Do I know anyone here who gets wonky box? I’m intrigued and I want to hear about your experience.

This is a terrifying read especially as a parent of a boy. This is my biggest fear - Raising a violent angry woman hating man. 😰😨

Can't recall the number of times I've talked to secondary, & even tertiary teachers in New Zealand around what's noted in this article, since early 2022. That it's this bad now is awful. | 'Trump boys' in NZ classrooms: Teachers warn of rising student extremism www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

I need more time pass from pregnancy and childbirth so random stupid things don’t randomly trigger me 🙄

Something that really boils my noodle is when they all agree raising wages makes inflation worse but only if you're a worker, executive wages getting blown out x1000% is magically exempt from this.

Who knew smoking can be a contributor to a degenerative spine disease? Not me obviously. ☹️

TBH Treasury is just 'modelling' alternatives. However, I am frankly astonished to see the paper takes no account of the 7 year gap in life expectancy between Māori (75.8) & Europeans (82.8) or the near 6 year gap between Europeans & Pasifika (76.9). www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

They are saying 32% GST and 72 for retirement age so we will happily accept 20% GST and 68 for retirement age. Why don’t they say 5% wealth tax and 40% corporate tax on big conglomerates? No of course they won’t say that no siree.

How the actual fuck is Business Desk publishing a piece framing the genocide of Palestinians as a 'challenge' for Israeli start ups AND trying to PR Israeli entry into the NZ market on that basis???? This is fucking atrocious businessdesk.co.nz/article/opin...

One day a journo is gonna ask why it’s acceptable to raise taxes on EVERYONE except the top 1-2%. Not today tho. Probably not tomorrow either. But one day. I have hope.

All the colon and bowel cancer news is scaring me I’m gonna enter into an aggressive bean era I don’t think a regular bean era will cut it.

Who will join us to fight for Covid prevention for our kids here? @covidactionnz.bsky.social

The fact that boardrooms are in any kind of moods makes me feel deeply uncomfortable. Go look at a spreadsheet or something.

Can we get this to 60% today? ko-fi.com/systemerror/...

I wish my brain would understand that a stainless steel pan right out of the oven is in fact hot.

I am Baraa of Gaza We are living the most difficult days of our lives as we suffer from hunger and forced displacement.Please help me with the cost of transporting vehicles and buying a tent.The situation is getting worse and the bombing is intensifying.Please help me🙏🏻😭💔🍉 tinyurl.com/Help-Baraa

Hi all - like many of you I’m really struggling with the state of it all. The 3 things that are top of mind for me is Palestine, Disability rights (+covid) and Trans rights. I’m privileged to be able shield myself from it all so instead of wallowing. I’m trying to channel my energy into mutual aid.

Kamala Harris on Rachael Maddow is so embarrassing. The woman refuses to learn. What is wrong with these people.

The reason why they have to hire a foreigner to lead the reserve bank is because people keep leaving this country lol. You gotta invest in people and develop talent.

IT WOULD BE FUCKEN GREAT IF THE SCEPTICISM THAT THE NZ MEDIA HAS SHOWN TO "TYLENOL CAUSES AUTISM" COULD BE APPLIED TO "GENDER AFFIRMING HEALTHCARE IS BAD" BECAUSE THEY'RE BOTH FUCKING LIES SPREAD BY THE FAR RIGHT

I wish I could get raptured or at least other people would get raptured. I don’t care which one I just want to be excluded from the current narrative.

They always find a way to blame mothers. I’m so glad the birthrate is low. I wish we could just go extinct. Society has made life so unenjoyable. You can’t have nice food or time off or healthcare or a livable environment. No just work, make profits for billionaires and die suffering. Just suffer.

It’s another day ending in Y so I am once again pissed off at the govt. I remember watching debate where the lady with bowel cancer wanted to lower the screening age which both Chrises said they would. Luxon said he would match australia which is 45. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Conservatives be like: "you should see how they treat women in x west aisan country" While conservatives also be like: "women must suffer and make babies and only that. Anything else warrants death"

Signs we won't recognise Palestine: - Seymour said he won't & Luxon said it'll be a Govt position not an agree-to-disagree one - If we were going to, we would have announced today with UK/Aus/Can - Aus PM reacted to US pushback today saying Aus policy not decided in Washington *or Wellington*

You dont need money in heaven. Give it to this person who needs it instead

So happy we engineered a recession and increased the unemployment rate to get inflation down. It’s worked out so well for us.

In a few weeks, I have to go to my first in-person work event (actually 2 events) since December 2019 when I went to NYC. 🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴

I think it’s really great we engineered a recession to bring down inflation but food prices keep going up. The one thing we need to keep being alive. It’s great I love it we can go to space but we can’t solve this. It just has to be this way. There’s enough food but some people have to starve.

If the govt doesn't subsidise the landlords they will leave the country and take their houses with them

There’s no bigger beef than whatever is going on between prescription drugs and grapefruit.

Without landlords, there would a rapture of houses

Just 1 more billion bro. Let’s just give 1 more billion to the landlords. I’m sure that will help.

So many companies and countries are complicit in this genocide because they don’t think they will face accountability because what are brown countries gonna do? Prosecute white institutions? When has that happened. Anyone who tries anything will be bombed. Global south sovereignty is a myth.

Asking a majority non-Māori population to vote on whether Māori wards should be kept is racist as fuck. Asking any majority demographic to vote on whether minorities should have certain basic rights that facilitate equity is straight up bullshit. And referendums make me furious.

15-20 years earlier, on average. Families end up bridging the gap, with many families living in material poverty as a result of inadequate and poorly funded supports. Despite these known facts, we still get targeted by ministers for finding light relief in the midst of it all.

One of the most infuriating things is interacting with non-lefty able bodied friends/family who are new to disability (their own or family member) and they’ll say something insane like well what do disabled people do in this situation? They die. They die early deaths I don’t know what to tell you.

Me to the tiny hobbit: hey buddy I know I’ve just come out of the shower but I have a hair masque so I’m gonna have to do a second shower. Do you understand? The tiny hobbit: No. Fair enough 😅

Spent the last 2 years stressing about the tiny hobbit speaking and now I can’t have a single conversation without him inserting himself into it and verbal diarrhea-ing every word he knows in every language with minion gibberish added in.

The h1-b news was so triggering and then I remembered I’m not on h1-b, my status is not about to expire, the consulate won’t deny me visa randomly before the country shuts down, I’m not waiting for lottery results. I’m home. I never have to worry about my immigration status ever again.

It’s fine for our govt to blame trump tariffs for our economic woes but then why did we reward them with an FBI office? Do something about it? Weak useless shits.

I have contributed because the only way to counter the current doom is through mutual aid. We don’t have a lot of power to change the whole system but we can help each other.

Far be it for me to hand it to John Key but I haven’t stopped being salty at the reserve bank since this stupidery dropped in 2022

Tried to watch No Other Land and made it 7 mins before having to give up. And yes I’m just watching, actual people are living this horror. It’s horrific.

What’s something good to watch tonight? A good recent movie? Any ideas?

Baa baa Cabinet 🐑 Have you any plan?🤷 No sir, no sir👎 We're just bungling it again 📉 Cuts for the nurses and teachers 🏥🚸 Cuts for the bottom-feeding poors 🧈 But nothing that helps NZ’s growth anymore☹️ #nzpol #ResignTheGovt

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Then the economy had a great fall All the PM’s donors and all of his zen Couldn't get NZ GDP increasing again.

Who let Barack Obama on here?

According to the tiny hobbit all fem looking adults are ma and all masc looking adults are baba and he just pointed to a pic of Nicola Willis and said “Ma!” 😒😒😒

I know someone personally who waited like 6 months to have a serious gyno surgery, only to be told in the waiting room that they would need to push her surgery back another month because the person before her had a complication. This is on Luxon!