smalljude
@smalljude.bsky.social
Te Whanganui a Tara, Aotearoa. Non-binary, disabled (chronic migraine/fibro), autistic Pākehā. Tangata Tiriti. Life is pain, meds, cats, Korean entertainment, and reading. Don't get out much 😑 From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free 💔🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
"The moment someone in a meeting declares “I’m the adult here,” you are watching the Child, wearing daddy’s pants, stamping his tiny foot. The claim to adulthood is the one utterance the Adult never needs to make." This article from Andrew Dickson is a brilliant analysis of Luxon #nzpol
Luxon's Wearing Daddy's Pants
The Prime Minister goes to Rotorua, tells drowning businesses to swim harder, and confesses
andrewdicksonnz.substack.com
Caspian was on my lap.... and Pixie. Climbed. On. As. Well!!! 🤯🫣🥰
Pretty impressive to see Pixie turn her back on the kittens! This is the closest she's chosen to sit near them. Slowly making progress 🥰
Soooo relieved! The boys have both had bloody poo, and all the tests came back fine! Finally they can meet Pixie and venture into the rest of the house 🥰
My Irish accented Apple Maps voice often tells me to "Take the motorway to One Gary" and that can be a challenge.
I'm pretty keen to not hear the American-accented voice spell out 'Te R-a-p-a' any longer. New Zealand finally gets a Google Maps tool that correctly pronounces Māori placenames
It’s a sickness
NEW: Meta paid hundreds of contractors to pretend they were kids—and then prompt rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to talk about subjects like suicide, sex, eating disorders, and self-harm. From @dmehro.bsky.social and @joelkhalili.bsky.social
lmao winston's so drunk he's actually doing "Some of you may die, and that's a price I'm willing to pay"
Only Star Wars spinoff I want is the backstory where Yoda learns English but due to teaching cutbacks his lessons are incomplete and he transfers over some of his first language's syntax. Meanwhile, everyone in the galaxy (except subtitlers) learns Wookiee but then they refuse to speak it themselves
Lots of pain and feeling overwhelmed today... but the boys are here with me 🥰
After a solid morning of work, the employees are letting off steam at lunchtime
I'm in bed with my lovely cat nurse Pixie, and Gagan and the boys are working hard 🥰
I'm struggling to stay awake with these two purring sleepers 🥱😴
Ok world.. introducing Prince Caspian and Puffin the Magic Panther (Puffin and Caspian for short) 🥰
So… we have to think of names! (Foster names are Raphael and Azariel 😝) Suggest away!