Alison 🇳🇿
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#dunedin #ōtepoti formally @littlecatdesigns She/Her and annoying as anything
Cancel everything for a week of mourning and make it a state funeral. Rip Sam Neill, the guy who made us all want to dig up dinasour bones but not conservation land x
EDIT: Updated to include Red Warning for Coastal Dunedin & Clutha
I’m somehow on the anti bird flu vax side of social media. It is absolutely the weirdest thing. Surely it’s just trolls trolling each other? This can’t be real.
Royal Australian & NZ College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) has submitted to NZ Parliament Social Services & Community Committee opposing the Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill. It is urges Parliament not to pass the Bill. ⚕️ #NZpol ranzcog.edu.au/news/definit...
RANZCOG Submits Against the New Zealand Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill - RANZCOG
RANZCOG has made a formal submission to the Social Services and Community Committee opposing the Bill.
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We have no money. You know this. Why do you keep asking why we’re not doing things we used to do? It’s because we have no money. We. Have. No. Money. We have no money. There is no money left. It’s all gone. None of us have it. No money. Nope. Money gone. We don’t have it. No.
NPR@npr.org · 2mo agoAre smartphones causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since the iPhone was introduced nearly two decades ago.
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I took me a while after moving to Australia to understand that while a pavlova might look simple it has fuelled a great trans-Tasman divide. Australians and New Zealanders use essentially the same ingredients, yet produce surprisingly different desserts. I’ll side with the Kiwis on this one…
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Inferno goalie getting one hell of a workout! #Dunedin Thunder 22 shots on goal, 3 in end of first period. #IceHockey
Lately I’ve been in an indie team making stop-motion animation. It’s just 4 of us (animator, writer, voice actor, sound designer). The show’s called The Tiny Angry Witch. It’s all basically hand made. No AI. It’s tiring, but we love what we do. So, anyway, here’s a Witch making rude noises:
Peacock Spider (genus Maratus), a group of tiny Australian jumping spiders famous for their vibrant colours and elaborate courtship dances to attract its mate. They are very tiny in size only between 2-5 millimetres ( the size of a pea)
When politicians say they can't hold corporations accountable, remember: they can. They just choose not to.
At tonight’s Thunder v Admirals game - more parkour than ice hockey! Hope the boards can hold up under the pressure.
If anyone knows Paul Williams (this is NZ, so maybe) can you ask him why the very specific reference to Holy Trinity Cathedral in Brussels in Episode 2 of New Zealand Spy?
@parrykylie.bsky.social I don’t know how I feel about this, but I do feel you also will not know how to feel about this 🤣
Also fuck Mike Johnson for saying politicians can't survive off $175k salaries but they expect citizens to live off $40k or $7.25 an hour. Fuck all the way off
Mine are too old to sell, but if you’ve got any pre-loved kids… Dunedin is the place to bring them.
I choked on a carrot this afternoon and all I could think was "I bet a donut wouldn't have done this to me." Stay safe, eat more donuts. Follow me for more life hacks…
I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.
Penguin Random House has started adding Bluesky as an option of where readers get book recs when they send out their Reader's Lounge surveys. We're slowly getting there 🙂↕️ 💙📚 #booksky
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe publishing industry views Bluesky as some tiny unimportant island out somewhere in a far-off ocean. It's not worthy of their attention like Amazon Algoland or The Republic Of Instagram Influencer Collaborativepost is. What they don't realise is just how much the island's inhabitants love books.
In typical me style, I’ve repaired my vacuum and now can’t put it back together. Why am I like this.
Adulthood is just cycling between "If I don't say yes to every opportunity, no new opportunities will ever be offered to me" and "Oh no, I have said yes to too many things" over and over until you die.