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Aotearoa
Joined May 2007
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@Becs
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9 months
A cafรฉ in Devonport has hung this. & now the local FB page is going nuts.
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@Becs
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3 years
Saying Sean Hendy & Siouxsie Wiles should have stayed out of the limelight more (to stay safe) is the science equivalent of women shouldnโ€™t go out alone at night.
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@Becs
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2 years
not gonna lie. today has ripped me apart. I'm worried for the future of human rights in NZ if a National Govt becomes a thing.
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@Becs
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1 year
Overheard two American tourists as they walked past the chemist: โ€œI didnโ€™t know New Zealand had pharmacies. I didnโ€™t even know they had medicine.โ€
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@Becs
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2 years
Good morning to everyone, except the snake who mows their berm like this because โ€œthat bitโ€™s the neighbourโ€™sโ€.
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10 months
For some of us a NACT govt hits very differently. It's not just have a wee cry over split milk - it's our lives.
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@Becs
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3 years
I voted Green. I get annoyed at Labour but really I am so over the constant attempts at bullying Ardern at every turn.
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3 years
Iโ€™ve been so anxious about my deafness, & horrible weird shame about hearing aids but here is me wearing them for the first time.
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3 years
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4 months
Mum texting me to show me the fabulous new marae signs in the Far North.
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@Becs
Becs ๐Ÿ‰
4 years
A MAGA hat is not a souvenir. It's a signifier.
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1 year
I think all the Labour MPs that rocked up to the Big Gay Out should now be speaking up to prevent Posie Parker from coming to Aotearoa. Anything else is performative.
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4 years
honestly as bad as this is, how lucky are we to be living in Aotearoa with Jacinda Ardern leading us through.
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Becs ๐Ÿ‰
10 months
on voting:
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Becs ๐Ÿ‰
3 years
In other shit news found out one of my kids came out to their friends and has been shunned by most of them. Fuck homophobia.
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Becs ๐Ÿ‰
3 years
Today my kid said she'd study nursing if it was free. And that by making nursing free they'd get a much more diverse range of students.
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Becs ๐Ÿ‰
2 years
Twits, Foxy is alive & on the mend.
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Becs ๐Ÿ‰
2 years
Awwww
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@Becs
Becs ๐Ÿ‰
3 years
Guys, a 63yo man has been charged again. ๐Ÿ˜†
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@Becs
Becs ๐Ÿ‰
10 months
I note that the violence from RW is aimed entirely at Mฤori and women.
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4 months
This govt can actually get fucked. The harm theyโ€™re physically & emotionally doing to us is beyond belief. Iโ€™m not sure who the cruel bastards are who voted for them. I certainly donโ€™t count any of them amongst my best beloveds.
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2 years
This is 53
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2 months
I'm old enough to remember the Muldoon years & my parents being so grim about his govt. This govt is so much worse & I don't say that lightly.
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@Becs
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10 months
Who amongst us would like a stranger to rock up to our house to "wish us well"?? No women I know.
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4 years
@yashar Itโ€™s about our government & ministry of health response, not the fact we are an island. Great Britain is also an island.
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5 years
@jacksonhvisuals @IMEmmaSmart When I die on a plane please I beg you - excellent lighting & shoot from my good side. ๐Ÿ˜
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4 months
How long will it take another govt to fix all the damage this one is creating? Weโ€™re witnessing intergenerational harm being done right now.
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@Becs
Becs ๐Ÿ‰
3 years
Not everyone knows who Kiri Allan is but they know immediately sheโ€™s awesome!
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Becs ๐Ÿ‰
3 years
Can you imagine being the parents of these two teens and an infant who now have Covid? Imagine how distressing this must be. Hold fire on your judgey comments.
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Becs ๐Ÿ‰
2 years
Baby girl got a sweet, sweet deal on a Mazda 2.
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Becs ๐Ÿ‰
2 years
pretty damn happy
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@Becs
Becs ๐Ÿ‰
4 years
What gives with businesses taking down QR codes? We still need them. All over NZ.
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Becs ๐Ÿ‰
2 months
Here we are in 2024 and my youngest has Whooping Cough. Fuck you anti-vaxxers.
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Becs ๐Ÿ‰
1 year
Twitter, pray for me - Iโ€™m sharing an office with someone who reads their emails aloud.
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Becs ๐Ÿ‰
3 years
The after-glow
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@Becs
Becs ๐Ÿ‰
10 months
somewhere in the middle of the Tasman Sea is an invisible line separating the fish from the fush.
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Becs ๐Ÿ‰
2 years
Weโ€™ve been doing so well. & now:
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2 years
the anti-vaxxers have really done such great harm to our public health. babies shouldn't be getting diphtheria in the 21st C. Or Whooping Cough or Measles.
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Becs ๐Ÿ‰
6 years
At the Terracotta Warriors exhibition & I just heard a child say "I bet they move at night time".
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2 years
Someone I loved died last night. Hereโ€™s a picture of all of us. Good times, great love.
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8 months
I got to thank my two colleagues who took my chest pain seriously so I was taken to ED and eventually had a procedure to fix things without any heart muscle damage. <3
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9 months
This book was published when I was 4. We had the paperback & later the record narrated by Spike himself. Iโ€™ve got so much love for it still.
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2 years
Sheโ€™s home. All Iโ€™m going to say having read the discharge summary is the 4yrs of me pushing were worth it because I was RIGHT. HUZZAH!
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2 years
Look I work with a bunch of nurses and all of them are happily vaccinated. That's the tweet.
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2 years
Because our pay equity finally came through (backdated to Jan) I received a lump sum payment. This is going to allow me to take the children to my sister's wedding next year. It also gives me the freedom to do some kinda dull stuff like go to the optometrist & the dentist.
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Becs ๐Ÿ‰
3 years
everyone give it up for Middlemore Hospital doing the hard yards.
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Becs ๐Ÿ‰
1 year
Iโ€™m just a girl
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Becs ๐Ÿ‰
8 months
Itโ€™s too late plonkers - te reo is being amplified everywhere, even the mean streets of Devonport.
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Becs ๐Ÿ‰
1 year
Now Aotearoa, do the same but for co-governance.
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2 years
In another win for perseverance V has a diagnosis today which they are happy for me to share. (this is Vโ€™s response to their diagnosis. A very personal response. We are well aware that for some other people it doesnโ€™t feel this way. Arohanui to all.)
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Becs ๐Ÿ‰
3 years
Let's be honest. Kids back in schools is really so parents can be at work.
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2 years
Child who has been in a part-time job two & a bit weeks has been made employee of the month.
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3 years
Hey team - make sure you have your blue tooth tracing on. That's how I got pinged with a close contact of a covid positive person.
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9 months
So proud of V. They applied for an assistant director role for a youth Shakespeare production in 2024 & just found out tonight that the role is theirโ€™s.
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Becs ๐Ÿ‰
5 years
That measles vaccination clinic at Waitakere Hospital today? THEY VACCINATED 440 PEOPLE.
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Becs ๐Ÿ‰
2 years
Dressing gowns
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3 years
My daughterโ€™s father just sent me a message โ€œyou did a great job bringing her up & being a great motherโ€ I am amazed.
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1 year
babies - why arenโ€™t you all dressing like this?
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2 years
If you wanted to know what a fucking legend my kid is - she's worked 32 hours this week - ON TOP OF A FULL SCHOOL WEEK.
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Becs ๐Ÿ‰
2 years
Could folks who are symptomatic stay home please? Whatever you have, no-one wants it.
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5 years
Hey @nzherald - if you want to use my photographs for your story about the women protesting against sexual violence and police inaction you need to ask me first or at least give an attribution. @NZStuff contacted me directly and asked.
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1 year
ATTENTION Do not leave your longings unattended
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3 years
In an hour two of my kids will be double vaxxed. This will be a huge relief. I really feel for parents whose kids canโ€™t be vaccinated for whatever reason.
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2 years
You can bet Iโ€™m consenting to this vaccination
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Becs ๐Ÿ‰
1 year
BRB - just going to write this on the milk bottle
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3 years
Twitter my kids are coming home. After just over 80 days away. I'm thrilled and overwhelmed and planning for all of it.
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2 years
"the festering political boil MIQ has been lanced" RNZ wtaf? it saved lives
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4 years
NZ govt official: Donโ€™t be stupid. Is that not the most NZ directive? Absolutely love it. #Covid19NZ
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3 years
These three with their portable hand sanitizer & QR codes
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2 years
If you're a teacher, particularly of teens, how about you never call them out in front of their whole class? shaming them is so cruel.
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5 years
Miss Thing asked two teens to leave the house after they were mocking Vโ€™s trans status. โ€œThey are not welcome back.โ€
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7 months
V has NCEA Level 1 with a merit endorsement. And an excellence for Media Studies. Iโ€™m proud of my kid.
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10 months
Three generations of women - just voted โœ…
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3 years
Walking to work & this elderly couple were in front me, holding hands & just walking together.
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3 years
So bored of think pieces from every f*cker on why Akl canโ€™t stay in Level 4 longer. We can stay in Level 4 as long as it takes so that everyone in our communities are as safe as they can be.
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3 years
Sometimes I think we're expected to put up with all the failings of Aotearoa because it's a beautiful place. You can't eat scenery.
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2 years
I'm insufferable at the moment. So excited for the new house: 4 brms, open plan living / dining with kitchen off it, a bathroom & an ensuite & a freaking rumpus room. plus a delightful deck off the living area & a fully fenced backyard. I WILL NOT KNOW MYSELF.
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5 months
you gotta know that the push for tipping in NZ is coming from Hospo Owners so they can keep wages low.
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3 years
Iโ€™m sorry but this new strategy is fucked.
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3 years
I do not believe children would be harmed by a delayed start to the school year. Get them vaccinated!
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9 months
Good news! Pโ€™s bike has been found. Not stolen at all. Left outside the cafรฉ on our street & found by the dairy owner (the dairyโ€™s next door to the cafรฉ) & kept safe overnight. So thatโ€™s a relief.
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7 months
home again
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1 year
It took three years but happy Easter I guess
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3 years
Miss Thingโ€™s boyfriend signed a new contract with another building company today. Thank you to everyone here who reached out / RTโ€™d & all of your suggestions. Less than 24hrs of unemployment!
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1 year
When I was pregnant with twins and diagnosed with bipolar disorder I was under maternal mental health I was so loved. I had amazing pre-natal care. When I gave birth at Akl hosp and one of my twins was stillborn my team were right there. They came and they wept with me.
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3 years
Unless yโ€™all are faking it Iโ€™m guessing most of you feel grown up. Me? I feel like a 19yo who has been accidentally left in charge of three kids.
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3 years
I feel like @nzlabour have read the room very badly. People are struggling and you want a wage freeze?
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3 years
Ppl may not vote for Judith C / the Nats may not keep her on as leader even BUT (& this is the kicker) - her open & loud display of racism allows other racists to feel comfortable to express their racist views & acts. And this makes Aotearoa a worse place to live.
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7 months
I was so bold - I brought up Three Waters with two elderly white women in a Devonport cafรฉ. They agreed with me that misinformation killed it & gave us this horrible govt.
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2 months
I picked up a script today and my pharmacist had nasty words to say about this govt.
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Becs ๐Ÿ‰
2 years
Thank you kind Twits. You helped me buy this beast today. Arriving next weekend!
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21 days
The media who spent all of Ardernโ€™s Prime Ministership critiquing her heavily & are now writing puff pieces about Luxon? We see you.
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9 months
An every day reminder that being a fuckwit is not a mental illness. It's being a fuckwit. Plenty of us have a mental illness without being fuckwits. Over and out.
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3 years
The good bakery in the village has a sign up saying โ€œOnly one in, one out pleaseโ€ Woman in the queue: there isnโ€™t any limit on numbers now. Me: itโ€™s their business they can do what they want to make their staff safe.
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6 months
Our neighbour just leaned over the fence & gave us a bunch of school uniform items - incl two jerseys. Over $200 worth of hand me downs. โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
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2 years
creepy
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4 years
And if you want to believe an adult man over a female child you're fooling yourself. Children, especially girls, have nothing to gain from having their lives dragged over coals, while an adult man pretends he did no harm.
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4 years
At my work we are required to be masked all day. I would like some of you to consider when you enter a supermarket that is the workplace of people who really do need you to cover your faces to help protect them more.
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