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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

‘Gaza will eventually turn into a city of tents. There will be no buildings' - Israeli defence official, Oct 23 'Bring down buildings! Bomb without distinction... Flatten Gaza' - Knesset member (Likud), Oct 23 Israel did exactly what it said it would do, with full support from western allies

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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

for everyone else: buy trans literature & art NOW while you can. there’s a non-zero chance that queer and *especially* trans voices wind up being temporarily silenced at some point over these next 4 years. support trans people *now* while we can still ask for help & make incredible art in public.

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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

See this urgent post courtesy of @drbex.bsky.social: “The quick summary is that this law is dangerous, too vague, is unnecessary, and poses a threat to democracy, including our collective freedom to protest.” Submissions close tonight. 🚨👇 drbex.substack.com/p/crimes-cou...

drbex.substack.com

Crimes (Countering Foreign Interference) Amendment Bill

Thought this week might be a bit of a breather but it seems there is another sneaky wee bill being snuck through our Parliament and legislative systems.

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Amara, haphazardly @scarletgumboots.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Am recovering from an unexpectedly bad pain day yesterday so am leaning on spite to get me and my 2.5 brain cells through making my submission on The Regulatory Standards Bill 🧠🫠 #kikorangi More info: melanienelson.substack.com/p/submission...

melanienelson.substack.com

Submission Support for Regulatory Standards Bill

Submissions close on Monday 13 January

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Amara, haphazardly @scarletgumboots.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Another day another ghastly bit of proposed legislation from our abhorrent government, this time for punitive welfare sanctions, as if that hasn't been tried, failed, and been shown to cause short- and long term harm (so consistent with every other thing our govt does, really🙄). #kikorangi

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Amara, haphazardly @scarletgumboots.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

#kikorangi Tonight my 2.5 brain cells are deployed against the 'boot camp' bill. Submissions close tonight, more info here: emilywrites.substack.com/p/ok-fine-wh...

emilywrites.substack.com

OK fine, what submissions do I have to make FFS?!

Don't worry - I got you. Here's everything you need in one place!

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🌈✨MAX✨🌈 @solarcat.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

The movie that was number one at the box office on your 10th birthday is how 2025 will turn out for you. One of my all-time favorites~! 😌

A meme with two labeled images. The first says, “How people think they get hacked” and shows a shadowy figure in a hoodie sitting at a dual monitor setup. The second says, “How they really get hacked” and shows six tiled screenshots of online memes that are fishing for personal information like your birthplace, first car, middle name, etc.

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Voices for Freedom and others like them are working hard to get submissions in support of the bill, if most submissions are in support they'll be handed a propaganda victory, and claim that "most New Zealanders" are in support. Don't let them have it

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Amara, haphazardly @scarletgumboots.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Scraped my two and a half semi-functioning brain cells together to submit opposing the nonsense of the day. Even if you just manage a few words I think it's important to go on record opposing this abomination. Toitū Te Tiriti! ❤️🤍🖤 www.parliament.nz/en/ECommitte...

parliament.nz

Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill Submission - New Zealand Parliament

In the 54th New Zealand Parliament there are 6 parliamentary parties represented by 123 MPs. These MPs represent 65 general electorate seats and 7 Māori electorates. The other 51 MPs are selected from the party lists.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Like Tom Holland's Lip Sync battle, we repost this every time it comes across the TL.

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 05/12/2024

Outline have just launched a critical, all or nothing fundraising campaign. The work they do is vital - for many rainbow people around the country, their phone, chat, and zoom counselling service is the only support available. Without our support they will be forced to close in the new year.

outlineaotearoa.raiselysite.com

OutLine Aotearoa

OutLine Aotearoa is at risk of closing permanently and we need your support!

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clevermanka @clevermanka.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

As someone on Medicare who relies on telehealth, I'm begging you to take a moment to sign this AND call your representatives. Also, in case you weren't aware, you can always call more than once about a topic. They don't track who is calling, just the number of calls.

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Simon O'Neill @sjponeill.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Fkn Microsoft rip-off scumbags...have just changed my subscription...share widely... www.consumer.org.nz/articles/you...

consumer.org.nz

You don’t have to pay the Microsoft 365 price increase

Here’s how to keep the price of your subscription the same as it’s always been.

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deepa ):) @fiercynn.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

hmmmm remember when rahaeli, the co-founder of dreamwidth, did this exact thing to @stitch.bsky.social? because it was only like a year and a half ago and i SURE DO

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Amara, haphazardly @scarletgumboots.bsky.social · 18/07/2024

Sorry I haven't been around. I have been procrastinating checking this site for weeks and writing this wee note for a few days. Just taking a break from this site for the forseeable. See ya 🫶✨

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Amara, haphazardly @scarletgumboots.bsky.social · 09/06/2024

Made this for dinner last night and it was... not great. I mean we ate it, but it was a bit of a chore, and I am still mad about it. I hate trying a new recipe and it not working out - so much wasted energy and effort! 🫠 www.rnz.co.nz/collections/...

rnz.co.nz

Easy Eats: Apricot Chicken and Cashew Tray Bake | RNZ Recipes

Recipe by Sam Parish as heard on Afternoons, Wednesday 5 June 2024

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/06/2024

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur to Palestine, said that Israeli and allegedly foreign soldiers were “perfidiously hiding in an aid truck” during the hostage rescue operation. If true, and I imagine Albanese wouldn’t say this lightly, that’s absolutely perfidy - a serious war crime.

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Relieved that four hostages have been released. It should not have come at the expense of at least 200
Palestinians, including children, killed and over 400 injured by Israel and allegedly foreign soldiers, while perfidiously hiding in an aid truck.
This is "humanitarian camouflage" at another level.
Israel has used hostages to legitimise killing, injuring, maiming, starving and traumatising Palestinians in Gaza. And while intensifying violence against Palestinians in the rest of the occupied territory and Israel.
Israel could have freed all hostages, alive and intact, 8 months ago when the first ceasfire and hostage exchange was put on the table. Yet, Israel refused in order to continue to destroy Gaza and the Palestinians as a people.
This is genocidal intent turned into action. Crystal clear.

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Amara, haphazardly @scarletgumboots.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

a) Israel is torturing Palestinians by anal rape. b) The NYT decided this wasn't something worth putting in the headline or subheading. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸🕊️🍉

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Amara, haphazardly @scarletgumboots.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

Playing Witcher 2 for the first time, on easy mode, and I am stuck at the Kayran fight. It's not a fun challenge, it's just annoying 😩 You're supposed to use Yrden but that doesn't work after the first two tentacles. Just wanted to play for the story not this nonsense 😠

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 31/05/2024

Again - we also have decades and decades of evidence to show that "watchful waiting" doesn't work, doesn't meaningfully reduce regret, and leads to horrible mental health outcomes - and death.

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Ari from Aotearoa @arinic.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

Rising death toll from the bombing of civilians in Yemen by American and British warplanes (supported by AoNZ, thanks Mr Luxon and Mr Peters) And the response by the Yemeni people

Photos show huge crowds in support of Palestine

“Amidst the recent American-British airstrikes claiming the lives of over 50 Yemenis, including children and women, Yemen witnesses a million strong march for Palestine in solidarity with Gaza’s resistance”

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KimBoo York ☕ @kimbooyork.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

survival brain is incredibly stressful. We all need to hold kindness for ourselves and others. ❤️

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Amara, haphazardly @scarletgumboots.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

Not sure if I'm missing something but what makes Israel's latest atrocity different from every other atrocity they've committed since October 7th. Baffled to see coverage as if this is somehow distinct what has gone before 🤷‍♀️ As always, #FreePalestine 🇵🇸🕊️🍉🗝️ www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

theguardian.com

Global shock after Israeli airstrike kills dozens in Rafah tent camp

At least 45 people, including many women and children, killed in assault that prompts international outcry

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Amara, haphazardly @scarletgumboots.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

We trapped this wee cutie yesterday in the barn, and she has managed to bite right through a pair of thick leather gloves and break the skin when I was holding her to apply flea treatment. Poor thing is only about 5 mths old if that. Local cat rescues are FULL so we are putting her up and...

Pale grey stripy cat in a dog crate, staring at the camera.

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Amara, haphazardly @scarletgumboots.bsky.social · 27/04/2024

#AmReading 📚 I couldn't sleep last night due to pain, and found this in audiobook form at my library. I'm a third of the way through and it delivers on every promise made by the title and cover for ridiculously entertaining silly nonsense. Best use of the phrase: the Roman Empire has fallen 😂

A woman in a wedding dress stands in a French window looking at a bat flying in the red dusk, her back to the viewer. The text is :How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks"

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Marilyn @altjewishvoices.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

A Gazan colleague had six members of his family killed one day in 2014, and then Israel killed three more on the day after. His hair turned grey while he continued working in an UNRWA shelter. Now his father has died, and he cannot find a grave in which to bury him. Ceasefire right now.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 25/04/2024

"They’ll say we’re disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." — Howard Zinn (1971)

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Amara, haphazardly @scarletgumboots.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

Human rights are universal; this includes Palestine. Theft is wrong; this includes from Palestinians. War crimes and genocide do not have a 'Palestinian exception'. Without justice there cannot be true or lasting peace. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸🍉🗝️🕊️

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

The fact that there is ZERO coverage of the fact that Jews are loudly and proudly participating in all of these protests is telling b/c it goes against the narrative the media and the administrations and the people in charge are painting. (That they're busting these up because of antisemitism.)

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

NEWS: My friends and I now own and run The Onion. I’ll be the CEO. We’re keeping the entire staff, bringing back The Onion News Network, and will share the wealth with staff. Basically, we’re going to let them do whatever they want. Get excited.

nytimes.com

The Onion Is Sold by G/O Media

The satirical news website was bought by a new firm in Chicago that took inspiration for its name, Global Tetrahedron, from a book written by The Onion’s staff.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

This is maybe the most beautiful accidental explanation of a power of a work of art I've ever read in my life.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

It's hard to talk about something if we can't see how insidious ideas got there in the first place. A history of antisemitism to illuminate where harmful anti-Jewish tropes remain alive in our discourse today-- and how to pull them out of legitimate political conversation. My latest:

lifeisasacredtext.com

The Antisemitism Post (tm)

Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.

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Ari from Aotearoa @arinic.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

Palestine Support Network Aotearoa,Ōtautahi are doing a big push for more people to be active in supporting Palestine, whether by protesting, BDS and/or speaking out They’re promoting Saturday 20 April protest Please come along and make it the biggest ever Let’s keep Gaza on the map! #UnmuteGaza

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 13/04/2024

in the rules based international order there are two separate yet equally important groups: good states that can bomb embassies with impunity and bad states we'll never forgive for seizing our embassy 44 years ago merely because we overthrew their democratically elected government

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Amara, haphazardly @scarletgumboots.bsky.social · 13/04/2024

This front page of Stuff and headline really shows who our media considers to be people and whose bravery gets a headline. Thinking of all the mothers in Palestine trying to protect their babies from genocide. They are no less brave than this woman.

Front page of Stuff with a photo of ambulances on a street, with the headline:
Live: Mother of baby stabbed in Sydney mall attack dies in hospital
Witnesses said the brave mother, 38, tried to save her baby after they were both stabbed, handing her daughter to two shoppers and begging them to help after she was critically injured.

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Amara, haphazardly @scarletgumboots.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

#AmReading 📚 Below Stairs Mystery Series by Jennifer Ashley - I'm currently on book 3, 'Death in Kew Gardens'. It's historical mystery with a hint of romance, and the main character, Kat Holloway, is a cook in Mayfair, London, in the 1880s.

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Amara, haphazardly @scarletgumboots.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

I want to sew buttons on a cardigan I am knitting for partner but I'm having a bad pain day and it's hard to concentrate especially as I haven't sewn on buttons in a while. Skeletons were a mistake💀

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

The media needs to use ‘disabled people’ instead of ‘health-related beneficiaries’ right fucking now. Tired of govt euphemisms.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

From Judith Butler's new book

It hardly matters that the lesbian and
ELIC
gay movement is opposed to the sexual abuse of children, and that it is
in fact the Catholic Church that is at risk of bankruptcy after paying
reparations to all the children it has abused over decades.' Haunted
by its own abuse of children, the Church externalizes the origin of
child abuse, attributing it to sexual and gender minorities who have
for the most part thought carefully about matters of consent, defended
the actions of consenting adults within the law, and fought for social
freedoms on the street. The Church thus ignores the fact that it has lost
all standing to articulate this objection. It commits a moral error of
gross proportion by projecting and externalizing the specter of its own
abusive history onto sexual and gender minorities as a way of making
others responsible for its own crimes.

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