2026 is gonna be my year.

BREAKING: The High Court of New Zealand has granted PATHA’s application for interim relief, declaring that the Crown should not take any steps to enforce the incoming ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers to transgender children and young people. More to come:

I wish the fucking idiot parked in Mansfield St with their car stereo blaring a kindly go FUCK yourself it is MIDNIGHT and you WOKE ME UP 🤬🤬🤬

Argh OneNZ stop texting me!

Somewhat amused by the fact that the arm & shoulder exercises prescribed to me by the hospital physio can best be described as "soft and pendulous". 😳🫣 #JustWellingtonThings #IYKYK

An important reminder for International Day of People with Disabilities: #disability does not just mean "legs don't work" and #accessibility doesn't just mean ramps. Lots of so-called "accessibilty" is performative & largely useless.

Can somebody please turn the rain off? Just for a couple of hours so I can do my grocery shopping? Thanks. #WellyWeather #FallingDamp

BREAKING: Henry Kissinger is still dead. 🖕😘🖕

"Penfold, shhhh!"

Quaxing?

What's the Kiwi slang for doing your grocery (or other) shopping without using a car? Named after a politician who claimed that such a thing was basically impossible and he had never done it in his life.

Look, if we're talking about #pie, the best pie filling that I've ever made hands-down was bacon, onion, Granny Smith apple, garlic, balsamic vinegar, and smoked cheddar cheese. Everything barring the cheese was pan-fried together before going into the pastry. Shut up, it was delicious.

David and Georgia Tennant, Tamsin Outhwaite and Tom Ellis, Sade....

The thing that makes me possibly the maddest is when adults have their bullshit moral panic bigotry about whatever issue and they start going after children first. They do it with fat kids, and brown kids, and trans kids. You exploitative harmful assholes, pick on someone your own size

You know you're on the wrong side of history when hate groups like Family First are crowing about your latest policy. #PubertyBlockerBanNZ And NZ First is claiming they've "won the war on woke". Absolute trash (derogatory) excuses for human beings. 🤮

FUCKING HELL. 🤬 NZ Govt is banning puberty blockers for trans people bc "it's unsafe" but will continue prescribing to cis people. They decided to do this during Trans Awareness Week. Arseholes! www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-...

What's your sign?

Woke up because pain levels sre between 7 and 8, what with the broken collarbone and the frozen shoulder. I have taken all the painkillers and they're not working. Now having to rely on ice packs, mentholated patches, and Tiger Balm. Bodies suck. Embodiment was the worst mistake ever.

Evergreen post.

Current status: being kept awake by collarbone pain.

Is the #Kiwibank app down for everyone else, or just me? No balances, and when I try to log in it rejects my PIN.

who tf gave that kid a whistle? #NewtownLife

WHAT FUCKING IDIOT IS LETTING OFF ROMAN CANDLES AT 3.30PM NEXT TO THE ZOO?!?!? 🤬 I just CAN'T with some people. Assholes!

Film director Lee Tamahori has left us. Moe mai ra.

Heh. Looks like the nervous Aucklander is currently on holiday in Invercargill... #eqnz

Dick Cheney, you say?

Today, Wednesday 29 October 2025, would have been my grandmother Dot Stafford's 100th birthday. Happy birthday, Grandma. I miss you.

This is the best cheese I have ever tasted. Ever.

Way back in the mid-90s, I made the terrible mistake of asking if the deli counter at my local supermarket had aioli. This was before aioli became popular. The supercilious teens behind the counter said loftily "we don't have alley-oli, whatever THAT is." And sneered at me.

Wandering around the Whakatū market. Highlights so far: the goat camembert and the hibiscus punch. So good.

Take a break from doomscrolling for a moment and look at these flowers! 📷

You want to talk about "unfairness in women's sports"? Fine. Let's talk about the income discrepancies between men's and women's sports then. *That's* the main source of unfairness, and it has sweet fuck-all to do with trans people.

So I'm flying to Whakatū tomorrow morning, and there is a red warning for wind with a strict travel advisory notice in Pōneke. They're expecting wind gusts of up to 140kph between 8am and 6pm. My flight is at 10.40am. What do you reckon is the under/over of my flight being postponed or cancelled? 😅

Parker was looking for some more Christmas tree decorations. #Leverage

Came off my trike after taking a corner a bit too sharply. Result: broken collarbone. Bugger.

As a certified Bluesky Elder™, I fully endorse this comment. Do not speak to me of "bloots". I was here when the Alf Hog was rampant. They are skeets.

Rest in power, Miss Major. www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends! 🍁

Is anyone else having a problem logging in to the #Kiwibank app at the moment? #kikorangi

Hail to the king, baby. #WellyWeather #kikorangi

If you're buying a new appliance that needs some form of replaceable add-on in order to work properly (eg filters for dehumidifier or air purifier), make sure to buy spare add-ons at the same time. Then when they need changing, use your spare and order another one immediately.

Today's Google Doodle is for the Mid-Autumn Festival. It's currently showing in a bunch of countries, including New Zealand and Australia. Where it's SPRING. Hey Google, what's a hemisphere?

Oh ffs, the supermarket has stopped selling my preferred type of toilet paper. 😭 I utterly REFUSE to chafe my ass on inferior bumwipe. King size 4-ply or gtfo! (Yes, I know, it's a first world problem. I have lactose intolerance. Shut up.)

Daylight Saving starts tonight! Can't wait for those long summer evenings... #kikorangi

A small joy: the way my fingers smell after peeling a blood orange.

If Christopher Luxon thinks that the official count for general elections is "too slow", perhaps he ought to come in and observe the count in action at some point? #nzpol

Which arsehole is letting off fireworks right next to the zoo?!? 🤬

What's something beautiful that you saw recently?

Attn #kikorangi peeps: I suggest that for next year's general election, we use the hashtag #pōti2026 or something similar. Pōti means "vote" in te reo Māori, and it should keep Americans from yelling about midterms in our mentions.

#Aotearoa! The Electoral Commission is currently hiring electorate managers for all regions of Ao/NZ for the 2026 general election. Find out more here: work.elections.nz/home #nzpol #pōti2026 #NowHiring #jobs