I was in the public gallery yesterday and as Bishop (in Willis's place) was saying they'd find efficiencies through implementing digitization and AI, an opposition MP (couldn't see who) shouted "who's going to do that?". I was opposite ACT's Simon Court who kept shouting "the computer will do it!" 🤦‍♀️

The 8 hour working day is about 2.5 hours too long for my brain.

Cracked into my first batch of homemade kimchi. May not be 100% traditional, but heck it’s good! Egg and kimchi sandwich for wfh lunch so yum.

Nadia Reid provided the perfect soundtrack to this morning’s ride to Eastbourne along Tupua Horo Nuku, the new Eastern Bays bike path. I am constantly reminded of how fortunate I am and what a privilege it is to call this place my home.

Blue skies in Pōneke for today’s Hīkoi for Peace. And powerful messages… as the paradigms we grew up with crumble around us… what are we doing to shape what grows from the ashes?

Feels fundamentally unjust to simultaneously be thirsty and have to pee.

Fun April 25 AM activity… sitting in a supermarket carpark watching endless streams of punters shuffling up to the door, getting confused when the automatic door doesn’t open, belatedly noticing the ‘We open today at 1pm’ signs, then spending far too long peering in in disbelief and longing.

Day 3 of new job, boss puts Mountain Goats on the office speakers because I mentioned they’re my fav band. 🥹

Day 2 of new job… boss and I are trading cat memes.

First day of new job

Great outing to the Dowse Gallery with members of the Welly Autistic Professionals Network. A guided tour of the gallery followed but a choice of art activities and much earnest discussion of Star Wars.

Brand new library card. You get a choice of images… of course I went the octopus option.

🩸It’s donation day.🩸 Is it weird that I love seeing my blood in a bag? All ready to zoom off to someone who needs it. If you’re eligible, its a great thing to do for your community www.nzblood.co.nz

@themountaingoats.bsky.social Thanks so much for a glorious gig in Welly tonight. Superb set, and ending with Up the Wolves? I almost fell off the balcony in joy. It’s such a long way for you to come but I think you know how much it means to us.

Having some major feelings about seeing this band tonight. Last time it was a different country and I was a different person with a different name. But their music links the person I was to the person I am in a way I can’t ignore.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

The National Party: you’re on your own. Māoridom: our Marae are open. This year, vote for Te Tiriti #nzpol

My platform is legal, low dose amphetam1nes specifically for gen xers going to gigs with doors opening at 8 and a support act.

Beautiful day at the market… man walking through with very grumpy expression… was very tempted to tell him he’d look so much prettier if he smiled.

Mary Wollstonecraft warned you that women who are only objects of pity and love, due to their “fascinating graces,” their “soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, [and] delicacy of sentiment” — in a word, due to their weakness (and not strength) — “will soon become objects of contempt.”

We like stone butts

Baby yatchs heading in, New Plymouth

Delightful to be in Petone pal n save on a weekday. Chilled out with lots of smiley babies and chatty pensioners.

Te Awa-kairangi Pride

New job!!! ❤️🎉👽

Interview went well… the only feedback so far is that they thought I was ‘cool’ 😬

Job interview in half an hour. Freaking out in the wharepaku. They might love me at my best, but eventually my worst will emerge. 👽

Just grabbed tickets for Split Enz in May. Happy happy! I’ve been revisiting their discography lately and it’s just so solid musically, with all the zany energy I remember.

"A man free of patriarchy is a man who has found not only every woman's humanity, but one who has at last discovered his own. The actual path to liberation for lonely men is feminism—because pursuing an identity based on dominating others is self-isolating." www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...

We have a tiny window of opportunity to lead the world out of a political right wing fascist nightmare. 2026 is that opportunity. We are one of the first countries voting in this new right wing AI disinformation hellscape. I really don’t think left wing political parties are ready? #nzpol 😖😰

Gender affirming nail care

This is the way. When they come at us, we come back at them twofold. Raise that Pride flag every time they take it down. If they prevent that, surround the park with Pride flags. Ruin their petty little lives until they shit rainbows. Never stop. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/n...

Damn you my nemesis!!

#teatoweloftheweek no. 2 Can’t remember where I got this one… probably a thrift store in Oz. I adore their faces.

I am feeling good and positive (about myself, not the state of the world) for the first time in the longest time and I am terrified that it’s just hypomania and I’m going to slide back into major depression any minute now. #bipolarsky

Art happens

Taranaki Maunga shows his face this morning

Taranaki sky

#teatoweloftheweek no.1 Gift from my sister, Christmas 24.

With the help of some dowel, magnets and string I can now display my precious tea towels. Drum roll please.

Just picked up my new bicycle. Her name is Grace. She is sexy af

Back in Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Notable fruity breakfast of my homeland

Notable fauna of my homeland

Notable sister’s dog who ate 80 g of dark chocolate last night (after dragging it, wrapped, from my suitcase) and freaked us tf out

Notable giant sheep of my homeland

Friends wherever I go

Notable rocks of my homeland

Today is Transgender Day Of Remembrance. Last night the New Zealand government chose to announce that they are blocking access to puberty blockers for trans youth.