How wonderful!!! Auckland's bioluminescence at Stanmore Bay described as 'unforgettable' www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Florence and the Machine Covir Bandes: Siena and the Devyce Milan and the Contraptioun Orvieto and the Mechanism Venyce and the Gadget Gubbio and the Whirligig Spoleto and the Apparatus

🎼When the moon hits your eye with a big laser fry That's a death star🎵

satyric dancer

Here's another video of them all hopping out of the pond. At one point the parents had herded them all over to safety on the lawn and one ran away and jumped back in the pond 😂🪶🇳🇿 mum went zipping back over going *kazoo noise* *kazoo noise* which I assumed meant GET YOUR ARSE BACK HERE DAVID

Okay while I'm on my duck bs: we also have this delightful little guy who seems to be leucistic! The duckling has matching markings to its sibling - just in a golden version. I found more golden ducks discussed in the NZ Birders Facebook page. #nzbirds 🪶🇳🇿

Stochastic Book Fair

Minato-ku’s (perhaps sole) Muscovy duck, at rest At: 35.66687° N, 139.73302° E

John Campbell: "Let me cleverly tell you what assholes Brooke van Velden and this government are without saying those words at all" #NZPol

See also: being a Japanese translator. "Not a penny to her name--wait, no. Wrong currency. Not a yen? Sounds bad. Hm." "They went to bed--uh-oh. They only have futons in this era. They went to futon? Ugh."

insurance refused to cover it

I've long criticised the dehumanising and patriarchal partner income test embedded everywhere in the Australian welfare state. The tax on love really does hurt families, and has a real impact on relationship formation or termination. www.reddit.com/r/Centrelink...

Sunrise, Saturday, 8 November, from Wainui Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️.

A worthy petition as the University of Nottingham plans to cut Modern Languages courses. c.org/GLtQhR49jV

Mr. Roper: I'm not sleepy. Mrs. Roper: That's the best time to come to bed. [𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘳] Mr. Roper: Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. [𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦]

From just this morning. The single soap is a nice silly touch. ♥️ note.com/osatsu_journ...

Not bad for a first go, I think!

This is freakin awesome!

Turns out that shaving my head is an even more tedious chore than shaving my legs. But still better than the progressive moulting.

There was one slide image I saw that just randomly had, quite crisply, LOREM IPSUM

Please enjoy this interpretive dance by Squirrel😄

everybody’s in a rush

Two dogs in a tub.

That cannot be comfortable

"But they take some really stupid positio-" I WOULD THINK SO THE AVERAGE AGE IS 20. I STILL THINK THE PERSON WHO NEEDS HOLDING TO ACCOUNT HERE IS PROBABLY THE WEIRDO WHO THINKS 20 YEAR OLDS NEED TO BE MONSTERED FOR HOLDING VIEWS HE DISAGREES WITH IN A NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY TO BE HONEST

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

Mum when I grow up I want to be a professional oboe mime #totp

Marcel Marceaubeau

It’s the Theme From Fizzy Pop #TOTP

The Um Bongo music did terribly in the charts. #totp

The beginning to every Morrissey lyric

While they're still in flower, check out the yellow pōhutukawa in Auckland (motorway end of Sales St, near Victoria Park Market). #SomethingBeautiful #flower #pohutukawa #TamakiMakaurau #Auckland #Aotearoa #NewZealand #kikorangi

Excellent feature on the making of Je Ne Sais Pas Porquoi. #totp kean-canter-mattowski.blogspot.com/2016/06/kcm-...

"Hello, is that the casting agency? We need the most french looking barman you have" #TOTP

We're honored to have @jppinfo.bsky.social featured in the NDL's Current Awareness Portal! We hope many more colleagues based in Japan will sign up for Japan Scholar Search, our project opportunities, and more! 🥰

Yazz comes in many forms early Yazz, swing, bebop, cool Yazz, hard bop, modal Yazz, free Yazz, and Yazz fusion #totp

"Charts arrived yet Fawlty?" #totp

On BBC1's behind the scenes showcase See For Yourself, BBC Chairman Marmaduke Hussey spoke effusively about the 'tremendously catchy' Stand Up For Your Love Rights by 'Bazz'. #totp

And Enya with #TOTP

Here's a rather random memory: when they used to look at new releases on Going Live, Eddie Large was quite taken with Orinoco Flow. #TOTP

My girlfriend just said I was rubbish at describing her. She's got a cheek.

Enya, what are your favourite characters from the Wombles and Bod? #totp

Tobermory Deluge.

This morning at Muriwai. Probably not the most exciting picture I’ve ever taken but I like the shapes. 🪶🇳🇿

Let’s go over to the videprinter HOPKIRK (DECEASED) 11 - 0 PETER POWELL’S HANDS A no-show from Handsy means it’s a walkover for the Hops #TOTP

Slash there, or as he’s known in the UK, oblique. #totp

I’m staying at my mum’s house. Opened a cupboard to get a spare pillow and WTF

This reminds me that I've always been confused about how I must have been off sick when all the other girls I was at primary school with had the compulsory 'make your handwriting look like bubbles' lessons.