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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 3h

They're very mumbly as well as loud. I just heard the phrase "Winston Peter's shouldnt have done that" in an angry tone. Then it became mumbly again

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 3h

Sometimes I think, I've cultivated such a bubble, I have no idea what "average NZer" thinks. So I was surprised when we didn't end up with a NZ Green and Te Pāti Māori govt

But the very old people on the next table in this foodcourt is complaining loudly about Uncle Winnie, so maybe there is hope.

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 2d

Amazing my favourite is cafe crave in morningside Kingsland, Tāmaki Makaurau. Followed closely by the cafe in Tūranga in Ōtautahi

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 2d

That is hilarious. What incredibly humorous answer did you come up with?

Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 2d

But is it toasted to perfection by the cafe?

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 2d

Yea i know, I was attempting a wry humour which doesn't always come across well in the format of a bsky post 😅

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 3d

Wait wait wait. Did Frankenstein not have a medical degree?!? How did he get access to cadavers? I assumed he was a coroner by trade

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 3d

I do like corgis and dachshunds as well as llama. So maybe my subconscious was telling me something

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 3d

read up on the Burning Man principle of gifting, specifically this amazing video by Halcyon www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6if... if you model your framework on that kind of vibe it'll go far. Good luck! awesome as always David

Burning Man Tips & Tricks #31 "Gifting"

YouTube video by Hug Nation

www.youtube.com

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David Cormack @davidcormack.bsky.social · 4d

god help me. this is just cruelty. these are human beings, you monsters.

'The world doesn’t owe you a living’: PM says 4300 teens will lose Jobseeker benefit next year

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 3d

I mean it's kinda the OP's problem, he should have said "Doctor Frankenstein enters into a body building competition" not just Frankenstein.

screenshot from Tumblr - the first post says "Frankenstein enters into a body building competition and finds he has seriously misunderstood the objective", the first reply in all caps says "FOR THE LAST TIME, FRANKENSTEIN WAS THE NAME OF THE DOCTOR" the third reply says "...a doctor who built a body." and the final reply in the screenshot says "For what is possibly the first time in the history of pop culture somebody actually really specifically does mean the doctor .. and someone tries to correct them"

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 3d

this is a GREAT idea, and it's so smart to bring something like a library more front and centre of Tāmaki Makaurau CBD!! Regardless of whether he gets in or not, can we keep this on the table?

Sam[uel] Smith @sgowsmith1988.bsky.social · 6d

One council candidate’s plan for this empty centre in downtown Auckland
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

A plan has emerged for this empty centre in downtown Auckland

An Auckland Council candidate has backed a plan to move the Auckland Central Library to the Sky World centre.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 3d

For those playing along at home in what will inevitably be a years long journey, I got done with all the wording and one llama. But I missed one row of stitches so its a dwarf llama #llamaDiversity @ayvalentine.bsky.social

Photo of unfinished Cross-stitch. It is still on the embroidery hoop. It says, in maroon thread, "It's not hoarding if your shit's cool" and there is a wee pink llama next to the word shit with a tiny green saddle

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 4d

Ok I've not gone onto Only Fans (as a viewer) because its not really my jam, but this, this might change my mind

Screenshot of a Facebook post by Vice. The photo is of two penguins standing in front of a blurry Antarctic landscape. The caption is black text on a blue background and it says "This only fans account saves endangered species with animal mating videos" the Facebook caption says "In a genius bit of marketing, the Quick Response Fund for Nature (QRFN) has launched an OnlyFans account.

But instead of spicy human content, subscribers get Aldabra tortoises going “slow and steady,” blue iguanas putting in work, and lemurs doing their best “I like to move it” impression. Welcome to OnlyEndangereds—conservation with just enough kink to get your attention."

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 6d

He's holding out as long as he can". The caption says "Even Paul Kilmartin's mates are baffled, asking “when are you going to move into the 21st century?”

(Fin)

Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 6d

Oh no, did the alt tags not work? I ensured I included them?!

Screenshot of a Facebook post by RNZ. The headline says "This Kiwi professor has never owned a mobile phone.

(Cont'd on next post)

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 6d

Also @jennykaynz.bsky.social you would NEVER make a big deal out of "opting" out, when you have spoken about this in the past, listeners have always understood the situational & societal reasons why huge swathes of our society are deliberately excluded, which makes the OP case much more infuriating

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 6d

This is NOT the case here. I respect your circumstances and am sad that some reasons are out of your control. This guy, decided to do this and chose to make his family's life difficult as a result

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 6d

SNAP, Ii literally just said this to someone else. So infuriariting

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 6d

There has already been a dude in my mentions saying don't judge him, he has a choice 🙄

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 7d

awww congrats Andrew! another pēpi awwww

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 7d

can you imagine if this was gender flipped - the DEROGATORY commentary I have already heard. Oh my mom doesn't do phones, because my dad does it all, she just isn't smart enough to get it. It's never seen as a principled stance the other way round

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 7d

not the least of which is apparently his long-suffering partner

screenshot of article from OP "For some things, I have to relent, and I put [my partner's] phone number down. And of course, then she'll get the occasional message just to say something, and then the answer is, 'Paul, I'm not your secretary' … so I get told off, but I try to make up for it in other ways."

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 7d

and also, this is a surprise to no one -

screenshot from article in the OP which says "For some things, I have to relent, and I put [my partner's] phone number down. And of course, then she'll get the occasional message just to say something, and then the answer is, 'Paul, I'm not your secretary' … so I get told off, but I try to make up for it in other ways."

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Viv (she/her/ia) 🍉 @me.vivianchandra.com · 7d

LOL