I dont object to people being wealthy, owning a $10m holiday home
I object top them abusing their wealth so they contribute less
I object to them abusing their power so they get an ever larger slice rather than helping everyone else
The rest of us dont pull this kind of bs
#nzpol
We're seeing it in Upper Hutt, off and on so far but the big gusts are giving the house a good shake ๐ฅฒ
don't forget that David Seymour is the only MP in the last decade who has openly implied he wanted a Ministry bombed
Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?
Kirkโs murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we donโt need to honor him or โcontinue his work.โ
Charlie Kirk spent his lifeโs work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and weโre now not supposed to mention that because itโs not polite.
Letโs make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. โ Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.
Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
The funniest thing about this was the guy from the Employers & Manufacturers Association on Morning Report saying they weren't focused on removing existing entitlements, and while sick leave entitlements have doubled, actual use has only risen from just under 5 to just over 6 days per year
I've started occasionally getting "day in the life of" content in my fyp of people in my field of work & I want to know who told them that was a good idea ๐ I like my job well enough but I can't think of anything worse than watching someone try to glamourise a day of slide decks lol
Tweeted September 23rd, 2020: I don't know how to say this gently: you should know, if you don't already, that infectious disease follows state failure every time. All those public health programs, whirring away over decades, mostly unseen, in the background of our lives --you will feel their absence.
Tapping the sign wearily
Folks I just witnessed someone in a bar hitch down her skirt and hike up the sides of her thong...WHAT YEAR IS IT
On one hand I'd love to see Aucklanders gather to protest outside Destiny Church about their hateful shit.
On the other hand those assholes are clearly just waiting for the opportunity to get into a fight. There's clearly many there who'd love nothing more.
Destiny Church know full well that they're terrorising a room full of children. They don't care. Can we finally start calling it what it is? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
When whฤnau and tamariki are having to hide behind locked doors while a crowd tries to break them down you have to stop calling it a difference of opinion you shouldn't do anything about.
"You're not my surreal Dad!"
Two attacks, using force (people were injured at the library, "breaking through" police barricades here), against the queer community of Auckland in one day by Destiny.
We are owed an explanation as to why there are thus far zero arrests. There may BE a good explanation, but if so we are owed it.
Me reading the unrelenting trauma of A Little Life: ๐๐ฅ๐ง๐๐ฎโ๐จ๐ด
Me reading the unrelenting trauma of Manacled: ๐ฅ๐ฉ๐ญ๐ฑ๐๐ญ๐ซ ๐ซฃ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
Democracy dies in darkness. National are shoving Bill's through under urgency, limiting select committee input, and as we saw over the summer, limiting the opportunity for public submissions. They've also fired science advisors and not filled the PM's science advisor role.
#nzpol
The reveal that Auror provides police with direct access to their customer data without warrants or review procedures shows how supermarkets and big box retailers are leading a shift towards monitoring every customer as a potential criminal.
theconversation.com/supermarket-...
knowledge is power. anti-intellectualism everywhere and always feeds the flames of fascism.
Absolutely no one should come to the US for the next four years if they can help it, for anything. Cons, weddings, vacations, etc. The danger is in the wild unpredictability of the federal government and getting in when federal agencies at our borders have been given the all clear for bigotry.
A pox on canned food companies whose cans don't stack on top of one another.
Yes! I think it was the superdose mask? I remember I got a couple of uses from the sample and was pretty impressed with it
Oh this reminds me I got a sample of one their Greek Yoghurt face creams and it was niiiiiice
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Anyway I loved Wicked. I think there are valid criticisms (sacrificing scenes <1 min in length that add a wealth of depth to characters, in favour of dragging Defying Gravity out to FOURTEEN minutes for example) but I do not consider colour palette one of them ๐
The EO defines biological male and female by the size of the reproductive cell each produces. But the fetus is asexual at conception. Bipotential (sexually indeterminate) gonads start to form the 5th week after fertilization, and both male and female ducts form, regardless of X or Y chromosomes.
That doesn't work if the whole film up until One Short Day is crazy colourful and full of flashy outfits. It's also why Madame Morrible dresses the way she does compared with other university staff - it's a clue that she belongs to Emerald City, to the Wizard.
Having a less saturated palette - and the uniforms - at Shiz serve the same purpose in Wicked as the sepia in The Wizard of Oz. It creates contrast for when Elphaba and Glinda go to the Emerald City - they need to be awed, excited, overwhelmed, and we the audience need to feel it with them.
Dorothy the outsider, and us the audience. Colour is one way to separate the everyday from the novel, excitement, and wonder. In Wicked, we're set fully in Oz - which for us is magical and strange but for our protags it's not, it's their normal, so it needs feel a bit more real.
