Fascinating!

Shameful. Unacceptable. Vote for people who will actually take action.

UN treaty to protect marine diversity in the #HighSeas was struck this week after Morocco and Sierra Leone ratified the agreement, clinching the threshold of at least 60 ratifications needed to enact it as international law www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Carmel on fire at the pay equity rally in Auckland. Labour WILL reverse the changes this wretched government has made to pay equity.

Just heard Jesse Mulligan say on RNZ he was surprised he’s 14 y/o daughter loved The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey. BUT it has a 13 y/o narrator and is a belting page turner. PERFECT YA material. Give it to your young teens I say! They love dark stuff, just ask @patricknessbooks.bsky.social

Love to see the day's news hero is the CHIEF ARCHIVIST! Casey Costello breached rules by giving tobacco industry-friendly document to health officials www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Literally nobody thinks collared priests protesting war and injustice are "intimidating' but mad props to Wilis for making them seem bad ass 🤣🤣🤣

Enrich a movie by adding your pick for #BirdOfTheYear The Muppets Takahē Manhattan

Religious leaders: there is a genocide happening and you aren't doing enough, love demands action Nicola: 5 people in Johnsonville might be intimidated by love and mildly inconvenienced into sending me an email 😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐

Enrich a movie by adding your pick for #BirdOfTheYear. A Whīo Good Men

Best economic plan they have is: pay people millions to charge people in the grip of a cost of living crisis millions & get them to buy stuff while in Auckland. Trickle-up economics? There's no more money in the consumer's pockets and none of us can get health care. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

100 Māori words every New Zealander should know #TeWikiOTeReoMāori

This xkcd is utterly brilliant and should be shared more: Vaccine research: xkcd.com/2515/ Rollover text: Honestly feel a little sheepish about the amount of time and effort I spent confirming "yes, the vaccine helps protect people from getting sick and dying" but I guess everyone needs a hobby.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

This is a great live blog of the DA v Noem hearing.

Real life at an Aotearoa ED. They even have a special ghost poster.

🇳🇿 NZ Bird of the Year

Carl Bates is a NZ mega landlord. One of his rentals is in Epsom Auckland, a stunner that he added to his family's trust in 2024. Bates' portfolio is estimated conservatively at $9-10 million. Michael Woods was asked to resign for 0.14% of that. MP rentals aren't an issue - but the deceit is #nzpol

A little ditty I wrote

Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered. And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.

Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award. 3/4

The new statue of the Madonna at Santa Teresa di Gallura is an "abstract of Mary's form" 👀

Not cool. Cordon in place in Wellington as police check reports of a gunman www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

A breakthrough in green technology has created bricks designed to host moss directly on their surface — no soil, no upkeep, just rain and wind. Dutch engineers have made bricks that grow moss - purifying polluted air, absorbing CO2 and cooling buildings & streets by up to 7% like living walls.

I prefer to pronounce shoegaze = as a four-syllable Japanese word and Bluesky = as a three-syllable Russian surname.

Someone on NZ bsky posted the huge airline deals right now to the US, like NZD499 one way (under USD300), lolol but a quarter of all NZers (Māori & Pacific population) 'look Latino'. Those MFAT travel advisories need further updating, we need a protective cordon around Cliff Curtis IMMEDIATELY

"Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Nepal’s capital Monday to vent their anger against a decision by authorities to block most social media platforms including Facebook, X and YouTube, saying that the companies had failed to register and submit to government oversight."

My favourite expression to describe a lazy person, from Spain, is trabajas menos que el sastre de Tarzán. It means “you work less than Tarzan’s tailor.”

Ayo Edebiri answers question she was purposely excluded from by interviewer. Kudos to Andrew for immediately recognizing the misogynoir, his body language says it all. #BlackSky

"God won’t send a meteorite. Brian Tamaki himself won’t burn anything down. But who’s listening to him? Week after week after week after week." Once again... #nzpol

Thinking some thoughts about how people can spend more effort sympathising with a man who *might* have lost *some* access to his kids than with a woman who actually did have her kids stolen for four entire years

"Buffy the COVID Slayer: Sarah Michelle Gellar posts masked selfie on set of reboot." "I will wear a mask in my shower if that means I don't get this again" said Sarah Michelle Gellar after recovering from COVID-19. Source: archive.md/iTPlt

I'm searching online but also want to put the word out here: I'm looking to hire a storyboard/comic artist for a small supernatural/horror side project I'm working on. Preferably in Aotearoa with lived experience working on inclusive projects. I'm violet @ violetblue dot com if anyone had leads.

John Campbell: the growing rage and extremity of Brian Tamaki and Destiny www.1news.co.nz/2025/09/08/j...

Have you heard our recent BBC You’re Dead To Me episode about Renaissance Era Beauty Trends? It’s very funny, and I got a historical makeover! My guests are fab comedian Tatty Macleod and brilliant expert historian @jillburke.bsky.social Available on all podcast apps worldwide

Used to be able to say a Fair Go was a NZ value then it got canned due to budget cuts which is definitely a new kiwi value #NewZealandValues

I still mask in grocery stores and crowded indoor spaces as much as possible. Some say I’m over precautious. I say, ‘I’ve never had COVID’

This took me about ten minutes off the top of my head: 30 Reasons to Hate Christopher Luxon #nzpol

Immigrants are a social good, anti-immigrant propaganda is basically all lies, and any approach to the "problem" that doesn't start form those two points is worthless

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

Seven countries currently get 100 percent of their electricity from renewable energy. Norway and Costa Rica are at 98 percent

Studying microplastics in the NZ context? I'd love to hear from you. I'm putting together a feature for NZ Geographic magazine and am keen to be documenting work in the lab and in the field.

“My attitude now is that if you get to my age and you don’t have people half your age that you look up to, then you’re the problem.”🥰✊✌️ thespinoff.co.nz/politics/29-...

353) Offtobedbots. Carry you off to bed when you fall asleep on the sofa. #SmallRobotsRemastered

In Polish when someone provides false or unsubstantiated information with confidence, they are described as having taken it from IDzD. IDzD stands for Instytut Danych z Dupy (the Institute of Out-of-your-Ass Data).

From today, the Living Wage of $28.95 officially comes into effect! That means over 55,000 workers employed by accredited Living Wage Employers across Aotearoa - and their regular contracted service providers - will now earn at least $28.95 an hour. #NZpol #LivingWage 1/n

Picking only five is almost impossible. Some truly stunning images in here.