The queue for the women's toilets is always longer, if a trans woman feels safer waiting longer to pee then she's pretty serious. Bullying a trans woman into using the men's room is pretty cruel too.

What a time to be alive

Trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Re-upping this thread - most of it is still accurate and relevant. Key points: Write PERSONAL emails, not templates Say ‘I am a constituent and …’ NEVER EVER threaten anyone. Not directly, not obliquely. Don’t be a smartarse, just smart Do highlight that this issue is one you vote on. #nzpol

🧵Little thread on how to effectively advocate for issues in Parliament 1. Email your MP. This will always generate a response. 2. Get your local buddies who share an MP to write to the same MP. Three emails on the same subject will always get attention. 3. Don’t write via snail mail…

GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

Waiting for Split Enz. Apparently they come on at 9pm. I might be too old for this sort of thing... 🥱

How is it appropriate to have a video of a woman dancing in a skimpy bikini at the #Womens #ALeague #GrandFinal?! #COYN

Not too bad www.maptap.gg May 16 92🏆 94🏅 95🏅 94🏅 99🎯 Final score: 955

This doesn't seem very many...

Other (sooner) classes: 🌷🌵 Flowers / Plants: Sunday 31st May www.villagebeads.co.nz/store/p/need... ⭐🌠 Matariki stars: Sunday 5th July www.villagebeads.co.nz/store/p/need... 💍🥣 Ring dish: Sunday 2nd August www.villagebeads.co.nz/store/p/need...

If you're local (in/around Pōneke & Te Awakairangi #nz) and wanted to create your own felted landscape, we've listed a workshop for Sun 15th September www.villagebeads.co.nz/store/p/need...

💙 May 12 is International Women in Mathematics Day! Today we celebrate women in maths and remember Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fields Medal. 🎬 Free screenings of ‘Secrets of the Surface’ by May 12 initiative available at: may12.womeninmaths.org #May12 #WomenInMath #HerMathsStory

The life of a nurse is a constant round of hard work; a good deal harder, and infinitely more trying, than the work of an average general servant, whilst the patients are often very ungrateful and given to systematically grumbling at everything done for them. #InternationalNursesDay

Football coverage has cut out here - what's happening in the Nix game?! @wgtnphoenixfc.bsky.social

Yuss Makala! @wgtnphoenixfc.bsky.social #WELvBNE #COYN

The women’s #ALeague match #WELvBRI is live on SkyOpen on the ThreeNow app if you want to watch it.

I ran a beginners felted landscape class today at Village Beads - it was the first time I'd offered this particular class, so I was a little worried about how it'd go, but everyone did brilliantly! Here's just four of the "paintings" 🥰 #nz

Great blue heron in Sutro Park. He’s wandering around if you want to see him.

People in Pōneke - go outside and look up; it’s a beautifully clear night out there and the stars are amazing.

Academic colleagues out there - is Canvas working for you?

Happy international midwives day @apocalypseelf.bsky.social ❤️

This thread is SO fucking funny!!! Read to the end!!!

Fellow Kiwis, what do you spot here? #StuffTheAussiesStole

I love it when I'm waiting at the bus stop and gang gangs fly overhead 🥰

This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance… -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It’s ‘one fell swoop’ -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’

That’s the other driver’s head imprint in the windshield. Wear your seatbelt, kids!

@herodotuspenguin.bsky.social @nomadpenguin.bsky.social

Clear skies and a chilly night ahead for Te Ika-a-Māui, which gave us this gorgeous view of the sunset over Whakaari White Island! 😍🔥 Many thanks to our friends at GeoNet (Earth Sciences NZ) for the stunning clicks 📸🌋

I am 100% judging Canberrans leaving what is probably #CanberraUnited's last ever game early, just to beat traffic. 🥺

Hazard reduction burning near Sutton Forest NSW (south of Sydney) - lots of thick smoke

Dammit. Always check under the pillow before you leave the hotel. #earbuds 😔

#Anzac ceremony before the kickoff tonight #MACvWEL #COYN @wgtnphoenixfc.bsky.social

WATCH: After the First Day of #Summer, #bees are emerging from #hibernation in #Iceland. One rather sluggish bee crawled across the sun deck yesterday at the home of RÚV's Rúnar Snær Reynisson in #Egilsstaðir - reviving after a quick slug of #honey.

Meant to share this weeks ago but hey.... 🍄Do you want to make a felted fungi? 🍃Are you based in/near Wellington? ⏰Are you free tomorrow (Thursday) night? Book yourself in for a beginner-friendly needle felting class at Village Beads, Petone. Starts at 6pm! www.villagebeads.co.nz/store/p/need...

See all the smoke around from the hazard reduction burning, there might be a few people wearing respirators outdoors today too! 😯

A noticeable increase in masking on the bus at the moment. I'm hoping it's precautionary and people aren't coming in sick.

My sister in law has had a problem with a badger invading her garden. Last night she accidentally left out 3kg of Jerusalem Artichokes. This morning, the badger had taken most of them. Let’s hope its sett is well ventilated.

Last night's sunset over Canberra. #sunset #canberra #nature #australia #landscape #photography #naturephotography #landscapephotography #april #autumn #golden #clouds #cloudscape #cloudphotography

Apparently people in Sydney automatically know this is about a school. Took me a minute 😂

#Canberra the traffic into town via Commonwealth Bridge is DIRE. I'm on a bus which usually gets me to work by 8.30. I expect to arrive in the next 10 min or so 🤞#PSA #Traffic

And you can read the story here: reactormag.com/the-shape-of...

So this happened yesterday and I'm still trying to wrap my head around it. But my short story The Shape of Stones is a Locus Award finalist! Read the full list of nominations here: locusmag.com/2026/04/2026...

Warning - spider pic coming

No GenAI, no matter how much the different webpages and articles discussing different data approaches use the phrase when talking about trade-offs, should use the phrase "my personal recommendation" because it is not a person nor is it its recommendation, it is an uncredited synthesis of sources.

Seems sudden 🍂 🍁

#Branda, a #cow at the farm Stóra-Mörk, recently gave birth to three #calves. The frequency of triplets among #Icelandic cows is just 1 in every 20,000 births. https://www.ruv.is/english/2026-04-07-rare-triplet-calf-birth-for-branda-472023

The end of daylight saving is all fun & games when you have a nice relaxed morning but at the end of the day you wonder why everything is difficult and realise that the clock says 5pm but it feels like 6pm and you're still at the office.

Tfw you get to the bus stop & realise you've left the milk for the office in the fridge at home 😭

Just a bit of street performing at the National Folk Festival…