A thing of beauty 🇳🇿🌱

Couple of branching thoughts before I move on. As long as we continue to view management and leadership as about control and status laddering, rather delivering results and elevating those around us, we will continue to incentivise unsuitable and sometimes downright broken people to cling to power.

So much fun at Pub Choir tonight, absolutely worth the earworm that will stay with my me for a long time. My face hurts from smiling and my throat knows it’s been singing loudly! Wellington And Christchurch - there are still tickets left for shows this week - it’s a fab night out!

This Parihaka Day, it's even more vitally important we acknowledge the ugliness in our past, as our government twist themselves in knots undoing all progress towards redressing such injustices. They're arrogant, racist and dangerous.

Gonna repost this every time I come across it on socials. 💚

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today have probably never heard of

I’m on a 3-day course for work, and was surprised to find it is lecture-style. This guy just spent 40 minutes lecturing us about differing learning styles and how most of us learn through doing or talking/reflecting… without a flicker of realisation or irony. I thought the ed sector had moved on!

In my heathen westie bogan petrolhead family, St Bathurst’s Day is what passes for a religious holiday. In position on the couch for the next 5 hours! #Bathurst1000

Can anyone recommend a trusted sleepover-in-our-home pet sitter in west Auckland? Our amazing sitter has moved away and I’ve had no luck finding a regular replacement. I’ve tried Pawshake and they’re great but would prefer consistency. 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🇳🇿

An excellent earworm for your morning - love it! Now do cycling… 🔊Sound on www.instagram.com/reel/DOxddQo...

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End the genocide now

One of the many benefits of our new electric double decker buses…being able to check out the thriving green roof of the bus shelter!

Even if you don't vote for your council (pls do but), tick that box for the referendum. It is BINDING for three terms - so if it fails, no Māori ward for nearly a decade. And EVERYONE votes, not just Māori. Tāngata Tiriti step up, Pākehā mā, you need to vote.

Excellent summary ⬇️

Tautoko

An observation…I’ve just had most of the last 2 weeks away from work due to illness. I probably stopped being infectious ages ago, but stayed away due to a lingering cough and not wanting to risk sharing germs. So when I returned yesterday, I was disappointed to experience 3 people clearly sick…

In a happy coincidence, it’s both #BlackCatAppreciaionDay and the birthday for my two favourite boys 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🇳🇿

You should do due deligence on candidates for local govt (also school board, liquor trust etc). Not all of them declare their affliations or beliefs in short candidate statements that comes with voting forms. Anyone who not selected by political party may still stand as independent #AoNZPol #nzpol

Reaffirming my status as favourite auntie 🐴😍

It’s the most wonderful time of the year #nziff

An earlier post prompted me to livestream Triple J’s broadcast today of the top 100 Aussie songs. The tunes are great, as was the caller just now talking about her outback rodeo drinking games featuring tequila shots and (actual) donkey racing. Stay classy Australia!

Post the last* pic of your pet * most recent…based on the quantity in my camera roll, it certainly won’t be the last 🇳🇿🐈‍⬛ 🦇🧸

Done my #nziff homework, ready for the presale starting tomorrow. It would have been easier with a hard copy programme but the mobile interface is really good this year. Narrowed it to only 20 films in 6 days 😬

I’ve been fortunate enough to get up close to a few kākāpō in my time, and they’ve all had such cool personalities. And it was so cool listening to Sirocco natter away to himself.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif ?”hard mode” (no Star Wars, Star Trek Lord of the Rings or Marvel)

This is your reminder that submissions on the Regulatory Standards Bill close TOMORROW at 1pm - have you had your say? Helpful tips in thread below. #nzpol

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RT if you agree

Ngā mihi o Matariki

Tell me your pet’s name with a gif

Made it home from the cabaret festival and made it safely inside the house just as the heavens opened. Now lying in bed listening to rain pounding on the roof and hearing the water tanks overflowing... 1/2

Words to live by

Where do I submit my application for aunty of the year award? Niece went on her first Cub Scout camp last weekend and envied the leaders’ camp blankets. I pulled her grandfather’s scout blanket (from the 60’s) out of the cupboard but it was too scratchy…

Spotted today in Briscoes - the Briscoes lady as an air fresh freshener!

You mean I’m not the only one???

Helpful tips so you too can submit on the Regulatory Standards Bill:

Quote post with a really foolish injury. Walking up to a two-way double door, put my arm out to push just as someone came the other way…broken wrist (for the third time in 9 months)

A must-read, so insightful 🧵

I think goth fairies might have colonised my lawn

Wild eyes 🐈‍⬛🇳🇿

This is my situation too. I’d gladly pay more to see our communities healthier and happier.

The Green Party budget proposes a *reduction* in income tax. More than 90% of income earners would pay less tax than currently. Everyone would benefit from massive increase in services like free primary health care, free public early childhood education, and so much more.

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

I learned something today #BeALuddite

🧵 Not only is undermining the Equal Pay Act against NZer's civil rights, it is fiscally idiotic. When govts refuse to add a wealth tax and give back money from taxes on RPBs (rental property businesses), you need taxes from you other narrow sources.

Some roles are made to be broken, but not this one…

I can think of a few #nzpol this could apply to in the current government