it's kinda hard to overstate how the central library was a focal point for daily wellington life, and how its closure has left the city centre so much emptier – this has been six years of work and I'm so glad it's almost finished wellington.govt.nz/news-and-eve...

Friends, if you’re able, please help Reem today 🫶🏽 gofund.me/4e333f55

happy 32nd birthday to this masterful, majestic album, the GOAT imho; moving & soothing & soaring & sonic, melancholic & melodious, opulent & furious; non-stop wall-to-wall bangers; absolute grandeur in its textural alchemy & oh the nostalgia. a 62:08min art work that makes mine heart work. love.

Jane Austen died on this day, 1817. Her sister Cassandra wrote: “I have lost a treasure, such a sister, such a friend as never can have been surpassed. She was the sun of my life, the gilder of every pleasure, the soother of every sorrow;” #JaneAusten 💙

Ooh that Claire Keegan can write, can she what. By jove.

If Hamas & before them the PLO are “terrorists” what do we call those they’re resisting who for decades w/ impunity steal their land, maim assault snipe rape slaughter; carpet bomb homes hospitals schools churches mosques & tents; deny food water & medicine; shoot the starving as they wait for aid?

I think if given the choice between a) we're gonna tax you, or b) we're gonna eat you, the rich will surely agree, taxation is preferable

Perhaps there’s been some confusion and somewhere along the line some people have been told, “you need to see a counsellor; your demeanour is shitty” but they’ve heard, “you need to be a councillor or the mayor for Wellington City”

To ensure that passion and commitment to a vital cause are honoured. And to take away the bitter taste of the USA's action against her. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

Labor’s unelected Anti-Semitism Overlord recently shat out a 20-page document demanding sweeping oversight of pretty much all areas of government to stamp out dissent against her beloved murder colony overseas which is starving kids to death daily. Here’s a snapshot of her sterling analytical powers

Away from the too-rough fingers Of the world. -Langston Hughes

tis a very rudeness at this age of 6 and 40 years to have the bod of an ailing octogenarian and the skin of a pubescent teen.

Ask the moon. Ask what it has witnessed.

Poetic genius.

Applications for the UC / Creative NZ Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence positions for 2026 have opened today. Ōtautahi based, $84500pa pro rata across 2 x 6 month positions, closes 3 August. Please share with your writerly friends. jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...

I’ve said it before & Imma say it again cos worth repeating innit. Friends: LIBRARIES! HOW GOOD?! You just go & hang out! & read! & they let you take books away! & you just bring them back later! & then you take more away! & then more after that! ever onwards! Beautiful thing! Blessed places! Glory.

“don’t forget us, don’t turn us into numbers... we love life, we have dreams just like you. We have children and wives we love, but to be truly human means not to abandon those who need your humanity.”

I, too, have just donated to Tory's campaign. She is one strong wahine and even though I don't live or own property in Wellington, I wanted to support her personally.

“After a min of reflection upon hearing the news of US imposed sanctions against her, the response of Francesca Albanese needed no translation - there is no stepping back in working for justice & freedom” ✊🏽 My love, respect, awe for her knows no bounds. She is honour, integrity, courage exemplified

“it was like that, and after that, it was still like that, only all the time”

Pōneke how lucky we’ve been to have a leader of such heart, humanity, humility & hope in @misswhanau.bsky.social! 👑 Praying whomever follows aint a sad grabby misogynist morally-bankrupt orally-flatulent flaccid recreant reprobate devoted to bigotry & hoodwinkery wholly unsuited to representing us🤞🏽

I've been careless with a delicate man

I've been a bad, bad girl

This number of submissions (likely exceeding 150,000) should inspire pride and awe at the power of grassroots opposition to our country’s right wing surge. This is especially thanks to the expert organisation and dedication of iwi Māori. www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/07/07/t...

really think we all deserve something nice, like a new government; one that is good, and not so very very mean and bad and awful

Wish there was a number to ring in the case of moral quandary and a voice of profound wisdom could give counsel as to what to do to navigate said quandary and indeed what to do with mine one wild & precious life entirely

In news of a joyous nature, book has been located. Was in the pile on my bedside table "where I left it" apparently, which is curious because it wasn't there when I stared at said pile for nigh on 30 minutes earlier? A blessing found nonetheless. Praise be.

Can’t find a bell hooks book so taken necessary step & instructed children to empty contents of all drawers, cupboards & shelves, remove contents of every room, tear up mattresses, pull apart furniture, rip up carpet, take off doors, take out walls, strip this very whare to its core. Must find book.

Here we got a museum for invertebrates showing more spine than most Western politicians. Blessings to these crustaceans against settler colonialism! ❤️🖤🤍💚🦀✊🏽

Jack Karetai-Barrett! Ko koe tonu a runga! 🙌🏽 Absolute legend! (also, @pepperraccoon.com, is that one of your choice tees our excellent mayor is sporting so stylishly?)

Yesterday, 8 Jul, marked 53 years since Ghassan Kanafani - poet, painter, writer, liberation fighter “who never fired a gun, whose weapon was a ballpoint pen” - was assassinated by Israel. His 17 yr old niece, Lamees Najim, was killed alongside him.

Personally I would be more excited right now about a groundbreaking programme to make billionaires extinct.

Friends, if you are in a position to help, please support dear Ahmed ❤️🙏🏽💚

Quality time with a dear friend

Not really sure she’s best placed to be lecturing others on such matters? When her partner’s son was told “no” at a Thorndon watering hole, he punched & stomped on a 72 year old’s head, leaving him with permanent injuries.

Palestine is & has for decades been a mirror to the individual & collective soul. We need a new vocabulary for the perpetration of such unmitigated depravity; the shameless gleeful escalation in brutality, the unfathomable hypocrisy, the unforgivable silence; the abject searing horror

I refuse to accept that the only way we can survive this world is to harden our hearts, but my god, what a thing it is right now to try to keep them tender

Netanyahu has nominated Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Dear friends, if you can, pls help Jamal ❤️🙏🏽

How will you live now? What are the consequences of silence? Describe a morning you woke without fear. What would you say if you could?

A plan to concentrate hundreds of thousands of people into some sort of camp or "city" from which they will not be allowed to leave. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

What news! A case for joy! 🎉🙌🏽❤️ congratulations brilliant @nuapk.bsky.social!

This has got to be the most wholesome video ever posted to TikTok. “Where’s he goin’! Where’s Darshan goin’!!” 😭😭

In yrs to come, when uri of these protesters see such footage they'll surely feel such pride knowing their ancestors stood steadfast against genocide & for dignity, safety, compassion. Sadly there'll also be many who'll learn they come from those who stayed silent or actively supported the slaughter

“respect for all beings is a duty, the struggle for justice is a light for us all, and happiness is possible and is the right of all beings. ...develop life options that refuse to put off justice and tenderness until tomorrow” -Dr Ivone Gebara