my heart is stone and still it trembles

the older i get, the more i need time & personal space to be as boring as possible

I understand old men sitting on porches staring at an empty field more now than ever.

So for anyone who doesn’t keep up with nz politics, which i’m assuming is most of you, our new radical right government have decided one of their main aims of their term will be to re-interpret the Treaty of Waitangi.

The Treaty is an agreement between Maori and the Crown, now the NZ government. It is the founding document of new zealand and is recognised as a constitutional document today; it is the only treaty of its kind/time still honoured, and it is the steps we’ve taken through the Treaty to provide restitution and build an ongoing relationship with Maori and their iwi (tribes) that has allowed the relationship between Maori and the government to thrive where other indigenous groups have struggled to achieve recognition of their rights.

This is going to be entirely undone. Not only is this issue inflammatory and a threat to race relations in Aotearoa, leaked documents show the proposed “reinterpretation” wants to negate pretty much the entirety of the legal rights provided to Maori under the treaty. For example, the treaty article that guarantees land rights for Maori will be reinterpreted to guarantee land rights for “all New Zealanders”. Which means this article would be essentially meaningless for Maori.

By removing Maori from the context they are trying to put Maori on an “equal footing” with all New Zealanders; they are riding the idea that Maori have special rights and privileges above that of the average New Zealander. Obviously this is bullshit but it’s effective rhetoric and there’s a grain of truth to in that the extent of Maori rights hadn’t been clearly defined due to the ongoing nature of the process. So this has got a lot of people with a poor grasp of the issues very upset and baying for change.

There is a hui (meeting) being held today for all the iwi to begin discussions of how Maori will respond to this. New Zealand politics isn’t very interesting usually, but our progress on indigenous rights, until now, has been absolutely ahead of the field. If you care about indigenous rights globally, you should care about this, because in the same way Australia’s referendum loss has spurred on this action, the loss of rights here will spur other right wing governments to be similarly bold to their own indigenous groups.

Indigenous rights in New Zealand are under attack. They are meeting today to discuss it, and New Zealand will be listening, but I want the world to be listening. Because our government needs the shame of being called out by more than just the people who they’ve already decided don’t vote for them.

Maori have a long and proud history of fighting for their rights, and they’ll do it again here. And I’ll be on the pickets beside them, but there’ll be plenty of my own pickets to attend, because this government is radical in every sense of the word.

So please, even if you’re very far away, stand behind them in this. Keep your eyes on us. Amplify their voices. Don’t let the racism drown them out.

A good article about it from the guardian, if anyone wants to read more:

Bela Lugosi about his female fans 

I do. God help me I do

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‘Then Comes The Body’ Follows the Nigerian Ballet Academy That Stepped into the Global Spotlight

"the writer's strike could stop the MCU from making new movies for months!" fuck dont dirtytalk me like that. it's only 9:34 am

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SURVEY QUESTION: what is your personal favorite cold sandwich to make at home. alternatively, what is the fanciest sandwich you make

on the topic of sandwiches i like a lot of things but i think if you want sandwich info you can't get better than sandwichtribunal.com. a theoretically infinite list of exant sandwiches and detailed descriptions and explorations and new research of their history, development, preperation method, and flavor. really delightful passion project by mostly one guy who just really, really likes sandwiches, with a couple of guest pieces by fellow sandwich enthusiasts

a great place to start is this article on the history of the club sandwich, an article that took the author months of independent research through tons of old cookbooks and magazines and newspapers. he ends up making basically every example he can find, moving through time on a sandwich train. it's a really fun read!!!!

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i put the sandwiches in the notes in a spreadsheet. it is here

We gotta start taking "child having an absolute meltdown in public" not just as a circumstance to be compassionate about, but as the valuable opportunity it is.

I personally like to close my eyes and pretend I'm the one who's screaming.

Scream for us all, little nugget.

Every time a child screams or cries out of nowhere I intentionally say “me too” or “couldn’t have said it better myself” or something similar before the parent can try to apologize.

OUR MELTDOWN

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the main experience of being in my 20s has been standing in the middle of a grocery store & checking my notes app grocery list

Grammar homework instructions: explain why this sentence is wrong

Me who has been passing grammar classes on pure instinct since 3rd grade: the brain worms told me so

A lot of people been asking me about my "GENDER IS A KNIFE" shirt lately, and I always get a kick out of it because it's like 'damn buddy, where do i start?'. I could teach a course about it, 3000-level. We don't got 15 weeks though, so let's hit the highlights. "Gender is a cool knife", that's entry tier but not to be discounted; some of the simplest of life's pleasures are the purest ones. Some people's favorite food is bread and butter, and some people identify with sharp mirrors made to cut, pierce, and stab. 'Course from there we move to the realm of implication. A knife is a tool, held in the hand and used to, as we established early via without innuendo, to cut, to pierce, to stab. "Gender is a tool" and now we're in the realm of sculpture my friend, now we enter the realm of performance, of the avant garde; of gender as a way the incomprehensible vastness of the human experience is pared down, is whittled away to the mask, the shell, the swagger and confidence of persona honed and whetted. Close cousin, then, to "gender is context specific", if we raise the piercing innuendo a few inches to the gastronomic sector, and consider the dizzying array of blades used for the preparation of food; this gender is only for fish, this gender is only for vegetables. Flippant to some, perhaps, to call it nothing more than a tool to be used for the preparation of a defined outcome, but hey buddy that's the beauty of a metaphor, it's up to you what you take out of it. And naturally I'd be remiss if I neglected to mention the fact that the knife is a weapon as much as it is a tool. Here we consider the anatomy of a knife, a handle, a blade, a tip, often a guard. A knife as a weapon is a statement, held by one and directed towards another. 'Gender is a weapon I wield against the world', one of my favorites, to be honest. The rest are miscellanea or variations, in my mind; certainly a knife can be a fashion statement, or a mirror, or a means of self-harm, but ah, we're out of time. Anyways!

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