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Amara, haphazardly
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she/they, 🧓🏻 millenial queer neurospicy disabled immigrant agnostic pākehā tangata tiriti white cis woman, 🔞, fandoms: #镇魂Guardian & Star Trek:TOS, #WearAMask, #ToitūTeTiriti, 💚feminist🍅antifascist🌹social justice🍉
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Here's a pic of her in what has become her 'main bed' - an old sheepy in the small dog crate. There's a blanket over the top of it that hangs down over the front as a sort of curtain. She's just had her breakfast - half a tin of kitten fancy feast, microwaved on a low setting for about 20 s✨
Half grown tabby cat asleep in a sheepskin bed.
May 27, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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We trapped this wee cutie yesterday in the barn, and she has managed to bite right through a pair of thick leather gloves and break the skin when I was holding her to apply flea treatment.

Poor thing is only about 5 mths old if that. Local cat rescues are FULL so we are putting her up and...
Pale grey stripy cat in a dog crate, staring at the camera.
May 1, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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#AmReading 📚

I couldn't sleep last night due to pain, and found this in audiobook form at my library. I'm a third of the way through and it delivers on every promise made by the title and cover for ridiculously entertaining silly nonsense. Best use of the phrase: the Roman Empire has fallen 😂
A woman in a wedding dress stands in a French window looking at a bat flying in the red dusk, her back to the viewer. The text is :How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks"
April 27, 2024 at 9:30 AM
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This front page of Stuff and headline really shows who our media considers to be people and whose bravery gets a headline.

Thinking of all the mothers in Palestine trying to protect their babies from genocide. They are no less brave than this woman.
Front page of Stuff with a photo of ambulances on a street, with the headline: Live: Mother of baby stabbed in Sydney mall attack dies in hospital Witnesses said the brave mother, 38, tried to save her baby after they were both stabbed, handing her daughter to two shoppers and begging them to help after she was critically injured.
April 13, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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My mental health is rocky as at the moment, and so is my partner's. Everything seems heavy and the vibes are fucked.

Anne Boyer's poem 'What resembles the grave but isn’t' helped me when I read it - maybe it will help you too ✨
WHAT RESEMBLES THE GRAVE BUT ISN’T Always falling into a hole, then saying “ok, this is not your grave, get out of this hole,” getting out of the hole which is not the grave, falling into a hole again, saying “ok, this is also not your grave, get out of this hole,” getting out of that hole, falling into another one; sometimes falling into a hole within a hole, or many holes within holes, getting out of them one after the other, then falling again, saying “this is not your grave, get out of the hole”; sometimes being pushed, saying “you can not push me into this hole, it is not my grave,” and getting out defiantly, then falling into a hole again without any pushing; sometimes falling into a set of holes whose structures are predictable, ideological, and long dug, often falling into this set of structural and impersonal holes; sometimes falling into holes with other people, with other people, saying “this is not our mass grave, get out of this hole,” all together getting out of the hole
March 15, 2024 at 8:38 AM
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The right wing manufactured rage nonsense machine is mad about Biden eating ice cream.

Early in the genocide, Palestinians in Gaza used ice cream trucks to store bodies because the morgues were full.

Now children in Gaza are dying of starvation.

#FreePalestine🇵🇸🕊️🍉🗝️
Jose Biden with an ice cream cone A Palestinian doctor in Gaza showing bodies stored in an ice cream truck.
February 28, 2024 at 9:14 AM
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Blaming Hamas for the genocide and war crimes that Israel is committing is straight up abuser logic - 'look what you made me do'.
President Biden @POTUS I won't mince words. The overwhelming majority of Palestinians are not Hamas. And Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people. In fact, they're also suffering as a result of Hamas' terrorism. We need to be clear-eyed about that reality. 12:42 PM · Feb 23, 2024
February 23, 2024 at 3:26 AM
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World leaders sure have a lot of energy for (rightly) condemning Russia/Putin for Navalny's murder. Compare it to their echoing silence about Hind's murder by Israel/Netanyahu.

And our media is complicit.

#FreePalestine🇵🇸🕊️🍉🗝️
Front page of The Guardian full of Navalny stories. Front page of RNZ with Navalny stories. Front page of Stuff with Navalny story.
February 17, 2024 at 3:37 AM
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Horror upon horror upon horror. I have no words only tears. May everyone committing, enabling, and cheering on this genocide never know peace.

#FreePalestine🇵🇸🕊️🍉🗝️
🚨 Urgent: The Palestine Red Crescent ambulance was discovered bombed the Tal al-Hawa area of #Gaza City, resulting in the killing of crew members Yusuf Zeino and Ahmed Al-Madhoun, who had been missing since a rescue mission for the child Hind Rajab 12 days ago. #NotATarget❌ #IHL @PalestineRCS ⚠️ The occupation deliberately targeted the ambulance upon its arrival at the scene, where it was found just meters away from the vehicle containing the trapped child Hind. @PalestineRCS Despite prior coordination to allow the ambulance to reach the location to rescue the child, Hind, the occupation deliberately targeted the Palestine Red Crescent ambulance crew. 8:48 PM · Feb 10, 2024
February 10, 2024 at 9:22 AM
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I re-read Hogfather because I *needed* to read this bit. Holding on tight to ✨believing✨ in universal human rights and justice at the moment.

#AmReading📚
Excerpt from Terry Pratchett's Hogfather: "'All right,' said Susan. I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable.' REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE. 'Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little-' YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. 'So we can believe the big ones?' YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING. 'They're not the same at all!' YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY, AND YET- Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE ... UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED. 'Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point-' MY POINT EXACTLY."
February 10, 2024 at 2:40 AM
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Certain *choices* are being made by Stuff - 2 of 4 stories about King Charles' cancer, minimal coverage of Waitangi Day🤦‍♀️
Stuff.co.nz front page on desktop with the largest story on the page and a second large story about King Charles' cancer - minimal coverage of Waitangi Day, though there is a large piece by Tova.
February 6, 2024 at 2:00 AM
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A hope...✨

#poem #poetry

Sometimes by Sheenagh Pugh
Sometimes by Sheenagh Pugh Sometimes things don’t go, after all, from bad to worse. Some years, muscadel faces down frost; green thrives; the crops don’t fail. Sometimes a man aims high, and all goes well. A people sometimes will step back from war, elect an honest man, decide they care enough, that they can’t leave some stranger poor. Some men become what they were born for. Sometimes our best intentions do not go amiss; sometimes we do as we meant to. The sun will sometimes melt a field of sorrow that seemed hard frozen; may it happen for you.
January 30, 2024 at 6:47 AM
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I am somewhere between 😂 and 🤦‍♀️ that when you ask for the "the dip recipe" we do all in fact know what you mean 🧅

Kikorangi #kai
r/newzealand •Posted by u/Pentemav 4 hours ago Dip recipe Discussion Can anyone share with me the dip recipe please? I’m sure you know the one I mean. Thanks! 27 comments
January 27, 2024 at 8:33 AM
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Very much agree with this and think its an important enough point I wanted to share here (don't think Kyle is on here).

🇳🇿 #nzpol

twitter.com/KyleDChurch/...
Kyle Church @KyleDChurch · 8h There's enough expertise about Te Tiriti that there's no excuse for media outlets consistently publishing David Seymour's garbage takes verbatim with zero critique. This isn't a "both sides" issue. Only conclusion is that there are people in media who WANT this attack on Māori. Kyle Church @KyleDChurch · 8h I don't care if they're "just reporting what he's saying", it's an abrogation of journalistic ethics to allow politicians to seed issues into the discourse like this. If anyone *dares* to say it's about clicks, then they need to fuck off out of society. Kyle Church @KyleDChurch "We played a key role in helping to destroy the country's founding document because that's just the way media works and we have no choice because of ad revenue 🥹🥹" This is what you fuckers are at the point of. There is a choice, y'all are just making the worst decisions. 8:27 AM · Jan 23, 2024
January 23, 2024 at 3:48 AM
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#FandomAmara #镇魂Guardian

Just posted Ch 7 of the Pon Farr sequel, wherein Chu Shuzhi and Zhao Yunlan have a nap together:

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archiveofourown.org/works/465079... 🍭🔞
End Racism in the OTW (Pon Farr sequel) by AmaraSansBeta (Amara1783) Fandoms: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV) Explicit No Archive Warnings Apply M/M Work in Progress 22 Jan 2024 Tags No Archive Warnings ApplyShen Wei/Zhao Yunlan Zhao Yunlan/Chu Shuzhi Shen Wei/Chu Shuzhi Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan/Chu ShuzhiZhao Yunlan Shěn Wēi Chu Shuzhi Dà Qìng Zhù Hóng Guo Changcheng Lín Jìng Wāng Zhēng Sāng ZànPost Handwavey Happy Ending Developing Relationship Established Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan Twosome to Threesome Polyamory Compersion Switching Power Imbalance Power Dynamics Consent Themes Undernegotiated Kink Cultural Differences Fealty Loyalty Angst Referenced past abuse Referenced Past Rape Hurt/Comfort Cuddling & Snuggling Healing Laughter During Sex a wild plot appears! Zhao Yunlan comes with his own content warning Author has no idea what she’s about Welcome to my Id WIP Shen Wei, Zhao Yunlan and Chu Shuzhi the morning after the events of Zhao Yunlan rescues the SID from Pon Farr.
January 22, 2024 at 10:20 AM
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What resembles the grave but isn’t
by Anne Boyer
What resembles the grave but isn’t Always falling into a hole, then saying “ok, this is not your grave, get out of this hole,” getting out of the hole which is not the grave, falling into a hole again, saying “ok, this is also not your grave, get out of this hole,” getting out of that hole, falling into another one; sometimes falling into a hole within a hole, or many holes within holes, getting out of them one after the other, then falling again, saying “this is not your grave, get out of the hole”; sometimes being pushed, saying “you can not push me into this hole, it is not my grave,” and getting out defiantly, then falling into a hole again without any pushing; sometimes falling into a set of holes whose structures are predictable, ideological, and long dug, often falling into this set of structural and impersonal holes; sometimes falling into holes with other people, with other people, saying “this is not our mass grave, get out of this hole,” all together getting out of the hol
January 16, 2024 at 9:30 AM
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Here is mirrorverse Lan Qiren for good luck! ✨
James Huang in an open shirt looking intensely into the camera, biting a crucifix necklace.
January 15, 2024 at 11:29 AM
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Here's how mine turned out 😆

I ate the less burnt bits out of stubbornness but 🤞 my next kitchen experiment works out better. Will have to find other ways of using up courgettes✨
Burnt courgette pizza on kitchen counter.
January 8, 2024 at 8:14 AM
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This puts into words what I've been feeling. Where is our freedom of speech, if we do not speak against genocide? Where is our democracy and our rule of law, if our elected leaders aid and abet genocide?

#FreePalestine🕊️🇵🇸🍉🗝️
Twitter screenshot "Tiberius @ecomarxi I’ve known the world was fucked my entire adult life, but to learn it’s this bad—that not a *single* leader in the West has the moral fibre to condemn an active genocide—unequivocally shows that everything about our society is a charade designed only to control and exploit us 5:00 AM · Jan 7, 2024"
January 7, 2024 at 12:48 AM
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Something for all of us to keep in mind for this year, from Ruth Ben-Ghiat's excellent and very readable 'Strongmen: How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall'.
"Today's strongmen are well aware that every minute the public and the press spend on the outrage du jour is time they're not mobilizing for political action or investigating abuses of power." on p 111 of Ruth Ben-Ghiat's 'Strongmen: How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall'
January 4, 2024 at 5:24 AM
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I made 'Pistachio, Courgette and Lemon Cake' from Joudie Kalla's cookbook of Palestinian food, with the first courgette of the season from our garden. There are some gorgeous looking recipes in this book 😍

Joudie is on Insta: www.instagram.com/palestineona...

#FreePalestine🕊️🇵🇸🍉🗝️
Pistachio, Courgette and Lemon Cake, baked by me Photo of the cover of Baladi by Joudie Kalla Photo of Pistachio, Courgette and Lemon Cake in Baladi by Joudie Kalla
December 29, 2023 at 9:11 AM
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Partner noticed this mottled skin on my left lower back. I remember reading something ages ago about how this can happen with prolonged heat pack use (which is me for chronic pain in that area) and that it's not a good sign. For now I'm stopping using heat packs until it hopefully clears up.
Mottled skin of my left lower back.
December 27, 2023 at 3:38 AM
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For anyone making pav this is what I do with the leftover egg yolks - they get turned into the topping I use in place of whipped cream✨

#Kikorangi
Lemon Surprise Egg yolks from making pavlova (usually 6) 2 lemons, zest and juice 1/2 cup sugar 1 cup cream Beat egg yolks and sugar in top of double boiler. Stir in 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind and 6 tablespoons lemon juice. Cook, stirring over simmering water for about 15 minutes or until custard is thick. Let cool. Beat 1 cup cream until stiff. Fold into lemon custard.
December 23, 2023 at 2:12 AM
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UPDATE: Mum was in the trap this morning and we managed to get her in with the kittens without getting bitten or clawed🎉
Mum cat in a crate with kittens nursing
December 17, 2023 at 12:10 AM
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Di Feisheng and Li Lianhua drinking the wedding wine in ep 38 of MLC
December 7, 2023 at 3:16 AM