Anna

Yeah it’s maybe not that exciting for kids eh

Tākaro Takaro Game

You’ve got Tākaro? takarogame.com?srsltid=AfmB...

This is good intelligence

Pretty sure @dashingdarbs.bsky.social might have a pointer or two!

Today I need to do see what else I might need for my Abel Tasman track walk later this week. Very excited! Any tramping tips from #kikorangi gang? It’s been a decade since I did a multi-day hike.

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Macron over the wrong ‘a’, eh? Hmmmmm

One Term Government! We have to get them out.

These are the boomers I love! They’ve always been there.

That’s shameful

I hate it so much- it feels so patronising and disrespectful. I choose when I cross the road safely, not someone in a ford ranger.

@dieworkwear.bsky.social this is the Health Minister of Papua New Guinea meeting the worst and worst-dressed Prime Minister of New Zealand we’ve ever had. Sorry.

The book is even better!

How about Station Eleven by Emily St John Mantel? Not quite a utopia but a speculative future with hope alongside outrageous misfortune

The social cost eh. Punitive. Let’s vote them out before this can take effect!

Patrick I’ve started running! (Slowly and only 5kms or so) Who IS this person?! I think I like her!

250 days. I’m unstoppable!

In New Zealand, they actually kinda can

Tidal wave of strike action planned for October 23 Plans are under way for a co-ordinated strike across much of the public sector, with nurses, teachers and other public sector workers potentially walking off the job on the same day.

EXC: Plans are underway for a coordinated strike across the public sector on October 23 featuring:
- Nurses
- Teachers
- Doctors
- and more

If the ballots go ahead it could well be the biggest coordinated strike in NZ history

www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

‘A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.’
Roald Dahl, The Twits

Not the William Carlos Williams that we want perhaps; but the one we deserve

😱 oh no that’s awful.

Now is a great time to listen to @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @yrfatfriend.bsky.social on their excellent podcast - Maintenance Phase. The Dr Oz and RFK Jr episodes in particular but any of them are great tbh

It’s ok I won’t tell anyone the goss

WWII soldiers storming the beach at Normandy. They were anti-fascists, or the OG antifa

Pictured - a large group of antifa on their way to commit severe acts of property damage

What please don’t make me google

Palantir Wants to Be a Lifestyle Brand Defense tech giant Palantir is selling T-shirts and tote bags as part of a bid to encourage fans to publicly endorse it.

You may know the software company Palantir as a contractor for ICE + the military. But in recent months, it's relaunched its merch store & said it wants to be a "lifestyle brand."

What does it mean for Palantir to be a lifestyle brand...? I unpacked it here:
www.wired.com/story/palant...

A grainy screenshot of the sidebar of the desktop version of Goodreads. It says: RECOMMENDATIONS: Because you enjoyed A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible... View all books similar to A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia

Antifascists are only considered terrorists by fascists and their friends. It’s in the name!

me: i want to sleep in a human-sized hotdog bun

911: sir that's.....ok actually that sounds great

me: so who do we call

911: [shouting in background] we're checking now