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Yes Toast. Topics I follow: change, NZ pocket friends, KDrama, weather, permaculture, weaving, she/her🌱🇳🇿 @[email protected] @toastfloats elsewhere

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · Jul 2

Maybe I just start collecting these
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · Jul 2

Donald Trump announces his a "trade deal" with Vietnam, which increases taxes on American consumers while decreasing taxes on Vietnamese consumers.

The zero-rate tariff offer in Vietnam was proposed on April 4. He's essentially done nothing in 3 months.

A true genius at work. The art of the deal.

Donald Trump via Truth Social:
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114784098546698642

I just made a Trade Deal with Vietnam. Details to follow!
Jul 02, 2025, 10:25 AM

It is my Great Honor to announce that I have just made a Trade Deal with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam after speaking with To Lam, the Highly Respected General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam. It will be a Great Deal of Cooperation between our two Countries. The Terms are that Vietnam will pay the United States a 20% Tariff on any and all goods sent into our Territory, and a 40% Tariff on any Transshipping. In return, Vietnam will do something that they have never done before, give the United States of America TOTAL ACCESS to their Markets for Trade. In other words, they will “OPEN THEIR MARKET TO THE UNITED STATES,” meaning that, we will be able to sell our product into Vietnam at ZERO Tariff. It is my opinion that the SUV or, as it is sometimes referred to, Large Engine Vehicle, which does so well in the United States, will be a wonderful addition to the various product lines within Vietnam. Dealing with General Secretary To Lam, which I did personally, was an absolute pleasure. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Jul 02, 2025, 10:44 AM

Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 1h

And the creek! Don't forget the creek.

Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 1h

It tickles both the fancy of normies and the twitchy nerves of the terminally online. Perfect hit.

Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 1h

Very sound logic.

Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 1h

Can't imagine who would do that though

Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 1h

Now I'm starting to wonder how much of NZ bsky is ADHD. Is the venn diagram a circle?

Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 1h

Which given the whole Pepe on the hellscape horizon is going to be an IMPOSSIBLE sell

Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 1h

Y'all really are my favourite people. Lol

Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 1h

<breaks out a hand tool to punch chads out of cards>
Well back in my day...

Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 1h

It's like a cross between Fascism: The Replay and Benny Hill.

Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 1h

My EXACT thoughts. Just nuke it from space.

Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 6h

a man in a suit and tie is covering his face with his hand while sitting at a desk .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is covering his face with his hand while sitting at a desk .

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 6h

Oh I 100% agree with you.

Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 7h

I had to log into DrC's gmail account to get an auth code for our bank account today. He has 11K unread messages. I can not express how much this makes me want to scream.

I wish he just had a porn habit like a normal husband.

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The Opportunities Party @top.org.nz · 8h

Squeezing profit out of an underfunded healthcare system is like shoving the ambulance over the cliff. This neoliberal economic model has resulted in higher costs and worse health outcomes everywhere it has been tried. Listen to the experts debate it here:
www.fabians.org.nz

#KiwisDeserveBetter

The Privatisation of Public Health

The Coalition Government recently introduced the Healthy Futures (Pae Ora) Amendment Bill - to enshrine targets for delivery of health services in legislation.

Government intends to achieve measurements of health system performance and productivity through this legislative mechanism, ignoring the complexity of the health system, the chronic problems of underfunding, demography and the social stresses which are impacting on hospitals.

New funding to deal with long waiting lists is likely to go to the private sector through extension of contracting out of services from three to ten years. The proposed ten year contracts have prompted a number of senior medical professionals, academics and economists to write an open letter to the Auditor General.

They expressed concerns about the transfer of money and the likely exodus of public health workers to the private sector as well as the detrimental impact on training for future healthcare workers. They also cited concerns about equitable access to care.

To discuss these issues we have invited:

Ian Powell, the former Exec Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists and now a commentator on health in the media and on his blog, Otaihanga Second Opinion.

and

Ganesh R Ahirao (aka Nana), a signatory to the letter to the Auditor General. He is an economist and was former Chair of the Productivity Commission. He is currently a board member for Action Station, Kaibosh Food Rescue and the Drug Foundation.

Date: Tuesday 14 October

Time: 5.30 – 7pm

Place: level 2, 57 Willis Street (via the lifts out the back of Unity Books).

Register [here](https://www.fabians.org.nz/index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/mailing/url&u=15078&qid=1202628).

Livestreaming link [here](https://www.fabians.org.nz/index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/mailing/url&u=15079&qid=1202628).

Ngā mihi nui

Pat Webster

Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 8h

Immediately get out there with some rags and flag that thing up before someone gets badly hurt, right?

Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 9h

TBF, it appears they only get half a Jared Leto in every movie so you kinda have to go to more than one.

Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 9h

Okay, that's a hell of a slogan:
"In times of darkness, New York must be the light."

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 9h

Go ABIGAIL

Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 1d

Be still my beating heart

Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 1d

wow

Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 1d

Now I've got FOMO

Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 1d

Right? At some point, I tipped over and looked up the phases and holy shit. No. No?
I made it to 28 which is... fine. Bt probably not going to be able to finish this one before the time is up.

OUT OF 50. 7m my tired feet.
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Pokémon GO XP Celebration Event | Pokémon GO Hub

Starts Monday, August 25, 2025, at 1:00 PM Local Time Ends Tuesday, October 14, 2025, at 11:59 PM Local Time With the level cap being increased to level 80 in Pokémon GO, Trainers would want to collec...

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 1d

I've run the maths on these XP Celebration timed research tasks, and you would have to be an unemployed marathon runner with a 1000 friends to get all the way through all 50 and even then, pretty sure you couldn't because of the gifting limit. Don't advertise a goal people can't achieve. It's rude.