Feels like we’re just speed running the mistakes of the early 20th century.

Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson says his country has no plans to go to Islamabad at the moment, adding, the reason for that is the contradictory messages, contradictory behaviors, and unacceptable actions of the American side.

I think I need to make known that I can help with computery stuff, especially anything related to standard websites, social media etc. I need money, and clearly making cute beanies prolifically won't cut it, overall. That's a nice addition that means I skate by, alas without thriving.

Making the sauce!

Prego getting into home surveillance reminded me how much I love spaghetti. Guess that’s the plan for tonight.

I have planned out every minute of this day until bedtime and I am so excited to be experiencing a highly organised life. I make a list, I schedule the items on the list, and then I do the items one by one until it's time for bed. Sigh, living the dream over here.

Long meeting eh

I'm eating lunch at 1, so there's still time to get this done before then . . .

Tsunami warning for Japan.

I’m so feeling for my Welly peeps but I’m also seeing a lot of folks are saying “so glad I can WFH” and I think we forget in weather events of the past where you couldn’t come into the office you used to get the day off.

Listening to the Luxon presser and he sounds grouchy. Needs a snack and a nap.

Got an ISBN in 24 hours. Yay for the National Library.

Really wouldn't want to be a failing PM who simply cannot bring himself to deal with real crises today.

I know someone has a phone book stashed away in a kitchen drawer somewhere

If anyone in New Zealand has an old phone book they are willing to give me, I need one. It's for art purposes.

Have made 2 teapots and a pretty big jug today. Stopping so that I can re-read my glaze book to prep for my advanced glaze class, which starts this week! Copper reds and crystalline glazes oh my!

geopolitics mood looking at the week ahead:

The reign of Chrises will soon be over.

I’ve been running a home weather station on and off for like 20 years, and I’ve never seen lightning like this. Incredible stuff.

I sold 3 pots and gave one pot away Yay! 🥳

Market time! Pop on down to Helensville Showgrounds and take home some fresh pots!

Hello Local Friends! I'll be at the Helensville Market tomorrow with a bunch of pots to sell. Pop on over and grab a mug or a vase or a bowl! Or just say hi!

Look, I don't really talk entertainment much, but the simple fact is that I cannot stand Javadi in The Pitt because I can't forgive Shabana Azeez for that terrible young staffer she played on Utopia.

I am not religious, and absolutely not Catholic, but one of my most sincere dreams is to join a cloistered order of nuns like the Poor Clares or Carmelites. I just really think I’d love the lifestyle of being left alone with my thoughts for 5 whole minutes.

rip to all the people excommunicated by the pope for their heresy but im different. and better. maybe even better than the pope

Hubris thy name is Vance. JD Vance.

Gradually step by step bringing my usual life back online . . .

Those Papatoetoe kids are going to remember this for the rest of their lives, and tell their children and grandchildren about it, and what it says about the country they grew up in.

Starting my day in my favourite way . . . making a long and elaborate list of all the Things I Must Do.

Kiddo is home from the hospital. Not officially discharged until, Wednesday. But home. Hoping to resume some sort of routine and normalcy now. Apologies if I owe you an email or a text. I've been a little overwhelmed.

Aries: This is a good week to stay in bed and weep uncontrollably.

Guess overall I'm pretty glad the Pope is Weak on Nuclear Weapons. Not sure anyone is ready for the Vatican as a nuclear power.

THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.

We need to get JD Vance to NZ before November

Our healthcare and child welfare systems rely on women in the community to work themselves to exhaustion and then keep working so that kids don't actually die. It's a real fucked up system.

The only "analysis" that matters right now, is the psychoanalysis the US President so urgently needs and hopefully will be getting soon. Prayers for his family as they face the challenge of getting a loved one urgently needed help for his severe mental health condition.

Even the American healthcare system, as broken as it is, usually has some tools to deploy when folk start thinking they are actually Jesus Christ.

This "I know you are but what am I" tactic from Trump is at least rather novel I suppose.

A series where they deal with reality that warp drive is fundamentally immoral (NextGen, Force of Nature) and have to figure out how adjust to a no or low warp speed Federation.

I have read too many articles about the war that seem to have been written by a dude who just woke up from a decade long coma & has 0 understanding of Trump & America’s collapse into an overt late stage fascist nightmare Ignoring the elephant in the room doesn’t make you sound like a Serious Person

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Made a hearty veggie soup, focaccia, and an apple pie. Going to have the cosiest cyclone I can manage.

IMO the president threatening to end an entire civilization should remain in the news until he is no longer president, and then for a while after that.

Finding it very curious that the Iranian propaganda is going so hard on the Epstein stuff just as Mrs. Trump decides to hold an extremely bizarre presser about her own Epstein ties.

oh no my steak is too juicy, my lobster too buttery

I make raku pottery. Which means clay, fire, smoke . . . and a little bit of chaos and magic.✨ These are my newest vessels from the flames. 🔥 If you feel like helping them find their people, a like or share means so much.🙏 Wishing you joy in the chaos 💙

Waking up bright and confident that world is yet again at peace. Time for some delicious coffee now ☕️

My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.

One thing about me is I'm absolutely against wiping out an entire civilization