Parent/teacher meetings are kind-of useless, aren't they? You're never going to learn anything vital while your kid's sitting there.

This was worth the sixty seconds it took me.

So I picked up a lot of extra hours three weeks ago, and declared them, and was told that we wouldn't be getting any benefits for that week because I was over the limit. Which is fair, that's how it ought to work!

All of this, just to avoid having 30km driving zones

What the FUCK is this 'put cyclists on the footpath' bullshit!? This insistance on cramming pedestrians (and prams, scooters, mobility scooters, wheel chairs), cyclists, and e-vehicles — all of which go at very different speeds — into the same narrow space is insane, and more car-centric crap.

Visibly impoverished people, begging for basics like food, are a tangible reminder that this government is failing its people.

I JUST FOUND THE BEER AND WINE THAT I GOT BEFORE CHRISTMAS AND FORGOT ALL ABOUT (but it's warm)

The ICE agent didnt feel his life was threatened - he felt his authority was. That's the difference. Misogyny kills women. We advocate for reproductive justice. We deserve safe cities. #nzpol #Minnesota #ICE #abortionrightsaotearoa #alranz #ProLifeMyAss #reproductivejustice #nz

(Quickly double-checks that Canada is in NATO)

THIS

Omg this is so good and true

Fuck yeah

I wish I had gone out and gotten some beer before it hit 35º

A mobility scooter just slowly went past my house while blasting out the Vengaboys' "We're Going to Ibiza"

The Creature came for me again while I was sleeping Demanding breakfast and also head pats

Luxon, and whomever is draughting his speeches, is very clearly pushing an agenda positioning NZ as a safe-space for white supremacist thinking dressed up as 'equality'. It's colonialism 101, being implemented by US imperial interests. It's disgusting and dangerously regressive.

“REDUCING POVERTY AND TACKLING THE COST-OF-LIVING CRISIS Ms Waikato is campaigning for bold action to address spiraling housing, food, and energy costs that are forcing thousands of families into hardship.” #nzpol www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA25...

Holy shit i just took a taxi and the driver kept texting and driving for most of the ride. We were swaying from side to side as he'd look up at the road then back down at his phone. We took off through an intersection while he had both hands on his phone and none on the wheel.

Poetry for the times we live in. ❤️

I suspect the majority of them do. Over the last six months the local W&I office have sincerely been trying to find a way to provide my family with the support we need despite us falling outside the various thresholds. It's given me a window into how soul-destroying it is to work there.

"hideous excel files are the backbone of civilization" honestly let's put this on t-shirts.

"People just don't want to [pay for] work anymore"

Thinking about the cards that once came in Sanitarium Cornflakes... I collected CLOCKS (which I'm still using as bookmarks) and BIG CATS. And probably other sets that weren't so memorable.

So today, for the first time ever, I spent about two hours just scrolling through AITA on Redit and yes I plan to be doing it again after next thanksgiving

Oh god, venues that only tell you what they're doing on facebook, and then idk lock it down or something so you can't see it without an account

Not all men, maybe, but sadly, it’s always all women” lens.monash.edu/@politics-so...

At the hairdressers, trying to assess their age to see if I can ask for a short back and sides or whether I'll need to give more information

The Best of Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller. June 20,1961

Waiting for champion of Western civilisation Stanford to announce how schools will now be ignoring Arabic numerals in favour of good honest Roman ones. And you forget that 'zero' rubbish.

We love to see it! Lee went to a bread factory where a worker was killed. The next week, they changed to 8-hour shifts from 12. Labour Ministry will fine companies up to 5% of operating profit if they have 3 three deaths in a year. New law: employers can get a 1-year jail term for a single death.

Reminder if you've forgotten that it was Summers who said twenty years ago, while President of Harvard that women simply aren't as good at math as men because of ~biology~ and misogynists have used that to justify misogynist ever since

I love my house so much

One day it struck me how many people who I knew suffered from endometriosis. And how I'm not really the sort of person people go to for comfort or to share confidences. So the actual number of people I knew with endometriosis must be much much higher.

I have decided to mentally replace any use of 'woke', 'virtue-signalling', and 'poltical correctness' with 'I am so afraid of this idea, what if it's true, what if I've been wrong my whole life, does that mean I'm a bad person oh god oh god'

This is why I am so vehemently down on people scaremongering the trans community. The assault on the trans community is one on our dignity, trying to drive us to suicide. Scaremongering does their work for them. Repeat after me: I am too punk to kill myself when my government wants me to.

A friend was having a drink with a group of tradies after Labour announced their CGT. And the tradies were all shaking their heads and saying "Bloody Labour, taking everyone's money". "But half of you are renting," said my friend, "And none of you own more than one house?" No good. "Bloody Labour"

Former PM Key - who laid hands on a waitress without her permission & when she spoke out she got pilloried & fired - says public's trust in police threatened by recent events McSkimming case. Why is he even getting to comment ffs? It was a lesser offence but on the the same spectrum. #nzpol

People who say that men don't do enough emotional labour have never beheld the breathtaking emotional work of a man whose mate might not get a prestigious appointment because of some annoying woman he abused years ago

I love a nonfiction book that has footnotes like 'This is a joke, not a scientific study'

You know those guys who watched Fight Club or Joker or whatever and thought 'So cool I'm gonna do that', completely missing the point? Ugh, so annoying. Anyway completely changing the subject ever since I saw Sapphire & Steel 1 I've wanted a house like that and someone just gave me another clock so

I might watch the Babadook

I can hear geese...? Why can I hear geese?

What a queen

I bought two bottles of wine at the supermarket this week, not realising that I hadn't drunk the previous weeks bottles of wine so now i am rich

I see you 'NPR' or should i call you by your true name ERIS GODDESS OF DISCORD AND STRIFE

I love talking about my kids, but (without ever really thinking about it) I've always had the impression that this is a no-go small talk topic? Like people talking about their pets — you're happy for them, but also to you it's just cat?

UK parents: children are obviously transitioning because they have the autism cedar longpenis: