Peters on people who've lived here 2 years: "They can vote on who the government is, they can vote on who the local council is, they can even vote in referendums [..]. Is this what we really mean by democracy in our country?" YES BECAUSE THEY LIVE HERE #nzpol

Pride Month is almost over, so to help us Read Queer All Year; authors drop your book description, graphics & all-store link! Readers/ Authors: also feel free to drop queer book recs & share why you recommend them! 🌈📚💙

We need this everywhere #nzpol!!

I finally broke into the honey fermented garlic and made garlic bread and it was glorious 10/10 will make again

As much as I appreciate being able to WFH, I'm not a fan of the increase in door knockers I have to deal with

Do you like books full of pissed off dragons? But do you wish you could listen to them? Well I have good news!

I have been getting ads for these amazing glasses jewelry chains They look so stunning and whimsical that they almost make me wish I wore glasses

It's actually kinda annoying how effective meditation is for me It's no magic migraine cure, but it keeps me calm and the migraine manageable. It lets me actually relax and rest

To keep in mind for the government proposal for a ban on under-16s accessing social media (which means age-verification for everyone). #nzpol

Just started reading "the witch roads"by Kate Elliott and I can already tell I'm going to love this book so much

My sil: I'm really sick and need to go to the doctor Me: *laughs hysterically* good fucking luck

Never ever ever do something for someone at work that isn't your job, because they will expect you to do it FOREVER and will whine about WHY HAS THIS CHANGED when you try to stop

The work we did with kākāpō is now not possible because the govt has said that our funding should go to science that makes money. Members of our current govt have said that if an endangered species is in the way of a mine or a new road then it’s goodbye #nzpol peterkdearden.substack.com/p/on-kakapo

Just discovered the 1909 story "the machine stops" which seems unbelievably relevant to today I mean- A society who has to live underground because Earth is toxic and are so isolated they only interact with each other via screens?

I love learning new words! One of my great joys is learning a new word in a book (and probably immediately forgetting it), then some time later coming across it again in a different book and it's like "hey I know this one!" This is how we learn. Just read more and it won't be a problem

Tea time with Wick

It's finally happened, I gotta get a mole removed from my FACE 😭 Wear sunscreen everyone

Excuse me if I ask where this policy was during the last three years when so many said back then that we need to do it, our friends across the Tasman were already doing it, and instead we got some patently stupid politics around an LNG import terminal that is still ongoing.

I think we should probably finish digitizing stuff first aye

I cannot for the life of me figure out what's wrong with the microphone on my headset It works 100% of the time I'm testing it It works for hours of recording It worked when gaming It works for calls It DOESN'T work for a teams meeting for work It does work for a test meeting in teams

INCREDIBLY bad faith headline & piece of coverage by RNZ they haven't changed the policy - looks like it was a literal typo & that the numbers themselves are sound aside from the nasty coverage, always amusing to see that rightwing parties never get treated like this even with FAR worse mistakes

WE ARE FUNDED !!! I am playing board games with friends so I will have a longer post later but THANK YOU SO MUCH. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Fire wine! 🍷 🔥

Alice Oseman is coming to NZ!!

Pledged Excited for this story ☺️

There are only $400 canadian left before YOU, TOO, can enjoy this gorgeous and creepy tale of murderous trees, families bound past death, and spurning the war machine

A curse on the builders who buried bricks and chunks of concrete throughout my garden

Sugar cones are drying in the oven!

It's the longest night this weekend, that means it's time for mulled wine, Feuerzangenbowle style

I'm not wasting this beautiful day off I have (unlike the last one) First item in the agenda: go for a walk around the park

Omg I saw my doctor's computer today and saw she'd been googling how to know if you were aroace 😍 I pretended not to see, but when I go next I'll wear my pride pins

Someone explain the logic behind this to me, because I'm scratching my head Bishop says that social housing is unfair, with the most vulnerable missing out. And his solution to that is to...raise rent?? #nzpol

I write sapphic romantasy where an all female polycule help a woman poison her abusive cishet husband on their honeymoon to stop a nation of white supremacists from invading a diverse queernormative kingdom. And it's free! www.patreon.com/ddwardiswrit...

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I bought this book for my nephew and it is apparently his favorite book now ❤️

Your periodic reminder that people are *more* abusive online when they're using their "real names" than when they're using a persistent pseudonym and this effect has been replicated in literally every study that has ever been done

Continuing my Adrian Tchaikovsky binge by listening to Lords of Uncreation. The narrator is amazing, I don't know how she manages so many different distinct voices (alien and human)

I've been trying to complete some work for days unsuccessfully, just been overwhelmed and completely unable to focus on it Yesterday a migraine forced me to take a day off. I got some of my workload reassigned and this morning I did the work I'd spent hours agonizing over in about 5 min

Damn stress headaches, always striking at the most inopportune times Me: so much work to do, I'd better buckle down and get through it My brain: haha what if instead I blasted you with pain

This is a genuinely absurd deal. The games are all excellent - from 80 days to TR-49 - and Heaven's Vault is one of my favourite narrative games ever. And it includes the Heaven's Vault novels! This is as accessible as they've ever been, and they really are top tier SF; deserve a wider audience.

Resisting....urge...to quit...job...

Out on the Shelves (OOTS) is a growing online reading resource that lists books from around the world with rainbow* themes and characters. outontheshelves.insideout.org.nz * NZ English for LGBTQIA+

Hi authors of #nzbooks Where do you get your audiobook narrators from? Is there a publishing platform you use, or do you have direct relationships with narrators? Asking as someone who wants to get into the biz

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It's Pride! Follow trans writers before we're all banned go.bsky.app/VaypaqC

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters It's Aromantic Visibility Day! Please make your aromantic characters visible for me! Tell me a bit about them! Where do they fall on the aromantic spectrum? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

How does one become an audiobook narrator? 🤔

I'm perhaps a bit late to the 💿🐎, but people can use or make up whatever flags they want. That is literally how we get all our pride flags, they're made up by members of the community and their usage evolves over time. The asexual flag is no different 🧵

As it's Aromantic Visibility Day of Pride Month, Authors; let's do an Aro Books thread! 🖤💚🩶 If your book(s) have significant aro rep, drop your book description, graphic & direct sales/ link to all stores! ♠️🌈📚

hey #nzbooks I need some book recs I'm looking for queer books, especially with asexual and/or aromantic rep 🌈📚NZ📚