Stina Womack

@trickpixel.bsky.social

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Around the world and home to Ōtepoti again: 🇳🇿>🇦🇺>🇬🇧>🇫🇷>🇺🇸>🇳🇿 ⬅️ Accent is the bastard child of all those places.

Screenshot of the completion message after making a submission to New Zealand's Parliament. The screenshot says "Online Submission Complete - Social Services and Community Committee - Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill".
A graphic from YouGov showing where Brexit voters now stand, compared to how they voted back then. Notably around 3.2 million people who voted to 'Leave' the EU have since died - that's 18.4% of the 17.4 million who voted that way, AND, the VAST majority of 3 million new voters want to 'Rejoin'.
A woman's hand holding the book "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder.
A screenshot of a popover from the NZ electoral website explaining an eligibility criterion. It says: "Resident for electoral purposes For electoral purposes, you are a resident if you’re in New Zealand legally and not required to leave within a specific time, and have lived in New Zealand continuously for 12 months or more. If you have to leave New Zealand by a set date You are not a resident for electoral purposes and not eligible to enrol to vote. This includes people who have student, work, or visitor permits. If you’re Australian, Niuean, Tokelauan or a Cook Islander You can enrol after you have lived in New Zealand continuously for 12 months or more. If you’re working for the public service overseas If you’re on duty outside NZ as a public servant, a member of the Defence Force or you’re a family member of one, you can still enrol to vote."
An afternoon shot of the duck pond at the Ōtepoti / Dunedin Botanic Gardens, surrounded by autumn trees with flax and grasses in the foreground. The sky is blue and the sun is shining.
A screenshot of the two preceding messages, both with the save icon circled, one, a solid blue bookmark, in the selected state, and the other a grey outline bookmark in the unselected state.
A Venn diagram with the caption "Somehow we ended up here". There's an orange bubble on the left labeled "apocalypse", and a very small overlap with a blue bubble on the right, labeled "having to go to work". There's an arrow pointing at the small overlap.
A page from Timothy Snyder's book On Tyranny that says: 5. Remember Professional Ethics. When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law state without lawyers, or to hold show trials without judges. Authoritarians need obedient civil servants, and concentration camp directors seek businessmen interested in cheap labor.
A screenshot from the linked ProPublica article about Utah farmers. The quote says "they die by suicide at the third highest rate by vocation in the state, according to State data, behind miners and construction workers."