Eliza Jane

Made for a rewatch to feel just as rewarding as the first watch - not just a half aware, also scrolling piece of time-filler eh.

My kids asked me to watch Gravity Falls with them, and I realised how little of that sort of comedy they'd ever encountered, even in kids animated shows - but they didn't need to be primed for it, the joy of blink you'll miss it gags immediately hooked them in.

12 year old "with the whole fuel thing, will we still be able to go to Auckland in the school holidays? Because they really do have superior fejoas"

And speaking for myself, there's a real sense of being separated only by the most incidental factors. Of remembering Nana in tears, worrying that if WINZ finds out she's well enough to pick me up after school, they'll think she's well enough to work, and they're cruel, and they don't understand.

There is more ground for solidarity and similarity between working mums in different income brackets sending their kids to the same schools than between the male corporate exec and the male truck driver who never cross paths. Beware false equivalence in the left / right groupings there...

I'm not the precarious left and never have been but it's not an abstraction either - it's not those other people over there, it was my Nana, it's various friends and acquaintances, other relatives, the whānau of many of the people I went to school with, it's people round the corner in council flats.

Someone *cough* could also perhaps do an interesting analysis of gender blind spots in class generalisations. My mum was determined to go to uni because she saw how divorce plunged her own mum into poverty. I remember as a kid in the 90s, my Nana crying about the cuts to her sickness benefit.

I mean just telling on myself here I guess but if we can extrapolate generalised reckons from anything then why not - Educated Progressives go to the same law schools as Establishment Right, but went to low/mid decile high schools and the unfairness of the opportunity gap has always stuck with them.

Very cool! I'm definitely keen to write something for this ... But on which of my many pet topics ... 🤔

Fascinating analysis of energy security potential of batteries complementing existing solar in Aus (esp in context of the @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social article earlier this week and NZ lagging so far behind on solar).

I totally didn't read the article and assumed from the og headline these dudes were using dehydration machines to create their cereals of sadness. It's just... mush? Wow.

If for a small group, Margot or Rita.

9 yo "mum you know how you said that if you lived in the Pokemon universe you'd still have the same type of job?"
Me, vaguely, not remembering the interaction but it sounds like a plausible prior answer "mmm?"
9 yo "so you'd be a Pokemon scientist?"

* I am not and have never been a scientist.

Alternative framing for this - one way of checking whether a country is operating within the bounds of the rule of law and norms of good governance is asking whether the day to day work of a career public servant is contributing to a functional democracy, or is complicit in its dismantling.

Your thread is all serious but the headline and the photo, I just -

In our extensive research on activation - who is activated (beyond voting), activatable, repulsed by regime but won't do direct action - a critical dimension is NOT mere disapproval but whether they view regime as break in normalcy vs just a bad regular right wing gov't in a democracy.

I'm chuffed that the cool bird photos guy had a nice time here.

So much to be proud of and the results are priceless. It’s because of effort like this that my trip has been one of the best experiences in my life. Everyone who lives here benefits comparably as does every visitor who takes the time to look around in the bush.

Why do their matching pajamas look like they're about to do a family rendition of The Red Flag?

My mum told little millennial child me the line was "she was giving me a hand with the unmade bed".

Couldn't resist:

I have submitted
the documents
to incorporate
the company

which
is for my
future
book store

Big step
They were official
Complete
And so huge

Never once have I wanted an extra tunnel through Mt Vic but many many times have I wanted a roundabout at the corner of Wellington Road and SH1/Ruahine Street.

Lol, actually it's "Point Chev" to the locals. "Point Chevalier" is just fancy talk.

Being brought into the principal’s office and being shown that a bunch of 38 year olds on a website you’ve never been on approve of you punching a kid.

And without increasing incomes for the worst off - their UBI is "roughly in line with the current Jobseeker benefit". No details about the level of top up (if any) for people on sole parent support or the supported living payment. Extremely unserious.

I've never seen any of these types of pieces by the blokes include real recognition of the toll pregnancy and childbirth can take. Which is a *huge factor*.

you could simply leave the “Jewish” part out of this

it is a choice and it is a bad one and I would really, truly prefer that people ostensibly on my side of the political spectrum not make it

Ok who wished on a monkey's paw for investment in long term infrastructure, own up

When B was three, our toaster broke and I gave him a piece of vogels with peanut butter and he looked at me aghast and said "you can't just give me RAW toast!!!"

It's been a week since that Lloyd Burr review of Iggy Pop and the pressing question of whether he's somehow not ever watched Trainspotting is still living rent free in my head.