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Geek, dog nut, player of video games. Middle-aged idle. May contain coarse language & traces of nuts. Tangata Tiriti, Aotearoa. She/her. #Kikorangi. #ToituTeTiriti / #TransRightsAreHumanRights / #BLM
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The feds are asking judges in migrant cases to dismiss the case, which makes them undocumented — then ICE takes them into custody as part of an expedited removal of undocumented immigrants. @democrats.senate.gov — hold hearings. We demand answers. ☎️ Call your Representatives NOW: (202) 224-3121

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JFC America. What. the. actual. fuck?! Parents charged with manslaughter for letting their 7yo child cross the road, but the driver who actually killed him with her SUV hasn't been charged?!

Stunning details now emerging: this was an operation planned a year and a half in advance, involved smuggling drones into Russia, placing them in containers on top of trucks, arranging for them all to open simultaneously and to strike.

I spent months crowdfunding to raise money to create the menopause anthology Bloody Hell! And I did it. I am crowdfunding again because the publisher has not paid several of the contributors, the artist, nor me. If you'd like to contribute, I'd appreciate it! 💜✊🏽❤️ www.paypal.com/paypalme/Mon...

The last person whose opinion I want to hear on “sound science” is the dipshit who invited a bunch of truckers to commune with potentially bird-flu infected ostriches.

This is a good thread; also, Eitan Hersh and Laura Royden and Eitan have survey work that empirically finds right-wing antisemitism is disproportionately higher than left-wing antisemitism and ironically, even moreso on university campuses.

In five years after removing fluoride from the water, 8% more U.S. children ages 0-19 would get cavities, affecting 25.4 million additional teeth and costing the country around $9.8 billion. www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/f...

International Civil Society's Tech Stack is in Extreme Danger www.thedissident.news/internationa...

just imagine if society was structured to serve the needs of people instead of property

So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS. Please read and share this thread.

The Right Wing Hate Speech Religious Fundamentalists who fund transphobic activism in the UK are now pivoting to anti-abortion activism. As we always said they would - because their agenda of policing patriarchal norms is the same. open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Government surveillance of Americans increases. Trump has brought in Palantir, a company founded by billionaire Peter Thiel, to link federal agency databases, the NYT reports. In effect, to create a data profile of every American.

Trying to reconcile how all positive change had to be incremental, studied in perpetuity & ultimately stalled with ‘how are we gonna pay for that?’ but dismantling everything was done quickly, ham-fistedly & with total disregard for cost of money and lives & no institutional guardrails mattered.

This starts tomorrow! Thanks to a bunch of generous sponsors, so far I've raised $1,246 for the 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ cause. I have a bonkers stretch goal of $2,500 - anyone who can help gets to pick a date in June & I'll post a pic & a song from that day's run. You might even get a dedicated poem.

She was one of my early heroes. Specifically the Houlihan character growth from a Frank-worshipping Karen to a Don't Fuck With Me Or My Nurses Badass.

I have written a sober and cogent argument for keeping the age of eligibility for superannuation at 65 thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-...

It was never just about trans people. It won't just be about trans people + abortion rights. They won't stop, unless we force them to stop. Trans rights are human rights. Do y'all get it now?

In the documentary by @mihiforbes.bsky.social on Seymour, the previous ACT candidate expresses that Seymour knows his actions will lead to civil unrest, even civil war, and he welcomes that. I think this is well worth keeping in mind.

Israel has stopped pretending: it’s using data from Pegasus spyware to blackmail and manipulate Western politicians and media - most recently the Spanish Prime Minister.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

One rope is stronger than a hundred pieces of string.

Thousands of cis women sign petition rejecting transphobia: ‘We will speak for ourselves’

Since I'm answering such questions in bits here's a very partial starters list of political and protest music in Aotearoa: Howard Morrison Quartet: Battle of Waikato, My Old Man's an All Black John Hanlon: Damn the Dam Newmatics: Riot Squad Blam, Blam, Blam: There's No Depression in NZ

Fascinating to finally see some AI skepticism from... CNN? Let's go??? www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/b...

It's actually wild how publicly *nasty* Bishop and the rest of his cohort are - there are numerous stories, glad to see another caught here it's time that politicians were treated appropriately for the way that they act, rather than having media let them put on a mask and pretend they're reasonable

The Minister for Women DID NOT CONSULT with her Ministry (for Women) on this profoundly damaging (to women) legislation. Just, I dunno.

Things that are not uncivil: A haka. Things that are uncivil: Telling someone working OT they’re a fucking loser;Telling NZ residents born overseas to go home; Referring to emails from Indian people as a scam; Abusing performers at a event; Talking about blowing up a Ministry; Misogny; Racism.

So we ordinary folk of Aotearoa pay for the emissions and pollution of Fonterra so they can make huge profits on the international market. Meanwhile we pay again in the supermarket.

This is appalling. Mining company granted exploration permit in Marlborough Sounds #nonewmines www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3606...

Australia: New COVID-19 variant NB.1.8.1 'pretty much everywhere' in Australia. "NB.1.8.1 accounts for 40% of cases in Victoria and 25% in Western Australia and New South Wales, around 20% in Queensland and less than 10% in South Australia." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

“the hikoi is ages ago, sit down everybody” You WISH it was over don’t you Chris Bishop? It’s barely started bro. he absolutely does not understand this was not a moment in time thing against one bill. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

The British Medical Association have come out in support of trans and non-binary people 👏🏻🏳️‍⚧️💕 They also criticise the unworkable and damaging Supreme Court Ruling, that ends up diverting resources from an already underfunded NHS! @bma.org.uk 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Full statement 👉🏻 www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

LOL I've watched 'The Last of Us', there's no way in hell I'm taking cordyceps! www.healthpost.co.nz/gaia-herbs-c...

🔴 NEW 🔴 ‘Here to Return the Favour’: MAGA Descends on Poland Ahead of Crucial Vote After a series of setbacks in Europe, Trump’s allies attended CPAC Poland in the hope of influencing the presidential election. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social & @geoffdembicki.bsky.social

Well I hope they realize, this fucking legislation will be gone so fucking fast they might as well not bother. 🤬🤬🤬 And if I had my way, retrospective fines for Environmental damage to boot. #EnvironmentalTerrorism #CowpooGiardiaSoup #NZEnvironment #NZPol