Some first reactions from me and Dayenu: NZ Jews Against the Occupation.

I've spent about $260 on these garden beds (timber, nails, some compost and manure). Grew plants from seed in pots free at the Wellington tip shop. Next year it will nearly free to grow these tomatoes. 1/2

◻️Fill new garden bed ◻️Strip branches ◻️Make tomato frame ◻️Put on lamb leg ◻️Make more garden beds ◻️Coffee ◻️Roast potatoes ◻️Parsnip ◻️Kūmara ◻️Vacuum car (it's bad) ◻️Wash car (also bad) ◻️Tidy lounge ◻️Clean bathroom

Traumatised Palestinians are required to form a perfect pacifist government. Genocide may continue until they do this. They must perfectly mimic western democracy, minus the power and threats, or the murder continues. Also, if they do gather anywhere to do this, they'll be killed. Say NZ gov.

I don't see what the end-game for New Zealand choosing to align itself with proto-fascist countries is, given that the default aspect for proto-fascism is bullying + disrespect for anyone smaller than you. =/

I’m calling #winston the Coward of the Century over this foreign policy announcement. We have to go back to Muldoon in the 70s, failing to cut ties with apartheid South Africa when most of the rest of the world was, to find an announcement so bereft of courage. #cowardofthecentury #nzpol #gaza

Use “I” statements please Winston. The tens of thousands of NZers who marched, the thousands and thousands more who see this genocide for what it is and who know recognising Palestine is an important symbol of solidarity, your decision does not represent us.

There really isn’t any moral test that Luxon can’t fail. #nzpol

#TurnYourBacks 👏👏👏

I feel ashamed to see Luxon and Peters failing to make a stand. Over 150 countries have already recognised Palestine. They have wimped out

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." - Desmond Tutu

We watch a people go through an attempted genocide, and we sit back and say you are no people. You have no state. For you see, we are friends with both you and your murderer.

Excellent message from Chlöe Swarbrick and the #nzpol Greens. www.instagram.com/share/reel/B...

The Castle is on TVNZ 😃

Genuinely (and pleasantly) surprised to see Hipkins stake a really solid position on this. More of this, please.

“This isn’t just being out of sync with our friends. It is morally reprehensible to be turning our back when we see an unfolding genocide.” A welcome clear statement from Chris Hipkins. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/labour-pa...

The darkest day in AotearoaNZ modern history. This is shameless cowardice & further proof that this coalition government works for fascism and not the people of Aotearoa NZ or indeed HUMANITY itself! 🤬 WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY #OneTermGovernment #FreePalestine #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

I have never been more ashamed of my country than now. Both the prime minister and foriegn minister are living in a fairy land. This was their springbok tour moment, their nuclear free moment....and they fucked it. I will not forget this

the new zealand government is so fucking pathetic and embarassing

Friends with Israel, a confirmed genocidal regime rogue state?... cool? SO NOT COOL! SANCTION ISRAEL NOW YOU F*CKEN SHAMELESS COWARDS!!! #nzpol

#nzpol Yes, the incumbent Aotearoa New Zealand government is f*cking pathetic and embarrassing.

"Many states have come to the conclusion that they need to recognise the state of Palestine to give it a chance of ever materialising. That's the issue, and New Zealand hasn't put its weight behind that." "the Prime Minister should have fronted at the press conference last Monday” … #nzpol

Mmmkay. Nz gov now trying to say they're neither for or against genocide?

My aunty recently noted to me that my style of knitting is Eastern European "continental"... And I have no idea how this happened.

Can we not frame the first lowering of rents in our life times as a "huge shift towards tenants"... It's a barely a dent in chart so far.

Mushrooms growing in a tub

President of Colombia speaks at The Hague Group’s event in New York City where he calls for an action that will bypass the Security Council veto The Hague Group are a group of countries that have joined together to find effective measures to support Palestine #NZPol

Finally. Two weeks late. Fresh newborn lamb.

When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland. My column today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Map of typhoid cases in Wellington Pōneke. 1890s. The illness was carried by the waterways. Infrastructure dumped and leaked sewage of human waste into the same streams we drew drinking water from. Wellington still leaks shit into our streams. But we get our drinking water from up Akatarawa now.

FOOKIN EMBARRASSING THE LOT OF YAS

So where is the next protest?

Aotearoa on the wrong side of history yet again.

Shame on Aotearoa

As someone who carries NZ, Irish, and Canadian citizenship, I have to say that the only one of those three I am proud of today for its moral standard is IRELAND. #HumanitarianLaw #HumanRights #SaoirseDonPhalistin Saoirse Don Phalaistín 🍉

Motainai.. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mottainai

Hey @ponekeben.bsky.social . Can we talk about pohutakawa trees? The trees north of me are the largest around these parts. And they block near 100% of our light in winter. Leaving mine and my neighbours houses cold and dark. Would love to trim the branches that are far wide of the tree

My brain is spinning over my todo list and the only way to get myself to stop spinning is to write it down. So come with me on this journey called "weekend"

Gawds it's hard to get info on actual adobe and not Adobe en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe

Low on onions, but there's plenty of onion weed up the hill from us. So that's whats for dinner. Curry mince on toast.

Today I took a gaggle of teenagers to the Wellington library cancelled book sale. They found a few to buy and I found a hell of a lot.

My apple tree is still zero leaves zero blossoms and I think the storms this year have killed it

Mushrooms should bloom by morning

Mustard flowers

Bird bath

I think I live in a fifteen minute city... And that's maybe why I "get so much done". People often ask me how I manage to cook every day and garden and work 50 to 60 hours a week (remote)... And avoid supermarkets. I'm not spending time on traffic.

The problem with Novapay was the incredibly large number of exceptions to rules needed for so many employees, especially in niche roles and part time, with an extra layer of union/non-union rules, that people were grandfathered into and couldn't be changed - much described in-accurately

So what they're saying is, take tylenol during pregnancy if you want your kid to be an engineer.