Too many things happening that I have no control over 😵‍💫. But I had a reactive meltdown in one of the spaces where I should have held my nerve & it's made that bit far worse. I've apologised but am being kept at arms length which leaves me feeling angrier & sorrier 😱. ARRGH. Thanks for listening 😅

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...

Writing to understand here & would love input. 🧵follows. 1. Antiracism as a noun needs to give space to lots of ppl & agendas. Thus, a paper theorising antiracism praxis needs to make room for Māori, Pākehā, Pasifika and Asian whānaunga, and others too, as activists AND as non-activist resisters

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen: Green Day Bryan Adams Queen w Adam Lambert Adele Melissa Etheridge

Got back from leave to 💯 vital computer updates so that took a day. Today the laptop has apparently stopped noticing that there are monitors attached 😭. This despite it notifying me if I unplug the connection. If it wasn't for a special issue deadline I'd declare it a long weekend. ARRGH

This 👇 "if Labour is enough for you then you're relatively privileged". Labour might repeal some of the damage, but they're not interested in healing it.

👇👇Can confirm that we're an awesome rōpū to work with 😂

@tepaatimaori.bsky.social kia ora - will there be a link to the hui-a-tau?

For everyone who hates what is happening in our institutions and organisations and wants to help 👇👇👇

Art speaking the truth ✊🥰

At least Hipkins is saying it out loud I guess. At this rate I'm not sure I'm going to be able to vote ...

Totally agree! "We protect the arts and humanities that create citizens, not just workers. We value research even when it’s inconvenient."

Trying to read a financial report and the budget variance page is doing my head in. Brackets = a negative amount, right? This one also has red downwards & green upwards arrows. But the green ones seem to show overspend, so my brain wants them to be red please 😂😵‍💫😱

Repeating this from a reply - why is Labour talking about a Medicard system? Everyone has a NHI number, some have community service cards ...I don't get the need for another system. I work in health and there are already too many systems -

I'm sure it's totally coincidental that the AoNZ government's changes to the Marsden Fund have been followed by successful applications led by female investigators dropping from 55% to 33%, and successful applications led by Māori investigators dropping from 13% to 5%. 🫠 🧪

Reactive hypoglycemia hit last night (rt gastric bypass). It's terrifying & I can't find any info abt what happens if I don't get up & eat! Do I just get over it? I'm usually very thirsty. It's a sign that my self-care is shit this week, not enough protein or fat, too many carbs, dehydrated. Ugh.

10 days until my holiday! I claimed a bit of life insurance so we're taking my younger 2 kids & their partners to Dunedin for their grandmother's 80th, with a few days in Wanaka revisiting holidays from 25 years ago. Every accom we've booked has a bath!! Plus meeting some pocket friends irl 😱😍

How the hell can I have spent the last 3 hours writing an author bio?? I'll tell you - imposter syndrome 😱😱. 135 words, 3 hours, stressing out, and comparing myself to every Māori author who ever wrote a word (many of whom are on this platform). I'm such a wimp.

Parker can relate to this 😂 His mental clock is finetuned to the nth degree!

"At its heart, tino rangatiratanga is not only political autonomy or institutional power — it is the restoration of wairua." Kingi's piece nails the essence of why our leadership falters so often. Wairua-centred leaders rarely ascend within western systems. e-tangata.co.nz/reflections/...

I wonder who will staff them?

Mōrena e te whānau. Do any of you have contact with Emma Wehipeihana? Her linkedin bio says she's still on Twitter, but I'm not. I'd appreciate either an email address, or an introduction if possible? My DMs are open

This nurse practitioner here, who's constantly advocating for expanding the role of registered nurses in Primary Health Care, is gonna have a stroke if every political party including the Greens keeps talking about "free GP visits" #nzpol

Mikey nails it - the feelgood factor of free visits is still feeding the underlying problem.

One of the bravest, most steadfast and also smartest people I know. Pledge if you can, and share 🙏

For anyone wanting a cleansing thread *cough* this is it 😂

Some days my day job in cancer research feels too personal. I'm reading papers for a lit review & struck over and over again about the silencing of any voices who are not on the treatment pathway. Access to supportive care is via treatment providers only. It's isolating & scary to be outside that.

A scary alignment between the thinking of the billionaire techbros and fundamentalism. My 'oh fuck' moment was that it's ok to sacrifice the climate bc AI is going to save the climate 😱 Pls share - Webworm and @davidfarrier.com are reliably excellent reads. www.webworm.co/r/9538b775?m...

"We will not be lectured on ethics by a Government that dismantled Fair Pay protections and silenced workers’ voices. Social workers are not striking to harm whānau. We strike with our allies because intolerable conditions and chronic underinvestment are harming whānau every day.”

Also worth noting that our worst paid nurses in New Zealand, the ones whose pay equity claims were thrown in the trash by this government aren't able to join the strike today. But remember that primary health care, aged care and Māori health service nurses stand in solidarity with the strike.

I'm not striking today - working for the day with a significantly underfunded NGO instead. Standing (at my desk) in solidarity though. Be safe e hoa ma.

Nursing apology to abuse survivors nursingcouncil.org.nz/common/Uploa...

I run 'shut up and write' sessions for Māori academics which have laughs & encouragement as well as dedicated writing time. Today I've jumped into a session run by a colleague where there is no whanaungatanga & I can't focus. It's not wasting time to make connections, team!! Gah

I'm 💯in support of the striking nurses. Yes, pay is a part of their concern but so is safe staffing, time for patient care & quality improvement. Nurse burnout & intention to leave the profession is a massive problem that can't be addressed by chucking literally a couple of dollars into their pays.

I'm reading tauira Māori research applications - dear universe, please let me win Lotto so I can fund them all. Ok thanks 😅

We have 2 ngaio trees in bloom, absolutely heaving with bees yay! 🐝🐝🐝☀️🌳

Apparently we've reached the time of year when we get up in the morning and realise we left the doors open all night 😅

“the system isn’t responsive to me, and my participation just perpetuates it” This is about voting, but it resonates in other areas too, like education, vaccination, health screening. It's about the choice to not participate in horrible systems as well as a consequence of the systems in action

Parker (lil 2yo Jack Russell) can be hard work to walk. His nose halti has kind of sorted his pulling but he's so hyperfocused on everything it can be exhausting. Today, though, was perfect! I'm so happy ...

Utterly transfixing and haunting.

I put off getting new hearing aids bc $$$ & I expected I'd be dead by now. But I'm wearing a new trial pair today & wow!! Sounds are completely different - my old ones were 7yrs old & obvs the sound distortion was significant. Birdsong, keyboard tapping & my own voice all completely different 😍🦻

Surely it's not just me noticing that this kind of division follows a particular rōpū across all orgs they're involved with? We need fresh faces & integrity. "Transparent processes, sound governance, and fiscal integrity are not foreign to kaupapa Māori; they are essential expressions of it."

So apparently these new antibiotics I'm taking can cause an elevated heart rate & anxiety. Maybe I'm not detoxing from codeine?? Either way, hoping it'll start to resolve on Friday bc this absolutely sucks. Only good new is that it seems to have sorted my gastro issue - maybe 🤞

Nuanced & clear: "... in naming themselves “allies,” their positionality as white subjects remains foregrounded, and the framework of allyship inherently re-centers whiteness by turning the focus back onto white moral identity." White saviour-ness is never far away in the world of self-named allies

Have you all seen this?? It's clearly a tohu day today ... theeternalsong.org/mauri-regist...

Pretty sure I'm detoxing from suddenly stopping a pretty big dose of codeine I've been on for the last few months. Didn't think it through & do not like - but I'm probably 5 days in (without realising what it was) so should hopefully abate soon. My skin feels too tight & my aura hurts 😵‍💫

I always love what e-tangata brings, but this one brought tears of relief. Whakatā ❤️

Andrew Hoggard says he will allow cancer-linked glyphosate to be increased by 100 x in our food production. He's also ignored a High Court order telling farmers to remove cruel farming practices around pigs - extending the 2025 due date out by 10 years. This is ACT #nzpol #kiwi