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Jenster

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Waiheke forever. Freelance writer and graphic designer - a former art director of Metro and N&S. She/her

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New York Times, July 5, 2025: “Biden’s Stumbles And Gaffes During His Criticism of President Trump’s Internment Camps Vindicate Age Concerns”

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Lydia Polgreen's avatar Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social
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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?

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Isabel Ott's avatar Isabel Ott @isabelott.bsky.social
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“[Between April 18 and 27,] the FDA collected and tested 275 bulk samples of raw milk collected from farms in four states where herds had tested positive for H5N1...Half of those samples were positive for traces of influenza. A quarter of those positive samples also proved to be infectious…”

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Kathleen Bachynski 's avatar Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social
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“Since Texas’ ban on abortion went into effect, infant deaths in the state increased by nearly 13%, according to a new analysis published on Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. In the rest of the country, infant mortality increased less than 2% over the same period.”

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Hans V's avatar Hans V @hansversluys.bsky.social
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Given Waiheke's decades long experience with private monopolies on sea routes, New Zealanders in general should think long and hard whether they are willing to make their economy totally dependent on a very small number of (overseas-owned) companies.

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Jenster's avatar Jenster @jenster.bsky.social
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What is with that sinister lack of a space after the full stop? There must be a German term for aggressively-invade-fullstop-space

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Aotearoa New Zealand’s current state in a single image

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john oliver’s show on the fascist project 2025 is now up on US youtube. it’s a must watch. polisky 🧪

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Bernard Hickey can get more in a single sentence than any other columnist - he’s the avenging angel of NZ business writing

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Bernard Hickey on fire this morning - “it has emerged the National-ACT-NZ First Government decided to cut wages for disabled workers from the minimum wage to $2 an hour to help pay for the tax cuts that will see 64% of the benefits go to the richest 40% of the population.”

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Jenster's avatar Jenster @jenster.bsky.social
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Known in some NZ quarters as The Snoot Box

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David Hood's avatar David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social
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Excess mortality (Our World in Data) for Philippines late 2020-2021. US and Singapore shown for comparison.

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Jenster's avatar Jenster @jenster.bsky.social
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Don’t you guys have a Science Media Centre? When I was writing science columns I tapped our New Zealand service many times - they would supply a list of fantastic contacts for any given subject within the hour

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Gift article - clever use of time lapse cameras show routine flooding, caused by sea level rise, in the American South. wapo.st/4aZwWQH

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What about subject specific book clubs? I would only join a book club if it specialised in plagues or Neanderthals.

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This makes me think how lucky NZ was to have @siouxsiew.bsky.social steering (most of) us away from conspiracy theories - a great thread on why not to blame scientists for batshit Lab Leak belief systems

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Giovanni Tiso's avatar Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social
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"For one hundred thousand years people lived side-by-side in tribal societies without depth of field. Then, the Renaissance happened. Suddenly, with the introduction of perspective, the average person could move in a third direction."

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ahaha I do indeed keep on reading things you don't say that's why I mention them in the first place. Haere rā

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You seem to demand forensic death toll accounting in a situation in which a street is filled with bits of human.

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Good lord - the Guardian describes a helicopter shooting into a crowd of shoppers - bombs fired from a distance ‘cleared the hostages path to freedom’ through a shantytown. But it may still have been ‘proportional’?

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The Jerusalem Post story is really interesting only in that it shows the kind of thing Israelis are reading - triumphalist military-approved bulletins totally shorn of detail.

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You would think, if anything proves the importance of modern public health initiatives (and the uselessness of neoliberalism) it would be a pandemic - but Elliott has a different take

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Best most gory bit - author’s suggestion that the Emperor’s price ceiling on suddenly pricey gladiators (rarer coz plague) resulted in a Christian blood bath as they were so much cheaper. Wildest argument I’ve ever seen as to why price ceilings don’t work.

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I just finished this too. Plenty of interesting detail + ideas (did the plague help the spread of Christianity? After the old gods proved so useless?) but imo the author tries to make neoliberal points about the Roman economy and vaguely apply them to pandemics in general… which doesn’t really work

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Terry Baucher's avatar Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social
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Very good read here from the London Review of Books. Agree with its conclusion - the tide of international opinion is shifting against Israel, but that's a long way from securing an equitable peace for Palestinians.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Michael Plank's avatar Michael Plank @michaelplanknz.bsky.social
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No, vaccines are not causing excess deaths, part 46922

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Agree, also I haven't heard 'neurospicy' before. I love that

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Bernard Hickey's avatar Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social
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Please @CherieHowie can you ask @nzherald to take your piece on homelessness out from behind the paywall so everyone can read it? It's essential and great public interest journalism. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-...

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Here's a line from my review of 'Max' for the local paper - "Less like reading ‘teen fiction’ than leaping into the swimming pool of life from a different angle."

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Sentencing set for 11 July, four days before the beginning of the Republican National Convention, at which Trump is expected to receive the party’s presidential nomination.

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Michael Brown's avatar Michael Brown @jingajik.bsky.social
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Congratulations to Mike Dickison for his NZ West Coast Wikipedia efforts - IMO Ministry for Culture and Heritage should be employing a team to replicate this work across New Zealand subjects

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Jon Connorton's avatar Jon Connorton @jonboyjon.bsky.social
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FT going for it today.

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Jenster's avatar Jenster @jenster.bsky.social
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Thank you very much. It must be tough sloshing through so much crap. All power to you

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I feel a complete doofus - but what is MUUVE

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southpaw's avatar southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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We sent aid via the pier, but we also sent bombs via the airport, and now we’re worried about the bombs being dropped on the aid when we try to drive it off the pier.

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Sarah McLaughlin's avatar Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social
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From the AP: They received a verbal order last week to cease the live transmission, and refused. Then today officials from the Communications Ministry handed the AP a piece of paper, signed by Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, alleging the AP was violating the country’s foreign broadcaster law.

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Omri Marian's avatar Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social
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Israel's ministry of communications to return equipment it confiscated from AP. Haaretz.

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