My kid just got bitten on the toe by a weta that was in her gumboot #peakAotearoa

The fact that Nicola Willis apparently doesn’t understand the difference between an asset and a debt explains a lot.

There is a ruru in our neighbourhood. He starts up making "morepork" noise most nights when I'm getting off to sleep. One night I stuck my head out the window & could hear a second ruru in the distance responding to our ruru. #Aotearoa

Open Letter to Winston Peters, Minister of Foreign Affairs: The New Zealand Government must recognise the State of Palestine from Staff, Students and Alumni of the University Community

Start of End of
the week the week

#nzpol

Yip, sign.
Yip, email your MP, Winston Peters, the PM
It feels futile but we've got to be constantly telling them this is what matters to us.

Most American Jews say Israel has committed war crimes

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Let's get a tent for Odaii and his family in Gaza chuffed.org/project/1506...

Reminder: National has always taken the side of Apartheid regimes.

When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We watch a people go through an attempted genocide, and we sit back and say you are no people. You have no state.

For you see, we are friends with both you and your murderer.

In 1976, African nations boycotted the Montreal Olympics because New Zealand stood with apartheid South Africa. Nearly 50 years on, that echo lingers and the stain remains far longer than we care to admit to ourselves.

Use “I” statements please Winston. The tens of thousands of NZers who marched, the thousands and thousands more who see this genocide for what it is and who know recognising Palestine is an important symbol of solidarity, your decision does not represent us.

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Gaza

The dead boy tries to open his eyes.
He wants to see the world he is leaving.
But there is nothing to see here,
nothing and nothing, and anyway he is gone.
His parents held him while he died
but they are both dead, too.
Or he held them, no one remembers.

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I really thought he was going to do the right thing. Should never have got my hopes up. #nzpol #freepalestine

Feels like we've returned to the 1970s when NZ became something of a pariah through much of the world for its continuing ties with apartheid South Africa.

We aren't going to recognise Palestine because Israel has invaded it and so Palestine doesn't control its own territory ...

“Rark up” and “mōrena” added to Oxford English Dictionary

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Stress stress stress stressidy stress.

Wake me up when September ends.

What I'd say to you is, I don't want you. You know what you are not doing well.
#Luxomatic

Always remember to type "-ai" at the end of all your Google searches. I forgot to this time, and it wasted a ton of water to be as wrong as it could possibly be.

The AI revolution is garbage.

Signs we won't recognise Palestine:

- Seymour said he won't & Luxon said it'll be a Govt position not an agree-to-disagree one

- If we were going to, we would have announced today with UK/Aus/Can

- Aus PM reacted to US pushback today saying Aus policy not decided in Washington *or Wellington*

Prayers up for Greymouth

I know "AI is the death of all that is good" stories are two a penny, but had my own experience last night. I agreed to MC a charity quiz night for a student group - basically, be the pretty face + jokester up the front while asking the pre-prepared questions and keep the thing running on time. 🧵/1