Hayley
@writagal.bsky.social
Forever learning, opinions mine. Generally annoyed about something.
Aotearoa.
https://whereyouare0.substack.com/
Aotearoa.
https://whereyouare0.substack.com/
I visited Tūranga Library (hello Ōtautahi) last week and thought it was the most delightful building I’d seen in a long time, centering creativity, community, creating spaces for connection and for quiet - and for kids!
Highly encourage a visit if you are in town, and lucky you if you’re a resident.
Highly encourage a visit if you are in town, and lucky you if you’re a resident.
November 15, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I visited Tūranga Library (hello Ōtautahi) last week and thought it was the most delightful building I’d seen in a long time, centering creativity, community, creating spaces for connection and for quiet - and for kids!
Highly encourage a visit if you are in town, and lucky you if you’re a resident.
Highly encourage a visit if you are in town, and lucky you if you’re a resident.
About Espstein but relevant to NZ every time there’s a “revelation” about predatory behaviour that is systemic, enabled, and backed up by overwhelming and unacceptable statistics.
It has been fascinating to see the scramble to protect the status quo - and who is calling (or not calling) for change.
It has been fascinating to see the scramble to protect the status quo - and who is calling (or not calling) for change.
November 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
About Espstein but relevant to NZ every time there’s a “revelation” about predatory behaviour that is systemic, enabled, and backed up by overwhelming and unacceptable statistics.
It has been fascinating to see the scramble to protect the status quo - and who is calling (or not calling) for change.
It has been fascinating to see the scramble to protect the status quo - and who is calling (or not calling) for change.
A resource that might be handy.
Artist credit: Lily O'Farrell
Words by Kristina Maione
Artist credit: Lily O'Farrell
Words by Kristina Maione
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 AM
A resource that might be handy.
Artist credit: Lily O'Farrell
Words by Kristina Maione
Artist credit: Lily O'Farrell
Words by Kristina Maione
To be honest until we stop being disappointed and start getting angry that men can act in appalling and unacceptable ways without consequences, like, say, appointing people who have a demonstrable track record of unacceptable behaviour to Chair positions, extreme disappointment doesn’t mean much.
November 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
To be honest until we stop being disappointed and start getting angry that men can act in appalling and unacceptable ways without consequences, like, say, appointing people who have a demonstrable track record of unacceptable behaviour to Chair positions, extreme disappointment doesn’t mean much.
When you’re equating human beings who need wrap-around support in a situation that has been made vastly worse by deliberate reduction of access to services, with rubbish that just “needs to be tidied up”, our values of humanity have also shifted, and perhaps something needs to be done about that.
November 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
When you’re equating human beings who need wrap-around support in a situation that has been made vastly worse by deliberate reduction of access to services, with rubbish that just “needs to be tidied up”, our values of humanity have also shifted, and perhaps something needs to be done about that.
Hopeful words from Nikita Gill.
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Hopeful words from Nikita Gill.
Like clockwork! Someone anonymously posted about people setting them off at 2am (🫠), someone else replied in support and Some Guy™ sailed in, deeply upset at the audacity of asking for polite consideration and deeply unaware that the person was likely posting anonymously because of dudes like him.🙃
November 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Like clockwork! Someone anonymously posted about people setting them off at 2am (🫠), someone else replied in support and Some Guy™ sailed in, deeply upset at the audacity of asking for polite consideration and deeply unaware that the person was likely posting anonymously because of dudes like him.🙃
More than one in three women experience sexual abuse yet we never seem to be able to pinpoint who exactly is doing the perpetrating - why?
“Even in the phrase ‘violence against women’, this violence ‘just happens’, and the agents of this violence are invisible.”
research.qut.edu.au/centre-for-j...
“Even in the phrase ‘violence against women’, this violence ‘just happens’, and the agents of this violence are invisible.”
research.qut.edu.au/centre-for-j...
October 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
More than one in three women experience sexual abuse yet we never seem to be able to pinpoint who exactly is doing the perpetrating - why?
“Even in the phrase ‘violence against women’, this violence ‘just happens’, and the agents of this violence are invisible.”
research.qut.edu.au/centre-for-j...
“Even in the phrase ‘violence against women’, this violence ‘just happens’, and the agents of this violence are invisible.”
research.qut.edu.au/centre-for-j...
The most centrist, on the fence, punch-pulling, could-have-done-many-things-to-prevent-this-outcome-and-repeatedly-chose-not-to line ever, no notes.
October 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The most centrist, on the fence, punch-pulling, could-have-done-many-things-to-prevent-this-outcome-and-repeatedly-chose-not-to line ever, no notes.
“Rewrite the law so that they are no longer breaking it” is absolutely what is happening with the Regulatory Standards Bill and many others in New Zealand.
With a deliberately weakened media the sheer scale and extent of the damage is unreported, normalised - and because of this, mostly irrevocable.
With a deliberately weakened media the sheer scale and extent of the damage is unreported, normalised - and because of this, mostly irrevocable.
October 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
“Rewrite the law so that they are no longer breaking it” is absolutely what is happening with the Regulatory Standards Bill and many others in New Zealand.
With a deliberately weakened media the sheer scale and extent of the damage is unreported, normalised - and because of this, mostly irrevocable.
With a deliberately weakened media the sheer scale and extent of the damage is unreported, normalised - and because of this, mostly irrevocable.
Always ask yourself:
Who writes the stories?
Who benefits from the stories?
Who is missing from the stories?
And, apparently - who benefits from the silence, when the stories can’t be told?
Active undermining of those who often speak the loudest truths to power is a tactic of authoritarianism.
Who writes the stories?
Who benefits from the stories?
Who is missing from the stories?
And, apparently - who benefits from the silence, when the stories can’t be told?
Active undermining of those who often speak the loudest truths to power is a tactic of authoritarianism.
October 24, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Always ask yourself:
Who writes the stories?
Who benefits from the stories?
Who is missing from the stories?
And, apparently - who benefits from the silence, when the stories can’t be told?
Active undermining of those who often speak the loudest truths to power is a tactic of authoritarianism.
Who writes the stories?
Who benefits from the stories?
Who is missing from the stories?
And, apparently - who benefits from the silence, when the stories can’t be told?
Active undermining of those who often speak the loudest truths to power is a tactic of authoritarianism.
Given the Sarah Kendzior quote “we have a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government” about the US, how wonderful that this is a topic that applies to both countries. 🙃🫠
October 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Given the Sarah Kendzior quote “we have a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government” about the US, how wonderful that this is a topic that applies to both countries. 🙃🫠
Putting up barriers to access a public good is an incredibly unethical decision by Stuff.
Apart from valid questions about use of data & complete lack of choice given to consumers about signing up, there’s a data literacy component which means people may not get vital info (emergencies, elections) 🫠
Apart from valid questions about use of data & complete lack of choice given to consumers about signing up, there’s a data literacy component which means people may not get vital info (emergencies, elections) 🫠
October 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Putting up barriers to access a public good is an incredibly unethical decision by Stuff.
Apart from valid questions about use of data & complete lack of choice given to consumers about signing up, there’s a data literacy component which means people may not get vital info (emergencies, elections) 🫠
Apart from valid questions about use of data & complete lack of choice given to consumers about signing up, there’s a data literacy component which means people may not get vital info (emergencies, elections) 🫠
Digital literacy challenges affect one third of Aotearoa - not cool that Stuff are doing this.
What happens in an emergency?
What happens with information about elections?(🫠)
There’s something deeply broken about the way we value journalism but imo restricting access isn’t the way to solve that.
What happens in an emergency?
What happens with information about elections?(🫠)
There’s something deeply broken about the way we value journalism but imo restricting access isn’t the way to solve that.
October 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Digital literacy challenges affect one third of Aotearoa - not cool that Stuff are doing this.
What happens in an emergency?
What happens with information about elections?(🫠)
There’s something deeply broken about the way we value journalism but imo restricting access isn’t the way to solve that.
What happens in an emergency?
What happens with information about elections?(🫠)
There’s something deeply broken about the way we value journalism but imo restricting access isn’t the way to solve that.
These quotes are both *chef’s kiss*, and should absolutely be the focus of further reporting - our young people are demonstrably looking elsewhere for their bright future, and we should be holding any government to account for policies making that decision a necessity instead of an option.
October 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
These quotes are both *chef’s kiss*, and should absolutely be the focus of further reporting - our young people are demonstrably looking elsewhere for their bright future, and we should be holding any government to account for policies making that decision a necessity instead of an option.
Shame that our current policy approach seems to be “let’s actively make things much worse for literally everyone except people with extreme wealth.”
October 5, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Shame that our current policy approach seems to be “let’s actively make things much worse for literally everyone except people with extreme wealth.”
Does anyone know what I should do if submitting via the Parliament website isn’t working and the contact email for the Summary Offences Amendment Bill is the Justice Committee but they apparently don’t take submissions?
🤔🫠🙄
🤔🫠🙄
October 5, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Does anyone know what I should do if submitting via the Parliament website isn’t working and the contact email for the Summary Offences Amendment Bill is the Justice Committee but they apparently don’t take submissions?
🤔🫠🙄
🤔🫠🙄
Aside from the (so very many) logical fallacies happening in whatever this is trying to be, it’s truly fascinating that someone with editorial responsibility was sufficiently impressed with this to press go.
October 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Aside from the (so very many) logical fallacies happening in whatever this is trying to be, it’s truly fascinating that someone with editorial responsibility was sufficiently impressed with this to press go.
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor, but it’s totally sweet if you happen to be friends with both” just doesn’t have the same ring to it, eh
September 27, 2025 at 4:55 AM
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor, but it’s totally sweet if you happen to be friends with both” just doesn’t have the same ring to it, eh
Chlöe Swarbrick on the Treaty Principles Bill, but truer words were never spoken about this government.
September 27, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Chlöe Swarbrick on the Treaty Principles Bill, but truer words were never spoken about this government.
This quote is from a few months ago but if we’re talking about the face of New Zealand, it’s never looked so small, and mean, and utterly bereft of a moral compass.
September 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
This quote is from a few months ago but if we’re talking about the face of New Zealand, it’s never looked so small, and mean, and utterly bereft of a moral compass.
Hello Stuff in the interests of being fair and balanced perhaps this kind of bending the knee propaganda headline should be more aligned with the substance of the article which notes strong concern from unions, Labour and Greens (although the article weirdly downplays impact to women as “minor” 🙄)
September 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Hello Stuff in the interests of being fair and balanced perhaps this kind of bending the knee propaganda headline should be more aligned with the substance of the article which notes strong concern from unions, Labour and Greens (although the article weirdly downplays impact to women as “minor” 🙄)
Really makes you feel safe having the guy who liked a post celebrating the fall of Roe v. Wade as the Minister of Health in NZ 🫠
September 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Really makes you feel safe having the guy who liked a post celebrating the fall of Roe v. Wade as the Minister of Health in NZ 🫠