@beechworks.bsky.social I’ve been wearing your beautiful scarf all over Wellington this weekend and my cousin who paints was ENRAPTURED. She was racing off to look up your work! I feel like a beautiful billboard for nz art

I’ve sat in the room with this nurse for ages and I’m noticing a trend. People are very comfortable taking photos and sitting in the room with the graphically dying or harmed other figures but this one brings great discomfort. They hurry past her, avoiding her face #TePapa #Gallipoli #ANZAC #Nursing

Today; te papa and whanau time

Looks weird. I’m into it. #LetsGo #stamptown #Wellington

Omg if you live in welly and you aren’t eating the vegan mushroom empanada from Aurora Argentinian bakery EVERY DAY, you are missing out. Best flavour profile and texture I’ve had in a long time

Welly you pretty

25 years ago when I decided to become a nurse I didn’t realise it wasn’t a straight line and so many years later I would find myself in liminal spaces like airports and waiting rooms wondering wtf next. How much exhaustion in one career across so many jobs? 🤣

In fact the GFC, nearly 20 years ago proved decisively that countries with governments that did austerity fared much worse than those that, you know, helped people and understood that a country isn’t like a household

Those dirty, rotten fuckers 😒😒🤬 #nzpol

After an absolutely horror week at work, the writers fest is lighting my brain up in a thousand lovely ways that are healing the hurts. So nice.

I’ve just had the pleasure of hearing @catherinechidgey.bsky.social and Mick Herron and what a FAB facilitator Petra Baghurst is. Thank you for your inclusive, fluent, and gently translated te reo. Catherine faaaab as always.

Awwww yeah #awf26 off to a strong start with Hinemoa Elder’s session feeling like a safe healing space to step away from work and into creativity for the weekend. ❤️

I'm doing this on Sunday at Auckland Writers Fest www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/e... - I've not done something like this before so I'm a bit nervous, should be interesting and hopefully fun and not too depressing ;-)

I also want to put out into the world with a great shout of joy that this year I will be dropping my hours of my “real job” to do some private practice work supporting other professionals with Professional Supervision. I’m SUPER PROUD to be taking the leap, but it’s another reason to be less online

So my trip in October gave me a break from the socials that I really enjoyed and I haven’t been back on here much since, but I’m ok, better than ok really; thriving! Hi pals. If you know my real name look me up on insta. If you don’t, that’s ok 🤣

Hamilton pals, the op shop for breast cancer research has a bunch of brand new bed linens, pillow cases, and amazing big lounge pillows in store. They also have all the cute vintage Xmas stock out ready for December- great present shopping!

Also, if you’re wondering just how fucked health is right now (how could you be at this point?!) my mum was told her referral for a specialist will, on current estimates, take a year to be booked in. But that that was lucky cause anyone referred after early October simply doesn’t make the list.

📢 1,700 Policy, Advisory, Knowledge and Specialist health workers have voted to join strike action on 23 October. The strike follows the failure of Health NZ Te Whatu Ora to provide an offer during bargaining that fairly reflects their value to the public health system.

Well our first biggest travel leg is DONE. We left our regional home on Saturday morning NZ time, and arrived at our hotel in Istanbul at 11:30pm Sunday NZ time. Same clothes and shoes. Exhausted, but remarkably still feeling well and alert-ish.

"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

This only happens to you once

'free speech absolutists' my fucking arse!

What do you do when the man who said you should have "the living shit beaten out of you" keeps sitting in the front row of candidate events? You make him meet your eye. You make him listen to the gasps of outrage when you say his words outloud. You make him listen to the applause you get.

Needed to make a few calls through hospital switch today and the guy said to me”have a great holiday” and I said “you too” and then was like oh noooo Because it was autopilot and he wasn’t going on holiday. He laughed and I laughed.. and then…

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

NZ Minister of Health announces escalation of throwing public money to private healthcare in effort to destroy public healthcare. Not even hiding it now. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

If you are coming to a clinic and plan to tell little fibs about your lifestyle, come alone. Your husband/child/friend sitting next to you clearly wasn’t briefed as required to keep a straight face when you say you don’t drink and you only eat healthy. Also, I’m not judging! 😂😂😂

The abuse being thrown at women is horrific and needs to stop. Hopefully our votes will keep the worst out of councils, but menfolk, esp those of you in leadership roles, you need to step up, call this out and stop it.

Travel prep tasks completed this week; bags waterproofed. Hiking shoes cleaned ready for water proofing. Packing laid out ready to go in bags. Batteries into devices that need them, and last min order of the ones I’ve forgotten made. Passport and essential cards placed in obvious spot not “safe”

Simeon Brown is funding private equity telehealth companies up to ~4.5 times ($65/appt) more than community GPs. These same companies e.g. Tend Health are then charging Kiwis $80-100 for a call. #kiwi

Doctors strike today after a year of frontline hiring freezes, budget cuts and the multi-million dollar grift to private healthcare investors. Simeon has also cut 1/3 of ICU beds in some areas & closed suicide centres. The doctors' messages are bang on #nzpol #kiwi

So Simeon Brown just announced $20m "investment" in ED frontline staff, immediately after it was revealed Christchurch hospital is in code red every single day. But it turns out it's just OLD money from the 2025 budget & already allocated. Brown strikes again #nzpol #Kiwi

Drs (and nurses, teachers too) only ever strike as an absolute last resort - and because they care about YOU and the service they can provide to you. Unsafe staffing impacts you. Exhausted Drs impacts you. Underpaid Drs means they LEAVE. I stand with our Drs today, and always. #nzpol

here's my organising 101 find a local thing that needs fixing plan how to fix it ask if anyone wants to help fix the thing repeat we need it to be this simple to start with because in NZ our civic frameworks continue to be hollowed out. Connect in your communities, bond over jobs done well

The censorship and the violations of freedom of the press by this regime are unprecedented in our modern history.

Every games night should come with a compulsory crumb cleaner-waggy pal.

#nzpol reminder of the absolute corruption

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Antifascists are only an antigovernment terrorist organisation if the FASCISTS ARE IN GOVERNMENT. Say it again with me. IF THE FACISTS ARE IN GOVERNMENT.

This is WONDERFULLY WRITTEN

Hey Simeon, how about you stop repeating your tone deaf talking points? Step down from your pedestal to talk to the nurses, rather than running your mouth off. Read the fucking room you twat. #nzpol #bhn #onetermgovernment www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Omg #OnlyMurdersInTheBuilding references the kākāpō in this season- AND they use potae! This overlaps with both #BirdOfTheYear AND #MahuruMāori 😍

Sorry, this poster won me over

YASS TARA ITI 🗳️🗳️🗳️

Is it because they don't have the staff to keep an eye on all the patients so having 24/7 visiting means they can ignore the people with family in the room? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Even if you don't vote for your council (pls do but), tick that box for the referendum. It is BINDING for three terms - so if it fails, no Māori ward for nearly a decade. And EVERYONE votes, not just Māori. Tāngata Tiriti step up, Pākehā mā, you need to vote.

If you're sick of this government and this absolute race baiting bullshit and attacks on Māori across the board - vote in your local election and vote to keep Māori wards. Your council is ONLY having a referendum because this government is forcing them to. How embarrassing if they all get kept.

Cheats! #NZPol