No surprise in an understaffed health system under pressure to 'save' money.

Women weren’t told they needed cancer tests - because it ‘had not been budgeted for’

Women’s health advocates have called the scale of the cervical cancer testing notification failures “staggering”.

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I'm organising a Wiki workshop teaching folk to add openly licensed #iNaturalist or NZ Plant Conservation Network website images to #WikiCommons & then reuse them in #Wikipedia. If you want to attend register at this link: www.nzpcn.org.nz/nzpcn/events/ Sign up for the workshop only! Please share.

My 4-year/old just learned about the concept of infinity and is now throwing a tantrum over it. “It’s weird! I don’t like it. I just want numbers to stop!”

Been involved in two winning MMP referendum campaigns. Don’t want to go again, but if I have to, confident we can win again.

Oh, now we know where it got funnelled to

The Speaker’s selective severity: Rules for Swarbrick, rank for Peters

A study of the Hansard supports Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick’s allegation that Speaker Gerry Brownlee gives New Zealand First’s Winston Peters a latitude he denies her, and other MPs who c…

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Hayley@writagal.bsky.social · 17h ago

Sometimes I wonder about the impact of politicians and media treating Ardern with such misogynistic contempt for years on end and it’s pretty frightening to consider that all that energy didn’t die when Ardern left, and is now funneled into policy, and misogyny/ racism is normalised (and rewarded).

Placing bets now that if you’re a woman who has experienced misogyny in New Zealand you’ll know exactly what this is.

The Speaker’s selective severity: Rules for Swarbrick, rank for Peters

A study of the Hansard supports Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick’s allegation that Speaker Gerry Brownlee gives New Zealand First’s Winston Peters a latitude he denies her, and other MPs who c…

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Weird how Ardern and Clark managed to keep these yahoos and numpties under control

Tory Whanau@misswhanau.bsky.social · 2h ago

He....... he knows he's the Prime Minister right?!

The eternal struggle between "I'm so lonely, I wish I had someone I could talk to who doesn't make me feel like I'm annoying them" and "if I have to speak to or see another person within 6 feet of me I'm going to completely collapse" 🫠

My utterly amazing PhD student Madushani competed in the UoW Three Minute Thesis doctoral final the other night. I happen to know the amount of complex information that had to be distilled to formulate and deliver this and I indescribably proud. Got three minutes? Have a listen!

2026 Three-Minute Thesis Doctoral Finals

YouTube video by The University of Waikato

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You never save money if you're cutting preventative care ... What's the saying? An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure? Health things get SO MUCH MORE costly the later you catch them... And preventing them happening is by far the cheapest.

Sacha@sachadylan.bsky.social · 2h ago

No surprise in an understaffed health system under pressure to 'save' money.

So Winston is “some yahoo” and David Seymour is the “numpty” right?

Tory Whanau@misswhanau.bsky.social · 2h ago

He....... he knows he's the Prime Minister right?!

Christopher Luxon is so bad at his job that when the biggest liability to his government is in trouble, he hands him an opportunity to be objectively correct about something.

Lew@lewsos.bsky.social · 3h ago

Winston sucks more than any other living MP but he at least understands what's at stake

Teach your kids that if a dog is interested in you, they will come to you. *If they don't, leave them the fuck alone* If they do, teach kids to extend their hand *under* the dog's nose, not from above. And *always* ask the owner/person with the dog for permission. 🤷‍♂️

f*male b*tch 🇵🇸@ahhmandah.bsky.social · 8h ago

for my birthday I want parents to stop teaching their kids to go up to strange dogs and dangle their hand right in the dog's face to "let them smell you" dude she smelled you all from 200m away 5 minutes ago. You're just making your child intrude on the personal space of an animal with huge teeth

This needs to be a bigger story. Google Docs is no longer safe for copyrighted material. Any writer on contract needs to stop using it *immediately*.

Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced!@bogiperson.bsky.social · 4h ago

Google Docs leaks private information - www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/c...

Ardern had no trouble keeping Peters in line for their term… why has Luxon struggled so much lmao

Te wookie o te tāngata@chewienz.bsky.social · 3h ago

so the party can avoid working with “some yahoo and numpty” in Cabinet. ummm there's a couple of ways to achieve this; 1. resign 2. dont negotiate with numpties or if you are; 3. dont fold to their whims like a lawn chair www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

for my birthday I want parents to stop teaching their kids to go up to strange dogs and dangle their hand right in the dog's face to "let them smell you" dude she smelled you all from 200m away 5 minutes ago. You're just making your child intrude on the personal space of an animal with huge teeth

It actually breaks my heart to be the only person masked on a flight with several very elderly and disabled people on it. 💔 Looking after each other is leftist praxis pass it on.

Saturday is International Cat Day, so celebrate your cat with 20% off the entire Kat's Nip range until Sunday. This year I've got felting needles for toy repairs, and felting kits to make your own cat toys on sale too.

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Kia ora e te whānau! Morning fam! Glorious winters day in Pōneke, Wellington. Have a good one, Kia pai tō rā #NZ

Putting some love on the timeline: sunset, snow and Te Rewa Rewa Bridge.

JKR explicitly said she considers anything Potter-related, even fan-made, endorsement of her politics. And every time you engage with this franchise, you signal to the industry that there's still money in it and they should keep pumping out content from full-cast audiobooks to book box partnerships.

Wise words from Steve...

A humble academic proposal: let's not have stars. Everyone hired as an academic at a university is there to teach younger generations, to make new knowledge, to have that knowledge critically evaluated by others, and to act on collective insights. We do not need to designate some people as stars.

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Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...

A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants

And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue

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“Ai doesn’t judge me” YES BECAUSE IT ISNT HUMAN. Being judged for doing weird shit like DMing someone three pages of argument so you know that isn’t socially acceptable is actually helpful, I’m sorry.

RNZ framing this as a wily Peters evading comments, rather than as a coward who refused to answer questions and abused the rules of the house to do so is just par for the course in the current media environment, sadly

"The standard you walk past , is the standard you accept"

Jennifer@jennifilm.nz · 2d ago

“Oh it’s just a little racism, what’s four more months anyway” is what she is saying.

Well now I’m confused. If a tank comes rolling past will it mean there’s an invasion or just Luxon on his way to a fundraiser?

At some point we — all of us — have to have a serious conversation about priorities. We can't just keep squeezing corporate profits out of everything and insisting everyone just make do somehow.

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · yesterday

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