Journalist & doc filmmaker Hind Hassan describes the obstacles of reporting inside Iran, where access is quite tightly controlled & trust has to be earned. She recounts some difficulties speaking w/ victims, gaining rare entry to the notorious Evin Prison, confronting officials over human rights...

Fom the 'Water Women' series by Sonia Alins, contemporary Spanish artist and illustrator #WomensArt

#blackwomen #blackhistory #blackpoets #blacksky #addtoblacksky

TLDR - no snot colour doesnt determine viral vs bacterial. Yellow and green can be caused by both. Best differentiator i can think of for when it may be time to book doc appointment? Whether you are improving on day 4 or not. If no better by appt on D5-6 then antibiotics might be considered by doc

If Nigel the cat dies on CALL ON THE MIDWIFE I'm rioting. 📺

cats when you give them a bath

Omgosh guys! The New Kids On The Block just liked a tweet from 2014 and 10year old me is *losing her 💩* right now! (It's archived on here. Your guess is as good as mine why they're liking it now. 😄)

Blustry blasted blustering bollocks

Trump Opens Up Nation’s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing

Sad to hear that Raymond Hawthorne has died. Such an important part of NZ theatre history - he dedicated his life to the arts. (Not to mention being the patriarch of one of our great theatre families.) My condolences to Elizabeth, Emmeline, the rest of his family, friends and colleagues.

A quick “hello to new followers” intro post: I’m purpurina, I do stitchy things and I write sometimes. This past year a lot of my creative energy has gone into horror/sci-fi audiodrama @observableradio.com (check us out!!) Here are some of my horror stitches:

It begins. Again. (See below—Hegseth removes 900 books on gender and sexuality). My book—and the article I originally wrote—about the Institute for Sexual Science and the burning of books on gender by Nazis can show you where this goes next. Don’t despair. #RESIST 🧪🗃️🏳️‍⚧️ wwnorton.com/books/978132...

I've just finished rewatching THE HANDMAID'S TALE ahead of the final season which drops on April 8th. (Neon in NZ) Such a beautifully composed series: visually stunning from start to finish. Surprisingly, not as depressing as i thought it would be... 📺

I cannot wait! I saw TALK TO ME in a cinema and it was incredible. The tension was tangible. People crawling up their seats, whimpering... BRILLIANT.

Help give #migraine a break! 🗳️ Vote for candidates who support timely, affordable access to migraine care & support. Let's make a change together. Will you give migraine your vote? #MigraineAwareness #HealthcareReform 🔗 https://givemigraineabreak.migraine.org.au/pledge

I ❤️ that DARK WINDS is teaching me the odd Diné word. It's incredibly cool that a language used as a code during WW1&2 because of its rarity & difficulty now features on mainstream TV. How proud must the 170, 000 speakers of Diné be? A beautiful language I would never have heard here in NZ otherwise

Ladyfingers ftw

Thanks everyone who contacted me about my Mum and her phone. I'm tracking down options for her at the moment - there are groups in ChCh. When I've sifted through everything I will have a list. Apologies if I'm slow in replying!

A tragic story unfolding. I feel for their families right now. X

Stop doomscrolling for a second and look at this absolute unit that visited me earlier today

In the interests of not-murdering my Mum, does anyone know of a teach the elderly phone course in ChCh? @sprk.so, I'm sad to say (& this is despite me calling to get a suitable time to have someone help her transfer phones and show her the basics) were beyond useless & rude.

NZ Prime Minister has traced his lineage back to the late Bronze Age, then? 🧐 www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

My Mum finally upgraded her 10yo mobile. "I'm not impressed with the camera. The one on my old phone is much better. I took a selfie on this new one and it looks horrible." High resolution is a bitch. 😆

Wellington producer Jet Jaguar celebrates 25 years of adventurous electronic output.

He is purr snoring

An advocate for #autism and #autistic representation, actress Kayla Cromer has written a kid’s book, which provides links to nonprofit animal aid! Give @kaylacromer.bsky.social a follow, too, she’s new here. Full book description in #alt Buy: The Adventures Of Shirley The Witch a.co/d/04BgILH

On March 31, I'll be at the Toronto Reference Library with Waubgeshig Rice to talk about my new book, How to Survive a Bear Attack. I'd love to see you there! Tickets are free, but you have to register: www.eventbrite.ca/e/claire-cam... #Booksky #librarylove #bears #toronto #memoir

Shout out to the man staying in the AirBnB on the hill behind us who reassured Mister Wilfred that he also believed he could scare those pesky birbs away like the big boy cat he is. You, sir, are a scholar and a gentleman. (And an eavesdropper, but I'll let that bit slide).

I am so, so tired. And I know you are, too. Here's “Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. After the monastery’s dissolution, it became a hospital.

That moment when you accidentally love nearly all of someone's cat pictures because you thought it was one of your curated C.C.L feeds not someone's profile. Whoops.

#Accent #Scotland www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR6V...

Every time I (re)watch it, I'm struck all over again by just how beautifully written & directed the final episode of LOST really was. Hats off to @damonlindelof.bsky.social & #CarltonCuse who penned "The End", and #JackBender who directed it. 📺 #Lost #TVFinale

As you enjoy the (guilty) remnants of last night’s turkey, remember that profound loss and despair can only happen if there’s true love and connection.This truth gives me comfort… until we’re all consumed in the sweet, hot annihilation of atomic hellfire. Happy Leftovers Day! Gobble Gobble!

Please share the most delicious leftover in your fridge right now alongside a nihilistic thought. (example: Sweet potatoes, there is no god) #leftoversday

Moo Deng is sick of this shit.

Moo Deng is getting bigger but her ears are still litol

Absolutely true: printing your own money is illegal, and so is unlicensed home gardening (at least in New Zealand).

Can confirm I’m having French toast with caramelised banana fresh raspberries, golden syrup and thick cream for dinner.

Marianne Faithfull was more than the men she knew. < repeat loudly for every headline announcing her death that references said men >

"First they came for the.... well, everyone who wasn't American White Cis Able-bodied Heterosexual Male and Well-off" Niemöller updated

I've been working on a novel for over 10 years. I have written at least three drafts, maybe five? I never quite liked it. For a long time, I haven’t known why. And then I went to the mountains. While looking at this view, a voice started talking to me. #writing #booksky

I've woken up craving good old fashioned Irish soda bread like my Da used to make. Preferably with black, AND white pudding, crispy bacon, eggs and mushrooms. Because I want to continue the Norn Irish tradition of bowel cancer that killed off most of that side of my family. *Welp*

At least once a day, I find myself pondering: why is David Seymour?

Transgender people have always been here, and we’re not going anywhere. Count on it.

crazy to think that fifty years from now when you say ‘nazi rocket guy’ people won’t think of werner von braun

"Have we been making awkward gestures in moments of enthusiasm?"

I see that I once again need to remind people that constantly reposting Nazis doing Nazi shit does not convince anyone new that the Nazis are Nazis but it sure does constantly trigger the fuck out of your friends who are the targets of Nazis

Omg dude, stop trying to make the wall happen! It's not going to happen!

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1409

Peter Berg is guilty of a lot of patriotic emetics, but using that version of "This Land Is Your Land" at the end of AMERICAN PRIMEVAL suggests he didn't really grasp the implications of what the script was trying to say about the land grab we just spent 6hrs watching. You know, that he directed. 😬