Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

A kōtuku ngutupapa (royal spoonbill) preening by the lake shore at Western Springs this morning. 🪶🇳🇿

Family of five cuts winter power bill to $100 by living 'eco-thrifty'

I loathe these articles, which always come with hidden privilege - an electric car, the ability to renovate. Same vibes as “we bought a home” (because we have generational wealth from our parents).

Media - the wealth distribution crisis isn’t about buying oats in bulk. Talk about taxing the rich.

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🦇 #BatsInArt #PreciousBats #BatAppreciationDay #Pekapeka #StephLusted #NewZealand
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Sculpture; Sterling silver, 18ct yellow gold, hand carved mother of pearl shell flowers, oak

Slam your body down is one thing, but wind it all around AND zig-a-zig-ah is way too much to ask right now.

Two emoji bats flying around with red hearts

Happy 17th April, aka Bat Appreciation Day! 🦇💞

The two types of bat native to Aotearoa (short-tailed bats, threatened-nationally vulnerable, and long-tailed bats, which are threatened-nationally critical) are the ONLY native land mammals to this fantastic and unique country. 🦇

You know you're overwhelmed when you wake up and think about Pokemon and start crying thinking about pikachu being sad.

Packet of Decadent GINGER CHUNK.

All the Oreos and Milkshakes and Marmalades of the world, take heed, for a new cat-name-that-is-a-food-name has been made:

View from above, a moth almost twice as long as the bat it's plopped next to on a white sheet.

> If you’ve chatted to me at a market you may have heard me joke that we have moths bigger than some of our bats, but it was no joke! This rain moth looks massive next to this (fully grown) little forest bat!

[via Microbats of Melbourne]

I had to do my normal grocery shopping today and it was a heaving mass of frantic post-holiday shoppers. I wish I could have avoided it!

Twinning

A map of the Tongariro alpine crossing shows where people should go to during an eruption and also shows a picture of a victim of the Mt Vesuvius eruption at Pompei in Italy.

Department of Conservation sure has *interesting* ways of communicating that Tongariro National Park is an active volcanic area.
God, I love this country.

It's actually becoming offensive how much of what should be clear public communication in a looming crisis is actually campaign messaging about how they won't do what those other guys did during Covid.

I don't feel irritated when I hear the fake cello I love that song, but it's a great cover anyway.

Cuts You Up, by Unwoman from the album Uncovered Volume 7

HEY KIDS! You ever feel irritated when you hear a 1990 hit song by Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy, with an inexcusably fake cello line? You ever wish to hear a real cello on it, with maybe some dame singing? HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU!
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(day 75)

I can't believe that when you have heaps of things to do, you have to keep doing them or they won't get done???

Right wing coalition.

A kākāpō chick being weighed in a small bag. Credit: Andrew Digby

#kakapo chick Hananui-A3 being weighed during a health check at Verity's nest on Pukenui/Anchor Island. We weigh chicks to assess health condition, and compare against the mean expected for its age. At 9 days old and 120g, this chick is tracking well. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds

Check out this incredibly talented magpie. For about ten minutes, it channelled a seagull, a ruru🦉, a dog, an electronic car key, a car alarm, a human voice, the Android alert tone😂📱and more – most of which you can hear in this clip.

Quardle, ardle, oodle, wardle and furthermore, doodle. Amazing!🤩

I had a little treat yesterday and I think I'll get another little treat today.

A bug-eyed beige yam mascot poses with raised arms in a hallway in front of a shuttered store.

Jinenger, an eccentric, energetic mountain yam, is an unofficial mascot for Shiroi City.

you know what would be cool right about now is TRAINS

My partner and I are on SLP and he works part time as a care support worker. Labour wouldn't give us the CoL payment because we "already receive govt support in the form of winter energy payment" and NACT1 won't give us fuel crisis relief because we "don't work". They're all such miserly c*nts.

Greens offers votes for National Party crisis-relief package - with conditions The 15 votes would give National enough to pass the urgent package without support from anyone else.

Green's proposal
▪️free public transport
▪️relief payments for low income & rural people
▪️temporarily expanding eligibility for school buses & routes
▪️reversing planned cuts to the Total Mobility Scheme
▪️ increasing mileage rates to care givers
▪️ a windfall profits tax
Labour's counter offer?
#nzpol

Can’t offer free ebikes but anyone in Christchurch who wants a bike can get one from RAD. Don’t need to be ripped off on FB marketplace, the community support and infrastructure is there.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

All these years after the Christchurch attack and the west is mass murdering Muslim people, and people associated with Muslims. Our government does nothing to condemn this, most of us are more concerned about the price of fuel than the murder. This is still us.

Chiitan rescued a little kitten🐈‍⬛Got myself a new buddy!

保護猫ちゃんは小判ちゃんと名付けましたっ☆

It's unfair that my nervous system freaks out for saying "that upset me" when I'm already upset about the thing that upset me???

Foster kittens Fenrir, Freya, and Frigg looking up at you, so tiny

May I offer you a trio of little baby faces in these trying times?