🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 To the racists of Taupō who successfully voted to remove Te Papamārearea Maori ward. Get some fucking education about te Tiriti o Waitangi. Your families should be ashamed of you.

Trying to understand the USA shutdown and Gemini says this

Our girl, Magic, on the greyhound walk in Taupō this morning, #photography

Winston Peters and his fringe minority supporters are the worst of us. Utterly disgraceful.

What is it about LinkedIn that makes it feel so dry and bleak and hopeless

AMI's online and phone systems are the worst to navigate, jesus hell

Hell Is Us combat is not fun 😕

Ironic that this govt wants to remove art history, which is all about research, visual literacy and cultural context, and bring in generative AI, which is all about faceless theft, shallow meaning and generic slop

None of the Taupō supermarkets have had cardamom for weeks now 🤨🤔

If Back To The Future was made now, Marty McFly would go back to 1995

I was manuhiri at a school hui last week where the Pākehā principal asked us to do karakia whakamutunga. I should have stood up and said no, manuhiri don't do your tikanga for you, you manaki us with your kura's tikanga. Next time.

This voting on keeping/abolishing Māori wards is racist bullshit, who started and allowed this shit to go through, why aren't other wards up for the same treatment, whose enabling these racists

More fuckery from this unhinged govt in NZ, please sign this petition

Taupō's new Woolworths has car parks for low emission vehicles. As I left yesterday, a white Ford ranger pulled into one. The driver got out saying quite audibly "you should be able to park any fucking where" as if to convince themselves they were brave and reasonable in this crazy woke world

Managed to end the week without too much mitochondrial challenge, now for the gym 💪

Not Simeon Brown lying about average nurse pay just like his mate Judith did about teachers, bless these overwhelmed politicians mixing up their facts

My wife's applying for a new name change certificate and the 11 page application has to be printed and POSTED in 2025

Every interview right now (govt, energy, sport, food, housing, all of it) is "we know people are doing it tough" followed by "we're working very hard to..."sick of the cliche and false promises

Excited to be picking up a mint 5D mark 4 today, secondhand, for a super good price 😍😍😍

Actually impressed that my teacher registration renewal was all done and dusted in two weeks, that's a record time for me from application to completion. Well done, teaching council of NZ

Judith Collins here spreading disinformation and painting teachers as greedy bad guys while she and her cronies cream it in on portfolios for which they have no relevant qualifications nor experience (e.g., see the current minister of education who can't fathom NCEA)

At home for a sick day and a nice man came to the door to tell me the United Nations will herald Armageddon and God will put a rainbow in the sky to let us know. Can I just be crook in peace please

Hearing Collins and Stanford, with their $300k+ salaries and no educational qualifications or teaching experience, accuse secondary teachers of harming children through strike action fills me with immense anger, disgust and utter distrust of this revolting government. NZ deserves so much better.

Some sound early thinking from the PPTA on the govt's proposed NCEA changes which points out numerous inconsistencies, untruths, misrepresentations and lack of logic: www.ppta.org.nz/news-and-med...

One of the Taupō mayoral candidates is an act supporter 🤢🤢🤢

So when you're testing paint colours on your walls, know that they look different over wallpaper (two coats even) compared with being painted on the actual bare wall... Still, it's worked out well, "double white pointer" is lovely and soft

Why stay in teaching when there are these frequent whiplash changes which are never well supported and which make the job so fucking tiring, let alone the changing systems for students to navigate and succeed in

Annnnd we just checked. My oldest had her name removed from the roll. We aren't Māori. What the fuck is #ChristopherLuxon's government playing at?? 🤬🤬🤬 CHECK YOUR DETAILS WHANAU. #nzpol #nzelections vote.nz/enrolling/en...

Starlink is down. It's our best decent broadband option being rural, we can't even get VDSL. A few years ago Chorus estimated it would only be about $200,000 for a custom connection to the nearest fibre exchange so I'm hoping the satellite system comes right soon

Those Mr Impossible characters in Death Stranding 2 were so off-tone for the game and generally jarring to hear in that universe; I skipped every bit of dialogue they had

MOE learning support staff chose a two hour pay cut to strike this week , all good, but because they've stated they're not doing overtime etc they're also being docked 10% of pay, because this awful govt suddenly passed legislation to be able to punish them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Death Stranding 2: attempting to 5-star Mr Impossible and The Adventurer really brings down what has been a fantastic game on PS5, like it seems to be a huge oversight in having to repeat old missions with next to no lost cargo on the map

NCEA exam paradox: "this page has been deliberately left blank"

Listening to the "A Different Kind Of Power" audio book by Jacinda Ardern made my eyes well up countless times recently, it will stay with me

Going to be a crispy Taupō frost in the morning

David Seymour is looking more and more unhinged as he tries to defend his stupid bill

These days China seem to be like the sentient yoghurt following the plan while the rest of the world are still focused on getting rich and heading towards chaos

You can tell a lot about an employer by the ply of their toilet paper

Keeping it real in Taupō

In April we installed a second 30,000 litre rain water tank. Since then, we've filled one and nearly filled the second. There has been a lot of rain in NZ in just a few months.

Gas cooktop out, induction hob in today. First thing I noticed is the kitchen doesn't get hot, there is no heat given off. Second thing will be to get a sense of which numbers (1-9) to dial in for different cooking needs. Also, so responsive, wow

Parents, you can only book a learners license test with AA when your child *is with you at the AA *has already turned 16. This is not super obvious online or when you phone them 🙄😒

We need to stop these glass-cutting AI videos; humans aren't meant to have these feelings

It's Death Stranding 2 release day! But I need to see The Alters through first, that is a fantastic experience so far.

That moonbeam ice cream song is just Chappell Roan in a male font

Sony released 'Climate Station' for PS5 and PS VR 2. A free educational experience which "transforms decades of climate science into an interactive story." blog.playstation.com/2025/06/18/c...

So many schools in Aotearoa have poor insulation and/or heating. People not in education have no idea how awful winter can be in many schools, especially in unheated bathrooms with old school louvre windows

You guys...! Can not describe, so good

"I must be cruel, only to be kind"

The best way to defeat van Velden is to throw a paradox at her; I learnt this playing Portal 2 where you try to defeat a malicious, controlling computer that keeps making your existence more and more dangerous and difficult