re: ManageMyHealth, this is the sort of thing we could avoid with a govt department dedicated to building our own (open-source) software in-house

kinda wish govt etc would shut up about climate change tbh modal shift gives you cleaner air, safer & nicer neighbourhoods, less noise & light pollution, better sleep & health, saves a ton of money & time, enables more ppl to be independent; but nah let's focus on the single most abstract benefit

on the 12th day of tripmas my true love gave to me 12 tabs of acid 11 grams of shrooms 10 feet of cactus 9 caps of molly 8 oz of weed 7 packs of ciggies 6 DMT vapes 5 lines of coke 4 bumps of ket 3 jars of dexies 2 sheets of benzos and a box full of classic LPs

my hot take is that I don't think it's this website specifically that's toxic. the Circumstances are toxic and nobody really knows what to do about it so they come online and scream. and if I may offer an alternative: actually going outside and screaming feels better.

Need to get a tattoo above my pussy that reads “Abandon hope, ye who enter here.”

Flavoured tea blends should avoid having added sweetener as much as possible. Let the consumer decide how sweet to make their cuppa 🍵

call me sushi the way I'm fish you take raw

Applicable to our politics here in Aotearoa also.

posting good is all about stimulants and a consistent voice

If you got sunburnt this summer after I've spent LITERAL YEARS yelling at youse about sunscreen and being sun smart then at this point you deserve the skin cancer.

i entered a trans space and everyone did not immediately become my friend. here's why this is a systemic issue:

chill + abnormal

Improv is much better AND much worse than you think

my 75yo mother told me last night that she’s planning to delete Instagram and Facebook because she’s sick of not being able to tell what’s AI and what’s not, and I genuinely don’t think tech companies have reckoned with this kind of move as an actual possibility

a handsome man was nice to me today and ok, i get it a little now

nz bidet peeps: am i reading correctly that to install a bidet here you need a plumber to install it, and it requires an annual inspection?

every now and then i try keeping left to let cars pass more easily, and i'm almost immediately reminded why i take the lane

this is why I was expecting the deepfake porn issue to arise much sooner, it’s just an extension of the kind of behaviour that is already acceptable even encouraged in large swathes of society

I just want everyone to step back and realize how often it's a trans woman getting bullied off social media.

One of the goals this year is to treat social media more like how we used to “go on the computer” in the olden days: brief and concentrated instead of diffuse over the course of the day

also the movement is big enough to have people in it who don't like each other at some level you gotta have a professional approach to organizing, for lack of a better word "i don't like this person, i won't talk to them at a party but i'll take a rubber bullet for them on the ground" is healthy

there's a difference between a deep, abiding rage at injustice and just being angry all the time, at random people when organizing against state violence it's really a matter of safety to cultivate an inner circle of people who are, for the most part, steady and have what it takes to stay engaged

being consistently most vitriolic loud angry person on social media is not a credit to your leftist credentials it just makes people not want to organize with you the most radical leftists i have the privilege to call comrades are some of the kindest people. knowing who to be angry at is important

When Covid first started, I felt hope. I genuinely believed we would move forward as a more inclusive society. That disabled people would start receiving the accommodations they had needed for years (like remote work). That hope was crushed when we rushed back to normal

Part of the issue is that data is inherently viewed as an asset rather than nuclear waste Ideally, companies would view data as something they only want the bare minimum of in order to function before discarding it as soon as they can Knowing my birthday to send me an email is unnecessary

Also, the 2010s/2020s decline of technical knowledge in management and cloud hosting mania leads to multiple layers of outsourcing between an organisation’s understanding of its privacy requirements and their capability to take action to support those requirements.

In 2026, I want one thing – a kidney donated from a living donor for my partner. I've lost sleep over whether I should post this – it's a massive ask. Sometimes I wonder if it's asking too much? But the reality is that I'm unable to donate my kidney, and he has zero family who are in the position

i'm excited for a few years from now when more cargo e-bikes start making their way onto the second-hand market at more affordable prices. mine has been life-changing and it'll be great to have them in the hands of as many people as possible.

bicycle dates in wellington 💖

there are so many people out and about but all the stores started closing at 5

Labour should be out there pointing to this and saying "this is why you don't privatize health services like Simeon wants" but it seems like being silent is their main strategy these days...

at the city to sea bridge for the first time in ages it's cool that you don't have to cross the six lane motorway that cuts the city off from the waterfront, but christ what an eyesore

i had a dream that i picked a vape up off the ground to dispose of it correctly but absentmindedly hit it, but decided it didn't reset my no-vape streak since i didn't inhale

everybody wanna relapse nobody wanna reset the counter on their sobriety date

may 2026 grant you the freedom and energy to see something pointless happening online and say "girl idc"

me when i stay up late, waiting for the US posters to come online

using the micro blogging web site in the proper way: saying something completely out of pocket and getting a dopamine rush when people yell at you

i feel like i have a headache all the time and if it's not bc i need glasses idk what it is

i think there should be a fandom consultant on the sets of shows and their job is to get screamed at every time they open their mouth

applied for a supported ticket to Ōtaki Summer Camp. fingers crossed. every year i say "next year i'll go", but next year i'll be recovering from surgery, so this year it is

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What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

excited to go to a lesbian thing. i think it would be really good for me to nourish that part of myself

one time we were doing a flat viewing and a potential flatmate saw i had dresses hanging up and she said "oh you do drag?" and i immediately decided i did not desire to live with her

my septum ring fell out aaaaaa

can't say resist without "sis"