Kudos, photo editor #nzpol

Not me this morning letting the cat have the entire couch to himself because I didn’t want to disturb his nap in the sun 🐈‍⬛☀️🛋️

This is happening on Wednesday and Thursday. "The Waitangi Tribunal has granted urgency to an inquiry into the government's decision to scrap school boards' legal duty to give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and reset Te Mātaiaho, the New Zealand Curriculum."

Post an image from a game you played as a teenager: I sat with graph paper and mapped out every single level of Prince of Persia including where every item could be found. So I could not only defeat the game, but win by collecting every single item possible along the way.

So do the babies and pets require cooking or not?

I don’t have reason to ride at night but if I did I’d get one of these!! www.bikelaneuprising.com/product-page...

🇳🇿 Exam-heavy systems privilege those who have: Access to tutoring Stable home environments Time and space to study Familiarity with academic language and expectations They privilege those who already possess advantage and access to the cultural capital of the dominant group. tinyurl.com/t56m4zw6

Trump is threatening to erase an entire civilisation. We are watching genocide and war crimes become normalised in real time - Just look at Gaza. And where is the Minister for Foreign Affairs? In the United States, playing footsies with Rubio

As I've pointed out before, in 2023 the Inland Revenue Department told us that the richest 311 families in New Zealand with an estimated $85 billion of assets paid an effective tax rate of around 9%. Imagine the impact if the super-rich paid the same tax rate as every salary earner in the country

Lemme get this straight, the man who raped a child did so while “bored” and on leave from his job because he was being investigated for being creepy to women and yet more than 5 chaps have written letters of support?? FFS 🤦‍♀️ believe women & soliciting a hungry child & raping her is HORRIFIC.

A new image of Earth from Artemis II. Red dot is me. 🇳🇿

This was interesting. And relevant here in Aotearoa too with relation to Te Ao Māori. theconversation.com/ais-fluency-...

In a “defining moment” for New Zealand’s screen industry, movie stars Jason Momoa, Taika Waititi and Cliff Curtis have bought a West Auckland studio.

Free dental care receives widespread support in new survey

Flowers in the Attic. At the age of 11 or 12. Can only attribute reading it to my unsupervised Gen X childhood.

We've got to be able to hold two things in our minds at once: a lot of science can be good and helpful and used for antiracism, and also we are always discovering new ways that every single scientific tool can be biased.

#nzpol Dear PM Luxon... Dear Deputy PM Seymour... Dear Former PM Peters...

A great way to conserve fuel at a society wide level would be making buses free Busing in Christchurch is $6 a day and even at $3 a litre, petrol will allow you to travel 20km or more depending on fuel efficiency, so if you own a car it's still the economical option for most people

I did not expect this government's terrible idea to bite them on the ass so quickly and thoroughly, but it is darkly humourous #nzpol

WE WOULD HAVE A CENTURY PROOFED PORT AT PICTON AND WELLINGTON BY NOW. TODAY. RIGHT NOW. TWO BIG ASS RAIL FERRIES PURPOSE BUILT FOR THE COOK STRAIT SWELLS. NOW. HIGH QUALITY QUAKE PROOFED PORTS FOR OUR SHAKY ISLES. BUT NO. NO. WE DON'T GET "MINIMUM VIABLE" UNTIL TWENTY TWENTY FUCKING NINE!

Huge shoutout to @taniawaikatolawyer.bsky.social for raising awareness on this. Amazing use of her platform. See the stats: nzpt.cjs.nz #nzpol #onetermgovt

“Piracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.” -Werner Herzog on NPR just now 🔥

Luxon repeating the untrue "NZ has 88% renewable energy". It has that for electricity, but not for energy in general, which is 40%.

Qatar produces 20% of the world’s LNG. Which goes through the Straits of Hormuz. Because of the US’s war on Iraq the straits are closed, which makes the price of LNG unpredictable. Maybe, just maybe, building an LNG import facility isn’t in AoNZ’s long term best interests. 🇳🇿

Oh, I know this one! We own Air New Zealand because its former private owners made a series of ghastly decisions and registered an operating loss of $1.45 *billion* in 2001 and the Clark govt stepped in, bought an 82% stake and renationalised it so we still had a national carrier.

@hankgreen.bsky.social is wearing a @pepperraccoon.com shirt that you can get: store.dftba.com/products/han...

Good study by William & Peter Bisley: solar on 10% of NZ's available commercial & industrial roofs would cost $3b, earn $600m a year, and add 1.5 TWh of winter storage to the lakes – the same amount of energy the cracked LNG scheme is supposed to deliver. bisley.substack.com/p/abundant-e...

NZ taxpayers spent $6M to bring Michelin stars here and only paid $3M to the WHO. Contributing to world health seems like a much better spend to me. #nzpol

Spring in Aotearoa 🇳🇿🍓 Fresh strawberries with homemade whipped cream

Post you from a different era Early 80s; very proud of my Wonderful Woman Underoos. Walking around in my older sister’s marching band boots to complete the outfit.

Someone needs to open a Cat Cafe in Hawkes Bay.

Only in Dunedin do 20% of motorists have a chainsaw at hand when driving.

This is the best.

Hawke's Bay and nearby folk, the Hawke's Bay Readers & Writers Festival kicks off Friday 10th October! Here's one of our awesome Friday night sessions, Understanding Te Tiriti with Roimata Smail. Tickets only $15!

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 🇳🇿