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thetaniwha.bsky.social
🇳🇿 Wellington. Disabled, activist for forever. Disability rights honour all of the CRPD. All means all Genealogist. Historian. CATS.BOOKS. TEA. Life is political but politicians err... Missing letters etc all my own fumblefingers.
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This so needs to beshered.

Incredibly concerning that a neo eugenicist and a bully could do this.

#NickyNoBoats #nzpol

Tiny dancer! Photo from my collection, no documented date/info.

What a toxic ableist pack of shit is the Musk man.

The group who kvetch about being misunderstood/ under severe threat from anything that's a problem to them. Except, maybe, when the right wing governs.

“Because of this ban, I have to rethink my whole life,” said another commenter in a Cycling Action Network group. “All of a sudden I have lost flexibility and everything costs more and takes longer.” thespinoff.co.nz/society/03-1... @thespinoff.bsky.social @cyclewgtn.bsky.social

GO HER! May her like increase.

take tens of thousands of peoples jobs away then complain that too many people are unemployed, hence are applying for a benefit after exhausting their savings one word cunt do i need to repeat it, Chris, David, and Winston are cunts #nzpol

If you're being sniffy bout compensation to sexual abuse survivors, wrongly imprisoned & Iwi Treaty negotiation compensation & settlement but you're OK with farmers being compensated for a disease in stock, Rural Assistance Payments or Recovery grants, kindly pull you head out of your arse #NZPol

Art by Dami_Lee on Tumblr #chronicillness #chronicallyill #chronicillnessmemes

Pretty much, and all over this planet.

Waitangi Tribunal releases deadly critique of Disestablishment of Te Aka Whai Ora. Ill-informed Hasty Departure from responsible policymaking 'https://waitangitribunal.govt.nz/en/news-2/all-articles/news/tribunal-releases-report-on-disestablishment-of-te-aka-whai-ora

@evanpsullivan.bsky.social Please add me to the list

Congratulations to Peter Fremlin who pulls together Disability Debrief-he's been recognised as one of the 100 most influential disabled people in the UK. So greatly deserved.

Just an interesting tidbit I thought I'd share with the class schools in #NZ are typically self governing While the government #nzpol may attempt to remove #tetiriti from the curriculum that does not stop the schools themselves from stipulating that the class will run in their schools #pta 👍

Luxon is a Prime Minister in the sense that, he's the Minister you get when you buy from a shonky Amazon retailer. Free delivery though. #nzpol

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rod-emmer...

Like the term.

Is NZ govt expecting depression to rise as recession continues? #NZpol NZ gov't's focus on slashing the budget deficit and reducing public debt is worsening the impact of recession on households and businesses, say economists. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Disabled Older Kiwi, lives in Aotearoa, (toitu te tiriti) Pleased to see you here @desibility