Did I just email the preteens school to query why they felt the need to add "age appropriate" to the skirts and dresses part of the dress code on the end of year dance notice but not any of the other clothing...

I say that apart from family and friends I have been able to get everything I need in Kirikiriroa. It's a lie, I have not found a good flower supply. 5 gorgeous peonies for $12 at my favourite fruit and veggie shop on the North Shore for my Grandma's birthday. I have only seen them here at 3 for $17

NZ Human Rights Commission: “It is a clear breach of their human rights and will cause unnecessary harm and distress to vulnerable young people”

If you have a young trans person in your life waiting for care in NZ... please please do what you can to lift them up. Shits going to get dark. (And check on their caregivers. They're probably not in a good way right about now)

Having my semi regular pity party about the balance between meaningful part time work that still allows me to be present as a mom and realising that the world isn't designed for that. I am expendable at work, I am needed by the kids but that doesn't help bring money in.

Apparently it's already summer in Kirikiriroa. Con: melting Pro: strawberry season

At a time when academics are under sustained right-wing attack, Dr Siouxsie Wiles stood up to the neoliberal regime of university management and won, but it came at a cost. If you can, please consider supporting Siouxsie, one of the most courageous scholars I know. www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...

I’m taking part in Pride Unleashed to raise life-changing funds for rainbow kiwis. 🐾✨ I’ll be walking, wagging, and fundraising to support our Rainbow and Takatāpui whānau. www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/... Every dollar helps unleash brighter futures Thanks a paw-ful 🐾💖 Honey (and Emma)

Poor @drbenomycin.bsky.social has been getting woken up multiple times a night by our 14 year old cat, demanding to be let outside. I sleep through 95% of these. Last night was supposed to be my payback but apparently when he goes to the bach she just curls up in another room and doesn't move...

So the Prime Ministers new attack on teachers is their 12 weeks of school holidays which we all know many teachers work through. Regardless. NZ Parliament has 20+ weeks of recess each year including a far longer summer break than most professions including teaching!!!

So... the way research is being funded in this country is an exit strategy? If you were running an R&D department and felt that the R was done, it wouldn't be unusual (even if shortsighted) to fire the R people and focus on the D 🤷 Terribly ironic having Rutherford on our most valuable bank note.

So fiscally responsible

Fuck all the people who voted no to Māori wards

Open Letter to Winston Peters, Minister of Foreign Affairs: The New Zealand Government must recognise the State of Palestine from Staff, Students and Alumni of the University Community

“Luxon said the government did not want to "send a message to young people" that they could "just drift into welfare and that's it". I know someone with *two* entry level roles who got *hundreds* of applicants. There aren’t enough jobs. Media accepting this propaganda at face value is concerning.

"The world doesn't owe you a living". Welp apparently I don't understand what society is for then if we'll just happily let people starve and die like outcasts. Which is, I assume, the opposite of having a living?

First walk completed for Pride Unleashed. If you want to support Honey in her fundraising efforts for the Rainbow Community you can find her profile here. www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/...

“Gaza is run by Hamas so Palestinian children deserve to starve and be shot” is exactly what you would expect from the people who think because David Seymour is part of the coalition, our kids don’t deserve nice school lunches.

In today’s HeraldOnSunday

We want both states to have peace and security… well apart from the one state which we today confirmed we are not sure when we want to or if we want to recognise. But both states… I mean this is incoherent.

In a race to stand for nothing, we are increasingly heading for first place.

Luxon himself handed me the Prime Minister's science prize last year. Let me say this in plain English: he's an idiot for running a govt who budgeted more for AI than for the Marsden fund. any journo reading this can quote me on it #nzpol

Literally nobody thinks collared priests protesting war and injustice are "intimidating' but mad props to Wilis for making them seem bad ass 🤣🤣🤣

Perfect way to deal with Destiny Church

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608... Helen Clark described the NZ Govt, “We now really seem to stand for nothing except you know somehow wanting to save our own skin in a tariff war". #NzPol #Caricature #Cartoon #Gaza #Palestine #SeeNoEvil #HearNoEvil #SpeakNoEvil #Pathetic

ACT is the party of death. Oh the value of human life is too high. Oh we should make it easier for disabled people to end their life. Oh childcare regulations need to be more lax. Oh speed limit is too low more road tolls please! Death death death.

Spent the day running chemistry outreach labs at University for a local high school, pay teachers whatever they are asking!

Reposted with permission from Instagram 💔

“Reti said "the government has made it clear on several occasions that we want publicly funded research to focus on solving real world problems that can be commercialised"” WE CANT DO THAT WITH NO MONEY SHANE www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

How many nice school lunches $600m could have bought and for how many years? Nicola Willis needs an hour of maths and reading every day cause she clearly did not read the fine print or know the cancellation maths 🙄

If your "structured literacy approach" with its "phonics sequencing and decoding suitability" cannot accommodate a handful of commonly-used words of te reo Māori YOUR APPROACH IS NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

The jokes just write themselves. Numerous errors found in new Ministry-funded maths resources www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

NCEA is older than smart phones. Windows XP was released the October before NCEA began its phase-in. I have grown from a 15 year old to a 38 year old since NCEA began. Lets face it... if you don't understand how NCEA works at this point, you've never cared...

How rude, lying on my bed in the sun while I sort and put away the laundry. How do I apply to become a cat?

Love reporting dumping and general rubbish accumulation in the park behind our house only for the council to ignore me for weeks. Spent some time this afternoon trying to carefully extract jasmine runners and roots out of it and discovered it's even worse than we thought. Will try again on Monday 🤷🏼‍♀️

This govt ran on expanding cancer screening and $250 extra money every fortnight and we got FBI offices and nurses who aren’t getting paid and butter no one can afford. Nice one.

Having women remove themselves from public is no solution to gendered online violence & abuse. I repeat, the solution to men abusing women is not, and never should be, for women to be less visible or less vocal. The issue is men being abusive. Men need to hold abusive men to account, not women.

#Gaza: Today at 3 a.m., Israeli forces bombed tents of displaced people in Khan Younis as they further expand their operation in the area. Our colleague Hossni Al Naijar, was among those injured in the attack, while a baby in the tent next to his was killed.

I’m still puzzled by the fact that trans people have asked for anything “not nicely”. What exactly does that even mean? They want healthcare, to not be killed, have jobs, and do things everyone else is doing. What’s the not nice part I will not be entertaining this shit for 1 second lol bye.

Gonna start sending my endometrial lining directly to Luxons office every month

A story in 4 parts

No children at home, still in bed and @drbenomycin.bsky.social is about to deliver my second coffee of the morning before he leaves for work... I think even I hate me a little bit 🫣

Prominent New Zealander strikes again

Hosting the teen's birthday party tonight and one of her friends said she wants to be a mum like me when she is old 🤣🥹

Happy Dog Tail Syndrome has struck. Honestly surprised that it took this long given the way that thing whips around. If you visit our house please don't be alarmed by tiny blood splatters on the walls 🫣🤣 Every time we think we have got them all we find another

How David Seymour (Deputy Prime Minister) talks to his constituents for the first time: #nzpol

What would I do without our window vacuum? The house has an HRV, is well insulated and gets all day sun and I still get 600 mL of water off the windows. New Zealand houses are dumb

The current govt is the most anti-family and anti-work govt that we have had. They wanna fire everyone and make the economy so bad that no one is hiring. They don’t want to feed the kids, set us up for retirement, or give us time to look after our kids. Just horrifically evil.