Worldwide mortality experience since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2024) shows excess deaths over that period in almost every country measured. Australia (+6%) was below average, and New Zealand (+0.1%) the lowest we measured.

Please don't let the fear of not doing something well stop you from trying it for the first time. Write a messy story. Paint a crappy flower. Whittle the worst wooden bear of all time. The best gift you can give yourself is to have fun and grow.

Scientists created a dolphin with legs. Animal rights groups want the legs removed. But that would defeet the porpoise

NZ Labour Party? #nzpol

Basil Brush. Still punk as fuck.

Given all the unanswered open goals that National has offered them, this term, I'm not optimistic.

Dunno what this plant is called. The bud will turn into a purple flower soon.

Kind of love the microwave instructions on this pie package.

www.smh.com.au/business/the... Strong counterpoint to the coalition’s fake arguments against renewables costs

What the fuck is wrong with people??! 😡 “Online child sexual exploitation, a global crime targeting children, increases yearly, not only in the number of confirmed reports showing child sexual abuse images, but also in the severity of the images and videos.” infonews.ca/news/7443044...

Future weed.

My rotator cuff is now so buggered that it hurts when I sneeze. I cannot imagine how anyone over 40 in possession of knees and shoulders could believe in Intelligent Design.

Where Tourists Vs Locals take pictures in Paris Red=Tourist, Blue=Local, Yellow=Could be Either Surprised? 19 More cities here: brilliantmaps.com/tourists-...

Out in the garden ahead of the rain today.

I can't understand how this didn't get more traction? Minister in bed with oil companies known for ripping off nz and its yesterday's news. He should resign, right? #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

"Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid." .. (Heinrich Heine) (Cartoon Dave Granlund)

Just stop with the balloon releases already!!!! This is what hapoens when you do dumb shit like that. These DO NOT fall apart, they sit down way down here and pollute. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 871 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife

Really bright rainbow over Welcome Bay a couple of minutes ago. I think the faint V shape is a reflection off the water.

"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

I literally have dozens upon dozens of random links to articles & studies that all say the same thing. Cycling is good for: You, The Environment, The Economy, Traffic, yet every fucking council in NZ is hell bent of ignoring the fact, or doing the bare minimum docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The “debate”. My @smh @theage cartoon.

What the hell is going on with the new New Zealand school curriculum, and what does it have to do with the Atlas Network? (No, really!) A thread: #nzpol #kikorangi

Guyon Espiner to Bill English: "Is Chris Luxon doing a good job as Prime Minister?" Bill English: "Well, I think he's doing the job he does. He's quite an unusual Prime Minister" 😬 #nzpol

I’m sorry, but this is an attack on Aotearoa New Zealand culture and I will not stand for it bsky.app/profile/sara...

Paywall now lifted: Christopher Luxon said in 2023 he would ‘draw the line at’ using AI video ads, but after National published two AI videos in the past month, his office now says that only applied to fakes of real people. newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/25/n...

"This is a government put together in order to advance personal career ambitions rather than deliver meaningful change." Lamia Imam on point again: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #NZPol

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

"handheld meat pies" is truly the most cursed phrase anyone has ever used to describe this part of our national cuisine

Landlords do not provide housing they’re in a shoddy business that offers very little protection to those who need to rent. Yeah yeah not all landlords, not all men either but lens.monash.edu/@politics-so... A great post on Instagram by Sophie Labelle. www.instagram.com/p/DRc7BI0DEZ...

TBF... The case against is only coming from a small minority 😁

Mōrena e te whānau, especially fellow 'demonic egg beaters' out of Dunedin. Shane Jones - proving once again that NZ is a fine equal opportunity landscape, where the arrogantly stupid can rise to the top. #NZPol

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I hope all you nzers know that my mum was instrumental in food labelling changes in the 80s. me and my sister were allergic to dairy - the rule then was that if it was under 5% you didn't have to put it on the ingredients list. after 2 anaphylactic shocks and a bunch of phone calls shit got changed

Tested. No. #kikorangi #NewZealand #Aotearoa

Better work stories... #WernerHerzog

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

for the visual learners

I always love seeing and trying to capture hummingbird moths every summer. Didn't see as many as normal this year but I thought this one was beautiful. #BlueSkyArtShow #Small #BlueSkyPhotography #BlueSkyPhotographer #NatureLovers

Jean Batten New Zealand #pilot. Made record-breaking solo flights across world incl 1936 1st-ever solo flight #England to #NewZealand. Took white silk dress on record-breaking flights, repairing 💄before exiting plane. Nickname "Garbo of the skies” d. #OTD 22 Nov 1982 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ba...

This.

This is shocking. Greenpeace testing has revealed that even drinking water supplied to Glenavy residents BY THE DISTRICT COUNCIL is contaminated with nitrate at levels associated with increased reproductive risks. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

If NZ politicians were so concerned about "saving" kids from "unnecessary" medical interventions, then why the fuck did they reverse so many lowered speed limits #NZPol

These are words for those who chose to change their brain for a Markov chain You made a choice to be like this and we are here to take the piss

Human poetry for the resistance

We’re clearly at a moment where if Labour had a leader of the quality of Ardern they’d surge in the polls. Instead they’ve got Hipkins, who you can see processing everything through a focus group in his brain before he opens his mouth.