Concert radio is live streaming the song quest if you want to hear the latest amazing young nz opera talent live

Celebrated matariki by dragging teenagers out of bed at 5:15am and making them hang out on a cold beach with their parent’s friends. Great joy and memories and complaining 🤣 #magical

Music nerds help me out here. Really wanting updates from kiri te kanawa song quest - any news???

Librarians, I love you, and I will hold your hand while I say this: Your Disability Pride Month booklists should not include books by nondisabled people about disabled people. We have a saying—it’s been around for a long time now: Nothing about us without us.

3panel cartoon Grizzled patient asks intern “more blood? What do they do with it all?” Scene of pagan worship people in body paint & animal masks dance around a cauldron tipping in blood samples. A disembodied eye hovers above The intern says “um…it’s so they can work out what’s wrong with you”

Labour promising to repeal the Disability Support Services Bill if they're elected is a good start but we also need real accessibility legislation from them and real support for disabled people and their families so we can have good lives where we're not expected to accept living in poverty #nzpol

If you see Nat, ACT & NZF MPs at Matariki events you might want to ask them why they are there given their ongoing work to undermine Te Tiriti and remove public use of te Reo Māori, Māori representation, etc. There’s a word for people who turn up to photo ops for something they oppose: Hypocrite.

saw this question posed, checked the map, immediately burst out laughing

Without downloading new pics, describe your gender in one image.

Dotterels at sunset

Just sent in this OIA. Will let you know how I get on.

Evidence of a post winter solstice swim today. A gorgeous day but it was still bloody cold!

Banks are ALREADY doing this!! We got a Clean Energy loan from ANZ for 1% interest fixed over 3 years. I don't understand a party offering as an election promise something already is www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

It's always the ones you most expect.

Today was sad and hard, but in amongst it, small joys. Whooping at a woman I love and admire out of the car window, so glad to see her. Someone grabbing me in a hug and muttering through tears *omg your hair is amazing, this is so shit*. Long hugs with pals. Being there for my John, by his side

A thread on grief: I need people to stop and think about asking the question “did they have children” when someone has died. Instead ask “what did you love about them”, or “what will you remember most about them”. It’s such a blessing to share memories but that’s SUCH a shit question

🚨This is tomorrow! 🚨 Take an ~hour out of your afternoon and come an hear us play, we'll be featuring the Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah, music from Howl's Moving Castle amongst other lovely music. We also have an excellent quintet performing. There's nothing like live music!

Sign. And vote this government out. Essentially this bill will open up places like the Rimutaka Ranges for evonomic development. This is not us. www.forestandbird.org.nz/campaigns/sa...

Walked out of work rather heavy of heart today and sorry about the state of the world with one less legend in it. Double rainbow was waiting to keep us looking up, chasing the good stuff.

nz politicians losing their mid about 'lolly scrambles' and the lollies are called things like "effective cancer screening" and "clean water"

I had a migraine yesterday with the inevitable post migraine nausea today and so of course today was #AllTheGrossThings. Around the same time as my appetite started coming back online I was running around trying to get a form for a specimen of pus I had taken, and my stomach started WILDLY rumbling

This is a fantastic statement from Labour's rainbow spokesperson Georgie Dansey (who i don't think is on bsky yet!). I've been critical of the way Labour have talked about trans issues so here's me giving credit where it's due again - this is exactly what we need to see from them, thank you Georgie!

Waikato Symphonic Wind Band concert on Saturday 20th June at 2pm. St Aidan's Church (24 Thames St). Entry by koha, plus bake sale after (inc. @phdbaker.bsky.social cupcakes/cookies iykyk!) and a raffle. Fundraising for the NZCBA festival. Fun for all ages, esp. kids or anyone instrument-curious!

Nobody tell @dimsie.bsky.social but this was one of my favourite signs today. Amaze, amaze, amaze! #nzpol

Thanks so much Kirikiriroa for showing UP today! I was slightly worried no one would come, so am stoked we had such a successful event. Big mihi to everyone who put in mahi — whether on the mic or behind the scenes — to make it happen. Photos will come later, but I appreciate y'all. ✌🏻

And such a huge turnout!

Some of my favourite signs from today 🏳️‍⚧️💪🌈

Actions this Saturday to support trans people in Aotearoa & protest NZ First's harmful Definitions of Woman and Man Amendment Bill:   Tāmaki Makarau: 12pm @Myers Park Kirikiriroa: 12pm @Civic Square Pōneke: 12pm @Civic Square Ōtautahi: 1pm @Bridge of Remembrance Whakatū: 2pm @1903 Square #nzpol

I am sure I am not the only one feeling sick and overwhelmed this evening with this world, these wars, those hateful movements, this government, that dehumanising law, those restructures… the list goes on and gets closer and closer to home. Step off line. Hold loved ones. Paint your signs

@chrishipkins.bsky.social @drayeshaverrall.bsky.social This govt PROMISED no cuts to frontline roles, (which has been managed by health NZ by just not counting vacancies and freezing recruitment) but now HNZ seems to be dropping all pretense and just cutting away! Response please?!?!? #nzpol

#marsdenshmarsden I guess 🪦

When I moved into my little house about five years ago my housewarming present from @ri was a box of daffodils bulbs to be picked up that next winter from a local grower. I planted them around my fruit tree. Happy to say I’ve dug them up and many have turned into multiples and been able to be split

He's a master of distracting us from crimes he's already committed by continuously committing new crimes. 5 months until the Midterms. #AccountabilityIsComing

A co-ordinated campaign of secret lobbying to protect big polluters from answering to New Zealanders www.1news.co.nz/2026/05/24/a...

The plot thickens. Turns out the lobbying docs sent to the govt by Fonterra that resulted in the law change that ended Mike Smith’s case against Fonterra went via the private email of a Luxon staffer. That stinks so bad. www.1news.co.nz/2026/06/02/f...

The disabled women’s network met tonight, we were unanimous in opposition to the msn woman bill - many disabled bodies don’t fit gender norms and this bill will make things so much harder for us.

Ok this is a little delayed, for two reasons. One; I needed to take the time and space to process the book- which is gorgeous. And the second is that around the time I got it, another pal was diagnosed stage 4, also before the age of bowel screening. #NgākauruaBook

@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. ❤️