Ika Makimaki / is on Nostr

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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

Moves by: Bikes, Trains, Walks
Speaks: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese
Blog: https://pezmi.co/
Pronouns: He/Him

Last Notes

2024-05-24 23:16:04

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

2024-05-23 07:15:59

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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.

2024-05-23 07:00:29

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 other people like us.
(I get that it was an inefficient subsidy on demand, but in a market as cooked as NZ's it was also a helpful tool. One that shouldn't be removed until the supply variables in the equation are solved. And currently they are only getting worse, thanks CoC)
#NZPol

2024-05-16 09:24:31

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 #CovidIsNotOver.
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

2024-05-07 04:28:05

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what a bop!
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2024-05-07 04:19:46

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2024-05-07 02:11:27

I say yes! And further, #BanCars because #CarsRuinCities
Should SUV ads be banned? - by @npub1thu…8zxf
https://pca.st/episode/ed646d83-cf4a-4076-b243-4e297233b06f
#podcast

2024-05-06 22:18:39

Who is afraid of #degrowth
A downloadable graphic novel.
https://www.celinekeller.com/who-is-afraid-of-degrowth

2024-05-01 14:30:32

I love my American friends, but they need to see that the problem is not who the president is.
Or which party rules.
That's a false choice.
The problem, as it's increasingly evident, is the US hegemony as a whole.
Putin, Netanyahu, Modi, Xi, they all suck.
The world is full of terrible fascist leaders but none is more dangerous than America itself, whoever leads it.
I'm sorry because it will obviously be hardest on common people, and that's deeply unfair.
But all empires must fall.