'I have loved professional sport, but as a girl, and then as a woman, I feel that it has never loved me.' This is from someone who grew up around professional sport and saw its failures from the inside.

Soooon. #butterfly 🧪

Quick reminder that The Dawn Raids only targeted brown people at a time when our largest group of overstayers came from England.

Voyager 1 is currently more than 24 billion kilometres from Earth and getting 17km farther every second and hilariously it is not as out of touch with New Zealand as our Prime Minister

The Gen X urge to spin me right round baby right round like a record baby right round round round

Reminiscent of Al Capone being done for tax evasion rather than other, more serious, crimes.

Oh and you've probably not heard of Samalas(the volcano) or Pamatan(the kingdom) but you have almost certainly heard of what Samalas did to our planet- it's called the Little ice Age

A glorious bit of video. 😄 One of the racers thought she had pushed too hard in the race and was hallucinating that she saw a wolf.

It'd be kinda cool to be nationally celebrated when I have sex every four years... #kakapo #NZ

This is the Kiwi conundrum to focus on today. #kikorangi

Really quick chart to show the rise of declared state of emergencies due to sever weather events. See the trend? Also we are only 45 days into 2026! Can we talk about climate change now? #NZPol Notes in Alt Text

Post trees you've photographed.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "Your project starts in three days and you want a plan for communicating with stakeholders?"

And wonderful to see the staff at the albatross center taking such good care of them. Here, egg-weighing time. Which gives you a sense of scale for these massive, beautiful birds.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I've visited Chocolate Fish Café exactly once, as part of a LOTR fan-group (the café had been popular with some LOTR actors). By the time we'd all got out of the van, crossed the car park and reached the café... #kikorangi tinyurl.com/nfwcc6v2

Finally some good fucking news.

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What's your sign?

What's your sign?

Jesus, Lange stood up and told them "No Nukes". Saying "No extra-judicial kidnapping" doesn't require much moral courage really.

New Plymouth is 95% humidity with zero of the forecast thunderstorms. I am unhappy. On both counts.

Summer sounds at Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari. (Not a drop of rain reached me beneath the canopy.) #NZ

My grandmother’s family was murdered in the chambers of Auschwitz. She survived and told me never let it get that far. Make them shoot you in public before they murder you in hiding. Stand up for others. Never cave in fear of the Nazis or the holocaust will happen again.

This! Cloudy day in summer? Wear sunscreen. Swimming all day? Wear sunscreen. But it's autumn? WEAR SUNSCREEN! NZ's sun does not screw around.

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It's started! The 2026 #kakapo breeding season is under way, with the first nest found on Whenua Hou today. Pearl is on two eggs. #conservation #parrots #birds

On to the important local news of the day: #NZ www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

One of the chief virtues of the book is that it’s nearly the only remaining form of media that isn’t constantly being interrupted by ads. Between the covers is the last place on earth where no one is trying to sell you shit, a place where you can still be a human being rather than a mark.

OH COME ON!

I genuinely wasn't confident that the Duffer Brothers could pull off a satisfactory ending to #StrangerThings, especially given that season five hasn't leant hard into character relationships like previous seasons. I was wrong. Gloriously, thankfully wrong. That was a hell of a finale.

TIL that baby hihi rock a mohawk. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609... #NZ

How I'm walking out of 2025.

Teeny tiny #strangerthings spoiler: . . . . . . . . . . . . The science teach opening the electric gate with "melllon" delights my little geek heart. 🤓🥰

Well, I made it to Christmas Eve before I got Whammed - the furthest I've ever got. That'll teach me to join the work-crew for last-day drinks and lunch. 😄 #whamaggedon

Woolworths Helensville is absolutely wild, ran out of strawberries 2 days ago, folk are paying $15 for a punnet of cherries. I saw 2 women nearly get into it over the last rotisserie chicken. There was a splatted pavlova with road cones. A guy harrumphed me because I got declined for $15 cherries

OMG, this is too perfect for words. #NZ www.facebook.com/share/p/1AZi...

...is the birb the baby jesus??

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. ...could I get a pass on this one?

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

An excellent review of this area's earthquake history and the 2016 Kaikoura quake. Remember the escarpment that rose out of the sea and killed off crayfish, pāua and other sea life? That faulted at 12km *per second*. The noise must have been incredible. #NZ

Tsunami alert for japan and pacific. Surges up to 50cm for Pacific coastal areas #kikorangi Maybe not a good morning for the beach sunrises etc @tairawhitidoc.bsky.social www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...

Movie you've watched more than 6 times, with a gif. No Star Wars Trek, Marvel or LOTR.

Summer prep: knowing whether to keep a raincoat handy for the NZ holidays.

N'aaawwww, it has the biggest eyes. 🥰 #NZ

What is the farthest north and south you have ever been? NORTH: Inverness, Scotland. SOUTH: Oban, Rakiura NZ.

Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild. - Tuatara*. - Kangaroos. - Sperm whales. - Glowworms. - Stingray. *in Zealandia, but as they were free-range I'm allowing it.

For those in #NZ, please fill in this survey about how you use your local library so that it has actual data to fight back with against naysayers. www.surveymonkey.com/r/9YRW5C7

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

I once forgot to put brandy in the trifle. Had the bright idea of using a knife to cut through the cream, custard and sliced bananas to reach the sponge, then dribble the brandy/ginger ale mix down the blade to soak into the sponge. Repeat several times. All I did was create hot-spots of alcohol.