I know a lot of people have been looking for a black head strap respirator…. And BreatheTeq has delivered! These masks will be available in Canada too via @canadastrong.bsky.social

Not only is Tom Hanks protecting his own health, by masking up he’s protecting everyone else on public transit. Many people taking the subway don’t have paid time off. They don’t have the good healthcare someone like Hanks can afford. Masking is community care.

Shorter interview on Nine to Noon here: www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

What if we did tho, what if we didn’t means test disabled people on the SLP and just paid it like we do for NZ Super? Not related to your partner’s income, not related to your income, and just, well, supported people?! #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...

If in doubt get the jab. You might need two of them four weeks apart. It’s free and you can get them at the chemist.

Circumstances have forced me to take a part-time job as a small commercial airport. Unpredictable hours and terrible pay. On the plus side, I get to meet such an interesting and diverse range of commuters.

If you, or someone you know has come into contact with Seymour, please isolate for 7 days. Read more here: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/the-other-...

Talking to a nurse at my GP's office today - apparently they're being inundated by people wanting MMR vaccines. Thousands of them, she told me it seems like. Hopefully this means our vaccination rates will get somewhere near where they need to be to stop future outbreaks.

Back when Aotearoa New Zealand was voting via referendum on whether or not to ditch First Past the Post for Mixed Member Proportional for our voting system, the cartoonist Murray Ball put out the below comic. I see those telling New Yorkers not to vote for Zohran Mamdani and think on this comic.

Close enough to Xmas that I can start using that as an excuse for my online purchases 😅

🦠 #NZ Measles Timely reminder for New Zealanders ⬇️ It’s not just the immediate infection, the hospitalisation rate (1 in 3 kids), etc.; it’s also that measles can wipe out immunity to other illnesses. Link to geeky explanation below 😊

It’s Measles Immunisation Week! 🛡️ 📲 Visit info.health.nz/immunisations/immunisation-clinics for pop up clinics near you where you can get your MMR vaccination. You can also check healthpoint.co.nz. Another option is to book online: info.health.nz/bookavaccine

I frequently pause the washing machine by accident with my hips 🙃

Just got menaced by a duck outside the supermarket, which was hilarious

This thread is amazing and great job on the alt-text too.

In hindsight it’s too bad that Y2K didn’t shut down all of the computers.

YES GOOD. Go get 'em e te whānau. Plunket offers measles vaccines for entire families amid outbreak: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Yall, if you feel the need to donate food to folks who need it that’s amazing. Do that. Just… don’t do it on Halloween. Don’t give kids ramen for trick or treats. Halloween is for candy & costumes-not being reminded that you’re poor. Let kids have fun & a night where they are just like other kids.

Today’s Halloween-based poem is called ‘Pumpkin’.

Am annoyed to report that the stupid bean app does actually stop me looking at my phone so much.

I know a lot of people (cough Millennials) feel like they need to START a thing, START a food bank, build a little free food pantry. My friends, my loves, my dears. Don't start. JOIN. These exist. They have community ties! They have some funding! Accountability! Regulations!

This took a couple of minutes to fill out and would mean so much to our precious libraries

Hey fam, just a reminder that using Afterpay with small businesses costs us a LOT in fees (about 8-10%). Totally fine to use it, that’s why I have it, but also, if you can do it with larger businesses and not with us little guys, it makes a huge difference to our bottom line over time x

The MMR vaccine is also freely available to most people eligible for public health care in Aotearoa born after 1969 Many chemists even offer it, so no need to have or see a GP info.health.nz/immunisation...

Please please folks check your vaxx status & that of your kids. Measles is not “just a childhood illness”; before vaccinations it killed and disabled millions of people every year. Remember, your vaccine doesn’t just protect you, but those too young or too immunocompromised to be vaccinated.

People with experience: please give food banks *money.* They can make it go much further than you can. Grocery shopper 1: I’m going to donate whole pineapple cakes in honor of my grandma. Shopper 2: did you say canned beets? “Shopper” 3: here’s this opened box of cereal my kid didn’t like

This Labour Day, Aotearoa, try to live up to the dignified and respectable example of those worthy workers who first banded together in 1840 and politely requested to work only an 8-hour day. Then threw anyone who crossed the line into the harbour

Did not expect the plot twists in this!

But this misses out the best part of this mosaic! To the left of Odysseus' ship is a smaller boat with a man holding what looks suspiciously like a gigantic prawn. This man is likely to be the homeowner who commissioned the mosaic. (Mosaic from Dougga, Tunisia; C3rd AD; currently in Bardo Museum)

no shade, but this is surely not a prawn :) In Australia we call them 'crayfish' but the rest of the world says 'spiny lobster'. TIL, the species from the Med. is named (indirectly) after Palinurus, the helmsman from the Aeneid! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palinur...

If you have a phone alarm set to weekdays, you can probably turn off Monday now

I'm of the age where we only got 1 dose of measles vaccine at school. Last outbreak we had I went and got much delayed booster. Do consider doing the same if you only had one shot as kid. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

People urged to watch for exhausted birds and blown away nestlings in wild weather

#NZ #kikorangi ⬇️

Yellow-legged hornets have been found Glenfield and two other spots in Auckland. We don't want these here! They're twice the size of our other introduced wasps, kill and eat honeybees and lots of native species, and have a nasty sting. www.mpi.govt.nz/news/media-r...

she was just the best, every time I read something she wrote I'm like 'oh wow somehow I think *even more* highly of her'

Also worth noting that our worst paid nurses in New Zealand, the ones whose pay equity claims were thrown in the trash by this government aren't able to join the strike today. But remember that primary health care, aged care and Māori health service nurses stand in solidarity with the strike.

Take care tomorrow everyone. Even if you are not in an affected area, now is a really good time to check your grab bag, refill your water, double-check your documents and medication, fill/charge your vehicle if you can, and make sure you and your loved ones have a plan.

This is great advice. Even in regions that "look green" please don't assume there is lower hazard. Green things can still provide fuel for a fire and it can be devastating.

We talk a lot about the Overton window shifting but in 2006 there was an episode of Smallville where Clark hid an undocumented immigrant from the cops bc he’s a literal alien himself, and 19 years later Democrats are balking at the idea of a Nazi tattoo disqualifying a guy from seeking office

The current Government wilfully spreads misinfo about unions despite being well aware unions are the collective voice of workers that rebalance the scales so that people in work are protected from exploitation and harm. It’s a good time to join one. #nzpol I’m retired but I’m a solidarity member.

Block. Do not engage. They are here ONLY to get engagement, why the fuck would you give them the one thing they came here to get

The Drs are striking because the woeful state of our health system is endangering patients (and them) and they simply can’t stretch themselves or their resources any further. It’s a last resort. It is NOT them who need the lecture on ethics. #nzpol #solidarity

Come on FENZ get Fire(fighter) wise!! Support your local firefighters on strike this Friday! Sticking for safer working conditions and fair pay! Talk more over at my substack: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/come-on-gu...

I want a return to classic Doctor Who where nobody had time to fall in love with The Doctor because they're busy being pissed off about being kidnapped and having to run away from EVERYONE and EVERYTHING because they're all trying to murder them in a multitude of inventively ghastly ways.

Using ChatGPT

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

My commute home: - Train stn 1: Train ages away. Get on bus to a different station. - Train stn 2: Train ages away. Get on another bus. - Check AT app notifications. See bus delays due to crash up ahead. Get off bus. - Train stn 3: train not far away. Get on train. - Might get home eventually 🤷‍♀️

Grief is fucking weird and I don't like it.