Hugh Young-Bish
@hughyoung-bish.bsky.social
Tangata Tiriti, conversational te reo, compiler of Ngā Ingoa o Aotearoa, www.ingoa.maori.nz
Intactivist, creator of The Intactivism Pages, www.circumstitions.com
Classical music, opera lover. Sceptic, LGBTI+ activist, anti-Tr*mp
he/him/they/them
Intactivist, creator of The Intactivism Pages, www.circumstitions.com
Classical music, opera lover. Sceptic, LGBTI+ activist, anti-Tr*mp
he/him/they/them
Being on the other side of the Pacific, all I could do was make anti-Tr*mp memes, some of which I'm quite proud of.
December 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Being on the other side of the Pacific, all I could do was make anti-Tr*mp memes, some of which I'm quite proud of.
This enigmatic obelisk is the Wonder Sponge.
They claim the fibres are "10,000 times finer than human hair" -but what do they mean by "finer"? I found they are 1/20 of the total volume.
Costs $2 but pretty useless. It shrinks, loses shape, stains.
Left, 10/9/25; right, 30/11/25.
They claim the fibres are "10,000 times finer than human hair" -but what do they mean by "finer"? I found they are 1/20 of the total volume.
Costs $2 but pretty useless. It shrinks, loses shape, stains.
Left, 10/9/25; right, 30/11/25.
December 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This enigmatic obelisk is the Wonder Sponge.
They claim the fibres are "10,000 times finer than human hair" -but what do they mean by "finer"? I found they are 1/20 of the total volume.
Costs $2 but pretty useless. It shrinks, loses shape, stains.
Left, 10/9/25; right, 30/11/25.
They claim the fibres are "10,000 times finer than human hair" -but what do they mean by "finer"? I found they are 1/20 of the total volume.
Costs $2 but pretty useless. It shrinks, loses shape, stains.
Left, 10/9/25; right, 30/11/25.
Kia ora Onslow Kāreti! (Johnsonville)
![Sign outside Onslow College, Johnsonville:
"ONSLOW COLLEGE
WE WILL CONTINUE
OUR COMMITMENT
TO [red letters] TE TIRITI
O WAITANGI "
www.onslow school.nz](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vfywdyh5n22sbzx7fi357l3r/bafkreihizdvg3x5k33ww4qfe7fy3v5sl3w6i772v6gmazmrjotys22mgwu@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Kia ora Onslow Kāreti! (Johnsonville)
have just retired as Aotearoa NZ Director of the Darbon Institute, formerly the Australasian Institute for Genital Autonomy, and they have made me an Honorary Life Member. Citation attached.
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
have just retired as Aotearoa NZ Director of the Darbon Institute, formerly the Australasian Institute for Genital Autonomy, and they have made me an Honorary Life Member. Citation attached.
Haggis is sold in cans in Aotearoa New Zealand. (I had it at breakfast in Inverness, just a variety of sausage meat, lacking the Burns Night rigmarole.)
It was the microwave cooking instructions that struck me:
"Cover and eat on full power for 4 minutes"
It was the microwave cooking instructions that struck me:
"Cover and eat on full power for 4 minutes"
November 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Haggis is sold in cans in Aotearoa New Zealand. (I had it at breakfast in Inverness, just a variety of sausage meat, lacking the Burns Night rigmarole.)
It was the microwave cooking instructions that struck me:
"Cover and eat on full power for 4 minutes"
It was the microwave cooking instructions that struck me:
"Cover and eat on full power for 4 minutes"
I went in 1991 (when HIV was central to gay thought), dressed as a tube of KY jelly. A radio person thrust a microphone in my face and asked why KY jelly. I said because I expected a lot of people would come dressed as condoms. It was a lot of fun.
November 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I went in 1991 (when HIV was central to gay thought), dressed as a tube of KY jelly. A radio person thrust a microphone in my face and asked why KY jelly. I said because I expected a lot of people would come dressed as condoms. It was a lot of fun.
We went down to support the Anglican and Catholic clergy who have chained themselves to Nicola Willis' office door to call for sanctions against Israel.
September 15, 2025 at 10:59 AM
We went down to support the Anglican and Catholic clergy who have chained themselves to Nicola Willis' office door to call for sanctions against Israel.
This is very much how Aotearoa New Zealand with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern achieved one of the lowest Covid-19 rates in the world in 2020. The slogans were "Team FIve Million" and "He Waka Eke Noa" (roughly, "We're all in the same boat"). Her mantra was "Be Kind".
September 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
This is very much how Aotearoa New Zealand with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern achieved one of the lowest Covid-19 rates in the world in 2020. The slogans were "Team FIve Million" and "He Waka Eke Noa" (roughly, "We're all in the same boat"). Her mantra was "Be Kind".
Ah, Castlepoint, Wairarapa, Aotearoa
It was at this very spot, the top of those steps in 2019 that I hatched my plan to five friends for our costumes at the following year's Rocky Horror Picture Show. We only came second.
It was at this very spot, the top of those steps in 2019 that I hatched my plan to five friends for our costumes at the following year's Rocky Horror Picture Show. We only came second.
September 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Ah, Castlepoint, Wairarapa, Aotearoa
It was at this very spot, the top of those steps in 2019 that I hatched my plan to five friends for our costumes at the following year's Rocky Horror Picture Show. We only came second.
It was at this very spot, the top of those steps in 2019 that I hatched my plan to five friends for our costumes at the following year's Rocky Horror Picture Show. We only came second.
Please don't let Marky Mark Wahlberg play any of those hot brothers in any movie about their feat.
August 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Please don't let Marky Mark Wahlberg play any of those hot brothers in any movie about their feat.
Laid-back, tight-lipped NZSIS DG Andrew Hampton, was cagy about RocketLab sending up satellites from Mahia Penninsula that could help Israel exterminate Gazans, but Tom Lehrer summed it up:
"The rockets go up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department," says [Andrew Hamp-ton]."
"The rockets go up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department," says [Andrew Hamp-ton]."
August 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Laid-back, tight-lipped NZSIS DG Andrew Hampton, was cagy about RocketLab sending up satellites from Mahia Penninsula that could help Israel exterminate Gazans, but Tom Lehrer summed it up:
"The rockets go up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department," says [Andrew Hamp-ton]."
"The rockets go up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department," says [Andrew Hamp-ton]."
When Alexa Meade asked to paint me, I just thought ...
July 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM
When Alexa Meade asked to paint me, I just thought ...
My medal of pride:
July 13, 2025 at 12:50 AM
My medal of pride:
![An advertisement in the style of the "Lovense" brand of high-tech sex toys.
Picture: A couch with a plastic vulva mounted between the cushions.
Text: Sofance
Automatic replicant male pleasurer
Two click boxes, "Buy Now" and "Discount for Frat Houses"
Text:
* Bluetooth activated, remotely controlled (She'll think it's her you're fantasising about!)
* Realistic replica, saves your furniture
* Don't be JaDed, adVance your pleasure [the letters J, D and V are capitalised]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vfywdyh5n22sbzx7fi357l3r/bafkreid33yybnbkysaavpwk25undlo4lzb5jv7vfflx5vwxto5evr4j33e@jpeg)
Filing one 2004 Iraq meme, I found others that differ from today only in the details.
![Tom Scott cartoon sequence from the Dominion Post Wedneday December 20, 2006, Wellington New Zealand
1. A dove flies carrying an olive branch
2. It flies through the night over the sea
3. It flies through rain
4. It flies towards the White House
5. It has landed on a window sill
6. President George W Bush, holding a knife and fork, is about to carve a bird [the dove], cooked on a plate with steam rising from it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vfywdyh5n22sbzx7fi357l3r/bafkreihhrm4ghrws247oyeypjt73q54fydld354adyxfy4akloclzeeuga@jpeg)
![A smoking wasteland with ruins. A minaret is standing. Among the rubble, a disembodied pair of legs and feet in shoes. In the foreground a bleeding arm with a bone sticking out. Neaby, a doll.
Caption "Disarmament"
(C) Hugh Young 2003. [copyright is waived for non-profit distribution]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vfywdyh5n22sbzx7fi357l3r/bafkreie4mi7sqlijmvdmmgyv5rnrjcegfyeh37cjszarxu63vxdktzoqia@jpeg)
June 24, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Filing one 2004 Iraq meme, I found others that differ from today only in the details.