The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

Margin is a 100 votes!!! And they are still counting, so not final yet. 🫣

One of those days I could really use my own support worker. I gotta go special vote and pick meds up from the pharmacy. I'm too wiped out to get myself out and about to do either.

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

I finished my masters!! Yay! MSD cut off my Supported Living Payments and my payments stopped this week because in the flurry of OSCAR subsidy letters and finishing my masters and being constantly sick, I missed a review letter. Boo

“The world doesn’t owe you a living” Vs “I’m entitled to my entitlements”

Holiday casualties of Sept/Oct 2025: - 2x flooded bathroom ("I wanted a swimming pool") - 1x snapped kitchen knife ("I was trying to get into the lock box") - 1x heavily scratched lock box - ♾️x punched Pāpā - 10x removals of the Google home to prevent unauthorised YouTube use ("but it's a habit!")

I have about $8000 in extra student debt because my parents refused to fill out the forms with their income and it took a year to persuade Studylink to waive it at the ripe old age of 20 but yeah, means testing jobseekers for 18 and 19 year olds is a super smart idea that will go perfectly fine

As a historian, I don’t require my government to have the same level of knowledge I do, but I do ask of them the listening to those who have the knowledge. Our refusal to recognise Palestine is a national shame.

It’s always crazy to that the govt will wield their enormous power and punish people for being poor or bully children by withholding lunches but not do unhinged badass things like kick the Israeli ambassador out.

Officials drafting Government policy say more than half of the time they are being "constrained" from following a normal policy process. New story from me in The Post: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Disabled people being jammed into rest homes has been a quiet problem for decades since NZ's big residential institutions were closed.

my final draft, it is Done

Ōtepoti: Palestine solidarity Tomorrow there's an event that'll be good for the soul - Rozana for Palestine Community fundraiser Music, kai, poetry, cultural exhibits. Family friendly! 28th September 12pm-8pm 45 Māori Rd $10 entry, under 18s free All proceeds to Rozana (image, same info)

I get the gig economy concerns, but I'd love to see Total Mobility cover Ubers. An Uber will show me on the map where they're at, arrive on time, and let me ride in peace. A taxi will get there 30 mins after I call with no warning, and the driver will spout racist misinfo the whole ride.

Single parenting in the holidays with only family for childcare and two jobs and 3000 words/3 weeks left on a Masters is ROUGH. Today I've parented, been to a big provider hui, been to another work hui, done laundry and dishes, and I'm only just sitting down at 2.24pm able to maybe write 🤪

I've been quiet everywhere lately - I'll be back in like 3 weeks once I finish my masters. I hope you've all missed me 😁

Oi who decided my house was turning into an ingredient house this week, shit mate, all I want is dopamine snacks 🥴

Hey Hutt folks, you may miss it when voting, but please don’t vote for Suzanne Levy! She sounds fine, but OOPS she runs the TERF organisation Speak Up For Women.

"Oh em GEE - its like a dreeeeam!" - My child when a car actually stopped for us first try at the pedestrian crossing instead of speeding over it.

#nzpol Please take note of this. Kate is bang on and it’s disappointing to see it still happening. Nicola no boats is fine. It’s not tone policing it’s kicking misogny to touch.

US folks do have a look at the replies to Steph's post here. A perfect eg of a phenomenon you probably don't notice if you *are* in the US: many of us *aren't*. Mapping the dynamics & institutions of your politics onto the rest of us is bad enough, presuming we're always talking about you is worse.

friendly reminder that if you bought hogwarts legacy you directly contributed to the legal fund that created this ruling

The NZ government is trying to legislate out bilingual education like that my daughter's been in. She reads voraciously, and bilingually. She's also a much more secure kid for having her culture in her school with her. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Please do share this story so people don’t fall for this shitty scam

My kid has her first wiggly tooth, which firstly wtf and also how and also isn't she still a baby?! But secondly, omg I can't even handle looking at it and I couldn't stomach dinner thinking about it omg

In August, we especially take time to honor the 25% living with the most severe form of this disease & remember those who have lost. August 8th is the Severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) Day of Understanding and Remembrance, started by the 25% ME Group as a response to the death of Sophia Mirza.

wtf is my kid's bilingual class meant to have to learn te reo Māori as well as te reo Pākehā if these pukapuka don't get printed?

Yesterday I spoke at PADA's Parliamentary Breakfast for perinatal mental health. It was such a treat! To have government ministers right in front of us as we detailed gaps in service provision that risk too many of our lives after we have our babies, an absolute privilege and honour.

The Te Tai Tonga electorate is massive and kind of insulting tbh because there are a lot of rural transient young ngā hau e wha Māori working in shearing gangs, forestry and losing fingers for Talleys etc and they are not likely to be enrolled to vote while David Seymour calls them dropkicks. Ugh.

@nzno.bsky.social hey folks you need to make sure none of your protests today have a Red Cross on the signs and displays - it is a war crime under the Geneva Convention and you need to keep things right so there are no distractions from the kaupapa. Start with Ōtepoti 😅

Gender Minorities Aotearoa have documented and archived the resources Sport NZ have now removed - which in fact looks to be the whole rainbow section of the website, because it mentioned "transgender", including a rainbow inclusion e-learning module. genderminorities.com/resources/sp...

It's still possible to change your birth records without a court order or bottom surgery in NZ and I would recommend doing it ASAP! Neither your assigned sex or given name at birth are on your new birth certificate or on your records BDM have.

Performative acclaim. What a load of crap

This thing where my property managers can send a work order to tradies with no warning or notice to me, then tradies can call me out of the blue asking to pop round in 30 minutes and measure my lounge, is so freakin invasive and creepy and concerning.

Over half of participants said they'd be more likely to be involved in exercise or recreational sport if gender wasn't an issue. More than 2 in 5 had avoided gender-segregated exercise or recreation cos they weren't sure they'd be welcome. Just if you were wondering

In case anyone was curious, Counting Ourselves found that in 2022 trans people in Aotearoa participated in organised sport and recreation activities at nearly half the rate of the general population. Just in case you were wondering

Can somebody tell Stuff that it’s not a hypothetical body less transgender entity that those guidelines talk about. Those are guidelines on the inclusion of transgender PEOPLE in sport.

The guidance for trans participation that they have removed from the Sport New Zealand website is just three years old and was the result of a lengthy cross-code consultation. This move makes sport more unfair and more unsafe. Every person involved in this is a hateful mess. Wish them the worst.

The craven immoral people running most European governments, led by genocide-enabler Starmer, could blockade Israel, could force their way into Gaza to enable UNRWA to deliver aid. But no, all that military spending at the expense of health, education & housing isn’t meant for helping Palestinians.

It took 1 minute from changing Furby's batteries to regret replacing them.

Why is "random parent's reckons about school holidays" given front-page billing by RNZ? With no counterpoint from kids who generally look forward to having some time away from school. Covid showed us that a lot of parents view school primarily as free childcare, but we shouldn't amplify that view

Part of why I hate AI slop websites is because they’re drowning out the true beauty of the internet: single topic webpages from 2003 created by people with hyperfixations.

This this this Washing hands and wiping down surfaces will not do much to protect children from a deadly, highly infectious, airborne virus. Vaccinate and ventilate.

It's important to make sure all community members feel they can use public libraries. Urban foxes are an under-served demographic with a long and rich history in London.

Difficult to conceive of a more ill-judged decision then the one the Home Office took here. It is an affront to free speech of a kind which is really indistinguishable from what you'd see in a police state.

TMI warning, you've had your warning 😎 omg I coughed up a bronchial cast and it was so cool to see the shape of my bronchial tubes 🤣

I'm on a waiting list for an ADHD assessment I can't afford, cos I jumped on it a while ago before my whānau ora org completely ran out of funding and couldn't afford to support me with the cost anymore. And I'm also in this intense state where nothing brings me the dopamine I am craving anymore.