Erin 🏳️‍⚧️

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Tangata Tiriti, student, organiser, troublemaker. ✌🏻🍃 Black feminists taught me. 🖤 None of us is free until all of us are free 🫶🏻 🍉 See also @wxhbxh@mastodon.nzoss.nz

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Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· 17d

They also appear to be straight-up lying about the Labour CGT affecting Kiwisaver: www.labour.org.nz/media/pfvgua...

Screenshot from page 4 of the linked document. The word Kiwisaver is highlighted. Text reads:
What’s included
There will be a 28 percent tax on any profit
made after 1 July 2027 when a commercial
or residential property (excluding the family
home) is sold. Not a single dollar of profit
made before 1 July 2027 will be taxed.
What is exempt
Everything else. Your family home (including
lifestyle blocks) and farms will be tax-
free. KiwiSaver, shares, business assets,
inheritances, gifts, and personal items like
cars, boats, art, and furniture are all exempt

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· 18d

For science

The image from the original post, with the table of DnD creature types appended on the left.
The types are:
Aberrations
Celestials
Constructs
Dragons
Elementals
Fey
Fiends
Giants
Humanoids
Monstrosities
NPCs
Plants
Undead

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· 19d

Red Saddam Hussein hiding place silhouette, overlaid over the chart from OP. It's a pretty good fit! The stock title has also been changed to Saddam Hussein.

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jul 6

Is current and public Green policy too FWIW, though would be nice to see the party talk about it more. assets.nationbuilder.com/beachheroes/...

A screenshot of the Green Party policy linked above, point 1.4.2 is highlighted. Text follows:
Actions
1.1. Ensure that national security and defence systems uphold the rights of tangata
whenua affirmed by Te Tiriti o Waitangi, including the tino rangatiratanga of all hapū
and iwi over protecting their traditional lands and people.
1.2. Enhance collective security across the Pacific region, including by:
1.2.1. Collaborating with other Pacific nations on shared security challenges; and
1.2.2. Ensuring that security and defence planning is informed by, and prepares for,
the security threats inherent in destabilised Earth systems, including the
changing climate.
1.3. Ensure that security and intelligence agencies support the wellbeing of New
Zealanders and do not unreasonably interfere with human rights, by:
1.3.1. Tightening the definition of security in relevant intelligence legislation to
include only 'espionage, sabotage and terrorism', each also clearly defined; and
1.3.2. Instructing a Select Committee to review the security and intelligence
agencies to establish how existing and potential agencies could best
contribute to Aotearoa New Zealand’s wellbeing and domestic and
international law and order.
1.4. Safeguard the autonomy and integrity of Aotearoa New Zealand, including its right
to set standards, institute protections against abuse of power and privilege and
reduce the potential for conflicts of interest in the exercise of authority, including
by:
1.4.1. Abolishing the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) and
establishing the National Cyber Security Centre as a separate, independent
agency with a comprehensive national cybersecurity mandate;
1.4.2. Withdrawing Aotearoa New Zealand from the Five Eyes intelligence network,
the ANZUS Treaty and the Five Power Defence Arrangement; and
1.4.3. Closing the satellite communications interception base at Waihopai and the
signals intelligence base at Tangimoana.

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jul 5

Sounds concerningly familiar. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurembe... A quick comparison, for those playing along at home:

Rnz article screenshot of Peter's rhetoric. Sections mentioning allegiance, privilege, formal bond, responsibility and questioning the right of permanent residents to have a say highlighted. Text follows:

Announcing his new policy on Sunday, party leader Peters said voting "should be a privilege of those who have sworn allegiance to New Zealand, and who have made the commitment to make New Zealand their home and their future".

"If you haven't made that commitment or sworn that allegiance, we are happy to let you live here permanently, but why should you get a say in how this country is run or governed?" he said.

"New Zealand First will restore the basic democratic principle that the right to decide New Zealand's future belongs to New Zealand citizens."

Peters said permanent residence granted rights to live, work, study and build a life in New Zealand, but citizenship "is the formal bond of allegiance, belonging, responsibility, and democratic authority".

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jul 1

We did it! 🎉 Thanks so much to everyone who has donated & supported me in this, my good friend Julia for donating last night. Couldn't have done it without you all. Catch you next year. ✌🏻💜 Sweat With Pride 🌈 📆 Day 30/30!! 📍 Waikato University 👟 5.76km ⏳️️ 62min, T: 2038/1800!! [1/2]

A smiling golden hour selfie of me! I'm wearing an Aotearoa aeternum hoodie in black with white writing and NZ raven skull, large black sunglasses, black wireless headphones, and dimple piercings; my long brown hair is tied back. You can see the strap of my brown handbag. I look slightly worn out. Behind me you can see the lake by the uni performing arts building, and the fading sun reflected off of it.

Overlaid are my Google fit stats:
Afternoon walk, 1h 2m active time, 5.76km, 51 heart points.

It's a photo of the Gallagher centre of performing arts, a modern and beautiful building in the form of two white concrete and glass trapezoidal blocks leaning towards the lake, with a smaller rectangular section connecting them. The building is reflected off of a still lake and lit in gold by the afternoon sun.

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jun 30

Squeezed in another personal best distance on the last day of the month! One more day to go as I skipped the 1st of June. Thanks so much to Steph for donating today! And thanks again to everyone for the support & for joining me on this journey. 🫶🏻 Sweat With Pride 🌈 📆 Day 29/30 [1/2]

A photo of the exercise bike with my workout stats: 29.54km, 481cal, 65 minutes. You can also see my green water bottle

A smiling selfie of me leaving the gym, looking pretty stoked. Slightly blurry, though. Have failed to learn to slow down for these. My hair is still wet from the gym shower and I don't have my glasses on as I left them in the car. I have long brown hair and dimple piercings. I'm wearing an Aotearoa aeternum hoodie which is black with black metal style lettering in white with the outline in white of the skull of an extinct New Zealand raven. You can see the gym entrance behind me, and as it's 5:30ish in winter it's getting dark.

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jun 30

I really would've liked more options that speak to the epistemic issues. AI's point of view is not a neutral one, and as more and more of the Web becomes slop, the decisions made in training about what facts matter are likely to become a problem.

My AI compass result, marked in the bottom left quadrant of the chart (towards the upper left quarter of that quadrant)

Text reads:
Your AI Compass

29 of 29 questions answered
You are...
The Skeptic
patron saint: Ed Zitron
It's oversold, it's losing staggering amounts of money, and the harms are arriving faster than the value. You've done the math on the unit economics and it doesn't close. You are loud about this, prolific about this, and you suspect history will vindicate you.
Impact: -1.2 • Valence: -2.1

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jun 29

Thanks mama from all your support, and for coming out with me today! ❤️ Sweat With Pride 🌈 📆 Day 28/30 📍 Lake Waikare 👟 5.46km ⏳ 58min, T: 1911/1800!! 💰 $1250/1050!! 🔗 https://www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/erinchurch/swp/ 🎧 Pussy Riot - CYKA: https://tidal.com/album/524733461/u

It's a smiling selfie of me and my mum, in front of Lake Waikare in Te Kauwhata. We're both wearing dark sunglasses and have our hair tied back. I am a fair bit taller than her, and we're both wearing black.

Overlaid are my Google Fit stats: afternoon walk, 58m 31s active time, 5.46km, 48 heart points.

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jun 28

Totally forgor photo, here:

A smiling selfie of me in front of a gully near Te Kauwhata golf course. Wearing black headphones, large black sunglasses, dimple piercings black hoodie, pounamu, black t-shirt that says Aotearoa Wild in gold.
Overlaid are Google fit stats: afternoon walk, 1h 2m active time, 5.61km, 55 heart points.

My Sweat With Pride Sweat Tracker page.
text reads:
Track your sweat
From 1st June onwards, only activity in June will appear below and count towards your totals.
You've sweated 100% of your goal
1853 mins sweated
1800 mins total goal
End text
There is an image included of my swp trainer, drag queen Wanda Farr, in a safari outfit complete with binoculars, stunned expression.
there is also a purple progress bar, which is of course full!

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jun 27

Little bit more of Te Kauwhata. No selfie as the ones I tried to take in front of the quarry itself came out garbage on account of requiring I stare into the sun. 😅 Almost done! Sweat With Pride 🌈 📆 Day 26/30 📍 Te Kauwhata/Ward Quarry 👟 5.42km ⏳ 60min, T: 1791/1800 💰 $1250/1050 [1/2]

A shot of the sunset over farmland of Te Kauwhata, looking northwest from Swan Road.
Overlaid are Google Fit stats: afternoon walk, 1h active time, 5.42km, 51 heart points.

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jun 27

Ticket to Ride was a victory for the #Greens ✌🏻💚

A completed Ticket To Ride board, an outdoor game between three players: green, red, and blue. Green has won with 137 points for a long rail that runs from Rome to Barcelona, loops around the western coast of Europe, and continues east all the way to Petrograd. Blue is second with 133, and red is third with 123.

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jun 26

Bit of a change of scene today, staying with whānau. Thanks so much mum and dad for all your support! 💜 Sweat With Pride 🌈 📆 Day 25/30 📍 Te Kauwhata 👟 5.58km ⏳ 60min, T: 1731/1800 💰 $1250/1050 🔗 https://www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/erinchurch/swp/ [1/2]

A smiling golden hour selfie of me by Lake Waikare in Te Kauwhata. Behind me you can see the track and some wetland in the process of being restored. I'm wearing a black hoodie with the hood up, headphones, purple rimmed glasses, dimple piercings, and white t-shirt.
Overlaid are my Google Fit workout stats: afternoon walk, 1 hour active time, 5.58km, 48 heart points.

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jun 25

Took it a bit easier today. Very wet, but did in fact remember my umbrella. Sweat With Pride 🌈 📆 Day 24/30 📍 Waiwhakareke Natural Heritage Park 👟 5.57km ⏳ 63min, T: 1671/1800 💰 $1250/1050!! 🔗 https://www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/erinchurch/swp/ [1/2]

It's a smiling selfie of me! Am wearing black wireless headphones, purple-rimmed glasses, dimple piercings, pounamu, and a Palestine/Kneecap themed black t-shirt. Also a black zip hoodie. I have my umbrella out, as it's wet AF, it has a great big red flower printed on it surrounded with green. I'm smiling and at the entranceway of Waiwhakareke.
Overlaid are my Google Fit stats: afternoon walk, 1h 3m active time, 5.57km, 53 heart points.

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jun 24

Holy crap! Thanks so much to everyone who donated today! Thanks to you I smashed my goal and my fundraising total for last year. So stoked. 💜 Also our team is now #2 for friends and whānau, wicked. 💚 Solidarity forever. 🙌🏻 [1/3]

A shot of the exercise bike screen, post workout summary. 28.74km, 473 cal, 65 minutes. You can also see my water bottle and the edge of a V can. No inhaler because I lost it somewhere between packing gym bag and arriving at gym 🤷🏻‍♀️
Why yes, I did also forget to take a selfie.

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jun 23

Another day, another beloved album, another personal best. Tomorrow from 8am (9 hours from now) is Double Dollar Day, donations will be matched until the pot runs out, so get in quick! If you've been thinking about donating, now is the time. Set your alarms whānau. 🫶🏻 Sweat With Pride 🌈 [1/2]

It's a selfie of me, on my way out of the gym. Wearing this super rad Aotearoa Aeternum hoodie from pepper raccoon! It's black and has black metal style writing in white, as well as art of the skull of the extinct New Zealand Raven between the two words. On the back, which you can't see, it has art of a range of other extinct birds from Aotearoa.
I'm also wearing purple rimmed glasses, dimple piercings, and black wireless headphones. In the background you can see a bunch of gym posters.

I'm smiling as if stoked at my progress (I am!)

The exercise bike at the gym you can see my workout stats: 29.19km! 481 calories, 65 minutes. You can also see my green water bottle and idk where my inhaler went, it must be in my pocket.

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jun 22

Three weeks down, one to go - the home strait! Thanks so much to everyone who has supported me in this, whether through donating or sharing. Appreciate you! 🫰🏻 Sweat With Pride 🌈 📆 Day 21/30 📍 Lake Rotoroa 👟 6.07km ⏳ 61min, T: 1478/1800 💰 $800/1050 [1/2]

It's a smiling selfie of me at the lake! The sun is starting to set and the water looks all pretty and reflective. I'm wearing a t-shirt from The Onion that reads "I Enjoy Branded Merchandise", it's bright green with white text. I'm also wearing black wireless headphones, pounamu, dimple piercings, and large black sunglasses. My hair is tied back, and I am also wearing a grey zip hoodie.
Overlaid are Google fit stats: afternoon walk, 1h1m active time, 6.07km, 58 heart points.

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jun 22

He is the Carrion Lord of the British Empire for whom a thousand prime ministers are sacrificed every day, so that he may never truly die.

The golden throne of the empire of man from Warhammer 40k, except that the emperor has been replaced by the Downing Street cat

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jun 21

Guess who kinda forgor the gym closes early on a Sunday. 😭 I humbly beg your forgiveness. There are many missing minutes from my tally — walking to & from various buses — I pray you will take this into consideration. 😉 [1/3]

A hasty snap of the exercise bike as I tried to document while also not keeping gym staff waiting. 😅
17.74km, 44rpm (pushed it just enough to wake it up for pic), 300 calories, 42:35 mins. You can also see that it is in random hill mode ig. And my handy dandy inhaler.

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jun 21

Post 4 female characters you love and pass it on

Pelia, from Star Trek: Strange New World's.

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jun 20

I suck so bad at taking selfies when tired 😭 Helped out a little with community wetland planting. Google fit is full of shit with that heart points number, I suppose tree planting is not quite the same as gardening though. ✌🏻🍃 Sweat With Pride 🌈 📆 Day 19/30 [1/2]

An attempt at a smiling selfie in front of the native plantings, but it seems to have come out looking like a bit of a grimace. Oops. Clearly out of breath. My hair is tied back and I am wearing my purple-rimmed glasses, dimple piercings, and a black t-shirt from Pepper Racoon that says "Aotearoa Wild" in it in gold and has a pretty cool print that you can't see much of at all.
overlaid are my google fit exercise stats: afternoon gardening, 1h 39m active time, 2 heart points. That last stat I think is kinda suss.

A freshly planted area of former paddock, ready to be transformed back into wetland. Is already quite wet, but still covered in grass. Complete with water trough on the right edge of the image. In the background on the bank you can see a range of already well-developed plantings. I didn't get a list of actual plants we put in, but are all natives. There was definitely a bunch of harakeke, Idk What else. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jun 19

The bit where my phone fell out of my pocket and I didn't notice until at the bottom of the hill where my headphones cut out was sadly not counted. 😔 Sweat With Pride 🌈 📆 Day 18/30 📍 Till’s Lookout/Taitua Arboretum 👟 5.53km ⏳ 66min, T: 1276/1800 💰 $800/1050 [1/2]

A view of the path at Till's lookout, as the sun is starting to set. The path winds its way out into the distance, toward Mount Pirongia in the South-West. The track is paved concrete, and it's surrounded by bright green grass the maunga appears blue against the golden hues of the setting sun. There are cows grazing in the fields in the middleground on the lefthand side of the image, on the other side of a wooden panel fence. A few trees dot the landscape and they're tinged gold by the fading light.

Overlaid are my Google Fit workout stats: Afternoon walk, 1h 6min active time, 5.53km, 46 heart points.

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jun 18

Sweater (with pride) arrived, so ofc I went walking in it. Thanks Kylie for your donation! Only $250 away from my goal!! Sweat With Pride 🌈 📆 Day 17/30 📍 Waiwhakareke Natural Heritage Park 👟 5.54km ⏳ 60min, T: 1210/1800 💰 $800/1050 [1/2]

It's a smiling selfie of me in front of the peat lake at Waiwhakareke Natural Heritage Park. I'm wearing black wireless headphones, dimple piercings, purple framed glasses, pounamu, and My hair is tied back. I'm wearing the "fighting discrimination with perspiration" sweater which is the $500 fundraising reward for this challenge. It's navy blue, and has a diverse range of people exercising on it, in various colours of the rainbow. The text is pink bubble writing and the word perspiration is surrounded in blue sweat droplets. The people are also surrounded in yellow sparkles, the art looks very cool and very queer.

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jun 17

Another pb, quick someone think of a Linkin Park pun. Also ig that was a short album, so also BABYMETAL! Sweat With Pride 🌈 📆 Day 16/30 📍 Unirec 🚲 28.88km ⏳ 65min, T: 1145/1800 💰 $775/1050 🔗 https://www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/erinchurch/swp/ 🎧 [1/2]

A smiling post-workout selfie of me, still on the bike. I'm wearing black wireless headphones, dimple piercings, purple-framed glasses, and pounamu. I have my hair back and my shirt is one from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, their cyberscape city design from Defcon last year (I didn't go, sadly, just got it as a free gift for being a member). It's black with a bright multicoloured print.

A pic of the display on the bike with my workout stats - 28.88km, 474cal, 65 minutes. You can see my handy dandy inhaler and green water bottle.

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jun 16

Building those gains brick by boring brick. Love this album. Also I think new pb distance? Sweat With Pride 🌈 📆 Day 15/30 📍 Unirec 🚲 28.5km ⏳ 65min, T: 1085/1800 💰 $775/1050 🔗 https://www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/erinchurch/swp/ [1/2]

Is me, immediately post-workout, still sitting on the stationary bike. I'm smirking a little it seems. Wearing the usual pounamu, black headphones, purple framed glasses, dimple piercings, long hair tied back. Today's t-shirt is a Resist design from Illicit custom. I am an emo kid at heart so yk. Shirt has a stylised depiction of a Palestine flag version of one of Kneecap's trademark balaclavas. Below it says Resist and there are downward pointing red triangles (like on the flag) below the word. I like this shirt, those terrorism charges were kinda bullshit huh.

Snap of my workout stats on the bike. 28.50km, 475cal, 65mins. You can also see my green drink bottle and my inhaler because it turns out that being able to breathe helps with exercise.

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jun 15

As you can see, I had no idea where I was going. Also I forgor my headphones at home this time so no music. Shoutout to waterproof running shoes. #FreePalestine Sweat With Pride 🌈 📆 Day 14/30 📍 Mangaiti Gully 👟 5.47km ⏳ 67min, T: 1020/1800 💰 $775/1050 [1/2]

Google Fit afternoon walk stats, with a map that goes all over the show. 1h 7m active time, 5.47km, 37 heart points.

It's a selfie of me! I'm wearing a Free Palestine tee from Illicit custom, which has the Palestine flag with a ✌🏻 symbol dividing the colours. I'm also wearing large black sunglasses, pounamu, dimple piercings, ponytail, and an unzipped grey Black Sabbath hoodie. Behind me you can see a bunch of cool native wetland, and the slightly sketch single plank boardwalk.

A long stretch of boardwalk (which is just two planks longways, end to end) over a wetland area with lots of native vegetation like harakeke.

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jun 14

In which I am not beating the Green Party stereotype allegations. Also over halfway to my Sweat goal! 🦵🏼💦 Sweat With Pride 🌈 📆 Day 13/30 📍 Waiwhakareke Natural Heritage Park 👟 6.06km ⏳ 62min, T: 953/1800 💰 $775/1050 🔗 https://www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/erinchurch [1/2]

A smiling selfie of me on the boardwalk at Waiwhakareke. I'm wearing a Sea Shepherd beanie and a "Plant Based" t-shirt from Anticarnist - hence the vegan stereotypes. Overlaid are my Google Fit workout stats: afternoon walk, 1h 2m active time, 6.06km, 61 heart points

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jun 13

I'm so glad you did! We had a really fun time making the tombstones for our last event, but I didn't get time to run sign-making this time. Was so cool seeing all the signs people made. I ended up keeping this one, and we have a bunch more adorning the clubroom. :)

A black cardboard tombstone on the wall reads RIP Without HRT, with a skull and crossbones below, all in gold. It's next to my bookshelf, you can see a few books and my signed Pillars of Eternity Collectors edition box.

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jun 13

I'm calling it two hours, there was a lot of walking around and moving heavy stuff. Sweat With Pride 🌈 📆 Day 12/30 📍 Civic Square 👟??km ⏳ 120min, T: 891/1800 💰 $775/1050 🔗 https://www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/erinchurch

Kind blurry protest shot.
I am in a black "Challenge Transphobia" shirt, though you can't read it. I am wearing a grey jacket, pink hi-vis vest, and black, white and red chequered shorts with leggings underneath. I am speaking at the microphone and reading from my yellow notebook. From the national day of action against the gender definition bill, here in Kirikiriroa.

Erin 🏳️‍⚧️@queerjoy· Jun 12

Long one today, the lake is lovely at sunset. Ft. this epic karearea shirt from Pepper Raccoon. Sweat With Pride 🌈 📆 Day 11/30 📍 Lake Rotorua/Western Rail Trail 👟 8.72km ⏳ 89min, T: 771/1800 💰 $750/1050 🔗 https://www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/erinchurch [1/2]