Much as it warms my cockles to see NZ’s most tenacious single-issue party representing on the ballot, we absolutely should not need the ALCP out here in 2026!
Perilous Poozer
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Bumming out in Pompelmoose Pass
Brewer ants, Cyphomyrmex, are small relatives of the more famous leafcutter ants that cultivate their fungus as a yeast (the little golden globules), rather than as hyphae. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas.
A gangly looking pūkeko chick out for a stroll at Western Springs this morning. 🪶🇳🇿
“Think about what never happens. A candidate photographed at a Federated Farmers breakfast is not asked to account for the nitrate in the Manawatū. A candidate at a corporate box is not asked whether he endorses the firm's tax structure.“ culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...
The Lynching Takes Forty Eight Hours: Whiteness, the New Zealand press, and the destruction of wāhine Māori candidates
Mohan Dutta, Culture-centered approach, CARE, Massey University, Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Prof Mohan Dutta, Mohan J. Dutta, Communication for social change
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Swamp cypress, taxodium bonsai forest. 🇳🇿🌱
I found you an acorn but i eated it
Greeks: sculpture is about the ideal body, perfect proportions, beauty through which we can experience th— Etruscans, over in the corner:
If you're backyard is close to water, consider building a frog sauna to help treat chytrid!
Snootfly! Snootfly! Snootfly! He got snoot, he fly, he here. Mourning scorpionfly, Panorpa lugubris 🖤
Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️⚧️🕷️@apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 3w agoWe're a couple weeks away from Snootfly Watch (where I wander marshes and watch for Snootflies) and I can't wait, I miss them 🖤 (mourning scorpionfly, Panorpa lugubris)
That this bot, which posts random stills and clips from the thousands of hours of VHS transfers on archive.org, landed on *this specific frame* feels like finding the monkey at the typewriter that managed to write Hamlet.
VHS Vault@vhsvault.bsky.social · 2w agoFunland (VHS) : 4143s
The Bob's Burgers illustrators love accurate buildings and infrastructure, down to the framing, plumbing, wiring. The boiler has an expansion tank. The power poles have transformers wired up just like they should be. There's a gas meter in the alley. The under-sink plumbing is detailed and correct
This is like when Lori Baker's husband noticed that her Tetris scores from just casually playing were better than the world record at the time: www.reddit.com/r/todayilear...
From the todayilearned community on Reddit: TIL That a journalist accidentally discovered his wife was the world's best Tetris player
Posted by scootscoot1477 - 4,829 votes and 175 comments
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Opinion: No one is wasting more ratepayer cash than the government #nzpol
No one is wasting more ratepayer cash than the government
The $9 million already spent on council amalgamation proposals is just the start.
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Read a three page preview of ‘My Man, My Maunga!’ the second story that features in my new book, Local Legends, here: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/my-man-my-...
Like an octopus, the Rationalist spews ink when threatened
Tika was formed by barrister Zoë Lawton and investigative journalist Alison Mau. Frustrated by statistics that only 10% of survivors ever report, they identified a tech-led, collective action model as the best way to break systemic barriers, and support survivors as they seek justice.
D Jukic She/her@dejanajuk.bsky.social · last mo.“FOR THE FIRST TIME, THERE'S A NEW WAY TO REPORT SEXUAL HARM IN AOTEAROA.” INDEPENDENT. CONFIDENTIAL. FREE. #nzpol And so needed. www.tika.org.nz
oh to be a creature splish splashing in the mud
#nzpol Our signatures are being delivered in style by Ngāti Kuhungunu 🖤🤍♥️ www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
Horseback hīkoi bears down on Parliament in Te Tiriti protest
Security is tightening as the group seeks to ride its horses onto Parliament’s grounds.
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