Why did the world mislead me?

POLITICS IS HILARIOUS.

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Global Revolution is streaming video of Brooklyn Bridge where thousands of peaceful protesters are having a stand-in while police arrest people. So far over 15,000 viewers are tuned in. There's very little, if any, violence from the crowd, just standing there letting themselves be arrested for exercising their rights. It's incredibly brave, and the ( Read more... )

I posted to my RL/political blog last night before bed and a local MP retweeted the link. Actually she happens to be one of the more twitter-active local MPs. Luckily this did not result in a huge influx of comments, only a couple, but it was definitely a surreal moment.

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So, bumper post of where I'm at.

- My name change went through and I am now much harder to stalk!

- Today we had sudden unexpected chocolate at work

- The US are trying to push treaty agreements that would strip countries of their ability to fight back against "evergreening" of patents. I have not heard a single fucking thing about this trade ( Read more... )

I would like $1 (in the speaker's native currency, even if that works out to a few cents in mine) from every person who wonders why poor people don't just go to school and get some skills so they can get a job and work their way up in the world so that I can go back to university so I can get some qualifications and get a permanent job after the ( Read more... )

I'm deadly serious, if I see any racist scaremongering I will be defriending.

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You know what the BEST day is? The best day is "boil water notice" lifted day. For the second time this year. We can drink the water!!!

(But sorry, I'm still gonna be depressing today - there are rural communities who can't, and haven't been able to for years. Eff National ( Read more... )

* There is not going to be a SlutWalk in Christchurch; council consent couldn't be obtained.This despite the fact that DV stats have gone up considerably ( Read more... )

Beating on about the Budget, I know - skip past if you don't care ( Read more... )

The new Budget was all over the local Twittersphere and blogs yesterday but I didn't say anything about it because it's such a huge subject. One summary of part of it was that the government is trying to encourange privatised saving so it can cut down on government assistance ( Read more... )