Let's just send tithes to the cafes and have done with it.

He Kuīni

I think it's actually okay for people to not be able to do things, or to find them difficult. We celebrate authors because they are skilled in specific ways and recognise the effort and talent in it. Maybe being a good writer isn't for everyone?

Paimārire

Those is both strenuous and boring. Can only assume furniture flippers are very brave people with lots of time and audiobooks.

@tinamakereti.bsky.social Tēnā koe i tēnei taonga. I have read it straight through in an evening.

Lobbyists and ideological pressure groups are natural free market actors but unions are an affront to the economy I guess?

Hijacker: Everyone stop talking. I am armed and I am taking control of this plane. Guy from the Netherlands: Wow, in Netherlands we just purchase a plane if we want one. But typically we will bike somewhere Guy who has been to Japan once: In Japan planes are rarely hijacked. It's a cultural taboo

"A left that does not even attempt to address millions of newly-disabled people who have been harmed and then abandoned by the state...is unserious. A left that actively contributes to the spread of the illness and mocks those attempting to mitigate it, is dangerous." 🙏 @juliadoubleday.bsky.social

Why wear a mask to a protest?

Or: why spread illness when you could not do that?

I had no idea Fast Car by Tracy Chapman wasn't an evergreen popular banger that reeled in heaps of dollars daily. Popularity renaissance? Rediscovery? I had it filed in my head with final countdown, sandstorm, jolene, as cultural fixtures.