Ha. Prince Andrew got arrested on his birthday.

So Ramadan not yet but probably tomorrow?

Heck you can visit a pedophiles island and have zero consequences. But if you protest genocide you get beat up by police.

The USA gov funding a platform to give easy access to mass murder livestreams.

Exclusive: The US State Department is developing an online portal to enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, sources told Reuters reut.rs/4cySsA6

he voted against decriminalising being gay in the 80s, civil unions in the 2000s, gay marriage in the 2010s, and is leading the attacks on trans rights in the 2020s. is there any other new zealander in contention for single most harmful person to the lgbtq+ community?

When I was a student I had a job servicing vending machines, including one that made coffee and hit chocolates to order. Splashed milk powder + steam + warmth.... And insects. There's no way I'd eat from a pizza vending machine unless I can see inside.

Things so obviously sensible that NZ would never do it.

When reading anything Shane Jones says about dogs in the far north, it sits within this bit of history (that Jones knows well too) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Tax...

Another day of bottling tomatoes

@craftygardenernz.bsky.social those sugar beet never did emerge from the soil. Do you know if they transplant? I'm thinking I try again next year.

A gentle reminder: “Some stranger, somewhere, remembers you, because you were kind to them.”

Blood orange gin martini

This. A very loud group who spend their days being racist on Facebook, and want to give the fuckup a free pass by blaming it on cyclists.

NEW: The Infra Commission just released its official plan, and it's a massive challenge to the Govt and NZ to: - Trim transport spending - Double spending on renewal/maintenance - Spend twice as much on hospitals

WhichAustraliansMotherfucker.goose

Canning yet more tomatoes.

Anglican churches smell like melot.

It probably is absolutely true that Christopher Luxon is the kind of guy who holds an umbrella for fellow rich white men. Not sure why anyone would doubt that.

There be lots of free firewood out there...

"do we need a more urgent response to climate change?" New Zealand Prime Minister: "we need a whole of society response to climate change, you know make sure you have your personal survival kit ready..."

The councils pohutakawa and our ti kouki had a fight last night and the pohutakawa won. But the cabbage tree will rise again.

Oh heck the homes at Moa point will be covered in sewer spray.

new business idea: university where staff get AI to write lectures which students summarise with AI into essays which are marked by AI; except the savings come by just pretending we did all that and then giving out degrees for money.

So, we've a boil-water notice in Christchurch. Sewerage being blown inland from the South Wellington coastline, and deadly floods in the King Country? These must be the three waters they warned us about.

Traded lauki for a bottle of wine. Winning

Meanwhile in miramar

Mending

Mending

Lasagne is in the oven...

Been waiting for a good EV station wagon. They don't seem to exist. Our long range vehicle is petrol and needs replacing. Giving up and probably gonna get a Prius.

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

Being "cancelled" in 2026 seems to mean: being mildly embarrassed by your involvement in child trafficking and sex crimes but otherwise unaffected.

Anyone else been up since 6am securing their vege garden from the storm and harvesting anything that looks ready?

Yeah, the smell of sewerage just arrived in south miramar

Wellington is a capital city, surrounded by it's own faeces

Hey @julieannegenter.greens.org.nz . I'm freaking out at the idea of Wellington sewage arriving as sea spray tomorrow, here in Rongotai. Tell me, should I relax?

Tomorrow's forecast for my home in south miramar is: severe onshore winds forecast, with high risk of sewage contaminated sea spray being lifted and blown inland.

Found a giant kamokamo. Growing behind the wood pile. This will be served tomorrow at the free community lunch at Miramar Community centre. www.mmcc.org.nz/whats-on-tim...

under the lauki vine

Day four of making sauce.

Repost with the first video game you remember playing youtu.be/0HM2x_rBOxk?...

Just under 10kg of tomatoes harvested. today. Starting another sauce batch.

Cameras recording the murders hasn't stopped the murders yet.

Wellington is warm

Did anyone work out what's going on in El Paso yet?

Another day of harvests. This is a 25L pot. Better get making sauce this weekend

It's tucking 28C in wellington and I thought that was illegal