Notices by Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton (sarahhbickerton@mastodon.nz)

I think this letter from economists is really crucial and gets to the core of the problems with this government's fiscal policy, not restricted to the fact that a lack of evidence base for why austerity has been enacted is having no other effect but to make our economy worse ...

https://thekaka.substack.com/i/151929672/the-lead-economists-call-for-end-to-budget-cuts

Iconic.

(honestly this powerful image will end up in the history books … do not know who to credit with taking it, but that has to be a photo of a lifetime)

Adulthood is basically one long realisation at how disconnected finding out is from fucking around.

Seriously, most of my adult life is finding out with yet no fucking around at all. Near continuous finding out. Zero fucking around.

And those that actually fuck around? Rarely find out unfortunately.

Don't forget that any collective action must never ever disrupt normality, should always be done at times when you will inconvenience the least number of people, never upset the privileged, not impact the institutions of society at all, and no one should be made uncomfortable in the slightest.

Because that's how real change always happens.

So many comment on this time between Xmas and New Years being so remarkable as a period where you can’t really tell what day of the week it is.

Instead, I ask why during the rest of the year it’s so crucial to be aware of such as something that matters.

I have this time travel theory that someone went back in time to just before Brexit and messed with something that caused Brexit and the hellscape of everything else since.

I mean, remember how everyone was all “WTAF BREXIT ACTUALLY HAPPENED?!” when it did, like it wasn’t going to? That.