Sarah

@notsailingalone.bsky.social

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He tangata tiriti ahau Te Tau Ihu Aotearoa Former Californian a pessimistic optimist or an optimistic pessimist she/her library person

No. 3 in trending is New Zealand Sports?
A photo of a record that is pink and shaped like a heart. The label is red and says, "Kate Bush Interview 85"
Terry Pratchett's Orangutan Librarian sitting on a desk in a library surrounded by floating books and baskets of bananas. He is holding one book with his foot and reading a book he's holding in one hand while the other hand is picking a banana from a basket.
2 small people, one is dressed as a dinosaur and the other is spiderman, are sitting together in a chair watching a TV that is out of view
The Night Cafe by Vincent Van Gogh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Caf%C3%A9
The cover of Hoods Landing by Laura Vincent A black cover with a 1970s photo in the center framed by white letters with authors name and book title. The photo is of a Christmas tree decorated with balloons with presents underneath. A German Shepherd is lying on the floor in the foreground.
A draft of a post by me that says, "Blank just died. Good, I'm glad he's dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
The blood moon in Aotearoa
Photo of book Black Sugarcane by Nafanua Purcell Kersel. White cover with print like illustration of fruit, probably quince, hanging from leaves at top. Black silhouette of woman looking up at them and reaching up with one hand held like the fruit is ready to drop into it and the other hand holding a full basket. She is standing in between plants growing from bottom of cover with birds flying at either side. The name of author and title are in the space between the woman and the fruit.
Your article reports a lie, "The US Department of Homeland Security said Border Patrol agents fired in defense at a man who approached them with a handgun and two magazines" as if it were factual. The video clearly shows him with a camera and ungloved empty hand. Leading with the lie is grotesque. You later say a video shows them wrestling with a man but fail to mention the part where he is clearly not brandishing a weapon, comes to the aid of a person being attacked, is being brutally beaten including getting pistol whipped multiple times in the face as an agent removes a firearm from the victim's pants BEFORE they shoot him 10 times. Why did you not tell the public those facts? Why describe the scene, which was recorded from multiple angles, as "wrestling with a man on a snow-covered street" when he's clearly being beaten? Lies of omission are still lies.
The cover of the book A Beautiful Family by Jennifer Trevelyan. It is a photograph of a NZ beach. In the foreground are flaxes and beach scrub with the beach extending out. Pōhutukawa and a beach town are centred with a cloudy sky at the top. The title and author name are in big white letters against the sky.
Facebook post of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society that links to the AP death announcement of Brigitte Bardot that details her racist comments and neo Nazi connections. They have captioned it, "Thank you for your amazing, unwavering dedication to animals and our oceans. Rest in power."
'All my feelings would have been of common things' All my feelings are of common things of the clock going on, of the next meal or the last one, of the washing on the line and if there's enough heat to dry it, of how to clean a lawnmower just enough to make the Salvation Army man want to take it away, with old grey grass stuck to the blades, the tyres that hold dirt, like cleats in walking shoes. Also a dryer I bought forty years ago. I stick the manual and the expired guarantee inside the metal drum. All those clothes it turned and churned, the lint that it trapped in the door. I once thought many things would make my life happier and now one by one I will let them go.
A chocolate Labrador laying on a bed with, leaning on a striped throw plow
A photo taken by Shellie Evans, original at https://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingkiwigirl/32946315482 A photo of a landscape. A rusting shipwreck mostly corroded sits on mud flats surrounded by sea weed with the sand bar and cloud covered mountains visible in the background. The sky is blue. Two people are walking on a stone path out to the wreck.
Simeon Brown looking exactly like drawing in quote post above.
The cover of the book He Atua, He Tangata: The World of Māori Mythology A.W. Reed Revised by Ross Calman.
12 small paintings by Katy Horan in little gold frames hung on a wall in a 3 across, 4 down grid. From top left: Charlotte Gilman Perkins, Bees, Emily Dickinson Second row: Teacup, Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie Third row: Janet Frame, Toni Morrison, Eel Bottom row: Joy Harjo, Wildflowers, Leslie Marmon Silko
The cover of the book Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami The cover is white, the authors name in black in the upper left corner, the title is in black in the lower right corner, a stylised bird made of pink, yellow, green, and black shapes is in the middle
A road covered in water, on one side a hops farm flooded, on the other a flowing river where paddocks used to be.
Apple boxes and debris on a beach.
Stop bank with water quite high and grass shows line of where it was at its height.
A 16 year old girl wearing green shorts and tshirt is standing in superman pose while wearing her dad's hard hat and life jacket and other safety gear he wears at work.
Two posts from Donald Trump on Truth Social: 1. ISRAEL is not going to attack Iran. All planes will turn around and head home, while doing a friendly “Plane Wave” to Iran. Nobody will be hurt, the Ceasefire is in effect! Thank you for your attention to this matter! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 2. ISRAEL. DO NOT DROP THOSE BOMBS. IF YOU DO IT IS A MAJOR VIOLATION. BRING YOUR PILOTS HOME, NOW! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
A screenshot of a post where the poster's name is shortened from "Danielle, Petty Hate Machine" to "Petty Hate Ma..."
A chocolate Labrador with grey eyebrows and snoot, lying on a dog bed, licking her lips while looking at camera. She definitely needs her toenails trimmed but it's a 3 person job.
Laying on a blanket is a Whittaker's Dark Salted Caramel Chocolate block, a book by Marge Pierce called Woman on the Edge of Time, and some rocks beautifully painted with intricate depictions of classic book covers but the titles are puns on rocks like "The Handmaid's Topaz" and "Anne of Green Granite".
A card with a tūī in a kōwhai. Tūī is wearing a Santa hat and the text says "Wishing you a Merry midwinter Christmas". The "midwinter" is handwritten.
A chaise sofa chair pushed up against the wall. The wall has different teal geometric shapes painted on it. The chaise has two squishy grey pillows and a Mexican blanket (striped red, white, grey, black, and blue) covering one end. The present in a green and red Christmas bag is on the chaise with a card. There is a stack of books on a side-table and a dog bed on the floor next to it.
Close up of blue kettle with blue lights waiting to boil.
The cover of Poorhara by Michelle Rahurahu.
A gift in a bag on a table with a white card addressed to Sarah. The gift bag is fabric that has green and white stripes in the background with a pattern of owls with polkadot wings and Santa hats sitting on a branch alternating with daisies. The colours are red, yellow, green, maroon, and white.
Screenshot of skeet by Daniel B. Kurz, M.A. The bottom shows replies turned off at 101, QTs going strong at 350, and 2 sad pathetic likes by some grifter goblins. The content of the skeet is a link to Guardian article with the headline, "New Zealand MPs who performed haka in parliament given unprecedented punishment" and shows a picture of Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke on the day Te Pāti Māori stood up to oppose the racist Treaty Principles Bill. It is the moment she ripped the paper copy of it in half and began a haka. Daniel B Kurz, M.A.'s racist comment states: "I saw this disruption. And it's NOT acceptable. It's not noble or brave or decent or chic. Legislatures are where we go to solve our problems. From my perspective, this isn't any different from a Jan 6 situation on a smaller scale. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... #NZPol #Auspol #PAHouse"
Wonder Woman flying her invisible jet.
Photo of the cover of Hine Toa: A story of bravery by Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku. Grey cover with red title at top. A black and white side photo of a young Māori woman with jet black hair, it is the author Ngāhuia.
A lady wearing a green oodie with cartoon avocados in various cute poses and the same print pants and socks.
Photo from above of hibiscus plant in terracotta pot with 6 yellow blooms that have magenta centres and several unopened blooms.
A painting of a small child with the words, "Legend says that when you're overwhelmed and on the edge of a nervous breakdown, a small child will appear and tell you that you made their sandwich wrong."
Black woodburner in the corner of a lounge with a fire burning.
A photo from the perspective of above a large terracotta pot with a hibiscus plant. The leaves are dark green and the two flowers are yellow with magenta centres. There are many yellow buds waiting to open.
An image from the Waitangi dildo incident where Steven Joyce, National Party MP, is shown being hit in face by a thrown dildo in 2016
Screenshot of skeet by Sean Kelleher @jsk5.bsky.social that says: "By my standards this was a very high engagement post, so thanks to everyone who engaged, and welcome to a bunch of new followers. Also, while I don’t mind the abundant negative comments, the positive ones are much more pleasant, and I aim to be more positive myself when replying to other people."
A FB poll answer with a tick box that says, "I don't see Te Reo as a useful language and would rather spend time in other pursuits."
Most days now, I touch base with Russian or Belarusian friends in exile who are experiencing a terrifying sort of déjà vu. We are perhaps more shocked than our American friends are by the speed with which the very rich and powerful, like The Washington Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos, have become enablers of Trumpism, and how the air itself seems to change, until suddenly it’s Zelensky, with his cleareyed vision and firm principles, who seems like an anomaly. We’ve seen it all before, and that is one of the reasons we are shocked: We’ve seen how it ends. Another is that we didn’t expect to see this happen in the United States. We thought that our countries were particularly vulnerable to political warping because of their decades-long histories of totalitarianism. “It was nice to know that there was one country where the people in charge were, if not likable, then at least sane,” is how the young Russian exile Ksenia Mironova put it. More than that, it was nice to think that the society was sane.
A kererū sits on a branch. It is a large green and white pigeon with red feet and beak. Photo by Charles J Sharp
Close up of yellow hibiscus flower with magenta centre in full bloom
A close up photo of two young, bright green avocado fruits hanging from a tree with green foliage.
If you go to a children's birthday party in Australia or New Zealand, you may not get birthday cake...
Pjvenneman has commented, "it's a shame the cost of living crisis means no one can afford a dildo to throw at him."
The fixed frame where the end of a latch used to be. It is discernible only in the lines at top and bottom.
A wooden door frame cut with a latch placed in it.
The cover of Ash by Louise Wallace. It shows the silhouette of a volcano with a full washing basket in the foreground as ash rains down.
Photo of a woman laying on her side in bed in a dark room, her face is lit by the phone she is holding and looking at. Bottom has credit to Reductress. Caption is in red and looks like a headline. It reads: "Woman decides to unwind by reading a thousand people's thoughts on the 68 most horrible things that happened today."
A picture of a smiling Bishop Budde in religious clothes. Ben Garrett has tweeted the photo with the following caption, "Do not commit the sin of empathy. This snake is God's enemy and yours too. She hates God and his people. You need to properly hate in response. She is not merely deceived but a deceiver. Your eye shall not pity."
A picture of a smiling Bishop Budde in religious clothes. Ben Garrett has tweeted the photo with the following caption, "Do not commit the sin of empathy. This snake is God's enemy and yours too. She hates God and his people. You need to properly hate in response. She is not merely deceived but a deceiver. Your eye shall not pity."
A little glass dish that looks suspiciously like an old ashtray.
Screenshot of skeet that says: "I just want to point out that fascisim is, among other things, weaponized nostalgia. Which means that if you have any hobby that has a nostalgic aspect, be aware that you probably have some fascists hanging about. Knitting, sewing, fountain pens, history buffs, gaming? Yep, all them."
The album cover of Hejira by Joni Mitchell