So I had my first heavy fall in ages yesterday. I'm fine but sore on my left hip and butt cheek. Yhe thing with ataxia is we can fall on a flat, even surface. Our cerebellum has shrunk and our balance centre doesn't work properly. Falls are common. #ataxia #SpinocerebellarAtaxia #disabled

Okay class, everyone shut up and listen to @bernardchickey.bsky.social give the best explanation ever of how Aotearoa’s hospitals, schools, and unbuilt infrastructure became the cash cow for massive tax cuts for the rich. You’ll need at least one coffee. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGK8...

Quick tooth update: A filling of a sort has been put in the tooth, but it's unlikely it will hold for too long. This will inevitably mean another extraction, in a spot that will affect my smile. I'm also having to change my diet, no hard/chewy foods anymore. It's all a bit much really...😒

I'm seeing the dentist at 3pm, they're kindly fitting me in at official closing time. I'm expecting the worst because this tooth is obviously severely compromised 😭

This is Shark Teeth. She just came over here to stretch and noticed you had a sharable looking sandwich on your lap. What a coincidence. 13/10 (TT: meatboy3000)

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

In another tooth disaster, the opposite side of the recent root canal tooth has just broken off. It's over 1/3 of the tooth, and it's a front one. I'm utterly devastated 😭😭😭

I asked ChatGPT to invent a word for Nicola Willis' economic leadership that echoes the term ruthenasia for Ruth Richardson’s tenure. It did not disappoint: Nicolapse and Nicolateral damage take your pick.

I had a visitor this morning 🐈🐈🐱 😻

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

Reading the candidate profiles for the local body elections in Pōneke is quite depressing. They're not exactly inspiring confidence in moving our city forward 😬

Hey Hutt folks, you may miss it when voting, but please don’t vote for Suzanne Levy! She sounds fine, but OOPS she runs the TERF organisation Speak Up For Women.

#nzpol What the poster says.

#nzpol The minimum wage increased 1.5% this year. Data from Stats NZ shows: - Food prices up 5% - Fruit & Veg up 8.9% - Meat up 9.4% - Bread up 9.5% (white sliced up 41.7%) - Cheese up 14.3% - Milk up 15% - Electricity up 11.4% Laser focused on the cost of living www.stats.govt.nz/information-...

I have recently discovered farmtok on Tiktok, and today I got a message asking if I wanted to buy miniature highland cows 🤣🤣🤣

Oh yes, the gift that keeps on giving-unsolicited advice 😬

My body truly hates me. The tooth that just had the root canal has now lost a piece of enamel off the front 😥😕

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This is why my friend circle is almost non-existent...

If you're sick of this government and this absolute race baiting bullshit and attacks on Māori across the board - vote in your local election and vote to keep Māori wards. Your council is ONLY having a referendum because this government is forcing them to. How embarrassing if they all get kept.

I'm at the Abbie Chatfield show at the Opera House and I'm one of 3 Nigel No Mates in my seating block. I hate going to shows solo but I've missed out on so much in the past, I'm just doing it.

Tom Phillips is dead after a police shooting, and his three children have been found alive. The immediate danger is over. But a larger question lingers: who decided Tom Phillips was safe enough to be left alone with his children - and why? My story: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

The world is totally off it's rocker right now, I honestly don't understand how people think some of the shit happening is justified and okay 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

This is Wally. He's distraught because he had a fun time playing at grandma's house and has to go home. Tries not to play favorites, but grandma is definitely his. 13/10

Tonight I saw the first screening of the final Downton Abbey film at the Embassy. If you're a fan of the TV series, I highly recommend it!

A pearler of stupidity from someone I know-Wellington City Council and cycleways are to blame for the 'entire' economic downturn in our city. Apparently nothing to do with all the job losses from the public/government sector 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Correction: not a shooting, a person with a 🔫🔫 was apprehended at a building on Webb Street.

Pōneke, don't drive/bus/walk/cycle up Victoria St near Webb St. There has been a shooting and police have been on site for over an hour. All buses that travel up there have been cancelled. Not exactly sure how I'm going to get home, traffic is diabolical.

The real reason dinosaurs are extinct? Dogs. Poor dinosaurs never stood a chance.

🍃🌹🌿Important: #NZ: We have until Thursday to submit re voter suppression on the Electoral Amendment Bill #nzpol - Submission Guide here- please make a submission: action.greens.org.nz/electoral_am...

This function is only available in quote reposts... who is going to use it? 😁🤣

Post shoulder procedure 8 weeks ago, I've been given the all clear to start training them again. Have just ordered a yoga mat and 3kg dumbbells so I can train on the balcony 😀 💪💪

This explains a LOT about what's going on here and nearby. Heads up Horowhenua/Manawatū/Tararua/Wairarapa folks: archive.is/2025.09.07-0...

Candidate for Hutt City Council, Suzanne Levy of SUFWNZ, accuses Te Aka Matua o te Ture Law Commission of being unhinged for suggesting NZ Human Rights laws should be amended to explicitly cover trans and nonbinary people. FYI @fromthemorgue.bsky.social #NZpol www.speakupforwomen.nz/post/media-r...

This is the camera footage Shane Jones and his industry donors want to keep hidden from the public with their proposed changes to fishing laws. They don't want you to see all the dolphins, seals and albatrosses they kill and fish dumping. You can see it at 28.25 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkgX...

I like this idea very much! 😁

Good Morning Vietnam

Fantastic thread from Craig Renney if you haven't already read it ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Help: need heaps more English teachers to do my survey so that the data is comprehensive. NZATE have put it on their FB & newsletters, I've emailed regional associations, Eng fB page. Here. Only 62 responses. My colleagues are tired/overwhelmed so I don't want to nag but how do I get more

A friend of mine is in Iceland at the moment. This is a sign at a cafe... Anyone notice a particular native language there? If they can acknowledge it, then we can

Where can I find clothes pegs that don't leave big indents in my clothes?

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

I didn't want to put this out here, but it has become very clear since Mum's death that I have undiagnosed ADHD. I'm not going to list all the symptoms 😬, but my counsellor told me this week that an accumulation of years of trauma has forced my mask down. That makes a lot of sense. /1

Today I was given 2 delicious cupcakes from the cupcake shop in Lambton Square. I fell asleep after devouring them 😂 #foodcoma