More people than died of murder & car accidents (in the USA) in 2025, combined.

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While most of #MSM is still asleep at the wheel, some small #Media outlets/publications continue to do an excellent job of raising awareness about #COVID & #LongCOVID.

For example, the @thesicktimes.org -

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Long Covid is not a "thing of the past". Millions of people have it. SARS-CoV-2 is still spreading and causing illness.
It is highly irresponsible to minimize the ongoing burden of the Covid pandemic. People deserve access to prevention, testing, treatment and care

Kākāpō Files II 15 | Kākāpō Island Diary episode of Wild Sounds: Kākāpō Files II Alison Ballance spends a week on Whenua Hou/Codfish Island, one of three kākāpō breeding islands. She follows rangers from DOC’s Kākāpō Recovery Programme as they go about their daily and nightly nest...

Kākāpō action this week is about the chicks - all 94 of them.

I've just spent a week on Whenua Hou, recording with kākāpō rangers as they work day and night to ensure the chicks survive and thrive.

#kakapo #birds #conservation @digs.bsky.social

www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/wild...

Kākāpō Cam: Rakiura the kākāpō – 2026 nest YouTube video by Department of Conservation

Have you been watching the #kakapo webcam? After a few power issues it’s back online. I’ll be at the nest in about an hour from now, so tune in then if you’re free! www.youtube.com/live/K_j3aaE...

A female kakapo on a nest facing the camera, with a young chick in front of her. Credit: Andrew Digby

This year's #kakapo breeding season has been the biggest on record:
- 256 eggs (252 in 2019)
- 148 fertile eggs (116 in 2019)
- 105 eggs hatched (86 in 2019).
It'll be 2+ months until we know how many chicks will fledge (73 in 2019). There are currently 95 alive. #conservation #kakapo2026 #birds

Cartoon. Title: “Levels” Image shows PM Christopher Luxon in the foreground, hugging a petrol drum, with his eyeball to the spout, and petrol fumes coming up around his face. Finance Minister Nicola Willis is in the background, her hands clamped to her face, exclaiming, “OMG, Christopher! Huffing the fumes! This is next level!” PM Luxon is saying, “Sniff! No, Nicola, It’s still Level One, and I’m feeling VERY relaxed about it…’

Between the fuel crisis and the leadership vote PM Christopher Luxon has been doing some deep breathing.
My Stuff #Cartoon today #NZpol

Bumped into an old friend on Whenua Hou the day before yesterday, while I was working on the webcam. #kakapo #kakapo2026 #conservation #wildlife

University of Queensland directs UQP to cancel & pulp an Aboriginal writer's environmental-focused book for children. Jazz Money has done nothing wrong and doesn't deserve to be treated this way. Her book is important for young readers. Shameful

bigger, more detailed story here in the guardian than I've seen in any NZ media

why is that? 🤔🤔

💯 this

Dear #MedSky

I visited an elderly relative in hospital last night.

She was drowsy, and wearing a surgical mask… a flimsy defence against…

STAFF

Yes. Unmasked staff.

If you see a mask, please wear a respie!

If you don’t see a mask, wear a respie anyway! It’s the professional thing to do.

I never thought we'd reach the stage of having to explain that sick soldiers don't fight anywhere near as effectively as soldiers who aren't sick which means that if your soldiers are sick you're much more likely to lose the fight, but here we are.

AMAZING!!! @christchurchlib.bsky.social councillors voted 12 to 1 to end discharging wastewater into Akaroa Harbour, to right a cultural wrong and to protect the blue tourism environment & economy by discharging very highly treated water to trees/land & not an ‘out of sight out of mind’ ocean option

openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/articles/the...

giving an urgent special deputation to the Christchurch city council this morning about the decision on treating waste water in Akaroa Harbour, NZ

I am going to argue that the harbour is our ‘blue stadium’ it is a cultural, ecological, recreational & economic icon for our region -worth investment!

It's ---- TACO Tuesday!

(The only question, really, was what excuse he would give.)

‘It’s crazy’: Fears over DoC restructure realised, says Chatham Islander

Newly released papers show the Department of Conservation was warned about the dangers of a ‘significant reduction’ in staff in 2024.

HMS Unicorn, an incredible museum ship in Dundee

Unicorn figurehead at bow

Guns at the ready!

CU wood inside hull

Was lucky enough to finally visit HMS Unicorn on the weekend. Launched in 1824, this RN frigate is Scotland’s oldest ship and the most original Georgian warship still afloat.

Highly recommend visiting! Well worth the day trip from Edinburgh.

@hmsunicorn.bsky.social

In Australia, measles cases have continued to grow most strongly in New South Wales. They blew past last year’s tally for the state about a month ago.

Some sign of the pace slowing lately, but with an 18 day incubation period it is too early to relax.
🧵

The fiddly and time-consuming reality of driving an EV in Australia With no end in sight to soaring fuel prices, 7.30 decided to take an EV for a test drive to see how far it could take our reporter, and if Australia's EV charging network stacks up.

This was such hot garbage Imma pull my whole column forward to rag on it tomorrow

Pauline Hanson can’t run a chook raffle let alone a political party.
Wake the fuck up Australia

Definitely 😊 @drmel.bsky.social

Oh ok I get it. Not 'real' art then. Sigh. Even more sorry u have to put up with such wrong n judgemental 💩
Bet u make super cool stuff 😊

Eh why even are ppl I ask myself sometimes / often. Art is awesum.

Oh noes that sux even more. So sorry. Tho I think maybe that's 'current talents' that are just not in present use?

Well that really sux. Sending a big empathy 🤗

#MCAS folks—

The newly formed International Society for Mast Cell Activation Syndromes has a 10-min survey to learn how they can best serve MCAS patients and caregivers.

Please take it, please share it!

Survey: forms.office.com/e/N4RDJYVep0

Org: ismcas.org

Qs: advocacy@ismcas.org

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Flood map for those who need it:

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