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Meet this guy. He’s kind of chubby, vibrantly orange, and has a constant puzzled look on his face. I don’t even know his name - but he’s one half of the best Christmas present ever. If you follow The End is Naenae, you’ll know we lost
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Aotearoa has lost our first child to COVID. We do not know about this little one, except for the sparse demographics of the media: that he was a boy, aged under ten, and Māori. We do know, although the news didn't tell us, that when a child dies
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I once got suckered by a fake website. The content made me angry - probably the exact intent of the website's creator - so I posted about it on Facebook. Someone then pointed out to me, gently and tactfully, that the website wasn't real. Once I&
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Tomorrow's the day. I can't think of an ethically trickier decision than the ones our leaders have just made. I can't imagine what it is to weigh up the community that's scared for its kaumatua against the kids failing school, against the
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When I first started writing about this stuff, I was warned. That sounds histrionic; cloak and dagger, even. But I took it seriously. The warnings came from people with first hand experience. Sure enough, I soon understood why. One person had made a pro-trans comment under one of my posts.
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We were watching telly on the couch. E, then a young teenager, told me he was non-binary. There wasn't much to be said except 'I love you', or much to be done except hug. And then we kept watching the telly, my arm around him. I&
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It's a universal law. Whenever some bloke says something crass, gross or sexist, another will rush to downplay it as 'locker room talk'. In the past, it's been Trump. Yesterday it was Barry Soper. It's kind of weird, invoking locker rooms. The
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Here's what's bothering me. Simon Bridges did something inappropriate at a function five years ago. There were consequences. I don't know what Bridges said, and I'm not defending him. I don't know if it was bad enough to deserve being
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I hope that people who won't get vaxxed for the survival of humanity will do it for a haircut. To be fair, these are close-run things for me too.
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I'm a gym-goer. Rippling biceps, firm buttocks, rock hard abs. I don't have them. But I'm still a gym-goer. I found exercise later in life. There was little to lead me there earlier. I'd had a stunning inability for sport of any
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I've got news for you, and it's all bad. We are victims of social engineering by an authoritarian government. Smug bureaucrats spout words like 'fascism' and 'alt right' and 'kindness' until they have no meaning. And fake progressives have no