Stefanie

Good old Jim Bolger eh? He once told me my baby was a very bouncy Māori which I thought was a nice compliment.

A photo grid of 12 Hamilton community leaders, with their names underneath, with the text Decide Together, Thrive Together. VOTE to keep Māori Wards.

Look, did a bunch of us organise to have a pro Māori wards billboard on the same sign Hobson’s Pledge put their bullshit?

Absolutely.

Did we all put our names to it cause we're community leaders staunch in our position?

Absolutely.

I grow fonder of Donald McDonald as the years go by and wish him many more happy years of running for Council

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I turned 42 and made a playlist for dancing, enjoy if that's the kind of thing you're "into" open.spotify.com/playlist/5kX...

Oh I DO love to receive a $500 power bill! Well, I'm exaggerating for effect. It's really only $489.52

Don McGlashan, simply love him

Newspaper article headed: Pope smashes 169 off Zimbabwe to show England selectors his class

I hadn’t realised that Leo XIV was even eligible to play for England

Yesterday it rained heavily all day and the kids were inside wreaking havoc. Please, some of you tell me your houses were also an absolutely irredeemable bomb site at the end of it

For a while there you only saw the young 'uns vaping, but now I'm seeing them smoking actual cigarettes again. Not durries either, the expensive ones. Where are the young people getting this kind of capital?

If I were managing this info under the OIA I would have ample grounds for withholding contact details for personal privacy; it is almost expected. No big deal in this case but I was surprised as surely some licensing situations get ugly. Anyway looking forward to visiting the new venue soon. (2/2)

There's a new bar opening in our street, which I'm excited for, and I lodged an objection with the council about the hours in their licensing application. I was surprised that the council sent the submissions to the applicant without contact info redacted, and CCed us all in on the same thread (1/2)

One of my finer efforts

7:30 and my kids have been scrapping for an hour already. Why can't a mother listen to her mushroom lady podcast in tranquility

Popes are chosen by God, making them the ultimate Dei hire

Aw, I liked that Pope.

I learned a lot from this thread, thank you. The majority of medical people that I have interacted with as a patient were just fantastic specimens of humanity with clearly mind-blowing knowledge. Pay them all a million dollars for all I care.

Kids are ragin because they want me to put on Alien Ant Farm but I will only put on the new Pulp single

It IS!!

Minor details 😂

They're going back in hoping we'll all say something different this time

I've just made a submission to the Royal Commission into Covid, Phase 2, fondly recalling the good deeds of the team of five million and expressing my support for the actions of the government that mean I'm alive to badger you to go do your submission today.

Spotted today in the wild, all-time most influential woman ever Claire Hall - haven't seen her in ages and felt starstruck 🤩 cc @auchmill.bsky.social

Screenshot of a reddit post and a comment. Post, from r/gadgets: Parmigiano-Reggiano makers are putting edible microchips the size of a grain of sand into their 90-pound cheese wheels to combat counterfeiters businessinsider.com (image of a person’s hands and forearms over a large wheel of Parmesan cheee. The person is injecting or stamping something onto the cheese with a small black implement) Comment, from twec21 Big Parma is putting microchips in people The lunatics were this close to being exactly right

Big Pharma? No.

Big Parma? YES.

James Meager is doing a marathon chairing job very well today

In my view some of these people are dropkicks

It's cool how our Parliament banned slavery in the 1700s, didn't know we'd done that

Black coffee, good lunch. Mihail Sebastian, 1 February, 1938.

Today I think of the late Moana Jackson, God rest his soul, and keenly miss him taking his place as the first oral presentation to the Justice Select Committee. What a gift that would have been.

day one of hell and what happens

It's not that I think Morning Report should be on during the holidays, it's just that things are not right in the world without it