This is what I expected from the government, but it's incredibly disappointing that Autism New Zealand should go along with it. We need to make "regular" schools cater to neurodivergent students — which will benefit everyone! — not segregate difference.

Copy-paste this for New Zealand, eh (and no doubt a few other purportedly green island nations) 😬🐄🚙💩 Wouldn’t it be lovely to live up to our ad campaigns and film exports, and the gorgeous images we slap on our products, and all the stories we tell our kids about how this is a great place to live?

Friday packages are the best. Can now plug those unsightly gaps in my Geoff Cochrane collection! Thanks @thwupbooks.bsky.social

Motherfucking wind farms…

Amazing visualizations..share these with any climate change skeptical friends. 🧪 thebulletin.org/2025/07/how-...

no, monks can't fly, you're probably thinking of air friars

25 attempts at a biography of the legendary Terry Voss

Tried spotting hoiho 🐧 on this, the shortest day of the year, at Roaring Bay in the Catlins, but no dice

Farewell to the great Maurice Gee. His novels go on looking clearly at the world and introducing us to ourselves. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

The optimist in me says this 'Gen-AI as Polyester' take sounds likely. Unfortunately, having just read "Careless People" and watched "Mountainhead", I'm 99% pessimist today. AI art is only a stage-gate to somewhere much darker. culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our...

Aurora from Blackhead Beach, Dunedin

Dodgers broadcast was discussing the science behind the perception of time between children and adults. After hearing the explanation, the color commentator pauses and asks, "Am I gonna feel any better?" Andy Pages then smashes a dinger into space, thus ending the existential crisis on commentary.

It has always been important to count blessings... Like discovering your wife's second cousin has a crib in Aparima Riverton and it's available this week.

Still bathing in the afterglow of a fantastic morning event on campus, a collab with the DCC. The end of daylight saving doesn't have to be the end of active commuting!

Trying to enjoy [sic] a post-climate apocalypse audiobook, but keep getting thrown by mispronunciations. Who says dungarees with a soft "g"? And my guy keeps saying "cachet" when he means "cache". What surprises will the remaining 11 hours hold?

Love stories like Bill Fay. 41 year gap between 2nd and 3rd albums. And what a return. Plus a further two albums (and maybe more posthumously). R.I.P. Bill. There is a valley

Jumping on line and going on again about Adaptation Futures 2025 as it’s the biggest climate adaptation event- held in both virtual & in person formats because we can’t keep flying to save the planet but come and stay longer - first time NZ & Pacific has hosted this

This is absolutely crucial advice. Read it. Read it again. Repeat it to yourself. Do not allow yourself to be overloaded. OVERLOAD IS A DELIBERATE TACTIC.

Roadtrip goals: picked up a haskap plant from St Mary's Berries, Makikihi. The rare fruit for which Dunedin might not be cold enough.

Never in my lifetime had a player on my favourite team ever had a signature shoe, so it was pretty cool to open up a pair of Fox 1's for my birthday last week. Time to hoop 🏀

2025 READING Kicking the year off with some op shop finds for camping and an audiobook from the author of Beach Read ⛱️

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

The Southerner is back! (for four days in late autumn). Worth celebrating this baby step, and hopefully one day there'll be an option where the price point and timing works for students. www.stuff.co.nz/travel/36052...

That rare feat in a bio of the comparison double-drag

Terrific user’s guide to “Planet Adam” this by @craigcliff.bsky.social, and its most recent incarnation in particular, Audition https://landfallreview.com/massive-miscreants-in-outer-space/

Pretty stoked Ōtepoti now has a Zero Carbon Plan in place and council backs the high investment option after things looked dicey last week. I spoke at the public forum today alongside students, seniors and inbetweeners, all advocating for the climate. Happy Monday!