As someone with unavoidable resting bitch-face, this AI version of phrenology sounds like my personal hell. www.economist.com/business/202...?

OMG this is the best.

Tomorrow is the Fifth of November – but let’s forget Guy Fawkes and his actions against an arrogant Protestant king and instead look to our own history: the unlawful attack on Parihaka and, by extension, Māori sovereignty. 🧵 #kikorangi

Two doses of the MMR vaccine provide 99% of people with protection against measles. Check if you're fully immunised and if not, book with your usual health provider, or lots of pharmacies can do MMR vaccination. Or book online: bookmyvaccine.health.nz

'This country is constantly being buffeted by low pressure systems shunted our way by the bastard continent to our west.' I *knew* it was Australia's fault! #NZ thespinoff.co.nz/society/31-1...

Emma Thompson is my spirit animal.

This is what a 170km wind & 40foot wall of sea spray looks like coming to you! If that ain't an angry cloud, I don't know what is. (George Costanza - the seas were angry that day my friend). #Oct23Storm #Dunedin #Muāupoko #OtagoPeninsula #NZ

The Awakino Gorge: 249 crashes, 10 deaths and 137 injuries in the last 10 years. Oh, and it's Taranaki's only road link north (without dog-legging south to Stratford/Taumarunui or Palmerston North first.) But it is very, very pretty. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. "The headline's about us."

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

It would be nice if we could have one day with no WTAF moments.

The next 20 years will go by *fast* so make them memorable.

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It wasn't all that long ago that I realised that 'AKA' and 'also known as' were THE SAME THING.

Love this article from The Spinoff - unvarnished commentary with the occasional well-aimed dig. #NZ #nzpol

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Technologically advance a band: Titanium Zeppelin

I am on the Forest and Bird mailing list, this was the graphic of the front runners after 5 days of #BOTY voting. But there is still a lot of voting time so it is anybird's game. #birdOfTheYear

Enrich a movie by adding your pick for #BirdOfTheYear #BOTY A Whio Good Men

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JFC I hope this turns out to be wrong.

I'm hearing rumours it's already in the top 3 in preferred-PM polling

Always blow on the pie. #NewZealandValues

Nicely played, Jenny!

TIL that the Pentgon Pizza Index exists. The website tracks the number of pizza delivery orders to the Pentagon - order numbers rise during emergencies. (I love this so much!) www.pizzint.watch?fbclid=IwdGR...

Lol this is perenial

A proper heart-warming (short) thread, this one. 🥰

What's the bet it'd still be cheaper buying it this way than going to Countdown. #nzpol

Slightly diminish a band: Tears For Cares

Gaza.......😱😭

How about a cleansing of the timeline? I offer up a newborn capuchin monkey at Brooklands Zoo. 🥰

The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.

recent history would suggest fucking around with customary rights pertaining to the foreshore and seabed doesn't end well for the party(s) doing the fucking around

Bookmark this. Labour and Jacinda did not "kill" oil and gas exploration. It was already in trouble in the later Key years. Which I know because I live in Tikorangi Gaslands and experienced the relief of the downturn before Labour ever came to power.

New Zealand #Tsunami forecast map issued at 1pm this afternoon We have issued a NATIONAL ADVISORY: TSUNAMI ACTIVITY following the M8.7 Kamchatka, Russia earthquake. Go to civildefence.govt.nz for more information.

I thought this was a very good response to Fonterra and surprising to see on a usually pretty conservative Facebook group page. Butter might turn the tide against this govt. #nzpol

Movies with the wrong characters. 🤌

How is your part of #NZ looking today?

'(C)ouncils can’t be expected to achieve the triumvirate of lower rates, infrastructure upgrades and under-control debt. “The Government know it, we know it, but we just keep on getting this.”' This is one of those times that 'pick any two' is applicable.

Finally, an explanation of Kiwis' use of roundabouts. #NZ

Wow. The building of his fire through his response, and how he breaks at the end, is a real knife into the soul. 💔

'Councils have underinvested in core services for decades. ... (T)he same ratepayers and politicians that benefitted from burying their heads in the sand are complaining they’re going to have to pick up some of the tab they’ve been running up for decades.'

The Science Media Centre has gathered several expert reactions to the "de-extinct the moa" publicity announcement. Each is withering in a different way. www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2025/07/09/m...

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

Great results from the Predator-Free Taranaki rat-trapping programme: * Rats detected on 11% of tracking cards across New Plymouth, down from 36% in 2018. * Insect footprints on 44% of cards, up from 28% in 2018. * More than one in five NP households have a trap in their garden. #NZ 🧪

Post a song from the year you turned 12. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMsa...

A fascinating bit of world history here - definitely worth a scroll.