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Flightless Fairy

@noflightfairy.bsky.social
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Done a bit of research, doing a bit more music. Would rather talk than post. tauiwi Pākehā, sliochd nan Gàidheal, they/them (dad sa Ghàidhlig) 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸

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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I am once again asking you to vote for the tītī wainui for Bird of the Year
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I am once again asking you to vote for the tītī wainui for Bird of the Year
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Tha e caran fadalach ach lorg mi neach-labhairt eile ann an Wellington son @sngaidhlig.bsky.social!
Two people taking a selfie to mark an evening of speaking in Gàidhlig, making plans for further blethers as part of World Gaelic Week
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Major @majorarschloch.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Guys being Dudes
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✨ Hamish Steele ✨ Go-Man Vs. the Star Dragon OUT NOW! @hamishsteele.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
(God I am so fucking happy I am not straight, like loving women would be great, they're amazing, they're the best part but dealing with everything else sounds like a nightmare, thank you thank you thank you gay god for choosing me!!!!)
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
media.tenor.com
a cartoon of a man in a suit and tie with the words pathetic written on the bottom .
Alt: a cartoon of a man in a suit and tie with the words pathetic written on the bottom .
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
What did you do to make Kererū Skinner judge you like this?
A canvas bag with a kererū on it. The Kererū looks like it's staring down at the viewer judgmentally, like the Principal Skinner "pathetic" meme from The Simpsons
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Totally forgot this platform existed until like two minutes ago, sup gonna put an album out later this year
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Don't ask me why but all quails are nonbinary
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Interpellation? Hell no, me and the homies ignore all hails
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greg @greg.nz · 29/10/2025
can't beat wellington on a good day? well, not with that attitude you can't. don't give up, I believe in you
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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This is why I distrust the “screen free parents” groups. Not because I don’t think social media and phones can be issues. I do. But because they are weirdly well funded and refuse to discuss social issues, digital rights and how schools catalyse harm. Brianna was killed by another child not a phone
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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 27/10/2025
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
Screenshot of text:

unfuck google drive by shooting gemini
Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again!
Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever?
Open your gdrive (web OR app)
Settings > Manage Apps
Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push)
Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
tis the season!!!
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
may a swift end come to your hope labour friend <3
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
so shitty somebody died getting struck by a fallen branch, o mo chreach
stuff.co.nz
Man dies after being hit by falling branch in Wellington
An orange strong wind warning is in place for Wellington until this evening.
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
this must be the shittiest shitsville we've had in a while in Te Whanganui-ā-Tara. how long have these storm winds been going for now?
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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Duolingo Ad: “where’d you go?” 🥺 You laid off some of the few remaining native speakers of my ancestors’ critically endangered language in favor of genAI you uaine gòrach comhachag
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
ooooh, is this an updated edition of the 2012 one then? Been wondering why that one's so hard to find
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Peace Action Wellington @peacewellington.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Your right to protest is under threat. Join us for the launch of PROTECT PROTEST a coalition established to defend protest as a tool of democracy and liberation. Wednesday 15 October at 4:30pm at Government Building Lecture Theatre 1 (GBLT1), Pipitea Campus, Te Herenga Waka VUW.
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I wonder what David Seymour is quietly getting up to atm now that the media spotlight has shifted to Winston for the last few days
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Still over here waiting for the genAI bubble to burst
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Allison @handle.invalid · 01/10/2025
Those flotilla people are so brave
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I love how I learned everything I needed to about Cid through MtG card mechanics, looked him up later and already had it all figured out largely through game design
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Geordie Rogers @geordierogers.co.nz · 15/09/2025
It's not a coincidence that our bus patronage numbers are hitting all time highs. This term we've delivered more bus lanes than the seven previous councils combined
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
hello this is maybe a silly thing maybe not but if anyone who hasn't voted for Bird of the Year yet could include a vote for the tītī wainui? My parents and I had a traumabonding experience two years back spending a whole day trying and failing to save one. It was literally a flightless fairy!!😭
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Not saying there's an easy answer *at all*, but the question feels to me a crucial one around figuring out what constraints are needed in the now for productive tangata whenua/Tiriti organising, and what those might look like in the future
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Seeing this play out is reminding me of multiple occasions in the last decade or so when tauiwi support of noho whenua at Ihumātao and Shelly Bay were frowned upon because there were Māori on both sides at a given point in those struggles, so many tauiwi decided it was easier to stay back.
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pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The media sells us the lie that the Greens are dangerous radicals (the only party that provides fully costed evidence-driven shadow budgets) and Act are normal (repeated jokes in speeches about killing people, boasts about dangerous driving).
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Potato enthusiast 🇵🇸🥔 @br3nda.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Yes
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
😭
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I was just telling my girlfriend the other day that the old world is dying. And, my stars, the new world is struggling to be born. And now is the time when you meet such INNNNteresting monsters.
bugs bunny in the bit where she does gossamer's nails in a super gay way
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
“As the illogic of capitalism and colonialism fails everyone but the elite, we must learn from Indigenous ways of seeing, being, knowing, and doing.” www.greenpeace.org/internationa... #indigenouspeoplesmonth
greenpeace.org
Indigenous Peoples Month: A Time to Recognise &amp; Align with the True Stewards of the Environment - Greenpeace International
Messages of solidarity, defiance, and hope from the world’s great tropical forests
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
"What came first / the chicken or the dickhead" living in my head rent-free today thank you Arctic Monkeys
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 17/08/2025
"You can't strike, you're too important" from a judge or government should instantly make you side with the people striking. They're *that* important but they get treated like shit? Nah. Naaaah. Let the government force better conditions.
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
yes please I've gotten sick three times this winter, a new record 🙃
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André "Normal" Alessi @andrealessi.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
The framing of this story is terrible, because it tries to make the story about teens, when the actual story is that only the elderly answer cold calls while *everyone else* assumes (often correctly) that they're scam calls. "Old people use cellphones irresponsibly" doesn't appeal to RNZ's audience.
Teenagers no longer answer the phone: Is it a lack of manners or a new trend?

Despite teenagers seemingly having their phones glued to their hands - they won't answer them when they ring.

New Zealand / Life And Society 22 minutes agoControlling the conversation

“I never answer calls unless it's my mum, or an emergency, like a surprise test at school, or a friend who freaks out about something,” says 15-year-old Léa with a laugh. Behind this seemingly trivial comment lies a deeper change than meets the eye. Phones, long considered the quintessential voice tools designed for live conversation, are now used less and less to actually make calls.Scam Scum: We're All Victims

2 Aug 2019

Last year, New Zealanders lost $33 million to scams. Madison Reidy looks at how that's impacting our economy and what we're doing to stop it. (AUDIO)
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
There's math modules in a course I teach now where last semester I had to make sure I could still do them to explain them to students, and same thing but with dividing fractions💀
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
If MPs are being policed in the House this way for standing up for Palestinians, we are not far behind. Do your protesting while you can.
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
I did this thread on twitter back in the day, but now we're so back. WELCOME TO WELLINGTON
A presumably broken umbrella sticks out of a rubbish bin in Pōneke Wellington. Tawhirimātea is as vengeful as ever!
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
the fuck it bucket 😆
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Your guess is good 😛
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
thought about this for a full minute and the only thing that comes to mind is "GC" in NZ/AU English 😅
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Glenn McConnell @glennmccnz.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
As nurses protested this week, I spoke to Naomi Waipouri about why she was striking. She said patients are being let down due to understaffing - and she saw that last week, when her cousin died. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
stuff.co.nz
'It's personal': Tearful nurse at protest just lost a relative
Naomi Waipouri tells Stuff a cousin had a heart attack and it took 5 hours for healthcare services to respond. "So I'm standing here not only as a nurse, but as a support person for my whānau."
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute!
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Medusa’s Wink @medusaswink.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Me: i’m Autistic Them: Oh you take things literally Me: No that’s kleptomania
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Uninstalling all scrolling apps from my phone while not deleting *all* those accounts has actually produced a really happy medium where I can check them periodically but only from devices which are not in my pocket 90% of my waking hours. Do recommend.
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Flightless Fairy @noflightfairy.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Might be a bit of a reach for your context since it's operating on a different scale, but the cultural as much as economic impact of second home ownership (incl. Air BnB) on Gaelic communities in the Scottish Highlands and Islands is well-established enough to have reached popular discourse:
heraldscotland.com
Gaelic communities have 'deteriorated considerably' since lockdown, rise of Airbnb
Migration and the rise of Airbnb have put traditional communities at risk.
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Coley @coleytangerina.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
This number of submissions (likely exceeding 150,000) should inspire pride and awe at the power of grassroots opposition to our country’s right wing surge. This is especially thanks to the expert organisation and dedication of iwi Māori. www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/07/07/t...
teaonews.co.nz
‘Throw it in the Bin’ Legal experts and iwi leaders reject Regulatory Standards Bill
Critics warn the bill could have far-reaching consequences for how governments govern amid many other issues.
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