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<rss version="2.0"><channel><description>Pro-science, pro-health, lawyer, nature, politics &#xA;🌊, Healthcare is a Human Right, 📍Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand 🇳🇿.</description><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social</link><title>@grahambeever.bsky.social - Graham Beever</title><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social/post/3mzhjlzj4hk2o</link><description>It’s official: America cares more about gas prices than insurrections!</description><pubDate>04 Nov 2026 04:34 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:aun5hb6anx2r46o7pitkmhlw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzhjlzj4hk2o</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social/post/3mxzo7nnvos2f</link><description>Great to know that competence and honesty are now requirements for Trump appointees, and I look forward to rest of the administration being fired in the near future.</description><pubDate>16 Oct 2026 22:54 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:aun5hb6anx2r46o7pitkmhlw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxzo7nnvos2f</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social/post/3mxzdb2ag6s2q</link><description>If I’m honest I see a lot of myself in Donald Trump. &#xA;&#xA;Mainly my two year old self, my four year old self, and my future senile self.</description><pubDate>16 Oct 2026 19:38 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:aun5hb6anx2r46o7pitkmhlw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxzdb2ag6s2q</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social/post/3mxhz5hdiks2r</link><description>Bear in mind these are the same people who want to livestream a firing squad...&#xA;https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/09/vaccine-trial-guinea-bissau-rfk-jr</description><pubDate>09 Oct 2026 22:21 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:aun5hb6anx2r46o7pitkmhlw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxhz5hdiks2r</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social/post/3mwf367lvjc2t</link><description>Hospital vs Insurer AI bots mechanically battling it out to push up the cost of healthcare sure does sound like peak capitalism to me...&#xA;https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/business/ai-hospitals-insurers-health-care-costs.html</description><pubDate>26 Sep 2026 00:55 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:aun5hb6anx2r46o7pitkmhlw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwf367lvjc2t</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social/post/3mw4uadapnk2s</link><description>The best way to minimise fraudulent claims in your healthcare system?  &#xA;&#xA;Universal public healthcare.</description><pubDate>22 Sep 2026 18:29 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:aun5hb6anx2r46o7pitkmhlw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw4uadapnk2s</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social/post/3mvw625lomc2d</link><description>I think the point Ed Sheeran was missing was that our outrage wasn&#39;t really about Gaza and Israel as such.  It was about the idea that a billionaire capitalist who owns a stadium can ban an artist from it because he doesn&#39;t like something he said.</description><pubDate>20 Sep 2026 02:36 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:aun5hb6anx2r46o7pitkmhlw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvw625lomc2d</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social/post/3mtxwfmf4o22r</link><description>Why am I supposed to be impressed by a machine that can run faster than Usain Bolt?  I drive to work in a machine that goes twice as fast as Usain Bolt.</description><pubDate>26 Aug 2026 08:34 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:aun5hb6anx2r46o7pitkmhlw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtxwfmf4o22r</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social/post/3msmdn4io6k26</link><description>Normalise dropping &#34;URGENT&#34; from the subject of an email thread once the issue is no longer urgent.</description><pubDate>09 Aug 2026 00:34 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:aun5hb6anx2r46o7pitkmhlw/app.bsky.feed.post/3msmdn4io6k26</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social/post/3mrgiz6rc3k2u</link><description>Turns out the measles virus won&#39;t bend to RFK Jr&#39;s will any more than Iran will bend to Trump&#39;s will: &#xA;&#xA;&#34;more measles cases have been reported in the United States in the last two years than in all the years from 2000 through 2024 combined.&#34;</description><pubDate>24 Jul 2026 23:29 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:aun5hb6anx2r46o7pitkmhlw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrgiz6rc3k2u</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social/post/3mptxdwgihs23</link><description>Do the Germans have a word for when a political movement that has revelled in celebrating and boosting climate denial, starts wilting and flaking out in the record-breaking heat on what should be their proudest day?</description><pubDate>04 Jul 2026 21:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:aun5hb6anx2r46o7pitkmhlw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mptxdwgihs23</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social/post/3mozlguqsu22m</link><description>If the capitalists are going to insist on replacing all our jobs with AI then, yes, I think a Universal Basic Income is the least they could do.</description><pubDate>24 Jun 2026 09:17 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:aun5hb6anx2r46o7pitkmhlw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mozlguqsu22m</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social/post/3mokiqfh5lk2s</link><description>What exactly does the &#34;do your own research&#34; crowd have in mind when the only research that could possibly illuminate the question is a large-scale clinical trial that has already been done?</description><pubDate>18 Jun 2026 09:19 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:aun5hb6anx2r46o7pitkmhlw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mokiqfh5lk2s</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social/post/3mnszr5zy4s2d</link><description>Who says Trump and Netanyahu aren&#39;t achieving their objectives?  They&#39;re both staying out of prison.</description><pubDate>09 Jun 2026 01:20 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:aun5hb6anx2r46o7pitkmhlw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnszr5zy4s2d</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social/post/3mnoo4qylu22y</link><description>Grown men beating each other senseless in a cage actually sounds like a pretty good metaphor for the United States right now.</description><pubDate>07 Jun 2026 07:41 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:aun5hb6anx2r46o7pitkmhlw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnoo4qylu22y</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social/post/3mm43v3wvj22o</link><description>This is a stain on the conscience of every American who voted for Trump.&#xA;&#xA;They TOLD you they were going to do this!&#xA;https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/business/iran-war-somalia-usaid.html</description><pubDate>18 May 2026 05:01 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:aun5hb6anx2r46o7pitkmhlw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm43v3wvj22o</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social/post/3mlwc3roixc2b</link><description>How about a new reality TV show where the teenage tech bros who slashed US foreign aid last year have to travel to Congo and Uganda to help contain the ballooning Ebola outbreak that has gotten away from the under-resourced local health officials?&#xA;&#xA;We could call it &#34;Survivor&#34;.</description><pubDate>15 May 2026 21:37 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:aun5hb6anx2r46o7pitkmhlw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlwc3roixc2b</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social/post/3mkghqhbcdc2d</link><description>In New Zealand when we say our politicians are behaving like schoolchildren we mean they’re taunting and yelling at each other in Parliament. &#xA;&#xA;In America when they say their politicians are behaving like schoolchildren they mean they’re cowering under their tables hiding from an active shooter.</description><pubDate>26 Apr 2026 21:10 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:aun5hb6anx2r46o7pitkmhlw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkghqhbcdc2d</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social/post/3mk76hu5eqc2c</link><description>When the reckoning comes, let&#39;s not forget about Musk and his teenage tech bros whose reckless and incompetent actions have casually killed half a million children.&#xA;https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&amp;sort=title&amp;order=asc</description><pubDate>23 Apr 2026 23:35 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:aun5hb6anx2r46o7pitkmhlw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk76hu5eqc2c</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social/post/3misghu4w2k2p</link><description>The “daring rescue” I would like to see involves the 25th Amendment.  And actually not that much courage at all…</description><pubDate>06 Apr 2026 04:29 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:aun5hb6anx2r46o7pitkmhlw/app.bsky.feed.post/3misghu4w2k2p</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social/post/3mikr6urqt225</link><description>There is no logical reason for drugs to become MORE expensive over time and every reason for them to become LESS expensive. The cost of penicillin fell 90% between 1945 when it first became widely available and 1950 as people worked out more efficient ways to produce it. 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These wars to “make the world safe” only work for as long as it takes the children you bomb today to grow into even more radicalised teenagers.</description><pubDate>02 Mar 2026 19:43 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:aun5hb6anx2r46o7pitkmhlw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg3zatxljs2a</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social/post/3mfpgyyhris2a</link><description>“Lifting 2.4 million people off food stamps” is an odd way to talk about lifting food stamps off 2.4 million people.</description><pubDate>25 Feb 2026 19:45 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:aun5hb6anx2r46o7pitkmhlw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfpgyyhris2a</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social/post/3mfkiol5ldc2l</link><description>Another beautiful summer’s morning in New Zealand!  Fresh coffee, the sound of cicadas, and threats from the President of the United States of “powerful” and “obnoxious” tariffs.</description><pubDate>23 Feb 2026 20:31 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:aun5hb6anx2r46o7pitkmhlw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfkiol5ldc2l</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social/post/3mfdxhx2tr22u</link><description>Is my life better because corporations can predict what I’m going to want and provide it to me before I know it myself?&#xA;&#xA;Um… Hard No! Turns out the choosing and anticipation were the most human parts of the process.</description><pubDate>21 Feb 2026 06:07 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:aun5hb6anx2r46o7pitkmhlw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfdxhx2tr22u</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social/post/3mfabqvypd225</link><description>I can see why the Supreme Court is taking its time to issue its tariff ruling. The fate of a nation depends on it. &#xA;&#xA;And that’s just Iran.</description><pubDate>19 Feb 2026 19:01 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:aun5hb6anx2r46o7pitkmhlw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfabqvypd225</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/grahambeever.bsky.social/post/3mawjbegpm22c</link><description>“RFK Jr is right about some things”. &#xA;&#xA;Yeah, or to put it another way: a little knowledge is a dangerous thing!</description><pubDate>27 Dec 2025 00:08 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:aun5hb6anx2r46o7pitkmhlw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mawjbegpm22c</guid></item></channel></rss>