MeatMechSuit
@meatmechsuit.bsky.social
Anti-patriarchy, Anti-white supremacy, Atheist, Bi, Feminist, GreyAce, Humanist, Nonbinary woman, Science-lover, TeAtiawa+Pakeha.
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MeatMechSuit
@meatmechsuit.bsky.social
· Nov 23
The ‘people please stop reacting to shit I didn’t say’ challenge.
This thing better have an excellent self-cleaning function because it looks like a real pain in the arse to clean.
Home electronics retailer Yamada Holdings says it will sell a human washing machine, which attracted attention at the Osaka Expo, at its flagship store in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district.
Yamada to sell ‘human washing machine’ after expo popularity
The home electronics retailer will sell the machine at its flagship store in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district.
ebx.sh
November 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
This thing better have an excellent self-cleaning function because it looks like a real pain in the arse to clean.
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Aotearoa Te Waipounamu: solidarity with disabled folk
If you've not yet signed the petition advocating for increased funding to Total Mobility scheme, please do!
Petition closes tomorrow night (Friday 28th Nov, 11:59pm)
Please sign and share
Total Mobility scheme is much needed
If you've not yet signed the petition advocating for increased funding to Total Mobility scheme, please do!
Petition closes tomorrow night (Friday 28th Nov, 11:59pm)
Please sign and share
Total Mobility scheme is much needed
Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.
petitions.parliament.nz
November 27, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Aotearoa Te Waipounamu: solidarity with disabled folk
If you've not yet signed the petition advocating for increased funding to Total Mobility scheme, please do!
Petition closes tomorrow night (Friday 28th Nov, 11:59pm)
Please sign and share
Total Mobility scheme is much needed
If you've not yet signed the petition advocating for increased funding to Total Mobility scheme, please do!
Petition closes tomorrow night (Friday 28th Nov, 11:59pm)
Please sign and share
Total Mobility scheme is much needed
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DEPLOY THE BOY
November 27, 2025 at 3:46 AM
DEPLOY THE BOY
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The NZ Labour Party must provide hope to, and inspire, a generation of people.
If the policy options it will finalise at this weekend’s conference don’t do that, don’t provide a radical alternative and sense of optimism, people will continue to leave Aotearoa in droves.
If the policy options it will finalise at this weekend’s conference don’t do that, don’t provide a radical alternative and sense of optimism, people will continue to leave Aotearoa in droves.
Captures the mood of much of the country under this government - bleak, with a sense that everything is broken, that there is no opportunity for young people to get ahead, and that the government simply doesn't care.
‘I love my country. I don’t want to leave’: readers reflect on the exodus from New Zealand
As people continue to move away in record numbers, readers share their reasons for leaving and contemplate life in New Zealand
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
The NZ Labour Party must provide hope to, and inspire, a generation of people.
If the policy options it will finalise at this weekend’s conference don’t do that, don’t provide a radical alternative and sense of optimism, people will continue to leave Aotearoa in droves.
If the policy options it will finalise at this weekend’s conference don’t do that, don’t provide a radical alternative and sense of optimism, people will continue to leave Aotearoa in droves.
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Watch: Moment researcher finds rare flower after 13-year search
Watch: Moment researcher finds rare flower after 13-year search
Researcher Septian Andriki collapsed in tears upon discovering the rare Rafflesia hasseltii plant in Indonesia.
www.bbc.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Watch: Moment researcher finds rare flower after 13-year search
What is happening in the second picture, wrong answers only.
Fancy a #grasshoppers on a ring? The #Romans did.
Between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD, grasshoppers seem to have been pretty fashionable amongst the subjects carved on #intaglios.
Between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD, grasshoppers seem to have been pretty fashionable amongst the subjects carved on #intaglios.
November 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
What is happening in the second picture, wrong answers only.
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I've seen people say that getting attached to ChatGPT is like "believing the stripper really loves you", but that's not true. It's more like believing that the dryer personally composed that little jingle on a lonely sockless night just to win your affections.
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I've seen people say that getting attached to ChatGPT is like "believing the stripper really loves you", but that's not true. It's more like believing that the dryer personally composed that little jingle on a lonely sockless night just to win your affections.
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If you have less than perfect vision and you're looking for a new bank in Aotearoa New Zealand, don't pick #Kiwibank.
Without warning they've changed display settings on accounts. Now mostly unreadable! Call Centre says - yes lots of people have been complaining. 🙄
Can you fix? No!
Without warning they've changed display settings on accounts. Now mostly unreadable! Call Centre says - yes lots of people have been complaining. 🙄
Can you fix? No!
a woman says computer says no in front of a plant
Alt: a woman says "computer says no"
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 AM
If you have less than perfect vision and you're looking for a new bank in Aotearoa New Zealand, don't pick #Kiwibank.
Without warning they've changed display settings on accounts. Now mostly unreadable! Call Centre says - yes lots of people have been complaining. 🙄
Can you fix? No!
Without warning they've changed display settings on accounts. Now mostly unreadable! Call Centre says - yes lots of people have been complaining. 🙄
Can you fix? No!
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why the US consulate/Embassy and fresh new FBI office in Wellington all need to be *expelled* into the sea.
U.S. embassies around the world have been instructed to categorize abortion access, DEI policies, and transgender care for minors as human rights infringements.
www.jezebel.com/in-the-u-s-n...
www.jezebel.com/in-the-u-s-n...
In the U.S., Nothing Says Human Rights Abuse Like Ensuring Reproductive Freedom!
U.S. embassies around the world have been instructed to categorize abortion access, DEI policies, and transgender care for minors as human rights infringements.
www.jezebel.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:27 AM
why the US consulate/Embassy and fresh new FBI office in Wellington all need to be *expelled* into the sea.
NZF and Nat both backing hurriedly away from the RSB makes me worried that they have some knowledge about how shit it is that we don’t.
November 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
NZF and Nat both backing hurriedly away from the RSB makes me worried that they have some knowledge about how shit it is that we don’t.
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our whole society is designed around men having or not having a sook
November 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
our whole society is designed around men having or not having a sook
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dear men: plz find a route to self-actualization that doesn’t run through someone else’s uterus
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
dear men: plz find a route to self-actualization that doesn’t run through someone else’s uterus
Anyone who refers to a pie as a hand pie or any variant thereof can hand in their NZ citizenship.
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Anyone who refers to a pie as a hand pie or any variant thereof can hand in their NZ citizenship.
Yep
There are two types of people in the world. People who obsessively wash their hands after touching meat before touching anything else—
and people’s whose house I won’t eat at.
and people’s whose house I won’t eat at.
November 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Yep
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But it’s NOT a bubble or worthless tech
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
But it’s NOT a bubble or worthless tech
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November 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Labour MPs still allergic to mentioning trans people in their statements.
No, we're very clear that the right people to make decisions a on health care are the person (patient), their medical carers, and in some cars depending on the age of the patient, their parents, guardians or caregivers.
November 24, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Labour MPs still allergic to mentioning trans people in their statements.
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The EU’s top court ruled today that when a same-sex couple is legally married in one member country, any other member country where they move or reside must recognize that marriage.
Top EU court mandates same-sex marriage recognition across borders
The Luxembourg-based court said a decision by Polish authorities infringed on a same-sex couple’s freedom of movement.
www.politico.eu
November 25, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The EU’s top court ruled today that when a same-sex couple is legally married in one member country, any other member country where they move or reside must recognize that marriage.
#nzpol but shouldn’t be
A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... & of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Trans care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... & of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Trans care saves lives.
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
#nzpol but shouldn’t be
Cursed.
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Cursed.
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NZ has had two major reforms of subnational government so far: 1876 and 1989
As the guy who literally wrote a book on the demise of that first system, *and* as someone who generally supports more unitary authorities, my considered opinion is that this proposal is completely insane
As the guy who literally wrote a book on the demise of that first system, *and* as someone who generally supports more unitary authorities, my considered opinion is that this proposal is completely insane
No more regional councils - major shake-up of local government announced
The government says it is not a power grab, but about "making local government fit for purpose".
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
NZ has had two major reforms of subnational government so far: 1876 and 1989
As the guy who literally wrote a book on the demise of that first system, *and* as someone who generally supports more unitary authorities, my considered opinion is that this proposal is completely insane
As the guy who literally wrote a book on the demise of that first system, *and* as someone who generally supports more unitary authorities, my considered opinion is that this proposal is completely insane
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I saw the government job that I was made redundant from in February has been restored and filled, but at a $50k lower salary. While the CE and second tier have had significant pay rises. Money go round that benefits those at the top, as always. 🇳🇿
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I saw the government job that I was made redundant from in February has been restored and filled, but at a $50k lower salary. While the CE and second tier have had significant pay rises. Money go round that benefits those at the top, as always. 🇳🇿
I was born in the late 1900’s.
Got my degree just before the turn of the century.
Got my degree just before the turn of the century.
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I was born in the late 1900’s.
Got my degree just before the turn of the century.
Got my degree just before the turn of the century.
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getting rid of regional councils, one of the few voices at the table when it comes to fast track applications and the bodies that are supposed to monitor any ongoing consents, is certainly a choice
savebreambaysand.org
savebreambaysand.org
Save Bream Bay Sand
Save Bream Bay from McCallum Bros sand-mining under the Fast Track Act. Resources and information from Bream Bay Guardians.
savebreambaysand.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
getting rid of regional councils, one of the few voices at the table when it comes to fast track applications and the bodies that are supposed to monitor any ongoing consents, is certainly a choice
savebreambaysand.org
savebreambaysand.org
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"We are being invited to be part of a particular American project that demonises immigrants and we shouldn't be a part of that.” - Paul Spoonley.
Well said. Our Government should tell MAGA to eff right off with their 'data collection' on migrants in Aotearoa. #nzpol
www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/25/t...
Well said. Our Government should tell MAGA to eff right off with their 'data collection' on migrants in Aotearoa. #nzpol
www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/25/t...
Trump govt warns NZ of migration 'risk', asks embassy to collect data
The US State Department has ordered the US embassy in Wellington to begin collecting information on migration data and "migrant-related crimes and human rights abuses".
www.1news.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
"We are being invited to be part of a particular American project that demonises immigrants and we shouldn't be a part of that.” - Paul Spoonley.
Well said. Our Government should tell MAGA to eff right off with their 'data collection' on migrants in Aotearoa. #nzpol
www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/25/t...
Well said. Our Government should tell MAGA to eff right off with their 'data collection' on migrants in Aotearoa. #nzpol
www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/25/t...