Two young kākāpō chicks being held during a health check. Credit: Lydia Uddstrom.
The #kakapo chicks are coming thick and fast! We're now up to 10 hatched. Here are Tiwhiri-A1 and Tiwhiri-A2 receiving a health check at Yasmine's nest on Pukenui/Anchor Island. 📸: Lydia Uddstrom #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds #parrots
There must be trials. Not as an emotive aspiration, rhetorical meme, or empty threat. A concrete plan. A dedicated special court for it. Structural legislation and prosecutors and funding and all the rest of it. Everything necessary for it can be done constitutionally. All it takes is the will.
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
Much ink has been spilled to the effect of "trans girl spinny skirt cringe" but I don't think people realize how demandingly rigid the rituals of forced masculinity are. I was screamed at for wearing the "wrong colored" shoes. Let trans women be girls, most were not allowed to be.
What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things
She told several trans women to kill themselves! It’s not a “organised hate campaign” to point that out and say that she’s an awful person. It genuinely makes me feel sick that so many popular trans people are still supporting her.
We need to dispel some rumors. There is ZERO fentanyl trafficking on both of our HIMI islands. In fact, while our Gentoo penguins can travel hundreds of miles to bring partners their favorite pebble, they are incapable and unwilling of carrying even an ounce of illicit drugs.
After Midnight by Chappell Roan
Agree with Jackie on this point.
Transfeminine people are perceived as "men who must be made an example of" and therefore punished publicly.
Transmasculine people are perceived as "women out of their place and embarrassing their families" and are punished privately.
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🚨Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security issue Red Flag Alert for the Anti-Trans Agenda of the Trump Administration in the United States 🚨
www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...
We saw this in Ancient Rome with the gallae priestesses, too “…they transgressed gender norms just a little too much for the Romans’ liking… The senate forbade any Roman citizen from joining their ranks”
Piece written by Sophie Edwards for @transhistoryweek.bsky.social
🔴No, Gen Z Do Not Want to Be Ruled by a Dictator
The media has been full of incredibly dubious claims that young people want to be ruled by a dictatorship. The reality is very different, finds @natashadevon.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/02/14/n...
Everything we've been seeing in Gaza and the West Bank has been the result of an agenda to remove all Palestinians from Palestine via death or displacement. Everything. It was never about fighting terrorism. It's not about rescuing the Palestinians from a ruined enclave.
If you want to understand Gen Z, then you should understand we have grown up in a world where we have only *ever* seen things get materially worse. With the ever looming yet ignored threat of impending climate disaster on the horizon.
Not an experience which enamours you to the way things are.
“I suffered, and so should you”
Is a horrible way to think that literally helps nobody.
a piece from 2021 made with rage, when Hungary decided to take away the few rights LGBT+ people had
#art
