People in Taupō driving over footpaths to cut corners and circumvent lines of traffic wtf

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 seems to be fights with text boxes and accordions

This got obviously doing nothing to regulate the xmas wrapping paper industry which seems to only make the thinnest, most easily torn ephemeral sheets nowadays

I don't want National in power but if Labour get in and try to fix shit they'll inevitably be blamed *again* for spending money and be voted out by the dimwits with short memories, this shitty loop needs to stop

Latest PPTA offer a true reflection of our racist, scrooge government who relentlessly avoid investing in the future of Aotearoa

$1600 to service and fix up/replace parts of the son's mountain bike jesus hell

What a balls up, testing one curriculum with another curriculum's tool that was already problematic and then it's just a small part of the curriculum being tested... The validity here is near zero. Stanford is incompetent in this role.

Soon, this incredible chrysalis will open to reveal a transformed, beautiful hydrosliderfly which will take to the skies above Taupō in search of a mate, thus completing the circle of life 😌

These bullshit ideas that make life shitter and more dangerous just keep coming.

Te Mātaiaho: transparently written by a range of experts with indigenous perspectives and paced for a gradual rollout. The Standford curriculum: hidden authors, minimises Māori, ableist, rushed. Teachers should revolt and demand a return to the original Te Mātaiaho curriculum development.

Callous and stupid. "the one in four children in our local schools who are disabled and/or neurodivergent could be collateral damage from the minister’s refresh" We have had some terrible Ministers of Education in our history but Stanford is shaping up to be our worst. #nzpol

Guys, look what was just delivered! My lens collection is now complete 😍😍😍

Much of this is sinister, takes power away from schools and teachers and sets schools up to be graded, compared, sorted and penalised. Experienced and qualified educators, unlike the two ministers involved, won't find much positive news here.

I'm two weeks into #Movember and comments from others certainly come in a wide range of support/despair

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Sign the PPTA petetiton to protect te Tiriti in education! Please share, people of Aotearoa: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/pr...

AI is the new laminator for primary school teachers

Nicola Willis calling inclusion of te Tiriti in education "virtue signalling" is the most disgusting immoral shit I have heard all day and I am fuming

Erica Stanford's ignorance, racism and arrogance are destroying NZ education systems, the goodwill of thousands of educators and the learning experiences of countless young people.

Here's a long, depressing list of funding cuts and reductions in NZ education from April this year. It's all being vaguely "reinvested" in education but who knows where, when, how and who actually benefits. www.education.govt.nz/our-work/pub...

It's really hard to find a single ear gaming headset these days. We have a Dolby Atmos setup and one ear piece means I can hear chat but also the full surround sound. My current headset is over 15 years old and starting to pack up 😫😫😫

Year 3 students (7-8 yr olds) in Aotearoa are gonna lap up the stuff about lfred Brehm (1829–1884) who recorded observations of animal diets and feeding behaviours (I mean, don't we all!!). His writings popularised zoology and animal studies in Europe! Relevant, cool! Science is all white, guys!

New mayor of Taupō who stated before the local election that he wanted to remove Māori wards won't be going to any marae as part of his new role.

"Let’s stop mistaking white-coated research for truth, or charisma for credibility. Let’s listen to the voices in the room that too often go unheard — and more importantly, let’s ask why those voices didn’t show up in the first place." www.engaginglearningvoices.com/post/what-ac...

Eesh... cringe, desperate and not the vibe

We're all just using the front left burner, let's be real

Education minister Erica Stanford, with zero relevant qualifications and no sector experience, is causing untold damage to education in Aotearoa and deeply hurting govt-educator relationships and her own arrogance prevents her from reflecting on any of it

I modified this email template from the PPTA to send my own message about the PPTA Collective Agreement to the minister of education www.ppta.org.nz/campaigns/wr...

Cringe 😒 Weird 🥴 Inappropriate ❌ Desperate 🙏 Sad ☹️ Underhanded 🔪 WTF 🙄

Could you pls do an old ex-Art History teacher a solid, sign this petition to save the subject in our schools, and pass it on. These philistines need to hear from you all. Thank you petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...

🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 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