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hungrymama.bsky.social
Hungrymama
@hungrymama.bsky.social
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Leftie, feminist, pākehā, fat. She/her. A bunch of chronic conditions in a trenchcoat. Toitū te Tiriti. Mostly cat pics and whining. Ōtautahi. Profile pic by Fran Henricksen
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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · Nov 15
Hello! I seem to have a bunch of new followers from a diabetes focussed list. Welcome to my wee corner of Aotearoa!

This account is radically body/weight neutral. Any fatpbobia, body shaming, or pathologising of fat bodies will earn an instablock. Or a rant before the block if I’m feeling spicy.
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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · 6h
Definitely good to look into that sooner rather than later.
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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · 6h
Oh no!
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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · 8h
I had the coolest retro boy-leg togs and they brought me so much joy.
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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · 8h
I still carry trauma from the combo of school swimming, high cut 80s togs and being hit real hard with the puberty stick.
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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · 11h
OMG that is gorgeous!
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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · 11h
The pants are horrifying, but please please pretty please can this give us some respite from worrying about an untrimmed bikini line?
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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · 11h
C is the family chat MVP. Today he is sharing pictures of where the library book he needs isn’t.
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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · 13h
Often a good strategy
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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · 17h
And you start young. There were a bunch of Mum Speeches about justice and equality and not being a dick that my kids knew by heart long before they were teenagers.
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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · 17h
You get a whole different flavour of bullying at single sex schools
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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · 17h
It boggles me how so many teens are really awesome, but the ones that aren’t lean so hard into grossness. Like you can’t just handwave it away as a phase they all go through, coz they don’t.
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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · 17h
Yikes! Hopefully B’s dose of reality will have prompted at least some of them to rethink their words.
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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · 21h
True. Horrible, but true.
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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · 21h
I do not wish to feel nostalgic about Jim fucking Bolger.
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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · 21h
Next attempt I’m going to make my partner do it with me so at least I have someone at home to practice with.
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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · 21h
I’ve struggled with language learning as an adult but still make an attempt every decade or so.
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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · 21h
I am so mad that I am monolingual because my English ancestors stole the languages of both my Welsh ancestors and my Parents’ chosen home. I should have had three languages from birth and I would have been so much better for it.
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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · 21h
Tonight F is playing the entirety of John Coltrane’s Blue Train. Capital Blues Basement@Jack Hackett’s, 9pm, $20 cover charge
John Coltrane's Blue Train | Wellington Jazz Festival
www.jazzfestival.nz
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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · 21h
It’s so awful. There needs to be so much more support. I’m super aware that I’m only doing ok because I have a partner who a) earns really well and b) doesn’t suck. I’m lucky, but being dependent never feels 100% secure.
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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · 22h
Iggy Pop is possibly the only person on the planet that I will risk an outdoor music festival for.
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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · 1d
OMG!
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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · 1d
Also, and I cannot emphasise this strongly enough, the purpose of education should be about much much much more than getting jobs.
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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · 1d
When the humanities are constantly undermined, underfunded and understaffed, describing a BA in disparaging terms is really really unhelpful.
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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · 1d
F has solved most of the difficult aspects of moving - he’s moving across the road to the flat where he already does most of his socialising and rehearsing.
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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · 1d
I still disagree.

I think comparing degrees like this is pointless and mean spirited and frankly plays into the hands of a government determined to gut our education system.
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