“That gum you like is going to come back in style.” (I wrote about Twin Peaks on my Substack). open.substack.com/pub/shrecsyo...

The biggest #strike in generations on October 23 has the power to reshape the political landscape of Aotearoa #nzpol iso.org.nz/2025/10/01/t...

Then Green Party co-leader James Shaw was attacked while walking to work. He suffered a fractured eye ball and black eye, but said he still felt safe. That's what de-escalation and kindness looks like #nzpol

Brave admission: Not only do I love The Life of a Showgirl but I think the interpolations and references are so clearly intentional that it's wild to see the internet go hard with the copying call outs

Evidence of an organised right wing www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

As with every other speech they've made in Parliament, @benjamin-doyle.greens.org.nz leaves us all the gift of their wisdom with a call to revolutionary love and action for our tamariki. Aotearoa history will look back with esteem on their mana and leadership 💚👑

A v cup filling day back with my community waste mates at the Zero Waste Network hui today!! Thinking about how deeply we've lost track of the importance of nourishing our soil to nourish ourselves

This is such a very important passage. A role model in doing politics differently

Hot new candidate in the Manurewa ward elections just dropped (a rubbish bin)

We are never going to change anything if we keep insisting on playing political games with the rules set by those who stand most to benefit from inequality and deprivation

Huge loss for Parliament with Benjamin Doyle chased out of the house. Every time I allow myself to feel hope about an MP they're slammed down by the power structures that be. Gotta stop believing in Parliament as a key site of transformative power tbh

The most important thing to learn is that you know nothing really in the scheme of it all

They should make a GoodReads for all the Cabinet papers I have to read at work

Act wants us to leave the Paris Agreement after they were part of the Govt that signed on to the agreement in 2016. How can anyone trust their policy direction when they themselves can't even trust their policy direction for a full decade?

We celebrate the 340+ Living Wage Employers who, despite tough economic times, continue to do the right thing for their people, their businesses, and their communities. This commitment is transforming lives every day. 3/3 #NZpol #LivingWage #LivingWageEmployer #TheRealDeal

Starlight Express aka Andrew Lloyd Webber's Tron

I am watching Andrew Lloyd Webber's 50th birthday party (1998) on YouTube and once again feeling an uncomfortable amount of gratitude for that weird little guy

New Substack post just dropped in which I talk about talking: open.substack.com/pub/shrecsyo...

Thinking lots about praxis lately, and thought about how much of our lives is digitally mediated. I'm gonna try contribute to a more thoughtful digital space. Started a substack lol shrecsyonmain.substack.com

makes sense, if things had carried on the way they were going, Millennials were in danger of having enough money to survive to age 67 or even 68

Tuning into #WCEF2025 online from Aotearoa - it's nearly 1am here and I'm beaming at a child conducting an orchestra. Off to a fantastic start!

Really think the world could be such a better place if we made bell hooks required reading for existence

Surely someone on here can explain to me the IPCC mass balance methodology for estimating methane emissions from waste right

Just got Rick rolled by Sir Dave Dobbyn

Dealing with the consequences of my actions (having to drink the purple Monster Energy I chose to spend my money on to revive my Monster Energy fan account)

I'm currently re-reading This Changes Everything, one of the books I reckon radicalised and motivated me on first visit. This time round, now that so many of the predictions and projections have come true..... I'm just sad, really

Flying to Australia, packed the essentials

I believe constitutional transformation is possible in Aotearoa and that we don't have to wait for the Government to get serious. Matike Mai is an instruction manual for us all. We can look to Iceland, Samoa, Ireland for inspiration in deliberative democracy and constitutional change. Let's do it

A series of comical events meant I was driving up SH49/SH4 at sunset (9pm lol) yesterday but hard to be mad about a detour when it looks this good

This particular world is crumbling around us but that does not mean humanity will not survive. Things will look different because they need to, but love and hope will always be found where we are

Interstellar (2014) on IMAX really is that bitch

First book of the year down! By the end of this I was ready to denounce all drugs (but I won't) (it was just really boring)

Rearranged my office and now I have this very satisfying shelf of all my Aotearoa Union books in one place

For anyone trying to come to grips with the Regulatory Standards Bill, this linktree might be exactly the storehouse of resources you were looking for. Remember: submissions are only open until 13th (so get them in before): linktr.ee/regulatoryst...

Two days left for your submission, folks. It can be as simple as "I oppose this Bill."

By way of introducing myself on a new social media (which I feel like I haven't had to do in a decade!!!) here's a wee thread of things I've been proud of this past yr

Can't believe when I got my account right at the start of Bluesky's existence I didn't.... nab my name as a handle? Idiot. Fool. Destined to relative anonymity and people thinking my name is Barbara

If anyone wasn't already aware that @racheldobric.bsky.social and David (handle??) are the best cooks in Pōneke, I present to you: vegan fried chicken waffle

As an attention seeker I am growing tired of not getting enough engagement on my tweets so once again I am back to try Bluesky xx (shower me in attention!!)

Maybe the nicest things anyone has ever said about me actually? I love you @mabc.bsky.social xxxx

I am here, tweeting on Blue Sky

Easy to find some hope for the new year when ur swimming all day and reading Yanis while you dry off !!!

Bluesky loves Taylor Swift confirmed (the icon is now a butterfly)

Once again reiterating that trans and non-binary folk are always welcome on my team. Here’s the first column I wrote on that point from 2022. newsroom.co.nz/2022/06/21/f...

Can't believe I'm submitting a selfie video to try and recover access to my Monster Energy fan account in the eve of the year of our lord 2024

Merry very nearly Xmas!!!!

It's being driven by NZ First, and the so-called "social liberals" of National and ACT are letting it happen because they are fully willing to sacrifice trans and other queer folk for power, and they should never be allowed to curse LGBTQ events with their hypocritical presence ever again.

I am BLESSED

Sending love to my Pōneke comrades lighting up Te Papa in vigil for Palestine tonight. Can't be there in person this time but there in solidarity with Palestine always.