RE: https://mastodon.nz/@davemosk/116462766299478383 An NZ research paper confirming what is well accepted internationally: utes will fuck you up.

Late #caturday entry entitled: My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes. #catsofmasterdon #cats

Gary Payinda of The Frontline chats to Mike Casey of Rewiring Aotearoa about solar panels, EVs & everything electric. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x4Z28cDhJzA&pp

The scale of Fonterra’s greenwashing efforts has been exposed by a new study, which analysed more than 1,200 environmental claims made by dairy giants all around the world between 2021 and 2024. New report exposes shocking scale of Fonterra’s greenwashing www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

Naming storms and cyclone like humans: 👎 -Who's Gabrielle and what did they do? -Vaianu? Doesn't mean much to most people. -The villains are off the hook. Naming extreme weather events as the polluters responsible:👍 -"Cyclone Fonterra ruined your home" or "Tropical storm Exxon Mobil devastated […]

Today’s #caturday pic is taken on my lap from under the duvet.

No cat pics so far today. She’s currently asleep on my chest with her cheek on mine. Our previous cat Cooper took a couple of weeks to warm up to us. He started by resting on our ankles before making his way up to our laps. This cat is not like that. At all. She has been smooching on me all […]

Tax the billionaires. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWXyUbq34hQ

It’s #caturday again! 😃

Alright, it must be time for me to revisit my clubbing days … Missy Elliot "Lose Control" https://youtu.be/na7lIb09898 #JukeboxFridayNight #dancemusic

Ugh I had a call from the nurse at my healthcare practice about a med I’m on that should have gone to my med pack, but for some reason was dispensed to me, & I (most likely my husband) picked it up from the pharmacy. It never made it into my packet of meds. So what’s the trouble with adding a […]

This young miss walked in like the queen she’d always been. She was pleased with all she now owned before she’d even surveyed it. As for us, she’d known us long before we met, & we were deemed suitable, sniff. Also she is sooo tiny! Cooper used to weigh 6kg […] [Original post on cloudisland.nz]

So sleepy. I woke, as usual with awful back pain & somehow forgot for a couple of hours that paracetamol exists & that I only swallow it 4x a day, everyday starting early in the AM. Then at lunch, I realised that at breakfast I forgot to take hydrocortisone. I’ve been on it for ~3 months, so no […]

A good show on Q&A this morning: Will fuel price blowouts push us toward electrification? https://youtu.be/X5RXdQyqikM

The last week has been something else. For the last while we were planning to adopt an adult Burmese cat into our household. And then suddenly the breeder went silent. Where previously we’d been in regular contact while we bought the food & litter [cat] used & all the rest, suddenly she stopped […]

Dilemma: I have been offered a cat who has a brachycephalic face. Last week I still thought we were getting our perfect cat, but that was ripped out from under us. I’d been thinking of her the last couple of months. I have strong moral concerns about getting a cat with a brachycephalic face […]

A billionaire can get what they want with one donation to a political party. The rest of us must fight for years to get even the most basic rights recognised. Money destroys democracy, more than any other cause. The first step towards a better world is to stop the rich buying political outcomes.

Red warning as 320mm of rain looks set to hit Northland 😳 Stay safe everyone. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/590514/red-warning-as-320mm-of-rain-looks-set-to-hit-northland

I went to a dentist this morning. This was my first (& last) appointment. I left with a sore face, & a head muddled from the din of music in the background. The man didn’t do a single filling but I feel like I’ve gone 2 rounds with a boxer. And I’m disabled! I shouldn’t be going any rounds with […]

The Pixies – Where is my mind? #JukeboxFridayNight #askaquestion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3oCS85HvpY

4 Non Blondes "What's Up?" https://youtu.be/6NXnxTNIWkc #JukeboxFridayNight #askaquestion

At noho marae learning #tereomaori in 2026. We prepared a skit to perform about a trip to the beach. The punchline is: ‘He tiko i roto i te moana!’ ‘No whea ēnei tiko?’ ‘No te waha o David Seymour’ (There’s poo in the water! Where did the poo come from? From the mouth of David Seymour’) #nzpol

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I think we’ve figured out my medication is what’s making me want to sleep all of the time. Not just want to: I currently have a nap between breakfast & lunch, & often again between lunch & dinner. Anyway I started reducing this medication recently, & I haven’t noticed a difference so far, but […]

If you have to put up a sign asking cyclists to please use your shared pedestrian path, you've designed it wrong. As a commuter cyclist, I want to get from point A to point B as fast as I can, without dying. Just like a car driver. When given the option of […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@pinhman/116053059921815822 All over the world … our Canadian friends are sharing the same concerns.

Barry’s Economics comparing the normalisation of deviance & fundamental inequality. Essentially how signing a petition absolves us of having to take further action. https://youtu.be/sS33crOQvrM

WOW 🤯 The number of times a State of Emergency has been declared this year in New Zealand ALREADY matches the 2025 total. It’s February. This is what the Climate Crisis looks like.

Today I am auditioning new places to laze around the house. Essentially I have been doing too many things lately, so lying down seems a good idea. Also I broke a toe last night, which makes walking…well, uncomfortable.

Listening to Toitū by Rei this morning & it goes off!!! https://youtu.be/uZDToAjaasw

Idk what to tell you. Bob Vylan is killing punk rock. Hunger Games https://youtu.be/mhXvrl0R4Ns #toysandgames #JukeboxFridayNight

Toitū te aroha is a way to stand together in all our various communities, but especially our rainbow & Palestine communities who have been facing opposition recently. If you can’t be in Auckland marching today, you can sign the petition […]

Sometimes I doubt my decision to use single email addresses for every company I deal with. It becomes awkward when I have to give my email address out to someone in person. Today I got a spam email from “Netflix”, which honestly, if I had a Netflix account maybe it could’ve gone differently […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@elhowieson/115963367050697089 It might also be the NZ Government's. Check to see if it's got a 'C Luxon' nametag sewn to it #nzpol

We’ve arrived at our house in Whakatu #nelson, to discover the shops are all within an easy walking distance! We had no idea when we bought here that there were shops so close. Even the supermarket. My husband is considering taking up his coffee habit again 😄

[kai (stew posting)] I roasted some tomatoes that I'm gonna put in a beef stew thing tonight. Every guide I read said "pull the skins from the tomatoes and discard them" (or put them in the compost or whatever). Unless the texture squicks you out, I think this advice is WRONG. These are […]

Re: 2FA on Manage My Health I kinda want to know whether anyone has been successful at setting up an authenticator app with MMH. I followed the instructions on the website a bit ago & went to the bother of downloading a different authenticator app (bc they don’t use my usual authenticator app […]

The Public Services Commission planning to spend $10k on ads attacking striking nurses, doctors, and firefighters and specifically timing those ads to coincide with Collins’ and Luxon’s anti-union campaign should be a national story tbh, this is great reporting www.emilywrites.co.nz/what-the-hel...

Neighbour has a prolific cherry plum tree, currently dropping ripe plums all over the place. Asked if I could have some. Help yourself. Went over, got nearly two kg in no time at all, made jam (turns out this is about as much fruit as my biggest pot can hold anyway). Six decent size jars and one […]

If you access Manage My Health right now, you get a message saying whether you were affected or not. Also a good time to check bc people are in transit from work or are cooking or whatever they do. It’s been overloaded throughout the day.

Not wasting any time, Pippin's (BC, Canada) first news of the year is that he leapt up onto his cat tower and immediately snapped the platform off. The humans have some work to do to ensure he can still look out of that window from a perch. #cats #cat #CatNews […] [Original post on mas.to]

Timezones are so silly. New Zealand and Australia are in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

This morning’s beautiful weather coincided with our walk. It had been raining this morning when I put the washing on, & ut’s gone cloudy again since, so it was very well timed. Also, we had the good fortune of meeting one of our neighbours, Kobe (the golden retriever). He was doing what it said […]