What a day so far, Seymour is getting his Ministry of Regulation for the bargain price of $150k/y/staff member (91 employees) and National are striking the four pillars of wellbeing from the local govt act.

Starting a thing.

A weird thing about being asthmatic - how people look at you when you use your inhaler in the office. It's like they've never seen one before. One workmate asked what it was for. People have asked if it is a vape. I thought inhalers were fairly normal?

So a fun thing happened today, my husband and I were declined for life and income protection insurance because we're depressed potheads 😂 On the bright side, that's fewer expenses for us. As long as we aren't incapacitated and don't die

I just scrolled through 100 Facebook posts in my news feed. 1% were friends posts 6% were posts from groups I'm a member of 2% were posts from regional/national news pages 91% were random pages, groups and advertisements that Facebook is pushing on me.

p5 Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.

Well I already knew that men were absolute noodles

Something I always find so wild is that Councillors phone numbers are publicly available on the CCC website - what kinds of messages and calls do you all get? @sarainchch.bsky.social

Oof the tea in my Woolston group. Very active member of the local FB group caught drinking while caring for children at work. Honestly really helps to explain her hobby of abusing local govt staff over the phone in the evenings.

i love how when there’s a woman in power like kamala men immediately assume she’s only there bc of all the blow jobs she’s given but let me tell you i’ve given a good number of blow jobs in my life and i have absolutely zero power so you can throw that theory right out the window

Every time I attend the Junior South Schools cross country at Hillview School I am struck by two things 1. They have a cross country coach 2. They regularly state "we'll now say karakia" but it's all in english....

The obscene thing I witnessed was like a parable: a parable of the madness of wealth, and of how the dead-eyed rich are trashing our lives. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

To the tune of Jingle Bells Data hell Data hell You change the process every day Oh what a mess my data is and my health is becoming worse

When I realised I am polyamorous, I told a dear old friend who was also my ex-fiancee. I was dropping him at the airport & he had always been a great sounding board. He completely fell off the map, I never saw or heard from him again. It's been 6 years. Turns out he moved to Switzerland.

The Hits decided to discuss breastfeeding in public this morning. Still cannot get over the fact that the overwhelming response they received was that there is a time and place for breastfeeding in public, and it is important to respect other people No, feeding your baby comes first.

Do I take it as a compliment that my husband now has two friends who are "not allowed" to visit our house without their partners? #polyamorousproblems

It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits

Moving Westward across Ōtautahi in the early am is fascinating because the frost gets harder. Ferrymead had a dew. Frost emerged & then got harder across Woolston. How heavy will the frost be by the time I get to Riccarton?

Chantelle Baker has swamped the socials with footage of two young people smashing her windscreen along with some allegations leading up to the event. I can't help but wonder what actually happened before the video

My whanau went on the Winter Solstice light night bike ride tonight in Hagley Park - SO glad we made the effort. The model yacht club were sailing their beautiful lit up yachts too, such a good start to our Matariki season ✨

With perimenopause, do the night sweats start off light - like damp shirt every morning when you wake up? Everything I have read says "clothes and bedclothes drenched in sweat" like there is no in between

Turns out that riding a bike up hills is significantly more impactful on ones vulva *ouch*

This rich white lady gives more money to her world vision kids than she gives to people earning $288 a week #nzpol

I live at the income level where my tax cut is a whole $0.00. There are people on lower income than me and giving your mates a tax cut at the expense of the poor is a c*nt move.

Life with a view again is the most healing thing.

Just booked my first great walk 🙌 The DOC booking system was fantastic, didn't crash once and increased my time back to 25 min each time I got to a new part of the booking process.

DICKs: Dual Income, Coupla' Kids

Jokes on them because I'm gonna work till I die #millennial

This is what we pay rates for. We could fund Orana Park, The Arts Centre, and more with the money that gets spent on fixing the damage done to public property.

What if you're a millennial who has had a J every night for most of the last 18 years and greens out frequently 😂

The moment I've been waiting for the last 6 years 🥹🚲 Ōtautahi has a brilliant Council run bike safety programme. They take year 6 students through 3 sessions to learn to bike safely on the road. I've been teaching my children, but lots of whanau can't for whatever reason - mine didn't teach me.

They're going to convert 35 existing schools with existing students. How do we stop this?

Feels like Ōtautahi early risers have each had a little half hour sleep in this morning. Self care ❤️

I'm speechless: Luxon told Stuff he didn’t think “ethnicity” should be considered in the care of children. “The obligation is to place children in good homes. As to what ethnicity those families or those foster parents may be, is largely irrelevant,” he said.

Since writing this article, I have received messages from angry men, calling me names, telling I’m wrong, & that I’d be begging a man to save me if I was lost in the woods. To recap, there are men are sending me abusive emails to prove they are the safe choice. So far, no bears have written in.

Normal inland Ōtautahi traffic chaos. Meanwhile out south-east: that sinking feeling when you hit the Ferry/Moorhouse intersection at 4.30pm and you know it's going to take 3-5 extra minutes to get home 😢

I have heard complaints that rates are planned to increase by 50% over the next 10 years in Ōtautahi. My property's rates have increased by 300% in the last 27 years. In Ōtautahi. Rates increases are not new, and these are not appalling increases when compared to what we have already experienced.

Toot toot, behold the third eye Moonset over Lancaster Park, Ōtautahi. 6.50am Monday.

Yeeting 9 near identical tops from my wardrobe

Just got told to wake up because the real Joe Biden died three years ago and the current one is just a clone. Today on the streets of Ōtautahi 😩

My favourite part about Luxon deciding not to take a free $52k/year while he's PM is that he didn't decide to stop because he thinks it was unfair. He's just sick of talking about it, and willing to give up more than a minimum wage worker is paid in a year just to not have to talk about it anymore.

Pumped to realise this morning that in 3 months I'm moving into Cr Sara Templeton's ward!

Preparing for my first ever house auction is wild. The last bid I cast was for a surfboard at a kindy auction. I bid 50c and it was already at $10.

The other adult who lives here was listening to the washing machine Me: it sounds like a rock rolling around in there. *Pause, turn to spin, shorten the cycle to 1 minute* Him: ohhh

I was today years old when I learned that my lifelong family tradition (a late summer dinner of rolled crepe pancakes with sugar and lemon juice) is called Shrove Tuesday

Could you change Medusa's snakes to another thing for artistic purposes? Would that be ethical? Like vines or tentacles or...

They all seem to think that poor people are bums who sit around smoking, drinking and ignoring their children while holding their hands out for govt money. They don't even register the people working all hours at minimum wage jobs to pay usurious accommodation cost and keep their families going.

So, when does the native reforestation of the Port Hills kick up a gear? "A video of [ecologist Tim Curran's] plant barbecue shows gorse igniting like a torch while broadleaf/kāpuka doesn’t even smoulder. (He’s now tested 550 plant species)."

When you're four days out from double pay day but you want YOLO. You put mustard, ketchup and curried ketchup on hash browns with sugar sprinkled on top *chefs kiss*

Intrusive thoughts: Me: 🤨 Intrusive thoughts: "what if I drank the boiling water from the jug?" Me: wtf I want migoreng.