Fangs! Leg hairs! Venom profiles! Writer ‪@michelleduff.bsky.social‬ and photographer @robsuisted.bsky.social take a closer look at the noble false widow, the exotic spider that’s quietly set up home in New Zealand.

Latest story I shot for @NZGeographic , bit of a pig hunting adventure with writer @naomiarnold last month. Wild pigs are eating our rare native frogs; not ideal. nzgeo.com/stories/one-pi…

My 8yo just found out he paid 7c tax to IRD last month from his savings. “Yay, now I can swear Dad!” “How come son?” “Well mum said I could only swear once I started paying tax!” Actual. LOL, can’t fault the logic

Who has the best idea for a birthday present for my 8yo son!?? Struggling again

Zelenskyy is shining some light on some things. What a remarkable human.

Sometimes people try to tell the truth accidentally. Why was Andrew Bayly given days to tell his family? Have a listen at this odd unprepared answer: "I've never had an affai.......um, anything like this happen before".

Looked like MP Andrew Bayly nearly made a Freudian slip with the word “affair” getting part way out of his mouth during the TV standup?

5 marlin have now been caught off Waikanae/Kapiti in the last week. And today a Mahi-mahi fish was caught near Kapiti island. Changes to the Wellington area marine environment in my lifetime are extreme (and concerning)

Same, different. Early start today. #SwissArmyKnifeDog at sea.

Archive footage of former PM Jenny Shipley dealing with an out of control Winny. At the end I've stitched in Luxon responding to comments about how he's dealing with an out of control Winny and Jones. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment

How cute is that!? #SwissArmyKnifeDog

Just found this at Woolies. Reminds me of something I cant quite remember

Did Nicola Willis cancel the Wellington summer too FFS?

I've made a submission on the Treaty Principles Bill. In the spirit of 'playing what's in your hand', I have quoted from my father's Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand – including this banger:

Climate scientists be like..

Subscribing to NZ Geo wasn't on my radar until their recent appeal to find new subscribers or become nonviable, but I received my first issue and if this is the standard then I am *in*. Brilliant stuff. Mosses! Birds! Unpleasant but important greenwashing facts! @nzgeo.bsky.social you rock 😍

Good night all

“What socks? I was just looking at them”

Anyone that thinks cycleways are Wellington’s problem should stop inhaling the propaganda. This is fu*ked and feels like a vendetta.

REALLY BOSS?!! Incredible how hard-wired my #corgi pup is to work stock on the slightest suggestion, & how much self control the pup has despite it. Most people don’t realise they’re a cattle breed, she has the fully installed 🐄 module in that 🧠 .

Another wilding pine tree stacks it for Xmas #RobsFarm and corgi decoration courtesy of @wendywings.bsky.social ❤️

Bloody hell. Visited an old friend & hunting mate’s wife yesterday bc he’s become full ward of the state w early dementia, he won’t be coming out. It’s a horrid sharp decline, end likely near & a worn out spouse tht must move on. They’ve been together from teenagers. Getting older isn’t for pussies

The cutting of rural school bus services is going to cause significant rural disruption & change. The segment on TV1 on the cuts in Hawkes Bay is terrible. The ripples are huge for rural families, employment and community. Our local one is being cut next year too

Cool thing is that Heritage NZ regard my ancestor Charles Suisted as a founding father of Otago, second to Johnny Jones the whaler. www.heritage.org.nz/list-details...

Just had a relaxing visit to the Suisted Stables at Goodwood. Built by my Swedish ancestor Charles Suisted in 1848, first settlers in North Otago. 2nd oldest farm bldg in NZ. Likely started the traditional red iron oxide colour to farm bldgs bc Suisted came from Iron business…🧵

That calls for a Hazy

Coffee time. Oamaru

Slane's cartoon is a cracker - particularly the reference to Atlas #NZPol

Jesus Christ

1st time I learn my driving license is expired is collecting a rental car in Dunedin airport FFS. Hello Mosgiel PaperPlus AAcentre

Such a bloody shame. This beautiful hill stood for decades with a power pole placed gently without impact. Now to replace it we have to f*ck the place. Grass won’t take in summer now on clay, will be bare and weedy for years, and the bank will be sloughing eyesore for ages. Progress huh?!

Neighbour belting a few out this afternoon. Free concert in Takapu Valley. Encore!!

Neighbour belting a few out this afternoon. Free concert in Takapu Valley. Encore!!

#ToitūTeTiriti no comment

Shot a cool portrait tonight for next issue of @NZGeographic, of a shadowy online hunter of fraudulent research. Make sure you get your subscription sorted for Xmas so you can see it.

With a press photog last night showing me his work. He’d made some top pix focussing on the specky; face paint, taiaha, action. Reality was 1/2 half were Pākehā supporting. We talked about skewing of news imagery towards scandal from reality. Hard to make striking frames of the avg #Hikoi supporter

Today’s protest is the equivalent of 2.3 million Americans marching on Washington. That’s how much New Zealand hates this bullshit.

Lol, just now found this malformed nail in the box & weirdly David Seymour came 1st to mind 😂 #ToitūTeTiriti

This is why Seymour shouldn’t be engaged with… it’s bad faith all the way down, his basic bullshit & easy answers will find an audience. He’s a poisonous snake with his fangs in NZ, the least he’s engaged with the better to slow the poisons spread. www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...

#ToitūTeTiriti

Making up beds for some Aucklanders who spontaneously decided to drive down to Wellington tonight to join the #Hikoi. They’re professional working people that decided at lunchtime today to get involved. Getting the feeling this is going to pretty big tmrw #ToitūTeTiriti

Corgis are misunderstood. They’re a close quarter cattle herding breed w dwarfism to work amongst flying hooves, strong willed from standing ground on bulls, loyal & v smart. Always been against racing bc it wrongly stereotypes, but cripes the dogs had a fun day w their #corgi breed. Wld race again

Don't HDPA my timeline. There is no need to engage with ragebait. That is how we used to live (on Twitter). Leave the old dead ways in the old dead world.

I just signed. our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ka...

Racing colours being passed out for Heat 1 at the Wellington Corgi Races, #10 for Clementine today

My pup will watch the whole of Dog Rescue Australia, second only to country calendar if there’s stock work on #SwissArmyKnifeDog #Corgi

This is Bullshit! None of these ridiculously priced multi blade razors cut half as well as a good old skool double edged safety razor and a good lather, at a fraction of the price. Not to mention environmental footprint of all this design & brand churn.