As seen in the Nelson airport, a contest to make the best tiny chair out of a beercan. My cold hard heart softens

My favorite photos from the Olympics are of this Italian figure skater Daniel Grassl. He looks absolutely insane in so many of them. It's great.

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/

MAGNETIC Charisma!

I’ll take it

How we do it, Aotearoa style. Seen on the street. Miri kirihemete

Really need more sales before the end of the month! Bills are due soon. Boosts also super appreciated <3 Check out my work → cvkvlv.com Earrings pictured → cvkvlv.com/products/hvr... Goal for December: $937/$3500 Mvto!! (Thank you!) #Beadwork #Art #Jewelry #Mvskoke #Indigenous #IndigenousArt

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.

I have been reliably informed by An Expert In The Field that the concept of “too hot to eat” does not apply to baked goods. Possibly applies only to microwaved Hot pockets and Macca’s apple pies. Definitely not to banana bread with cinnamon sugar crust.

No

I can’t believe the “moon landing was fake” nonsense is going around again, but here is another debunking. Also see Phil Plait’s classic debunking

Mob THRILLER dance!! WOW!!

For the second day in a row, the grey and gloomy evening suddenly exploded into a light show. Shot with my iPhone

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

🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠 Hamster version. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are the mRNA vaccines incredible? YES! Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No. Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES! Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES! Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES! Fund mRNA research!

This is assimilation era pedagogy. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Respect

From my walk last night, a lovely sunset and amazing glowing moonrise beaming down.

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

Orca! Looks like a mother and calf maybe? #kikorangi

Lovely walk tonight, some good waves and ORCA! ( next post)

Every once in awhile, I think of my favorite “…the fuck did you just say?” phraseology, which is from Homer’s Iliad, proving we have never, ever changed as a species, only less fancily inclined. “What nonsense has escaped the barrier of your teeth now?”

Can you stop an arrow with a cape?

Step by step towards tricorders...

A picture taken yesterday by Perseverance, featuring the COVID-19 Memorial plate on the left side of the rover chassis. It commemorates the impact of the pandemic and pays tribute to the perseverance of healthcare workers around the world. #Mars June 25, 2025 - Sol 1545 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭

I’m hopeful about this

Our local kekeno was hitting the flex poses today #kikorangi

A new level of cringe just came into existence

Wake up, babe, a fresh New Zealand location just dropped

Hahaha! I love this.

Woman Mentally Rearranging Rankings Of Children While Opening Mother’s Day Gifts

Obligatory repost

Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has shown the world that strong and effective leadership starts with empathy and kindness. Her beliefs have never rung more true. Honored to introduce her tonight at Doc10's closing night showing of "Prime Minister."

I had to see it, now you do too

for centuries there have been stories by Māori about a green glow from the forest floor, which were written off as superstition because no Europeans ever saw them ... it turns out there's a bioluminescent fungi, mycena roseoflava, whose dim glow can't usually be seen due to light pollution.

Look what just arrived! #flippersUp #HeardIsland #stupidTariffs #penguinpower

We once lived in a world where Ella Fitzgerald and Karen Carpenter sang together. Happy Birthday my Ella.

If you see this post a picture of a tree #arborDay

Watching animals eat is like my biology crack. I don’t need it, I don’t have to do it, I don’t even always like it, but there’s just something about critters noshing on one another that leaves me gobsmacked. And nothing does it like the comb jelly Beroe [Thread 🧵] 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xkN...

Happy 72nd Birthday to Rick Moranis. Thank you for being the Canadian treasure that you are.

Mist droplets on the grasses or a 13 year old with a Bedazzler kit run amok?

Here’s some nice fungi, seen on a recent tramping trip @lukelukeluke.bsky.social . First is a lovely little purple pouch fungus

Listen to more classical music. For every like, I shall recommend a good recording. (I'm going to regret this, aren't I?)

Press Sec: “Nobody understands how normal it is to have a secret cabinet meeting chat group on the beach, and that loser Jeff just materializes “

Follow this group for lovely news about the impact of Trump’s tariffs …on an uninhabited island

Our open letter response to the #USCommerceDept and #POTUS

Our resident kekeno or fur seal lazily waving a flipper as he lazed on the rocks today. He’s a bit battered and old but seems content, which I can relate to. Seen on my walk.