Bex Payton

Reading this thread is a particularly lovely way to start your day 🫶🏼

I have a day off work today and I’m not even mad that I had to get up early anyway, because this view was waiting for me

[ceo] lets pay women less than men for the same jobs

[2026] hehe and lets take an hour away from their international day 😈

Excuse me, I’m not even remotely qualified to apply for this job, but I’ll do my very best if it means working in that building
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GusTheFox: It's just one fucking thing after another for eels isn't it? Headline: Cocaine in the River Thames is 'another problem eels don't need', says expert

Today in "linguists are not kidding when they say that language enables you to understand sentences that have never been said before in the entirety of human history"

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

This SOTU is going to go all night if there’s a standing ovation after every sentence. Legs are getting worked out

My bus is running late and the driver is trying to make up time which is particularly unwise on bendy Wellington roads 😳

"Drop on the deck and flop like a fish, motherfucker."

Just found the hookup site for the street’s lonely cicadas 🫶🏼

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

It’s frankly impossible to find a better thread today

Can someone please rescue the female tortoises 🥺

The storm in Wellington has jammed our gate shut. Not going anywhere today 🙄

Finally some good news for the trans community! Safe spaces in Europe ladies 🇪🇺🏳️‍⚧️🫶🏼

Scholars, is this the first time ‘Horsefeathers’ has been used in a judgement?

"Defendants respond that Senator Kelly is seeking to exempt himself from the rules of military justice that 'Congress has expressly made applicable to retired servicemembers.' Horsefeathers!"

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Dino Con leading the way. Again.

Thanks for taking the time to share these - they fill my soul

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

“Every real copper knew you didn’t go around looking for Clues so that you could find out Who Done It. No, you started out with a pretty good idea of Who Done It. That way, you knew what Clues to look for.”

Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time

Transgender women exhibit strength and fitness similar to cisgender women months after hormone therapy, according to a comprehensive review of studies that challenges claims about trans athletes reaping advantages in women’s sports. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

"I was told you're a monster," the hero said.

"So they say," said the monster.

"But you're beautiful!"

"Thank you."

"Have you always been a monster?"

"Heh. I was a young maiden. But I did something forbidden."

"And became a monster?"

"Got named a monster."

"What did you do?"

"I hit back."

This is beyond callous. What a sad story the Washington Post has turned out to be after such greatness

Wellington’s fault line giving a little reminder it can ruin the party at any time #eqnz #shakycapital

The Grammys.

Charles Yang of Time for Three absolutely slaying me. I would lose my mind if I heard this live. Even crappy phone speakers made me scream and cry.

I’m incredibly interested if the agent who was saved shows even a small amount of introspection. I wonder if he is able to interpret his conscience at all

Charles Schulz was an absolute legend

So apparently some sports is happening in the US right now

A New Zealander here. We are are hearing about this madness a world away. My son tells me all the time the stories he sees about Native Americans and keeps asking incredulously where the hell does the Gvt think they’ll deport them to? Kia kaha, our hearts are with you