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Open Letter to Winston Peters, Minister of Foreign Affairs: The New Zealand Government must recognise the State of Palestine As students, staff and alumni of the university community in Aotearoa (New Zealand), we express our profound dismay at the Government’s recent decision not to recognise the State of Palestine. Aotearo...

Open letter from staff, students, and alumni of the New Zealand community of universities.

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What did people ever do to this government? Did humans hurt it when it was small? Was big business the only thing that ever showed it affection? Was profit the only thing that brought it joy in the middle of the lonesome night?

LAST FEW DAYS to vote in the local elections! v. important to do so, because hoo baby there are some major losers standing. VOTE pls!!!

This is fun!

Jane Fonda relaunches free speech group started by her father during the McCarthy era In wake of the Trump administration’s censorship threats, the actor re-established the Committee for the First Amendment with A-list support

“I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers – but there never has been. The only thing that has ever worked – time and time again – is solidarity: binding together, finding bravery in numbers too big to ignore, and standing up for one another.”

- Jane Fonda

*BREAKING: PLEASE REPOST*

The Media Council has upheld complaints against RNZ, finding that the article about Alex lacked balance and failed to present alternative perspectives, particularly once information about Alex's own voice became publicly available.

www.mediacouncil.org.nz/rulings/park...

I was making the bed and the cat was on the windowsill. I was tucking in the sheet with my head down, concentrating. NEXT THING, the cat has attached herself to my head! By her claws! One paw on my forehead, the other behind my ear! She just leapt! And attached! Like a ... I don't know but fuck man

oh STOP IT! They're having a laff!!!!!!!

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definition of the word 'gleet' - noun MEDICINE a watery discharge from the urethra caused by gonorrhoeal infection.v

Decided to do the wordle for the first time in years and NEVER AGAIN because I made up this word for one of my guesses, and it was accepted - and ... my god ☹️

NZ not yet recognising Palestinian state, Foreign Minister Winston Peters announces | RNZ News The government has decided against recognising Palestinian statehood at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

New Zealand will not recognise Palestine, putting us in a shrinking minority of countries, and demonstrating that the government is out of step with the voting population, and allowing foreign policy to be dictated by it's minor coalition partners

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

get the fuck out, Winston. Get the fuck out, stupid ass coalition. Argh seriously what the hell

Once you're in the Subtitles bit, under the subtitles column if you hover then a little edit thing appears, then if you click you can generate your own from scratch? Sorry if this is not helpful :(

arses!

Do you ... go into Your Videos, then click Subtitles on the left? And then you can autogenerate and edit as required?

Tent for Duaa Madhoun and her family Kia ora everyone! Thanks for stopping by!

Help Aotearoa for Gaza Mutual Aid raise money to buy tents for displaced Palestinians in Gaza.

I'm supporting Duaa Madhoun and her family via Michelle Langstone's fundraiser chuffed.org/project/1503...

A Facebook comment where Independent Together writes as if they were Better Wellington

Better Wellington/independent Together not even managing to switch to the right Facebook account to claim they’re not the same organisation is some kind of performance art, right?

Went to my kid's school this morning to watch the junior production and wept copiously with the cuteness of it all - only weeping person - like a complete sooky mess. KIDS, THOUGH 😭

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement

Breaking.

"To count as genocide [under the 1948 UN genocide convention], at least one of five acts must have occurred.

The UN commission found that Israel had committed four of them."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

BREAKING: UN inquiry finds Israel’s war on Gaza to be genocide aje.io/2h84g2

Just going to leave this here

People attack Rebecca because she actually gets shit done, she’s across all the issues and a formidable Councillor. Everyone should be telling their friends that live in the Western Ward that their only good option is #1 Rebecca Matthews

Wellington councillor compared to Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin in 'disgusting' post The post singled out Green councillor Rebecca Matthews in a personal attack.

The times we are living in eh? Determined to do what I can to make things, including the divisiveness of politics, better not worse. Actually better, not “Better Wellington”.

I don't know about these newfangled watermelons that they're calling melonballs. Silly name if you ask me

Strong support for Predator Free Wellington among local election candidates We found strong support for our project when we survey local election candidates

Predator Free Wellington sent local body candidates a small survey asking their views on the role of biodiversity + whether they'd support ongoing funding of $540k.

Like Living Wage, it's another good barometer of who to vote for.

www.pfw.org.nz/our-project/...

Wow, piss country. I need to write another kids' book to force some hope back into me, coz this world -

Winston Peters should be ashamed of himself for putting Benjamin and their whanau at risk.

I'm in Fiji and my kid is loving it but perhaps his biggest excitement was just now when they played Golden from KPop Demon Hunters at the pool 🙄

Hello! My sixth book, and the second in the Violet and the Velvets series, illustrated by the talented Phoebe Morris, is out today in New Zealand and Australia in all good bookshops! It’s got punk rock, kids and ghosts. Who needs more? @allenandunwinnz.bsky.social #pukapuka #kidlit #middlegrade

Big moment in my house this morning: exactly one week before his 8th bday, my kid finally successfully tied his shoelaces