Stephanie Pride

Exciting day today. Not only is it Halloween, but my crowdfunding campaign is also live! Please support me by making a pledge and/or sharing on all your socials and with your friends, family, and colleagues. Thanks to everyone offering rewards. You rock! www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...

Rip Glutide and the Pancreators, my diabetes themed surf rock band

Brilliant!

Assuming their support band is the burlesque group Serene Pro-Tease and The Platelets

What's the best use of rocks as a climate solution?

Is it grinding them up and spreading them on fields, or is it throwing them at billionaires? Let's go to this meeting and decide.

A black-and-white cartoon shows a man standing at a counter labeled “CLIMATE SOLUTIONS.” Behind the counter is a man with a mustache wearing a shirt and tie, standing in front of shelves of bottles. On the counter sits a pile of rocks. The caption reads, “It’s a new climate solution—you throw it at anyone who is emitting too much CO₂.”

This new climate solution rocks!

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I bought purifiers for my lab four years ago.
I wrote masks into our research protocols.

Then I was told:
“You can’t require N95s — that would trigger OSHA inspections and fit-testing.”

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I’ll never forgive schools and healthcare systems that had years to fix the air and didn’t.

They had the money. The science. The time.
They chose denial instead of duty.

#AirborneAIDS #LongCovid

As we're standing together against the outrageous claims this govt makes about our highly valued teachers, nurses and doctors, please remember to stay safe.

Don't take any nasty bugs back to your loved ones and work colleagues.

Collective action means collective care!

I’m all for this sort of ‘user pays’

A poll, commissioned by Equality Australia in the first quarter of 2025, found that: • 86% agree or strongly agree that government and opposition should not politicise trans issues for political gain • 89% agree or strongly agree that LGBT people deserve to live with dignity and respect • 91% agree or strongly agree that trans people should have the freedom and choice to live their lives in the way that makes them happy • 81% agree of strongly agree that trans people deserve the same rights and protections as other Australians.

It’s almost like when you don’t have a rabidly trans-hostile media ecosystem, people generally support human rights.

lens.monash.edu/@politics-so...

So sorry to hear that - lichen sclerosus is one of the five skin things I have going on and it’s no fun. Let me know if you want to DM about any of this - if it might be useful to you x

I would have been told I was exaggerating or I needed to lose weight/exercise more. The skin biopsies were incontrovertible proof that something really was going on. Good luck with being heard/finding answers xx

The immune suppressants I was prescribed to treat the skin problems have made a huge difference to all the other issues - leading to the conclusion that it’s a multi-systemic auto-immune condition. I’m sure if I had presented with the pain/fatigue/GI things alone 2/

Just a thought - have you seen a dermatologist? I have now been diagnosed with an auto-immune condition which includes joint pain, gasto issues, extreme fatigue and skin problems. Luckily for me, the skin problems manifested first and were confirmed as auto immune by biopsy 1/

Great thread

Packs a lot into one short video. Nicely summarises the shitshow that is the #coalitionofchaos
#nzpol

If you'd asked me which celebrity would posthumously unveil a list of people she wanted fired into the sun, I would not have guessed Jane Goodall

Timeline cleanse, and then some! 🎶

How wonderful!

Gorgeous!

Live octopus and goldfish?

Jane Goodall's mother, Vanne Goodall, accompanied her to Tanzania when she began her research in 1960, as British colonial authorities would not allow the young woman to conduct research alone in the field.

Thank you to all the empathetic and empowering mums out there. Thank you, Vanne Goodall.

Media Release: Rights Aotearoa utterly condemns the Free Speech Union for bringing anti-transgender campaigner Helen Joyce to New Zealand For immediate release 2 October 2025

"When someone argues that fewer trans people should exist, when they liken... healthcare to child abuse, when they advocate criminal penalties for doctors following...best practice —That is .... eliminationist rhetoric dressed up in the language of concern."
www.rightsaotearoa.nz/media-releas...

And yet here we are . . .

We’re hurtling towards a world that is the worst combination of the MaddAddam trilogy, The Handmaid’s Tale and The Heart Goes Last.
Nightmare speculative fiction becoming dark reality

Great initiative! Please donate if you can

What do you do when the man who said you should have "the living shit beaten out of you" keeps sitting in the front row of candidate events?

You make him meet your eye.

You make him listen to the gasps of outrage when you say his words outloud.

You make him listen to the applause you get.

Hey Hutt folks, you may miss it when voting, but please don’t vote for Suzanne Levy! She sounds fine, but OOPS she runs the TERF organisation Speak Up For Women.