Posts by pkboi@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #A20AvvHlxXG1vbzHsW by pkboi@mastodon.social
2020-12-08T20:09:13Z
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Still in the mist today. It’s one of the effects of living at the top of a cliff over the sea.
(DIR) Post #A5jP1kPYJ7ZpQQYhBQ by pkboi@mastodon.social
2021-03-30T09:26:49Z
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@emmadavidson You’re so efficient!
(DIR) Post #A8tOivIfmKaDxru5Me by pkboi@mastodon.social
2021-07-02T21:43:32Z
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Although I find this story annoying (“Entitled old people complain they aren’t given more priority”), I have to remind myself the angle was chosen by the reporter or her editor, and the people quoted were selected because their views fitted the chosen narrative.“Wellingtonians in their late 60s, 70s and 80s who are yet to be vaccinated against Covid-19 have labelled the region's vaccine roll-out a shambles.”https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/125595762/covid19-fed-up-with-wait-for-vaccine-atrisk-people-travel-out-of-town-for-shots?cid=app-iPhone
(DIR) Post #A8tOiwmqFeJGZj1h1k by pkboi@mastodon.social
2021-07-02T21:43:32Z
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I got a text this week to say I was in group 3 and will get a call soon about getting vaccinated. However, I’m having a bone marrow stem cell transplant at the end of July, which will take a few months to recover from. I think it’s going to be a long time before I finally get the jab. Very lucky that people are generally responsible about mask wearing and sanitising for COVID. It has helped keep immune compromised people safer. #COVID19
(DIR) Post #ACgKw6d7EQzIQtq6Do by pkboi@mastodon.social
2021-10-24T04:13:35Z
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Palm oil expansion is the largest single cause of destruction of critical Indonesian rainforests over the last two decades. New Zealand is the world’s largest importer of PKE, importing an estimated two million tonnes a year which is used to feed the dairy herd because there are too many cows for grass growth alone to sustain.#PKE #rainforest #nzdairyhttps://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press-release/report-shows-nz-dairy-linked-to-illegal-indonesian-palm-oil-plantations/
(DIR) Post #AChPrGi31TC1AucQsq by pkboi@mastodon.social
2021-10-24T19:29:32Z
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It’s a bit misty out there this morning. Won’t be many people fishing out at sea today.
(DIR) Post #ACuaijcSsWMGiGs5o0 by pkboi@mastodon.social
2021-10-31T03:13:42Z
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Sometimes I wonder if my pessimism about the world’s future is a psychological failure and it’s a delusion to catastrophise the likelihood of ecological collapse. Then I remember our human habit of inertia in the face of danger.“The great political transition of the past 50 years, driven by corporate marketing, has been a shift from addressing our problems collectively to addressing them individually. In other words, it has turned us from citizens into consumers.”https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/30/capitalism-is-killing-the-planet-its-time-to-stop-buying-into-our-own-destruction
(DIR) Post #ACzNymXhRzuCnZlQGW by pkboi@mastodon.social
2021-11-01T00:22:02Z
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Sadly, in today’s society, which equates ‘success’ with individual achievements as a result of our ambition and efforts, the insistence on ‘happiness’ defined in those terms puts an impossible burden on many people. Instead, if success was the absence of unhappiness, and contentment and gratitude for what we have, we would be a lot happier. Sounds contradictory, but many people have discovered it works.https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/126824199/the-quest-for-happiness-is-burdening-us-unnecessarily
(DIR) Post #AD6kTftRmRHAFen83E by pkboi@mastodon.social
2021-11-06T00:22:46Z
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"Free markets, free minds, free choices, Freedom Days. In recent years, has any notion in the English language been so overused and so abused as “freedom?” Freedom used to be the rallying cry of the oppressed and the marginalised. Now it is the clarion call of the privileged, who feel resentful of central government and its undue concerns for those among us who have wilfully failed to optimise their options."https://bit.ly/3wtaahC
(DIR) Post #ADH8jmRcj54XxMtXOa by pkboi@mastodon.social
2021-11-09T04:52:20Z
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Widespread mocking on NZ social media of today’s ‘Freedom’ march to Parliament. Plenty of contradictory messages in the signs, but many of them are straight out of the USA Republican playbook (including a few Trump 2020 flags). Interesting the number of people protesting lockdowns who clearly aren’t inconvenienced by one by the fact they could leave their home towns to travel to this protest.As someone said, there were many more people vaccinated today than present at the protest.#covid19nz
(DIR) Post #AHJuWqYXHjULezBiyG by pkboi@mastodon.social
2022-03-12T00:41:08Z
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@strypey @alcinnz Sadly, I think a lot of people will like their approach. You'd have though by now people would know that giving those on higher incomes tax cuts never helps the lower-paid, but the appeal of being able to spend your own money seems to override the economic reality. There's a group of people on middle incomes who also think cutting the top tax rate ($180K+) helps them. Labour is too fiscally conservative to challenge this, although there is plenty they could do.
(DIR) Post #AIISwXIhxYNotABpBY by pkboi@mastodon.social
2022-04-10T05:49:28Z
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@strypey You had a very lucky escape! Much more restrictive than our lockdowns here.
(DIR) Post #AIRsHyz4TWou6Yy2EK by pkboi@mastodon.social
2022-04-14T18:45:07Z
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@adamasnemesis Thank you for the pictures you post. They add beauty to my timeline, which makes me happy.
(DIR) Post #AIy1I6TJveXjwLFNke by pkboi@mastodon.social
2022-04-29T20:27:06Z
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@lydiaconwell I loved Monkey when I saw it years ago. One of the funnier things I’ve seen although I could never really figure out what was going on or why.
(DIR) Post #AKSY8igunOr9M6ZYPY by pkboi@mastodon.social
2022-06-13T21:24:37Z
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@lightweight It’s one of my pet hates, too. You’d think journalists, who write for a living, would know the difference.
(DIR) Post #ANkkIwhLbEG9Ua1otk by pkboi@mastodon.social
2022-09-15T08:33:55Z
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Love the bluesy jazziness of the first Jethro Tull album, ‘This Was’. ‘Serenade to a Cuckoo’ has it in spades, but so do plenty of other tracks.The album gets a bit lost amongst the attention given to the folk rock stuff, but it’s still one of my favourites.
(DIR) Post #AOVryG9Aa27H4EgBCS by pkboi@mastodon.social
2022-10-13T04:13:42Z
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@strypey 🖐 And loves the non-algorithm that doesn’t try to second guess what you might be interested in.
(DIR) Post #AOwtOvhU0veq9x2oiG by pkboi@mastodon.social
2022-10-26T05:06:43Z
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@strypey Like the trains. $219 from Wellington to Auckland and it takes all day. I’d be happy to do it, but I’d you’re on a budget and have to travel, it’s not the cheapest way.
(DIR) Post #APEa02sSkfNEQnhHoe by pkboi@mastodon.social
2022-11-03T17:46:41Z
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@strypey Presumably based on the principle that, because there are a very small number of cheats trying to get support they’re not entitled to, they have to treat everyone as though that’s what they’re doing. Mind you, looking at the outraged political response you see from opposition parties on what they see as ‘rip offs’, maybe it’s not surprising govt agencies are gun shy. Still creates an appalling culture of suspicion and blame, though.