Hey peeps! Do you like Indian food? Who doesn't?! Then come along and help support my daughter Carys Chacko with her fundraising efforts to get to London AND eat some yummy kai. A selection of breads, rice, and mains. Drinks can be purchased from the bar for extra 🙂 Thursday May 8th ay 6pm

Oh boy, looks like the manosphere is going to hit the jackpot. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

So fun fact - people on the left *are* working with young men. Like I got a whole ass partner who spends all his time doing that. People just sorta ignore that because it doesn't make for good headlines, and also people like saying we need to bring back the subjugation of women.

The irony on international women’s day. The mansplainer mansplaining mansplaining!

Every day all day but especially on International Women’s Day.

Handy resources for today… On International Women’s Day.

The universe is having a laugh at my expense. I’m on strike today from 10.30-2.30 I’m also sick. Which means no sick pay either. Rude. Also, honestly UoA - right now you suck, bargain with good faith instead of whatever you have been doing.

I have funds now to travel to international conferences to support my research. I’ve not really had access to that before. I saw an excellent conference advertised yesterday. One I’d usually want to go to. It’s in the US. Not now. Nope. Academic freedom there is dying. Quickly.

If the PM is taking political pointers from Marie Antoinette should we then be inspired by what the French people then went on to do?

Let them eat vegemite sandwiches

Apropos of nothing… I actually prefer Vegemite sandwiches. With a mandarin.

I am here for this energy 🔥😍

I do love the support governments around the world are showing for Ukraine right now. But I hate the relative silence re Palestine. Where were they when Trump posted that horrific AI video this week? Why can’t we have both and?

In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.

NEW: “CDC staff should not be co-authors on manuscripts/abstracts with WHO staff,” nor publish papers on work "funded by WHO." From an interim guidance shared yesterday with the Influenza Division of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-wh...

A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that

Call out to non US based social science peeps! Are you reconsidering where your work can be published given recent developments in the US? Has this caused you to rethink which journals to submit to? Super curious to hear people’s thoughts.

Apparently you’re allowed to use “reasonable force” when making the arrest and even tie people up. Because last time we had a law like that it worked so well… It allowed parents to physically abuse their children. It was called the defence of “reasonable force” We repealed that.

Anyway able to reconcile the proposed new Cit arrest powers - physical restraint - with employer health and safety legal obligations around minimising risk? Because on the face of it…

If anyone ever complains to you about Treaty settlements, tell them the total cost at January 2023 was $2.6 billion, but in 2024 Luxon gave $2.9 billion to landlords, and rents still increased. #NZpol

The sound of jackboots has intensified.

Wondering what the time lag will be between these changes to citizens arrests being made law (physical restraint allowed to be used) and the first death by citizens arrest (arrestor or arrestee). 🤔 www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Opposed to gender affirming care? Viagra? HRT for perimenopause? Testosterone supplements? Hair thinning treatments? Waxing? Breast reconstructions? Testicular implants? Jaw recontouring? Gynocomastia surgery? Ohhh, so it’s only when it’s for trans people 🤔

The International Olympic Committee needs to act. They need to remove the games from Los Angeles in 2028. Countries must also boycott US sporting events. Now.

Who else is out here at the Rotunda giving the fingers to Destiny bigots! 💜🏳️‍🌈🦄🌈🏳️‍⚧️

See you there. Solidarity.

Give them a follow, they're a phenomenal group providing care and support for people who get abused/harassed etc while they are doing the good mahi.

I’ll be there. Come say hi.

I don't *think* Tamaki's bullies will do it again, but FYI Hugo's Rainbow Show is happening again today. It's at Te Tuhi in Howick at 1pm. In case anyone local wants to go and show support if they turn up with their pathetic little protest again.

There’s a Pride market in Te Atatu today, near the library. There are cops at every entrance and it’s quiet. I’m enraged. This is what the bigots of DC want. Meanwhile Ms17 is there trying to sell her pride related crochet and it’s quiet. Will I be protesting DC tomorrow? F**K yes.

It is in Judith Collins' best interest if people can't think critically.

Another absolutely brilliant read. Cannot wait for his next book. A particularly alarming read in light of recent events in the US. All about digital capitalism, how insidious it is, and how to resist it.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Ursula K. Le Guin 2014

We are truly blessed in Aotearoa. Back from the Kepler today and trying to stay with that zen for a moment longer.

A phenomenal read. I knew the US was a steaming pile of crap when it came to interference in other countries but I had no clue how extensive that was (is) or how rabidly and obsessively anti communist it was (is).

Mōrena koutou! What a beautiful day 🤩

😁 a link all about why Trump is great! whytrumpisgreat.com?fbclid=IwZXh...

Waiting to see other journals speak up. Speak up now. Academic freedom is at stake here. If you as a journal have ever made a claim about social justice then I expect to see you speak up. This is action. NOT theory. Where is your voice?

The @bmj.com's public statement to resist the CDC order for article retraction is EXACTLY what all social work journal editors should be doing right now. SW Journals will not adhere to Trump's unethical and dangerous demand for erasure of people and science. www.bmj.com/content/388/...

So Trump has banned transgender women from all sports in the US. IOC, your move now given the next summer Olympics is scheduled for 2028 in LA. Pull the games from the US. If they don’t then boycott the games. It’s that simple.

It took two weeks to get both Zieg Hails at a rally and a declared plan for ethnic cleansing from this administration. Two weeks.

Are any NZ politicians (any?) or political party going to call out the ethnic cleansing policy of the Fascist United States? Anyone? Or crickets? Has anyone heard anything?

The arrogance of turning up to a big event when your broader whānau have said, hey brother, you’re not welcome, don’t come and then getting pissy when you’re not welcomed! The absolute arrogance and ignorance. players.brightcove.net/609307228000...

REPORTER: You are talking tonight about the US taking over a sovereign territory. What authority would allow you to do that? Are you talking about a permanent occupation? TRUMP: I do see a long term ownership position

Cool cool cool. Trump announces ethnic cleansing by moving everyone out of Gaza to other places. In conjunction with Netanyahu. The fascist bromance no one asked for.

Reminder that a study on lizard saliva eventually led to the development of Ozempic so be real wary of the criticism of studies and funding that sounds non-sensical when presented with no context.

History is repeating. January 30, 1933 Hitler is named Chancellor. On May 6, 1933 the Nazis trashed the world’s first transgender clinic. The Nazi book burnings started with books from this institute. 20,000 books in a towering inferno. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

WTF is wrong with these people? They’re the same as the ones in the 1930s who thought it best to play nice with Hitler.

The vividness of everything happening in America brings into relief that everything the right have been doing in NZ over the last year is just a diluted version of EXACTLY THE SAME PLANS. They would absolutely go as hard if they thought they’d get away with it.

Dame Salmond giving solid but chilling analysis as usual #nzpol