The other universe. An incredible 3D rendering of a eukaryotic cell. We are a wonder.

this seems like it’s just asking for problems

Clear skies and a chilly night ahead for Te Ika-a-Māui, which gave us this gorgeous view of the sunset over Whakaari White Island! 😍🔥 Many thanks to our friends at GeoNet (Earth Sciences NZ) for the stunning clicks 📸🌋

First snow of the season on the Mighty Tararuas

Time to gush about some fossils. And the story is so beautifully told. “The protomammal perished before it was even born but I still want to hold it in my palm and offer it everything.”

AMAZING!!! @christchurchlib.bsky.social councillors voted 12 to 1 to end discharging wastewater into Akaroa Harbour, to right a cultural wrong and to protect the blue tourism environment & economy by discharging very highly treated water to trees/land & not an ‘out of sight out of mind’ ocean option

That's Me by Louie Zong

In the style of Rita Angus, the Mighty Tararuas before the storm

This is Achrioptera manga, a giant phasmid or stick insect native to Madagascar. The specific epithet, "manga" means blue in Malagasy & it's not hard to see why. Only males are blue. The tiny back wings ("alae") are an example of brachyptery: they're useless for flight, but have other functions.

April 17th 2020 - Aotearoa was in lockdown, which I didn't mind at all. I had the largest piece of Tāniko I've ever woven, to complete for TePapa Tongarewa, National Museum of NZ. I started her in 2019. Completed her in August 2020.

This heavy use of urgency — shortcuts in the parliamentary process — is cheating democracy. And ministers know it too.

So you’re telling me that obsessing over a hysterical anti-Ukrainian narrative, covering Hungary with insulting posters about Zelensky, and staging daily social media dramas under the guidance of Kremlin political strategists wasn’t the best electoral strategy?

In today’s HeraldOnSunday

I hate when fantasy films I made a long time ago begin to come true in real life.

After the madness of MAGA in Iran, meeting Ukraine’s president is a lesson in empathy and emotion ✏️ @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social

Absolute perfection. A+ four stars 10/10 100%. Peak duckling. What an incredible baby bird season it's been. Onto month 2! 🪶 🐣

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Another moment from the storm on Thursday night in Chicago.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LargeBirdsInFlight, so here's a Mute Swan. #birds #photography

Not all heroes wear capes. Some are librarians. 💪🫶

Good piece by Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, 1News Māori Affairs Correspondent, on the chilling effects brought about by billionaires propping up racists, and their lawfare. | Opinion: What I learned from Julian Batchelor’s defamation case against TVNZ www.1news.co.nz/2026/03/27/o... #nzpol

This is the most straightforward example of environmental, economic, and cultural vandalism this govt has yet proposed, and there is no shortage of candidates And in addition, it will destroy the govt's moral authority to enforce any other fishing laws www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/bill-woul...

Let me start a belated thread of Aotearoa New Zealand silvan birds. To lead things off, a New Zealand Bellbird photographed on Kapiti Island.

A person's attractiveness increases by a minimum of 53% when they have a library card.

Whanganui streets

so unrefined smh

Thank you, Bill

Rubio: “Let me tell you, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”

A massive bloom of rimu berries in New Zealand fueled a mating surge among the critically endangered Kākāpō. spklr.io/6044E87xp 📸: New Zealand Department of Conservation

The NYT style guide

Dearest people who don’t read or remember history: The reason Iran is ruled by Ayatollahs now is because the U.S. overthrew the democratically-elected Iranian President in 1953 to help American oil interests.

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

The King is mad

Self-Portrait 1882 https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/24879

Where we are now. For Ukraine, this winter is incredibly difficult. Russian attacks on our energy system have effectively amounted to genocide of many Ukrainian cities, not just Kyiv. With the end of the cold, infrastructure will still remain destroyed/severely damaged.

The FTC has sent a letter to Tim Cook because Apple News is too woke and needs to include more right wing content. This would sound silly even for The Onion but it’s our current reality.

No lies detected.

Righto. I've read the papers released by MBIE on the LNG analysis. This will be a longish thread on my thoughts, which I'll add to progressively. Docs are here. 🧵 1/-

Three more #kakapo nests found on Pukenui/Anchor Island yesterday. Here's Konini with her two eggs. We have found nests for 26 out of the 36 adult females on the island, with more to come in the next few days. It's a big year! #conservation #kakapo2026 A

But wait! There's more!! #nzpol

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

a thread of (some of) my thoughts about the Super Bowl ad the National Council for #Adoption is touting. +

A guide for Aucklanders keeping watch for yellow-legged hornets: 1. “Hmm, is this stripy waspy thing a hornet?” = not a hornet 2. “JESUS EFFING C what the F is that MONSTER, that’s he biggest wasp I’ve ever SEEN, NO Jaden KEEP AWAY, shit I think it has yellow legs” = hornet

I shared some time with Colin McCahon's 'The care of small birds: Muriwai' at the Auckland Art Gallery and it was time well spent.

Two treasures combine for this eloquent anti-ICE monologue. Thank you William Shakespeare and Ian McKellen.

NZ says it will explore “co-operation on critical minerals” with the United States, a day after NZ PM Christopher Luxon brushed off talk of any such co-operation. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Trump #USA #RareMetals #MineralDeals #ShaneJones

When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."

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