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

Police opened fire on #GenZprotests against corruption and a social-media ban, leaving 19 dead in the deadliest day of protest in Nepal’s history. Writes Pranay Rana

My life at present. Living well. But bitter about it… (ps, I live alone, it was me that did the peanut thing)

Kirikiriroa post! If you're an IKEA shopper (or plan to be one) the great news is you can catch a train to its Sylvia Park doorstep. Te Huia to Puhinui, then an AT train to Sylvia Park. Yes that's ZERO EXPOSURE TO AUCKLAND'S HELL TRAFFIC!

#nzpol Remember peoples ... (1) There is no money tree. (2) Money doesnt grow on trees. (3) We cant afford to feed & house our people. (3) We cant afford to pay teachers & nurses & ... any better. (4) We cant afford new boats (unless they have guns). (5) We cant afford pay equity. 🤔😥🙁☹😠😡😡

Once again, better reporting in international press #nzpol www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Doctors are concerned the Healthy Futures Pae Ora law change will stop health workers speaking out about things they think are detrimental to healthcare and the public. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #PaeOra #HealthNZ #PublicHealth

Remember when they told us they had accidentally hired *too many* nurses and literally EVERYONE went "That can't be right, you were just massively understaffed?!" #NZPol

Health NZ illegally hid staffing data for over a year to conceal their systemic understaffing of our public health. More than half of all day shifts and more than 1/3 of evening shifts last year were understaffed. The Ombudsman ruled that concealment illegal. #nzpol #kiwi

It would be so great if you could RT my tweet above if you have a spare few seconds. At the moment, due to a recent breakdown there's a limit to what I can manage work-wise & I make my living via my Etsy shop. Putting my shop in front of a few more eyes on here would help massively. Thankyou🌿🪶🐚

Was the privilege of a lifetime to work with these folks. They each did amazing things under huge pressure day-in-day-out for more than two years.

Manukau sunset from the g unit where a full day of nurse strike action has proven well and truly how essential they are and how much hospitals rely so heavily on their skills and care.

It is disgusting how the government and health NZ are trashing our nurses. It is bullying in a national scale. They have every right to strike, no matter what. Our nurses work harder and do more for people in a *day than Simeon Brown has in his whole shitty little life. #nzpol

Her face 🤣

Look at this response from Polanski to Sophie Ridge's attempted gotcha on flags To *finally* have a mainstream political voice standing up for racialised & minoritised communities being intimidated by the violent fash on our streets It's really not that hard, is it?

Solidarity from an Australian RN to NZ Nurses striking for pay, safer conditions and patient safety #nzpol