Six years and five days ago, we watched the skies change over Tāmaki Makaurau/ Auckland in a matter of hours, due to the incoming smoke from the Australian bushfires… it was so ominous, in every way.

Very “Final Destination”

The wizard's pajama robes are set on a little table next to the bathtub. He carefully steps into the bath. It is just the right temperature and the bubbles smell of redcurrant.

I don't know what this is. Can a man explain it to me?

Hahahahaha

All true

Sounds interesting

Just listening to the Rest Is History’s series on Joan of Arc, and Tom Holland just said “the proof is in the pudding”, and I’m seriously considering cancelling my subscription as a consequence THE PROOF IS NOT IN THE GODDAMN PUDDING

Had a buyer for my cross stitch that offered me $2000 USD, I literally cried with relief at what I could achieve with that amount. After the point of providing all bank details etc, Ive heard nothing. So I’m going to have to put my girl back up for sale. I need as much as possible. Please RT. #nzpol

US Border Patrol shot and injured two people in Portland on Thursday, just one day after an ICE agent named Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. “We cannot sit by while constitutional protections erode and bloodshed mounts,” said Portland Mayor Keith Wilson.

/6 Specific language and context weigh in the decision of fact vs. opinion. “Murder” is often used colloquially, more so on social media. People on social media would understand the statement “Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Good” to mean “I saw the tape and I think that is a wrongful killing.”

why don't new people fucking LISTEN when we tell them about the sun in aotearoa nz? we warn them then they act shocked that they have 2nd degree burns when they were "only outside for 2 hours" ok so like I said, burn time in Jan on a sunny day is 5 minutes. you think we bang on about it for fun??

Great work @patrickodonovan.bsky.social Come here instead, it's great

@drdeanknight.bsky.social Hi - I'm looking at an OIA response from DPMC that uses the phrase 'Cabinet proceedings' in a way that I find puzzling as it only relates to DPMC advice to a single Minister. I can't find a definition of that term in the Cabinet manual. Any idea where it might be defined?

The shooting of Renee Nicole Good isn’t a left versus right issue It’s right versus wrong. It’s about what we’re willing to tolerate as a society Everyone watching that video should be able to conclude the agent was in the wrong The fact that we’re debating it is terrifying.

There’s now 7 separate fires across Vic. Ian

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It will hit hardest in summer next year, when they're not there, dead puppies* and all. They've kept me company through school holidays, walks, house painting and so much more. Will miss #matineeidle a lot! *you had to be there.

My favourite ironic radio show. Macademia! #MatineeIdle

trying to get Axios to quote me saying "JD Vance gargle my balls" or something of that nature

We don’t know who needs to hear this, but the flu is getting out of hand. And we needed to make a post about it. Here are our pretty direct thoughts, because sometimes our social media manager/infographic designer is tired & can’t think of a way to put it more gently. Please make good choices. (1/2)

THIS IS ALL FINE

You got to pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers

#kikorangi Watch: Large fire engulfs building in Auckland's Pakuranga during firefighter strike www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

They aren't going to stop until somebody gets killed and even then I don't think they'll even care. This is out of control.

how in the fuck does the stand-alone grok app — which sounds orders of magnitude worse than the twitter version — not require age-gating from either app store

I'm wearing my listening shirt today. After 21 years the RNZ show on public holiday afternoons "of alleged music and dubious entertainment" finishes today. I've loved it (not everyone has) & I shall miss it. Thank you Phil, Simon, & Alec! www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro... #MatineeIdle #radio #kikorangi

It is way past time for Aotearoa and every other decent country to walk away from the United States economically and politically. It is moral bankruptcy to do anything else. #nzpol

I want to make sure this does not get lost in everything that’s happening. Because, frankly, of all the stories I have written, this one scares me the most. www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...

wild shit to say when every woman who posts on the site is currently being put into swastika bikinis what a disgrace carmack turned out to be

Back when my mentor was the dean of the graduate school of biomedical sciences at Mount Sinai in NY, they made a welcome video for the new PhD students and this will never get old. #Academicsky #PhDchat #PhDlife

Photos: Civilians flee Aleppo amid intensified fighting https://aje.news/jn97vl

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

All I hear when people say "if you're not constantly furious at the news, you don't care" is "if you're not overwhelming your nervous system to the point of exhaustion, you're doing it wrong". It's ok to be working for change in a terrible context & take care of yourself so you can be functional.

We are typically very humble. But.. we did warn Americans that stuff like this happens when your History Channel replaces the Germany 1933-1939 Documentaries with Ice Road Truckers

I love Philadelphia

I've lost quite a few followers as a result of this. Probably for the best. If it pissed you off, I'm not your writer, and I'm sure you won't like my books. www.tom-cox.com/thinking-abo...

#nzpol to note

NEW: Residents of Minneapolis have spent the night building barricades, alongside memorials for Renee Nicole Good. A wooden barricade reads “PROTECT THE LIVING, HONOR THE DEAD.” Like a scene from Civil War. (🎥 The MPH Project)

In today’s NZ Herald

Zooming out, I date this era of attacks on community-based organizers & protest, with charges of terrorism, from 1999 Seattle WTO. All driven by feds presenting to cops stating # of officers expected to be killed. 🙄 Ultimately, feds broke antiglobalization movement with mass arrests, even torture.

They dragged Helen Clark back from back country tramping trips when she was PM faster than they got Luxon to say anything about this.

Trying out a lens recycled from a disposable film camera in Tauranga today. Interesting chromatic effects.

This flower is a Tigridia or jockey cap bulb this one is particularly spectacular

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It's been zero revelation whatsoever that the loudmouth toilet-cop hotel-stalking white knights defending women from transgender legions have been pathetically silent about an actual murder of a woman.