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Rarely make posts about irl shit but c'mon. People wouldn't be fucking stealing from you cunts if you stopped fucking price gouging. People. Can't. Afford. To. Eat.

Y'all they reintroduced kākāpō to mainland Aotearoa and I can't get over the photo of this little guy preparing for his Air New Zealand flight. They packed him snacks??? His water bowl says "only top quality"??? You're so right babe he is top quality 🥺🥺

I'm sorry I'm not over this yet

Imagine being a marine biologist and a marine biology comes to visit you but you're not home 😭😭

so yeah that fire in Lahaina, Maui? That was what indigenous activists were trying to prevent. That is why Land Back movements wants indigenous people to be the stewards of the land that was once theirs. Not kick out white people and settlers. But to prevent shit like that where a bunch of tourists/settlers won't destroy the planet in their ruthless pursuit of productivity and profit. So yeah, think on that.

People are asking how was this white people fault?

Power lines, in Hawaii they are owned by Blackrock and Vanguard, keep catching on fire because they forget to turn off their shitty electricity. So when they eventually topple over, white people forgot to cut the Guinea grass planted by colonizers 200 years to feed cows which changed Lahaina from a a swampland to the fucking tinderbox that it is today.

But hey, grass is grass and no need to mow an invasive species, right colonizers? Oh shit, that global warming that these fucking oil companies spent decades telling us wasn’t real is real and that dried up the land in Maui?

Now motherfuckers are trying to buy land off of the indigenous people in Maui because colonizers just love having part time homes, right?

But yay let’s celebrate the fucking billionaires who own homes in Lahaina because they are donating. Nope, no fucking correlation there right?

Indigenous Hawaiians have been saying how tourism is killing their islands for over a decade yet you fucking assholes keep mentioning how Tourism is the point of Hawaii as if that culture wasn’t just about living instead of living for profit.

They don’t want you there but you fuckheads insist of making it your timeshare goal. So yeah. It’s absolutely settler’s fault that this shit happening.

Anyway if you’re from the US and you ever wanted to know what tumblr feels like from a non-USAmerican perspective (please note that the rest of the world is not a monolith either and none of these apply without exception):

Fellow non-USAmericans, please add anything else you can think of.

You want to kick someone every time a man is called a brunette.

You know more about us politics then your own countries. People in your country laugh at a government official. You don’t know who that is, but you’re up to date on Florida’s legislation.

Someone online talks about the “liberals”. The post makes no sense until you realise they’re talking about the opposite side of the political spectrum than your country’s Liberal party.

Someone mentions ‘the President’, no clarification. They’re not from the USA. Neither are you. You know what he’s the President of without asking.

You click on a video. The person speaking in it has an accent similar to yours. This is novel and surprising. You won’t experience it again for months.

kiwi b ird held so gen tle and sweet . wonderful .

AB DEFGHI KL NO RSTU W

17/26

i dont think this bird even knows the alphabet .

i will teach her

shes eager to learn !!

It makes me a little bit insane when pākehā and when people who don't live in Aotearoa at all just totally leave the tohutō off every thing it's not there to look pretty ok you know that can totally change the meaning of a word right

Do you need to go back to primary school and learn about keke ( cake ) vs kēkē ( armpit ) again

Guys, the liquid stuff you use when you make a pen mistake so you have to cover it over, what’s it called?

White out

Okay that’s what I thot too,

But apparently it’s “Wite out” 😳😳😳 hello??????

Mandela effect *X-file music plays*

Views from an alternate dimension

Wite-Out is a brand of white out/correction fluid/liquid paper. The colloquial ‘white-out’ probably derives from the Wite-Out brand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correction_fluid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Paper

More importantly:

New Zealand math classroom, circa 2019

this post just shot me in the face like ten times

https://linktr.ee/Shaneellall

I’m sharing this because I need Tumblr to give a shit about another country other than America. Queer people in Aotearoa New Zealand have had their only safe spaces torn down possibly by an evangelist, queerphobic collage and our government is doing nothing about it. We NEED support right now. We can’t let this become another incident we’re numb to. This is absolutely abhorrent and if it upsets you, good. We need all the support we can get.

can we all agree we're not voting NAct please

this is such a huge step forward for the protection of our queer and takatāpui tamariki and whānau, im so incredibly proud of everyone who has fought so hard to get this bill passed. history in the making

actually, other useful tips for kiwis since we’re going into yet another shitty winter:

• vinegar is more effective at killing mold than bleach. use white vinegar to get rid of mold in your shitty housing and kill off spores.

• you can also make baking soda paste with a little water, and this + spraying some vinegar and leaving for 5-10 minutes is also an elite way of cleaning surfaces

• don’t mix things like bleach and vinegar though or you are going to have a terrible time

• depending on how shitty your housing is + how overbearing your landlord is, look into caulking + wood sealants. sometimes you can get these things cheap and keeping the moisture out is always a good idea

• try to dry your windows when possible. some people get those water vacuum suck things but they seem expensive so we use ye olde hand towels. you can also spray windows with white vinegar and wash them down to keep the sneaky mold away

• also check under your sinks, especially with shitty piping and connections bc not only are leaks are bad, suddenly you’ll find you have a pet colony of black mold. also check any laundry cupboards.

• putting a spoonful or two of baking soda down the drain followed by some white vinegar and leaving for 10 mins and then rinsing - this will help clear your drain pipes. using commercial drain cleaners can burn a hole in your shitty piping and your landlord will be pissed.

Next time, someone on the right claims they own "facts" remember this: Our chief science advisor says harsher penalties won't help reduce crime, but the right wing are claim their flailed tactics are "common sense"

I don’t care what justification you come up with; Don’t mock the rituals of another culture.

“Look at them and their silly dance, let’s mock their dance because they do funny movements and make funny faces.”

How about no. “But it’s just a dance…” No. “I didn’t know it was offensive,” use your fuxking brain. “I just wanted to try it out,” sure, by laughing and joking with your friends on a video for your fans, totally trying it in good faith [sarcasm].

This rant brought to you by ignorant Spanish and Dutch footballers mocking the Haka; ahead of the FIFA Women’s World Cup; being held in Aotearoa; the home nation of Māori; whose ritual they think is a joke.

Always thought about trying out Tumblr so why not now! Kicking off this new blog with some old-ish kākāpōs. :>

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