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Mānawatia a Matariki

Oh, have I not told this one here? Okay. So Grandma had The Charisma.

This is fucking good & I honestly wish NZ Greens could get some of this messaging, with tangible visual references people can comprehend out to the public.

I once asked a priest to bless a printer that I was in the middle of fighting with and he went "I only bless things when there's a chance it'll take" and then turned and walked out of the room.

Could be us

We’re just innocent men

Landscape. Silkeborg 1848. oil on paper. 1819-1903 Vilhelm Kyhn Vilhelm Kyhn was a landscape painter, and in particular painted many motifs from Central Jutland. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Me logging in

INSTRUCTIONS (FAILURE TO FOLLOW MAY RESULT IN DEATH) A TWO SLICE OF SOUR DOH BREAD CLEANFULLY SEPERATED IN TWAIN SECONDLY A CHEESE AND HAM HEATED THE CHEESE AND THE HAM AND THE BREAD AFTER COMBINING BEFORE PUT THE BREAD OVER AND UNDER THE HAM AND THE CHEESE. MELTING THE CHEESE ENJOY

I am this cat

Thank you Google maps for protecting the cow's privacy

Observed Effects of UBI Just keep reposting What's not listed here is the bonus: Right will shit the bed David Seymour's ulcer will perforate Winston Peters will have a turn Simeon Brown will break more commandments Tax Payers Union will spontaneously combust

Developers and UI/UX designers that split username and password prompts into separate steps should be forced to log in every 5 minutes. #rant

I think we should start measuring government programmes in Hayden Donnell's 'metres of roading'. Lowering the age of bowel cancer screening to 45? 5 metres of road. A year of Three Waters? 63 metres of road. Reading recovery? 13mm of road.

Heading outdoors? Here's the latest on protecting wildlife if avian influenza #H5N1 arrives in #NZ. ↔️ Keep your distance – stay away from sick or dead wildlife. 🥾 Clean it - clean your gear between wildlife spots. ☎️ Report it - if you see >3 sick/dead birds, call 0800-809966. mpi.govt.nz/bird-flu

This is my cat Aces and me in 50 years

Cathy Veale

Technically, they’re Remains now.

👌🏻👌🏻🤣

Phyllis Shafer - Moonrise, 2015, oil on canvas, 32 x 38 in

'Storm in the Mountains', Albert Bierstadt, oil on canvas, 1870.

Can all captions turn into karaoke captions please I need the bouncing ball to understand what I'm watching

"Its swimsuit season", I whisper, eating another swimsuit

You know what I haven't had for ages? Moussaka. Trust me to get a yen for a Summer fruit in the exact middle of Winter.

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

"expect further cases and if more birds came into the clinic, every precaution and surveillance testing would be performed" "We are advising members of the public that are finding sick or dead birds to use the emergency animal disease hotline and contact DPIRD" www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Welp, our giraffes like meat now.

I read a Ghost Rider comic yesterday where he went into space to yell at Galactus and this may just be the sickest thing I’ve ever seen with my eyes

I would simply change society completely in a way that has no undesirable side effects.

I was digging around on wikipedia today and happened to come across this very good painting of Fancy Men Bamboozled By Egg

#StreetArt by #FinDac Mount Maunganui #NewZeland

"Danse macabre" (2023), acrylic painting created by the Iranian artist Bahman Pezeshkzad.

I think this poster lays it out perfectly. They pick and choose and often want their arse kissed to boot, or some want their pet projects to go ahead so sprinkle their ‘philanthropy’ into communities to stifle opposition #nzpol

I'm on the bathroom floor again, and breathing is hard, and eating's been hard, and sleeping, the world is a laden thing rolling around on my chest lately. Just being alive is heavy tonight, but we have enough dead friends. Come over. - LENA OLEANDERSON #Poetry 💙📚👀

The existence of moth and mother implies the existence of mothest.

Scottish Painter Dale Bissland

Rachel McNab (b.1965,UK) Helford Passage, Cornwall. #Linocut

With alt text.

This is important.

RIP to my all time favorite TV dad, and blessed be Anthony Stewart Head.

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

#Bugsky 🐙🌿 Shared with me by a fof in SoCal - this is a gynandromorph (both male & female) valley carpenter bee (Xylocopa sonorina). Females are black, males orange, so the extreme color dimorphism really stands out. Per Doug Yanega at UC Riverside, bee gynandromorphs he’s seen are mosaic instead—

Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈

I wish I could write like this. And I wish Lindy West wrote tutorial papers in psychometrics. (Source: Lindy West, 2019 essay collection 'The Witches Are Coming')