If you have the inclination learning a few basics about reading the sky returns in spades your ability to anticipate local weather

Just leaving this here for #SecretSantaAoNZ as I was passing through a few days ago. Really enjoying the read!

"US Forces give the nod It's a setback for your country" For the record this song was released in 1982. youtube.com/watch?v=SAFv...

My hobby, hearing, visually sighting and then photographing passing airliners from the deck, then finding them on flightradar. If you were on ANZ405L from Gisborne to Wellington yesterday then Hi!

Early morning 6k slightly more slippery than expected amble up Te Mata Peak on New Years Eve to see out 2025 Happy New Year, all the best for 2026

Okey dokey

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains

A better article about the NZME/World Literacy Foundation/AI NZ booklist debacle. Feat. the always fab @taniaroxborogh.bsky.social They've published a list of the fake books - no doubt encouraging AI to keep thinking they exist. The future of the internet: screwed. www.1news.co.nz/2025/12/27/n...

I’ve done some catalogue searching and am fairly confident in saying that 5/10 titles in this list do not exist (1, 2, 4, 5 and 7). Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!

This is a great example of how genAI steals from us all on multiple levels. It's stolen a promotional spot for real books and authors, it's stolen a job from an actual journalist who could have compiled this, it's stolen an opportunity for parents to be recommended good NZ books for their kids

Explain your username It's derived from my IG handle laserkereru which itself was a play on the laser kiwi thing since kererū are one of my favourite birds, I am ungifted at creating great usernames, and I often see them inverted while feeding near my house as in the pic 🙂

Right now one of my kids is building her Christmas lego in her room with 80's Bon Jovi playing loud and I'm wondering what decade it is 😄

Happy Christmas, Meri Kihirimete wherever you are 🙂

Last Christmas I gave you my heart The very next day Kali ma shakti de

Rākau Kirihimete: Christmas tree, with rākau meaning tree and Kirihimete meaning Christmas.

If you're a modeller and Star Wars fan like me this is an awesome deep dive into how the original filming models of the X-Wing were created www.ilm.com/how-to-build...

Summer Sunday afternoon vibes

So many say Trump has dementia. My mother has dementia, #Alzheimer’s to be specific, but she’s never suggested anything as remotely deranged as what we’re hearing from the President of the United States, yet as a 13 y.o., she walked through the aftermath of #Hiroshima 😑

Friday night viewing tonight. RIP Rob

Postcards from Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.

#NZChristmasTree #Pōhutukawa

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

#secretsantaAoNZ A huge thank you to @foxylustygrover.bsky.social and all the elves for pulling us all together again for our Secret Santa. From start when we receive the name of our Santee to finish when we get to see everyone’s gifts it is simply wonderful. Thank you thank you thank you.

If you need some Christmas Joy then #SecretSantaAoNZ is the hashtag you need to follow. How the elves manage to pull off this amazes me. Secret gifting across a whole country is amazing.

Meri Kirimiheti and thank you on #SecretSantaAoNZ #OpeningDay to my Secret Santa! Very well sleuthed, I enjoy local NZ non fiction and pass through this part of the country regularly, sometimes on this very road! I will look forward to reading this over the break as I head up there again 🙂 1/2

For anyone needing emergency cute today

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The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

anyway I’m gonna go cry for a bit

Walking into 2026

Deeply disappointed to hear that the BBC has pushed out one of the most brilliant presenters in all of science communication for speaking with integrity and honor in support of human rights and dignity.

Walking into 2026

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar

Brightly coloured graff art on abandoned and decaying military structures is one of my favourite things. Former munitions stores and maybe a guardhouse above Shelly Bay in Wellington yesterday, all dating back to WW2 or earlier

Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last

My #SecretSantaAoNZ package arrived! It went missing one year so this is a good sign already 🙂

Last night's supermoon from my front door. Handheld at 400mm and 1/800, f8 ISO 200

Another about me note to my #SecretSantaAoNZ person if still needed, a selection of the non-fiction books on my shelves in lieu of saying "books about" Undiagnosed ND strongly suspected as it would explain a lot 🙂

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Most Sunday mornings when weather and circumstances allow some friends and go trail walking somewhere around Wellington. Yesterday was a 14K/4hr loop through Belmont Regional Park to a blustery Boulder Hill summit, about half of which was in sight of my house in the suburb next door

Got the #SecretSantaAoNZ shopping done on the weekend and picked a few on brand and on sale items for myself, Lego 911 GT3 and Home One, and a 1/24 Aoshima Initial D Trueno kit 🙂

Did you know it’s illegal to have a garden in New Zealand?

Post your favourite "The Lord Of The Rings" character. Wrong answers only

Hobbies include scale modelling, weather watching, photography (mainly aviation weather and wildlife), hiking trails around Wellington and beyond with friends

Lego, mostly Star Wars, Speed Champions and Brickheadz themes, classic matchbox brand model kits, non fiction books

From my hobby painting perspective, anything that isn't white or yellow since they are the hardest to cover anything other than small details with 😁