Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026☠️ thespinoff.co.nz/society/24-0...thespinoff.co.nzHelp Me Hera: I am not your clownWhy do women only want someone who can make them laugh? 011
Reposted by Ruthmama.melancholia @mama-melancholia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“I am a mosaic of everyone I’ve ever loved…” 🥰 16237
Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Finished my second week at my brand new job! (I’m part time) 🥳 050
Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Morrinsville op shops delivering the goods this morning! If anyone needs wool blankets, the hospice shop has several! Also acquired kids clothes, bags, shoes. Woohoo! 030
Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 22/08/2026It did not taste good or have a good mouth feel. But! It was yum for dessert with heaps of cream and chocolate sauce 😅 040
Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Baking a cake. Put it in the oven. Realise I forgot to put sugar in 🤦🏻♀️ 310
Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Just finished this excellent book! Lots of lovely little snippets of interesting info about NZ music 010
Reposted by RuthTim @timward2014.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I 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 08332
Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I’ve found an old ep of ice tv on NZonscreen. It is so delightfully ridiculous and funny 🤣 130
Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Number 1 has gotta poi e now we know slice of heaven is number 2 000
Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I 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 . 000
Reposted by RuthWeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 02/07/2026This 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) 425220673081
Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I applied for a job about ten days ago and haven’t heard aaaanythiiiing yet… 250
Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Got 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! 040
Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Does anyone know if my local council library can access academic journals for me? I’m after an article 🇳🇿 200
Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Still got a fright even though I knew it was coming 🚨 000
Reposted by RuthNinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 12/06/2026What @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 55417
Reposted by RuthOliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I 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 323964
Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 02/06/2026If you were attending a wedding in the Wairarapa, would you stay in Martinborough, Featherston, or Greytown? 420
Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Thursbirday, Saturbirday, Sunbirday. Today is Sunbirday. 021
Reposted by RuthJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Everyone 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. 175913
Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 25/05/2026My 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 🥹 060
Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Time for some Mac and cheese with peas and cauliflower. Yum! 040
Reposted by RuthAndrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 19/05/2026My 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 335899
Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Any 🇳🇿 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 000
Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I have a brand new baby cousin! How lovely are babies 💝 060
Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 12/05/2026At 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” 280
Reposted by RuthJ from 3 Minute board games @3mbg.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Our 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 :) 2343
Reposted by RuthBryan Blessed @bryb.bsky.social · 07/05/2026To 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! 27727
Reposted by RuthContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 04/05/2026The Mandarin Orange 🍊 test to get it out without spilling a drop of water 💧 412526
Reposted by RuthSassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 03/05/2026My solution to all things is peas. Making rice? Chuck in some peas. Making bolognese? Add peas. 2 min ramen? Peas will cut the sodium 🤷🏽♀️ 16792
Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 02/05/2026I can hear the ice cream truck and our elderly neighbour just asked her husband “is that your phone?” 😂 000
Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 30/04/2026The 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 💝 030
Reposted by RuthGiovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 26/04/2026There 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.nzPetitions 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. 88368
Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Our 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.nzEmergencies can happen anytime, anywhereThe 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 1102
Reposted by RuthAlom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Good 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 04838
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! 061
Reposted by RuthSarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Public transit is so wholesome. Let's fund it. 112618
Reposted by RuthSean Marotta @smmarotta.bsky.social · 18/03/2026One 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. 9945191037
Ruth @featherflowers.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Loaded up the bikes for a comfy snacky time at the park. 061
Reposted by RuthThe Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Why 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? 8194263357
Reposted by RuthRoss @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Your 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. 25517