KĀREAREA WINS BIRD OF THE YEAR! (and I fortunately had a design of this beauty already cooking...) Now available for pre-order, this fierce tee for the defenders of nature, non-tolerators of bullshit, and friends of the forest. Pre-order at pepperraccoon.com

Disney adapting its content for Trump 🤣

What? You mean people who medically neglect their children have a much lower rate of their children receiving an autism diagnosis, which can only be done by the doctors that they refuse to take their children to see? Who could possibly have predicted such a thing?

IT IS I FUCKEN KNEW IT www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

#showmeyourknits Scarves Pattern is Feldmark by Martina Behm. Yarn is Cloudborn Fibers

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. A purring cat stretched out across your lap 2. A hot bath with no distractions 3. The perfect slice of chocolate cake 4. The feeling of the first really warm day of spring 5. Crawling into bed with sheets just out of the dryer

Great work here from Tina Ngata - a website where you can look up Tiriti positive local body candidates 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 #Aotearoa www.votefortetiriti.com

Finally saw a page from the book in question and honestly the whole “it’s because it is such an early phonics reader” argument goes out the window for me. The ‘ea’ in speaks and ‘ng’ in sing are digraphs. If you are already including digraphs then the kids are ready for a much wider vocab range.

The farthest I’ve been: North: Munich, Germany 48 08 N (narrowly beat out Seattle at 47 36 N) South: Wellington, NZ 41 17 S West: Samoa 171 41 W. Just a layover. If we are counting places visited then it would be Honolulu, Hawaii 157 51 W East: Waimārama, NZ 176 59 E

We gain over a minute of sunlight tomorrow 🌅

Celebrating Matariki 🇳🇿

See a Doc post a Doc

#Australian 🇦🇺 electorate faced with a choice between Trump-style & more inclusive politics chose the latter, as did Canadian 🇨🇦 voters just days before. #NZ 🇳🇿 will face a similar choice next year. The choice voters make will say a lot about our country. www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

Finished up a knitting project in time for cooler weather. Well, technically it has been nearly finished for weeks, just had to weave the ends in. 🧶

France's Aix-Marseille University offered a program for scientists "threatened in their research" in America. It received 298 applications for the 20 available posts.

Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.

“From April 14-18, select UBC graduate programs at UBC Vancouver will re-open their applications for US citizens to be considered for Sept 2025 or Jan 2026 entry - they are ready to provide quick admissions decisions for these applicants“ #gradstudent #gradschool www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

Watched the trailers for The Electric State and I am utterly and totally disappointed. Simon Stålenhag deserves whatever dump truck load of money Netflix gave him, but they destroyed his book. A thread 1/8

It’s #InternationalWomensDay here in New Zealand. And a timely reminder that NZ was the first country to give women the right to vote. Let’s make sure we stay at the forefront of human rights and never backslide like the US and UK have 🇳🇿

Also, true story

I really hope New Zealanders see what Musk is doing with Doge as a warning about Seymour's regulatory agency.

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

My cat was extremely interested in watching the movie Flow. She sat with me on the couch and watched the entire movie. #nzpets #cats

Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

Art Deco Festival, Napier, New Zealand

Got to see Shihad last night, with beautiful Hawkes Bay as the backdrop. 🇳🇿

Fish and chips on a Friday night 🇳🇿

Anyone else struggling with the narrator in their head wanting to pronounce “Bluesky” like “Brewski” but with an /L/ in place of the /R/? Nope, just me then.

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

Saturday, January 4 is a big day for our little planet: it makes its closest approach to the sun of the entire year! This point in the orbit is called perihelion. Then, on July 3, it will be at its most distant point in its orbit, which is called aphelion. ☀️🌎🧪 [1/2]

Aotearoa / New Zealand people. What weather app do you recommend? Storm is just hitting Napier and I realize my current app is doing a horrible job of showing a good view of the radar.

I am absolutely delighted to have the No 1 most read article at the AIMN for 2024. Particular thanks to #NZpol for the interest. The #AtlasNetwork is more obvious in our small countries compared to complex scenes in Global North proper. Easier to watch in action. #Auspol theaimn.com/new-zealand-...

Dear producers: please stop "stretching" with AI my square 10MP (or further downscaled) headshot. You can ask me for the 45MP original and recrop it. GenAI repeatedly imagines women more scantily clothed than we are in the ground truth photos, and it's not okay! www.linkedin.com/posts/elizab...

You know Seymour's new school lunches? Did you know the company making them have links to multiple food scandals, overcharging, accusations of bribery, food poisoning, substandard packaging, and even involved in the oil, gas, mining and military sectors? The same areas NACT are fast tracking. #nzpol

Christmas Eve breakfast. From Stuffed in Napier, Aotearoa.

Happy Solstice

"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'." "Okay, now don't be mad but..."

Made shortbread cookies

Kitty 🐕

Ocean Spa: Napier council votes to drop prices for Hawke’s Bay residents www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...

You know the scene in A Christmas Carol where Scrooge sees a bunch of people talking about his death and none of them give a shit because he was a heartless bastard who valued profit over humanity? Yeah, don't know why I've been thinking of that lately.

As someone eloquently put it elseweb, "They didn't change directions on the anesthesiology decision, take down their CEO pages, and approve record meds because of the murder. They did it because of the way all of us are talking about it."

It can simultaneously be true that: NZ healthcare has significant flaws, people can have very negative experiences, and the system needs improvement And The US system is so, so much worse for the average person and should never be seen as what to strive for -an American expat in Napier, Aotearoa

South Korea rn is what it looks like when people see democracy as a fragile thing that needs to be defended by all means necessary, and not as their inevitable birthright as citizens of an exceptional nation

The latest from South Korea ->

Raising transit fares creates two devastating feedback loops: Riders switch to cars (increasing congestion & slowing buses) while lower ridership forces service cuts. Both lead to fewer passengers & less revenue. I've taught this for more than a decade - policymakers still haven't learned.