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She/her. Workforce development for MH & addiction sector. Drug harm reduction. Author. US & NZ politics.
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Cynthia Erivo arrives at the #Oscars.

Cynthia Erivo is such a gift to us all. I bawl every single time. Every single emotion. Pure love.

I finally finished reading a 570pg novel that I started in 2018 but only now got to read for 3 mo consistently. I didn’t love it but was committed to seeing it through. It could’ve been cut in half with all the filler removed. But I guess if you’re a bestselling author, editors let you do whatever.

JD Vance isn’t just hiding from the American people, he spent our tax dollars to rent out the entirety of Sugarbush Mountain all weekend and now he isn’t even using it. Like the wasteful, cowardly little toad he is. He should not be able to enjoy anything for the next 4 years.

Call out to all the Republicans who have posed for photo ops with Zelensky: Is today the day to finally speak out? Patriotism demands it.

Tell us more about how women are too emotional to govern.

Every mainstream attempt to grapple with the rise of Tate and other misogynist ideologues have posed them as a product of men’s despair. Few have posited them as an assault on women’s safety and dignity.

This is a bigger scandal than people realize. It really makes it look as though this entire meeting was a setup by Trump that was planned in advance. If you watch the video it is clear that they are deliberately and almost derangedly blindsiding Zelenskyy. Now we know who the audience was. Putin.

I cannot think of a single actual thing the National Party have done in nearly two years of Government that is actually their idea. Their whole programme is undoing Labour stuff and letting ACT and NZF and lobby groups treat them like a ventriloquist ls dummy.

WTAF

The movie Three Men & a Baby was ahead of its time. I was expecting the 3 straight guys to shame the mum when she comes back after leaving her baby at their doorstep. Instead, she said she needed help & couldn’t parent alone. They asked her to move in so they could all be a family. This was 1987.

First time out in two weeks since Covid & how lucky am I to see @rebeccamatthews.bsky.social as one of the first people I drive by beep beep

We still need you! If you are a member of DA or qualify to be one, and you're a professional graphic designer willing to donate about four hours a week, please fill out our form and we'll get you started! It feels good to #dosomething

I likely would not be alive if it weren’t for Planned Parenthood

SCOOP: We've learned at least three individuals closely associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year. Step inside the recruitment effort that helped build Elon's DOGE army:

I’ve been hanging with my old Green colleagues and spending more time with my whānau after a challenging year. It’s made a world of difference and I can’t wait to go even harder this year. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/local-bod...

My dear work friend has published her fourth book this week! “Mrs. D is not on a Diet” by Lotta Dann… a very necessary look at what diet culture does to our bodies. A must read. I got mine at Unity Books but pretty sure you can find it at any major book seller.

Are there any Wellington dance groups that focus on musicality over form? Back to a beginner level cuz I am old & my body does not move the way it used to. Looking for something fun, positive, all body sizes etc

Experiment: please get anyone you know in Vietnam to post this story on their social media, and let me know what happens. 🫶🫶

Greenpeace campaigner Juressa Lee (Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi, Rarotonga) writes about why Te Tiriti and Waitangi Day are so important to them. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto... #nzpol #waitangi

Another day of posts harping on the substance use of RFK Jr and Elon. This has been an excessive amount of pejorative use of the word addict from the left and really uncomfortable to watch. Please stop doing this. There are way better thinks to call these guys on without inflaming hatred toward PWUD

I’m on my way to the Treasury Dept to demand answers. Billionaire-in-Chief Elon Musk has been given illegal access to Americans’ private info, including Social Security numbers. Zero people voted for Elon to run our government. This is about oversight and transparency.

Foreign fentanyl is almost exclusively brought across the border by American citizens for consumption by American citizens. (Much is also made domestically by Americans.) Saying that Mexico is to blame is incorrect, and this bizarre comparison seems like barely concealed bigotry.

Wait till people find out what some of the biggest drivers of America’s “opioid epidemic” actually were…I’ll give you a hint: socioeconomics and geopolitics did a lot more than Purdue Pharma

Go get a sound machine with bird song on it. Trust me.

I mean… yikes 😬 Just gonna repost this daily for the next four years…

Lol this photo should be used in every story about him from now on

Ok ok I think we’ve known each other long enough, Bluesky. I feel like I can drop a confession. I’ve been watching Virgin River on Netflix. It’s really really bad. And I can’t stop watching. I can’t recommend it. And I can’t turn it off. It’s complex. Not really, but you know what I mean.

Of course this happens when I’m in the office all day

Ahhh did not know this. Here I come, TBR pile! Good for my MH too.

It was great to share such a positive story with Mayor Campbell Barry. Our Wellington region is working hard to get on top of our aging pipes 💧 www.1news.co.nz/2025/01/25/w...

Can’t believe I am gonna say this but I was hoping for a rain day today in Pōneke! Too many books to read & never enough time. Too much sun. Ha!

Spotted in Te Whanganui a Tara, harsh but ultimately fair #nzpol #radicalgraffiti

Again

Yep

Supporting independent journalists is going to be more crucial than ever.

I am not telling people not to pay taxes, obviously. But I am going to acknowledge here that as our government becomes more and more lawless, more and more people will ask the question below. Billionaires are now stripping our government there. At what point will middle-class voters just...opt out?