Arohanui, Epsom. What an awful thing to happen, I hope everyone can heal fully.

Ōtepoti: solidarity with local trans folk Sarah is studying at Otago Uni, seeking asylum here in Aotearoa Te Waipounamu. She needs our support with living, fees & gender affirming care costs givealittle.co.nz/cause/suppor...

Support Sarah After Escaping Prosecution as a Trans Refugee Advocate.

Sarah is a trans advocate that lost her scholarship because she's trans. She has limited support due to her asylum seeker status.

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A friend moved to a new state for a job and was laid off after just three months. He's had a hard time of things for the last few years—please help me raise funds to help him through an extremely bad time. 📚 www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Donate to Support for a Trans Librarian, organized by Violet Fox

Hello! My name is Violet Fox and I'm raising money for a friend, a trans librarian who rece… Violet Fox needs your support for Support for a Trans Librarian

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Anyone know an agency in Palmerston North who can help? I don't mean simple transport, she's gonna need some real hand holding to get to this place, while the hospital is probably just gonna reschedule and tell her to sort herself.

Potato enthusiast 🇵🇸🥔@br3nda.bsky.social · 2d ago

Extremely worried about my elderly aunt, who has a broken jaw from a fall, and Palmerston North Hospital has told her to catch a bus Palmy to Hutt Valley on her own today to get surgery, and bus back after - my aunt is forgetful, has no cellphone (we've tried) on one of the coldest days of the year

Do any of my NZ pocket friends like to make entomology-related art/merch & would like to sell their crafts at our upcoming NZ Entomological Society conference 1st week September? If so, please get in touch. 🪲 🐞 🪱 🪰 🕷

Filmmaker Jared Flitcroft hopes that NZSL moves beyond accessibility and into authorship, where Deaf people aren't simply included in cinema, but help redefine what cinema can be.

NZSL belongs on the big screen

Filmmaker Jared Flitcroft hopes that NZSL moves beyond accessibility and into authorship, where Deaf people aren't simply included in cinema, but help redefine what cinema can be.

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Feeling for everyone here in Aotearoa who's been reporting harmful digital content (some of you for *years*) & wondering what it takes to get Netsafe or authorities to do something about it 😓

Ōtepoti: Lammet Watan event is postponed due to weather

An age old reminder that free speech does not mean freedom from consequences

CEO Johnny Cans@oldmatecans.bsky.social · 2d ago

Confirmation Interim HDCA Order. Complaints March & May 2026. Bradbury was asked to stop, refused, made further harmful comments. The complainant would like an apology, the posts removed and for Bradbury to not encourage anyone else to post info. archive.is/uOkTv

Schools are out for all of slushday (I realise there is snow on the hills)

A good topic to raise with potential MPs re: properly funding and resourcing our health system

Sacha@sachadylan.bsky.social · 2d ago

NZ Cervical Cancer Register a casualty of big staffing disruption during development.

Anyway

Sean Killeen@seankilleen.com · 6mo ago

That's 100% why I created leavesubstack.com -- got tired of re-hashing the points; wanted to make a simple 1-pager.

What if instead of starting substacks in twenty-fucking-twenty-six people learned to give one iota of a fuck about whether they want to associate themselves with nazis.

As some of you might know, my mum was diagnosed with Parkinson's late last year. I'm looking for film, TV, books that have characters who have Parkinson's, feature Parkinson's etc. [Not interested in pseudoscience, "alternative" medicine, or unsolicited advice.]

The cost of cuts. Families are skipping food to pay for essential items. A Ministry of Social Development report revealed that child poverty is getting worse and that an estimated 210,600 children - roughly the population of Wellington - were living in households below the poverty line. #nzpol

Disability support cuts criticised as child poverty report highlights growing hardship

An advocate for children with disabilities says families are skipping food to pay for essential items.

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“It is not impolite to name racism, to document it, or to organise against it. What is impolite is telling a New Zealander of 30 years to go home. What is indecent is a cabinet that shelters him.” — Mohan Dutta.

We must name racism when it happens | E-Tangata

"It is not impolite to name racism, to document it, or to organise against it. What is impolite is telling a New Zealander of 30 years to go home. What is indecent is a cabinet that shelters him." — M...

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“The gap between the government’s insincere words and its willingness to take real action mirrors the coalition’s approach to Māori.” — John Hobbs on New Zealand’s inaction on Gaza.

A shameful silence | E-Tangata

“The gap between the government’s insincere words and its willingness to take real action mirrors the coalition’s approach to Māori.” — John Hobbs on New Zealand’s inaction on Gaza.

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How to Increase Abuse in State Care Exponentially 101

I started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠

It’s probably not great when political announcements these days just seem to be bigotry bingo, eh

This policy would directly lead to physical abuse of disabled and neurodivergent children. Tell your friends. I'm absolutely serious.

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 4d ago

ACT candidate Paul Henry unveils plan to let teachers use 'reasonable force' on 'little shits'

The joy* of being defined by: whether you've got a uterus whether the uterus 'works' or not whether you already birthed a child or children and therefore 'done your part' in a heterosexual, monogamous relationship or not *sarcasm

CEO Johnny Cans@oldmatecans.bsky.social · 4d ago

Women! Your job is Make Babies. Winston Peters will pay you 5k tax free per year for the first three years of three babies lives! The party of "defending women" needs you to Make Babies to replace the population. Only open to Citizens. No foreigns.

ACT are deliberately targeting disabled children in this and other policies. ACT want to enact harm upon our kids, freely and without recourse. ACT want to siphon money to overseas profiteers via institutionalisation and prisons. They will leave the rest of us all the poorer for it.

Need to subscribe to read the whole article but Lewis provides a substantial thread here Hard read Important for many reasons, not least because of what Palestinians are dealing with. It has implications for any society that lets Israel get away with genocide, including here in Aotearoa

Sophie Lewis@reproutopia.bsky.social · 6d ago

I have a major piece up today at The Key. It's about Israel, parsing the rape baked into Zionism's core grammar. I speak of trained dogs; Screams Without Words; Sde Teiman; the Tomer-Yerushalmi affair; and the Palestinian Feminist Collective on sexual violence's centrality to reproductive genocide.

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Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social · 4d ago

In today’s HeraldOnSunday

FAO Winston Peters though of course he'd insist he said "citizens" not "white" so it's magically not racist

Stephanie Rodgers 🍉@bootstheory.bsky.social · 2y ago

Are you worried about falling birthrates? Here's 5 simple tips! 1. Quick racism check, are you actually just worried about *white* birthrates? Maybe stop that 2. More parental leave 3. Make public spaces and services safer for parents 4. Rent: too damn high 5. No seriously do the racism check again

As we recall the trauma caused by COVID in 2020, we should not forget COVID continues to harm. Many still suffer from Long COVID, people who mask are often harassed, and we haven’t scaled clean air infrastructure. If we truly acknowledge past harms, we should be working to create a better future.

Are you worried about falling birthrates? Here's 5 simple tips! 1. Quick racism check, are you actually just worried about *white* birthrates? Maybe stop that 2. More parental leave 3. Make public spaces and services safer for parents 4. Rent: too damn high 5. No seriously do the racism check again

Survivors of abuse in care hand-delivered flowers to Parliament. The flowers were picked from the grounds of hospitals and care residences that were sites of abuse, and marked 2 years since the damning findings of the Royal Commission of Inquiry. My #cartoon today #NZpol #AbuseInCare #ChildWelfare

arghhh TVNZ+ lag on captions been binge watching Strange New Worlds, hitting "next episode..." through season 3 up until season 4. Two episodes available so far, neither provided with captions yet I'm only allowed to watch a select few things current at same time as everyone else 😩