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Hey Ōtautahi: Pride 2025 opens on Saturday 1st with a march from Cashel Mall to the Bridge of Remembrance. Our support might be especially welcome this year. www.chchpride.co.nz/event/walk-f...

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Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?" Me: "That's the documentation deliverable." Manager: "What's the status of that?" Me: "We're halfway there" Manager: "Why is progress so slow?" Me: "You fired Tommy" Manager: "So?" Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"

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Not to say it's been a stressful work day, but I just yelled, "If you answer that phone I will fucking kill you!", so there's that...

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Watching a slightly old Only Connect and they're all baffled by the idea that you'd know how heavy your toddler was and... do the English not have an equivalent of Plunket?

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Looked up this old post I did on Tamaki in 2016, and back then people were making donations to Rainbow Youth in Tamaki's name... publicaddress.net/up-front/giv...

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Min came into the kitchen while I was cooking. He had a leaf on the back of his back leg, so I bent down to pick it off. He assumed, given I was in the kitchen, that I was bending down to give him, maybe, maybe, meat. So he turned around. We did four circles before I gave up.

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I have lodged a formal complaint with the charities regulator asking that Destiny Church’s charities be struck off because of serious wrongdoing last weekend in my Te Atatu electorate. 1/3

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We have a whole bunch of new registrars atm and it is a bit of a trip. This one said something that sounded like "Wecken-back". I confirm that is "Wenckebach" and I'm all, "Oh, no, love, whoever taught you that, it IS actually pronounced "wanky-back"...

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Hey, remember that episode of The West Wing where the conspiracy guy tries to get permission to enter Fort Knox because he believes the gold has been removed and replaced with the Roswell space ship? Just sayin'

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Holy shit, people

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I mean, bless TVNZ news having subtitles, but Chinese warships are not heading towards New Zealand “daughters”.

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Well I laughed.

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Having the new heat pump installed. First heat pump guy called another heat pump guy who turned up, looked, and said, "Oh! What have they done there?!"

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I have had to type "sacroiliitis" a number of times this morning and it wasn't that convincing as a word when I started...

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Every time someone tells me trans kids aren't real I wonder who's eating my food

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Hooo boy. After a racist outburst from Winston, attacking Ricardo, Brownlee has determined that Aotearoa is not an acceptable way to refer to New Zealand. Mc Anulty raises the very serious point that Te Reo Māori is an official language and Members can speak in either English or Te Reo. #nzpol

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Clinician: Mr [patient] used to have bilateral hands and feet... [long pause] Me: Meep.

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Happened again. A couple of girls scootering up the road, one stops by my letterbox and says, "I deliver mail here and this one is my favourite 'cause there's a butterfly on the eight." It's a Crystal Ashley. I got @msayana.bsky.social the nine for Christmas www.crystalashley.co.nz/category/Hou...

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Walk into my doctors’ surgery. The sound system is belting out “Not Ready to Make Nice”. Appreciated.

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Took yesterday off work because it was my birthday, have this afternoon off because I have to go to the dr. Just opened up the work pools and we are drowning. Already, my mental health was Not Great.

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reminder: change.org petitions don't count for shit. the parliment ones REQUIRE a response, legally, if they go over, so hit that one hard: petitions.parliament.nz/a22e0d59-7da... "That the House of Representatives remove charitable status from Destiny Church."

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Just noting the request from Auckland Pride not to share videos or images from yesterday’s events.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Fucking hell, look what they did. OTOH, the closest I’ve come to getting a birthday cake in decades.

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Not bad, you know…

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Going out for a winery lunch to celebrate my birthday and I'm afraid the fascists have made me all cross and I won't enjoy it.

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