Milly
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National: We absolutely value and respect women and want them to have a voice and a meaningful seat at the table that isn’t a token gesture Athena:
kyle@kyledchurch.bsky.social · 4h agoonly six women in National's top 20, with 3 of them at the lower end, and my lord Luxon and his crew are NOT beating the allegations are they
Portrait of a well fed kōtare (sacred kingfisher) in Parnell this morning. 🪶🇳🇿
Man, if they can do this to ex-pat diplomats living in Paris who had spent years renovating the 11 million dollar pièds-à-terre they inherited…
JVG 骨@jasonv.bsky.social · yesterdayWho? Me??
Glad they mass reported me BEFORE they checked to see if i was the actual artist and not the scammer....
Costs more gives you less. That’s so on brand for National & co. #nzpol “Instead of getting upgrades of both the ward and neonatal unit, the downsized project only includes the latter.Yet it is costing is about $1 million more than the original, bigger project agreed by the previous government.”
Hutt Hospital neonatal upgrades underway, long-promised maternity ward delayed
A new maternity ward at Hutt Hospital promised for years has been put in the back seat in the lead-up to building work to add neonatal cots swinging into action.
rnz.co.nz
Steve and Brad are having an intellectual conversation. Notice how nobody is saying anything.
#Ootd is this 1952-3 Dior evening dress. This dress is called "La Cigale," meaning Cicada, reflecting the dress's hard shell incapsulated in a grey moire silk. In 1952, Vogue wrote that this dress was, “a masterpiece of construction and execution." Later, the historian Barbara
I swear we are doing ALL the Stephen King books this decade www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
AI models design viruses not found in nature for first time
Researchers from Stanford University have synthesised brand-new, self-replicating viruses using genomes designed by artificial intelligence for the first time, raising the possibility of significant m...
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ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · yesterdayStanford researchers create viruses not found in nature using genomes designed by artificial intelligence
#CoalitionofCunts #LouiseUpston #HomelessNZ This Government's Cruelty knows no boundaries. A homeless woman has died and these Cunts are to blame. #nzpol #NationalPartyNZ #ChristopherLuxon
If you're having a bad day, just remember: a group of fireflies is called a sparkle.
Welcome to the 21st century, where our ruling class tries to score points for reluctantly pledging to do the right thing after doing everything possible to avoid getting to that point, then they quietly walk it back and go back to cracking you over the skull.
Jonah In The Heart of Nineveh@jonahinnineveh.bsky.social · yesterdayShares in Palantir, Caterpillar, and GE Aerospace Cambridge University 'quietly scraps' plan to divest from arms manufacturers jonahintheheartofnineveh.substack.com/p/cambridge-...
🥳https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/te-reo-maori-picture-books-make-global-remarkable-reads-list
Te reo Māori picture books make global 'remarkable' reads list
The two Kiwi tales have been recognised by an international literature initiative.
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Gift article: New Zealand's avian influenza vax program aims to protect its many rare & endangered birds. Not only do they have to catch, and vaccinate, they have to catch them again for booster shots. 🌿🪶 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/w...
New Zealand is Racing to Vaccinate Its Endangered Birds Against Bird Flu (Gift Article)
Conservation experts are trying to slow the march of the viral disease in a country that is home to rare and endangered bird species.
nytimes.com
Let's pretend for a minute that right-wing discourse is correct and unemployed people are just lazy and could get a job if they just worked harder at it. Since the coalition took power, more and more people have been becoming lazy. The last time this many people were lazy, National were in power...
Damn just realised I ate the thing I was going to have for lunch today for breakfast
It's tempting to report a murder but to be honest it's looking more like a mercy killing.
MollyByGolly@mollymoo.bsky.social · 2d agoFrom BusinessDesk:
I bet Brown would be keen to have those practitioners on the Medical Council. “1/3 of endometriosis patients told to get pregnant even though it’s not a treatment for endometriosis and no medical practitioner should recommend that someone become pregnant simply to relieve their symptoms” #nzpol
One-third of endometriosis patients told to get pregnant - survey
A survey of more than 600 endometriosis patients found a third were advised by a doctor to get pregnant to relieve their symptoms.
rnz.co.nz
Zuck doesn't think *you* deserve any privacy, but boy does he ever value his own. This is a guy who bought the four houses surrounding his San Francisco home and left them empty in order to form a buffer zone: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u... 9/
What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door (Gift Article)
The billionaire has bought at least 11 properties in Palo Alto, Calif., creating a compound for his family, a private school for his children — and headaches for his neighbors.
nytimes.com
Nicola Willis says her govt wants to electrify NZ…yet meanwhile they’re promoting their already defunct plan for a fossil fuel LNG facility. Who do these numpties think they’re fooling 🤔 #nzpol
They also killed off the development of pumped hydro for dry year cover. So yeah. Willis and the nats have systematically destroyed electrification efforts across Aotearoa.
