One minute you're young & fun and the next you're falling asleep with your cat at 8pm.

A vote for National, NZFirst, or ACT is a vote to keep older kiwis in poverty, and to make their poverty worse. This coalition government has actively passed policies that have made things tougher for everyone who isn't in the wealthy donor class. It will only get worse if they are voted back in.

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · yesterday

Older Kiwis choosing between 'starving or heating' as price increases bite

A vote for National or NZ First means returning ACT to power again. ACT are gunning for workers, disabled people, and children. They will actively and intentionally make all our lives worse, except ofc for their wealthy donor class.

PERFECTLY NORMAL@nzpom.com · 17h ago

Today's chart after ACT got another $25k The system is rigged

Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods

Micah@rincewind.run · 3d ago

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

Daily bunny no.3401 is ready to harvest

Look how cool! A person I'm acquainted with on Instagram does photography with antique equipment and he did a portrait of his cat using a camera made in 1926. www.instagram.com/glass_negati...

Big Walk is up there with coolest gaming experiences of my life man. absolutely must play. and don’t get spoiled if you can

Tamatha Paul in general debate talks about a homeless man dying on the streets of Wellington on Monday night in the freezing cold. This regime has a body count #nzqt

How would I get by without AI? If I need a factually-dubious opinion expressed in a cliched manner with unearned confidence, I’ll just talk to a straight white cis man. I can get by on small-batch, locally-sourced, artisanal mansplaining, the way we always used to.

This was legit how I got the idea of putting my own clumsy felt-tip drawings on the covers of my D&D things. taleturn.com/portfolio/morgues-basic-basic-dd/

Morgue’s Basic (Basic D&D)

MORGUE’S BASIC is a set of new extra rules For Tom Moldvay’s 1981 Basic Rules, aka “the pink box”. New special abilities for fighters, clerics, magic-users and thieves Extra ways t…

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Kory Bing@korybing.bsky.social · 2d ago

The “best” thing about genAI (the quotes are doing heavy work here) is that it’s really lowered the bar on getting into hand-made art. Literally anything you make is better than ai. There’s never been a better time to throw away your fear and start learning that craft you’ve always wanted to learn.

I must have a "making of" of this. It's required for life. I must know more about how this show happened.

DanaCatCat Wears A Mask 🇳🇿😸💀🌈@daytheelf.bsky.social · 2d ago

Okay this show is fucking phenomenal. I fucking love Tom Hiddleston. This is amazing. Go watch it asap! I didn't know he studied classics--can he possibly get any sexier???

This is an excellent Chlöe Swarbrick quote re the Treaty Principles Bill but feels very relevant to current #nzpol events.

My sister has moved house so I told her she needs to update her details on the electoral roll because same day registration is no longer possible. She had no idea about the changes. Will there be an advertising campaign? Otherwise people won't know and will be turned away on election day. #nzpol

Okay this show is fucking phenomenal. I fucking love Tom Hiddleston. This is amazing. Go watch it asap! I didn't know he studied classics--can he possibly get any sexier???

Cara Ellison@caraellison.bsky.social · 2d ago

We were watching that silly new Tom Hiddleston reenactment of the disaster of Pompeii and he was like ‘we have amazing new tech that allows us to track people through this disaster’ and I was oh no he’s going to say it’s an AI brain or something and then he said…. ‘Its a spreadsheet’ and I CHEERED

Okay, the snow has greatly lifted my spirits! ☃️

DanaCatCat Wears A Mask 🇳🇿😸💀🌈@daytheelf.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today also is on track to be a really bummer day.

From MZ and @asians4tino.bsky.social "To me, this issue is less about foreign diplomacy, offending China, or jeopardising trade relations. I’m more concerned about the further escalation of racial abuse against migrants of colour in Aotearoa."

Why we call Winston Peters ‘Lao Pi’ | E-Tangata

“Mandarin-speaking communities are so familiar with Winston, we have nicknamed him 'Lao Pi'. Lao Pi is like that grumpy neighbour everyone knows is a problem. Except he’s not a random neighbour. He is...

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Those ears are in the “I hear you but I’m ignoring you” position. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Being dead is not some kind of state line where, if you can just cross the border, all your trespasses evaporate. The flowers still wither where you poured salt. The living continue to suffer the consequences of your actions. People are entitled to say, he made the garden worse, and now he is gone.

(The 2 finest gentleman I have ever known, Charlie Brown and Peterson J Cat, gone but never forgotten)

Lockdown people are so funny. They pull out their hair at the fact that schools were closed for five minutes, and then you ask them if they actually want to educate poor and minority children and they’re like of course not

Big Walk comes out TOMORROW, August 4. "But what time??" we hear you ask. Well! Let us tell you: • on Switch 2 and PS5: late morning-ish for your console region* • on PC and Mac: 6am PDT exactly (11pm AEST)

Horrifying that this has happened in the same country as the Cartwright inquiry - which wasn’t that long ago. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

‘Undetected harm’ warning after nearly a million cervical cancer screening notifications not sent

Health NZ has released the findings of a review into the cervical cancer screening register.

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Seattle, I am super jealous of you! Maybe @catchy.nz could be enticed to do this, too?

OneBusAway@onebusaway.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is an incredible project. Props to its creator. www.oneraccoonaway.org

Having a really bummer day.

Small local Manhattan newspaper is reporting - hope no one notices... #NZPol

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4d ago

China has lodged a formal complaint after New Zealand’s top diplomat on Wednesday told a Chinese-born lawmaker to “go back to your own country.” His comment has also prompted calls in New Zealand for the minister’s dismissal.

“Watching Winston Peters shout at Lawrence, his face seemed like the face of every person who has yelled the same words at migrants of colour, repeating the same racist imperative. It is the face of a society that has enabled and normalised racism. It is old skin that refuses to shed.” #nzpol

Why we call Winston Peters ‘Lao Pi’ | E-Tangata

“Mandarin-speaking communities are so familiar with Winston, we have nicknamed him 'Lao Pi'. Lao Pi is like that grumpy neighbour everyone knows is a problem. Except he’s not a random neighbour. He is...

e-tangata.co.nz

Old paint stand we have only fits dropper bottles, but most paints we've bought lately are the citadel pottles which are fatter. I wanted something that could fit *both*. So, I decided to fuck around in a random laser cutter software program, drafted it up, and got it cut at the library today!

Saw a family with a small child at new world all wearing masks, and the person at the jville library was masking, too! Although sadly this was more masks that I usually see out and about, it did make me feel a little less alone.

I’ve actually felt quite sick with the fact that Peters has got away with his racist bullshit AGAIN! This shit cuts deep, right across the Asian diaspora here. Why the fuck would we recommend our Asian whānau to invest in New Zealand when the government sees this as acceptable behaviour?? #nzpol

Tze Ming Mok 莫志明@tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 5d ago

And--real talk--don't like your romantic partner? Don't like their family? Don't like family vacations with your family? Leave! (If it's safe to, of course). Every second of your life is precious, and you get no prize at the end of life for sacrificing those seconds to keep up appearances.