saying your haters are the "enemies of glory" is one of the sickest things i've ever heard. incredible. iconic
The cruelty is the point. The sort of people who feel better about themselves by making others suffer are running the country, it seems. tkr.ro/e/FlugXuRpqB...
Anonymous message from a public servant who works in social housing. Cool cool cool. A supposed ‘over delivery’ of social housing, no accessible new builds, and less access to emergency housing. How much can this government fuck disabled people over? Let me count the ways.
I'm just old enough to remember the beneficiary bashing of the early-mid 90s (despite their best efforts, John Key and Paula Bennett could never) and it was New Zealand at its absolute worst. Petty, small-minded, parochialism to the ~undeserving poor~. Looks like it's back to the future.
It wasn’t a good idea to watch Luxon and Upston’s presser, was it? I’m vacillating between incandescent rage and violent nausea. It simply isn’t ok to treat people like this. MPs have a duty of care to their constituents, Ministers to the entire electorate. And this - this is not that.
Proposing that we by default call every press conference from this govt a "depress conference". Depresser
"If you can’t rely on police to turn up when literal neo-Nazis storm your event, it’s difficult to ensure your attendees and performers are safe." Rainbow communities need protecting – and police are failing them thespinoff.co.nz/society/02-0...
After a spate of rainbow event cancellations, Jennifer Shields asks for a little more security for her communities.
Off to a conference tomorrow, gonna be surrounded by very smart and wonderful people. And then there's me
It strikes me that one of the UK's most widespread colonial exports was its 19th century, homophobic criminal code, which continued to corrupt its colonies long after the UK's exit from them. Now doing the same with transphobic laws. As in so many contexts, transphobia is plagiarised homophobia.
Winston Peters and NZF are introducing an anti-trans bathroom members bill specifically referencing the UKs recent moves to do the same. Culture war was always his direction, but it's time to fight and oppose this bullshit www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA24...
The ‘Fair Access to Bathrooms Bill’ will require, primarily in the interest and safety of women and girls, that all new non-domestic publicly accessible buildings provide separate, clearly demarcated,...
The Wellington bird revival continues to be just a wholly good news story. Saw a wee titipounamu friend in Zealandia yesterday (first time I've seen one in the city); so great they're getting more widespread. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
A bird species rarely seen in the capital is believed to still be lingering around after being spotted in a Wellington suburb.