Martin Phillipps, fingerprint portrait by Tom Fox - for a great cause - "Proceeds from the sale of this artwork will support future iNDx Art Exhibitions at Tuhura Otago Museum, celebrating creativity and autistic voices" www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplac...

Child with Orange - 1890 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14742

“I was doing what I do when the pain gets too much: hitting the road and driving until I could vanish into the woods.”

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Le sigh Here I go again in setting up my new office

www.airbnb.com/l/IHtHzL70 Unfortunately our guests cannot make Christmas at “Stay at the gallery” so fortunately we now have availability

I know there's a lot to keep up with but in case y'all have forgotten, Chris Bishop misappropriated $27m from KO earmarked for stormwater, to build a cycling bridge his own govt's policies killed off. He needs to be sacked. #nzpol

For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.

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Strands #626 “Divinely inspired” 💡🔵🔵🔵 💡🔵🔵🔵 🟡

Among all the severe weather, you may have missed that we passed our 1000th post on bluesky today 🥳 Spread the word and tell your friends we're here as we creep towards 1000 followers. 36 to go!

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Fuck this shit arse Govt. New bulletin re asbestos contaminated sand removal has come out from MinEdu. Huge increase in effort & no doubt associated disruption, with no funding from MinEdu. forthcoming. Expect schools to be closed for months waiting for resources. #nzpol

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Strands #625 “All mixed up” 💡🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵

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President Epstein walking past the flag at the Whitehouse which has fallen to the ground.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is trash. She's always been trash. She spoke at Nick Fuentes's conference and hasn't renounced him. She is a white nationalist. I'm glad a lot of Democrats want to embrace her and absolve her, but what about the rest of us whom she continues to attack?

Have the parliamentarians considered a Zeppelin service between the Beehive & the airport? I suspect a functional dirigible taxi service could be implemented for much less than $4 billion.

What’s a movie you can watch over and over again? The Last Waltz Easy Rider Love Actually The Big Chill Diva

Strands #624 “Paw patrol” 💡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🟡🔵🔵

Ōtautahi, are any garden centres still selling strawberry runners? Or any have any to spare? Portstone is out, and I didn't see any at Mitre 10 last i went

Any must see/do things happening in Wellington this weekend? There Friday afternoon till Monday midday.

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The Chills - Speak For Yourself [New Zealand, Indie Rock/Psychedelia] (1987) Some more New Zealand indie rock from Dunedin, this time going more into the psychedelic side from this band's 1987 album https://redd.it/11omft6 https://youtu.be/RYlbqrGEjBo

The Chills - The Great Escape [New Zeland, jangle pop/indie pop] (1986) B-Side of I Love My Leather Jacket 7" https://redd.it/jtpsmh https://youtu.be/_PsFhtvBudM

The Chills - The Male Monster From The Id [New Zealand, Indie Rock/Dunedin Sound] (1992) some early 90s New Zealand indie rock from this band's ill-fated but great third album Soft Bomb (Happy 30th Anniversary), with cool gui https://redd.it/vie7ix https://youtu.be/UJwW7cdkxwc

The Chills - Night of Chill Blue [New Zealand - Indie/Shoegaze] (1987) https://redd.it/2eb1z3 https://youtu.be/dhYqzfAtUnA

The Verlaines - You Say You [New Zealand, Indie Rock/Post Punk] (1984) Some good New Zealand Indie from the great Graeme Downes https://redd.it/p2ntod https://youtu.be/PzHDS0M4wyQ

I like that Pope Bob wakes up every morning and asks himself how he can kick the American Vice President in the dick

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Strands #622 “We can see right through them” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵

ODT recipe for dinner

If you see this post a bird 🪶

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Almshouse in Dorset discovers its 15th-century Flemish triptych is worth £3.5m

@iwantyoustudio.bsky.social www.odt.co.nz/news/nationa...

This clutch of fucks… we literally put a sex-crime ring at the center of global power. Utter madness.

The NZ School Boards Association has launched a petition calling on the Minister of Education Erica Stanford to reverse her ill-informed, hostile decision to remove the obligations of boards to give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi in NZ education. Boost pls our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/pr...

Vast sin-concealing chaos

Turned off light. 20 mins later sciatica type thing starts up. Feck it. Bloody sore.

Spoonfeed is the longest word in the English language with all of its letters in reverse alphabetical order.

I have always wanted to see one and very excited to be flying in from Sydney and got some photos. Life goal achieved

Righto, we had 50 years of state sanctioned child abuse, we had a former Minster of Immigration under investigation for sexual abuse of children, we have the former Act party pres. convicted of sexual abuse, we had a collection of top police men covering for sex offenders, we had cops making false

Just call it what it is: corruption. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Strands #618 “Aesop's animals” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵

Louise Nicholas reported her assault in 1993. 32 years later, and we're still getting cover ups and intimidation of women abused by serving police officers.

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The BBC’s contribution to its own downfall, by kowtowing to exactly those people who have been seeking its destruction, is one for the history books.

Happy 93rd birthday to my dearly loved dad. I'm sure he's a bit cross he didn't quite make another one!