Oops — I disassociated in the shower and used up all the hot water.

The NZ Govt just spent the last two years introducing policies to make NZ more dependent on fossil fuels, and proudly overturning policies that were reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. Now they have some Mickey Mouse national fuel plan. What a joke.

This is real, home grown style racism. We've actively done this before. To externalise the problem is to put on blinders against our own fully developed racism, and how it's impacted Pasifika populations since forever ago

Miette awoke from uneasy dreams to find that you change her body like the cockroach

There’s a pop up vintage market on Cuba Street and I bought round things: a paperweight, à vase and earrings that look like soap bubbles.

the hardest part about separating the art from the artist is how i seem to have glued myself to this macaroni picture

A really nice story about how 'Pō Atarau' ended up on the soundtrack of Project Hail Mary. One thing I would add is that the 1976 master tape was preserved and digitised by the Alexander Turnbull Library. That's why it was discoverable. thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/...

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People https://theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-ancient-race-of-skeleton-pe-1819565415/

The Jetsons lied to us

I got my nails done and went super girly with light pink glitter cats eye — and each nail has a magnetised heart!

I got a text from Mammogram NZ to tell me that my breasts are normal. Not gonna lie, I was hoping for more effusive praise than that.

🚩 Marked as safe from my own thoughts.

The horror: my headphones ran out of juice halfway into my walk home and now I must be alone with 💀my thoughts💀 the rest of the way.

Ah yes, a govt subsidy to keep cars on the road in a fuel crisis rather than a government subsidy to get cars off the road in a fuel crisis. Masterful. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Half-heartedly resisting the hope that she might be hoisted by her own petard once she enters the job market. (Yes this repost was an excuse to use the phrase “hoisted by her own petard”* what of it?) * twice! Twice! [giggles in nerd]

#kakapo chicks tire out easily! Aparima-A2 asleep on me during a health check. With adult feathers beginning to emerge and putting on up to ~20% of his body weight per day, he's got a lot going on! #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds #parrots

I had quinoa salad for lunch and it was delicious, so I may have been (le gasp!) *wrong* about quinoa.

There is a pattern worth naming. Māori are told they do not belong in this institution or that one. That their culture takes up too much space. Except, apparently, when the deployment order comes. A thread.

PICKLES ATE SOME CHICKEN!

Great point by @thebenshaw.bsky.social In Ireland they pay their creatives (artists, musicians etc) a universal basic income In NZ we pay foreign multi millionaires & their conglomerate promoters to come here for their 4th or 5th tour F-ing NeoLiberalism is a brain worm that runs a cult

I’ve been singing this to Pickles this week substituting “eat” for “grow”, and honestly I would give her my blood at this point. youtu.be/vSso4hhr7OM?...

I have to drop Pickles off at the vet early this morning, so I changed out of my PJs into a t-shirt and trackpants — which is exactly what I wear as PJs anyway 😅 (except I put on a bra and glasses — now fully dressed for the world!)

I just learnt that “Firestarter” is 30 years old and if I wasn’t already lying down* I might’ve had to because WHAT?! *which is further evidence that this song of me yoof is three decades old 😂 open.spotify.com/track/79CUrU...

I don't mean to panic anyone but it appears our prime minister is Christopher Luxon

Turns out it didn't have legs

Cat logic: instead of sleeping on the clear part of the work bench (or indeed her bean bag or arm chair that are in this room) Pickles chooses to sleep on two pairs of sewing scissors, packets of sewing machine needles and metal rulers. (Her tail looks weird because the vet shaved it)

It’s been a pretty stressful few days and I feel like I need to have a good cry — but also I’m too busy to have a good cry right now, which is why I need a good cry… (looks for a “good” time to schedule “being a squishy human with feelings” — maybe after Easter? 🥲)

(•_•) <) )╯Publique fundinge / \ \(•_•) ( (> of the artes and humanityes / \ (•_•) <) )> doth benefit everyone! / \

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Apropos of nothing #nzpol

I’ve just noticed the instructions on how to heat up my almond milk are in first person and I’m feeling weird about the idea that my milk is sentient.

I’m looking over the proof of “He Heru”(my collaboration with The Humboldt Forum, being published shortly!) and had a moment of “Geez, that’s some pretty flash writing, eh?” So now I shall don my hair shirt and self flagellate for being whakahīhī.

I’m out of bananas for my morning porridge so I’m *forced* to eat pain au chocolat instead.

My trousers, probably: open.spotify.com/track/7ndSAA...

Thunder and lightning (aka me thighs) have taken out another pair of trousers. RIP/rip trousers, you had a good run.

The troubles

Behold these mighty feijoa I bought!

I won't be taking any lectures from this government about the previous government's ability to communicate complex issues clearly. #NZPol

Mate, they don’t want you at all. Why is that so hard for you to understand?

Oh ho ho! Ye olde “thing I’ve been putting off for a month ended up taking 5 minutes”! It is good to see you old friend, see you again in a month 😅

Post first mammogram treat: a little coffee and a little gem of a novella “Fup” by Jim Dodge.

I got a reminder to register for Breast cancer screening this morning. Registered and booked for my first mammogram in a couple of hours a stone throw away from my whare.

I’ve booked in to get my eyebrows laminated, which must be the best thing for eyebrows since laminators are the most magnificent pieces of stationery. youtube.com/shorts/foExo...

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

I'm ashamed of our government. Today supporting an illegal war is a nail in the coffin. This is not the NZ of nuclear free, of anti apartheid, of the Treaty of Waitangi Act. This is neo-liberals and populists run amok. Not the country I want nor that I'm willing to excuse #nzpol

“This is science fiction besieged by the banality of its astronauts.” New: Evangeline Riddiford Graham on Pip Adam. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...