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Flo Isaacs

@flisaacs.bsky.social
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Ice and climate scientist, prev at NIWA and @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social, now in bed with long covid 🙃 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Why is my partner expected to pay my bills?
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Why is my partner expected to pay my bills?
Ricky Andrews says he knew his life would change when sickness meant he had to give up work.
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Flo Isaacs @flisaacs.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Hi David! I’m one of the “hundreds of thousands of people using welfare to sleep their life away”. You’re so smart David, it’s true whn you imply that I’m actually just faking my life-destroying illness because I’m lazy and want free money! I guess now I’ll just stop being sick and get back to work!
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'No one wants to be sick forever' - ACT Party's new welfare policy slammed
The ACT Party's new welfare policy shows a lack of compassion for people who need help, says a beneficiary advocate.
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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This thread is an absolutely brilliant analogy of how Nicola Willis manages the economy. Laugh cry your way through it #nzpol
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Flo Isaacs @flisaacs.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This! Growing food is a deep love of mine but it’s expensive and time consuming af if you’re a renter and constantly having to start over in a new place
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Flo Isaacs @flisaacs.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
This is veeery bad
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Flo Isaacs @flisaacs.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This is fucking scary!
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newimprovedtom.bsky.social @newimprovedtom.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This might help explain why this lot are so bad at their job: they think that actually governing would be “communism”.
Column in The Post

OIL CRISIS
Henry Cooke
As the Government firms up its "National Fuel Plan" there is debate underway between those who see a big role for the Government in rationing fuel, and those who think it should stay out of the way and let high prices do the work.
Finance Minister Nicola Willis addressed this debate yesterday, saying she was doing all she could to avoid the "communism" of the Government deciding who got fuel and who didn't - and that price would still have a major role at any phase.
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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
people with a health condition or disability make up OVER HALF of the approx 300,000 working-age people on a main benefit these are ppl who have to go to medical/health appts, attend WINZ appts, get their kids to school, sort out groceries/food, take kids to activities and so on and so forth
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Nicola Gaston @nicgaston.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
‘Fuel support package’ indeed 👀
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Flo Isaacs @flisaacs.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
For fucks sake
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Christopher Luxon open to adopting some of NZ First's 'anti-woke' proposals
New Zealand First has proposed legislation it says will end "woke left-wing social engineering and diversity targets" in the public sector.
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y🏳️‍🌈şenaz @ayseneinart.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Gang, at this point I’m too disillusioned to expect all of you to mask always (even though you should), but for the love of GOD, please at least mask at airports and on planes when you travel to events!!!
Screenshot of a Forbes headline, “Over 96% Of Airplane Flights Had Covid-19 Coronavirus In Their Wastewater”, published Jan 08, 2023.
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People Against Prisons Aotearoa @papa.org.nz · 18/02/2025
Last weekend, Destiny Church escalated its attacks against the queer community. Destiny wants to drive queer New Zealanders back into the closet. PAPA won't let this happen. We stood for queer liberation as No Pride in Prisons and we stand for it now.
A poster with an illustration of a transgender person hitting Destiny Church's logo with a hammer. Text reads: Defying Destiny: Day of Queer Power. Doctor Emmy Rākete, Chloe Swarbrick, Rev. Mua Strickson-Pua. Sunday 23rd Feb, 2pm, Albert Park Rotunda. These queers bash back.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Really wild how people continue to act like RFK Jr.’s problem is his remote history of heroin addiction in sustained recovery and not the fact that he’s a sociopathic, science denying, con artist, who wants kids to die so he can make a buck, which has nothing to do with him using heroin decades ago.
A joke about Cabinet appointees and their disqualifying traits that substitutes “a junkie” for RFK Jr.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Israel's cheerleaders are gratuitously lying about the collapsing ceasefire. Israel always saw the ceasefire as a temporary ruse, and has systematically violated it. Ignore the lies. This is the truth 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israel-is-...
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Flo Isaacs @flisaacs.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Really amazing piece on the loss of friendships and communities in the ableism that is the world 'moving on' from covid 🩵
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Flo Isaacs @flisaacs.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Reminder that substack loves nazis ❤️
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/01/2025
Pro tip: Wearing a mask is a powerful protest tool that visually communicates the reckless denial of anti-vaxxers, fossil fuel shills etc. Wearing a mask at a protest is also praxis. Not only are you protesting those who will spread harm, you are actively stopping it yourself.
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Alice the Astute @alicethelast.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Every disaster movie starts with scientists being ignored. Good thing we’re not doing that.
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Flo Isaacs @flisaacs.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
What in the neoliberal hellscape is this
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Crown Research Institutes to merge into three mega science groups
NIWA, GNS, ESR and numerous other bodies are set to be pulled together.
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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Israel released 90 hostages in Gaza then took 90 new hostages in the West Bank. This is what Israel does and this is the vile colonial violence it’s founded on, beyond any kind of reform
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Flo Isaacs @flisaacs.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Keen to get off insta/fb/whatsapp now that meta is extra fucked - where we going for alternatives other than here?
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/01/2025
Nazis: "that's a nazi salute" Historians: "that's a nazi salute" Average person: "that's a nazi salute" The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
You spend years platforming and agreeing with Nazis and the next thing you know people are not charitably interpreting a hand gesture
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🎃Hex Ramone🎃 @texramone.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
You can honor David Lynch by wearing a mask in public. He had to begin isolating at home because he has emphysema- a COVID infection would likely be fatal- and no one wears masks anymore. Millions of others like him (including myself) were left behind when COVID measures were abandoned
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C.H. Romatowski @romatowski.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Goddamn.
Three tweets from Clean Air Club an hour ago

Is now a good time to mention that last month over 25 Los Angeles schools rejected our offers of completely free air purifiers for every single classroom on their campuses?

There's a widespread hostility to anyone offering solutions at the intersection of climate change, pandemics, and resource depletion. It was wild to get replies along the lines of "don't contact us ever again" when we were literally offering tens of thousands in free gear

When you try to solve a problem that most people are in denial about, you're going to encounter hostility and gaslighting instead of enthusiasm and solidarity
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 11/01/2025
It's critical that governments get PERMANENT year-round free N95 mask programs in place. Waiting until a wildfire or an outbreak to distribute free masks is too late. People need to have access to the tools that will protect them in advance of being exposed to the threat.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 08/01/2025
Now that you’ve seen Meta go full mask-off, lets remember that Substack has the same agenda.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 07/01/2025
Wikipedia is the last major, visible platform for facts that they can’t buy. The attacks are going to be merciless.
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Flo Isaacs @flisaacs.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
This is a great roundup of all the (nz) govt submissions due in the next week or two! All very important!
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Fact-checking wasn’t “biased” against conservatives. Conservatives just shared more false content. If there’s a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it’s not “biased” for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team.
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Flo Isaacs @flisaacs.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Wtf
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Che Tibby @chetibby.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Everyone remember
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Flo Isaacs @flisaacs.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Read!
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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2024/12/10/m...
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Marsden Fund cuts will disproportionately affect Māori researchers - Expert Reaction
With humanities and social sciences removed from the "blue-skies" research fund, many Māori-led research projects will no longer be funded. "Core" scientists have also voiced opposition to the move, d...
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Putrino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
After a fairly fraught week I just want to take a moment to take a moment to say that IMO violence and the taking of a human life is almost always morally wrong. However, I think there is also a message that everyone should hear: 1/
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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
wtf wtf goddamn even economics is a social science, where do you think 'the economy' comes from
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Joanna Kidman @joannakidman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Given that most Māori and Pacific scholars are based in the humanities and social sciences fields, this will disproportionately impact those groups. Fun times.
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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Perhaps worth talking about *why* external grants like Marsdens are crucial for many, many types of social science and humanities research. Point 1 is that with narrow exceptions, universities don't pay for reseach beyond an academic's salary & office space. Anything else needs a grant to happen.
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Flo Isaacs @flisaacs.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Great points here! Particularly about the nz covid inquiry recommending reduced restrictions during next pandemic to preserve 'normal life', which completely discounts the long term impacts of letting a virus like covid loose in the community (e.g. mass disability) #longcovid
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Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
As we enter the festive season, please bear in mind that up to half of all COVID infections are asymptomatic. Protect yourself and others to avoid infection. Each one increases your risk of Long COVID
49 per cent of COVID infections are asymptomatic. Protect yourself by wearing a mask, keeping up vaccination and cleaning the air
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Flo Isaacs @flisaacs.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This is a good read! I've experienced many of the same things over the last few years, firstly through my immunocompromised partner, and now more recently with long covid myself. The isolation and rejection by communities who once sustained you is heartbreaking and horrible. #LongCOVID
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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Eru Kapa-Kingi, speaking at the hīkoi: “Pākehā mā, you should not fear Māori liberation. Because Māori liberation goes hand in hand with the liberation of all people who live in Aotearoa... Everyone gets a feed on this marae. No one gets left behind." #ToitūTeTiriti
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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Closing in fast on 200,000 signatures. The current count (194,339 right now) is the same number of people as 6.7% of voters in the 2023 general election, more than the entire NZ First vote. 250,000 would beat the entire Act Party vote. #ToitūTeTiriti
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Stop the Treaty Principles Bill - TOITŪ TE TIRITI!!
In 1835, 189 years ago, a gathering of great chiefs of Aotearoa signed He Whakaputanga with representatives of the British Crown. Five years from that date, Te Tiriti o Waitangi was signed between Māo...
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You Call Yourself a Film Critic @filmcriticmaybe.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
"There are federal agencies no one has ever heard of" Okay but like most people cannot name the valves in their heart or their functions I probably wouldn't recommend pulling them the fuck out
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Flo Isaacs @flisaacs.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Biggest fomo of my life missing out on the hikoi today, but cheering everyone on from my sickbed - toitū te tiriti!!
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Ben Gracewood @ben.gracewood.nz · 18/11/2024
incredible work by this sign-holder popping up just as TVNZ crossed live to the hikoi
A picture of a tv screen. On the screen is a reporter interviewing a Māori warden helping organise the hikoi. 

Behind them is a sign being held saying “LET’S JUST EAT THEM AGAIN 🤣”
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