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Herbertimo
@herbertimo.bsky.social
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DnD, ending family and sexual violence, raising tamariki, playing games and trying to better connect to my Ngāpuhi whakapapa.
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bootstheory.bsky.social
Patriarchy taught a lot of dudes that all they needed to offer was financial security, and they are very mad to realise that these days women aren't (fully) dependent on marriage to achieve financial security, and that's why they want us to aspire to be tradwives
tranoflamancha.bsky.social tran of la mancha @tranoflamancha.bsky.social · 19h
"Men need to spend money to get laid!"

Meanwhile, just the other day...
A screenshot of a tweet by Rohit Mittal @rohitdotmittal that reads "Friend in NYC who works at a hedge fund was venting about his dating life. He came from nothing, worked his ass off through school, landed a job most people would kill for. makes great money. stable. Ambitious. Has his life together. And he’s struggling on the dating apps. The average profile he sees is optimized for a completely different value system. He showed me that the most common requirements were: No Trumpers. Free Palestine. Make the world a better place (or something similar). And the average girl is woke, working in marketing or social media or a social worker type job. Nothing about building a life. Nothing about stability or ambition or partnership. Just political credentials and virtue signaling. My friend’s not even political. He just worked hard and made something of himself. But in NYC dating, that’s almost a liability now. According to him, 'Finance Bro' is almost a slur. Making money is something you apologize for. But women are also willing to throw away all principles if the guy is hot and they really want him. Seems like women who value stability, who want to build a family, who respect hard work, they’re either not on the apps or they’ve moved to cities where that’s still considered attractive."
December 3, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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alicesoapbox.bsky.social
If you want to join me in showing your support, sit the open letter here:

ry.org.nz/reinstate
Open Letter for the Inclusion of Transgender People in Community Sport — RainbowYOUTH
ry.org.nz
November 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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bodycartoon.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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wellingtonpride.bsky.social
This Thursday 6 Nov, from 7pm is #GiveOUTDayNZ. The Rainbow NZ Charitable Trust will be matching all donations you give to us then (up to $10,000) so it's a really important fundraising opportunity. Here's a reminder of what the Festival is all about www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/news-1/giveo...
November 2, 2025 at 5:02 AM
herbertimo.bsky.social
Get this book into your mits, quickly people!
Was fantastic to be at the launch last night, hear from those involved in its publication & witness some glowing praise for Laura’s writing, from Pip Adam.
So stoked to be holding a copy of Laura’s first novel.
www.unitybooks.co.nz/products/hoo...
Rita considered the dead. Shut her eyes. Rolled their names around her brain. Stacked each person in order like folded laundry, warm and crisp from the sun. She wondered how her name would sound amongst them.
www.unitybooks.co.nz
October 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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ira.bailey.nz
Now if you haven’t read it, my friend Jessie researched and wrote a fantastic deep dive into the white supremacist roots of this endeavour in great detail, which was published a few days ago.

e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
The imported ideology behind education reform | E-Tangata
e-tangata.co.nz
October 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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modernletters.bsky.social
Read the 2025 Landfall Tauraka Essay Competition winning essay by Tasmin Prichard (MA25) here!
October 28, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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debtekawa-ao.bsky.social
Striking over workload, safety, pay, staffing and the coherence and sequence of change is industrial, not “party-political”. In Aotearoa the legal test is the purpose of the action, not whether the government’s policy settings form the backdrop.
October 19, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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musicalchairs.bsky.social
Damn, I read Judith's letter! I'll leave the politics to others, but, lord, the Govt spending stuff is REALLY BAD! I'll try and keep this short.
First up, this bare-faced lie. The countries in the pink circle have a similar-sized economy to NZ. Govt spending is a lot higher in all but one . [🧵 1/n]
plot of Govt GDP per capita vs Govt spend per capita. Quote from Judith's letter reads: 'Only by NZ becoming wealthier can we afford to spend more'
October 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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moatatamaira.bsky.social
So the Red Cross is doing a donation drive promo with Uber today where you can get donated clothes picked up at your door by an Uber driver for free (AKL, WGTN, CHCH).
So good if you have a lot of clothes but no car.
October 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
herbertimo.bsky.social
If we’re looking to prevent sexual violence then there’s a whole lotta things that need to change, men’s attitudes and behaviours towards women and children being the most obvious, but things like this will make a huge impact for those at risk of hurting others.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/risk-pose...
Up to 5% of Kiwi men attracted to children; could this programme stop them offending?
One researcher said more than 80,000 Kiwi men could be attracted to kids.
www.nzherald.co.nz
October 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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meatmechsuit.bsky.social
1. They don’t care about souring relations they are white supremacists.
2. $20mil is pocket change to a govt, so this is pretty cheap for a nice racist outcome. #nzpol
newsroom.co.nz Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · Sep 28
Officials repeatedly warned the Government its planned retrospective block on Māori customary rights cases could cost $20m and sour relations further
Govt doubled down on limiting Māori coastline rights despite advice
newsroom.co.nz
September 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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adzebill.bsky.social
Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
September 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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September 19, 2025 at 10:04 AM
herbertimo.bsky.social
It’s incredibly disheartening to read this. Negative attitudes that are increasing contribute to behaviours, that contribute to violence against women, children & marginalised people.

thespinoff.co.nz/society/18-0... thespinoff.co.nz/society/18-0...
The bleakest findings from a new survey about gender attitudes in Aotearoa
The lowlights include one in three young men in Aotearoa believing that gender equality has gone too far.
thespinoff.co.nz
September 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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standplaatskrk.pl
From Tumblr, 2-shane-s: "I thought that only the bag of chips was knitted so I was like lmaoo fucking idiot bird got owned then I saw that the bird was knitted as well then I realized I was the fucking idiot bird getting owned" [Image is of a reasonably life-like pigeon eating pretty realistic chips out of a well-made bag, but it's all knitted!]
November 3, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
September 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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psna-otautahi.bsky.social
No PBTech stores sell SodaStream products anymore

While there are alternative products available, particularly Oh Bubbles which is made in Aotearoa, there’s really no need for any company to sell a product that supports a genocide
September 9, 2025 at 5:42 AM
herbertimo.bsky.social
Bit of a lunch time birthday treat for me - getting a submission in on this. Do it. The world may be on fire but you get to participate in the democratic process while directing some of that heat.
alans-world.bsky.social Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · Sep 10
#NZpol

Closes at 1pm.

Get yours in.
stinkyjim.bsky.social Stinky Jim @stinkyjim.bsky.social · Sep 10
On brand last minute but got mine in.Please please please take 5 minutes BEFORE 1 PM TODAY ‼️‼️ Rejecting this Bill is massively important for us and our democracy. The Greens Submission Guide is excellent, please use with your own flair and what have you. DO IT!

action.greens.org.nz/electoral_am...
September 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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ani-obsessive.bsky.social
Pinball No. 4 (1977), dir. Jeff Hale, Imagination Inc.
September 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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colinelves.bsky.social
With alt:
Smajo Beso • Follow 3d • © I started school in Newcastle in Year 5 without knowing a word of English. I was nine years old and had arrived as a refugee from Bosnia just a couple of months earlier. I was one of those strangers our politicians often speak about. I missed my grandparents and friends. I was having awful nightmares, and I would wake up screaming every single night. I hated going to school. I would sit in my chair, look out of the window, and spend my day daydreaming about ways to run back to Bosnia. I didn't want to be here. After a couple of weeks at school, my teacher, Miss Webster, and my classmates did something special to help me settle, something that made me feel less of a stranger. That was the first day I went home with a smile on my face. I have shared this story before, but as tomorrow is start of the new school year, I thought I would share it again. ** Miss Webster was amazing, but I couldn't understand a word she was saying. She had this ritual where, at the end of each day, we would all sit on the floor around her, she would play the guitar, and we would all sing a song together. I couldn't understand what they were singing, but I could see she would sing one part of the song, then she would say someone's name or point to them. The next part of the song would be sung with that person's name in it, and they would get to go home first. My classmates loved this, but I hated it. It annoyed me because I couldn't understand what they were singing, but if I am honest, l hated it mainly because of how happy they all were. I definitely wasn't happy. I cried myself to sleep nearly every night. I eventually started having separate English lessons, which I enjoyed more because it took me out of the classroom. It was always daunting coming to school because I felt everyone was looking at me or speaking about me. For months, my dad would stand with me outside the school gates in the morning until it was time to go in. One day I came back into the classroom from my English lesson. We sat down, and everyone was extra-excited, looking at me more than usual for some reason. Of course, I thought it was because I was a refugee, because I couldn't speak English, or because they couldn't pronounce my name. I was bracing myself for another afternoon of my classmates encouraging me to sing. This was probably the closest I came to running out. So we were all sitting on the floor around Miss Webster. She was holding her guitar, ready to sing. I remember the sun shining through the tall, narrow windows as I slowly drifted into a daydream of being back in Bosnia. She began playing the guitar, my classmates joined in, but this time, everything was different. I froze. I understood what they were signing. Not because I had miraculously learned English in one afternoon, but because they were singing in Bosnian for me. I looked around in shock, and they were all smiling at me, and for a moment I thought I was daydreaming. While I was having separate English lessons, Miss Webster had taught our entire class to sing this song for me in Bosnian. They sang it terribly, but it was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. I skipped home that day with a huge smile on my face. For the first time, I looked forward to going back to school the next day. I have often imagined Miss Webster and my classmates rehearsing, struggling with the strange Bosnian words and laughing at themselves. For me, that effort was the ultimate recognition, an act of peace that felt like the opposite of everything I had known during the war. It was special. I do not know if they realised it then, but that moment helped to give me back my dignity, my belonging, and, for the first time in a long time, I didn't feel like I was just a refugee or an outsider. I was home.
September 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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moatatamaira.bsky.social
Absolute comedy gold. I burst into laughter.
rugbyintel.bsky.social Christopher Luxon NatGPT @rugbyintel.bsky.social · Sep 4
What I'd just say to you is, that damn #StraightUpMcAnulty is Bish's kryptonite. I might have to take him on myself.
#LyinLuxon #WorstPMEver #WorstGovernmentEver #NZpol
September 4, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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garyseconomics.bsky.social
We need to tax wealth not work.

Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets.

Someone made a game to show this:

therichdont.work
Idle — The Wealth Race
Can your hard work beat The Rich? Play and find out!
therichdont.work
September 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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mama-melancholia.bsky.social
Thank you, Tania Waikato. 💜

#nzpol #donotvoteforAct
September 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM