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Gam zu l'tova.
Startling Lady of Gore
He is referring to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Sir Keir Starmer, who is a pig, a slob, and a wretched dog
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Gladys Eileen Pidgeon (1906-2002). The photo was taken following her appearance at the inaugural British Empire Games, the only woman selected for the NZ team. The government did not want a single woman on the team because it would require the additional expense of a chaperone.
Ref GH026490, Te Papa
At Whare Komiti, Haerehuka, King Country
Photo by Alfred Burton, 4th June 1885.
This photograph of unidentified women and children was taken at Haerehuka, and the subjects are probably the wives and children of the King Movement chiefs.
Ref O.000798, Te Papa.
They’ve figured out steel but not having a supply of kindling? That’s it you’re all banished to the mines
Couldn’t figure out how to make necrophagy a taboo but I DID make eating raw meat taboo so if a fire goes out my people immediately starve and then eat each other’s corpses. This is the only meat they will eat raw btw
In a demonstration of how much the culture wars have been imported, the Conservative Party have put out a press release about how "the month of June will be given back to the taxpayer"
Nowhere in Aotearoa has Pride month in June
Crossposted with @openvibe.social
Startling Lady of Gore
One of the readers groups I’m in, someone just asked for a book “set in the 1990s or 70s, back when women used to wear modest full length clothing” and I just
honey. sweetie pie. you’re gonna wanna sit down for this
