Spotted on Molesworth St. Hopfully the PM can't get to work easier now.

I made this for a friend but it’s worth sharing, printing or saving to your phone so you can get the QR code in front of someone

Something very wrong with a society that has billions of dollars to build data centers, but won't properly fund public schools.

When you’re chronically ill, learning to rest is critical It’s also hard Our society rewards productivity We’re taught that rest is weakness. That we should play through the pain Rest is a strength It can help you maintain your baseline If all you did today was rest, be proud of yourself

Poets can't choose which of their poems strike a chord or go viral. Sheenagh Pugh's tired of being best known for this poem, for instance. Sorry, Sheenagh, but it's a real hit...!

A Professor can be hounded to death by the media for alleged plagiarism but tech companies can plagiarise on a worldwide scale and they’re left alone, celebrated for their “genius”…

Let this remind you that what matters in democracy is. - enrolling to become eligible to vote - turning up to vote - casting a valid and effective vote

If you’re living with tricky mental health, chronic illness,not good thought pathways caused by others’ behaviour, a trickily wired brain,you’re worried about climate change or you’re just feeling shite today, then hi, me too. This photo’s for your brain-a miniature posy from my garden in a thimble:

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

To vote in this years general election you need to be enrolled by midnight, 13 days before Election Day. Days left to enrol or update your details. Maori Roll: 3 days General Roll: 83 days Remind your Friends & Whanau #nzpol

Important for tenants in the Wellington Region to note - landlord shouldnt (can’t?) make you pay the water bill yet (because its not a charge based on usage, its a property thing) www.tiakiwai.co.nz/billing/land...

Pay Equity under Labour: The Law. Pay Equity under National: Yeah nah.

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

Aldi should call David Seymour’s bluff. “Yup ok we’ll open in New Zealand as long as you match German supermarket regulation standards: no Sunday trading and mandatory plastic/glass container deposit schemes”

in a world of Lindsey Grahams, be a Sam Neill

Hey don’t forget to turn your alarm off for tomorrow if you have the day off and if you don’t, hey thanks for turning up

I notice details because I'm autistic. I care with my whole chest because I'm autistic. I build rituals, collect joy, and remember the tiny things because I'm autistic. Some of my favorite parts of me stopped looking like deficits the moment I stopped measuring them against someone else's brain.

Whenever a company announces they're going to start using AI, I notice two things. First, it's never about how it can actually improve the product, just how they can do it more cheaply/with less people. Second, they never announce an intent to pass any of those expected savings on to the consumer.

Sign This Parliamentary Petition Today: petitions.parliament.nz/0e32836b-625... For ppl living with a lifelong disability or chronic illness, this petition asks MSD to remove joint-income testing measures from: ✅️ COMMUNITY SERVICES CARD ✅️ DISABILITY ALLOWANCE ✅️ SUPPORTED LIVING PAYMENT

Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.

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Bob Dylan, now 85, on being 80 –

Bluesky isn't a bubble or an echo chamber, it's a garden. You plant some seeds and pull some weeds, you tend to it with care, and you make it into a space that pleases you when you come to sit in it a while. Other people can plant and tend to their own gardens, if they like. This garden is yours.

This government doesn’t push things through ‘under urgency’. It pushes things through without warning, without scrutiny, without justification. It’s not about urgency. It’s about saying a hearty fuck you to everyone else.

All the political news this week has been absolute garbage. It feels overwhelming and that’s on purpose. So it’s more important to seek out the people and causes that give you hope. And give them your time, money and attention. It can be better. We just have to work together.

There is no point in a consumer society if the consumers can't afford to consume.

Bryan Roche describing the thousands of public servants whose jobs are under threat as "Human Capital" is a bit of a tell as to the worth they place on the working class.

National thinks the definition of "woman" is someone you pay less because otherwise the economy falls down

Sometimes when we feel exhausted, things feel grim & everything feels hopeless, the best thing we can do is do some small act. - Exhausted? Rest, really rest (not just doomscrolling)……rest is resistance against it all. - also make sure you’re fed and hydrated…:you need to keep your energy up

An important, underrated component to emergency preparedness is getting all your mates to vote for a government that's not shit. This directly improves personal and communal resilience at a fundamental level. In lieu of a government that's not shit, have a good torch. Maybe a pitchfork or two.

Me, when the govt cuts public sector jobs and the economy gets worse so they decide to cut more public sector jobs: