, sick and scared people, mostly children, to move.

All eyes on Rafah.

pezmico, to random
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The Onion never misses.

Advisors Assure Biden This Will Blow Over Once All Gazans Dead
https://www.theonion.com/advisors-assure-biden-this-will-blow-over-once-all-gaza-1851452315

pezmico, to random
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Listen to the Anarchist Bunny. :anarchopunk:🐰

pezmico, to random
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  • Why are you wearing a mask?
  • Because I don't want to be sick, or make anyone else sick.
  • Oh I've been sick so much recently!
  • I know, I haven't been sick in about 5 years...
  • ... wow that's incredible!
  • Would you like a mask? I have lots to spare.
pezmico, to random
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🍉🇵🇸

pezmico, to random
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Wear a mask and save lives all day long. 😷
Including your own.

pezmico, to random
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Hello toot friends, I bring memes.
I'm hoping to radicalise you all against the boring monoculture lawn and turn you into biodiversity defenders.

pezmico,
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There's so many reasons to love urban trees.
Green your city!

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