I'm sure they'll text us if they decide to cease exports... www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Red sky at night, BlueSky delight

Four-day work week and school closures - Asia is getting creative and drastic to conserve energy amid a severe fuel crunch. Is it enough to keep economies afloat? Join Bloomberg reporters for a Live Q&A on March 12 at 12:30pm HKT | 10am IST. bloom.bg/3P1BLnu

Someone had the paintbox out tonight… 🎨

I really wish I hadn’t been through enough major global crises to be able to identify something as definitely a MAJOR global crisis because I am overwhelmed with the urge to organise the shit out of things around the house.

How is it even possible to be this cute I ask you, how, did he take cute lessons, does he have a doctorate in adorable

How it started. 🥰 How it’s going. 🥹

"Leading vaccinologist Helen Petousis-Harris says there's not enough awareness of the impact of COVID-19 on overall health." "What many people don't realise is that getting COVID repeatedly is not like building immunity, it's more like accumulating damage," she says. Source: archive.md/Qsv13

We don't talk enough about the risks of geomagnetic storms. Earlier this year, an Aussie power company said that some of their network might have been knocked out by the Jan solar storm. So I chatted to our leading space weather scientists about the origin and risk mitigation of these events. 🔭🧪

Attacked some of the overgrown hedges in the garden quite satisfactorily. Had a hot shower. Now eating an ice cream. Autumn evening rating 10/10

It’s a good time to chuck on a respirator mask, esp in health care settings, public transport & busy places (indoors and out). @covidactionnz.bsky.social have set up a couple of mask blocs around the country if you’re close to one and need some masks.

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there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?” www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

Origami kitten 🐈

A fresh vaccine dropped in nz this week so if you’re due a booster go get one!

Tis the season 💞

Still absolutely adamant you do not want Covid. Long Covid is still a crisis and is the worst health impact I’ve ever personally experienced. Our health system is much worse than it was in 2020 - you do not want to navigate it with Covid impacts. Book a booster here: app.bookmyvaccine.health.nz 👇

#NZpol Why is NZ lagging on rooftop solar despite falling costs? “Government ‘kicked the tyres’ on solar subsidies but went with ‘minor’ tweaks instead” by @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social - I’d add power from within NZ also gives resilience from world events, e.g. Qatar is currently not serving LNG.

Who has two big ears and a very pink nose and has twice in the last 24 hours stuck his head into a drinking glass and then swung his head vigorously and smashed said glass against a wall… and then leapt down to attempt to play with the glass shards 🐈

Whatever you think you heard that was definitely not me so please leave the bathroom now I am busy

Literally, at work this morning: Clinician: Patient should stop medication A, but must keep taking medication B. AI VR transcription of this: Patient should stop taking medication B. Seriously NEVER LET A DOCTOR USE AI FOR YOUR APPOINTMENTS. NEVER. UNDER ANY FUCKING CIRCUMSTANCES.

I've had an article published in EG Magazine. It's about #spaceweather - specifically, guarding Aotearoa New Zealand’s electricity grid against solar storms 🧪⚛️👩🏼‍🔬 #nz www.engineeringnz.org/news-insight...

So sleepy after the mischiefs 💤

5 month old mischief maker 🐈

Warning having the sound on may make your teeth itch

So Findley and my 80yo mother have this thing going for a few days now where he comes RUNNING OVER when he hears her filing her nails and gets her to FILE HIS TEETH 😵‍💫

It’s always a good time to be posting your best and cutest pet pics on the timeline, but right now may be a particularly excellent and kind time to do so 🐱 🐶 🐦 🐢

Findley bath inspection service: water temp is purrrrrrfect

*terrible clanging noises coming out of the bathroom* Ginger kitten emerges carrying the bathtub stopper he somehow has unscrewed to carry out of the tub 🧐

NZ must reckon with the grim reality of our future: more storms, floods and heat. This is a confronting situation. And yet, if we are to shield our communities, our infrastructure and our economy from the worst excesses of climate change, it is one we must confront. newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/18/c...

News you can use, from the @wired.com security team (who are the best in the biz). They asked technologists, activists, aid groups, and cybersecurity experts for guidance on how to organize and collaborate in an age of surveillance. Here’s the result:

No jumping into bed without looking quite carefully these days 🐈 🛏️

"why are you against progress" I yell confidently as my sloppily-implemented algorithms prematurely murder your grandma

The constant condescension about ai is another aspect of it that makes me hate it more. The assumption is you can only be against it because you don't understand it like I do. No man. I don't like voluntarily making every human enterprise dependent on a tech run by a tiny group of financial maniacs

🚨CFP: The ADM+S Generative Authenticity project is hosting a small scholarly symposium on Authenticity, Generative AI and Synthetic Media on 6-7 May at QUT Kelvin Grove (and hybrid node). Short abstracts due 9 March. All info and the submission form: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

My cat likes to sleep in paper bags 🦘 🐈

The fervour of the nightly Orange Kitten versus Black and White Senior Dog battle is surprisingly difficult to capture but this gives you The Vibe

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured” www.reuters.com/investigatio...

What repealing the ‘endangerment finding’ means for public health The EPA has scrapped a rule stating that climate change harms human health. Here’s what that could mean www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

Tonight in Orange Cat Energy 🐈 🛁

Bit late to it but if you want to know the chain of events that led to us importing gas (and charging electricity users to pay for it!!), I did this deep dive for RNZ last year www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Seafood ✅ Sunny day ✅ Echidna dress ✅

Students sometimes ask me why they have to read old things in my classes and what relevance old texts can possibly have for them. Ian McKellen recited a monologue from Shakespeare on Colbert's show two days ago that answered that question. the monologue : www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQiw...

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection

Omg did you all know how fascinating echidnas are?! Here’s a fantastic dude we met in Tasmania yesterday ❤️

I am a serious advocate for iron deficiency treatment as part of women’s healthcare but also when they say you ‘may get flu-like symptoms’ after an iron infusion, don’t take that lightly like I did, she say emerging from days of 39-40 degree fever, every bone in body aching, can’t leave bed 🥵

I have two cats sleeping on my legs and my doggo lying stretched out next to me and truly these times call for at least three loving and content animals applied directly to one’s body, as often as possible.

🚨 Orange alert 🚨 🪴 🐈

Sometimes there are big choices in life (for example, the serious issue of whether to sleep INSIDE the cat bed or OUTSIDE the cat bed). It’s really important to remember that not everything is the binary choice you might think it is.