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Ms. Tidswell has spotted an escaped time traveller, who left the time machine unattended AGAIN? Oh wait, never mind, it's just our old pal @pinsent-tailoring.bsky.social who is a licensed time traveller, I mean isn't because our time travel agency is secret, I mean doesn't exist. Honest!

Jeez New Zealand. Quote Scotty Stevenson. 🇳🇿🏏.

111... time to get your feet off the ground and uncross everything. 🇳🇿🏏

Whose watching? 🇳🇿🏏 @larissacomments.bsky.social?

New in our area, at Zero Waste. Can't wait to keep visiting and seeing the changes and growth.

Current read: "Open Play: The case for feminist sport" by Sheree Bekker and Stephen Mumford Few chapters in & I'm fairly repetitively FUCK YEAH Kā mihi to @alicesoapbox.bsky.social @jennifilm.nz @1of200.bsky.social for the recommendation image: pic of the front cover 🇳🇿📚

The govt is considering banning homeless people and rough sleepers in city centres. My Stuff #cartoon today #homelessness #poverty #homeless

Celebrating #SecretSantaAoNZ sign up day eve by reading a stack of Christmas picture books.

Auckland peeps! Some dates for your diary!

Te reo Māori is an official language of Aotearoa NZ; it should be taught in every school as a compulsory subject

I left AoNZ as a kid in '77 when 99% of the placenames were Euro; came back 2001 and I *learnt*the*Māori*names* because that's what they are. I'm in my 50's. There are MANY words, technologies, concepts, that didn't even exist when I was born. Don't be an arse; just learn the words. Use them.

Science Teachers! If you’re interested in using ”non-fiction November“ to get your students reading a bit more, “Why Don’t Things Fall Up?” is one of the few non-fiction titles on this “Year 10 recommended reading list”. It‘s a book that brings school science together into a coherent story

Every person in Aotearoa knows an average of 70 words in Te Reo and the average has been increasing for two decades in part because of courses like those supported by govt departments. Fuck Seymour for wanting to take us backwards. #nzpol

Post you from a different era. Mid-90s (exact date unknown).

Most of us don't even really have a concept of what it would be like to be rich, we'd just like to know our card will accept at the petrol station, direct debits will go through, we can do the food shopping, pay the rent, get a takeaway, have a fuckin' treat The rich and sorted don't get it #NZPol

Rude.

Laundry is away!

I have to put weeks worth of washing, and months worth of jewellery, away. I've been like this my whole life. But, I just can't find the motivation to do this shit. Same with my desk at work. Lazy. Untidy. Or, neurodiverse?

Since SibS moved back to Tāmaki Makaurau to help support Mum, and be her chauffeur, their social circle has revolved around Mum's, and our house. With some from the waifs and strays they've picked up. Once Mum was home from hospital, and declining that circle shrunk.

Bloody phone. It's been weeks and it just will not maintain a stable connection to the modem. It's only my phone. And it only does it at home. I haven't changed any settings on the phone or modem. My life is constantly turning WiFi on and off.

God... it reads exactly like the new curriculum in Aotearoa New Zealand is a mirror of the UK one, which has a bad review here.

Tonight's ear worm. youtu.be/Q20I71ITpP4?...

Dear manufacturers Please be more specific... SPICE doesn't help. Cloves make my throat close up. Cinnamon makes my lips tingle. Ginger is a different reaction. (I think! They're often together, especially at Christmas.) There is a difference.

Read 🧵…all of it, because it’s what I’m seeing at my institution too, and I’m sure everyone else is as well. Indigenous mentors are so important right now.

#Librarianfashion Weather is warming up.

Jasper doesn't always like it when I don't use both hands for pats.

B.I.L Simone's husband & Piper's dad is having his 50th party in Dec Dad & I both want to go desperately Dogs need a kennel, we need a AirBnB this is def the last time for dad If you can help dad & I it would mean so much Acc Name: Please help Foxy Acc Detail: G Gregory Acc No: 38 9010 0779610 04

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Rather telling that NZ Luxon and Upston announce $6 Million towards possible Michelin stars for Kiwi restaurants while respected Lifeline cuts Mental Health services due to $2 Million funding shortfall. Priorities. #nzpol

The strangest thing to have happened since Vanished arrived is that two finalists in Celebrity Traitors have read it! David wrote a lovely blurb while Nick read it as a Trivedi prize judge. Still amazed at where my roar has reached. 🐯 Expecting Alan or Cat to win tonight. To the roundtable!

Chapman on fire! 🇳🇿😢

All wicket keepers seem to speak with Welsh and Indian accents. Even South African born ones playing for Aotearoa New Zealand. 🇳🇿🏏.

Seihō was one of the founders of the Nihonga 'Japanese painting' style, which combined traditional Japanese subjects and materials with European artistic techniques and conventions. 🐦 Painted and embroidered screen depicting a group of sparrows, Seihō Takeuchi (1864 - 1942), 1910–1920. EA2013.35.a

What is your favourite bird? These little sparrows are a detail of a two-fold painted and embroidered screen by Takeuchi Seihō.

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She is a minor. He raped her. Don’t dress it up as ‘services’.

I'll go even further. Name suppression needs to be removed completely. We can bring back some extremely limited exceptions (juvenile crimes, etc), but the current system is just "stay anonymous while doing crimes" for rich white people.

The Farah Palmer Cup is dropping to 12 teams next season and I’m going to blow your mind by saying, I might not hate this. open.substack.com/pub/alicesoa...

The countdown to sign-ups for #SecretSantaAoNZ is on! Will you be a day one signer-upper?

This is a 1,000/10 commercial, I’m DYING

One of the very few reasons I still partake in socials ... #SecretSantaAoNZ brings out the very essence of aroha and kindness of simply connecting in this cray cray life and time It's just bloody good fun .... thank YOU so much to the @secretsanta.nz team... you rock!

If you and your children are not ready for a particular book, that is okay. It is not okay to limit the access to books, stories, and experiences for other families. Every book is not for everyone, but every book is for someone. bookriot.com/the-day-the-books-disappeared-school-visit-cancelation/

Today, 144 years ago, 1600 Crown troops invaded a pacifist settlement that was the centre of resistance against British colonialism. The leaders were arrested, the settlement sacked, the people violated. For many in Aotearoa, November 5th is Parihaka Day, or Te Rā o te Pāhua: The Day of Plunder.

Santner isn't going down without a fight. 🇳🇿🏏

A different perspective for #HillfortsWednesday.

Went to the swearing in of the local board. There were relieved people after the election of the chair. Many interesting comments afterwards, council staff to council staff. We're meant to be impartial, but there are limits. (Local 'Road safety campaigner' as chair would have been... tricky).

Sitting here, with my view over the valley, the night filled with pops and bangs, glimpses of sparks shimmer in the corner of my eye. I feel so disconnected to the reason for setting them off tonight. Instead, in my head: The spirit of nonviolence, Has come to fill the silence, Come to Parihaka.