My column this week is about how fat people can’t win and I’m fucking sick of it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fat people cannot win, regardless of what we do. And I’ve had enough | Rebecca Shaw

Using weight loss drugs like Ozempic is not ‘cheating’ – and why does it matter how a person changes their body anyway?

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Sometimes I think about how amazing Terence Stamp was at playing Bernadette Bassenger.

um 15 blazing police cars have just gone by, and the helicopter.... wtf is going on O_O

and that's enough social media for me today

love the donations section - really shows you how rich individuals feel: two knights have donated to NZ First (seriously wtf); but then we also see several company/business/philanthropist names donating, so we know whom we should support.

Marc Daalder@marcdaalder.bsky.social · 4mo ago

With just over six months to go till the election, Newsroom has launched a page to track the latest polls and political donations. Check it out here: newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/30/t...

$81 to spend 10 minutes on a video call with my GP, because I needed a new prescription for long term medication, and their website had denied it. $75 worth of medication that could be at least $25 cheaper if they had kept $0 prescription fees; free if they were better at subsidising medications.

ive been slowly working on this for a few months. it started as a love song for my beloved girlfriend and a bit of a sandbox for learning music theory/production and slowly grew in scope. i promised myself i wouldn't start working on other projects until I was happy with this one. now, here it is 🩷

Nothing Artificial

YouTube video by dolly Angelic

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ordered a pad of A5 letter paper, and it arrived today

They are preventing my phone from in, and outbound calls - so I have no other choice but to try use one of these sketchy choices.

zee@zeekidvicious.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Other than phoning, it seems the only way to contact One.NZ is through AI, or a third-party app (whatsapp, facebook messenger, apple messages). Also, those who have worked in call centres in the past might find it interesting they disclose № of calls received previous day. Thursday had 5,000 calls..

Other than phoning, it seems the only way to contact One.NZ is through AI, or a third-party app (whatsapp, facebook messenger, apple messages). Also, those who have worked in call centres in the past might find it interesting they disclose № of calls received previous day. Thursday had 5,000 calls..

Sorry! Decarboxylating! 🫢

a colleague said she was gonna ask AI to help us figure out what GST and Stamp Duty we needed to charge for something and I was like "that's risky, AI just wants you to be happy" and she abandoned it. gently gently get people off that fucken AI.

theconversation.com/your-cat-is-...

Your cat is likely to live longer if you don’t let them roam – new study

It’s not just wildlife that gets killed. Cats come off worse in road traffic accidents and fights when they roam.

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forgive my naïveté, but tax credits only turn to money once a year when IRD does its refund reviews, right? If so, perhaps they expect this will be slipped in before the 31st of March--then those families could get the $50 a week when refunds get issued in July 🤷🏻

Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈@sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Well, this does nothing for folks without kids or are on a benefit. Also importantly it does nothing about supply of fuel. Nor does it reduce demand on fuel. If anything, it makes demand worse. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

I have no idea why we call it "Russian Fudge" here, but my aunt used to make the BEST Russian Fudge (actually, all her baking was generally amazing). I can't have dairy anymore, so I go a little crazy when I find a vegan store with vanilla fudge. So good! So addictive!

Nigella Lawson@nigella.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Attention all those with a sweet tooth: Vanilla Fudge is #RecipeOfTheDay! I feel I should apologise for my appalling cutting and photography, though. This photo was originally intended as a placeholder pic, but I never got around to changing it. www.nigella.com/recipes/vani...

I'm on my fifth Charles Dickens novel this year, and I have resolved to use the term "by-and-by" more often.

I read the post from Hipkins' ex - and I'm not going to say whether I think it's all true or not, but I find it VERY hard to believe that the hospital would discharge someone in a hospital gown covered in blood; I know we have SEVERE issues in our hospitals, but I highly doubt this is one of them.

sometimes all I want is to wake up

this is so fucked up: purchase intelligence‽ it's some real 1984/coolaid/manson brain-washing fight for control over others

tante@tante.cc · 5mo ago

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever. It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

What did our mums talk about on the phone for hours on end in the '90s?

hm no i don’t think that’s right

Remember when everything was MIDI?

Turns out my worst enemy is me (as far as I am aware).

TVNZ Duke must think they are SO funny. Tonight they are playing "Groundhog Day" three times in a row 🤔

time keeps pushing forward without so much as grace; lines deepen, bodies expand as dreams meld into daytime-- reality blurs-- seeping through days, weeks, years souvenirs in mind --like yesterday-- drift further away past years are past lives; my person so different, I lost myself completely

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

CNN@cnn.com · 7mo ago

The world has entered “an era of global water bankruptcy” with irreversible consequences, according to a new United Nations report. https://cnn.it/4qxGTNX

Happy Birthday @dollyangelic.bsky.social !!! I hope you have the best day ever! 🌟✨🎉🎊💝💐🌹🎂🍰🥂🍾🥳💕🦆

wtf, my following dashboard goes from 13 days ago to 10 hours ago 🙃 usually I scroll down to the last thing I've read, then go upwards. The oldest post should be at least 12 hours.

It wouldn't be Auckland without someone mowing their lawns in torrential rain.

look at this charming tauhou / waxeye nest found under a tree, presumably blown out or dislodged by a possum. horse hair, pig hair (?), moss, small twigs & A FULL HYDRANGEA FLOWER woven in. bless (photo by anna-lisa gilmore, posted in fb group birds of new zealand. shared here with her permission)