“I was taught that keeping quiet kept the peace until I realized who’s peace was it keeping? The offender is at peace. The people who don’t want to deal with it are at peace. And I in this little body am holding all of the war. So I don’t want to hold it anymore.” - Dr. Thema

Jane Casey I was struck by these two. The mother’s stare was so strike we kept going to back and look at her. And the second one is just *so fun*

5. Dick Van Duijn captured the exact moment a squirrel stopped to smell a yellow daisy.

The nudes in bio bots are really stepping it up. I just saw a pic of a mostly naked woman wielding a gun in a comment under a very wholesome tweet about baby elephants. Not ideal.

' In 2010 the whole of the public sector made up 19.7% of NZ’s total workforce' versus 18.8% in 2023. Why do journalists not refute the lies of NAF?
Repeating lies is the same as telling lies.

How is this rogue state Israel allowed to present the West with two choices: either get dragged in to a regional war or continue being complicit in genocide. On Channel 4 News this evening ahead of a UN Security Council vote on admitting Palestine as a member state.

The thing about telling hospitals to 'live within their means' is that it's govt who decides what those means are.

A hiring freeze on doctors and nurses is a political choice.
newshub.co.nz/home/politics/…

This book really helped me
This quote is spot on

Onto Round 1 of #NZBigThings - usual format, 32 battling out to be crowned champion.

Please vote, share and make sure you vote on all 16 polls.

I feel like it might be time to weigh in a bit about what's happening in Wellington from a hospo perspective.

People are asking A LOT about how we're doing with the lay offs. Not gonna lie, it's been rough as.

An AudioCulture first? Usually our Songwriter's Choices share one person's favourite Aotearoa songs, so this may be our first multi-writer SC column. Fittingly it's the whole of Look Blue Go Purple, recipients of the 2024 IMNZ Classic Record. It's great!
audioculture.co.nz/articles/songw…

We could do with mixed use buildings like these in Johnsonville, Wellington. Apartments, townhouses, retail/hospo at street level, and maybe a bit of office space too.

Re: Bondi: Mentally ill people are NOT disproportionately violent; men with grievances and a false sense of entitlement are. Conversely, women disproportionately suffer from mental illness and almost never commit such acts. Misogyny and toxic masculinity are the through line.

As it's Friday, I'm asking all my followers to please retweet this post if you see it, to help my bird account beat the algorithm & be seen!🙏
To make it worth sharing, here's a Goldfinch in my flowering Cherry tree 😍
Thank you very much! 🐦😊 ♥️

When you translate this into talk normal what Luxon is saying is that he wouldn't say the quiet part out loud.

On a side note if I wanted to move into a post treaty settlement era I would simply stop breaching the treaty

I can't reply to tweets at the moment. A me issue or a twitter one?

The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.

—James Baldwin

René Magritte, The Art of Conversation