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EVERYONE NEEDS TO LOOK AT HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON UNTRAINABLE THE STAGE PLAY RN

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you have no idea how much it pains me that I can't watch goncharov. I want to watch this movie so bad it makes me look stupid.

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I DONT WANNA PAY BILLS I WANNA USE MY MONEY FOR FOOD AND LIL GIFTS FOR MYSELF AND MY LOVED ONES

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I started a new remote job last week, and I'm the only genderqueer person at the company (and the first person who uses neo pronouns that anyone on my team has ever met, apparently).

So far:

Manager carefully wrote down spelling and pronunciation of my pronouns and told everyone on the team to respect them.

Coworker apologized privately for misgendering me (I hadn't told her yet) and said she will practice.

Guy on another team valiantly tried to use my pronouns and ended up saying something like zirzs-zhizz (I DM'd him and thanked him for trying and linked him to a practice site).

Teammate told me he has written out my pronouns and how to use them in a sentence and literally taped it to his monitor so he can practice.

Teammate also referred to me as compañere after I linked to a comic about gender-neutral endings in Spanish (whole team except me + 1 other person speaks Spanish as first language and they held all meetings in Spanish before the two of us started).

I am so stoked that people are actually trying. 💜🤍💚

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btw I think the big thing that matters in NZ is that our founding document is not a constitution it is a treaty

this gets confusing sometimes because people try to treat it as a constitution and it does serve some of the same functions as that

but the thing about a treaty is that you can't make amendments in the way you can a constitution - it's a bilateral agreement and it needs bilateral agreement to be changed (the current Bill which is causing the furore is an attempt to unilaterally change what it means, a thing which is incompatible with the idea of a treaty)

and the thing that people (David Seymour) don't like is that it specifies different provisions for Māori and non-Māori, so they're trying to overwrite that

the thing is: of course Māori and non-Māori have different provisions. There are specific protections for taonga and whenua (treasures and land) and in return the rest of us get to live here

like very literally this document is the basis of our right to exist in this land please consider not undermining that

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there’s a lot going on here

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Submissions on the treaty principles bill are now open, so if you're a kiwi you really should make one to help keep the fight against the bill going.

The green party have created a guide on what to put in your submission: https://action.greens.org.nz/tp_subsguide

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Anti-colonial posters spotted in Wellington, Aotearoa / NZ

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moons of ‘23

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oh so we're doing scooby doo crimes now

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Thinking about Romeo killing himself through poison (more passive, "woman's weapon) Vs Juliet having to kill herself with a knife (more active, images of falling on your sword, typically masculine concepts)

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a really little animated black cat with giant eyes and no other discernible features