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Kylie from Aotearoa

@mama-melancholia.bsky.social

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Tangata Tiriti. Artist/Activist/Socio-economic Accessibility advocate, & solo Mama to one amazing child with ASD & ADHD. Ex Primary School teacher/SENCo (thanks #fibromyalgia). #brokebutwoke #toitūtetiriti #pan 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 https://ko-fi.com/mamamelancholia

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Kylie from Aotearoa @mama-melancholia.bsky.social · 2h

It’s getting like harassment now.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5h

Patriarchy protects predators

It’s not surprising they’re suppressing the Epstein list

Survivors don’t matter. It’s about protecting the men

Look at Gisele Pelicot. Raped by over 50 men who were all convicted. Dragged back into court because one felt he shouldn’t have to bear the label of rapist

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Kylie from Aotearoa @mama-melancholia.bsky.social · 3h

I’m suddenly getting daily calls from charities trying to sign me up to monthly donations. SPCA, Diabetes NZ, Greenpeace… all from the same call centre in Auckland. It’s getting highly annoying, especially as someone who can barely buy groceries each week. I donate when I’m able.

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 1d

The Govt wants to cut Health NZ staff working on alcohol harm & end its research & social marketing campaigns. Sixty five organisations have signed an open letter to the PM, calling for alcohol industry to be excluded from policy making.
My #cartoon today #NZpol #alcohol #Health #PublicHealth

Cartoon. Title: “Sponsored by the Alcohol Lobby”. Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey and Assoc Justice Minister Nicole McKee, drinking together. McKee hands her beer to Doocey and says, “Hold my beer” “I’m going to sort out these Public Health boffins. Lower right it says, “Govt ignores expert advice on alcohol”

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Kylie from Aotearoa @mama-melancholia.bsky.social · 1d

Please sign the petition to Save Our Polytechs! They’re vital in our communities, especially right now.

action.greens.org.nz/save_our_pol... #nzpol

Save our Polytechs

Communities across Aotearoa deserve thriving, regional polytechnics that can help meet the needs of learners and the wider community. Our polytechs provide people with opportunities to upskill, r...

action.greens.org.nz

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Mrs Chippy🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mrschippy.bsky.social · 1d

If folks want to communicate their feelings about Acacia O’Connor being cancelled by OneNZ, their CE is easily reachable on Twitter #nzpol #kikorangi 🇳🇿

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Kylie from Aotearoa @mama-melancholia.bsky.social · 1d

Oh please god, make it so! 🙏🏼

Kylie from Aotearoa @mama-melancholia.bsky.social · 1d

with her; my “safe place”.

By this time she was tiny and frail after years of battling bowel cancer that eventually took over her lungs and stomach too.

While I realise how privileged I was to have her as my Gran, her departure broke me. I was never the same after that. #RIPGran

A family of three girls; their mother and father to the right; their grandfather and grandmother to the left. It is Christmas, so there are lots of opened presents in front of the children. This was the last Christmas for grandmother Marj. 1990.

Marjorie Gane, middle front.
6 nurses from Waikato Hospital (?) in their full uniforms.

Signatures from fellow nursing students in my Gran’s autograph book.

Go my good friend,
Do your good work,
For both Māori and Pākehā.

A page from my Gran’s autograph book.

Kylie from Aotearoa @mama-melancholia.bsky.social · 1d

On this Day in 1921 - Marjorie Jessica Gane was born. She lived 69 years and made it through to Queen’s Birthday Weekend,1991.

She grew up farming in the Waikato, eventually taking over the family farm and running it by herself. She also trained as a nurse during WW2.

1990 was my last Christmas

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Kylie from Aotearoa @mama-melancholia.bsky.social · 2d

That means 46 years! Wowser.

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Kylie from Aotearoa @mama-melancholia.bsky.social · 2d

leading to poor judgment and difficulty controlling the urge to drink.

Korsakoff's Syndrome: A type of dementia characterized by confabulation, a phenomenon where gaps in memory are filled with fabricated events.

- Effects of long-term drinking on the brain (Google).

Kylie from Aotearoa @mama-melancholia.bsky.social · 2d

learning new information, planning, decision-making, concentration, and attention.

Impaired Judgment and Impulse Control: The frontal lobe, responsible for higher thinking and control, is particularly vulnerable to alcohol damage,

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Kylie from Aotearoa @mama-melancholia.bsky.social · 2d

Chronic heavy drinking causes brain cells to shrink and die, leading to a reduction in gray matter (neurons) and disruption of the white matter (connecting fibers).

Cognitive Impairment: This includes problems with memory,

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Kylie from Aotearoa @mama-melancholia.bsky.social · 2d

When I was still learning to drive, I *almost* ran him over in the Tauranga CBD. Almost.
Now I feel like everything is my fault.

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 2d

Winston has had a secure taxpayer funded salary/expenses for 40+ years. He has a full fridge, a warm house & security. He has no excuse for being such a nasty, divisive, vile old man spewing discord, misinfo & hate about as well as dismantling health, safety&security for NZers & the environment.

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Jasmin Taylor @meshedlight.bsky.social · 2d

Aotearoa: there's been at least 21 people in hospital with covid PER WEEK (if I'm reading this correctly)

Please keep up to date with your covid-19 booster vaccinations, if you can

I'm currently recovering from my 2nd bout. Being boostered & masking helped reduce my risk of being hospitalised

David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 2d

Now this, this is an all time low for New Zealand

21 cases in hospital with covid on Sunday night (previous known low is 22)

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Kylie from Aotearoa @mama-melancholia.bsky.social · 2d

Connections
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Kylie from Aotearoa @mama-melancholia.bsky.social · 2d

‘Choir’ Is such a weird word.
I mean, it rhymes with ‘wire’, but the spelling makes no sense when you’re trying to teach a child to read. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Jane @janerefreshed.bsky.social · 2d

What Greta discuses here is extremely important and every point she makes id spot on.
#EndTheOccupation
#UpholdInternationalLaw
#FreePalestine

Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 2d

Pt2🧵: Greta Thunberg deported to Athens says, "Global Samud Flotilla are not heroes. Our mistreatment by Israel is not the story. We need more than humanitarian aid to Gaza, we need to stop the decades-long siege. The violence of 'business as usual.' Genocides fueled by our own governments."

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Kylie from Aotearoa @mama-melancholia.bsky.social · 3d

Nice area. 👍

Kylie from Aotearoa @mama-melancholia.bsky.social · 3d

I still haven’t watched it. I know I’ll love it, but I also know it’s going to wreck me emotionally. I’ll work up the courage one of these days!

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Kylie from Aotearoa @mama-melancholia.bsky.social · 3d

OMG!!!! Congrats!! 🙌

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Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social · 3d

Apart from massive job losses out of the economy, changes to youth benefit come in the wake of: polytech closures, less funding for mental health, no extra funding for universities, changes to NCEA that mess with vocational training (hospitality) & force YP into SL debt
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Jobseeker changes: 'Punished for economic crisis they didn't create'

The prime minister says benefit dependency is a "tragedy" and tightened criteria resets expectations - but a youth advocate says they have never met a young person who doesn't want to find work.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Kylie from Aotearoa @mama-melancholia.bsky.social · 3d

How does one hold on to hope,
when everything is fucked, everywhere?

a cartoon girl is sitting on a bed with a brown teddy bear in the background

Alt: a cartoon girl is sitting on a bed with a brown teddy bear in the background

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Kylie from Aotearoa @mama-melancholia.bsky.social · 3d

100%
I couldn’t get the student allowance either. I worked 3 part-time jobs while training to be a teacher. Plus had a student loan. Such a shit-show.