Danielle, Petty Hate Machine

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

APPARENTLY the drama is resolved! As she has accepted his quite reasonable argument that the nine page list was a bit controlling (ya think) We shall see

Would you like to see my newly redecorated (thanks to PerthGore Uncle) and strangely tidy (for me) office?

We've all experienced it - the richer and more powerful the boss, the nicer they are and the better your pay and work conditions. OH. WAIT. NOBODY HAS EXPERIENCED THAT. Ricardo Menéndez March holding ACT to account for their "if you let us dig this hole deeper it will get better" approach. #nzpol

I feel like I’m living in some weird fucking Beckett play or a dystopian sequel to Being There where the president of the United States is just increasingly obviously a porridge-brained mental patient and everyone nods and smiles like it’s normal.

Our dollar is worth considerably less than the USD and we earn crap wages so I'm going to be all @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social about it but with no real data and say: WORST PER CAPITAAAAAAA

NZ hit fourth hardest per person.

There is truly nothing you could do to make fun of the NYT covering the Obama Cheesecake Factory quip instead of Trump being accused of rape. It’s completely beyond parody.

Just had to spend an hour with the husband talking Son One through his relationship drama I am not someone who reflexively thinks their child is the good guy in any conflict and I am sure he has been a doofus in many respects. But, uh, specifying exactly how long your texts should be seems... odd

Jesus Christ academia, I am in no way impugning your skills, I am complimenting Ardern's! The huffiness! I was an academic librarian for years. You want to talk about being chronically undervalued? Because bring it on

Also! “Professor of practice” is a term of art. It’s specifically about real-world experience of the thing being taught, in all sorts of disciplines. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Like architecture: www.sydney.edu.au/architecture... Or writing: www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion... Or economics: www.sydney.edu.au/arts/news-an...

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They did sweet FA, these bastards

Running out of time with PerthGore Uncle We are making a schedule of remaining work but things are touch and go French-Wintering Girlfriend arrives on Nov 7

Have hounded London BFF about voting (I think she's onto it but sent a reminder)

I am not a conspiracist about TOP but I think they are hopelessly naive and their ideas rely on assuming things about the NZ electorate and society which are obviously not true. They're useful idiots. Also PICK. A. SIDE #nzpol

I don't care for how this has become almost a joke people throw in along with how he's old and fat and orange rather than a stomach-churning, existentially horrifying thing for a nation to know about its head of state.

Yesterday's climb up (and down) 4 billion stairs in the bush has destroyed my upper thighs, so now I have an aching left arm from OOS and aching legs. My right arm is the only remaining limb in good shape. Getting old is no joke

The US is not about to have a free and fair election. The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor the ruling party in multiple ways. It's a mostly free, somewhat unfair election. But still one where the ruling party can be overwhelmed by numbers. Hence the term "competitive authoritarianism."

It's my mother's birthday! Today we are celebrating her 21st all over again (plus sixty)

This thread is so fun

I wish I could be as hopeful about voting queues but I've been burned before #nzpol

Lula Goes HARD

Went to Kitekite Falls with half of Auckland. Also my friends decided to walk to the top of the falls and I, like an idiot, went with them and took my three dogs. I am dying now

I’m a father of two and you could not torture this story out of me.

Yeah but it's OUR steaming cesspool of fetid mental anguish amirite (see last RT)

Like they give a shit about women. You know what helps women to leave violent situations? Decent paying jobs. Jobs with fair pay agreements. Jobs with pay equity

I read the quote before I heard him say it in the clip and, no disrespect, his delivery was exactly as insane as I hoped

there's a Maine Coon kitten named Erebus Anomaly. he's in Wisconsin. he recently received recognition for having more toes than any other documented living cat. 29 toes. that's an awful lot of toes. like, wtf. i'm over here expected to make do with 10 toes, like some kind of schmuck.

Oh dear I slept until 11.38am