Sweetpea season 😍

I’m constantly in awe of all the clever, articulate women I know who manage to convey complex ideas with ease, empathy, and evidence. NZ punches above its weight for communicators, especially science and health communicators, and I hope more people appreciate how lucky we are in that regard.

Jennifer’s interviews continue to be a masterclass on explaining things clearly, citing the research and getting across why this is the worst possible decision for young people in Aotearoa.

Morning peeps! Two new rewards just dropped for my crowdfunding campaign: a two-hour AI strategy session with @andrewtychen.bsky.social & a two book BWB Texts bundle on digital technology in NZ! www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...

Merino felt embroidery with patterns inspired by traditional tatreez designs. Going to the Falastin Tea Collective for them to add to a raffle or future fundraiser ❤️

My house is filled with teenagers, and one of them just said to my son, “if we need to film a cottagecore video, we’re using your house”. This is a compliment, I believe!?

I don’t need to read the Epstein book to know that a whole bunch of famous people who have spent years claiming to have hardly known the guy, in fact, have documented evidence of going to his sex crimes island to do sex crimes and then write funny little notes to him about it afterwards.

We are deeply concerned about the other accelerationist neo-Nazis in the NZ Defence Force and the lack of political will to remove them. We know of at least four Action Zealandia members who have served or are currently serving in the defence forces.

The espionage soldier was a founding member of Action Zealandia, and set up their chat groups and recruited for them. He also made fawning posts about the Chch shooter. He was arrested before his planned to trip to Russia, following in the shooter's footsteps.

Yesterday, New Zealand Police revealed they didn't start investigating the espionage soldier until after March 15. Several anti-fascist researchers reported his online activity to the New Zealand Defence Force prior to the Christchurch massacre. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/marc...

Got to tell the teenager about Public Universal Friend this evening 🥰

Aotearoa - A variety of ropū are behind this #GrantTheVisas campaign, which is urgently calling on the Government to grant emergency humanitarian visas to Palestinians in Gaza who have family ties to NZ. They have heaps of resources to get on board here: grantthevisas.com

Watch out for - and call out - these talking points becoming the story as opposed to the debate focusing on the NZ Government weighing up its position on the recognition of Palestine as a state. It’s the same deliberate, clickbait nonsense that always happens when women speak up. Change the story.

Spineless fools who will be on the wrong side of history for many things. ##nzpol

Just the regular nothing I can say will do justice to what is happening in Palestine. I am watching. We will remember. 🇵🇸

Wonderful punchline to the thoroughly depressing story about the planned protests around the country yesterday and today. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We've put together our top tips for journalists to help guide you through the do's and don'ts of reporting on neo-Nazis. Please share it with your colleagues, and feel free to get in touch with us with any feedback. thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com/9-principles...

It’s so wild how this offshoot of ‘feminism’ has gone full circle into ‘a woman is defined by whether she has baby-making ingredients’ and if those bits don’t work, they’ll happily use the term ‘faulty’.

A heads’ up 👇

desperate stuff

AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.

Oh yeah because this has gone beautifully in the US. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Does anyone else’s cats get upset at the RNZ bird calls? 😅

Isn’t this just Bruce Wayne’s origin story?

More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. Please sign and share ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

logging onto Bluesky

The graffiti on that hillside just out of Mangaeweka that simply reads “WE KNOW” is peak New Zealand Gothic 👌

Yesterday I unknowingly and enthusiastically introduced two people who had a one night stand years ago. Nobody does awkward better than me. I’m the Michael Jordan of cringe.

This is doubly stupid (and factually wrong) because the gender equity issue isn't confined to a single gender, no matter how you define it. It's about industries that are predominantly staffed by women (however they define themselves). Cis men in nursing are also included in the claim.

Just now, RNZ reporter Ruth Hill referred to nurses winning a “sex based” pay equity claim against the government, when it’s referred to as “gender equity” everywhere except for in deeply transphobic circles. I’m unsure why today’s strike was viewed as an appropriate place to make that statement.

hey dude, I noticed you attempting to carve a small space for joy in the face of overwhelming sadness. kind of problematic considering all the horrors

The fucking author works for Microsoft ffs 🤦🏻‍♀️

There are a dozen amendments proposed by the FSU. I studied them in order to understand FSU's designs on InternetNZ through institutional capture, & hollowing it out. Each amendment is, in my reading, worse than the one before it.

The InternetNZ AGM falls on Thursday. It's a very consequential one. To secure institution's ability to serve all New Zealanders, members must vote down proposed changes to InternetNZ's constitution by the Free Speech Union (FSU) - published on their website. If passed, InternetNZ won't be the same.

It’s incredible that you can be struck off and de-registered from your own industry's professional body, and still get published patronising a woman who led the country through a terror attack and a global pandemic.

To have age verification is to accept platforms cannot change. It's not forcing accountability at all. It's accepting they have the power to continue to do nothing about the harms that exist on their services, that children will inevitably encounter when they turn 17. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Genuine question: Could someone please explain to me in simple terms whether the Epstein Files are more than the scrappy documents and little black book stuff that was already released a few years back?

We look at the seamless transition of the so-called 'freedom movement' from vaccines to gender, the ways transphobic politics connects elements of the fascist-right, and how Peters and NZ First are at the pointy end of attempts to manufacture a coercive state response to the gender moral panic

Winston Peters' transphobia is back in the news, so here's our recently published (open access) research on recent moral panics about gender in Aotearoa. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Penned a detailed report yesterday on how a post published by Winston Peters to his official Facebook account, generating 1,500+ comments, & related NZ First post, generating 270+ comments led to a tsunami of transphobia, incl. explicit calls for offline violence against transgender peoples in NZ.

While you clowns are having your precious little culture war moment, the economy is stalling, inflation is back and the streets are filling with the homeless. www.stuff.co.nz/travel/36077...

I don’t think people realise how sloppy Russian bot farms have gotten. Truly, they’ll be like: “I’m an 🇺🇸 patriot and I love my Цоунтры may God Bless America”

Other than my husband, married guys are my favourite guy friends to hang out with, because when they ask me what I want to drink and I say “a girl coke”, they know exactly what I mean.

Absolutely love this Behind the music clip

Banning under 16s from social media is the state pushing responsibility for safe platforms onto individuals and whānau, because they're too chicken shit to make social media companies accountable.

I play games of ice hockey with and against females every week, and I’m a very large human. Some of them make me look really average.

The reliance on boxing as the example - presumably amplified by the gross gender speculation of the recent olympics - is really frustrating. In lots of sports the community level is gender-mixed and this is not an issue.

Man, what do you reckon the “training for online meetings” looked like for the Auckland Council after old mate was caught doing sexual harassment on a hot mic.

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.