the cat just voluntarily left so I'm heading to bed. kia haumaru e hoa mā.

When the poop hits your eye like a big f'ing lie That's a Luxon... 🎶 #nzpol

🚨Your regular reminder to STAY OUT of flood waters. 🚨 You can be washed away by far shallower water than you’d think, and flood water is full of debris and probably contaminated 💩 🚨Follow the instructions of civil defence, evacuate early if you feel unsafe. ❤️Stay safe and look after each other

the rain's hitting sort of medium-heavy in Ōtautahi, thinking of those where it's actually bad, stay home and safe if you can.

You'd think that, with this many weather warnings across the country, there might be some kind of useful govt advice about whether we ought to be sending our kids out to school in the morning, but that would require a govt that values human life and limb

his wife is a horse and I badly want to know if one of the writers of brokenwood mysteries was on lj_drama back in the day

Rakiura had a bit of a nightmare!

I wonder how many years Mike has been incredibly aware at this point that Gina has a massive thing for him and he hasn't ever tried to let her down? Like dude come the fuck on put on your big boy pants. #tv

lol aw Shine is actually answering him with serious science explaining why he's super wrong

oh.... my god. someone came into nest cam and said this: "​​the constant RF Wifi signal is detrimental. is this hooked up to a starlink transmitter? it messes with ion channels, floods cells with calcium, depletes magnesium." I told him birds are drones with no organic cells to be affected by RF.

cc @verbscape.bsky.social lol

I still can't believe Brokenwood Mysteries spent a whole episode debating the best pie and not a single person mentioned bacon & egg OR potato top. they also ignored a prime opportunity for a Lundy 500 reference, maybe scared of confusing international audience.

Boil water notice

she's so cute

they're doing a skydiving death episode and it's reminding me of an episode of Travellers where they keep sending people back in time into the bodies of a pair of skydivers to try to prevent a catastrophe

😡

I like to imagine that half the killers in Brokenwood Mysteries get off in court because Mike laid out every tiny detail of the prosecution's case for them in the denouement of the episode.

The property I'm renting has been sold & I have to vacate by March 5, but I haven't been able to find a new property. The prospect of being homeless at 80 terrifies me. I am focussing on the Mornington Peninsula, but am willing to consider just about anywhere. If you are aware of something DM me.

happy cook gets butchered day (for nominative determinism reasons I'd love to say cook gets eaten but that has been repeatedly debunked and we should not claim otherwise even for a great joke)

This photograph, the flooded Ōtorohanga Museum, with solar panels on its roof, where irreplaceable taonga have been destroyed by floodwaters from storms exacerbated by the climate changes this government are actively ignoring.

ugh I think I'm almost due to refill the water bottle on my bedside table too. at least I have 25L or so in the cupboard above the fridge, I can grab some from there.

at least when we were breathing in aerolised shit in Ōtautahi it was because of an earthquake, which are famously unpredictable and unpreventable.

the guy who plays the main guy in Brokenwood Mysteries reminds me of my uncle

just saw a numberplate on this show 67COOL and it way pre-dates 6-7. made me laugh.

Someone's being whiny at me about how people who want to watch tv need to invest in audiovisual equipment and I've just explained I have brain damage that means I can't use basically any tvs on the market, I'm looking forward to their next reply telling me I'm too disabled to be allowed to enjoy tv.

Part of what deeply annoys me about this is that episode counts are so much shorter. So in these sawed-off seasons, characters are spending way too much time telling each other things they all already know. I’m absolutely sure most writers & actors hate this as much as many of us do.

Wairarapa friends: the Red Cross has six families keen to have sewing machines and we are out of stock there. Could you please ask your neighbours, aunties, sports buddies etc ? Email any offers to [email protected] please 🧵💚 Please share!

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

sigh

millions of peaches peaches for me millions of peaches peaches for free

*nodding*

man remember when we used to watch the almighty johnsons with fern and michele those were good times

The newest update is that of those 170, *86* are still fertile! It doesn't sound like many but it's actually good - normally somewhere between 40-60% are infertile and of those that remain about a quarter spontaneously stop developing during incubation.

Aotearoa Te Waipounamu: NZSL for Deaf community, from Deaf Aotearoa re: NEMA severe weather warning covering Northeast of North Island, especially Gisborne/Tairawhiti, today through Saturday and Sunday video is New Zealand Sign Language, no captions youtu.be/3JElfY5RVhE

lmao

breaking new frontiers when it comes to headline writing at The Spinoff

I don't think you can actually kick someone very hard when you're hanging from your hands? You wouldn't have any leverage.

Note the one small detail that consistently proves that forced birth policies aren't about protecting the unborn or a belief that's it's murder: "except in cases of rape or incest or to save the life of the mother." 1/?

This is a pogrom

Normal person check: if you see a six digit number and you know it's important, how hard is it for you to remember it? firstly if it's completely random or secondly if there's some kind of pattern in it?

Hey Wellington peeps important PSA on the Transmission Gully speed limit change. When you get to the bottom of the big hill at Paekākāriki the speed limit DROPS BACK TO 100 for a bit. They've been intensively patrolling that stretch between Paekākāriki and Raumati and issuing lots of tickets.

wh.....why would someone born in 1989 not know Candid Camera? it's Candid Camera! it was on NZ tv in the 90s!

Wow, I do not normally see Rakiura head out for her kai! She normally goes early morning but she just left now.

I love watching NZ media. It's like, I've been in that town, I know that bridge. Not literally, but *basically*.

i know the situations are very different but i wish the young people of western nations were as dialed in to politics as they are in bangladesh. they are having a free and fair election today bc a bunch of bangladeshi zoomers toppled the fucking government there

on my street there is a red car with black tape holding the bumper on, and a black car with red tape doing same. Come on guys, we live in a society, put your heads together.

real tempted to order dinner but tbh it would probably take longer than just shoving something in the oven

It's always very intimidating when I look at minutecryptic.com and the par is, like, 1 hint.

I have some medication waiting at the pharmacy that they didn't have in stock last week and normally I'd get it on the way to the bus to my brother's place for dinner but I'm sore and tired and it's cold out and I don't wanna.

I'm imagining the absolute tantrum the right would throw if Labour forced through a $2.7b project fast enough to make it a fait accompli before an election that's already been scheduled.