Hello! I’m doing Sweat With Pride this month, exercising and raising money for the Burnett Foundation. I’d really appreciate donations! www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/... My personal challenge this month is to do 1 pull up for every $2 donated (I will film some). Currently at 300 pull ups 😅

The number of people who say they hate celery, but when you ask “how have you tried it?” reply “raw. In chunks. Maybe dipped into something.” Like, for fucks sake, how do you feel about chicken?

Every messaging service being always-online, every app having DMs, and smartphones in genral have cultivated a culture where younger people expect texts to be answered instantly. On top of Fucking Sucking Ass it leads to constant feelings of social rejection when people are just like, busy

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

Some t girl somewhere has to get the Nissan Leaf “zero emissions” badge as a tramp stamp

'Biology is a soft science' remains one of the funniest things people who fail out of a physics major say. Go take a biology class bro.

In a store, there’s a song on saying “It’s ok not to be ok” and. Like, on the one hand it’s good to make people comfortable seeking help and acknowledging their mental health problems and not demonising them. On the other, we’re in a mental health crisis and it has causes

Wellington Auckland line when

lrt okay but it IS also about porn. it's about whorephobia, it's about sex workers being the canary in the coal mine, it's about fosta/sesta passing and those of us who are whores knowing what would come to pass next, and it has

Without downloading any new pictures, what is your energy going into 2025?

10 years on e today. Best decision I ever made

One of my good friends posted this about me the other day and…yeah, accurate.

I would like to propose the Treating David Seymour With Kindness and Respect bill. It legalises kicking David Seymour in the balls. If you oppose it you don’t respect David Seymour

I do think about the statistic that Wellington has the highest proportion of queer people in the country, and the way the government is attacking Wellington, and wonder if there’s a connection. I think it’s clear that this isn’t the main reason, but maybe it’s playing a part

A drum I keep banging is that things like Welfare and Mimimum Wage and the Cost of Living are all issues for the arts

Really the fundamental problem is that "guy who decides if you get to transition or not" is a job that shouldn't exist. Every other issue in trans care is downstream from that.

This shit is why I'm not really a fan of the blocklist functionality here. It's very to weaponise, and if there's one thing the 4chan-type internet dickheads are good at its exploiting things like this. Be very careful about what blocklists you adopt.

Post hog? Yeah, a little over 6 years now

I once got into an argument with coworkers applying for an endeavour, which was basically “the research you’re proposing is racist” “ok, but money!” “what about Vision Mātauranga?” “oh shit I guess we have to change” So I am personally 100% confident in one of the major consequences

NB on the Marsden vandalism: I understand the TPU are going full culture-war over it, specifically targeting Māori and Pasifika researchers and declaring it a victory for 'science'. To which I would say, *actual* scientists understand this is a huge blow to the whole research sector.

I do think that the attacks on social sciences are part of a divide and conquer strategy tbh. I hope this doesn’t become another stem vs arts and humanities thing. The real enemy is neoliberalism. And also the current government, fuck those guys

If I really wanted to fuck up the economy for decades into the future, I’d probably siphon money from education, healthcare, infrastructure, and research into tax cuts for landlords, aggravate racial tensions, wreck the environment, and enter a military alliance against our largest trading partner

JuCo saying that “real impact on our economy will come from areas such as physics” as if it’s viable to get a career as a physicist in NZ. The Marsden announcement is stupid bullshit. I’m of the opinion that this is retaliation against social scientists for rightly criticising the government

1. In a major development, the first national consensus guidelines for trans youth have been released in France. They recommend affirmation and medical care, denounce "wait and see." They refute much of the Cass Review. Subscribe to support my journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-french...

I don’t think I like living through major historical events

The concept of a double blind trial investigating puberty blockers for trans youth is absurdly stupid. We know that GnRH-A drugs prevent puberty. There are already double blind control trials showing this

Whole team or whole company meetings at the start of every day are important and good actually. That way I only have to explain why I’m walking on crutches once

I’ve seen a lot of dolls pushing back against the “trans misogyny affects cis women too” line. I get it, but I think it’s better to reframe. These are a part of the same struggle, and solidarity is important - division takes away our strength

WILL WE EVER HAVE PRIVATE ACCOUNTS? Yes, eventually! Bluesky was originally designed for public conversation, but users made it clear that it was also important for the protocol to be able to accommodate group-private sharing. Timeline unclear, but it's on the roadmap. docs.bsky.app/blog/2024-pr...

I think that one of the reasons the right are so desperate to blame sexual violence on minorities is that the real source is usually within the community or within the family. The social structures they venerate and draw power from all fall apart when you acknowledge this

This is one of the reasons I hated the "man or bear?" trend. It expects you to accept that "the woods" is obviously the most dangerous place for women. Obscuring how dangerous the home is benefits patriarchy.

AI is changing everything. In particular it’s putting a thing you don’t want to accidentally touch in all of your favorite apps

Citizens initiated referendum to decriminalise kicking David Seymour really hard between the legs

hello I'm Davad Seemour, I'm here to pass the Fairness and Equality Bill. The bill says I get to shoot anybody with green eyes without consequence. Anybody who is against this bill hates fairness and equality.

I have been in the waiting room of the emergency department for 7.5 hours with a slowly worsening infection. I am feeling the tax cuts for landlords on a very visceral level. I am in a lot of pain right now, so that they can have a slightly bigger boat.

Banger article from the always wonderful Dr Rākete, and hosted on one of our best platforms for journalism

Good thread on broader strategy around te tiriti

I've been thinking about this article all day because it captures some important nuances to the current struggle. I would like to add a few more based on my experiences in and study of anticapitalist and decolonial movements with varying degrees of overlap 🧵

Gotta form the TRA (Trans Republican Army) and ignite the Gender Troubles

Found a good aerial view of today's turn-out. Here it is side by side with the 2019 School Strike for Climate turn out, which was estimated at 40k. RNZ needs to at the very least double their 35k estimate for the hīkoi

The new UoA rec centre is ugly

From the pictures the hīkoi looks bigger than the school strike for climate in 2019, which iirc was estimated at 40,000 people

Kissing the homunculus goodnight

On repeat, so hype for the new album youtu.be/LIQ_PcH3YuU

Posting this on a website with a high concentration of furries is brave 🫡

Bsky really needs locked accounts. Once it has that there’s zero reason not to switch over entirely.