Jen ♾️
@ajenstory.bsky.social
fur mum of many talents — he tākiwatanga, he aroreretini au 🐈🐕 🎨💻📸 Whangārei, Aotearoa NZ
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*taps mic*
*clears throat*
It is a global far right power grab
*clears throat*
It is a global far right power grab
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
*taps mic*
*clears throat*
It is a global far right power grab
*clears throat*
It is a global far right power grab
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This is horrific.
It also disproportionately impacts on women who go back to retrain later in life- mostly after time at home engaging in care duties.
Now, older women are forced into poverty by this cruel neoliberal system we're in.
It also disproportionately impacts on women who go back to retrain later in life- mostly after time at home engaging in care duties.
Now, older women are forced into poverty by this cruel neoliberal system we're in.
'Dinner or debt': Pensions cut to cover student loan payments
'Dinner or debt': Pensions cut to cover student loan payments
One Taupō pensioner says she is still facing a $58,000 student loan from a business degree she took two decades ago.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
This is horrific.
It also disproportionately impacts on women who go back to retrain later in life- mostly after time at home engaging in care duties.
Now, older women are forced into poverty by this cruel neoliberal system we're in.
It also disproportionately impacts on women who go back to retrain later in life- mostly after time at home engaging in care duties.
Now, older women are forced into poverty by this cruel neoliberal system we're in.
Accountability check: Today i managed some light cardio and strength training, that’s 4 days out of 7. Possibly the most active I’ve been all year. The algorithms feel I am overtraining. I feel I am just getting started…. 😏
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Accountability check: Today i managed some light cardio and strength training, that’s 4 days out of 7. Possibly the most active I’ve been all year. The algorithms feel I am overtraining. I feel I am just getting started…. 😏
They should invent an Aotearoa New Zealand where you can afford to live
They should invent a California where you can afford to live
November 8, 2025 at 10:34 AM
They should invent an Aotearoa New Zealand where you can afford to live
Finally managed to download all my data from Fascistbook and instaspam, after navigating dodgy links, conflicting messaging and glitchy screens. Thanks for nothing, fuckers.
November 6, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Finally managed to download all my data from Fascistbook and instaspam, after navigating dodgy links, conflicting messaging and glitchy screens. Thanks for nothing, fuckers.
My ragdoll’s version of fear is to be cuddly and guard the (interdimensional) gates. I think he is more concerned about the supermoon in Taurus, and fair enough.
November 5, 2025 at 8:41 AM
My ragdoll’s version of fear is to be cuddly and guard the (interdimensional) gates. I think he is more concerned about the supermoon in Taurus, and fair enough.
Currently planning a short trip north for photographic purposes. I’m excited about the ruins. And the mangrove swamps. Joy exponential if I get the timing right.
November 5, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Currently planning a short trip north for photographic purposes. I’m excited about the ruins. And the mangrove swamps. Joy exponential if I get the timing right.
Nice my dog is so deaf now she can’t hear the fireworks. She used to be terrified. Thinking about all the other cats, dogs and everyone else. Arseholes.
November 5, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Nice my dog is so deaf now she can’t hear the fireworks. She used to be terrified. Thinking about all the other cats, dogs and everyone else. Arseholes.
I’ve found the perfect front basket for my bike, for easy camera storage. Last night went out for a test shot ride with Betty & the Ricoh ZF. Perfect portable 35mm for knocking around the streets! Rad riding around for no reason other than to take (film) snapshots. Will see how the shots turn out!
November 5, 2025 at 5:26 AM
I’ve found the perfect front basket for my bike, for easy camera storage. Last night went out for a test shot ride with Betty & the Ricoh ZF. Perfect portable 35mm for knocking around the streets! Rad riding around for no reason other than to take (film) snapshots. Will see how the shots turn out!
My third day back at gym in the past 7 days. I’ve managed to overcome a massive somatic mental/physical block. I’m focused on feeling stronger and happier “in my body” again after a lot of life stress. Today’s cardio was a great cortisol release 🙃. Posting about it helps to keep myself honest.
November 5, 2025 at 5:17 AM
My third day back at gym in the past 7 days. I’ve managed to overcome a massive somatic mental/physical block. I’m focused on feeling stronger and happier “in my body” again after a lot of life stress. Today’s cardio was a great cortisol release 🙃. Posting about it helps to keep myself honest.
I’m too perimenopausal for this bullshit
November 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I’m too perimenopausal for this bullshit
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Meta have disabled my accounts without appeal. I can't access anything. These accounts are the only window I have to the world and many connections I have to people are only through these apps. I can’t access my information or photos to download them. I’ve been on the services since 2008. Gutted.
November 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Meta have disabled my accounts without appeal. I can't access anything. These accounts are the only window I have to the world and many connections I have to people are only through these apps. I can’t access my information or photos to download them. I’ve been on the services since 2008. Gutted.
Sometimes my brain is so jammed fulll of thought, and songs, and reckons, and feelings, and desires, and imaginings I forget I haven't actually listened to anything — no music, no radio, no people, nothing, all day.
November 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Sometimes my brain is so jammed fulll of thought, and songs, and reckons, and feelings, and desires, and imaginings I forget I haven't actually listened to anything — no music, no radio, no people, nothing, all day.
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Re the NZ Curriculum... "It’s recolonisation disguised as reform." Was seriously thinking about renewing my teaching certificate... Absolutely not happening now. #NZPol
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aecnz.substack.com/p/recolonisi...
Recolonising Te Mātaiaho
How the new version walks back the promise of the original
aecnz.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Re the NZ Curriculum... "It’s recolonisation disguised as reform." Was seriously thinking about renewing my teaching certificate... Absolutely not happening now. #NZPol
aecnz.substack.com/p/recolonisi...
aecnz.substack.com/p/recolonisi...
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Far North has one of the highest rates of female representation in local government history
Far North has one of the highest rates of female representation in local government history
Eight out of 10 of the Far North's newly elected councillors are women and were sworn in today.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Far North has one of the highest rates of female representation in local government history
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'Absolutely breaches of Te Tiriti o Waitangi': UN-bound report warns racial discrimination is worsening in NZ
'Absolutely breaches of Te Tiriti o Waitangi': UN-bound report warns racial discrimination is worsening in NZ
The UN-bound report says the current government is "actively and profoundly aggravating NZ's constitutionally racist foundation in a way we have not seen for at least half a century".
www.rnz.co.nz
October 29, 2025 at 6:35 AM
'Absolutely breaches of Te Tiriti o Waitangi': UN-bound report warns racial discrimination is worsening in NZ
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The new curriculum is cooked. It treats teaching like it's just standing at the front of the class making kids learn an endless series of facts for 6 hrs a day. The science lists of bullet points all end w a dead western scientist they (presumably) need to learn abt & cram for an assessment. Cooked.
October 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The new curriculum is cooked. It treats teaching like it's just standing at the front of the class making kids learn an endless series of facts for 6 hrs a day. The science lists of bullet points all end w a dead western scientist they (presumably) need to learn abt & cram for an assessment. Cooked.
Love a good bungalow.
October 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Love a good bungalow.
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Human existence has only been about wage labor for ~0.1% of our history. Having a job isn’t the same as having a purpose, and there’s nothing bad about losing jobs. The only way that could ever be a problem is if a bunch of assholes had tied all of our basic needs to our usefulness to rich people.
October 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Human existence has only been about wage labor for ~0.1% of our history. Having a job isn’t the same as having a purpose, and there’s nothing bad about losing jobs. The only way that could ever be a problem is if a bunch of assholes had tied all of our basic needs to our usefulness to rich people.
Nothing like an episode of Haunted Scotland to make you aware you're descended from a clan that was responsible for a bloody massacre.
October 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Nothing like an episode of Haunted Scotland to make you aware you're descended from a clan that was responsible for a bloody massacre.
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‘Over the last 150 years, human intervention has had a disproportionate influence on nature… The paradox is, though, that by causing planetary warming, in some ways we have unleashed the full power of nature.’
Sunil Amrith talks to @vanessathorpe.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Sunil Amrith talks to @vanessathorpe.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
The prizewinning author who almost lost his nerve
This week the prestigious British Academy book prize went to The Burning Earth, a ‘magisterial’ study of mankind and its relationship with nature. Its au...
observer.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
‘Over the last 150 years, human intervention has had a disproportionate influence on nature… The paradox is, though, that by causing planetary warming, in some ways we have unleashed the full power of nature.’
Sunil Amrith talks to @vanessathorpe.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Sunil Amrith talks to @vanessathorpe.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Haunted Scotland, freaky as mate.
Just got to the end of the Banshee Pub episode where the trapped spirits go through to the light. As soon as he says the door has shut, my battery radio starts playing “A Little Bit Of Light Banter” by Sparks. Its battery is flat and has not played all day. Ahhhh 😬🫨
Just got to the end of the Banshee Pub episode where the trapped spirits go through to the light. As soon as he says the door has shut, my battery radio starts playing “A Little Bit Of Light Banter” by Sparks. Its battery is flat and has not played all day. Ahhhh 😬🫨
October 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Haunted Scotland, freaky as mate.
Just got to the end of the Banshee Pub episode where the trapped spirits go through to the light. As soon as he says the door has shut, my battery radio starts playing “A Little Bit Of Light Banter” by Sparks. Its battery is flat and has not played all day. Ahhhh 😬🫨
Just got to the end of the Banshee Pub episode where the trapped spirits go through to the light. As soon as he says the door has shut, my battery radio starts playing “A Little Bit Of Light Banter” by Sparks. Its battery is flat and has not played all day. Ahhhh 😬🫨
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
October 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
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"Banning young people from social media violates their fundamental rights and will do nothing to make platforms safer," said Paul Thistoll, CEO of Rights Aotearoa. "The answer is to regulate the platforms, not the users."
www.rightsaotearoa.nz/media-releas...
www.rightsaotearoa.nz/media-releas...
Media Release: Rights Aotearoa Calls on Government to Reject Social Media Age Ban
Rights Aotearoa is urging the Government not to support the Social Media (Age-Restricted Users) Bill, which would ban under-16s from social media platforms.
www.rightsaotearoa.nz
October 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
"Banning young people from social media violates their fundamental rights and will do nothing to make platforms safer," said Paul Thistoll, CEO of Rights Aotearoa. "The answer is to regulate the platforms, not the users."
www.rightsaotearoa.nz/media-releas...
www.rightsaotearoa.nz/media-releas...