Guys being Dudes

(God I am so fucking happy I am not straight, like loving women would be great, they're amazing, they're the best part but dealing with everything else sounds like a nightmare, thank you thank you thank you gay god for choosing me!!!!)

What did you do to make Kererū Skinner judge you like this?

Totally forgot this platform existed until like two minutes ago, sup gonna put an album out later this year

Don't ask me why but all quails are nonbinary

Interpellation? Hell no, me and the homies ignore all hails

can't beat wellington on a good day? well, not with that attitude you can't. don't give up, I believe in you

This is why I distrust the “screen free parents” groups. Not because I don’t think social media and phones can be issues. I do. But because they are weirdly well funded and refuse to discuss social issues, digital rights and how schools catalyse harm. Brianna was killed by another child not a phone

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

this must be the shittiest shitsville we've had in a while in Te Whanganui-ā-Tara. how long have these storm winds been going for now?

Duolingo Ad: “where’d you go?” 🥺 You laid off some of the few remaining native speakers of my ancestors’ critically endangered language in favor of genAI you uaine gòrach comhachag

Your right to protest is under threat. Join us for the launch of PROTECT PROTEST a coalition established to defend protest as a tool of democracy and liberation. Wednesday 15 October at 4:30pm at Government Building Lecture Theatre 1 (GBLT1), Pipitea Campus, Te Herenga Waka VUW.

I wonder what David Seymour is quietly getting up to atm now that the media spotlight has shifted to Winston for the last few days

Still over here waiting for the genAI bubble to burst

Those flotilla people are so brave

It's not a coincidence that our bus patronage numbers are hitting all time highs. This term we've delivered more bus lanes than the seven previous councils combined

hello this is maybe a silly thing maybe not but if anyone who hasn't voted for Bird of the Year yet could include a vote for the tītī wainui? My parents and I had a traumabonding experience two years back spending a whole day trying and failing to save one. It was literally a flightless fairy!!😭

The media sells us the lie that the Greens are dangerous radicals (the only party that provides fully costed evidence-driven shadow budgets) and Act are normal (repeated jokes in speeches about killing people, boasts about dangerous driving).

Yes

I was just telling my girlfriend the other day that the old world is dying. And, my stars, the new world is struggling to be born. And now is the time when you meet such INNNNteresting monsters.

“As the illogic of capitalism and colonialism fails everyone but the elite, we must learn from Indigenous ways of seeing, being, knowing, and doing.” www.greenpeace.org/internationa... #indigenouspeoplesmonth

"What came first / the chicken or the dickhead" living in my head rent-free today thank you Arctic Monkeys

"You can't strike, you're too important" from a judge or government should instantly make you side with the people striking. They're *that* important but they get treated like shit? Nah. Naaaah. Let the government force better conditions.

yes please I've gotten sick three times this winter, a new record 🙃

The framing of this story is terrible, because it tries to make the story about teens, when the actual story is that only the elderly answer cold calls while *everyone else* assumes (often correctly) that they're scam calls. "Old people use cellphones irresponsibly" doesn't appeal to RNZ's audience.

If MPs are being policed in the House this way for standing up for Palestinians, we are not far behind. Do your protesting while you can.

I did this thread on twitter back in the day, but now we're so back. WELCOME TO WELLINGTON

As nurses protested this week, I spoke to Naomi Waipouri about why she was striking. She said patients are being let down due to understaffing - and she saw that last week, when her cousin died. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

Me: i’m Autistic Them: Oh you take things literally Me: No that’s kleptomania

Uninstalling all scrolling apps from my phone while not deleting *all* those accounts has actually produced a really happy medium where I can check them periodically but only from devices which are not in my pocket 90% of my waking hours. Do recommend.

This number of submissions (likely exceeding 150,000) should inspire pride and awe at the power of grassroots opposition to our country’s right wing surge. This is especially thanks to the expert organisation and dedication of iwi Māori. www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/07/07/t...

ICYMI, Lawyer Tania Waikato had to lock down her social media due to threats made against her b/c she spoke out against the Regulatory Standards Bill and enlisted security when making her sub. This is the result of targeted online attacks by a certain Minister #nzpol waateanews.com/2025/07/10/a...

Sgrìobh mi rud (a' toirt a-steach òran!) air obair còmhla ri mo shinnsir 's ar coireach ann an colonachadh ann an Aotearoa. I wrote a thing (including a song!) about working with one of my ancestors to grapple with our complicity in the colonisation of Aotearoa.

Tha tinneas air a bhith orm an t-seachdain-sa 's tha e air milleadh na planaichean agam air fad airson Matariki 🤒 Ghabh mi falbh-obrach airson bliadhna ùr Māori fiù 's, 's airson dè? Cha b' urrainn dhomh fois a ghabhail, dha-rìreadh 😑

Wellington region: Together for Māori Wards - Local Election Organising Hui. Saturday 5 July 10am-1pm Tiriti Action Group invite you to join us for a local body election organising hui in support of Māori wards and meaningful partnerships with Mana Whenua. Please RSVP👇🏼

There it is, ACT are running local candidates to get party command and control to oppose climate change measures through local democratic mandate.

Rinn mo charaidean 's mise facal ùr creole sa Ghàidhlig agus te reo Māori: hoacharaid. Air sgàth 's nach urrainn dhuinn a-riamh roigheadh a chuir air dè facal a chleachdadh. Carson nach cleachd an dà chuid?

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

The gym has made its weights out of styrofoam and gym goers are lifting them with a forklift. Everything is so much easier... as long as the point of a gym is to make weights go up and down with zero effort on all sides. ... that's the point of a gym, right?

One of the most admirable things about the 2019 HK uprising is they figured this out pretty much *from the start* and avoided 100 years of left-liberal infighting.

They're going to try memory holing this later so you won't remember resistance. They did it with Ferguson over a decade ago, so thoroughly that a lot of Americans don't recall it. They did it with the BLM protests 5 years ago, less success but we'll see by 2030. They'll try again. Don't let them.

“The compulsory Te Tiriti education at the University of Auckland is not a burden. It’s a necessary starting point for migrants, especially for caste-privileged Indian migrants like Dr Parmar, to begin undoing the toxic ideologies we bring with us.” — Mohan Dutta.

apparently, "die mad" has an origin story and it is GLORIOUS

Dunno how some of you continually churn out online content these days, what follows took me four years of postgraduate study and 87,705 words to whittle down to something remotely shareable. Co-dhiù: here's my entire PhD thesis condensed to ten slides! (inspired by @chercywong.bsky.social)

Dunno how some of you continually churn out online content these days, what follows took me four years of postgraduate study and 87,705 words to whittle down to something remotely shareable. Co-dhiù: here's my entire PhD thesis condensed to ten slides! (inspired by @chercywong.bsky.social)

This cat came to the gig today!

‘The hīkoi was ages ago’ is such a perfect distillation of the liberal colonist point of view. The perfect antithesis of ‘Ka whawhai tonu mātou mō te āke, āke, āke’ is all ways.

Songsheets for tomorrow / a sneaky reveal of the album title maybe? 👀 Thistle Hall, tomorrow at 11am for a more sonic preview. See you there!

And now for something slightly different. I'll be performing a smattering of Flightless Fairy songs from the upcoming album, in English & Gaelic, as part of this kaupapa at Thistle Hall, Saturday 11am. There will even be lyric sheets available (with translations 👀), so bithibh ann no bithibh fann!