Andi

the sort from the sky, I hope!

Well I picked the best week to return to commuting for a while, didn't I?

I'm going to arrive _soaked_.

I see once again people are aggressively assuming my posts are about the US and their government, when, in fact, lots of countries have a government.

One would think a government keen for people to understand what things mean would not have repealed the Plain Language Act, but what do I know?

Among literally hundreds of other good things in this, you can get my little one-shot generator where drunk girls* in the tavern bathroom get together to help someone

*"girls" here used for trope recognition, characters of any gender can play here!

sarahloch.itch.io/solidarity-d...

Please tell me the transportation is happening by unicycle.

Aotearoa Renter's Survey 2026 This is about gathering stories and information about what it's like being a renter in Aotearoa in 2026 - to support you, your flatmates and your neighbours to advocate, organise and campaign for dece...

Renting in Aotearoa NZ? Please fill in the survey; if nothing else the results will help me with council decision-making!

Own your home? Please share it widely to get max responses.

Authors Publish Open Letter Condemning BookCon Organizer’s Parent Company RELX Over ICE Ties - Reactor Authors Alix E. Harrow, Olivie Blake, and more raise concerns about BookCon 2026

Authors Alix E. Harrow, Olivie Blake, and more raise concerns about BookCon 2026

So what I'm understanding is that the rabbit was bad but in a good way and the owl was superb.

OH GODDAMMIT just got a new project idea *checks watch* one week before starting my residency. Nope. Nope. Back in the drawer you go. We can see how you react to daylight in a few months.

All of my books are now available on itch.io! Behold!

remwigmore.itch.io

This took some doing so I'm very pleased!

I'm trying to track down the original report for this 70% figure - but it's looking like it was actually "up to 70% in several specific industries".

Yep, same. Declined from so many services. Also don't like having to carry my passport everywhere - it's expensive and not designed for that.

3. STILL no wallet-sized reasonably-priced government ID for non-drivers

So now it's:
1. the government gloating about reducing costs for drivers at the same time as making things more expensive for Total Mobility Users
2. the Minister for Disability Issues saying 70% of jobs require drivers licence painting it as an issue w the driving test not disability discrimination

Someone posted to the local FB page about 4 pro choice people with activist pins and rainbow hair in Pak n Save having a go at them for being pregnant, and I never expected such down-with-cis-bus vibes in my local community.

My very Wellington flood story is out! 🐡 (you'll see)

Kylie I saw this and searched a name on here and guess what? I wasn't wrong.

Councillor refuses to attend meeting because it’s at a marae Steve Gibson said the venue had changed “at the eleventh hour” from a “neutral civic venue to a marae”.

not local, this twit: www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

the words hummingbirds are birds with two silhouetted hummingbirds, all in the colours of the trans flag

Playing Wingspan with a new expansion I asked if hummingbirds counted as birds, was emphatically told "hummingbirds are birds" and my brain immediately did this.

#OwlsAreValid

Wouldn't it be funny if the Eftpostle fell into the harbour tho.

I got a smart watch and it has a function where if you fall over it notifies the emergency services and I guess that's a setting for people who are _not_ dyspraxic.

That fucking councilor:
1) comparing having to listen to someone speak a language he doesn't understand to conversion therapy
2) implying it would be reasonable to expect a councilor to go to a church (but not a marae) as long as that church didn't do conversion therapy.

The absolute state of it.

Quote with 5 jobs you’ve had:
(Yes, volunteering and internships also)

1. Document Preparation Assistant (6 weeks removing staples)
2. Arrivals Co-ordinator (retrieving new intl students from the airport)
3. helping with stocktakes
4. handing out leaflets
5. data entry of mortgage applications

Want to see something no one's ever seen before? (barring 160~ people who watched it live a few minutes ago)

cover for an ebook titled BY YOU, HOPE STANDS; it shows two wolves (one golden, one black) howling underneath an arch with the phases of the moon above, and a starry sky in the background; the text is white with the subtitle "stories of hope and resistance"

hi friends, i've put together a short collection of SFF stories and set it free—i hope it can give you some encouragement, a smile, or even just a pause in the doomscrolling. art is resistance. <3 🐺 📚

ko-fi.com/s/f0da603a0d <— support/PWYW (free!)
tiny.cc/2q7y001 <— direct download

On a family history deep dive and realising that GG Grandfather was actually very significant in football history but the living family (baby cousin a possible exception) tends to think of sport as some weird torture so no-one has really mentioned it beyond "he ran a football club or something".

They've updated the Community Roadwatch Report form so your car registration is a required field, meaning pedestrians are no longer able to lodge complaints 🫠

Not the local-local supermarket, so hopefully that one is still prevention! Online orders other chain. Depating if it's worth the $3 credit fighting with their chatbot 🙄

Look I appreciate the state of the world (and am trying to do what I can about said state of the world, mostly away from social media) but the supermarket just delivered us what appear to be the MOUSE NIBBLED CRUMPETS and it's a small thing to be unhappy about but I am unhappy nonetheless.