This Sago with mango and coconut has least 3 food groups in it and therefore we are declaring it dinner.

They've lost the 9yos

Shoutout to my fellow maskers!

What do you do when the man who said you should have "the living shit beaten out of you" keeps sitting in the front row of candidate events? You make him meet your eye. You make him listen to the gasps of outrage when you say his words outloud. You make him listen to the applause you get.

Bird of the year (international version) #BOTY

Delightedly planning a spring garden spruce up this weekend 🌱☺️

Come on @te-mutunga-wiki.bsky.social hurry up already

Often times, I read the day’s news and I despair. Other times I read news I missed from a month ago and wistfully wonder if maybe it’s about time a massive meteor just took out humanity. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/14/t...

Opinion: NZ would do well to follow Australia’s lead on how it has responded to its climate risk assessment, write Pat Baskett and Joanna Santa Barbara.

⚡Please watch this powerful, emotive & furious speech by Violet Affleck at #UNGA80 She rightly states that for children there has been a neglect of the highest order, even though we have the tech "Our present is being stolen in front of our eyes" 👉Clean Air is a human right

Today, the Academy is leading global change as co-convener of the landmark ‘Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action’ at the UN General Assembly alongside @burnetinstitute.bsky.social Brown University & The OSLUV Project – building on the WHO's 2021 declaration clean air is a basic human right.

Yep, right, of course team, it’s ANOTHER atmospheric river coming, fafo climate change

Went to do a little after dinner work… and I guess not

I’ve learned a lot about and for my health from my biometric app but today I learned that researching holiday homes for a week in Provence puts me into a meditative-like state so clearly something I need to do more often. 🌻

World domination achieved, the celestial realm better watch out. What a cat. Forever in my heart. 💕

Eating our feelings 💙💖💛

Action Kitteh went across the bridge today 🌈 was very loving and peaceful, at home, and he had all his favourite treats beforehand and he got lots of good drugs, which he enjoyed very much 💔

Action Kitteh update: he’s on hospice care levels now, had a few remarkable rallies over the last couple years but gone down hill over the last week despite all treatment and in his last days now: he’s managing a few bites of salmon sashimi and McDonald’s fries and getting maximum cuddles 💖

An easy explainer of Māori Wards for friends and whānau by @emmaricketts.bsky.social www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Poor indoor air costs NZ around $1 billion a year in healthcare and lost productivity. Investing in clean air is good for health and the economy. #indoorairquality www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/inv...

This is the full time series from Infoshare since 2012. comparing each quarter to 12 months prior for working out the percentage change in seasonally adjusted jobs over 12 months. Will there be a bunch of culture war distractions?

UK government report based on internal civil service trial finds Copilot doesn’t increase productivity, and indeed makes Excel take longer and with more errors, and requires Powerpoint users to have ‘corrective action’ applied to their outputs. www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...

The most mundane yet devastating aspect of middle age is the exponentially growing list of foods that my body can no longer tolerate without becoming varying kinds of uncomfortable. Enjoy your 20s and 30s, kids. Eat the heck out of whatever you want without repercussions while you can.

AI slop that drowns your feed in sexist and misogynist content. There are endless examples of AI gendered harm, and it's not just about individual women and girls, it affects society too (both reflecting & redefining patriarchal attitudes). www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

8yo getting into some photography on the Fiji holiday

Ahem #NZ dig your mask out, open the windows, stay home if sick. It’s getting worse not better rn

I will be doing this as soon as I have an address. Fellow expats and folks outside the US, I really encourage you to do this. This could have a real impact on whether they gather the audacity to do this again.

We still have spaces in our Auckland masks-required board game social event for the Covid-careful this Sunday afternoon. Julia of Cheeky Parrot Games is going to provide the board game library from her range + some additional party games and light crowd pleasers. www.facebook.com/cheekyparrot...

FFS. This country is literally famous for its droughts. We already regularly have to be told to limit showers, use recycled water on gardens, turn off taps while brushing teeth... And they want us to spend our water budget on the lying plagiarism machine? REALLY?

If you’re not masking already, will hearing how important it is from a doctor change your mind? 😷 At least read this 🧵 I echo his sentiments: “I’m saying this because I want you around. I want you healthy. I want my friends, colleagues, and family to take this seriously before it’s too late.”

"AI has no Dreaming, it has no kinship, country, or cultural obligations," she said. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

8yo for sure has a new ‘that time I was really sick’ core memory with her 6(!) days of fever, aches, headache and gastro 🤒 🤢 💔

How will I sleep at night if I don’t fulfil my ethical obligation to use GenAI 😭

What if vaccines were as easy as swallowing a pill?💊 Project lead Professor Sarah Hook and her all-wāhine team are reimagining how vaccines are designed and delivered. The project is one of 18 Otago initiatives that have been awarded a share of $15.3 million from the Health Research Council.🥳👏

I really wanted to be a parent, and I’m so grateful for that experience… and the only thing about it that really still, 8 and a half years in, feels like Wait This Can’t Be Right, is caregiving for a sick kiddo when you’re also not well. Terrible design. 1/10. Needs complete overhaul.

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

Sick 8yo to me: how do you feel? I still hate my life but don’t feel like I’m dying anymore Me: I’m pretty mid, but not too bad. Glad you’re improving, it sucks eh 8yo: oh yeah, and you’re just on day one, day two is the day you feel like death ☠️ 🥴

Masks are great, friends! In the last fortnight our school-attending kids have come home with RSV and Influenza A 😬 We mask-loving parents have been negative throughout thank goodness. Pop a mask in your backpack and jacket pocket so you can put one on in the supermarket etc. Nō big deal.

If it seems like everyone's getting sick at the moment that's because they are.

High fever and general doom virus in the house 🤒 spent yesterday in white cross with 8yo sicker than I’ve seen her since she had chickenpox and influenza a simultaneous… this is no joke virus

Good news everybody! Dark Times Academy’s September courses are here! This term's courses are about action and imagination in dark times, focusing on climate action, resistance, and creating vision – with a stellar lineup of guest lecturers. darktimesacademy.co....

8yo boycotting Roblox because of this, just told me all about it and while she hasn’t any bad experiences herself there she knows many who have and doesn’t think Roblox are doing enough www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

It’s one of the those World Famous Good Days in Wellington eh ☀️

'Artificial intelligence tools used by more than half of England’s councils are downplaying women’s physical and mental health issues and risk creating gender bias in care decisions, research [led by Sam Rickman, LSE] has found.' 1/2

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

Got up early for a Sunday and did the sensory hour of DIVA at the Auckland museum, with the 8yo and 80yo, and all of us agreed it was v cool 👗 👑 💄 And grateful to Auckland museum for the accessibility 🙏

How is it only 830pm?? 🥱 😴

New article led by Tara McAllister & co-authored by Lelani Walker, @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social, myself, Bradley Moggridge, Serena Naepi, Brittany Kamai and @napaaqtuk.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...