there is nothing in the email that means i need to read it, to be clear nor much new information nor anything new and exciting be offered this is DNC style fundraising push language and I just don't know why the party still thinks this is useful to them

The thing I've found notable is that so much major party comms about queer rights is not aimed at queer people. The anti parties project an unreal boogyman version of queerness & as Jennifer notes, the 'supportive' folks try to avoid mentioning queer people! Where's the "you matter, this sucks!?"

A welcome #disability #reading list from the folks at the DList. I would add. My Wide White Bed by Trish Harris, & the Crash, by Sally Wenley. Exploring each others' stories is important. #books #writing #reading thedlist.co.nz/newsfeed/spo...

supporting the next party that promises these fuckers get the wall 🤪

Make the Tech Bros drink it.

i have been doing this work for a couple years & i want to emphasise that when we stop this kaupapa it hurts women and LGBTQIA+ (the high majority of victims of violence) AND leaves a demographic of boys and men with very few pathways out of a growing cult of violent behaviour. prevention works!

The fact that Marcroft's bill includes the phrase "regardless of gender identity", when that term has very, very little legal relevance in this country but DOES in the UK, is in my opinion quite revealing of the uncritical importing of culture war issues from overseas that motivate her bill.

question for law people, do we have a definition for biological male and female under nz law or is this new bill literally saying nothing ?

question for law people, do we have a definition for biological male and female under nz law or is this new bill literally saying nothing ?

Have they done a thorough proof of concept for AI in public service? No. But are they using it successfully themselves? Also no. But do they have clear plans for how AI will be deployed? No. This article would be hilarious if it wasn't devastating. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Just in case anyone needed a reminder.. #nzpol

ive called numerous times for individuals in newsrooms to speak out, write letters, or even leak. but i guess if you’re amenable to publishing genocide propaganda because you were told to by an editor, then publishing misinfo that led to death threats against politicians & their kids is nothing 🫠

In the fast moving bad-newsathon that is this week i just wanted to mention again the announcement from RespectEd Aotearoa. It's very easy to make election bait but the work these people do is hard & urgent & research-based. i'm emailing MPs & sharing this news. wellington.scoop.co.nz?p=180097

Winston Peters the kuupapa & transphobe (simpler to say opportunist). he should never rest a day for the rest of his life. im already never voting for labour again because of their classist bullshit during covid response. but if they think nz first is a coalition option then they can all rot.

PSA: i'm updating the webworm site with developments in the everlee wihongi story. if you haven't subscribed, i'd welcome it - there is a free version, & paid version. zero ads on both. thank you: www.webworm.co

Watch two geniuses cover metal songs while making delicious food www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru4a...

me I do I've never wanted anything more

Been asked a bit lately about what I look for in a political party, and maybe the subtext is why or how did I end up with the Greens over other parties that might have similar policies - and fair enough. It really comes down to what is the core tenant of your politics, esp if you're a leftist.

Incorrect. this is both

i have decided to fill the hollow earth with treats and candies so that when the aliens come, they will destroy The World like a pinata

#FreeEverlee Fundraiser to get Everlee Wihongi home Courtney Wihongi, wife of Everlee's brother: "I will be managing donated funds on behalf of our family to pay for Everlee's legal expenses & anything else needed to get her ouf of the detention facility." www.gofundme.com/f/help-free-...

The way my brain immediately recognises Hipkins anytime someone talks about Keir Starmer. Cut from the same damn cloth.

will never not be crazy to me that anita sarkeesian made critiques that were mild for 2012 feminism and Gamers still haven't gotten over it 14 fucking years later

hey uh, so now the BSA is gone thats one less barrier and risk for NZ media to finally report on David Seymour trying to cover up Tim Jago’s crimes, right??

posting that meme of Death going damn is this thing broken

Here for women breaking NDAs this and every day ✊

in liue of the settler occupation having no power over tangata whenua we really should be automatically enrolled for both general and Maaori roll. not only is that not happening but the Maaori seats will not be changing till 2032 cos of stupid racist shit.

My complaint about this headline has been upheld by the Media Council — they have found it to have been misleading and not accurate. I understand that Stuff has been instructed to publish a summary of the ruling today, but I have not yet spotted it. www.mediacouncil.org.nz/rulings/john...

WTF is up with this. Seriously people. What are we even doing playing footsy with a country that disappears our own people.

if u want to support nz books request them for ur local library <3

Me: I voted for Donald Trump because I had him confused with that other guy. Donald Duck. NYT reporter: Are you sure you want me to print that next to your real name and a drawing of you? Me: Yes.

the thing is we live in our own information environments do u think people who believe in qanon believe many other media sources especially those critical of trump? they may be hypocritical but when has that not been liberals/conservatives

also to those who like to prattle about violence never winning well what the fuck do u call a settler colony then...

at least the bro didnt miss with his comments

🚨 MAGIC PLAYERS! 🔥 If ever there was a more apt need for The Gathering, now's the time! Show your solidarity! Help your fellow workers win! ✊

we remain in a very strange era of describing human emotions as their chemical compounds (serotonin, dopamine, cortisol) in a similar way that stories and art have been reduced to corporate buzzwords (content, IP, franchise)

fucking insane to have "Stuff Reporters" - NOT syndicating - doing puff pieces on Netanyahu in 2026 the second excerpt here is absolutely abhorrent, and then it ends with a public health PSA to Israelis?? who the fuck is this article FOR? what the fuck is going on??

Chris Hipkins apology to Tamatha Paul when?* *man had no issues apologising to white lady Nicola Willis yesterday 🤔

My friend Manisha Bhikha calling for us to get our shit together. When she says "This is the first time I can remember seeing anti-Indian hate expressed with this level of visibility and confidence" be aware that *she's been in govt counterterror & preventing violent extremism for decades*.

the way auto captions have taken over and fucked the quality of subtitles everywhere... has anyone written about this?

Politicians from every party should be asked to put their stance on ICE on the record. This is what fascism looks like - and as the Desmond Tutu quote notes, “if you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor”.

“You gotta learn AI or get left behind!” is a bit galling given that the entire purpose of AI seems to be to steal our work and fuck our brains and shit up the planet, which is to say, its GOAL is to leave us all behind. That, in order to make its owners rich.

niche tweet but so hype for the aztecs in aom even though i know its going to be a broad pop culture interpretation

The second question has absolutely sent me. Sitting down with AI Doctor Jesus and Sweaty Millennial Antipope to ask when things are getting back to normal before the guy who looks like a haunted tree offers her some roadkill glands.

Just read someone saying "The alt text tells you what it is, chat" and I'm not busting in like the Kool-Aid man to say this but That's not what alt text is for. That's not how you use alt text. If you're hiding important information about the image in the alt text, you're doing it wrong.

still cant get past how good those fucking euphoria specials were and then season 2 was unwatchable dog shit

law and order pope:

you cannot be precious about your own work. i cut ~30 poems from my new poetry manuscript. i cut ~50 pages of material while working on my book of craft essays. i know for fiction writer friends it’s normal to cut many, many pages to find the right structure for a novel.