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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 4h

Periodical reminder:

😷 Masks work.
💵 Billionaires should not exist.
🚲 This machine fights climate change.
🌊 We all need healthy oceans.
✊🏽 Land back.
🏳️‍⚧️ Trans rights are human rights.
🛂 Borders are violence.
👊🏽 Fascists are to be punched.
🇵🇸 Palestine will be free.

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 1d

All this concern right wing politicians seem to suddenly have about the sanctity of a house, and how important it is for families to feel safe in it... it is very nice and convenient.

Does it also apply to Palestinians being starved and bombed relentlessly for 2 years straight? Do they also […]

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

important

Black-and-white street art of a hare holding a protest sign that reads, “The Earth isn’t dying, it’s being killed — and those who are killing it have names and addresses.” Painted on a graffitied wall with turquoise tags in the background, the artwork delivers a stark environmental message about accountability for ecological destruction.

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 2d

So Winston Peters is concerned about politicians feeling intimidated and not being able to feel safe at home? Suggesting political parties might be inflaming the feelings of people who might turn aggressive?

He should have a chat with Benjamin Doyle about it.

#nzpol

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 2d

October 7 2025.
Two years of livestreamed #genocide.
104 weeks of protests the world over.

It has never been clearer how far apart the people and the "leaders" who claim to represent us are.

No one is free until everyone is free.
Free Palestine. 🇵🇸

#freepalestine #sanctionisrael […]

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 4d

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Aotearoa New Zealand Local election resources!
Remember to Vote!

Re-posting a collection of useful links for fedizens voting in the #localelections25 #nzpol #poti2025

Originally tooted yesterday as a reply but for better visibiility here it goes again:

https://localelections.nz/ - Gen Zero […]

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Despite the manufactured outrage from Mr Peters, it's quite likely that him Seymour, Luxon and a whole range of government ministers have already been eating a considerable amount of spit from the disgruntled working class for a couple of years at least.

It's just that no one had told them yet […]

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Despite the last minute, undemocratic carve-out for limited commercial fishing in "protected" areas, this Bill is a huge step forward for Tīkapa Moana, the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park.

Marine protections for Hauraki Gulf on the way […]

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Everyone: Japan might be breaking the glass ceiling and finally electing their first woman Prime Minister. 💪

Me looking at that woman's record:
Takaichi Sanae is one of the most conservative members of the LDP, a close collaborator of the terrible Shinzo Abe, has expressed admiration for […]

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 3d

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It closes in about an hour but if you are up to a sppedy submission to protect democratic rights in New Zealand here you go: (you can just say you support Greenpeace's submission on this issue) […]

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David Ho @davidho.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · Jun 19

We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/18/only-two-years-left-of-world-carbon-budget-to-meet-15c-target-scientists-warn-climate-crisis?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Luxon telling young people in New Zealand to "stop playing Playstation and get to work". because "the world doesn't owe you a living", right after his government destroyed the economy and there's a significantly higher number of people applying for jobs than total jobs available.

#nzpol

Ghost chips meme (famous in NZ)
Kid walks next to ghost PM Luxon.
Text reads:
YOU KNOW WE CAN'T
WORK YOUR GHOST JOBS.

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 4d

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Aotearoa New Zealand Local election resources!
Remember to Vote!

Re-posting a collection of useful links for fedizens voting in the #localelections25 #nzpol #poti2025

Originally tooted yesterday as a reply but for better visibiility here it goes again:

https://localelections.nz/ - Gen Zero […]

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Donald Clark @dsc.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@pezmico very similar process.

Remove fascists / racists, car brained, obviously comedy candidates, first and see what is left.
I found the local board candidates way more compelling than Mayoral.

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 4d

I am contractually obligated to remind people voting in Canterbury that Greenpeace put out a Nitrate scorecard for safe drinking water and you should use it to inform your vote:

https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/freshwater/vote-clean-drinking-water/

#nzpol #localelections25 #poti2025

www.greenpeace.org

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Had a really hard time deciding who to vote FOR. No clearly good options in my electorate unfortunately.

Until I found who I should vote AGAINST.

Not ideal, but hopefully does something to reduce the #CarBrain epidemic in local politics.

#localelectionsnz #poti2025 #nzpol

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 5d

all social networks suck, but the fediverse definitely sucks quite a bit less than the others, imho.

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 6d

For international peeps:

here's the call to action from #globalsumudflotilla
https://globalsumudflotilla.org/contact-officials/

Send a few emails!
It's literally the least we can all do.

#freepalestine #sumudflotilla

Official Contacts - By Country - Global Movement to Gaza

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Want to do something?

Here is a suggestion from Students for Justice in Palestine Canterbury:

All three of the New Zealand delegates have been illegally detained by the Israeli apartheid state.
Please continue to call MFAT on 0800 30 10 30 and use the email templates provided to demand our […]

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 6d

This video from Seafood Watch and the Monterey Bay Aquarium gives orange roughy a red rating for being unsustainably fished with bottom trawling nets that wipe out entire coral ecosystems.

They are rightly telling conscientious customers to avoid buying it […]

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 6d

“The e-bike market is skyrocketing — and, according to some studies, outpacing electric cars…The question now is: Do officials double down on deadly car-centric urban design, or do they rethink cities to encourage people to ditch four wheels for two?”

Via @grist.org grist.org/transportati...

E-bikes could cut carbon, congestion, and costs — if cities take them seriously

E-bike sales are booming, providing a clean form of transportation that also improves public health. Yet cities remain committed to cars.

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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Just now watching the #globalsumudflotilla live feed, another boat has been intercepted & boarded by #israel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2bWFtpjU

#gaza #palestinians #humanitariancrisis #starvation #humanrights #freedomflotilla

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Want to do something?

Here is a suggestion from Students for Justice in Palestine Canterbury:

All three of the New Zealand delegates have been illegally detained by the Israeli apartheid state.
Please continue to call MFAT on 0800 30 10 30 and use the email templates provided to demand our […]

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 6d

This video from Seafood Watch and the Monterey Bay Aquarium gives orange roughy a red rating for being unsustainably fished with bottom trawling nets that wipe out entire coral ecosystems.

They are rightly telling conscientious customers to avoid buying it […]

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Tough on Crime*

*unless the crime is genocide and/or the criminal has lots of money.

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