Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

This is still true and the mods would do well to remember it

🚨A new under-reported NZ Bill: Summary Offences Amendment Bill closes 2pm Mon 6 Oct. The Bill risks criminalising legitimate protest, is vague, unnecessary, gives wide Police discretion, allows arrest without warning, & could chill free expression. Submit: www3.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak... More 👇

Anyone else finding fascism a lot more stupid than they expected? It’s as horrible and violent as I expected - I just didn’t think the USAs version would kinda look like a Naked Gun movie but with real blood.

Research shows it only takes 25% of a community context shifting their views and making a concrete effort to be vocal about it to start things shifting in a broader, even more meaningful way. So yeah, this is great news, and a reason to Keep Pushing.

Greta Thunberg is autistic which explains a bit about why Trump and his ilk are shitbags about autism. Fascists don't like honesty and clear morals.

New Plymouth represent 😎

A reminder: When household stuff breaks & you want to attempt repair rather than replace, hire a local, independent person *recommended by someone you trust* rather than going through a large corporate entity. And pay cash if you can, & tip the person.

i fucking wish, man

Dang now I know what wine pairs with my book 🍷📘🌼♥️

Tess took a point I briefly sketched in my thread yesterday and wrote an amazing thread about it. If you're feeling any uncertainty at all about starting HRT, please read this.

hadn't seen this reported elsewhere - the suit against Neil Gaiman has been dismissed because NZ courts are a more appropriate venue, given the events happened here. US court says if he refuses to engage in an NZ-based suit, they would be open to taking it on then. bleedingcool.com/comics/neil-...

This list is all 10/10, the only thing I would add is to start adding stretching and joint mobility stuff into your routine.

The house price to income ratio for the United Kingdom is around 7.7 (depending on how you aggregate the individual countries). New Zealand is around 14.4. I think we need a bit more change before we are seen as a model.

this country is so funny: a series of welfare subsidies that end up in the hands of landlords and private childcare providers; a chronically unaffordable housing market; a publicly-owned electricity generation and retail racket; oligopolies in supermarket and telecommunication sectors lol

You can save yourself a lot of internet rage and poster's madness by saying, out loud, the words: "WELL THAT'S A DOGSHIT TAKE" in tones of derision, contempt or boredom. Out loud is key. Really FEEL it. Lean into how truly, deeply, risible it is.

It really shouldn't take this much energy to have even just low-level nice things

Hey! Did you know I wrote a witchy book about gender, sexuality, magic, and polytheist spiritual practice? Did you know it's got a great foreword by @sethanikeem.bsky.social? Did you know you can buy it from various online booksellers… or DM me to buy a signed copy AND some free bonus stickers?

I see. White people are now finally really, REALLY angry. Finally, you're ready to actually fight for everyone's survival (not just YOUR comfort) and not just wave a sign with a cool slogan on it for an hour.

Oh shit we got a boil water notice! Attn Kirikiriroa Hamilton pals #kikorangi hamilton.govt.nz/boil-water-n...

The new West Lincoln Memorial Hospital was designed during the COVID-19 pandemic, so this was very top-of-mind. Its HVAC system plays a critical role in preventing airborne diseases by controlling how air moves, is filtered and exchanged in the building. www.hamiltonhealthsciences.ca/share/sustai...

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A better world is not only possible, it's literally cheaper.

Getting word that Dave Wyndorf from Monster Magnet isn't actually a spacelord who talks to planets and is in love with a big black hole

I had the pleasure of interviewing the wonderful Jessica Townsend (Nevermoor) at the Melbourne Writers Festival earlier this year. Now you can listen to it as a podcast! It was a fast-paced, joyous conversation about creativity and process and world-building. #mglit #kidlit omny.fm/shows/melbou...

Freya Emerson, 35, reportedly failed to respond to your casual request for a coffee as she didn’t know how to explain to you that she was overwhelmed and unavailable without making it sound like she didn’t like you – and has felt terrible about it ever since.

Disabled and Covid Cautious people: “Don’t ban masks we’re in a pandemic and they’re a critical tool to protect ourselves” Government: “Too bad. Masks are criminalized”. ICE: “Don’t ban masks we need to hide our faces while we torture people” Government: “Mask bans are unconstitutional”

Hmm. I haven’t noticed our NZ dairy prices coming down. Anyone else?

Tonight me and my whānau got to see the official mayoral portrait done by Pōneke artist, Clark Roworth. This felt like a lovely end to this chapter with my mana intact and we will leave behind a progressive long term plan for the next council. I’m proud of of us 💚

"Go and find a job" is always the RW politicians' fall back when they've fucked the job market. "Why are you unemployed? Why don't you just go and find a job?" Honestly, why aren't political and economic journalists hauling them over the coals for such inanity?

you'd think with so much of our society revolving around the interests of baby boomers that there would be more places to sit down

OH MY GOSH THIS POST IS RELEVANT ONCE AGAIN!

Please read my comic, and if you like it tell someone. Or tell me. That’s always nice. Ok thanks, bye

Chapter One: A is for ANEMOI drops tonight for subscribers at the $4.51 level at 12:01 am PST. Free for everyone (no paywall) 13 hours after that. Wellington's afterlife opportunities await! Link: www.patreon.com/posts/ghost-...

twixnmix:Keith Haring photographed by Joe McNally in his Pop Shop at 292 Lafayette Street in Soho, 1986. via https://queenoliviastredfern.tumblr.com/post/795597126678790144

Remember when Ted Cruz told Democrats in the Senate they need to “stop attacking pedophiles”? His team claim it was a “blunder” & yet Mike Johnson is currently protecting pedophiles He’s refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat who would be the deciding vote in releasing the Epstein files

Nosferatu, Nosferavous, Nosferanous, Nosferaelles…

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Still a long way to go While I've been asking for small pledges, there are some 'rewards' for larger ones, for example you can sponsor an episode and have your commercial features or you can get a credit as the producer of an episode pledgeme.co.nz/projects/861...

"As she sang the lyrics and rose to her feet, the Kiwi Grammy winner paused to yell “Free f***ing Palestine” midway through the song. The crowd erupted in cheers." ebx.sh/r3B3w9?fbcli...

"get off the couch, stop playing PlayStation and go find a job" Spoken like someone who has no idea what the job market is like right now. Except he does, he's well aware- the cruelty is the point www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-dail...

YAY!!!!

I long for the day that people don't feel the need to apologise for having emotions and crying when discussing difficult times in their lives. It's completely rational and so many people are still conditioned to make the other person feel as comfortable as possible.

"You have to know how to use A.I. for getting any kind of job in the future" has me pondering the fact that we are actually terrible at knowing what we're going to need to know to do in the future.

Omg, @irritabletauiwi.bsky.social I don't deserve you 😍 Thank you so much! The horrors persist, but so do the little treats 🍰

"[T]he fact that so many people in our world (friends, neighbors, family) seem unwilling or unable to process what we think should be reality-shattering information gets pretty demoralizing."

Happy #ADHDAwarenessMonth! Be more aware of us by reading this wee article I wrote about the experience. Who knows, you may even learn something about yourself from it; you wouldn't be the first! 😉

bodies would be a lot better if they didn’t require so much maintenance. what do you mean I’m due for a haircut and a dental checkup and a blood test all at the same time

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A simple solution. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...