People say it sucks to be an only child cause when your parents die you have to grieve alone. I have 3 siblings and I’m still grieving alone. There are no guarantees that anything will amount to anything. At least that’s what I tell myself when I feel like I’m failing the tiny hobbit.

The most surprising thing in today's news - tragically and awfully - is that apparently the cops DO know how to prosecute somebody under the Harmful Digital Communications Act. #nzpol

I love how the Nz police are trying to to pretend the problem is a couple of people. Like those men who were found innocent of assaulting louise nicholas but did jail time for assaulting other women. And the cops who covered it up. It’s a lot of individuals

Louise Nicholas reported her assault in 1993. 32 years later, and we're still getting cover ups and intimidation of women abused by serving police officers.

As a Muslim woman, adding yet another failure to the list

Good to have solid proof that ACAB applies in NZ too

My first job out of uni after being on the unemployment benefit for 6 weeks was a lowly assistant at the Parliamentary Library making $33k and I thought I was RICH RICH 😅 I only lasted 5 months before I bullied Labour into giving me a job at the leaders office.

I’m not as well read as you guys but my 9 books are: 1- Pride and Prejudice 2- Pachinko 3- The Lowland 4- Seven Moons of Maali Almeida 5-The Inheritance of Loss 6- Invisible Man 7- One Hundred Years of Solitude 8- Anna Karenina 9- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Having an argument with my siblings who think it’s great that in openly corrupted countries it’s great that everyone has the opportunity to bribe officials and it’s in the open unlike in western countries where only the extremely wealthy get to do it and they pretend like it doesn’t exist 🤦🏽‍♀️

I don’t have a sweet tooth in that I don’t ever really crave sweet things or think about them but I like them. Anyway sweet release Kris sent some donuts to my house this weekend and dear lord it’s exact thing my sad brain needed.

Abolishing ICE is a centrist position.

My company has laid off around ~30 thousand people since 2022 and just got recognized as one of America’s greatest companies by Newsweek while I watch coworkers get burned out and be visibly distressed. It’s certainly a mindfuck.

Feel like if you critique Labour from the right you get a lot more traction in the media than if you do it from the left. The bias for capitalism is so strong and entrenched. It feels like capitalism is seen as science and really it’s just 1 way of doing things certainly not the best way.

If I, as a woman, get accused of ruining society by being a woman I’m just gonna keep doing the thing even more. I definitely want to ruin society. These men are dropping bombs and destroying the environment and getting away with it. Ruining society will continue as long as my morale improves.

Big Tech is so unregulated. If any other industry was creating products so faulty and so destructive, various agencies would be under pressure to rain down hell. But not with social media or AI. Laws around under 16s regulate US not THEM. They need to be regulated. It’s insane behavior.

“Something has to be done about rough sleepers” yeah provide them with housing and give the cash money. Ok next one!

The Israelis are never going to withdraw further than the yellow line, they will leave the 2 million people boxed up in the rubble and filth stretching from Khan Yunis to Gaza City and just tell them "you can leave whenever you like" No economy, no life The concentration camp just got a lot smaller

The way this headline is written made me feel like I was going to break out in hives.

It’s kind of crazy the level of wealth propaganda we are exposed to. In movies and tv shows everyone has nice homes and food on the table, orange juice in glass jars out of the fridge, socials are full of people with STUFF. And when the disconnect is no longer bearable fascism shows up.

Community garden progress, still a ton of work to do but im out of funds, please consider donating or sharing so i can continue this work and hopefully grow enough food to feed some people and myself ko-fi.com/systemerror

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

New Yorkers this week: This is just to say We have elected the Muslim immigrant for mayor of New York City and who you were probably saving to be a corporate hack Forgive me he was so on message so anti-capitalist and so bold

Today is one week since my sister called me to tell me the news about my dad. I’m just in such a bad mood. I’m just replaying the hysterical meltdown I had cause I was convinced someone killed him (wtf lamia) because he seemed fine 6 hours before. This is the least ok I’ve been in my entire 41yrs.

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Named and shamed them on insta and someone reached out to me 😮‍💨

Making curry for a pregnant friend and thought a butterflied leg of lamb was would be a good meaty piece but nearly 40% of it was just the fat cap expertly presented. Why does everything feel like a scam. I’m tired.

Ran into a friend at the grocery store who came up to me instead of the other way round which shows the whole masking is anti-social is a bunch of horseshit.

Looking forward to NZ food prices going down since we are always told they are connected to world prices every time they go up 🧐

Not to be ungrateful but 3 days of bereavement leave is not enough. On Sunday I told my manager I would be back at work on Wednesday. It’s Friday and I feel extremely not ok.

Has anyone done the baking powder trick to turn regular flour into self raising flour and is that fine for scones? Because I am not in the mood to run to the store right now.

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One of the advantages of living in a country without corruption at every level is that you don’t have to bribe officials to get a simple death certificate. I literally had to tell a lawyer - A LAWYER, A WHOLE OFFICER OF THE COURT - what words does one even say to offer a bribe?!

I cut into an avocado today and remembered that when my dad was here in 2024 he randomly mentioned he loved avocados which I found so weird cause it’s kinda plain but then again he loved boiled potatoes with butter something he picked up from his host family when he was in grad school at Lincoln.

Me: Mamdani’s transition team is all women The GBM: ALL WOMEN! A harem?! Sharia!!!!!

It’s weird how offended people get when you say you don’t like capitalism.

Mamdani can’t be President but… wait wait wait… but Mrs Mamdani is a US born American 👀

Gales again, naturally 💨 🌬️🙄

Coping and seething and pretending that Zohran is the mayor or Wellington. We did it Joe!

I just found out about Jonathan Bailey and Dick Cheney news at the same time and I don’t really know how to process my emotions on top of everything else. I feel weird being happy.

I watched a house burn down in my neighborhood from my own window and 10 fire trucks of fireman put out that fire and that’s the kind of thing I want taxes to fund not landlords.

I’ve moved on from running through the everything over and over again to cleaning the house so that’s something. I should have insisted he come live with me, he has nz residency but he was a smoker and anti-Covid precautions so I did not make the offer. I will have to live with that.

In the end after all was said and done and we got a full account from the doctor my dad had surgery, he caught something after release and was re admitted and he died from a chest infection that they said was pneumonia. The irony of my dad dying from an airborne disease. I will never get over it.

I don’t think I was thinking straight when I posted this. Thank you for the messages, I’m always grateful for this community and I’m glad so many of you are here. I went to sleep last night believing he was stable and getting better. I’m glad he got to meet Tiny Hobbit. That’s my solace right now.

My dad is gone

At some point wouldn’t it be great to talk about expert advice to treat mitigation of airborne diseases as a logical piece of obvious infrastructure that requires investment, like roads, as opposed to say, consistently communicating that kids must be at school with none of said mitigations in place.

god, the fact the government response to a measles outbreak is "our priority is keeping kids in school" is so bleak

Because loyalty was more important than integrity. Personally I won’t be forgetting this and I’ll rank him even lower than #3 next time.

“The govt doesn’t owe people food” well fuck then I don’t owe the govt taxes either what the fuck. Stop fucking giving my money to fucking landlords.

Property investors get tax cut from National. Yes please single us out Property investors to pay Labour's C.G.T. Waily waily waily, we are being singled out #NZPol

Went outside to get a bit of fresh air and got creeped out by the lack of gale force winds. What is this unnatural weather.