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Thalia

@thaliathalia.bsky.social
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General-purpose activist + writer. Pākehā in Aotearoa. Disabled. Brilliant + Amazing. Human rights, politics, feminism, community building, books, parenting, Jesus.

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 7h
As a teenager I travelled from Auckland to ChCh by train quite often. It was affordable and well used. Wellington train station had bathrooms with baths and lovely towels so you could refresh after the trip. It cost very little. It makes so much sense. Go Greens. 💚💚
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Ryan Nicholls @royuniscool.bsky.social · 5h
So a 4 party government is hardly uncharted territory. In fact, it's territory mostly charted by the National Party, who by a long way have spent the most time in government with that many parties.
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 16h
Apparently good economic management involves increasing unemployment until one in six young people are out of work, poor, and increasingly disenfranchised. Is this 'building the future'? Would 'fixing the basics' not involve fixing this disaster?
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders." Everyone struggles with impostor syndrome sometimes, including Charles Darwin who scrawled this in a letter to Charles Lyell #OTD in 1861. 🧪 www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter?docId...
A scrawled bit of barely legible cursive handwriting that reads "But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything."
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Thalia @thaliathalia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Six more dropped off to Mum this week! Email us if you have anything to pass along... Sewingmachinedonations@gmail.com
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Aotearoa Greens Global @nzgreensglobal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So. Got friends or whānau overseas? Remind them to enrol. Overseas NZers are impacted by our government's decisions and they deserve to have a say. With 200 people leaving Aotearoa every day we need help to reach them. So please... share our CALL TO ACTION💚✅️ www.greens.org.nz/a_call_to_ac...
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A call to action for friends of overseas New Zealanders
We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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🐶🐙Dr. Caffiend☕️😷 @captcaffiend.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you or people you know aren't sure who to vote for in the upcoming NZ election, this handy resource has been created by some awesome people I know. www.onthefence.co.nz
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On the Fence 2026
On The Fence helps Kiwis get started on their political journey. Answer a series of questions on the issues that matter most to you, and we'll show you which political parties share your values.
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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Explainer: What you need to know about road rules changing on 1 October
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Explainer: What you need to know about road rules changing on 1 October
Explainer - Road rules are changing tomorrow. Here's what you need to know.
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Thalia @thaliathalia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wellington! Come along tomorrow to hear 28 young choristers from around the motu! H and her mates will lead Evensong, a short musical service, at Wellington Cathedral of St Paul at 5.30pm Thursday. Free and all welcome 💚
Shot from above of children sitting in a circle in the Cathedral
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Thalia @thaliathalia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Please share this update on sewing machine donations! We're up to 783 and aiming for 800 by the end of the year. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
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Hundreds of donated sewing machines and counting
The Sewing Machine Drive aims to reach 800 sewing machines by the end of the years.
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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Opinion: No one is wasting more ratepayer cash than the government #nzpol
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No one is wasting more ratepayer cash than the government
The $9 million already spent on council amalgamation proposals is just the start.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Roses are red Prepare for defibrillations
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Blood pressure medication recalled nationwide after failing 'dissolution specifications'
Over 13,000 bottles of blood pressure medication are the subject of a nationwide recall, according to the FDA.
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Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please, please will the next government please put my taxes up a bit – so that hospitals work and hungry kids get a decent lunch?
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?
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Julie Fairey (she/her) @juliefairey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In person election debates are where liars think they are most likely to get away with lies. Thank you to everyone who shares this stuff so we can all see. It’s exhausting often to do (I’ve done it). Democracy is more than voting every so often. And media no longer do this stuff.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Sophie Fern @sophiefern.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
1 pm today, Dunedin’s church bells will be rung to welcome the albatross home for the season.
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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"For nearly 18 months the Crown repeatedly informed claimants, the Tribunal, and the public of its intention to develop alternative plans in lieu of Te Aka Whai Ora, but these intentions did not materialise and were not reflected in Crown action." - Waitangi Tribunal. #NzPol
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Waitangi Tribunal finds Crown had no clear plan for Māori health after scrapping Te Aka Whai Ora
The Waitangi Tribunal has found the Government had no clear alternative plan for Māori health when it scrapped Te Aka Whai Ora - the Māori Health Authority.
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Thalia @thaliathalia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Is this different from what already happens with the Edmund Hillary Foundation visas?
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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Growth advocacy group wants visas for 'exceptional talent' with no job offer required
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Growth advocacy group wants visas for 'exceptional talent' with no job offer required
A growth advocacy group wants to let up to 300 "exceptionally talented people" a year move to New Zealand with no job offer required.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As someone pretty senior in local government remarked on a Teams call this afternoon, “I think what this demonstrates is that we don’t need better proposals, we need better Ministers”
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Thalia @thaliathalia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
H is selling balloon animals for her school Market Day 🎈 🐈
Pink balloon cat and hat off lollies on a school desk
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Grow From Here @growfromhere.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
heaps of small seed drop grown Kowhai from this Kowhai need lifting all about 5 to 10cm tall available Titahi Bay
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Taught the Fugitive Slave Act for the first time in a few years. Man, my head was spinning as I uttered my familiar refrain about how the FSA radicalized Northerners who maybe never thought much about slavery until they saw people being snatched off the street right in front of them...
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Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us
Alt: Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us
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Lady Pangaea 🌋🌿🎨📝 @lady-pangaea99.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Congratulations to the Black Robin for winning BOTY! I remember reading this book as a kid, and I totally recommend it to people who want to learn more about this cute lil' icon. #aotearoabirds #boty
Cover of Old Blue: The Rarest Bird in the World by Mary Taylor. The titular Old Blue is surrounded by blue and pink flowers.
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Thalia @thaliathalia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We just hit 100 machines donated in 2026 so far!🎉💯
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Thalia @thaliathalia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Some people just walked past our house and exclaimed at how gorgeous our kōwhai ngutukākā is! So here you go, here it is in all its glory 🦜🌺
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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“It is ironic, to say the least, that if Jordan Williams had not publicised the non-existent book, these inside sources would most likely never have contacted me and the book we are here to launch today would not have been written.”
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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Burton uncovering the book poster. The poster is revealed giving the title of the new book, Dirty Work: The Taxpayers' Union and New Zealand's Hard Right. By Nicky Hager. Potton & Burton.
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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm at Unity Bookshop Wellington for the Nicky Hager book launch. The event is not due to start until 6 pm, but the room is mostly full already and filling up fast.
Unity Bookshop filling fast.
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Thalia @thaliathalia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today I delivered 6 donated (and checked/serviced/repaired) sewing machines, plus 6 starter packs of fabric, pins, scissors, etc, to the Wellington Red Cross team, so they can gift them to new New Zealanders who want to be able to sew at home. Amazing work, team!
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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Watching videos this morning documenting the extraordinary achievements of Mamdani’s first 8 months in office. Such a powerful demonstration that ‘just doing something’ is a powerful way of showing problems may not be intractable after all
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Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
100% this. "You just need to tell your stories better" - no, we don't. Our stories are clear, obvious, and awesome. The people who could fund the humanities won't and aren't open to changing their minds
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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Auckland has the CRL opening to bring life back into the city, Wellington has...
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's pretty damn impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC. I was reading through the numbers this morning, and they're kinda astonishing. (thread)
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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#nzpol
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David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The difference between Christopher “cry me a river” Luxon and Marie “let them eat cake” Antoinette is that she was misquoted
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Another pre-election Nicky Hager book release! #nzpol #hagerbook #nzelection2026
You are invited to the launch of a new book by Nicky Hager.
All welcome.
6pm Tues 22 Sept 2026
Unity Books
57 Willis Street, Te Aro, Wellington
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Andy McKay @korimakoecology.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If only there was some kind of local representative who was a member of the government who could push for policies that mean an increasing number of desperate people dont have to rely on food banks in the first place.
Front page of Kāpiti News. The main headline reads: Running Out: Foodbank supplies low as demand rises above an advertisement for National MP Tim Costley.
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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 17/09/2026
I saw the Labour Party's social media video clip of this exchange and went to find the full video because I thought surely it wasn't really as bad as it seemed. Context didn't make it better.
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Thalia @thaliathalia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
'CRY ME A RIVER'!?
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Thalia @thaliathalia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm reading the Tom Phillips Inquiry report and is absolutely bloody shocking. Just unbelievable that, for instance, weeks into the second kidnapping, when he had missed Christmas and court dates, police consider there are no welfare concerns for the children. www.dia.govt.nz/Public-Inqui...
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Public Inquiry into the Disappearance of the Phillips Children - Final Report - dia.govt.nz
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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The difference between a catacomb and a basement is skulls. Catacomb without skulls? Thats a basement. Skulls in your basement? Thats a catacomb. Tired of having to keep saying this
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Andrew Jull NZRN (he/him) @andrewjull.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
And will Winston Peters, Shane Jones, or David Seymour apologise for creating an environment where NZ Indians do not feel welcome or safe?
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The Sapling @thesaplingnz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori! Kimberley Ngareta Kearney has put together a list of recommended books to karawhiua (have a go) with: www.thesapling.co.nz/book-list-te... #pukapuka #reoMāori #booksky
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Book List: Te Wiki o te reo Māori 2026 - The Sapling
Kimberley Ngareta Kearney brings us a book list designed to encourage everyone to karawhiua—have a go! This week marks another whakanuia (celebration) of te reo Māori and what better way to celebrate ...
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Thalia @thaliathalia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Make a band edible: Gums and Roses
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