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surely oyster joe qualifies as christmas cat?

As the first country in the world to get Christmas because New Zealand isn't real, we mark this occasion by starting The™️ Official™️ Christmas™️ Cat™️ Thread™️ - reply as you see fit with your festive cats.

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People who insist on changing the pronouns in songs while they’re singing along are so weak. “But I’m not gay!” Okay?? And I’m not a broken man on a Halifax pier, the last of Barrett’s Privateers, but for the length of this song I can be.

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nobody talks about how scary it is asking nice people to go bushwalking with you

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it's been so long since i've been able to just lose myself in a book, i'd almost forgotten how wonderful it is. but it is also going to have serious consequences for my sleep schedule.

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why does the waiting room for the blood testing place smell distinctly of piss. is this what blood smells like too or do people just piss themselves a lot while waiting for blood tests?

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no bc a minor thing that really pisses me off are those tiktoks where they're like "people keep asking me why i sing in an american accent, THIS is why" and the butt of the joke is supposed to be that they've got an australian accent. bc "haha that sounds so stupid" or whatever.

like, you do you, i don't give a fuck if you want to put on an american accent to sing. but if i wanted to be listening to someone singing in an american accent i would listen to an american. make australian accents sexy again.

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Bulk buying these and fuckin shooting them out of a t-shirt cannon at my moots.

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What's your Spotify wrapped song for the age you'll be next year?

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jesus christ, now she's calling up the bank... god help them

nothing more humiliating than witnessing a parent verbally abuse a customer service agent who is doing literally nothing wrong simply bc said parent is in an evil mood.

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nothing more humiliating than witnessing a parent verbally abuse a customer service agent who is doing literally nothing wrong simply bc said parent is in an evil mood.

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Reblog and put in the tags, without saying WHERE you're at, the current temperature of the place you're at right now (but do include a unit measurement, Celsius, Fahrenheit, etc)

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Leslie Feinberg on trans exclusion in feminist spaces.

“We’re in danger of losing what the entire second wave of feminism, what the entire second wave of women’s liberation was built on, and that was ‘Biology is not destiny’. ‘One is not born a woman,’ Simone de Beauvoir said, ‘one becomes one’. Now there’s some place where transsexual women and other women intersect. Biological determinism has been used for centuries as a weapon against women, in order to justify a second-class and oppressed status. How on Earth, then, are you going to pick up the weapon of biological determinism and use it to liberate yourself? It’s a reactionary tool.”

From TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism, issue 7, volume 1. 1995.

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since i read the ministry of time i genuinely can't stop thinking about it like it's stuck in my head just wormed in there entirely, everything reminds me of it. i started watching amc's the terror just so i could see more of one of the main characters in the book. i gave in and started reading it again just so i could see the characters again

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enough about taylor swift already. reblog and tag the smallest, least known artist you listen to

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Hana-Rawhiti's Haka was entirely appropriate, not only given the situation, but in keeping with the way Māori do things.

In formal situations, such as a pōwhiri (English might be something like a welcoming ceremony?), speakers always end with a haka or a waiata (song). This is exactly what she did. She spoke when it was her turn to speak, then started the Haka. It is also keeping with tradition that others joined in, including those in the public gallery. While it's the speaker's duty to lead the haka, or nominate someone to do it for them, it is then open for anyone else to join in and support it. The haka and the speech are attached, so supporting the haka is also supporting the speech.

Approaching Seymour is a little more unusual, but that's only because most formal situations like this are between peaceful groups. However, it also makes an important point. The speech and haka were not against the space, not against the mana of parliament. It was against Seymour and his supporters. So approaching him makes that clear where it's directed.

Given this, the speaker's response show utter ignorance and contempt for Maori ways. If he had any understanding of how any of this works, he could've simply waited for the Haka to conclude, then called on the next speaker. As the Māori Party were keeping with tradition, they would've had to respect that, and sit. Instead, he closed down parliament and cleared the public out. He made this contentious, and took what is traditional as in insult.

Seymour's response is no better, complaining about wanting a "reasonable debate" instead of a "dance", ignoring that the Māori party has been debating this, along with almost every other institution in the country, since the draft was released. This was the party's final word, their final push back against his racist bill.

This, in a nutshell, is what the government thinks of Māori. Ignorance and contempt. No attempt to blend traditions, or even basic understanding. Just constant demands to conform. It's hidden behind manners, but it's the same civilised vs savages racism that's justified colonialism for centuries.

Hana-Rawhiti acted with amazing poise and mana. Toitū te Tiriti!

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OK so I don't usually bring personal stuff to this blog but I am being hunted for sport by my book club for the way I read my books and I just want to check how badly I have misjudged what is "normal" in this situation lol

So far I have been called "unhinged", "profoundly disturbed" and a number of variations thereupon for my habit of just... closing the book. Which I guess isn't what everyone else is doing. Apparently.

Also please, if you have very strong feelings about this, yell to your heart's content - I can direct you to an entire book club of people who will yell right along with you 😅

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Fundamentally I just think that a lot of you, some groups of other trans people included, don't actually think that trans men are literally men in the same way cis men are and that trans women are literally women in the same way cis women are. like, without any addendums, that trans people are genuinely just men and women who are trans. everyone says it and yet judging from the way many of you talk about us I really don't think that all of you believe it as strongly as you think you do