I was $35,000 in debt. Starting over with a broken mower, a rusted trailer, and $24 to my name. That $24 went into printing flyers. My wife and I walked the streets for days, stuffing letterboxes and hoping the phone would ring. It did. Work started to trickle in. Slowly.

This is probably the least of it.. but covering his eyes and ears to deprive him of his senses is a war crime - something the Americans do all the time. And taking a photo of a detainee to humiliate them or to satisfy public curiosity is also a Geneva Convention violation.

🚨HOLY COW: Colombian President Gustavo Petro just went after Trump: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."

5 years today. I still think about you all the time ❣️

ulmwp.org/interim-presid… Indonesia is totally unfit to lead the United Nations Human Rights Coucil. How can they lead on human rights, when they are hiding from the world their sixty-year occupation of West Papua, with five hundred thousand men, women, and children dead? With over

Normalize not bringing up your own relatable story when someone is telling you something about themselves... Just listen.

Serene. SHP. #PNG

“Given significant investments in ‘leaders’ & ‘coalitions’ across the aid portfolio, [as well as locally led development], it seems like an opportune moment to reflect on what is being learned at a portfolio level,” says Lisa Denney from Centre for Human Security and Social Change. devpolicy.org/better-underst…

Unpopular opinion: Even with ChatGPT writing for you, being able to write yourself is the most important skill of the next decade. AI gives you answers. Writing gives you understanding. Understanding creates better questions. The person asking better questions owns the future.

UN COMMITTEE QUESTIONS PNG GOVERNMENT ON SABL LEASES AND ILLEGAL FCA LOGGING. actnowpng.org/blog/un-questi… Post Courier

Economic impact of Manus detention centre laid bare in new report abc.net.au/pacific/progra… via ABC Australia

People get stuck in their 30s because they feel too qualified to start over and too bored to stay put. 10 year of expertise becomes a golden cage. The distance between expert and beginner feels like falling off a cliff. So you stay on the plateau, slowly dying of comfort.

If a child tells you they are uncomfortable around an adult, please listen.

Thinking about my dad today and resharing a past poem a wrote. mountainmeri.blog/2021/09/19/poe…

Facts!

🚨 Devpolicy Feb aid news out now! - Australia kickstarts RMI’s Resilience & Adaptation Trust Fund - New Zealand pulls out of PNG Rural Electrification Project - ACFID highlights fall of Australian aid as % of Fed Budget ➕new books, reports & podcasts devpolicy.org/february-2026-…

Sick of seeing #PNG political elites, their families and cronies parade their wealth and businesses while pretending it’s all because they are “hat wok man/meri.” Please, inap ya. 🤢

Society lied. Women in their 30s are so beautiful, healthy and strong. A lot of women get more beautiful in their 30s. Bunch of liars, 30 isn't old.