Auckland needs rain because the humidity is going to wipe us all out. It's oppressive and the air is soup right now.

Will these trolls ever learn that this horseshit does not win elections? When interviewing for ANY job, you need more than "your other candidate for this job is terrible." It's not our responsibility to vote for anyone in the D column. It's the candidate's job to engage with voters and get votes.

A whole lot of people associate morality and 'goodness' with compliance to authority and it's worth remembering that when talking to people online.

One of my kids has a harmonica now and it’s not making anything better.

I wonder if my kiwisaver provider is hedging against the collapse of NATO and the collapse of the US dollar both happening in the next month.

Going to make an absolute MOUNTAIN of homemade fettuccine alfredo with handmade fresh pasta and drink beer and watch The Diplomat while pretending that America is good and competent and that all is well in my personal world.

Too much terrible politics news, not enough pots. Going to sign off and go make more pots. We must protect our honey from the ants and that's a battle I can win.

4 more teapots!

I finally have curtains in my lounge!

Happy Sunday! Off to FINALLY get curtains for lounge 🎉

I've told Khalil I don't want to give him false hope, that I'd share this request with my followers but that wouldn't guarantee any donations. If you are in a position to donate, I know how much he will appreciate it chuffed.org/project/emer...

Made 4 more teapots today. Also threw my spouts off the hump, which I find a bit challenging. But I wanted small spouts for this batch, so off the hump it had to be.

Had a buyer for my cross stitch that offered me $2000 USD, I literally cried with relief at what I could achieve with that amount. After the point of providing all bank details etc, Ive heard nothing. So I’m going to have to put my girl back up for sale. I need as much as possible. Please RT. #nzpol

Probably extremely petty and full of weird tea snobs and potters much much better at making teapots than I am.

Died of heatstroke rip me

I go make pots now and then paint a pretty picture.

Being exhausted, with deteriorating mental heath, won’t win this war. It’s ok to: * limit the news you watch * step away completely * turn auto play off on videos * mute words * block people Don’t obey in advance. Do what you can. But prioritise your well-being. YOU matter, not just the fight.

I am intensely jealous of potters who have lots of nice bats and whole ass bat systems. Some of us have to get every damn thing off the wheel with a wire and also can't really put it back on the wheel until it's ready for trimming.

www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360... From above the paywall: > Northland Hospital patients have had their health information compromised after the Manage My Health hack, despite many never being registered with the service.

Felt like I wanted it to be red.

I don't think taking a used Nobel is really at all the same as being awarded one yourself . . . that's not how winning the Nobel prize works. I mean I assume. The Nobel committees have also overlooked me, so I don't have personal knowledge.

I simply can’t do anything about the fall of democracy or the rise of violent autocracy (I did try, real hard!) but I can ensure we have vessels to brew our tea in while the world burns. And an ant-proof place to store our honey.

Completed my work week and was going to go make pots, but instead I am here, watching the horrors unfold.

So correct me if I'm wrong but we've had the kidnapping of a sovereign head of state, the open murder of a random civilian by the gestapo, the bowing out of virtually all of the US's international treaties and accords, AND the ramping up or the annexation of Greenland in ONE FUCKING WEEK. WTF

Torn between wanting to know if like she's going to die soon or if this is part of a longer decline. Looks like my aunt is now taking over her care. Both sisters have declared themselves done. Niece is too young and also very pregnant. And I remain, eternally, in Aotearoa.

Solar radiation management looks most attractive precisely when governance is weakest — and that’s exactly when it’s most likely to fail. Check out our new paper in Environmental Research: Climate iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

"MMH has offloaded responsibility of deleting their old accounts onto the patients but many people get signed up to such portals by their GPs switching to the platform. It should not be patients’ responsibility to delete accounts if they did not individually get into a contract with the platform"

Word is my mother is in hospital. Again. With COVID. In Nashville. Last I heard she was in hospice in New Hampshire, but I guess that didn’t work out? I do not have the energy for this. Sigh.

I am not the Prime Minister, so I am going to go to work now.

The masked secret police carrying out the regime's goals do *not* need more training. Come on.

Comment from Victoria University: School libraries and librarians should not be viewed as optional extras but as essential for learning.

Essentially, this is a systemic failure that has occurred on top of lack of adequate regulation.

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

ICE killed a legal observer www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Threw 3 more teapots, lids and spouts . . . excited to try a new handling technique later in the week!

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

For like 8 months during 21-22 I got super into ironing household linens--it was basically a whole ass hobby--and those were good times. My sheets were ironed, my pillow cases were crisp and lightly scented, my tea towels were perfect. Hmmm . . .

It's Their Time

The thing is, she was absolutely right. There was a quality shift in leftist spaces from "freedom to" to "freedom from." From liberation to safety. It was so stark it became a generation gap.

Someone finally hired a PR firm. Took them long enough.

EDs and CEOs of small orgs in particular need to heed this advice. Don't keep what isn't legally mandated or required to do business. Everything else should be cleared as soon as you are done with it.

Hey, hey it’s the first medal Monday of the year. Happy New year. We are celebrating all the small to big wins that people want to share. Mine is that I listed a bunch of stuff on trademe & actually sold a number of things. Also that Wgtn has a lovely day today. Whats yours?

Teapots bitches!

Is Temu AI-slop our generation's lead-glazed dishware? Will our legacy be thrift shops full of microplastics and AI artifacts? What's left, when the bubble pops?

The US invasion of Venezuela is a clear violation of international law and the UN Charter. Celebrating the capture of Maduro, Donald Trump went further, calling it an “attack on sovereignty” itself. Countries the world over must work together to rein in the United States before it’s too late.

Events like these really help clarify who is antiTrump on aesthetic grounds and who has an actual moral core.