Thalia
@thaliathalia.bsky.social
General-purpose activist + writer. Pākehā in Aotearoa. Disabled. Brilliant + Amazing. Human rights, politics, feminism, community building, books, parenting, Jesus.
À reminder that if you work or study in Thorndon on Thursdays, you have a lovely opportunity at 5.30 each week to be led by the children in a half hour reflective Evensong service.
It's really lovely!
It's really lovely!
February 19, 2026 at 4:28 AM
À reminder that if you work or study in Thorndon on Thursdays, you have a lovely opportunity at 5.30 each week to be led by the children in a half hour reflective Evensong service.
It's really lovely!
It's really lovely!
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THE WALK SHORTS ACT
An Act to recognise that 1973 was the best year ever and Dad's Army was the best TV show ever and you can't beat a Trumpet, which is made with white Tip Top white ice cream, and kindly keep your jibber jabber to yourselves and don't get me started on the TRANS AND THE CYCLISTS
An Act to recognise that 1973 was the best year ever and Dad's Army was the best TV show ever and you can't beat a Trumpet, which is made with white Tip Top white ice cream, and kindly keep your jibber jabber to yourselves and don't get me started on the TRANS AND THE CYCLISTS
February 17, 2026 at 3:43 AM
THE WALK SHORTS ACT
An Act to recognise that 1973 was the best year ever and Dad's Army was the best TV show ever and you can't beat a Trumpet, which is made with white Tip Top white ice cream, and kindly keep your jibber jabber to yourselves and don't get me started on the TRANS AND THE CYCLISTS
An Act to recognise that 1973 was the best year ever and Dad's Army was the best TV show ever and you can't beat a Trumpet, which is made with white Tip Top white ice cream, and kindly keep your jibber jabber to yourselves and don't get me started on the TRANS AND THE CYCLISTS
Fence and trees down at our place😬 What about you?
February 16, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Fence and trees down at our place😬 What about you?
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"do we need a more urgent response to climate change?"
New Zealand Prime Minister: "we need a whole of society response to climate change, you know make sure you have your personal survival kit ready..."
New Zealand Prime Minister: "we need a whole of society response to climate change, you know make sure you have your personal survival kit ready..."
February 15, 2026 at 7:14 PM
"do we need a more urgent response to climate change?"
New Zealand Prime Minister: "we need a whole of society response to climate change, you know make sure you have your personal survival kit ready..."
New Zealand Prime Minister: "we need a whole of society response to climate change, you know make sure you have your personal survival kit ready..."
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We also take things from most parts of the country🧵💚
Wairarapa friends: the Red Cross has six families keen to have sewing machines and we are out of stock there.
Could you please ask your neighbours, aunties, sports buddies etc ? Email any offers to sewingmachinedonations@gmail.com please 🧵💚
Please share!
Could you please ask your neighbours, aunties, sports buddies etc ? Email any offers to sewingmachinedonations@gmail.com please 🧵💚
Please share!
February 14, 2026 at 9:02 AM
We also take things from most parts of the country🧵💚
We also take things from most parts of the country🧵💚
Wairarapa friends: the Red Cross has six families keen to have sewing machines and we are out of stock there.
Could you please ask your neighbours, aunties, sports buddies etc ? Email any offers to sewingmachinedonations@gmail.com please 🧵💚
Please share!
Could you please ask your neighbours, aunties, sports buddies etc ? Email any offers to sewingmachinedonations@gmail.com please 🧵💚
Please share!
February 14, 2026 at 9:02 AM
We also take things from most parts of the country🧵💚
Wairarapa friends: the Red Cross has six families keen to have sewing machines and we are out of stock there.
Could you please ask your neighbours, aunties, sports buddies etc ? Email any offers to sewingmachinedonations@gmail.com please 🧵💚
Please share!
Could you please ask your neighbours, aunties, sports buddies etc ? Email any offers to sewingmachinedonations@gmail.com please 🧵💚
Please share!
February 14, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Wairarapa friends: the Red Cross has six families keen to have sewing machines and we are out of stock there.
Could you please ask your neighbours, aunties, sports buddies etc ? Email any offers to sewingmachinedonations@gmail.com please 🧵💚
Please share!
Could you please ask your neighbours, aunties, sports buddies etc ? Email any offers to sewingmachinedonations@gmail.com please 🧵💚
Please share!
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![Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihcxd5wcrrf5nxz3g4riglsrccbucmdns6kxrtmtj6gjgwqibp3fi@jpeg)
February 9, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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Turn your alarm off. Or don’t. I don’t know your life.
February 5, 2026 at 7:58 AM
Turn your alarm off. Or don’t. I don’t know your life.
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‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
![…
25. This Cibola jail was horrible. It was cramped. I was chained up again.
The officers mocked
me and called me their enemy. They laughed at me. I was kept at the jail for what felt like around three hours. I wasn't given an explanation for why I was there.
26. Security
guards then put me on a bus. I think it was around January 27.
No one said
anything about where I was going. I was handcuffed. It felt like the middle of the night. It was freezing cold in the bus because the driver had the AC on. We had no jackets. The bus eventually took me back to El Paso in the carly morning of Tuesday, January 27th.
27. I was put in a cold cell where I had to sleep on the bare cement floor. Around 10 in the morning my cellmate asked to speak to an ICE officer. Three officers came into the cell so I had a chance to speak to them too. One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." She told me that if I fought my case, I would spend two to three more months here in El Paso. She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota. If I hadn't managed to talk to my attorney who told me a while back that I was ordered released. I might have given up at this point and signed the self-deportation forms because the conditions were so unbearable.
…
30. When I was taken back to the detention center from the airport, after missing the flight, I overheard an ICE officer saying in English, "the judge in Minnesota wants this one back." I was put in a cold jail cell again until early next morning (January 28). But again no one had told me directly that a judge had ordered my release
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32. When I arrived in Minneapolis, I was handed off to ICE
… I had to sign lots of papers saying that I wasn't going to be a part of any "groups." I didn't know what they meant by "groups." They never told me why I was detained](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5cn3kbi4g5blrtahon34xbu4/bafkreiccqxmfncofjqinoveiqscwale2ox5xpiqt46veqjdh3jmimkrxhq@jpeg)
February 5, 2026 at 6:04 AM
‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
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Youth unemployment rate is now over 16% (1 in 6). The underutilisation rate - young people wanting work or more work - is 38% ffs - 190,000 young kiwis. That's nearly half of the total. It took a fking decade for youth unemployment to recover last time. Same plan this time. No plan.
February 4, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Youth unemployment rate is now over 16% (1 in 6). The underutilisation rate - young people wanting work or more work - is 38% ffs - 190,000 young kiwis. That's nearly half of the total. It took a fking decade for youth unemployment to recover last time. Same plan this time. No plan.
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Cold hard rage from Marina Hyde
"Never mind Manufacturing Consent – have a read of Not Giving A Shit About Consent. I thought Chomsky cared about power and exploitative elites? Still, nice photo of him laughing it up with Steve Bannon...
...They all sell out women in the end"
"Never mind Manufacturing Consent – have a read of Not Giving A Shit About Consent. I thought Chomsky cared about power and exploitative elites? Still, nice photo of him laughing it up with Steve Bannon...
...They all sell out women in the end"
Never forget Epstein’s little helpers – the powerful men who knew about his crimes, and helped him out anyway | Marina Hyde
I’m sorry, but this is not just a political scandal. Time to refocus on the horrific mistreatment of women and girls, and the role of these ghouls, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Cold hard rage from Marina Hyde
"Never mind Manufacturing Consent – have a read of Not Giving A Shit About Consent. I thought Chomsky cared about power and exploitative elites? Still, nice photo of him laughing it up with Steve Bannon...
...They all sell out women in the end"
"Never mind Manufacturing Consent – have a read of Not Giving A Shit About Consent. I thought Chomsky cared about power and exploitative elites? Still, nice photo of him laughing it up with Steve Bannon...
...They all sell out women in the end"
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Martinez is recounting her harrowing experience: after being shot by CBP agents, she drove a mile to the safety of an auto shop where she called 911, got treatment at a hospital for 7 bullet wounds, then was immediately taken into custody by federal agents.
February 3, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Martinez is recounting her harrowing experience: after being shot by CBP agents, she drove a mile to the safety of an auto shop where she called 911, got treatment at a hospital for 7 bullet wounds, then was immediately taken into custody by federal agents.
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Garcia, holding up photos of Trump and top administration officials:
"These people, every single one of them, has to be held accountable for the crimes, for the terror, and for the murders that are happening to our own people in this country."
"These people, every single one of them, has to be held accountable for the crimes, for the terror, and for the murders that are happening to our own people in this country."
February 3, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Garcia, holding up photos of Trump and top administration officials:
"These people, every single one of them, has to be held accountable for the crimes, for the terror, and for the murders that are happening to our own people in this country."
"These people, every single one of them, has to be held accountable for the crimes, for the terror, and for the murders that are happening to our own people in this country."
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It is absolutely a choice for government not to ensure every kid has access to the support and resources they need to thrive at home and at school.
Parents and teachers of disabled children want them to have the best opportunities for full lives. That usually means inclusive education with support in main stream schools. Disabled kids can grow up to be adults thriving in the real world, with some help.
#NZpol
www.emilywrites.co.nz/inclusion/
#NZpol
www.emilywrites.co.nz/inclusion/
Inclusion is over
Last week, my eldest son began high school. He was so excited - he was absolutely fizzing. I volunteered to take him and his friends to school, and they leapt out of the car when we arrived, racing to...
www.emilywrites.co.nz
February 2, 2026 at 9:08 AM
It is absolutely a choice for government not to ensure every kid has access to the support and resources they need to thrive at home and at school.
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I regret to inform you that “1979” by Smashing Pumpkins was released in 1996, which is now 30 years ago. Meaning a similar song released in 2026 would be called “2009”
February 2, 2026 at 10:49 PM
I regret to inform you that “1979” by Smashing Pumpkins was released in 1996, which is now 30 years ago. Meaning a similar song released in 2026 would be called “2009”
This is the reality for disabled kids in Aotearoa, and it doesn't need to be.
We have all the resources we need to build an equitable society - we just have to choose to tax appropriately so we can keep our human rights promises.
www.emilywrites.co.nz/inclusion/
We have all the resources we need to build an equitable society - we just have to choose to tax appropriately so we can keep our human rights promises.
www.emilywrites.co.nz/inclusion/
Inclusion is over
Last week, my eldest son began high school. He was so excited - he was absolutely fizzing. I volunteered to take him and his friends to school, and they leapt out of the car when we arrived, racing to...
www.emilywrites.co.nz
February 2, 2026 at 6:57 AM
This is the reality for disabled kids in Aotearoa, and it doesn't need to be.
We have all the resources we need to build an equitable society - we just have to choose to tax appropriately so we can keep our human rights promises.
www.emilywrites.co.nz/inclusion/
We have all the resources we need to build an equitable society - we just have to choose to tax appropriately so we can keep our human rights promises.
www.emilywrites.co.nz/inclusion/
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This Member of Congress finally got access to the Minneapolis detention center and her report is genuinely appalling. Please watch and share.
My office has been flooded with reports of the cruel, unsafe, unlawful conditions inside of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis.
This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg
This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg
Rep. Morrison details her oversight of the federal Whipple building
YouTube video by Rep. Kelly Morrison
youtu.be
February 2, 2026 at 12:47 AM
This Member of Congress finally got access to the Minneapolis detention center and her report is genuinely appalling. Please watch and share.
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read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000
February 1, 2026 at 8:28 PM
read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000
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Luxon Govt is rightly getting heat for its climate policies. For the record here's 16 of their policies to makes things worse. 1/ Attempted to restart offshore oil and gas exploration. 2/ Subsidised oil and gas exploration 3/ Pushed Fossil Gas www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
Fifteen ways Luxon is increasing climate pollution (and the one way he says he is making it better but is not) - Greenpeace Aotearoa
After the deadly storms, made worse by climate change, the Luxon Govt has tried to claim that it takes climate change seriously. But here are 15 pollution policies that speak louder than words.
www.greenpeace.org
February 1, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Luxon Govt is rightly getting heat for its climate policies. For the record here's 16 of their policies to makes things worse. 1/ Attempted to restart offshore oil and gas exploration. 2/ Subsidised oil and gas exploration 3/ Pushed Fossil Gas www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
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When I think about measles I think about the number 1,000. Thats the number that epidemiologists use to explain harm from measles in children. With 1,000 cases, about 200 children will require hospitalization, 50 will develop pneumonia, and one to three will die.
South Carolina is at 789.
South Carolina is at 789.
January 28, 2026 at 3:11 PM
When I think about measles I think about the number 1,000. Thats the number that epidemiologists use to explain harm from measles in children. With 1,000 cases, about 200 children will require hospitalization, 50 will develop pneumonia, and one to three will die.
South Carolina is at 789.
South Carolina is at 789.
After 17 years, the Crown finally agrees disabled kids should have equitable education access.
This is a great step forward but also such a low bar it's hard to be wholly delighted.
Very well done to IHC for their tenacity.
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
This is a great step forward but also such a low bar it's hard to be wholly delighted.
Very well done to IHC for their tenacity.
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
Landmark settlement for disabled children promises education reform
After 17 years the government has settled a human rights claim and admitted that Crown education policies and systems have failed disabled children.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 29, 2026 at 10:18 PM
After 17 years, the Crown finally agrees disabled kids should have equitable education access.
This is a great step forward but also such a low bar it's hard to be wholly delighted.
Very well done to IHC for their tenacity.
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
This is a great step forward but also such a low bar it's hard to be wholly delighted.
Very well done to IHC for their tenacity.
www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
