Sarah Lin

A very small (real) flower arrangement in a thimble including forget me nots , lily of the valley, buttercup, geum, chive flower bud, snowberry, green alkanet…

The first posy in a thimble I made, to lift my mood during the pandemic. The flowers are all real.

When humans look at plants (even on a screen as here) we recover from stress 60% more quickly & the relaxation response is triggered in our brains.

Zoom in if you're strung out🌿

"But what can I do about it? I'm just trying to keep young mums from killing themselves..." Comments at a community meeting yesterday were heavy.

Another excellent, and utterly sad, article @garypayinda.bsky.social on what is happening to healthcare in AoNZ.

open.substack.com/pub/drgarypa...

I waited 12 hours at ED. GP appointments need to be booked four weeks in advance. No money for public health system or lifting families out of poverty but an extra $9 billion for increasing the lethality of our armed forces. Time for a reissue of the Psychopathology of Politics by John A Lee?

Tell that to the dwindling Nelson Hospital staff as the building literally crumbles around them. 🙄

Show me gaslighting 101 #nzpol

Stuff headline: "David Seymour misses school lunch 'please explain' meeting. Picture of Erica Stanford being interviewed by press.

What happens now? Does his benefit get cut off?

Sometimes late at night when I'm delerious from being a new mum and I've taken my meds, I accidentally save pictures off tumblr. I have no memory of doing it til I open my gallery days later and then-

It’s been really interesting to see what stories are kept on the front page for weeks on end and which ones barely cause a ripple.
This should absolutely be a point of concern and reflection as we approach our next election - it is going to be one of the most vital elections in our lifetime.

Excusing Yourself xkcd.com/3057

Our "system" is currently kind of modular, I won't pretend to understand all the tech, but more often than not Nik's testing wireless stuff so it's not a major. I agree with general sentiment of never moving house.

How do I sum up 3 years? I would say I've been incredibly privileged to marry a wonderful man, buy a cottage with chickens in the back yard, and write about health, science and climate issues. Also, a cat:

I am in the ridiculously privileged position of being married to an audiophile who manages audio products and as such is required to test drive many, many samples. The speaker situation is glorious and terrible.

Don't fast track Te Waikoropupū! Te Waikoropupū Springs have some of the clearest water ever measured on earth. Last year the Springs received a Water Conservation Order (WCO) from the Environment Court. The WCO gives a special...

Save Waikoropupu Springs from the Fast Track Bill!
community.greenpeace.org.nz/petitions/do...

I briefly spent time on Threads, deeply immersed in the man v bear discourse. The interactions I had do appear to lack sanity, but unfortunately, and terrifyingly, I believe most of these men to be mentally competent. That's how they hide so easily.

I admit that incel communities and 'if you choose the bear I'll kill you' commenters appear to have a loose grip on sanity, but I'm not sure it's fair to people with actual disorders to conflate the two. I also think it's too easy of an excuse.

Is it the vinyl version though? Our house isn't completely Atmos'ed yet but 7 speakers + the turntable sounds damn good.

Yuss ecology! So my jam. And congrats on new job.

Hi Patrick!! Hope you've been doing well. It's nice to see familiar faces/avatars.

Unencumbered with my old nonsense.

Just blunders & absurdities.

(About to devastate my enemies) So you know how you have to be ideologically consistent?

One of the things I really like about bluesky is that there’s a collection of horrible people who have prominent media positions who I felt like it was important to pay attention to. It turns out they were not.

Hi, you too!!

I've never watched any Dr Who (don't kill me) but Ncuti Gatwa is giving me life

So this is where y'all went.
I just stayed in bed.