@madhmstr
βDon't waste hate on pink geranium.β Professional aunt. Trans rights are human rights. Posts about black cats, picture books, and random other stuff. 5th generation PΔkehΔ Aucklander, of UK heritage.
As of this morning, all charms and cute beads and pins and hooks and tool sets have arrived for my class on April 8. There's also early bird pricing until mid-next week to covr material costs. Happy: You can take your tools home afterwards to keep going!
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Anyone can become disabled at any time.
Your life can change in an instant, no matter how strong and healthy you think you are.
People will leave you. Funds will dry up. Life will get tougher.
Itβs not a moral failing.
Itβs a minority group you can join anytime.
Speaking at Parliament, NZ First leader Winston Peters told reporters he had serious concerns about vaccine safety. "Hundreds of thousands of people have been affected here. They need to know the truth. They need to know why they were denied the truth." ACT's David Seymour said he was open to the idea of a select committee inquiry. "A lot of people felt they were ostracized from society and if this helps them feel seen and heard, then it might not be a bad thing." Even with the support of NZ First and ACT, a select committee inquiry would require the backing of the National Party. National leader and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon dodged questions over whether he supported an inquiry, saying only that there were "very serious questions" for Labour to answer.
For the avoidance of doubt this is the leaders of all three coalition parties deciding to use, to varying degrees, vaccine conspiracies utterly disproven by facts as an electoral weapon against Labour.
This fact ended up in a tutorial I was taking today
The managed to make welfare harder to get and still put more people on it by deliberately destroying the job market. This level of sabotage is actually hard to imagine and yet Nats achieve it every time they are in government because they never face any real consequences.
There is something so utterly magical about stop motion (and about T.rex, obviously).
I am so grateful to artists like Lucas for keeping the medium alive in the digital era.
Just doing a little math on the difference in royalties I receive on adult books vs kids books and hardcover vs paperback:
50,000 copies of an adult novel in HC
=
1,500,000 copies of a children's illustrated chapter book in PB
Blows my mind. 50k vs 1.5M
My showers are less than 15 minutes from turning on the water and waiting for it to warm up to getting dressed. But that's way too much standing.
Weirdly, the foam is all white!
Black charcoal toothpaste on a black and blue toothbrush.
I didn't pay attention when I bought toothpaste. Bit disconcerting!
Another reason not to shower.
We lent Auntie Alice Mum's shower chair, which I miss sometimes.
Thank goodness for the toilet to sit on!
By Wednesday I'm so wiped out I can't shower at night, and my morning routine isn't conducive for one.
So, it's a quick basin bath.
I'm not that stinky so it's an issue.
Conserving energy.
Pink pinstripe trousers. Yellow and white checked Vans. Blue tshirt with Elephant and Piggie reading.
Storytime day with Elephant and Piggie in #Librarianfashion
Stone carved cat ring in blue
People haven't changed much.
Cat ring from 1390 BC Egypt.
Red sky at night, BlueSky delight
#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Yuval Zommer from his picturebook The Whale That Sings in the Deep, which follows a whale's journey from the Arctic to warm waters. The three panels of this colourful & decorative page pan out from a close-up. Oxford Children's Books 5 March. @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social
Not all heroβs wear capes. Some of them have already tried them and replied in the comments so you donβt have to.
I do not understand how the ABSOLUTELY VOLUNTARY destruction of the original ferry replacement is not a massive political scandal?!
It was a reflexive ideological decision that has disadvantaged the country significantly.
Midnight is famous!
PS any @kats-garden.nz packages are now put in a sealed container until opening.
NOT GETTING A CENTURY PROOFED PORT AND STRAIT INFRASTRUCTURE.
MINIMUM VIABILITY.
SMALLER FERRIES FOR MORE MONEY.
WORSE PORTS FOR THE SAME MONEY.
THIS IS COLOSSAL INCOMPETENCE.
On an island in New Zealandβs remote southern fjords, one of the worldβs strangest and rarest parrots β the kΔkΔpΕ β is caring for her tiny chick as fans from across the globe watch on.
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@ninjakitty.bsky.social Did you see this?
#nzpol
Political parties elections campaigns need to be funded by the state. Decide on a reasonable expense amount per MP and they will get according to the number of MPs they currently have. If they can't win with it, tough. It means your message is not appealing to the public.
Also, this music video is edited so spectacularly well.
Oh, mate xoxo
Poverty is like quicksand: once youβre in, struggling only sinks you faster. Late fees, overdraft fees, higher priced smaller quantities, high interest ratesβ¦ being broke becomes your biggest expense and full-time job. Always paying for yesterday, never able to build a future.
I'll add that one.
I've read:
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple.
The Far Edges of the Known World: A New History of Ancient Civilisations by Owen Rees.
How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History by Josephine Quinn.
Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling
There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.
It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.
There is no hope for the large conglomerates, but I really hope all the people who listened to the bullshit about how the continued flow of fossil fuels into this country was way more dependable than *checks notes* the sun rising every day take note.