Maybe this hasn’t sunk in for anyone who should care but the NHS was birthed when the UK *literally had negative money*. The USA had razed us of every penny to pay for weapons to defend ourselves against Germany, Germany had bombed all our industrial sites. We still did it in 6 months. 6.

[finally checking out a book everyone has said was good for decades] wow why didn’t anyone say anything jeez

banana bred

On 13-15 July the Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa’s judicial review against the Minister of Health will be heard in Wellington High Court. Join us in the court room to support PATHA as they fight for our community  www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/news-1/patha...

I want to recommend @typst.app. It's a new alternative to LaTeX that's much more intuitive and easy to use — but still very powerful. I have been using it exclusively and am very happy. typst.app

“We were utterly clueless and useless”: Individual flaws, tactical issues, people can learn and return fresh to impose exactly the same shit in five years “The public were repulsed by our horrific politics”: death for the entire project, everyone is redundant, pack it up, go back to PR and the law.

There's no quantity of excommunicating large enough to purge the sins of the catholic church

The man’s own explanation of the line is 100% convincing. He is definitely in control of his material and we are just haters bsky.app/profile/rsag...

Obviously you can’t stand in the way of lines like “she had the kind of walking which made benches become men”. You just have to step aside.

Another work from this series. Commissioned work for Indian Post, Malabar Tree toad to be named the state frog of Karnataka. 1/2 #art #nature #illustration #sciart #indianwildlifeartist #scientificillustration #inkart #wildlifeart #traditionalart #penart #scicomm #frog #Endangered #Endangeredspecies

At three months old, these bintlets are branching out behind the scenes as they grow into confident canopy climbers 🐈‍⬛

Who is not a woman? Anyone they don't want to be.

Like, kink safety stuff was always wrapped up with abuse prevention stuff as Mal describes. The idea that informed people with access to support are harder to hurt. And it is no fucking coincidence that wider acceptance of kink practice dropped that part like a sack of boiled shit.

This is what I reckon too

Hegel is at least as woo as the most dogmatic dialectical materialism. But yes! Helpful piece.

"Y a eu la même canicule en 1976, et on s'en plaignait pas !"

Good thread relevant to that recent nz research

Eat my shit and hair probably not an acceptable submission on the gender bill ay

One of my favourite tomato varieties is Margaret Curtain, a variety developed here in New Zealand. No idea if there's really a connection but that's also the name of one of our campaigners for women's suffrage so I like to think its a feminist tomato.

On the subject of decoupling our food ways from capitalism, I am growing Paul Robeson tomatoes this year and they’re great! Highly recommend. Pls lmk if there are other similarly leftist vegetables and fruits I haven’t yet found.

The Black Republican Cherry. It & Bing Cherry originated at Lewelling Brothers (Abolitionists unlike most of 1860s Oregon!) orchards. I live on part of the former orchards. Bing Cherry named for orchard-keeper Ah Bing, later denied reentry to US w. Chinese Exclusion Act. www.kcrw.com/shows/specia...

Glimmers of hope from the antipodes

You speak up on some fairly bleak and hopeless causes and more power to you but on this one give up. I've tried. It's no use. They will say that Noel is a genius. That he changed things forever. And there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.

Honestly tax brackets are some slide-rule era bullshit.

3 posts in and i am convinced

I reach into my big bag and pull out a name. Neuronyss. At this point, I don’t even ask if it’s for a defense contractor or education software anymore. They pay me for my names, not my cares.

was thinking about the first person to tell me what harm reduction really meant—Sister maeJoy B. withU—and how she emphasized it wasn’t just about making whatever small choices you can to reduce harm, it was about providing resources to make those choices possible, and continuing to do so over time

So thrilled by this! Congratulations, pip adam 🎉🎉

pov you're Kāi Tahu

I shouldn't be surprised that Christofascists have no idea how dick sucking factories work, since Christofascists don't work lol

Pulling this one out of my thread because this speaks to how overwhelming dealing with the aftermath of the 2023 storms was for elected members and agencies, and of course locals, in the hardest hits part of Auckland (and still is). This is just one measure, as it doesn't capture rentals and KO.

Living in Palmerston North and Pōneke did not prepare me for the ease of living in Ōtautahi... like, what do you mean I can ride to uni without a change of clothes?

So excited to chat with Pip and Jackie in a couple of weeks! 🛸📚 #pukapuka #specfic

Very very occasionally you have to hand it to the french (it being clavicular)

Heads up, the deadline to fix your hearts or die is tomorrow

🤣 geese skeets

Unfortunately we can’t have a mythopoetic politics around reconstructing the entire global economy to stop catastrophe and save billions of lives because environmentalism is for girls.

#OtD 22 Jun 1948 the Empire Windrush arrived in Tilbury docks bringing the first group of 492 Jamaicans to the UK. They had answered an appeal for workers from the UK which needed to rebuild following World War II, amidst an acute labour shortage shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Bisexual maths dad (its a type, I'm not making this up). Living.

“I told him it sounds like he’s just feeding Prime Ministers to Larry and he just started crying.”

Welcome to Digital Colonization: AI Deepfakes Are Being Used Against West Papuan Activists West Papua

The point of this project was not to even try to stop it. It was to impress it, win it over with flags and crackdowns, co-opt it for Sensible Moderate Politics and establish a new dominant party of government for a decade, at least.

Sunday fun: voting for RNZ's top 100 songs/top 5 waiata closes at 11.59pm. Have your say here: vote.rnz.co.nz

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Thread of joy

I need things to stop being gender immediately.

Sometimes you see something cool, and you want it for yourself. Inspired by Anthony Castrio's nyc-cartogram, I made an Auckland version: drop a pin and the city is redrawn by public-transport travel time instead of distance, with a couple more modes and a few extra features. warp.tfwelch.com

Hi #IndigiSky I need your help! The gov't of Newfoundland is censoring a cultural heritage exhibit by Innu Nation in Nitassinan/Labrador. All details in this article. We're furious and up for a fight. I need advice and tips on the best way to do so. theindependent.ca/news/provinc...