I said fuck your Honda Civic, I've a horse outside. Fuck your Subaru, I have a horse outside. And fuck your Mitsubishi, I've a horse outside. If you're lookin for a ride I've a horse outside. The Rubberbandits - Horse Outside https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPFZrRD3J8 #JukeboxFridayNight […]

Squirm - West Can only find this song within the album but also, love this album, check it out! It's weird. But good weird, I reckon. Better live evidence though tbf. "west" starts at 12min30 […]

Coalition of cruelty still "laser focused on the cost of living" and planning to force unhoused people away from where all the (defunded) social services are #nzpol

Actual footage of the staff at Neantóg's medical centre pronouncing his name completely fucking wrong the 50th time I corrected them Yes, it is recognisable as an English name with an odd spelling and an accented vowel. Like the difference between Paul and Pól […] [Original post on sunny.garden]

Can't tell you how good it is to have not heard fireworks for 4 years now. My deepest sympathies to everyone citybound

There are 14 birds in this photo #chickens #hen #freerange

In honour of Dick Cheney

#listening to Scared Old Men by Dick Move; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyfX7TtAYeA Dick Move are ear-shredding, wall-climbing brilliance on stage, and this is the best punk song I've heard for years. The video absolutely nails it too. Highly recommend. #music #punk #dickmove

[Historical premature deaths and disasters in my whanau] Just thinking about how I come from a big Irish Catholic family and have lots of health and safety lore embedded in me from all the ways family and neighbours died over the generations that the kids' dad, a pakeha with a grand total of 2 […]

[Hobson's Pledge, talking politics with family] Just pushed send on a mini essay to my kids' Granny (mother in law sorta) after she sent me an invitation to sign #hobsonspledge I've ignored a whole bunch of links she's sent me - fringe health stuff mostly - but I couldn't not address this. Now […]

[Gross, reproductive stuff] We've got multiple roosters in the flock right now. Just the right amount that they cockblock each other more than they over-mate with the hens. Kids' dad was just standing outside when a rooster mounted a hen. Immediately, another rooster scared him away. I looked […]

The good news is that once we released the rooster and bedded it up nice with hay, one of our hens immediately started laying in the nesting box. I just went to put an egg in to encourage this behaviour and found 6 eggs! The bad news is that whichever hen is now laying there will never lead us […]

[Phlebotomy] Fuckin hell. You know those stupid fucking barcodes you get when you ask to get your own results emailed to you? I've put mine in a safe place 😐 I really fuckin loathe that system 😭😭😭🤬🤯

Whatever else can be said about the health system, Healthline is a fucking godsend. Ringing up like, I don't *think* I need to bring child to go, but the symptoms are mildly alarming, could I get a professional's opinion please? Sure, 10min free consult, can even send pictures securely. I both […]

Maldives eliminates mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B. No babies were born with HIV or syphilis in 2022–23, and hepatitis B has vanished among children. The WHO is calling it a “triple elimination,” the world’s first of its kind […]

Hey fellow political nerds in the UK, do you think the Greens could steal a march on Reform by announcing a policy that would allow national Parliaments in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales to run independence referenda without needing permission from Westminster? This would be totally in […]

Me: I can't believe what a daddy's boy he is! Last 2 hours since he woke up he's just been whingy and clingy, I'm exhausted! you're home and he's just chilling on the floor near you, doesn't need cuddles, just got dad home again! Other parent: I gave him a knife. Babies love knives 🤷🏻‍♂️

Anyone else follow #shawnathemom ? She's an actress who started doing little skits about Mom life and people's attitudes to parents and kids, and about a year ago developed some of the characters into an ongoing comedy drama thing. It's so good! Little bite size snippets of this family's major […]

Finding it surprisingly difficult to find gumboots for Neantóg. He's almost 1. He can walk and he very much wants and needs to do that exercise daily. I'm sure he's not the only 1 year old who needs at least ten mins, if not several hours, of being outside a day, and gumboots are convenient in […]

Bláithín's school photos are expensive. Come to $32. Grudgingly paying and making plans to Snapfish our own next year. But to pay, we had to put cash in an envelope, or put our "debit or credit card" details on it. It says that credit cards incur a 2% fee. Mine is a debit. There's $32.33 on […]

[I'm just venting now, you probably don't want this image stuck in your braincase] "It'll hurt the people who need help, so it'll hurt kids ..." Crusher Collins, 2025 I'm imagining her telling the interviewer this from atop a bejeweled litter, ported by a dozen whipped 12 year olds in harem […]

Glad we had all that heavy snow so they could open the road....

[Spider] She's not huge, but she's quite a bit bigger than the spiders I normally let live indoors. But she's really pretty and made a lovely web. And she matches my interior color scheme. And I don't feel like deciding what to do about her.

Oh fuck me, the snow is here and it's comin in sideways

Accidentally poured the warm water intended for my bread (yeast mix) into my cup of tea and SUDDENLY REMEMBERED it's almost time to make breac! I feel like I should order a bunch of cheap rings now. They won't get there in time this year, but I'll be fucking ready next October! 🤠 Now, to […]

Me: Why are people decorating pumpkins it's only *checks calendar* GODS DAMMIT!!!

Is @CatherineGalway the first Head of State with an account on Fedi? (even if it is run by her team rather than her directly). #catherineconnolly

There's more fucking bumblebees in the caravan than I know what to do with. This is not a relaxing buzz

new users: dont worry. nobody on here actually uses linux. its just a joke

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb8A-8s5vNY&list=RDMb8A-8s5vNY&start_radio=1&pp=ygUdYW4gY29pbGVhY2ggYWcgZm9nYWlydCBhbiBsYWWgBwE%3D Cock a doodle do, fuckers

#JukeboxFridayNight Will you sit back and do nothing? While governments are desecrating? Will you sit back and do nothing? In apathy we're suffocating Burnt Cross - (S)mother earth […]

Sing a song, a pretty little song That's alright but I'd rather fight. Bob Vylan - Pretty Songs https://youtube.com/watch?v=ckf5Awk4fuU #JukeboxFridayNight #takeittothestreets

Lost my favourite bodhrán stick so now I have to learn how to carve wood good

Yayuh! We found our dentist for Bláithín! Had such a good experience! Like, not only am I and Bláithín buzzing cos we're so proud of how well she did, but the dentist is buzzing cos she had such a cheerful, engaged, helpful and funny patient! (Doesn't happen every day in dentistry apparently) […]

Fucking FLASH! BOOMBOOMBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM *rattle* Booooooooommmmm Fuck yeah, the storm is right overhead Lightning is literally blinding, thunder actively moving the caravan I am so fucking energised

Kiddos's dad just uttered the most hilariously un-irish (but true!) thing I've ever heard, "Oh good rain's coming, finally the wind is going to stop." 😂😂😂 #mastodaoine

Now that the explosions of yellow are about done from the kōwhai trees, it's time for natural fireworks from our tī kōuka NZ cabbage trees. Like kōwhai, it's shaping up to be a big flowering year for tī kōuka. This is popular with the bees, and will be later […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

Did I just hear Luxon take time out from being laser focused on getting the country back on track to criticize Hipkins for using buzz words and jargon!

Never really noticed these before till I was walking to a friend's from the school with Neantóg who was immediately obsessed. I'm assuming that these are the Dark Sky Approved street lights that avoid light pollution. I'd never really thought about them before […] [Original post on sunny.garden]

"Under the program, selected artists receive a weekly payment of approximately $375 ... [A trial program] began in 2022 and is set to end in February after a six-month extension agreed to earlier this year, was launched to support the arts sector following the pandemic. " #harrisonjacobs, 2025 […]

Current mood like https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvi9OzU22DQ&pp=ygUUR28gdGhlIGZ1Y2sgdG8gc2xlZXA%3D (YouTube link to Samuel L Jackson reading "Go The Fuck to Sleep") #parenting

"Are you tweakin'???" Yes. I am making it better a little bit at a time.

Tee-hee Big fan of them over worth my name in it but these are (mostly) all great https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dl-xS1DYyQ #gaeilge

When I was about 5, maybe 6, i had the first of only about a half dozen dreams that I've remembered long term. I was in a tower on a hill at night, looking out over a stunning starry landscape. I understood I had lost something profoundly important and that I had to find it. Over my life, I've […]

Green #mosstodon #nature #photography

Lambs bleating in the fields! Yellowhammers singing again! Chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-choooo

Bláithín and her great aunt picked some daffodils together this week, and Bláithín wanted to put them on the kitchen table. I suggested we put some food dye in the vase water because a) she's obsessed with mixing colours and b) I vaguely recall an experiment […] [Original post on sunny.garden]

Woke up yesterday to the sad news that Manchán Magan had passed. This short editorial 👇 from the IT captures what was essential to the man I had the pleasure of talking with Manchán a couple of years back on @IrishStewPodcast. My abiding memory was one of joie de vivre, cultural passion and a […]

Thirty fucking seven years old and still having to produce my i.d to get a damned drink where the legal age of purchase is 18 🙄 It's not a compliment. I'm not a damned teenager ffs. I don't wear makeup, so it's not like they couldn't see the wrinkles and greys. Had to leave the damn shop to go […]