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@leaflemming.bsky.social

Recovered journalist, writer of too few good sentences. Constantly searching for better sentences. Give me all your sentences.

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@leaflemming.bsky.social · 2d ago

Our country’s actual foreign minister is the subject of a formal complaint from our major trading partner for nakedly racist behaviour. Our Prime Minister refuses to take action. Homelessness, unemployment and poverty are all surging. We don’t have a government, we have a collapsing iceberg.

Pip Adam@pipadam.bsky.social · 2d ago

Um. There is no stable government. This coalition is over in everything but name. If someone is only keeping their job so you hold onto power that's not stable government. Snap election now.

Doc Impossible@impossiblephd.bsky.social · 3d ago

Another study on youth transition that find that about 97% of all youth who says they're trans turn out to be. Only 1.1% who start HRT stopped it for any reason whatsoever. This is, like, the fifth youth transition study that I'm aware of, and all of their results have been identical.

Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 3d ago

Canadian researchers found that 97 percent of youth who seek treatment for gender dysphoria still identify as trans years later.

Stu Fleming@thebasement.nz · 4d ago

There is no such thing as “reasonable force” against a child. Save us from these toxic damaged scared old white men who think their upbringings “never did them any harm”

D Jukic She/her@dejanajuk.bsky.social · 4d ago

“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

Ursula K. Le Guin@ursulakleguin.com · 2w ago

This extremely early work of Ursula’s appeared in the anthology First Words: Earliest Writing from Contemporary Favorite Writers, edited by Paul Mandelbaum and published by Algonquin in 1993. (“Krakie” was a nickname for Ursula’s mother.)

To Krakie by Ursula Kroeber (1934, age 4) Bears like honey, I do too. I like you, honey, I sure do.
Maureen Johnson@maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 3w ago

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3w ago

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

Andrew Todd@andrewtodd.co.nz · 3w ago

You don't get to use the term "national treasure" much in New Zealand - there's just objectively not many of us around - but Sam Neill was kind of the Platonic ideal of that term.

morgan godfery@morgangodfery.bsky.social · 4w ago

Another round of infrastructure-destroying storms. Not even a few months after the last round of destructive storms. These rain events are quarterly now. But no one in politics or media is prepared to say it

kyle@kyledchurch.bsky.social · last mo.

calling on NZ Labour and @greens.org.nz to get a press release to media TONIGHT immediately ruling this out actually absurd that reporters here have asked ZERO current politicians & parties what their stance is before releasing a story - especially during election year. It's discourse manipulation

kyle@kyledchurch.bsky.social · last mo.

do NZ journos think there might be useful context & subtext that is relevant to NZers when they decide to treat far right US fascists in the same way that they treat local politicians? this is a wall of verbatim PR with a kindly framed headline essentially being gamed by the incoming US ambassador

Annalee Newitz@annaleen.bsky.social · last mo.

I am not certain, but I think this might be the greatest thread (and greatest use of alt text) of all time.

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · last mo.

I've decided to compile a definitive thread of photos of the best sheep I've photographed during my walks in the countryside, together with supporting biographical information. I will put the vital story associated with each sheep in the alt text, since some of it is a little long to fit in a post.

A nihilistic sheep, who, like so many other sheep, just wants to watch the world burn, staring at me insouciantly, moments after it has set fire to a large portion of the United Kingdom.