Here in Aotearoa New Zealand we have lots of different feeds, so we can go look at food (kai) or gardening, or pets, books, music, crafts etc etc etc It’s quite nice jumping between them

Did you know octopuses have three hearts, nine brains, and blue blood. Two hearts pump blood to the gills; one pumps to the rest of the body. The one systemic heart actually stops when they swim, meaning they prefer crawling. 🌊🐙🦑🧪

My mantra for 2026

The sunset is amazing tonight

About time we protected our wahine, our women leaders, Jacinda, Tory and others from cyber bullies like Leo Molloy and others #nzpol www.bbc.com/news/article...

Great thread in my nexus of interest: crisis comms & social cybersecurity

Writing this I had to look through Grok's mentions. Earlier I counted around 8 requests PER MINUTE featuring "bikini" and "her". Thousands of women and girls stripped each day. I found users stripping dozens of women per hour, from female celebrities to gym selfies. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

Maybe the ransomers should be running the health sites, they seem to be quite capable

Daron Parton in today’s NZ Herald -

Better than the old blog: here's a link to our shiny new learning centre! about.metservice.com/learning/cat...

We can see a halo, halo, halo 😇🎶☀️ A thin veil of high cloud covers the upper North Island today, which means the sun gets a 22° halo! Thank you very much to Heather for the photo 📸 You can read more about atmospheric optical phenomena on our blog: blog.metservice.com/atmospheric-... 🌈

Short notice deadhead announcement: I will be driving from #wellington to PN tomorrow with an empty furniture trailer behind me. If you have anything that needs to move in that direction, HMU with a PM.

I am asking #NewZealand to please check their garden shed, outbuilding or sheds for for a missing Prime Minister, last seen.. uh .. somewhere Please contact authorities if found, do not spook him, dont worry he isnt a danger unless you are an economy #nzpol

Just a few weeks ago our “hard working” PM was bemoaning NZ’s long summer shutdown. Yet he’s been completely absent from fronting on either Venezuela or the Manage My Health data breach. Is he still uncontactable / on holiday?

Nice for Luxon that he gets to have a complete break from work. #nzpol

Ban stock trading by lawmakers in Congress. Full stop.

I awoke to find my doctor’s clinic just sent me a letter about the Manage My Health scandal, using the MMH messaging system, and when I try to log in to my account to read it, MMH has an error message which says “My Health Account is temporarily unavailable.” 🤦‍♂️

Well I got a breach message via my practice, which they sent through Manage My Health. Starting with 'as you will be aware', which uh

I don’t think #Microslop understand that people use Office for word processing and spreadsheets, not for AI-slop. If they change office so it’s only an AI-slop generator then people will go to another platform for word processing and spreadsheets.

Too many people disabled Copilot so Microsoft decided to just rename the whole computer Copilot. Now you have to use it. Checkmate.

Elon Musk’s Grok AI is used to digitally undress images of women and children

Any takers on the New Zealand situation? Any journos asked the Chief Censor?

apnews.com/article/fake...  "Finnish children learn media literacy at 3 years old. It's protection against Russian propaganda".

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What if Luxon’s been rolled but they forgot to tell him?

What if Luxon's been rolled but they forgot to tell us? #nzpol

This is HUGE news. China has completed the ratification process for the Global Ocean Treaty, confirming it will be bound by the landmark ocean protection agreement when it officially enters into force on January 17, 2026. #ProtectTheOceans Read more👇

THIS VIDEO IS FAKE:

@drayeshaverrall.bsky.social Hello? Hellooo?? Is anyone there? Your voice on the MMH hack would be appreciated.

TBH @drayeshaverrall.bsky.social ought to have been, but it's been silence

Former PM fills the Luxon void.. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

A must-read message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, Mark and Melissa's children:

Some great targeted advertising on Instagram from Westpac. Are we back on track yet?

Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts is offering scholarships to help you start (or continue) your explorations in art, design, music or screen arts… Apply today! … Or forward this to someone you think might benefit from a $1000 head start www.massey.ac.nz/study/schola... #redesignnz

On #Venezuela: @IntlCrimCourt is the right court for Maduro to be tried in for crimes against humanity following due process & findings from @UN_HRC Fact-Finding Mission. What has happened this week is illegal under international law: ref Art 24 UN Charter/ www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

The New Zealand Labour Party condemns the US attack on Venezuela including kidnapping its president as a blatant violation of international law.

Unreal that the prime minister won't deign to speak on this. What is he even for?

Got a reality check from my Venezuelan cousin and took down a lot of what I posted. Right now, a lot of Venezuelans want a moment to celebrate even if the means were fucked and the future isn’t necessarily good. It’s been so bad there for so long.

Make sure you are enrolled to vote, visit www.vote.nz and check you are ready to go

Yes

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Manage My Health continues to be a case study in how not to handle a security breach. For example, the lack of direct comms with users of the platform (still), and a number of exploitable issues that can be checked with basic tools still not fixed.

See a bridge, post a bridge Hamilton’s new Peacocke Bridge over the Mighty Waikato Awa on opening day - from underneath The whole design is an engineering work of art from top to bottom

Yes, hello? I don’t think 2026 is working properly. I’d like to cancel my free 5 day trial please.