incredible how transphobia is such a reliable bellwether for all the other terrible opinions someone holds

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As an artist, Spotify is the worst possible way to listen to my music - plus the company sucks massively. Other streaming platforms (like Apple or Tidal) are better, and the most accessible option for most people. But if you're feeling up for it, try starting your own library. /1

Ngl some parts of silksong are hitting that itch that @sunsetvisitor.studio 1000xResist also scratches

Exactly. Did you know that Winston Peters enabled the Springbok Tour to go ahead as he worked against a NZ judge that tried to stop the springbok tour from going ahead, using parliamentary privilege to attack him #nzpol

The holy season has arrived (daylight savings) but my body has not got the memo (still got the flu)

I recognize Palestine, even if the current government won't.

Palestine is not Hamas any more than Ireland is the IRA or Aotearoa is ACT

Beating a dead horse here but it’s an absolute shocker that rnz can report on our nation’s cowardice at the UN and the only occurrence of the word “genocide” comes from a quote from Labour

So this week trademe decided to resume emailing me for every search I’d ever signed up for email notifications for, regardless of the fact I’d unsubscribed from all of them a long time ago. There’s no way to unsubscribe from them now. I hate emails

Samuel Leason interviewed on RNZ just hours after the flotilla, with 3 NZers on board, was bombed by IDF drone strikes #NZPol

See? SEE??? Some folk in Aotearoa NZ have been yelling this at us since 2020, some even earlier, but they were the ones denounced as conspiracy nuts by, guess who, the Right

Who else up being led to despair instead of being radicalised by current events

IT WOULD BE FUCKEN GREAT IF THE SCEPTICISM THAT THE NZ MEDIA HAS SHOWN TO "TYLENOL CAUSES AUTISM" COULD BE APPLIED TO "GENDER AFFIRMING HEALTHCARE IS BAD" BECAUSE THEY'RE BOTH FUCKING LIES SPREAD BY THE FAR RIGHT

For the last 2+ years dymista has been the literal only thing that will touch my hayfever - nothing else worked at all and as long as I was on top of the daily dymista, I wouldn’t get it at all. But now I’ve been hayfevery all week so I’m begging anyone with similar experiences: what do you use?

Maps without New Zealand (derogatory)

It’s so funny to see all the rich people also play the “passing the same $5 around everyone’s gofundme” except it’s the same billions of dollars going into destroying the environment, jobs, and truth :) they’re just like us :)

Crowd funding campaign now live! I'm raising money for a limited series podcast investigating how the campaign to quit the Paris Climate Accords went from the fringe to the mainstream www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/861...

#nzpol Do we have to do this all the time? beehive.govt.nz/release/20-mil… It’s not new funding. “the initiative will be funded from Health New Zealand’s baseline”. So it’s actually being cut from somewhere else. We already underfunded the health system at the Budget. This is a further cut

"When academics can't invoke settled patterns of far-right mainstreaming without hitting up against coordinated harassment campaigns sanctioned by elected officials, we've already lost something important." culture-centered.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-...

How a National Party MP Weaponized Violence to Target Academic Criticism culture-centered.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-...

"a relentless campaign of threats, break-ins, threats on their child, assaults, and police interventions that turned their life, and their child’s, into what they call “a tsunami” of fear." www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/09/21/a...

Asking a majority non-Māori population to vote on whether Māori wards should be kept is racist as fuck. Asking any majority demographic to vote on whether minorities should have certain basic rights that facilitate equity is straight up bullshit. And referendums make me furious.

Picked up a lil pair of bookshelf speakers for next to the tv, and moved the homepod we were using to the back of the room and yeah this is really satisfying listening aye

Comparing what's happening to the careers of people who have made comments on Charlie Kirk with what happened to the careers of people who signed bombs destined to be dropped on Gaza really shows the way some lives are valued more than others

NZ's first non binary MP was recently pushed out of Parliament. We should all be disgusted. It's not a coincidence, it's part of a growing movement to attack any minorities representing our people.

new zealand government reaching new heights of stupidity next year our public dollars will go more to AI grants ($70 million) than all investigator-initiated basic science combined ($56 million in the Marsden fund)

“While I do not accept that change is impossible from the inside, I have come to learn that it comes with a price, of violence and hate towards my people. This is a price I am no longer willing to pay.”

What an incredibly fucking powerful valedictory speech from @benjamin-doyle.greens.org.nz this evening and what an absolute fucking shame none of those responsible for the abuse had enough of a spine to be present for it.

Man I’m having such a good time with silksong but I sure wish I could continue exploring the story instead of butting my ahead against the last judge over and over again

This recent media amplification of divisive Māori politics (regarding Tākuta Ferris' comments) is making me uncomfortable, especially in Māori language week. It's very much a case of magnifying the specks of flaws in Māori, and ignoring the logs of flaws in everyone else.

Because 'Antifa' is not an organisation, this means anyone can be designated 'Antifa', just as anything in Hong Kong can be designated a threat to 'national security'. State terror works best when no-one knows where the line is.

In case you thought @nzccl.org.nz was being paranoid about ever increasing levels of surveillance, even the Privacy Commissioner says it wouldn’t be permitted in countries we pretend our Privacy Act is on a par with.

Todd McClay has made a series of decisions increasing nitrate contamination in Canterbury (and elsewhere). So when he criticises the council for declaring a nitrate emergency it is like an arsonist criticising people for calling 'fire' after he sets their house alight. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Thank you Jack. It's moments like this where we see the mahi and legacy of groups like @asians4tino.bsky.social become so meaningful.

I'm glad that this has shifted but I'm also never forgiving most journalists in this country for facilitating a pro genocide narrative across the board and widely refusing to throw their bodies on the gears, or even just speak out about what was happening internally to their newsrooms that led to it

I’ve never felt more called out about my media consumption habits than by youtube just now suggesting me a video category (containing just two videos) called “computer program and more”

Hipkins doesn't have to eat shit like this. He's up against an enormously unpopular govt. Like if u want to hedge just say "I'm willing to work on this to help those affected." But nah he wants to signal that he's a "sensible" racist to the mythical middle NZer.

Our opening policy position reads:

ministry of defence to left and the beehive to the right

Feel like I keep banging on a pot with this but this episode is critical listening - especially drawing the links between govt inaction on Israel, all the absolute crap this govt has done, and our foreign policy agenda

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.

"Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Occupied Gaza" That was how 1News introduced the first item today. One day, everyone will have always been against this

Kua haere au ki Te Matau-a-Māui ki te mahi i tēnei ata - kei te haere au ki tōku kāinga ināianei. Ka tino ngenge au i tēnei pō!

I fundamentally don’t understand the “sign up for this protest” discourse because I never want to fill out a form OR receive an email. Protests are one of those blessed events where you don’t need to sign up or rsvp why would you want to in the first place

You being careless puts those people in more danger. You signed up for a protest? Great, now the police can subpoena the records, determine who signed up, and check their social media for photos, check their phone locations for who was nearby, etc, etc.

The first people the police and the regime target at a protest will ALWAYS be the marginalized people around you: the Black people, the people they baselessly racially profile as likely to be undocumented, the queer and gender non-conforming, and other enemies of the regime.

Nurses turn their back on Simeon Brown in spontaneous protest as Brown lies & scolds them. Official data shows that 1/2 of all day shifts and 1/3 of night shifts are understaffed under National, as Brown keeps pushing NZ to a US style healthcare system #nzpol

Critical detail: they’re also defining “being trans” as inherently pornographic and thus attempting to ban people from being openly trans in an attempt to - say it with me now - push trans people out of public life.