Amaranth

In their ruling, released today, the NZMC also took issue with that, writing: The parents are entitled to express their views about the tragic events and their views on the teen’s gender identity and RNZ is entitled to report them. But their perspective came from a particular point of view and drove the narrative. The fact that the story was brought to RNZ by a group that is regarded as having an anti-trans perspective should have alerted RNZ to the fact that there was a wider agenda at play.

The NZMC concluded: The Council believes RNZ should have been aware that there was a wider agenda at play and another side of the story that needed to be told, particularly when further information emerged after the publication of the first story. They could have provided a balancing alternative perspective in a number of ways, in the original story or subsequently. The complaint is upheld for lack of balance and fairness.

as reported in webworm today, the nz media council has ruled against RNZ, saying it lacked balance and fairness in its reporting over the death of trans teen alex. hopefully this encourages RNZ to look at all their reporting on trans issues - they need to (www.webworm.co/trainhopping/)

what does a dog wear to a formal gathering in hot weather?

pants.

💯 Read this aloud to the coworkers dying of laughter

Do you know how much it would fuckin' rule ass if over 20% of the county were trans

"That's when we become unstoppable."

🤝 @zackpolanski.bsky.social meets co-leader of New Zealand Greens Chlöe Swarbrick 💚

Poster in Seattle of a smiling cop but wait! It says So you wanna be a cop? You can do better. So can Seattle. Less cops. More school nurses. Less cops. More librarians. Less cops. More EMTs. police-jobs-suck.com

Shoutout to Seattle

Dorley Index: A means of rating the trans healthcare of a country by what percentage of trans residents think Dorley Hall would be a better option

an orange cat is visible around the corner of a door frame looming very sulky

Found a way to push on the shelf so it makes a cool thump sound over and over. Then someone moved it so the thumps don’t work :(

don’t meet your heros. i finally saw the critters from redwall irl and they don’t even talk. they’re just pissing and shitting everywhere.

Noticed the second time after "I'm going to stay awake for the whole episode" 😁

Eepy

zoomed in photo of an orange cat who is staring at you from some distance away

You can do it. I’m staring at you supportively because I believe in you

He has never ever been fed. Not once in his little orange life.

A polaroid photo of my cat with writing scribbled on it saying "do not believe his lies"

elon musk is literally this dril tweet

we’ve replaced all building inspectors with a generative AI model trained on millions of pages of government regulations. it says here that all new construction homes must be 60% corn

same methods, different era

an orange cat is sitting on the floor near a partly overturned door mat and two rubber bands

I found two rubber bands. You left rubber bands where a cat could eat them. I’m going to eat them just to teach you a lesson. I’m going to gobble them up

mahjong night

Massive away win for the little fella.

Responsible vampires have safe sucks

Parliamentary video still of Speaker Gerry Brownlee saying "no don't do that" as TPM perform a haka

Gotta love when skills transfer across.
That also sounds like jousting but with extra steps 😁

15-30,000 protesters gather at the New Zealand Parliament to protest a racist piece of legislation (the Treaty Principles Bill)

15-30,000 protesters gather at the New Zealand Parliament to protest a racist piece of legislation (the Treaty Principles Bill)

15-30,000 protesters gather at the New Zealand Parliament to protest a racist piece of legislation (the Treaty Principles Bill)

I never seen one like this before...