Important to note as well, that is with enacting some of the most punitive restrictions to try and remove people from the benefit wherever they can.
So the actual figures of people needing support are likely higher.
80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"
The 3 genders
The sky was shades of orange and pink and lavender tonight.
I took a a photo of a pretty sky and M was like "looks apocalyptic" ๐ตmillenials living through another disaster.๐ต
Two things that give you an indication of how I'm doing today:
โจ Tried to put my bra on on top of my tshirt
โจ Sat down at my desk and said "LET'S GO, MONDAY!" (It is Wednesday.)
Took yesterday off because hospital and spent Monday stressed because impending hospital.
My old Drs (The Doctors Silverstream) just announced a new gender affirming care clinical specialist on facebook & I'm so DELIGHTED to hear about it. My old Dr there who left ages ago was competent & the ONLY Dr in the Hutt who prescribed PReP so. Good news. Comments are horrific. Go chuck a like?
Submittersโ primary concerns about the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines can be categorised as follows. ยฐ mRNA vaccines (which use messenger RNA to instruct the bodyโs cells to produce a viral protein that evokes an immune response in the person receiving them) alter DNA or modify genes, causing cancer and other harmful conditions. ยฐ The manufacturing process for Comirnaty was changed which affected its safety. ยฐ The Comirnaty vaccine was still โexperimentalโ at the time of approval and had not been properly tested. ยฐ The Comirnaty vaccine produced harmful side effects which authorities have not acted on appropriately. ยฐ The long-term effects of the Comirnaty vaccine remain uncertain. 1383 We have carefully considered these issues, drawing on advice and evidence from a range of experts and sources, including studies provided to us by submitters, research published in leading scientific journals and conclusions from international regulatory authorities and the COVID-19 Vaccine Independent Safety Monitoring Board. This review makes clear that the concerns raised are not grounded in reliable evidence or aligned with scientific consensus. While we acknowledge the sincerity of those who brought these concerns to us, ultimately our conclusions reflect the most robust and widely accepted scientific evidence available.
Prepare for meltdowns from any VFF or similar people in your life. I think they genuinely convinced themselves the phase 2 report was going to prove them right.
Reader, it did not.
As someone who was in that last Auckland lockdown, I firmly believe the Government did the best it could throughout the main acute phase of the pandemic at every point. Hindsight is 20:20 but I'm glad Simeon Brown wasn't making any decisions during that period.
I don't see the Government talking about how Ardern and Hipkins underestimated antivax propaganda and misinformation, and that's because NZ First and National and ACT were more than happy to use that to get into power in 2023.
Thank god we spent the last few years massively converting industry to renewables and incentivising household solar. We'd be in so much trouble right now.
Where are we buying kn95s or similar now e te whฤnau? Pref not white. I need the ear loop sort, the round the head ones trigger migraines. Annah S have run down their stock. Not sure if anyone else local has them or if I'll have to order from overseas. #kikorangi
Seriously considering going to the novotel bar for a drink and asking to borrow a pen because I lost the one I picked up at a hui last year and it's my Favourite Pen. ๐
A handicap blue and white painted sign on the asphalt of a parking space. The symbols are meant to be a pregnant women and a baby stroller, but it doesn't look like that. It looks like pac man being killed with scissors next to a dancer
Twerkers at the barbeque get priority parking ๐ซก
should be the America-Israel War not Iran war.
idk Iโve seen a bajillion kids movies where the kids parents die & let me tell you, having a convo with my kid about how anyone can die at any time & it doesnโt matter if theyโre someoneโs mom or dad is way harder than having a convo about how sometimes someone has two dads or whatever. And yet
This is just to say
I am ignoring
the polls
that are so bad
and so low
and which
you were probably
going to use
as an excuse for the spull
Iโm not sorry
I canโt be rolled
I will have my entitlements
and I wonโt be told.
Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.
No interruptions, please. Weโre building universal child care.
I see NZ has supplied the latest edition of "American posters on Bsky don't realise other countries exist and have elections"
If your official merch was size inclusive I would buy it @thepwhl.com. The message is support women's sport but not if you're fat. ๐ญ
My brunch: Flat bread with roated tomato, courgette ribbons , basil, haloumi, Crรจme fraรฎche, a poached egg.
My Drinks: Iced latte, non alc mule, water.
I mean I am sure y'all know if you are local, but if you are passing through Kirikiriroa, don't skip Hayes Common ๐ฅฐ
I believe the Latin term is Omnino Non.
IS THE PUBLIC IN THE ROOM WITH US? I HAVE **QUESTIONS**
THE ACTUAL FUCK
We produce enough food in NZ (5.5million) to feed 45million people & we can't sell cheap butter here, so we have to buy American butter from monoculture grain fed cows housed in sheds, then throw on the carbon footprint
Not one single thing about this is right
imagine importing butter to a country that makes so much of it it's destroying its own environment
It's supposed to be Happy Harry Styles Day but Tidal is running late. (Everything I read said midnight March 6 wherever you are?)
A fresh vaccine dropped in nz this week so if youโre due a booster go get one!
Right-wing commentators were *obsessed* with what they fancied was the former Labour govt's control of the media. Yet now we have what looks like direct political interference with reporting that ministers didn't like. Far out. newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/04/t...
IT IS NOT THE JOB OF A PUBLIC BROADCASTER IN A DEMOCRACY TO REPORT THE NEWS IN A WAY THE GOVERNMENT LIKES. IT IS ESPECIALLY NOT OKAY FOR MINISTERS AND POLITICALLY-APPOINTED BOARD MEMBERS TO DICATE INDIVIDUAL EDITORIAL DECISIONS. THIS SHOULD BE FUCKING OBVIOUS.
touchรฉ ๐คฃ
