We just saw about 500 birds flying in a big flock migrating towards the north-east past Ōamaru. Maybe seagull sized? It was hard to tell. Does anyone know what they might be? #aotearoabirds

Twiggy knows that she's not allowed on the hearth! 😂 #aotearoapets 🐱🇳🇿

Did you think I'd stopped filming the pūtangitangi? Wrong! Here's a compilation from a few days ago and the day before that (two takeoffs!). My favourite part is when Ngaire is yelling, set to take off & harass another shelduck - meanwhile Lefty is on board but gets distracted by more food. Bless 🪶🇳🇿

We deleted all your data for "programming reasons". Ok 😆. Maybe I should use that excuse more often.

My ride or die Kathmandu jumper is dying a death, but @kelsy.co.nz has spent months tracking one down and got one off depop! In unrelated news, I am being assessed for ADHD today.

When you give your dog a pizzle stick do you too find yourself telling said doggo to not swallow the dick whole Nope just me then 🤣🤣 🐶🇳🇿

Stereo3D view captured 20 hours ago by Perseverance. The rover has been driving eastward these past few days, toward the rim of Jezero Crater. To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel, left image for left eye, right image for right eye. Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU #Mars 🧪🔭

For the 5th Stereoscopy Day, there will be an free online 3-D talk by photo historian Denis Pellerin: “The creative and prolific partnership of Furne & Tournier”, celebrating the work of Charles Furne and Henry Tournier; 5pm BST (GMT+1) 20th June 2026: stereoscopyday.wordpress.com/events-2026/

How I'm coping with the weather today #nzgardening

At the start of this year we paid a visit to Orokonui (bird sanctuary near Dunedin). It exceeded my expectations. If you’re ever down that way it’s a great day out for all ages.

Spent this morning installing and hanging some thermal curtains to stop the huge amount of heat being lost through our conservatory. It will be very interesting to see how the house warms up tonight!

Beautiful sunrise in Ōamaru this morning. We're driving up to Tīmaru today to collect a sewing machine. #StereoPair image explained in ALT.

My new cooking mission is to try to recreate the omelettes we had for breakfast at our hotel in Auckland. They were such a highlight 😅 #kai

Breakfast for dinner 😁 #kai

Toasted sesame seed bagel with a crispy hash brown, fried egg, and nacho cheese sauce. #kai #food 🥯🍽️🍜

Heading home after a very successful #AWF26. We got to see everyone on our list and staying so close by made for a stress free time overall. Can't wait for next year!

Just over $3,000 and three days left to fund the first Te Reo sculpture on the Wellington Writer’s Walk. If you have the means and love words or Wellington please give a little. www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/proj...

Today we celebrate the birthday of Ray Zone, born today in 1947. An American film historian, author, artist, and pioneer in methods of converting flat images (especially comics) into stereoscopic images, he's been called "King of 3-D Comics" and "3D King of Hollywood". #RayZone

Good morning Auckland! Last day for #awf26. We've only got one event left to attend so this morning will be chill. #StereoPair Image explained in ALT.

If you're at #AWF26, check out the "Aotearoa Books 📚🇳🇿" feed to talk about everything reading related in NZ! #pukapuka #nzbooks

VRChat you say? Nah, I got one of these bad boys

‘His book sold out at his signing session. The last I saw him, he was wheeling a trolley loaded with three extra boxes of The Valley to the festival bookstore.’ Steve Braunias on day one of the Auckland Writers Festival. newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/16/a...

Playing around with making some #StereoPair photos while we're at the writer's festival. They came out really good! I used Instagram's story creator with a side by side layout to create the images.

Think Pink! It's Pink Shirt Day & library staff support this important kaupapa. Kōrero Mai, Kōrero Atu, Mauri Tū, Mauri Ora Speak Up, Stand Together, Stop Bullying! Check out the Pink Shirt Day website for more info: pinkshirtday.org.nz ^DR #PinkShirtDay 📷 Ōrauwhata: Bishopdale Library staff

Listen to Matatuhi Foundation Best First Book Illustrated Non-Fiction winner Philip Garnock-Jones talking with Jesse Mulligan on RNZ about his stunning honoured book He Puawai @theobrominated.bsky.social #theockhams www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Just saw a great talk by @theobrominated.bsky.social talking about his new book. I'm obsessed with the concept of stereo pair photography and have started a feed to find more images!

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A big crowd at Auckland Writers Festival to hear Patrick Radden Keefe, Barbara Demick and Asher Emanuel! Listen to Asher's Nine to Noon interview from this morning. And get in quick if you want to grab a copy of 'The Valley'... www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro... #AWF2026 #AklWritersFest

So great listening to @praddenkeefe.bsky.social at the Auckland Writers Festival today and meeting him on Tuesday! Inspired me to make a feed capturing posts talking about his work 😃

Another one of of my favourite shots from 2025, an Australasian Gannet at the Cape Kidnappers colony. Possibly one of the best bird pictures I have taken thus far. #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #newzealandwildlife #birdphotography #birdsnz #wildlifephotographer

Kererū love a loquat

I feel like the NZ pets feed needs a bit of love and care! 🇳🇿🐱 bsky.app/profile/did:...

I forgot to post #memademay day 13 yesterday so here we are. My pants, curses, are now oil stained from eating delicious tonkotsu ramen for dinner last night so I'm into the weirder outfits I packed 😂😂 debating whether to send them for hotel laundering #garmentsewing

'We've spent many years kicking the can down the road and leaving it to a future generation,' says Waitaki mayor Mel Tavendale. 'Now, we are that future generation.' Jonathan Milne reports.

Tracking down a bug this morning that causes some feeds to degrade in CPU performance over time. Scheduled restarting of the workers causes the CPU performance to reset to baseline. I've been able to track and solve so many bizarre bugs by adding in graphs for all sorts of things 😁.

Hoiho or yellow-eyed penguins, pictured here on the southern end of Otago’s Moeraki Peninsula, are among New Zealand-Aotearoa’s most recognisable species. (Photo by Sanka Vidanagama) - And God knows what they're doing!

Though it's a lovely rare sight to see a kākā in the hood, this speaks to the wider issue of climate change impacts on our environment If kākā are searching for new food sources in Māngere, that means they are suffering from food scarcity in their natural habitats

#RailNews: KiwiRail has shared photos of a newly painted mural near Mount Wellington. These two murals celebrate Aotearoa’s flora and fauna, they feature references to pīwakawaka and tūī, as well as tawa, peretao, and huruhuru whenua ferns, and kōwhai flowers and leaves.

🐧 New research on hoiho / yellow-eyed penguins reveals three deep evolutionary lineages and candidate genes linked to respiratory distress syndrome. Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Genomics #ConservationBiology

And our piece in The Conversation about the story theconversation.com/why-the-race...

Go directly to Jail. Do not pass "Go", do not collect $200

If you know you know #kai

NICE - if you like that sort of thing www.trademe.co.nz/a/property/r...

Well we've made it to Auckland for the Writer's fest! Get a load of our view over Aotea Square and everything. And the state of my packing efforts last night 🥹😂 aaaall handmades and yep my fabric taste is really something 👀

Okay here's foggy pics episode two from glorious Ōamaru Public Gardens. 🌱🇳🇿 Taken this morning; this is a sea mist. It can roll in any time, sometimes mid afternoon on a scorching day. It all feels a bit Jane Eyre. Some of this alt text courtesy of @eddie.co.nz

🌱🇳🇿 We'd finished the morning constitutional today but went around the park again because this lovely sea fog rolled in right as we were going to leave. Ōamaru Public Gardens: absolute stone cold stunner. A few more pics incoming too

Calling bird nerds of Aotearoa - is this a kārearea on our street 🤞please ignore my terrible video

I've just put an embedded version of the #garmentsewing feed on the public page here: blueskyfeedcreator.com/p/kelsy.co.n... This is useful because IT HAS A SEARCH BOX! So if you're after inspo for a particular type of project or fabric or ... etc! And there are fun, different views available.

There's a spider BEHIND my screen! It's running around underneath the colours 😦. Not sure how I'll debug this one.

So grateful to @kelsy.co.nz for making me this fabulous shirt with Liberty poplin. #SimplicitySewingS8753 #garmentsewing 🇳🇿🧶