Poetry-lovers in Hawke's Bay - last year we had over 90 people come along, so get in quick for the 2026 Party of Poets. There's a bar! And tickets are only $5!
Catherine Robertson
@cjrauthor.bsky.social
Author of Flora Valley, Miss Lovelock and Imperfect Lives series romcoms (catherinejrobertson.com) she/her, trans rights, vote Green, owner of cats, dogs and chickens. Banner pic is Bernie judging you
🧵Adventures of my orange-adjacent cat. Reg is a red Burmese, 5 years old, no fear, no impulse control. I’ve moved to a new place and tried to keep all four (I know) cats inside for two weeks. Reg’s nonstop yowling finally broke me and on Thursday I let him out …
My entire Instagram ad feed is lemon sex toys, beeswax cleaning products and We Rate Dogs - what did I do in a past life???
Love it when companies send "a friendly reminder" to pay your bill on time. Friendly. Sure.
Spongebob HR Meme
Alt: Spongebob HR Meme, menacing fish pounding fist into palm (fin, whatever)
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Drop everything and read this damning observation by Dr Dickson. He just psychoanalysed our CEO PM, and it ain't pretty. The *BEST* substack i've read this year. !Please share far and wide¡ open.substack.com/pub/andrewdi...
Luxon Doesn't Need This Job
A, this, and the neediness of 163,000 other people
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My neighbour’s lawn mowing robot is out tonight with its lights shining and my dogs are going insane because obviously it’s an alien life form
Woken at 3.30am by my two smallest cats chasing a mouse around my bedroom, so who else do you think spent 20 minutes chasing a mouse around my bedroom and who do you think failed to catch it?
Joey's Enthusiastic 'Yeah, I Did!'
ALT: Joey's Enthusiastic 'Yeah, I Did!'
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I got high marks for School C including 99% for English and the following year I got good marks for all UE subjects except maths. First day of 7th Form the deputy principal who’d never taught me asked my name and then said “Oh yes, you’re the little girl who’s not very good at maths”
I stripped an old chest of drawers today and if this was Instagram I’d have videoed the whole process and forced you to watch. Speeded up. I’m not a monster.
Please repost this as widely as possible!
Paul Thistoll@pault.bsky.social · 3mo ago***Call to action*** NZ First’s transphobic bill is lawfare against trans, non-binary, and intersex people. What can we do about it? Well, we can make sure the select committee receives as many submissions as possible against the bill. To that end I will offer my time to anyone who wants help 1/4
White collar tax evasion in NZ is estimated to be in the billions but fraud investigations are underfunded. This fact brought to you by Better Ways the Nacts could “Save” Money. Stay tuned for part 2: Tax the Rich #nzpol
Also timely to call bullshit on the $2.4billion "savings". December 2024 headline from BusinessDesk: "Public sector redundancy payments to reach $250m." And according to the PSA, $50million of that was spent on only 865 employees. Getting rid of 9000 = [insert large taxpayer funded sum here]
🧵 1/2 Timely reminder to a certain cohort of voters: your tax dollars do NOT pay for your superannuation. You paid for the pensions of those who retired in your working life, and today's workers will pay yours. When you were employed the number of workers paying tax was way higher than today ...
We’ve had a dreadful run the past 18 months with staff, I have 20 this term to do the work 14 did in term 4. We have someone sick tomorrrow and can’t cover them (Its a regular occurrence but if I hire more staff at the moment there are not permanent hours for them). Anyone up for some work?
You’re trapped in the last TV show you watched. Where are y—
Rivals: Rupert Campbell Black
Alt: Rivals: Rupert Campbell Black
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Queen Olivia III@queenoliviaiii.com · 3mo agoYou’re trapped in the last TV show you watched. Where are y—
Me and 90+ other authors are going to be very tired at the end of tomorrow’s massive Ages of Pages book fair. Hamilton. Claudelands event centre. Sat 2 May, 9.30am-4pm. FREE ENTRY! Bring a big bag of cash and swap it for excellent reads
In these tough times, be heartened that someone has gone to considerable trouble to convincingly change the Welcome to Clive sign in Hawkes Bay to Welcome to Olive (will try to get a photo)
Without stating your age, post your favourite film released the year you turned 18.
a close up of a puppet with a sailor hat and tie .
Alt: The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters before he turns super evil-looking
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