how is everyone? hope you’re doing ok out there friends. challenging innit, to stay upbeat with this level of wholesale whattheabsolutelyfuckery abounding.

I just feel like we all deserve something nice, like a new government, one that is actually good, and not so very mean and bad and awful

In breaking news, incompetent sneering flaccid starch tuber remains leader of party of incompetent sneering flaccid starch tubers. Here's Gerald with the weather.

How is everyone? Hope you’re doing ok, friends. Perhaps you'd like to look upon these ranunculus. Perhaps you too will find them lovely.

Wishing meri kirihimete & happy everything always to everyone who seeks Palestinian liberation, blessings to you friends ❤️🖤🤍💚

it's kinda hard to overstate how the central library was a focal point for daily wellington life, and how its closure has left the city centre so much emptier – this has been six years of work and I'm so glad it's almost finished wellington.govt.nz/news-and-eve...

Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui blessing celebrates final stage of restoration

With practical completion finished on Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui Central Library and the official opening just six months away, it’s time to celebrate the next stage with a blessing and reveal of the ra...

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Friends, if you’re able, please help Reem today 🫶🏽 gofund.me/4e333f55

Donate to Give Reem a Chance to Survive, organized by Jennifer M

My name is Reem, I am 19 years old, and I was an ambitious student who dreamed of completing … Jennifer M needs your support for Give Reem a Chance to Survive

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happy 32nd birthday to this masterful, majestic album, the GOAT imho; moving & soothing & soaring & sonic, melancholic & melodious, opulent & furious; non-stop wall-to-wall bangers; absolute grandeur in its textural alchemy & oh the nostalgia. a 62:08min art work that makes mine heart work. love.

Jane Austen died on this day, 1817. Her sister Cassandra wrote: “I have lost a treasure, such a sister, such a friend as never can have been surpassed. She was the sun of my life, the gilder of every pleasure, the soother of every sorrow;” #JaneAusten 💙

Ooh that Claire Keegan can write, can she what. By jove.

If Hamas & before them the PLO are “terrorists” what do we call those they’re resisting who for decades w/ impunity steal their land, maim assault snipe rape slaughter; carpet bomb homes hospitals schools churches mosques & tents; deny food water & medicine; shoot the starving as they wait for aid?

I think if given the choice between a) we're gonna tax you, or b) we're gonna eat you, the rich will surely agree, taxation is preferable

PERFECTLY NORMAL@nzpom.com · last yr.

HELL YEAH #nzpol

Perhaps there’s been some confusion and somewhere along the line some people have been told, “you need to see a counsellor; your demeanour is shitty” but they’ve heard, “you need to be a councillor or the mayor for Wellington City”

To ensure that passion and commitment to a vital cause are honoured. And to take away the bitter taste of the USA's action against her. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

Nobel Peace Prize for Francesca Albanese and the doctors of Gaza

Netanyahu just nominated Trump for the Nobel peace prize. Let’s show that the world thinks - Francesca and Gaza doctors deserve it instead!

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Labor’s unelected Anti-Semitism Overlord recently shat out a 20-page document demanding sweeping oversight of pretty much all areas of government to stamp out dissent against her beloved murder colony overseas which is starving kids to death daily. Here’s a snapshot of her sterling analytical powers

Away from the too-rough fingers Of the world. -Langston Hughes

tis a very rudeness at this age of 6 and 40 years to have the bod of an ailing octogenarian and the skin of a pubescent teen.

Ask the moon. Ask what it has witnessed.

Poetic genius.

no.@joles.bsky.social · last yr.

applying for jobs again

Applications for the UC / Creative NZ Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence positions for 2026 have opened today. Ōtautahi based, $84500pa pro rata across 2 x 6 month positions, closes 3 August. Please share with your writerly friends. jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...

I’ve said it before & Imma say it again cos worth repeating innit. Friends: LIBRARIES! HOW GOOD?! You just go & hang out! & read! & they let you take books away! & you just bring them back later! & then you take more away! & then more after that! ever onwards! Beautiful thing! Blessed places! Glory.

“don’t forget us, don’t turn us into numbers... we love life, we have dreams just like you. We have children and wives we love, but to be truly human means not to abandon those who need your humanity.”

Dr. Divya (offline 🔔)@divyampersaud.com · last yr.

Please read this. Oh god. #Gaza

I, too, have just donated to Tory's campaign. She is one strong wahine and even though I don't live or own property in Wellington, I wanted to support her personally.

NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛@ninjakitty.bsky.social · last yr.

I just donated to Tory’s campaign too. Who else is with us? (I don’t live in Welly, but my kids do and I want them to have the kind of council they deserve, not dirty old men & gossipy backstabbers). Link to donate is here 👇

“After a min of reflection upon hearing the news of US imposed sanctions against her, the response of Francesca Albanese needed no translation - there is no stepping back in working for justice & freedom” ✊🏽 My love, respect, awe for her knows no bounds. She is honour, integrity, courage exemplified

“it was like that, and after that, it was still like that, only all the time”

Pōneke how lucky we’ve been to have a leader of such heart, humanity, humility & hope in @misswhanau.bsky.social! 👑 Praying whomever follows aint a sad grabby misogynist morally-bankrupt orally-flatulent flaccid recreant reprobate devoted to bigotry & hoodwinkery wholly unsuited to representing us🤞🏽

I've been careless with a delicate man

I've been a bad, bad girl

This number of submissions (likely exceeding 150,000) should inspire pride and awe at the power of grassroots opposition to our country’s right wing surge. This is especially thanks to the expert organisation and dedication of iwi Māori. www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/07/07/t...

‘Throw it in the Bin’ Legal experts and iwi leaders reject Regulatory Standards Bill

Critics warn the bill could have far-reaching consequences for how governments govern amid many other issues.

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