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An upgrade of Immigation NZ’s biometric security systems runs amok, to the tune of $32M. My #cartoon today #Immigration #NZpol

This is Penny. She found the perfect stick today and is determined to retrieve it. Hasn’t moved an inch so far, but her human didn't raise a quitter. 13/10 (IG: aussies_exploregon)

📚 today Don Quixote tries to save a young Shepard from being whipped and ill treated by his master; then he goes on to menace some merchants by demanding they acknowledge a woman he has unilaterally decided is his fair maiden. He charges at them but the horse falls and DQ is left lying battered

Bbbbrrrrrrrrrr! 🥶🥶🥶🥶 frosty frost this morning. Feels like the first proper one.

#nzpol 🇳🇿 Luxon hasn’t seen a tree outside the city in Eons youtu.be/UyfacadsrRQ?... what’s is it with right wing fuckers like this that have no value for our planet. Everything is money to them.

Its cold and tart face has demanded under the blankets. This now means that if I move I get bitten

May I one day be wealthy enough that before my demise, I can commission a great artist to sculpt my funereal effigy, and it will be my moldering corpse covered in frogs that are eating my eyes and my junk.

OK which one of you drives a Golf?

A Ukrainian strike drone pushes toward the Moscow Oil Refinery under intense Russian air defense fire.

It looks like missiles decided to join the fun in Moscow, as well.

The cats are trying to poison me with noxious gas! 💩💩😫🤢🤮

#nzpol 🇳🇿 another policy drop from Labour: from 1 July 2027, Labour will remove the $5 prescription fee for every New Zealander, at every pharmacy. (So they’re reinstating their old policy- technically not a reversal… clever)

#nzpol 🇳🇿

Stanford is a liar. An insulting liar at that. We have plenty of extremely capable people able to compare our curriculum against those of other countries. How dare she! #nzpol

#booksky #pukapuka 💙📚🇳🇿 finally this is in my hot little hands! If you’ve never read one of @tommeadauthor.bsky.social books, why not? They’re fun mysteries and there are little clues dotted throughout the book so you can try figure it out. I’m usually a bit dense though lol

youtube.com/post/UgkxJn0... super gran, super gran!

Again, go find his you tube account.. find posts …. Vote for Super Gran!

Everybody needs to find this channel and look at his posts and vote for Super Gran please!

‘Most famous tree in the world’: Sherwood Forest’s 1,000-year-old Major oak dies

They did do a bit of wrestling but I missed it

Fights about to start

📚 today in Don Quixote our would be knight is desperate to be knighted (by the inn keeper). He stands guard of his armour in the courtyard to earn it. Unfortunately it sits atop a cistern, as 2 men come to collect water DQ injures them. Inn keeper keen for DQ to F off has him ‘knighted’. DQ leaves

My boy hasn’t been in to see me yet despite me obviously being awake. I can always rely on a 8am I’m hungry wake up call. I didn’t think he’d miss the opportunity to remind me early

In today’s NZ Herald

#JigsawPuzzle 🧩 Autumn in the Meadow - though looks much more like a Forrest

So sad, go file your complaints over in the other room

#nzpol 🇳🇿 I mean, can we do this for the villains in the Beehive?

📚 quest type story, allegory re human greed and the corruption of power, totalitarian rule being shit for people and land etc. Redemption for Jimmy who assaulted and drugged children. Nick, whiney sexist dick but did make the hang gliders so he had a right to be pleased with himself for that Lol

Nice to get home from the UK to the Bram Stoker Award and the Nebula Award waiting here:

Today is my birthday, Uggi got lucky at Hlöllabátar and the weather is nice, so you get a picture thread from today’s walk, including action shots of ham catching 🧵

#nzpol 🇳🇿 yeah baby!

#booksky #pukapuka 💙🇳🇿📚 I’ve only ever read Under The Mountain (which was the best, our teacher read it aloud to us in primary school and it FREAKED ME OUT! - loved it!). bit of classic NZ fiction here I hope.

📚 Don Quixote check in. Our protagonist has found a 🏰 (Inn) with fair maidens (wenches). He refuses to take off his helmet as he doesn’t want to cut the ribbons. Everyone laughs at him but obliges him, feeding him for he cannot do it himself with helmet, they fashion a straw so he can drink his 🍷 .

I’d just like to humble brag that I cleaned the indoor windows and finally dusted the fake plants. If only cleaning the windows outside was as easy.

Yayyyyyy! The 2nd book I asked the library for has been ordered 🥰 Dark Side of Peter Pan, and now How to Build a Haunted House! I’m a very lucky 🍀 library user

📚 did I love it? Yes! Will I read the next in the series! Also yes! This is a well thought out book with likeable characters. I might read a little something different and shorter before I tackle the other books though.

#nzpol 🇳🇿 I know who has got an ideological bent and that’s the guy in govt. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Went to donate blood this morning but my Hb was a bit too low. Boooo!

Israeli forces killed seven-year-old Zeina Al-Habeel’s father and younger brother while they were filling up water containers on their rooftop. Four Palestinians were killed by Israeli strikes and gunfire in Gaza on Monday.

Very good

#booksky #pukapuka 💙📚🇳🇿 finally started the abridged Don Quixote today. will only read about 3 pages at a time so I’m not daunted by it. Have read the first chapter and I can see there a certain wit to it. Think I’m going to enjoy it 😊

She’s snoring 😆

Meanwhile, not one of the groups so far known to have been orchestrating the violence in Belfast and Southampton has been banned as a terrorist organisation.

As if those 13 American lives are worth more than the lives of the school girls they bombed. Etc etc… the attack on infrastructure raining down burning oil on citizens, the environmental catastrophe, apparently a water plant… but 13 Americans dead, ok.

This damned cat in Türkiye youtu.be/u3oK7w8Mw3I?... out damned cat! Out I say! - wrong Shakespeare play

If I read about 3pages of the abridged Don Quixote a day, I could finish it by the end of the year.

Pro-Palestine protesters against the 'Great Israeli Real Estate Event' in north London were attacked by counter-demonstrators, with Met police intervening: