Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, the youngest MP in Aotearoa, starts a haka to protest the first vote on a bill reinterpreting the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi

Important to not forget this isn't the only thing happening. The haka disrupting the vote in parliament is supported by nation wide hīkoi of thousands of people on their way to the capital to protest this

If you want to learn about what the proposed bill is that people are protesting and what it would actually mean for the constitution of Aotearoa if it went through...

@gulfportofficial

FUCKING INCREDIBLE

Things are grim right now but a small silver lining is that The Onion bought Alex Jones's site InfoWars and are going to turn it into "a parody of itself", using it to make fun of conspiracy theorists and far-right nutjobs.

Some context:

In 2012 Alex Jones called the Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax and accused the grieving parents of being "crisis actors". In 2022 the Sandy Hook parents won a defamation suit against him and were awarded more than a billion dollars. Which is what forced Jones to now sell his site at auction.

The Onion won the auction with the backing of the parents. And the proceeds from the purchase will go directly to the parents as part of the damages payout, Alex Jones isn't seeing a dime.

The relaunch of InfoWars is slated for this January. Which would coincide with Trump's inauguration. I bet The Onion have some plans for that.

Ex-NHS surgeon Nizam Mamode broke down as he told the international development committee what he witnessed when working as a surgeon in Gaza.

Dr. Mamode talks about how they are running out of supplies to operate and how they used the last of their shunts - device used to bypass artery in the neck to supply blood to the brain - on a three year old shot deliberately in the neck by an IDF drone. The 3 year old died 4 days later from infection because they don't have the medicines either.

Please donate:

There is no way every doctor, including a Jewish American, an atheist Californian and a British guy and everyone from every nationality/religion, is lying about what is happening in Gaza.

It’s why Israel doesn’t want foreign healthcare workers in Gaza anymore.

You can stop foreign journalists coming in. You can kill Palestine journalists at an alarming rate.

Because you can’t stop doctors and nurses coming home and telling their stories. They are very much the boots on the ground.

what if instead of having a fake name for internet personal-life purposes we could have a fake name for professional work-life purposes

fantasy culture where you have a different name for every role in your life and a true name that is extremely secret

you don't get to know all of me

it's tuesday you only get to know sara

you understand me to my soul

Things this post reminds people of:

1. fae

2. demons

3. vampires

4. cats

5. being trans

I love this

Aquire the identities of the ones who came before you. Hoard them like a dragon.

You work in the corner office? Your name is Bob now. Bob means "person who files papers in the corner office."

hana-rawhiti maipi-clarke leads te paati maori, the green party, the labour party and the public gallery in a haka, shutting down parliament before the vote for the treaty principles bill (1st reading) can be completed

much better footage of the haka that shut down parliament today

Psych me up my friend is too sad and overwhelmed to go out tonight but I still have 2 tickets to a clubnight and I do want to go dance but I'm always so anxious about going out on my own 🫣

fuck it we ball

so many things try to emulate the Beatrice/Benedick relationship and so few of them get it right bc they’re like ‘oh it’s about the banter’ and YES, obviously, but if you make it JUST about the banter you’re going to fail! it’s about the RESPECT!!! it’s about the scene after Hero’s shaming where Benedick drops the banter entirely and sits there with Beatrice as she rages and weeps and then chooses to side with HER instead of the boy’s club that he’s been hanging out with for the entire play, both because he loves her and because she’s RIGHT!

like, it’s not some impulsive thing to make her like him, and it’s not just talk; he asks her if she’s sure and then he agrees and then he remains cold and determined when he meets Claudio and Don Pedro and they try to get him to joke around with them like old times.  i think that’s one of the things that gets me the most; that there’s a scene that you half-expect to fall into that same sort of joking, where Claudio and Don Pedro are specifically like, “Huh, we inexplicably feel kind of sad after ruining this woman’s life and reputation, I bet Benedick will cheer us up!” and he just. utterly refuses to engage. and it’s so powerful and it’s such a tonal shift and such a strong indication of just how much he loves and values Beatrice and!! anything that gets the banter but doesn’t get that completely fails to understand their relationship! THB!!

Idk why it is so hard to simply Not Be Around Someone You Don't Like

Your mutual friends are like 'hey you hate this person and it's unpleasant being around the two of you' so you eventually go 'well fair enough I hate being around them and I'm miserable to be around with them so I will not be around them' and then your mutual friends act as if you're creating a massive drama or as if something terrible must have transpired

no, I'm not accusing them of anything and no, I'm not asking you to stop being friends with them and no, I'm not asking you to choose between us, I am simply saying I'm going to choose to avoid them. Myself. Doesn't reflect on you or mean you need to do anything. Not a big fucking thing.

'whatever's going on with you and X' well YOU told ME a couple of months ago that I was clearly triggered and overreacting whenever I see them so I listened to the thing you said and went 'huh, yeah, that's true and I don't have a solution other than not seeing them' and now you're acting like something major has transpired between me and X? Like my GOD can a bitch not simply hit the bricks????

I swear to Christ we all need to get much chiller about the idea that it's literally fine to not want to be around someone and it doesn't have to indicate some deep and terrible trauma it can just be. that nobody's enjoying that interaction.

Can we simply. As a culture. Agree on a sort of no-fault friend divorce where you say 'yeah this isn't working' and it is not a WHOLE FUCKING THING?????

and this does actually upset me also bc having said it doesn't need to be a trauma thing, and this one isn't, there have been multiple times where it uhhhh kinda has been that deep and people STILL treat the cutting ties thing as being more drama-causing than the doing significant harm thing? so that's not this situation but it does mean I'm a bit uhhhhh sensitive to how much of a fucking Thing it always is to say 'i don't want to be around this person just fyi'

Idk why it is so hard to simply Not Be Around Someone You Don't Like

Your mutual friends are like 'hey you hate this person and it's unpleasant being around the two of you' so you eventually go 'well fair enough I hate being around them and I'm miserable to be around with them so I will not be around them' and then your mutual friends act as if you're creating a massive drama or as if something terrible must have transpired

no, I'm not accusing them of anything and no, I'm not asking you to stop being friends with them and no, I'm not asking you to choose between us, I am simply saying I'm going to choose to avoid them. Myself. Doesn't reflect on you or mean you need to do anything. Not a big fucking thing.

'whatever's going on with you and X' well YOU told ME a couple of months ago that I was clearly triggered and overreacting whenever I see them so I listened to the thing you said and went 'huh, yeah, that's true and I don't have a solution other than not seeing them' and now you're acting like something major has transpired between me and X? Like my GOD can a bitch not simply hit the bricks????

I swear to Christ we all need to get much chiller about the idea that it's literally fine to not want to be around someone and it doesn't have to indicate some deep and terrible trauma it can just be. that nobody's enjoying that interaction.

Can we simply. As a culture. Agree on a sort of no-fault friend divorce where you say 'yeah this isn't working' and it is not a WHOLE FUCKING THING?????

"usually when people ask how i'm doing, the real answer is i'm doing shitty, but i can't say i'm doing shitty because i don't even have a good reason to be doing shitty. so if i say, 'i'm doing shitty,' then they say 'why? what's wrong?' and i have to be like, 'i don't know, all of it?' so instead, when people ask how i'm doing, i usually say, 'i am doing so great.' "