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pezmico

@pezmico@mastodon.nz

342.53 ppm
Tฤmaki-makau-rau, Aotearoa. Ngฤti 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

๐Ÿšฒ๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ‹ Solar punk

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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. ๐Ÿ˜”

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.
โค๏ธ๐ŸŒŽ๐Ÿ˜ท


@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.

pezmico,
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I because breathing is one of my favourite things to do. ๐Ÿ˜ท

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. โœŒ๏ธ

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 Lanรงa from Brazil, and images of the colombian Amazon jungle and the Tikuna people.

Manu Chao y Dani Lanรงa -ACONTECER

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

#JukeboxFridayNight #SoundsOfHome

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Perhaps the books are Hamas too. /sarcasm

pezmico, to random
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Everyday is 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.
๐Ÿ˜ท

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

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

We love our little home. ๐Ÿ˜๏ธ
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.

pezmico, to palestine
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Norway says they'll recognise a Palestinian state from May 28. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ

Ireland and Spain are likely to follow.

https://www.dw.com/en/israel-hamas-war-norway-to-recognize-palestinian-state/live-69145493

@palestine

pezmico, to random
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Cmon New Zealand, if we move quickly we can be first in being the 147th country to recognise a Palestinian state.

๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ

pezmico,
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@cam Dunno, between Germany, the UK and the US, that second to last position might be a real nail-biter.

pezmico, to random
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We laugh, but inside we're crying. ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜ญ

pezmico, to Economics
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We tried Trickle Down economics and it didn't work.

Time to try a new approach.

Comrades, the era of Piรฑata Economics is upon us.

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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Not only is it an elitist ecological disaster of a massive manicured lawn every NIMBY loves, it is also so boring the winner is whoever manages to play the least of it.

pezmico, to palestine
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The ICC has issued arrest warrants for Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri (Deif), Ismail Haniyeh from Hamas.

And for Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant from Israel

@palestine ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ

Statement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC: Applications for arrest warrants in the situation in the State of Palestine
https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/statement-icc-prosecutor-karim-aa-khan-kc-applications-arrest-warrants-situation-state

pezmico, to NewZealand
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Chlรถe's speech from today is a banger!
"Poverty is a political choice." also "Don't leave politics to politicians"

Full speech: Greens co-leader Chlรถe Swarbrick delivers State of the Planet address
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/05/full-speech-greens-co-leader-chl-e-swarbrick-delivers-state-of-the-planet-address.html

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.

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