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Zimena.J

@zimenaj.bsky.social
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Currently taking a break from studying towards a BSc Marine Sciences. I post about Long COVID, COVID safety, marine sciences, & social issues. Pro-science, anti-fascist. Blog: thoughtfuloctopus.wordpress.com KoFi: Ko-fi.com/thethoughtfuloctopus

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Brian (Stuttering Loudly) @stutteringloudly.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
You’re not truly anti-ableist and anti-eugenicist if you don’t wear a mask in public spaces. #MasksSaveLives #MasksWork #COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisntOver
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
When you watch these heartbreaking videos showing the cruel and thuggish behavior of ICE agents, remember that these people are not being FORCED to commit these acts — they do so willingly. They could quit their jobs at any time. They could say “enough!” ICE agents CHOOSE to do what they do.
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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
“While the Bill's legal scope has narrowed, the ideological reach hasn’t budged. The same principles remain. Similar oversight machinery is being built… the same Minister for Regulation-ACT’s leader, David Seymour-still holds the levers to shape how those principles are applied.” -Melanie Nelson🔥👇🚨
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The RSB Has Changed — But the Minister Didn’t Say How
The Regulatory Standards Bill was sold as a principled tool for better lawmaking. But between the public proposal and the Cabinet paper, something changed. This piece traces what disappeared, what was...
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🫜🫚🌶️ Caitlin Spice 🌶️🫚🫜 @catespice.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Please sign this petition if you support my right to exist as a woman. I’d love to see it hit 25,000 signatures and beat the Family First petition.
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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 01/05/2025
Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
ICE has begun raiding the homes of American citizens. A widely shared story out of Oklahoma describes a disturbing incident where a woman and her children were dragged into their yard half-naked. Reports are mounting across multiple states of agents targeting the wrong properties.
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Aotearoa Covid Action @covidactionnz.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Today begins our campaign for clean air in ECE and schools #CleanAirSchoolsNZ #CleanAirCampaign
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🐶🐙Dr. Caffiend☕️😷 @captcaffiend.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
NZ really needs to be paying more attention to Long Covid if only because of the economic impacts newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/29/n...
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NZ's Long Covid blind spot nothing short of a crisis
Analysis: Post-infection syndromes like Long Covid are nothing new – but pandemic-scale waves of a novel virus exposed just how ill-prepared we are to handle them.
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Murr @neoodist.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
“If this Government is serious about increasing school attendance, they need to do more to protect the health of students and educators.” www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
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‘Sick of being sick’: Call to fix air quality in schools and childcare
Tamariki should not be bringing home illnesses and spreading it to their families, says a group of doctors, teachers, academics and principals.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
The world is on Zelensky’s side. Zelensky applauded by world leaders upon entering church.
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Catherine @catiezee.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/cl...
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Clean Air in Schools
Covid can have substantial impacts on peoples’ health. Although Covid initially enters the body through the respiratory system, it can affect virtually every bodily system and organ. There are no adva...
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Kay in the End Times 🏳️‍🌈 💗💜💙📚 @jennykaynz.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I've been assaulted by cops on peaceful protests. I don't trust #NZpolice or "Independent Police Conduct Authority" (IPCA) or this grab for more power. Nor do I trust cops to treat disabled people nor Māori fairly. HT @nzccl.org.nz @kylermatthews.bsky.social #NZpol nzccl.org.nz/guest-post-t...
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Guest post 'Thematic Review: The Policing of public protests in New Zealand’: A Critical Response
Guest post discussing the significant issues with the IPCA's report ‘Thematic Review: The Policing of public protests in New Zealand’ which recommends changes to legislation and policing around public...
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God @thegodshow.com · 27/04/2025
If your vote threatens someone's right to exist, then yeah I judge you based on your vote.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
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Satan @thedevil.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
#MomSky Keep Reposting
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Kay in the End Times 🏳️‍🌈 💗💜💙📚 @jennykaynz.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Will populations of migrating fish be wiped out because NZTA couldn't get Transmission Gully work finished? The passageways were conditions of approval for the highway but probably no penalty for delays. Not in this life anyway. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
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Transmission Gully looks like it’s finished. It’s not
Among the things left undone on Transmission Gully, which has a number of resource consents outstanding, is providing passages for fish.
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Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Just a reminder to anyone but especially Americans, fascism is a system, not just an individual. ICE, the El Salvador prison, cages etc all existed before Trump and Elon, Trump and Elon are fascists no doubt, and need to be stopped, but the fascists tools are already there (1)
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Trump has ordered the US government to move forward with plans to mine the ocean floor an area nearly every other country considers off-limits to industrial exploitation. His executive order sidesteps a decades-old international treaty ratified by every major coastal nation except the United States.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
When the moment came, Harvard didn’t hedge or flinch—it stood up. A reminder that integrity isn’t complicated, it’s just rare.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
he’s right and he’s right to say it
Pedro Pascal Blasts J.K. Rowling as a 'Heinous Loser' for Her Anti-Trans Views, Backs Harry Potter Boycott
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Vote for hope in November! Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Australia's public broadcaster asks the questions our local media are too afraid to ask. A very very odd state of affairs - but here we are. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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Growing questions in NZ about organisation called Atlas Network
In New Zealand, there is now a conversation about an organisation called Atlas Network and whether or not it has influenced the right-bloc government's agenda.
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
That Police Minister Mark Mitchell's office said sharing profoundly racist material on his official Instagram account was "an honest mistake" is illuminating, but not for the reasons Mitchell's office thinks.
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Whakamataku - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @whakamataku.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The National party are not a serious political party. They have been captured by the same “wealthy and sorted” libertarian brain worms that the ACT party eat for breakfast. We are PAYING them to destroy our society; kill, disable or underfund our social services and spread lies to kids. 🤕 #nzpol
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Kinley 🦋 Brenda @bluthrunthru.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
We warned every woman in America this would happen … FAFO is here!!!
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I would like for stupid people to stop making important decisions that affect my life
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Hey you know how people made the Tesla brand radioactively toxic and crashed its entire corporate structure? You can do that with authoritarian brutality and with neoliberal oppression and exploitation. You chase these motherfuckers from society until all that’s left is something real and better.
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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Go to hell
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🗿🌊🌎🛡️AntiFAbe🛡️🌍🌊🗿 @abewust.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Donald Trump Wants to Make Eugenics Great Again. Let’s Not Trump’s anti-immigrant good-gene-bad-gene screeds are nothing but factless eugenics for a new era www.scientificamerican.com/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Wants to Make Eugenics Great Again. Let’s Not
Trump’s anti-immigrant good-gene-bad-gene screeds are nothing but factless eugenics for a new era
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Zimena.J @zimenaj.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Never forget: then-immigration minister Michael Wood could have had Posie Parker's visa denied after she threatened then-PM Chris Hipkins. Instead she was allowed in to spread transphobic hate. Labour are all talk & no real action. They've been National Lite for ages.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
WHO ELSE AGREES WITH BARBRA?! 🤚
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 21/04/2025
Air Fact xkcd.com/3079
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MeidasE @ericpere.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.  Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.  But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
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Citizen Paul Templeman @paultempleman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The US and Russia have the most to lose from a strong, united Europe. That’s why they encourage groups like the Heritage Foundation.
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Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Ever since the 80s Labour has no longer been left wing #nzpol
A black-and-white flowchart titled "Are Labour left wing?" It starts with the central question at the top and branches into "Yes" and "No."

If "No," it goes directly to: "Labour are right wing."

If "Yes," the next question is: "Are they anti-capitalist?"

If "Yes," the chart ends (no further path).

If "No," it leads to: "No, but they have some progressive policies."

This leads to the question: "Does having some progressive policies make a party left wing?"

If "Yes," the next box says: "Muldoon taxed the rich at 66%, John Key legalized gay marriage in NZ, are National left wing for having some progressive policies?"

If "No," it loops back to "Labour are right wing."


If "No," it also leads directly to "Labour are right wing."
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Zimena.J @zimenaj.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Dear Winston Peters: Only perverts obsess over other peoples' genitals. Genitals are commonly referred to as 'private parts' for a reason. Stop being a perv and stop encouraging all the other pervs.
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Whakamataku - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @whakamataku.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Right, like holy fucking papal bullshit bat woman. The level of cognitive dissonance needed to paper over this dead man’s horrific reputation for continued catholic colonisation and queer oppression is mind blowing. Kiss the ring. The other one 😘 #thewickedpopeisdead
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Vote for hope in November! Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
"A man who spent a lifetime in politics slopping around in the offal pit for his 5%" - Winston Peters' epitaph
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Murr @neoodist.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Children and young people with Long C0VID, their families, and teachers need support. While infections continue, cleaning the air and other practical tools need to be used to keep learners & learning environments safe. This is a global problem. Hopefully this significant study gets media attention.
The text title reads - Long Covid affects kid's brains. The quote text is “Of note, meta-analysis identified five paediatric studies documenting abnormal brain imaging findings in children and young people with Long Covid.” The text, in purple, is over two translucent rectangles with an image of a child wearing a t-shirt and holding a cloth to his face and eye area. It is a cropped photographic image.

Photo by lucas metz on Unsplash.
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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
*Taps the sign*
Hermione meme screenshot:
“Besides, you’re saying it wrong” 
“It’s transphobia, not “defunding biological sex”
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Zimena.J @zimenaj.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
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Scientists capture first confirmed footage of a colossal squid in the deep
Scientists filmed the young squid deep in the ocean, a century after the species was first discovered.
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Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Why am I so critical of centrism? Because you can't be neutral on a moving train. You can’t be neutral on a moving train means staying silent in the face of injustice still supports it. The train (society) is already in motion, if you do nothing, you’re still going along with it. #nzpol
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Ed Hyde @edhyde.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I know times are tough, but please consider donating to Countering Hate Speech Aotearoa @chsaotearoa.bsky.social if you can? They are incredibly active in pushing back against anti-trans discrimination. Tēnā koutou e te whānau!
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Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
They sure did! Labour Party executive Tom Young said "If the police use their batons the unionists should give it to them back and make it a double header" Bob Semple, Labour’s minister of Public Works said he "wouldn't trust police with a diseased cat" Labour’s leader, Harry Holland wrote this-
An excerpt from Harry Holland from "The Tragedy of The Waihi Strike"
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LaurenKMalone @laurenkmalone.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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