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Gretchen Felker-Martin Red Hood run was cancelled by DC after she expressed an opinion about the death of a man who wanted trans women like her wiped off the face of the Earth

Feeling the massive spirit of debate here!

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

Yesterday both NZ Herald and Stuff, during their all day Kirk and Phillips coverage, had "breaking news" banners for All Blacks squad announcements ahead of a regular game against Springboks.

You'd be forgiven for not even knowing the Black Ferns were playing a World Cup quarter final this weekend

Vanja the Irascible

I'm sorry I keep reblogging 😞. I had to pay my thoracic surgeon for being on standby & I haven't been able to make any commission sales; inprnt won't pay me until a month later, throwing my hat in and depending on donations because I've had no income for the last two months whilst at the hospital.

RNZ's Gaza conflict coverage abided by its editorial policy - Review A review of RNZ coverage regarding the conflict in Gaza has concluded it has abided by its own editorial policy - as well as the standards and principles of media and broadcasting watchdogs.

Cool story, bro.

Same model being used in NZ

The penetration of extreme christian voices into mainstream news spaces is pretty absurd via Platform/Reality Check pipeline

meanwhile groups like family first take lessons from Hungarian politicians on how to manufacture culture war & have moved to alt media spaces

durian-flavoured Thai pocky with a hedgehog mascot save me. save me durian-flavoured Thai pocky with a hedgehog mascot

is she saying the opposition shouldn't criticise the shitty school lunches because *then* it'll be their fault if the govt stops supplying lunch at all 🫠

sorry hello unofficial jet lag account 😭 my bad!

I'm in the other room now but I can just hear tom scott and sam yelling about holes @jetlagthegame.bsky.social

Tom Scott on jet lag: the game

Tom Scott on jet lag:the game (again). he is on a train and looking concerned.

you're telling me Tom Scott lagged this jet ?????

I wanna try read all of the finalists but this especially I am laser focused on

glanced at the list of ockham fiction finalists and found out that one of them is by tina makereti ✅ set in kāpiti ✅ magical realism literary fiction ✅ set in and partially narrated by the swamp ✅ (I will be purchasing)

this is crappy but do u mean something like this? like gothic calligraphy with the serifs removed?

an albino peacock kinnara reaching out his wings to a humanoid ziz, or a griffin, who looks menacing, but in truth he is just shy. The Kinnara fearlessly approaches the griffin's nest, though all about it are strewn with swords and arrows discarded and hurled. Kinnara are paragons of love in south and southeast folklore, perhaps, even, love that transcends both mercy and devotion. "but why does the peacock have top surgery scars?" my friend, he is not only trans, he is also intersex!

to love the unloved

I bet the first time a pirate said “Ahoy there,” the mateys went berserk

Picture of capsicum, courgette and eggplant being browned in a large red cast iron pan. in the background there is a bowl of red onion, some more veggies on a chopping board ready to be fried in another batch, and the abandoned top of a yellow capsicum.

The same cast iron pan, now cooking ratatouille. The veggies and red onion are mixed in with tinned and fresh tomatoes and balsamic vinegar.

the remaining fully-cooked ratatouille after we ate some of it. it has reduced and become much thicker

two frames positioned one atop the other from the pixar movie Ratatouille, showing the food critic Anton Ego in both frames. In the top frame he is a gaunt adult with hollow cheeks and pale skin. He looks anguished as he tastes Remy's ratatouille and is thrown back to his childhood. In the bottom frame he is shown as a child, smiling and round-cheeked, about to take a bite of the ratatouille his mother has cooked for him.

not to be too rémy the rat but i made ratatouille last week and it was surprisingly delicious. my apologies, eggplant, i was not familiar with your game

bf: "had a dream that kinda crushed me" me: "ah..." me: "what happen" bf: "jet lag the game released a new special where they were bike touring but its not real" me (half cut off at the bottom of the screen): "NOOOOO!"

messages from my bf who loves jet lag the game and bike touring

Can't wait to see what surprises the liquid archdemon BLACK IRON KING OF PLAGUE ONE THOUSAND YEARS has for us as our secretary of health!

My son is afraid a hummingbird might rip through his body at 9000mph. Can any professionals on here tell him he is stupid and full of shit

“There are so many talented people with wonderful creative brains & ideas that we will never hear from because they are too busy surviving...Obsessing over nepo babies while not addressing the structural & generational inequalities that produce poverty & privilege is just a good-looking distraction”

This is a Reddit comment of mine - text as follows: "So, so far Seymour has: - Called sexual paedophile ex-Auckland lifesaver Tim Jago "an excellent President" - Appears not to have resolved Young ACT rape & sexual abuse claims - And calls his Epsom electorate constituent Philip Polkinghorne a "traumatised member of the pubic" in the midst of a police investigation, personally lobbying Auckland's top cop It should also be noted Seymour didn't speak up for Golriz Ghahraman, a woman he publicly called a “menace to freedom in this country”, who then had white supremacists plotting her murder in detail. He didn't defend Ghahraman when police tried to get her pinged for putting goods in a tote in her trolley - well away from any check out counters. Police then “decided not to charge Ms Ghahraman” - not very magnanimous at all - because can’t charge a customer for putting things in a trolley well away from any check out counter and police should know that, despite someone leaking that to Leo Molloy and subsequently getting that rumour published in papers like Stuff and NZ Herald. Nah, Seymour only reserves his defence for the best of us - or the best of him, rather."

On Seymour’s lobbying of Auckland’s top cop for Philip Polkinghorne -

I wonder if this is an attempt to pervert the course of justice - or is this just how people like him roll?

#kiwi

says a lot that even in a statement meant to make their response look better than it was, it's very clear that all the action they took was to *ask jago if he did it* and then act all surprised when the victims actually took it to police instead of their private lawyer lmfao

technically theyre in front of the top two fins if u look really close but like I couldn't see that on any of the photos anyway 😏

Former ACT Party president and convicted sex offender Tim Jago's name suppression went on too long - advocate A survivors' advocate says sex offenders should not be able to get name suppression for as long as Tim Jago had.

ACT’s media statement is objectively factually inaccurate and it keeps being reprinted without disclaimer.

They did not take immediate action, they waited until the last possible moment, and turned responsibility over to Jago to resign, rather than cleaned house.
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fine line tattoo of a spiny dogfish on my forearm, with dotted shading. he's a little shark with a beady eye and foolish expression

got a little buddy (it's a spiny dogfish but my FIL immediately and reasonably pointed out that it doesn't have any spines 😭)

Sun Tzu: when u fight a battle its usually good if u are going to win

Guy with an MBA: this ancient wisdom is blowing my mind

I was talking to a Korean director whose cat is a cat actor, and she told me the audition process is to tell the cat "come here," and if the cat comes to you, it's got the part