Whomp whomp. Well that’s me done for the night. May as well go to bed. But first I need to make sure we don’t have any light switches turned on anywhere.

Annnnnnd it’s another night of fireworks.

Might have to do a round trip to Whangarei to get dinner 😆

Second time in under a week that our power has dropped out on a sunny day. How good is our infrastructure in Northland?!

Fucking fireworks. People were letting them off over our house. Dogs are hiding in the house, and the cricket is up loud to help drown out the noise outside.

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This is why you don’t privatise water. Kāeo has had issues for years, and despite assuring the council they are resolving issues, they only seem to be getting worse.

How’s your day going? Mine is processing refunds for a client’s customers because our PHP devs didn’t fix the code properly last month. And I showed them last week there was still an issue, and made it clear I didn’t want to see this problem today.

Just what I need right before an important Zoom call

Exciting day today. Not only is it Halloween, but my crowdfunding campaign is also live! Please support me by making a pledge and/or sharing on all your socials and with your friends, family, and colleagues. Thanks to everyone offering rewards. You rock! www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...

Brining in the viruses with Sars Bar

I hope my Menodoctors appt is worth it on Friday, because I’m sick of of only feeling good for about four days every month 😑

Hurricane Melissa is setting itself up to cause widespread damage in Jamaica over the coming days, with up to 40 inches of rain forecasted, followed by the possibility of a Category 4 or 5 landfall. An awful outlook at the moment.

My son’s teacher spent 12 hours last weekend rewriting a proposal for an end of year camp, part of which included 3 classrooms. It was denied. Now they expect her to spend her long weekend writing a modified proposal before an “emergency” meeting on Tuesday. And assholes say teachers have it easy

The weather has hit Invers. My friend sent me a video of the trees being blown around in the yard. Judging by the mumbling of concern about their trampoline, even though it was already well secured (and is even more so since the vid), it’s safe to say they haven’t seen anything like this before.

National proposes gagging the public, to prevent "record number of submissions; 98% opposed" headlines. This party opposes democracy. newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/t...

..whilst Judith Collins, representing the citizens of New Zealand, cosies up to Noem!!! Collins should be removed from office! #NZPol

One of the hottest towns in Aussie is forecast to hit 45C this week, which it normally doesn’t do until summer. Sydney is also well over its average temp for October.

This morning's GFS shows the Northern Hemisphere more than 1.64°C over the 1981-2010 baseline on October 23, which is more than 2.2°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline. The Climate 8-ball is smoking. www.karstenhaustein.com/climate

Why that annoys me - young lean fit women doing an ad, talking about their leggings holding everything in, and they literally have nothing that needs to be held in. Give me a bigger body for real proof your leggings work and don’t roll down at the top 😒

Life advice from a feline friend 🐾 Please open thread and scroll through, if you’d like to read the comic 🐈‍⬛🤍

Who had to get up at 2.20 am this morning because her dog was barking at the local Ruru? This gal. 🫩

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

The select committee report on the Regulatory Standards Bill is in. 📝166,000 submissions. ❌98.7% opposed. Yet National are going to continue supporting it. 🗣New Zealand could not have been louder, but Luxon still isn’t listening.

“Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an "astonishing rate," scientists have found, raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been underestimated.”

🌞Total land required to replace coal fired energy 🌞Example assumes all solar:120,000 hectares 🌞 That’s less than 0.016 percent of Australia’s total land currently used for agriculture 🌞 Australian agriculture currently accounts for 58% of our land use 🌞And agrisolar = panels + grass/sheep etc

Gross. The ACT candidate in the FNDC elections got voted in 😒

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Can anyone recommend a trusted sleepover-in-our-home pet sitter in west Auckland? Our amazing sitter has moved away and I’ve had no luck finding a regular replacement. I’ve tried Pawshake and they’re great but would prefer consistency. 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🇳🇿

I haven’t harvested kūmara, but I have worked on the back of a mechanical harvester for potatoes - one farm grew for Bluebird. It is bloody hard work. You have to separate the bad potatoes, rocks and hard chunks of dirt from the good ones on a conveyor belt. Eight hour shifts on your feet on what is

Judging by my cats, it’s going to be a bad season for fleas 😣. Two of them are indoor cats, and haven’t had fleas before. The third is indoors/outdoors, and doesn’t usually get them.

Northland’s six weeks of winter are over. Back to using fans for overnight comfort.

Reminder that measles is a dangerous virus & one of the most infectious diseases there is... Measles outbreak: Two new cases in Northland www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Buried in the detail about reducing earthquake strengthening is the removal of requirements for disabled access and fire safety. You know who does that? Sociopaths.

People who flip houses should be subject to CGT.

If anyone needs a cosy idle game on their phone, try Honey Grove. Unlike most games, it’s not plagued with ads.

Technologically advance a band: #000000 Sabbath

It’s our nightly lap o’clock time.

Last year a study of >2.4 million kids born in Sweden looked at Tylenol exposure and autism At first, it seemed like there was a small association. But then they compared siblings where one was exposed in utero and the other wasn’t and found no increased risk jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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NSFW a band Peen Day

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Hey Hutt folks, you may miss it when voting, but please don’t vote for Suzanne Levy! She sounds fine, but OOPS she runs the TERF organisation Speak Up For Women.

#nzpol What the poster says.

Primary school teachers, primary principals, school support staff and Ministry of Education specialist staff will all strike together on October 23 #NZPol

#nzpol The minimum wage increased 1.5% this year. Data from Stats NZ shows: - Food prices up 5% - Fruit & Veg up 8.9% - Meat up 9.4% - Bread up 9.5% (white sliced up 41.7%) - Cheese up 14.3% - Milk up 15% - Electricity up 11.4% Laser focused on the cost of living www.stats.govt.nz/information-...

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