Milly

A photograph of a mannequin wearing a bright purple long silk gown with lace insert at the neck. It has a pixelated pattern of stylised flowers in pale purple a detail of which is shown

Wrap your eyeballs around this ever so demure #1890s silk, not only the colour of the dress but the pixelated stylised florals that decorate the fabric. Is it purple enough though? #augustaauctions #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Kiwi mum thought she and her son were being kidnapped when US agents bundled them into a white van.

And she was 100% correct

The Ministry of Education Admits They Are Probing For Evidence Of School Compliance, Not Student Achievement In the December 2023 Select Committee, Jan Tinetti asked the Ministry of Education leadership team what evidence they would be collecting in relation to the impact of the Maths textbooks, curriculu…

#nzpol

Share this till you're blue in the face folks! Don't let them think for a minute that their BS is landing on fertile ground.
#nzpol #onetermgovernment #coalitionofchaos #clusterfuck

It's considered very disorderly, and worthy of punishment, in the House of Parliament to imply that members should have strength of character, if you're wondering what kind of bullshit goes on in there.

In NZ parliament, saying MPs are spineless is apparently worse than them actually being spineless. #nzpol

Incredible facts about Barrow Island There is no public access to Barrow Island as it is listed as a Class A Nature Reserve. It is home to 24 species and subspecies found nowhere else on Earth. Barrow Island is home to Boodie Cave, which is one of Australia's oldest archaeological sites and contains evidence of humans from 46,200 to 51,100 years ago. US energy giant Chevron was permitted to build its $54 billion Greater Gorgon gas extraction project on the island.

From a story about a new species of pseudoscorpion, this sort of highlighted the management of Australia in a nutshell

au.news.yahoo.com/incredible-p...

Fairly sure I read both

Let's be 100% real for a second.
Why do we give a fuck about the US?
Allies? They 100% wouldn't help us were we invaded tomorrow.
Exports? What, you think China, U.K., Eurpoe and Australia wouldn't want every single kg of excess milk solids?
#leaveanzus

I recall one of dad’s friends expressing concern at my reading material. He responded something along the lines of asking me to explain what it was. I was clearly coherent enough for him to say if I could understand it enough to explain it, it was ok with him

Boy, I really love human musicians!

Yes all of this. And granny telling me to head outside into the air then being grumpy when she next picked up Old Shades (full of sand)

I would desperately love to have another kitty to curl up with me on the couch. It’s been 3 years now. My partner, not so much. I mean I know if there was one turned up on the couch that wouldn’t leave he’d be chuffed but getting it in here in the 1st place is the issue

I spent all of my school holidays with my grandparents in Paekakariki. There wasn’t much to do except delve into granny’s bookshelves. It’s how I found Georgette Heyer, Ian M. Banks, the Auel, a gory biography of the Yorkshire Ripper 😊

Nobody should be taking fashion advice from this guy.

David Seymour has a bigger problem with keffiyahs than he does with pedophilia, and i personally think pedophilia is way more offensive.

I read both of those when I was 9 🤭

I have several of these in various sizes. Most of them older than I am. They’re so incredibly versatile and useful. Love baking the no knead bread in my littlest one

The fact they banned Chlöe Swarbrick for a week, tone policed her for speaking truth to power on behalf of victims of genocide, and tried to turn the proceedings into a debate about what she was wearing says a great deal more about how much they are afraid of her than any actions she took today.

Every American town has the same music scene: The terrible high school punk band The two rival bands of old guys playing Bon Jovi and Ratt covers and who work at the two rival guitar stores The jam band with the dumbest band name you've ever heard The rich horse girl who was on America' Got Talent but didn't win Six indistinguishable white guy singer/songwriter dudes named Maxton or Kash The local heroes who got signed to a label 20 years ago, left town, and now everyone hates them The unlistenable no wave/math rock/jazz fusion band with at least one member who isa music teacher at a local high school Kevin who makes dungeon synth

A special pop-up on WeTransfer message to users Your creativity is safe with us! We have deep roots in the creative community and profound respect for the people who bring creativity to life, your voices, your stories, your work. • Your content belongs to you Your content isn't used to train Al Your content isn't sold to 3rd parties

I mean fair play to WeTransfer if this is correct.

Changing your Ts&Cs to include 'you give us the rights to the images you are transferring & oh yeah we will use those images to train AI'.

How many of the accounts they lost they've gotten back?

In a move that will surprise absolutely nobody, the government has introduced a bill that removes the Auditor-General's role in scrutinising and commenting on the draft NZ Health Plan.

This clause: legislation.govt.nz/bill/governm...
Deletes this provision:
legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2...

In case it wasn’t clear - Bill English is a private landlord that makes a HUGE amount out of the accomodation supplement.
Bill English is a MASSIVE welfare beneficiary. Massive.
He also has a huge interest in private health - surprise, fucking, surprise.
Politics, for him, like Luxon, is a grift

Bye bye, Rongotai – but why? Seven Pākehā men decided to change the te reo Māori name of a Wellington electorate, after just three submitters suggested it. What gives?

Honestly, this name change is just...... dumb.

thespinoff.co.nz/politics/11-...

THIS isn't just an American thing. Down here in New Zealand/Aotearoa, I was twelve when the Homosexual Law Reform Act was passed in 1986, which decriminalized gay male sex. The "Aw, look... old queen having a senior moment" looks I get from baby queers are both adorable and terrifying.

Maybe if Luxflakes had read this book the Min of Ed just scrapped, he wouldn’t have embarrassed us when visiting with Albanese 🤦🏻‍♀️

#nzpol

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A tubby corgi has decided that while his human is keen to go for a walk, he's having none of it. Steadfastly refusing to move off of the porch, his bottom is firmly planted.
His laughing human tugging his leash, calling him a stubborn sausage. (1)

Luxon said judge him on GDP growth. So voters are. Luxon's support lowest for a new PM since Bolger in 1990s; Economy sliding into balance sheet recession with real wages & spending in reverse as rate cuts don't work without a debt-fueled housing boom

Luxon bet on tight budgets & rate cuts to grow GDP. But it’s not working like it did in 1992 because households that own their homes feel poorer & renters are poorer. Our housing-market-with-bits-tacked-on economy can’t handle the truth of house prices mired 10-20% below peak. #nzpol

Great grandson of first woman MP slams ‘sexist, cowardly’ pay equity changes The Government’s pay equity overhaul has faced criticism from leading political figures and a former governor general.

NZ #National-led coalition faces growing opposition from political veterans, human rights leaders, & formers MPs as part of the unofficial #People’sSelectCommittee into controversial changes to “pay equity” law. #nzpol #PayEquity #Racism #NZGovtFail www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...