Tom Bagatelle

If only Labour would just announce 'Trickle-down economics have been tried for forty years now, and obviously don't work. We will be moving all policy away from this model'.

Like, what is that? How does that work?
(This is a music venue btw)

That's me and Halloween. I was raised Christian though, so a hot, arid Christmas never seemed incongruous to me! (At least I got something out of it...)

So today, for the first time ever, I spent about two hours just scrolling through AITA on Redit and yes I plan to be doing it again after next thanksgiving

Oh god, venues that only tell you what they're doing on facebook, and then idk lock it down or something so you can't see it without an account

The problem with #NotAllMen For women, there’s no option of distinguishing or opting out – no woman ever gets to say, “Not me”. We’re all faced daily with the weight of relentless misogyny that infects every part of our world.

Not all men, maybe, but sadly, it’s always all women” lens.monash.edu/@politics-so...

At the hairdressers, trying to assess their age to see if I can ask for a short back and sides or whether I'll need to give more information

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- SLUGGO IS HAVING A MEAL AT NANCY’S SLUGGO: NANCY - - - THIS IS A VERY PUNK MEAL NANCY IS BRINGING SLUGGO A CUSTARD P2- SLUGGO: THE SOUP WAS COLD AND THE CHOP WAS TOUGH NANCY LOOKS VERY DISPLEASED BY SLUGGO’S COMMENTS… P3- SLUGGO: NOW A FLY JUST LANDED IN MY CUSTARD P4- SLUGGO’S LAST COMMENT WAS THE LAST STRAW FOR NANCY WITH AN ANGRY EXPRESSION SHE SWATS THE FLY, CAUSING CUSTARD TO FLY UP ALL OVER SLUGGO

The Best of Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller. June 20,1961

Waiting for champion of Western civilisation Stanford to announce how schools will now be ignoring Arabic numerals in favour of good honest Roman ones. And you forget that 'zero' rubbish.

Ugh, one pulled up beside me at an intersection today, and you don't grasp how HUGE they are until that happens! And yeah, I felt a little unsafe...

We love to see it!

Lee went to a bread factory where a worker was killed. The next week, they changed to 8-hour shifts from 12.

Labour Ministry will fine companies up to 5% of operating profit if they have 3 three deaths in a year.

New law: employers can get a 1-year jail term for a single death.

Reminder if you've forgotten that it was Summers who said twenty years ago, while President of Harvard that women simply aren't as good at math as men because of ~biology~ and misogynists have used that to justify misogynist ever since

I have been thinking about that a lot in the last few days, but hadn't actually gotten around to checking that it was the same guy. Thanks!

I love my house so much

One day it struck me how many people who I knew suffered from endometriosis. And how I'm not really the sort of person people go to for comfort or to share confidences. So the actual number of people I knew with endometriosis must be much much higher.

Not unconnected: venerated ideas such as capitalism — or patriarchy… heteronormativity and the nuclear family… the virtue of western civilisation… gender essentialism — seem to be absurdly fragile things judging by the panic roused by any alternative people begin trying and seem to kind of like

I have decided to mentally replace any use of 'woke', 'virtue-signalling', and 'poltical correctness' with 'I am so afraid of this idea, what if it's true, what if I've been wrong my whole life, does that mean I'm a bad person oh god oh god'

A two-panel meme featuring Geordi La Forge from Star Trek: The Next Generation. In the top panel, he holds up his hand as if to stop something, with the caption: “Getting mad that Americans leave New Zealand off their maps.” In the bottom panel, he points forward approvingly, with the caption: “Being happy that New Zealand is left off, because our country is not NZ — it’s Aotearoa.”

#meme #maori #aotearoa

This is why I am so vehemently down on people scaremongering the trans community. The assault on the trans community is one on our dignity, trying to drive us to suicide. Scaremongering does their work for them.

Repeat after me: I am too punk to kill myself when my government wants me to.

This is why it's so very very important we work to shift the Overton Window to the left. Ao/NZers whole proud 'straight-up, pragmatic' character means we are very suspicious of 'new' ideas like unions and feminism and living in a society.

A friend was having a drink with a group of tradies after Labour announced their CGT. And the tradies were all shaking their heads and saying "Bloody Labour, taking everyone's money".

"But half of you are renting," said my friend, "And none of you own more than one house?"

No good. "Bloody Labour"

Former PM John Key says public's trust in police threatened by recent events McSkimming case Sir John's comments come after a report that found senior police leaders mishandled accusations of sexual offending by former deputy commissioner Jevon McSkimming.

Former PM Key - who laid hands on a waitress without her permission & when she spoke out she got pilloried & fired - says public's trust in police threatened by recent events McSkimming case. Why is he even getting to comment ffs? It was a lesser offence but on the the same spectrum. #nzpol

People who say that men don't do enough emotional labour have never beheld the breathtaking emotional work of a man whose mate might not get a prestigious appointment because of some annoying woman he abused years ago

I need to stop reading the articles because each one reveals more information that is so awful and yet still not at all surprising

What can she POSSIBLY say to push back on this!? EVERYONE who has spoken to me about this is just so upset and furious and outraged about it. And yes everyone I know is a public servant or a musician, but fucksake THE REPORT IS SO BLATANT

I know we still need to make our voices heard, our dispair is what they want, etc, but I am so tired of this

I love a nonfiction book that has footnotes like 'This is a joke, not a scientific study'

A large sitting clock, early 20th Century, vaguely Art Deco in design.

You know those guys who watched Fight Club or Joker or whatever and thought 'So cool I'm gonna do that', completely missing the point? Ugh, so annoying.

Anyway completely changing the subject ever since I saw Sapphire & Steel 1 I've wanted a house like that and someone just gave me another clock so

OMG Dash

I might watch the Babadook