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Ruth

@featherflowers.bsky.social
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Speechie, Mama, Cargo bike enthusiast, lollie aficionado She/Her Kirikiriroa 🇳🇿

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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
☠️ thespinoff.co.nz/society/24-0...
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Help Me Hera: I am not your clown
Why do women only want someone who can make them laugh?
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mama.melancholia @mama-melancholia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“I am a mosaic of everyone I’ve ever loved…” 🥰
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have you ever noticed you pick up little habits and phrases from the people you love? it's no wonder our hearts are so easily broken when people leave. we become a reflection of the people that we care about and those personality traits stick with us even if the people don't
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I make my ramen the way a friend taught me in eleventh grade.
Every fall, I listen to a playlist made for me by a boy I drove across a border to hook up with. I eat sushi because a girl who won't talk to me anymore made me try it, and Indian food because my best friend's parents ordered for me before I knew what I liked. There are movies I love because someone I loved loved them first. I am a mosaic of everyone l've ever loved, even for a heartbeat.
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Strawberry People Dragonfruit
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9yo birthday party about to start at our house 🙏🏻 🥳
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Finished my second week at my brand new job! (I’m part time) 🥳
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Morrinsville op shops delivering the goods this morning! If anyone needs wool blankets, the hospice shop has several! Also acquired kids clothes, bags, shoes. Woohoo!
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
It did not taste good or have a good mouth feel. But! It was yum for dessert with heaps of cream and chocolate sauce 😅
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Baking a cake. Put it in the oven. Realise I forgot to put sugar in 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Just finished this excellent book! Lots of lovely little snippets of interesting info about NZ music
Book cover for Songs from the shaky isles- a short history of popular music in NZ BY Gareth Shute. The cover has a dramatic photo of Boh Runga on stage with her guitar and mix.
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Tim @timward2014.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I have called for a referendum that we have already had twice and which you were probably thinking we shouldn’t have again Forgive me it was pleasant to think and fantasise that Peters would not be Foreign Minister #nzpol
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#eqnz felt in Hamilton
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I’ve found an old ep of ice tv on NZonscreen. It is so delightfully ridiculous and funny 🤣
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Number 1 has gotta poi e now we know slice of heaven is number 2
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I offered something for free on local community group. 2 separate people have mucked me round this afternoon. Just don’t say you’re coming to pick up at x time if you can’t actually do it. So annoying .
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 02/07/2026
This is Harley. She's never rolled down a hill before, but she's super proud of her first attempt. 13/10 nailed it (TT: jesskoselke)
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I applied for a job about ten days ago and haven’t heard aaaanythiiiing yet…
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
My ancestor invented a steam engine in 1804.
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Got up this morning to find 8yo busy writing a letter to the PM about cleaning up the ocean. Posted it on the way to school!
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Does anyone know if my local council library can access academic journals for me? I’m after an article 🇳🇿
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Still got a fright even though I knew it was coming 🚨
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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
What @emilywrites.co.nz says here I would shout everywhere! Having children with disabilities in a mainstream classroom, supported by empathetic staff, will transform the lives of everyone in that space. Teachers need increased resourcing though, including teacher aides, time, PLD, & funding #nzpol
I am so grateful for these kids and the amazing teachers and parents who have encouraged them to be so accepting and caring. We lose so much when we force disabled kids out of school.

My son is learning he can trust others to care about him.

These kids are learning that everyone is different and that's OK. And small kindnesses matter so much. It was a lovely way to start my Friday.
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I hate that expression "it costs nothing to be kind" it costs everything to be kind. you have no incentive to be compassionate. it will almost certainly inconvenience you, maybe even ruin your life, that's why it's such a swashbuckling way to live
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
If you were attending a wedding in the Wairarapa, would you stay in Martinborough, Featherston, or Greytown?
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Thursbirday, Saturbirday, Sunbirday. Today is Sunbirday.
Google search screenshot with AI saying three days of the week contain the word bird- Thursbjrday, Saturbirday, Sunbirday
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Everyone knows the iPhone cursor trick by now? Just in case. Put your thumb on the space bar and then as you slide it the cursor slides.
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
My daughter helps me with the turns on our cargo bike and it gets me every time I see the shadow her little arm pop out 🥹
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Time for some Mac and cheese with peas and cauliflower. Yum!
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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
My favourite #kakapo nest from this year was Whetu's on Anchor: she was 2m off the ground, 2m down a hollow rata trunk, with an entrance so small we had to use a phone camera to see inside. It was the only nest we didn't get into. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Any 🇳🇿 peeps know if pharmacists can prescribe nit treatment now? Or do we need to talk to dr? Found little friends in kiddo’s hair AGAIN
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I have a brand new baby cousin! How lovely are babies 💝
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
At the pharmacy to get winter jabs. “Covid jab is not recommended every six months anymore for under 64years” “I am eligible” “Oh health condition?” “Yes”
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J from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Our daughter has a coded language for her hair styling. ELSA! is one braid ANA! is two braids MOANA! Is her hair out. Sometimes communicating with her is tricky, so this code of hers is both adorable and useful :)
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Bryan Blessed @bryb.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
To celebrate Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday please do enjoy this clip of the legend himself meeting a quite incredible bird guy. Happy Birthday, Sir Dave! Here's to another 100 years!
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The Mandarin Orange 🍊 test to get it out without spilling a drop of water 💧
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
My solution to all things is peas. Making rice? Chuck in some peas. Making bolognese? Add peas. 2 min ramen? Peas will cut the sodium 🤷🏽‍♀️
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Boring job made more fun today 🚲 🛍️
Cargo bike loaded up with groceries there are groceries in the front basket, back seat, and soft bucket panniers o
n both sides
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I can hear the ice cream truck and our elderly neighbour just asked her husband “is that your phone?” 😂
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The crucible. That sparked so many conversations with a friend of mine that she gave me a copy of it at the end of the year with key quotes handwritten at the start. I still have it and we’re still friends 💝
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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
There are only two days left to sign the petition by Migrants Against the Acceptable Standard of Health Aotearoa to remove the archaic and eugenicist rules that have seen so many disabled and chronically ill migrants deported form the country, including children. Please, please, PLEASE sign this.
petitions.parliament.nz
Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Our afghani neighbour popped over with questions re the cyclone. She is still learning English and so we did the best we could together re civil defence supplies etc but it was tricky! Then I found this website: www.ethniccommunities.govt.nz/resources/vi... info in different languages!
ethniccommunities.govt.nz
Emergencies can happen anytime, anywhere
The Ministry for Ethnic Communities and the National Emergency Management Agency have worked together to create this series of videos, so our communities know what to do to prepare for different disasters and emergencies, and how to respond when they happ
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Ooh hello emergency alert do Waikato 😳
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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Good morning parents, carers, and anyone else looking after children over the Easter holidays! Here’s my regular reminder of this thread of videos of TOYS you can make at home with scrap materials you probably have lying around
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
#Kirikiriroa I’m starting up a little library box for our neighbourhood kids. If you have children’s books you no longer need, I’d love to take them off your hands!
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Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Public transit is so wholesome. Let's fund it.
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Sean Marotta @smmarotta.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.
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Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Loaded up the bikes for a comfy snacky time at the park.
2 cargo bikes loaded up with camping chairs and chiller bag
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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?
A woman in a mask
Headline:
Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?
Story from Jerk Wingley and Terramin Defishunsee

Photo from Adobe
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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Your friendly therapist reminder to do something today that moves the needle, no matter how slight, towards the world you want to see. Donate a few bucks to a gofundme or mutual aid. Research ways to get involved in a cause that aligns with you. Have that conversation with someone. Move your body.
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Simon's Cat @simonscatofficial.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
A nice day out! 😺
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