The 🇮🇹 tauiwi Gender Villains fan club

Have you seen the video of whaea Nawal El Sasdawi incinerating the definition of Middle East 🔥🔥

Is anyone here really knowledgeable about Dunedin history? I’m trying to identify a house my nana lived in as a teenager. Some clues: “11 room, two story double brick mansion”, “I went down the hill to Arthur Barnetts”, “Aunt Mabel’s late husband who died in ‘39 had been a bookkeeper, Willy Simpson”

'Not straightforward': NZ considering recognition of Palestinian state, sets out timeline Luxon is expected to speak to reporters at 4pm.

🧵1/3 Recognise the Palestinian state now! There is no need to delay. But there is reasons to push it up to front today! One good one is humanity. What I'd like to hear at today's presser:

Oh what a fucking surprise, the shitty misogynist tool hyped by shitty misogynist men produces shitty misogynist results

and Takuta and Teanau and Rawiri and Carmel Ayesha Duncan and all of them whether they are under the current media spotlight or not or I even know them or not

Listening to @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social and now compelled to complete the list of current politicians I respect and I’m grateful for and wish to see not burn out or crash but age and in the distant future enjoy a deserved rest after working hard for us to include whaea Marama Debbie and Mariameno

May I then suggest you do not I repeat do not switch to checking out politics instead. Go in the garden, cuddle the kids. x

Tautoko 📣📣📣📣 Can we have poets and young people peer review CVs and interview candidates before elections too? Isla Huia and Tusiata Avia would never sign off into power people who harm whānau and lead us to fantasising about cannons.

a ringling bros show with a sign that says parnum & bailey Alt: a circus bros show with various artists juggling and a circus artist flying out of a cannon and landing on a safety mat of sort. Fireworks end the reel.

[Poster proceeds to visualise the circus cannon and immediately develops very conflicting feelings about her own peaceful aspirations]

Can our politicians just be armed with evidence based policies and science, relationships with Hapū and Iwi, with communities, partnerships with unions and workers, hikoi and maybe a general strike or several? And can we leave the self destructing vehicles and missions out of the picture? 🙏🏼☮️ 😬✌🏼❤️

Ooouf I love me a challenging politician but I do want to see Hana and Chloe and Tamatha and Ricardo and Lawrence and Benjamin and them all age and enjoy the world they help change with their loved ones and moko.

The main thing is, if you found it, where would you wear it?

I’m so sorry a few years ago I lost 400 bucks for a big table which probably never existed and it felt awful.

Stares bilingually in ‘this is incredible’ and in ‘living in Christchurch 😳’

I admit I am not enlightened enough to love weeds as much as any other greenery. Especially the thorny one or the one that stinks like death when I pull it out and wins all the evolutionary drive contests year after year 😒

Me: nobody owns me
The garden: bitch where have you been i don’t care what do you mean having a life did I even authorise any romancing look at these weeds I’m a disgrace Come Here Right Now
Me: yes master - slaves hard for 3 hours

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Anybody knows Guyon’s auntie can they please ask her to sit him down get him to think about how words matter please.

Luckily I have a work hui to go to cause if I read one more piece of news I’m going to have a stroke. Sorry I’m so ranty today. Love y’all byeee

Go investigate the very small number of people who throw trans folks under society’s bus and erode their human rights based on non factual reasons, who use the exact words that you repeat.

If you’re interested in size start talking about the vast majority of people cis and trans who have no beef whatsoever with trans folks existing and participating in society and find their persecution not neutral or balanced but quite revolting and confronting.

There is no trans issue. There are indeed plenty of trans people with documented not neutral or balanced experiences of being object of violence and marginalisation.

Guyon Espiner what the absolute fuck. I’m so tired of hearing ‘trans issue’ and ‘identity politics’ and ‘so much time spent on this when it affects so few people’ as if it was a balanced, neutral, harmless position. You use that language = you say that position is just another valid point of view.

Just an ESOL and tired brain not enough coffee moment 😳

Is that what would happen if Labour was clear about wanting to ally with the other opposition parties? 😳

@duncanwebbmp.bsky.social please

They clearly have the support of civil society. Why would you deprive a whole country of that opportunity just to make the point that Labour is the only one with the answers.

@nzgreenparty.bsky.social and @tepaatimaori.bsky.social have policies and willingness to do things in a way that will lift many out of poverty and interrupt vicious cycles that will bring us to environmental and social disasters. They may even enable transformation of society and public services.

IMHO in this particular historical moment in Aotearoa and in the world it is not just unacceptable for Labour to throw other opposition parties under the bus to advance the Labour branding at all costs. It is dangerous and irresponsible.

It bothers me that we expect ordinary folks working in ordinary jobs to work well with others. But somehow it is acceptable that a party campaigns and act as if they know best and don’t need others. Even Labour in spite of evidence they lost the last election so clearly they got that one wrong.