glad to find my submission on the stupid gender bill was accepted, but PSA to all of you who may have mentioned loved ones or personal relationships in your submissions - this seems to have auto-rejected them but YOU CAN APPEAL I THINK PLEASE CHECK #nzpol

yesterday's poetry night was weirdly intense for me, i was in a high-anxiety frenzy as MC, but somehow it all worked really well and everyone seemed to have a lovely time. i think it's the poetry of it all. the listening, the attempts to understand each other. it's all a dream.

it's important to remember that stretching and myofascial release also helps relieve mental tension and anxiety. i'm telling this to myself.

heading to fiji in a couple weeks and i'm already (already?!) fairly floodied with anxious thoughts and even thoughts of writing a list of things to pack what is fiji like omg perhaps i need a caffeine wean

i love my merry people rainboot chelsea boots but man they do start wafting warm rubber up my nose after a while when i wear them to work.

just read an article and i couldn't tell whether it was written by someone trying really hard or an AI trying really hard to sound like a guy and it made me sad, man. i missed when dud google results were just old pages or 404s instead of possibly made-up computer spew that generates wealth somehow

so basically i've been listening to the strokes' new track going shopping for a couple days straight

Ok Madonna let's fucken dance

ata mārie! there was a tūī / kōkō in the octagon when i got to work so i stopped to observe his dance and listen to his voice. it's such a treat when the native angels pop into the middle of the city.

forest & bird sent a quiz out today, and they bamboozled me! i'm a lizard! 💚

the best thing is how you change your browser settings to turn off all AI and then it still constantly shows that fucking 'ask gemini' button glued to the top of the page ya'll fuck off with that shit god DAMN it

oh no, my new work laptop automatically blocks reddit! that's probably for the best.

hi, it's your headache, i'm still here 🫠

i've got three books 'on the go' at once and honestly all i can think about is when i get to read more. work is work but books is life.

what is the deal with people raising their voice so fucking high in web-based meetings? bro just talk at a normal fucking level, fuck. !LOUDNOISES!

nice one, chill division ⚕️

hey if you need some new smooth excellent music for your friday, i'm currently grooving hard to Flea's HONORA. that Flea is something.

holy shit we did most of an hour of hip strengthening, stretch, and release at last night's class and i can really FEEL my hip joints today. not in a bad way as such, just in a "whoa damn there they go" kinda way.

ok so there are still people out there who think "AI" is "A1" and I don't know how to respond to that without being a right bitch

the albatross chick has a name and it is āwheo which is perfect and look at him getting that winter sunshine

sports rage is the weirdest phenomenon

nice work, Ōtepoti #nzpol #transrights #intersex #nonbinary #takatāpui #allyship

had a 9-month follow-up with my medicinal cannabis clinic. hot damn i love sensible healthcare. but also, just legalise it!

last night at around 8pm i was feeling giddy with the thought that i could sleep in the next day because for some reason i thought it was friday and today was saturday man i never know what's up anymore

i love alt txt

writing groups are so cool. today a prompt had me anthropomorphise the scent of a just-removed birkenstock sandal into an old hard-working man who is moved to tears by masala chai.

tidal serving me a whole playlist of west african gold now hell yes

it's funny laying charges against antifa groups because it's basically admitting "yes i am a fascist and i want the antifascists in jail" LOL freedom baby

holy fuck Angine de Poitrine is so good for focus i'm here jiggling and twitching in my chair to the beats while also getting my work done and helping colleagues in other cities. fucken doing it.

submission acceptance email!

all this sport really makes people crazy.

hot for teacher cranked up, morning sun, baby joint, glass of water 🤌

if we think billionaires are bad wtf are we gonna do with trillionaires? i prefer chamillionaires

the coffee shop was playing scribe and so now the earworm for friday is "WEST CANTER-BURYYYYYY uh it's all good"

you guys, Gretchen knows what's up.

i did it, i finally remembered to submit a poem to a lit mag by the deadline instead of remembering to do it after the deadline! taking steps, making moves, never shutting up

we have an office lunch out at a fancy restaurant today and while the food is gonna kick ass i really don't wanna have to make chit chat why am i such a bitch

i finished off THE EMPLOYEES by olga ravn yesterday and it was so good. one of those perfect weird little books i feel like i could get more out of. i need to buy it. what a fucking excellent writer!

got boards of canada's new album on the tidal today at work. i'm enjoying it. it's kind of soothing and spooky.

i'm gonna go see backrooms tomorrow and as an elder millennial i seem to have totally missed the youtube of it all, so i reckon it'll be a good spooky time!

starting to feel like nothing matters but i know things do matter but damn ok let me invoice this aviation hull & liability policy and let me choose free-range eggs and let me buy sustainable cotton clothing while governments shit the bed and corporations pour poison over our futures.

today we are going out to ten pin bowling as an office except for the director who "hates bowling" and i'm kinda pumped but also know i'm not good at it so whatever happens at least i can ignore my inbox for an afternoon

it's so dark with rain out there man and i didn't bring my coat or a hat because it is [fake] monday so i was basically still dreaming when i left the house today. i had a fun quip to add about cats but it fell out while i watched the rain drip down the window.

💜yin yoga day🫠

new tattoo day 🤗

just shoved my feet into shoes extracted from under the bed and didn't even check and now i'm in the uber wondering if my feet are covered in webs and dust bunnies.

times like these i wish i had bene gesserit full body control so i could take my consciousness inward to investigate and remedy my stupid aching bitch of a shoulder capsule that makes my neck hurt and pulls on my jaw. i need a micro masseuse to magic-school-bus in there and sort me out.

recently my partner discovered and shared with me nirvanna the band the show and i just can't get matt hollering OBAMNA outta my head today. OBAMNA! what a lovely show. i love laughing.

honestly if it wasn't for the brief interactions with other people's dogs my lunchbreaks would be so much darker.

#GlobalSumudFlotilla Hāhona Ormsby, Ngāti Maniapoto been following this beautiful human daily on IG since his departure from Aotearoa on 4 April and this is a difficult watch. thank all atua our activists are home safe but auē. [repost @hahona_ormsby @aotearoaforpal 27 May, full clip on Stuff site]