Aww Shaneel Lal just came over to introduce themselves at a cafe. Love it when I meet old Twitter buddies in real life. Hate not having an edit function to fix autocorrect.

Is this too soon: You gotta admire the fact he was prepared to take a bullet for the right of people to make him take a bullet.

@mattyangel.com hey lovely we are coming down for a weekend soon and I’d love to see you. Will message you details xx

If you watch one thing tonight, let it be this. This is delicious.

1/3 Ignorance is bliss - a story of Minister Van Velden’s disastrous Q&A interview in nine panels.

So he’s now started a proxy war, right?

It’s all very well marching and posting against fascism. Next time, fucking vote against it.

We talked to Sam Neill at his vineyard. I gave him a pack of tissues and we discovered he had lived in our apartment as a drama student.

We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again

On top of humanities and social sciences being cut from eligibility for the Marsden Fund, changes to 're-balance' the histories curriculum, attacks on the Waitangi Tribunal, etc, it seems clear the government would prefer we remain in ignorance about our history. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

I just watched a reel where a comedian referred to using a vibrator during sex as ‘calling in a drone strike’. I’m gonna be laughing all day.

Don McGlashan: 2 Chris Bishop: -100

Meanwhile over on X…. Love this for me.

I’ll be speaking about pay equity on TVNZ Breakfast again tomorrow morning at 6.55am.

Sadly, this never goes out of fashion. Just wish I had a Tshirt of this image from the 1980’s. I managed to get it into evidence in the Employment Court during the Bartlett and E Tu v Terranova case by submitting a research paper which featured the image on its cover.

Rarotonga for a yoga retreat has been such a brilliant de-stressor. I’m so grateful to be able to come here. Namaste.

I swam with the turtles and the fish, I am in a state of bliss. Always my favourite part of our yoga retreats in Rarotonga.

Join the thousands of NZers who have signed the petition to protect pay equity www.together.org.nz/fbt_for_pay_...

"Culturally unsafe care is unsafe clinical care. We cannot pretend otherwise." thespinoff.co.nz/atea/12-05-2...

Andrea Vance 1; Nicola Willis -3

Kirikiriroa! Let's goooooo 💪

Look at Erica Stanford supporting the original Pay Equity Act - with Nicola Willis nodding in support. Hollow words now - guess they don’t care about women and girls. #nzpol

Today would have been our mum Anne’s 80th birthday. She was smart, funny, feisty and courageous. She was a feminist and championed human rights way before it was trendy. She made us believe we could do amazing things even though there was no money. I miss her every day.

Over 20,000 have signed in less than a day!

This year, give women what they really want for Mother’s Day: pockets, willingly doing your fair share of the domestic labour and a promise to vote for the people who care about paying women what they are worth.

Thread 🧵 here - every bit of this is so bleak & heartbreaking. What it shouts loud & clear is fuck the workers. The working class in Aotearoa is being shafted & our overlords are telling us to be thankful, to keep accepting the unacceptable whilst they get richer & richer. Up the workers ✊ #NzPol

Pretty strong words from a respected employment lawyer. www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...

Pretty strong wording - appropriately - from Coughlan in the Herald. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/... Also notes the irony of ACT's Regulatory Standards crowd ignoring some of the most basic principles of regulatory practice.

How furious am I about the pay equity travesty? Angry enough to get up at 5.30 to go on TV Breakfast and talk about it. Organise, protest, support unions, vote.

Look what's happening at the French Embassy in Washington DC.

Advice for our allegedly Christian PM. When Jesus said “Suffer the little children...” he really didn’t mean “Make the little children suffer” Just saying. #nzpol

What a photo.

It is so frustrating having to handhold large swaths of the people I share this city/country with, to convince them *why hatred and violence toward trans people is dangerous and bad*. Yes, it has broader repercussions for everyone. We also have, y’know, human rights? #nzpol

Our government has had an absolute corker of a day. Sorry, misspelt cooker.

Every announcement this government makes is just baffling. Citizens arrests risk serious harm to both parties. Do not encourage your staff to do this. It breaches your health and safety obligations.

Managed a half hour walk on the beach. It was gorgeous.

Healing crystals will be injury crystals if you throw them hard enough.

Eleven years ago I saw this mince sculpture in a local supermarket. I have not seen the likes of it since!

Ugh I have to get up and do my exercises. Alexa, play House of Pain playlist on Spotify.

I have 10 tickets for a show in the Fringe Festival: The Lost Lyre of Babylon. In Wellington tomorrow night at 6pm at Te Auaha. A koha which will go back to the producers (the Wayfarers) would be appreciated. Please DM me if you would like a ticket.

So happy to see MAGA who have lost their jobs are accepting it graciously as part of the master plan for World Domination.

Strutting our stuff at the Vivienne Westwood Gala.

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Today, we not only celebrate the scientists but also everyone dedicated to enhancing Wikipedia's coverage of women in science – and those who will be inspired by reading their stories. Read more: wikiedu.org/blog/2025/02...

I’ve ditched tramadol and am getting by ok on Panadol and celecoxib. Also using the ice cuff machine, massage balm and Muzza hugs.

She shrugged, "It's ok. It happens." We all share that look & shrug: America, baby. You know how it is. "But...thank you." And that was that. We went our separate ways. Whole interaction just took a few seconds. And that, white people, is why we, YOU, have to speak up when you see shit like this.

I managed to walk carefully around the farmers’ market and had brunch at our fav Seriously Pickled. Yay. Gorgeous day too. I even wore a frock. The specialist said I only need to use a crutch or both if I really need them. Took one for balance and defensive weaponry purposes.

2 weeks post surgery the leg’s looking pretty good. Lot of the swelling and bruising are gone. Wound looks pretty clean. Using one crutch outside the house for safety and to take some pressure off. Stopped tramadol last night and so far so good. I’m calling a win for the prep. Massage balm 1/2

Happy Waitangi Day. A day of remembrance, celebration and protest. This land is my land; this land is your land. Our society is built on te Tiriti and pretending otherwise or trying to rewrite history only rips open old wounds and divisions. Don’t let them do this to us.

Kinda Pregnant is the best thing.