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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine

@dimsie.bsky.social

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I have too many dogs for a sensible person One of the Aotearoa NZ Twitter exodus Mother: Invercargill, father: Simmesport La. Ngāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Cajun, Pākehā, feminist, parent MA in history, PhD in dork Terfs and right-wingers can get in the bin

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · Jul 31

So @melbailey.bsky.social did a "one like = one [something]" thread of lots of cool things in her house. I think my house would be good for this so I will do it too. One like, one photo of some ridiculous-assed thing in my house. With or without a story attached, I dunno

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 2h

Anyway the entire discourse around all of this is bullshit and I refuse to countenance any of it. Everyone shut up, all of you are wrong and dumb except me and about four other people

Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 2h

Otoh, even WORSE are the people who are like "well you ALSO have to change your LIFESTYLE if you take one of these weight loss drugs, you can't RELY on it"

Oh hey I thought it was a hormonal imbalance? Are we back to telling fat people off again? Because that's what you truly want to do isn't it

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 3h

Food is MEANT to inspire emotions FFS

I dunno, I am fine, I just want people to leave me the fuck alone and to be able to buy a nice frock or two

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 3h

"It turns out you're fat because of a hormonal imbalance and we will fix your body with medication so no one has to see you like this again" is quite a CONFRONTING stance tbh, if you have the temerity as a fat person not to hate yourself

Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 3h

Feel free to do whatever you want to your own body, I do not give a shit, if whatever it is "fixes you", great, but I am not obligated to do it myself and you still have to treat me like a person

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 3h

If I want to eat three normal meals a day and do my daily walks and not constantly freak out, is there any room for me to do that? Or do I have to take semaglutide just because you all can't handle a fat person happily existing? There is nothing fucking wrong with me

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah the doctor said if they'd started seeing him now they would have put him straight in adult as he is 15 and a half and six feet tall, but since he started seeing them at age 14 they'll keep him

Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 3h

For some reason I am seeing a long discussion about how great Wegovy etc are because they change fat people's lives and attitudes to food because we are all just slaves to our own doom-laden appetites blah blah blah and I reeeeeeeeeally cannot. Just shut up and fuck off

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 3h

Oh god not thermodynamics. Please no

Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 3h

Yes, but if they wanted to cause a ruckus they could, there's certainly enough of them

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 3h

I also like this slightly mad ball-squatting eagle in the Nola crypt. There is a little "neighbourhood" of these informally called "Dally Ally" for all the Croatian immigrant families interred there

A stone eagle with wings outspread, sitting on a ball, on top of a white crypt house thingy with a door and signs about the Nola family

Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 3h

I got lost in the cemetery today. Here is an armless angel in front of the setting sun

A giant angel statue commemorating the life and death of a woman from 1904

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 3h

He's such a piece of shit I'll be almost as happy when he gets rolled as when the other thing we're all waiting for happens *points in direction of the White House*

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 3h

Cigarettes literally ten times as much now

Ice Nine @theicenine.bsky.social · 9h

LOL, found a receipt from '96 in a book

$2.63 for semi-soft butter
$5.65 for a twenty pack of Pall Mall
And so on

A supermarket receipt

Dairy products are cheap af

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 10h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 4h

Omg

Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, I remember that too. Transcript in this Reddit thread www.reddit.com/r/newzealand...

From the newzealand community on Reddit: Cancer patients expected to work

Explore this post and more from the newzealand community

www.reddit.com

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Stephanie... In New Zealand @bootstheory.bsky.social · 8h

This has been the vicious fucking thing about the "Jobseeker Benefit" ever since Paula Bennett coined it in 2013

In addition to keeping people in poverty it's been a term of propaganda forcing us all to accept the frame of welfare as economic obligation instead of social support

Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 8h

Fucksake. It's quite clear now that they only looked at this benefit policy as political marketing and took no advice on who it would impact – which includes young people with serious health issues and disabilities. Just feckless and cynical. Shame on them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Hundreds of teens with a health condition, disability may be cut from Jobseeker benefit

The government is ending Jobseeker payments to 18- and 19 year olds whose parents earn more than $65,000.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Jordan Rivers @jordanriversnz.bsky.social · 7h

Just for clarity, the unemployment numbers under this government may look terrible, but keep in mind, Luxon has driven tens of thousands of Kiwis overseas as well, so its actually far worse. These numbers are just the ones that couldnt leave.

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 4h

The actual glory of this

Ramsha Jahangir @ramshajahangir.bsky.social · 4h

Last week, a Dutch court ordered Meta to give Facebook & Instagram users the right to set a chronological feed by default - one of the first EU cases applying the DSA in civil proceedings.

To unpack what this means, I spoke with @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social:

www.techpolicy.press/what-a-dutch...

What a Dutch Court Ruling Against Meta Signals for Private DSA Enforcement | TechPolicy.Press

Tech Policy Press spoke with Rejo Zenger, Policy and Advocacy Lead at Bits of Freedom, to better understand the significance of the ruling.

www.techpolicy.press

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 7h

Working incredibly hard my happy ass

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 7h

He doesn't get drunk enough

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 7h

It's just like that scene in the Simpsons where Lisa breaks Ralph Wiggum's heart and Bart is going full Zapruder film on the moment of doom

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ardrigh @ardrigh.bsky.social · 9h

At a time the government is cutting support for the most vulnerable in our country, never forget this munter was arguing he was entitled to claim $52K extra in subsidies to live in his own apartment #nzpol

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

'It's a distraction': PM’s swift U-turn, will pay back $13k in accommodation allowance

Labour says PM 'treating hard-working Kiwis like a bottomless ATM'.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 7h

I already broke my fixed mortgage rate to add a bazillion dollars onto it for the Limpet's teeth. Christ