oh so it turns out that it wasn't just ONE book with te reo removed for "education" reasons, but actually an almost blanket ban directed by Erica Stanford against the use of MΔori words in ALL new readers?
People need to stop taking ANY explanation or action of this government at face value
Ladies and gentlemen and everyone in between, Stephen Jay Gould:
Batman is a billionaire who deals with his trauma by assaulting poor people to 'fight crime', despite the fact they'll be crippled by health-care debt and this will further impoverish them and their community and drive them towards crime to survive.
Superman is Paddington Bear with laser eyes.
My girlfriend and I saw a UFO the other night. She said it wasn't a UFO, it was probably a drone.
I said did she know what it was? And was it flying? And was it a physical object?
She reluctantly agreed it was, in fact, an unidentified flying object.
Never gets old seeing my girlfriend's nu-metal band play a song about a shitty person I dated a long time ago π
come to my girlfriends event tomorrow night! Digital Nightmares 2 - Wellington - Eventfinda share.google/9kSTdGkkigGP...
By that logic, anything the taxpayers union is against should not have its submissions heard? Ridiculous
Yes. I changed my name twice, once pre transition. I printed out a second form as a joke and wrote Pingu as a middle name and my family didn't think I was joking or say anything about it, wish I had now π
They had more of an issue with me choosing Jaina the second time I changed it π
I suspect that RNZ *has* talked to the journalist and has decided to back her and lie about the situation.
Sounds like anti-trans ideology might be a bit rife at our national broadcaster.
My very particular white guilt is every time I see the word panopticon I remember I'm descended from the Benthams π
βWhat's like, except a love that hasn't been invited indoors?β
β Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth
If you have not made a complaint to RNZ and the Media Council about the Ruth Hill story from last week, the information provided by @davidfarrier.bsky.social today would be an excellent example of what it did that was wrong.
If you're interested in trans/magic connections, this is a great history podcast pca.st/episode/ad26...
My cis gf and I literally had a conversation the other day where we were talking about how we'd both have been burned as witches, but she would have because she was foraging mushrooms and being neurospicy rather than her queerness π
Bizarre that blue sky hid this and labelled it as intolerance, I've seen way worse stuff on my timeline not hidden, and as a trans woman I absolutely agree with this lol
I'm glad I am too, I just wish this kid was. Thanks for posting this stuff
Hey RNZ and Ruth Hill in particular
One of the reasons it's called a "deadname" is because it's the name media use when we turn up dead and can't speak for ourselves
Fuck you for keeping that true today
Thank you Pip. That article was appallingly, and such a disservice to that poor kid. I've not been able to think about anything else all day.
No trans person wants someone to be on hormones that aren't right for them - including people who decide to detransition.
In my personal experience, all of the trans groups I've been in have been very open to people de-transitioning as a valid choice, and often those people stay connected socially.
Luke: I wanna go to Bakura
Obi Wan: Luke, you must go to Bakura
Luke: Why tho?
Obi Wan: Disappears
Luke: euuuugh why do I have to gooooo places
Chapter 2:
Luke: I wanna go on the mission, but I want the Alliance leaders to respect me, and I'm very sick so I should acknowledge I cannot be part of this mission and must rest
Luke 10 minutes later: Wake everyone up for a meeting in my hospital bed, a ghost told me I need to lead the mission
Luke hears Leia on the comm, and thinks about the difficult day she's had burying dead Ewoks: I really want to fuck her. Wanted to fuck her. Wanted. It's not weird.
Luke gets a wheelchair, interrupts a high level meeting, gets GayDHD distracted trying to decide if the hover wheelchair is powerful enough to jump the railings at the edge of the room
Luke: I feel fine
Medical droid: your entire skeleton is calcified like you've been near a fuck-ton of electricity
Luke, remembering the emperor using lightning on him: oh that
I'm rereading the Star Wars book set the day after Return of the Jedi, the Truce at Bakura.
I forgot that the space velociraptors named the Ssi-ruuk that power their ships and droids with human life force aren't the weirdest bit. I'm one chapter in.
Good girlfriends play bass on love songs about their metamors
Was so cheered up to see a birthday package from my gf had arrived, then immediately stepped in cat vomit.
The cat and I are taking some space from each other, and ask you to respect our privacy in this difficult time.
