Just bonkers

Wellington folk: Tiaki Wai are consulting on their setup, priorities, and policies.

You can have your say here: ://haveyoursay.tiakiwai.co.nz - takes 2 mins to register and the short survey takes 3-5mins to complete.

Don't let the grey brigade or the cookers set water policy for the next 40 years

Mexico: Stop the octopus torture! To meet skyrocketing demand for octopus meat, companies are racing to roll out octopus farms worldwide — an industry built on confining some of Earth’s most intelligent creatures into tanks where stre

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I just about cried

The old town certainly has its moments eh

A fabulous sunset in Ōtautahi Christchurch in shades of dark orange and deep pink

Ōtautahi Christchurch: go and look at the sunset now!

So Treasury reckoning on CPI hitting 3.7% if the 'war' carries on all year? Let's have a little poke at those assumptions.
First up, we are seeing a fuel price shock with unprecedented early pace. These are 'right now' figures, subject to adjustment, but, good grief, this kicks like a mule [🧵 1/n]

Oh Moata, I'm so sorry this has happened ❤️

Currently, the all-time most blocked accounts on Bluesky are:

1. JD Vance
2. The White House
3. ICE
4. Bluesky's AI app that was announced 24 hours ago

Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says she’s never visited | CNN A Tennessee grandmother spent more than five months in jail after police used an AI facial recognition tool to link her to crimes committed in North Dakota – a state she says she’d never been to befor...

This 50 yr old woman spent 5 months in jail accused of a crime in a state she's never even been to, because Clearview AI misidentified her as the suspect.

A judge signed off on it, cops went along with it, no process in place to even question the AI.

www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/u...

New Zealand regime closes Strait of Cook

The image shows condiments and spices on a shelf, with bay leaves in the corner next to a bag of drinking chocolate

I was thinking of Dirty Dancing when I took this pic

Thanks, but I've just bought a few pairs from nzsock.co.nz on sale. Made in Aotearoa, mostly woollen, 30% off currently.

#nzpol

Truncated headline on the NZ Herald website says "PM Christopher Luxon holds post-Cabinet press conference after latest fu..."

I so wanted this to be fuck-up, but sadly no.

movie about all the world's nations working together to stave off an environmental apocalypse succeeds by completely avoiding politics

Back education that works for all tamariki All tamariki deserve an education where they can learn, feel included and access learning support when they need it.  However, the Government is taking public education in the wrong direction an...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: action.nzei.org.nz/petitions/ba... @nzeiteriuroa.bsky.social

Documents reveal Health NZ knew IT job cuts would risk patient care, hospital resilience Documents reveal what the agency was told before it started making changes.

Despite the government trying to spin it otherwise, this should be obvious to everyone #nzpol

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Jeepers yesterday (12th) was the anniversary of the death of Sir Terry Pratchett and looking up about him I found out about the existence of a large prehistoric turtle named for him.
𝘗𝘴𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘺𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪. Fossil found in Aotearoa.
The Turtle Moves.

Tiny rattly shake just then in Ōtautahi #eqnz #kikorangi

Fifty years after New Zealand stopped whaling, humpback population showing signs of recovery Breeding is getting more competitive, suggesting the population is growing, a new study shows.

More than half a century after the last whale was caught and killed in New Zealand, humpbacks are showing promising signs of recovery. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Kaleidoscope | Series | Television | NZ On Screen Kaleidoscope - Kaleidoscope was a magazine-style arts series which ran from 30 July 1976 until 1989. Running for many years in a 90 minute format, the show tried varied approaches over its run, from a...

'Kaleidoscope' (1976-89) was perhaps NZ's greatest TV series about the arts. It was added to the UNESCO NZ Memory of the World register in 2017

Contrary to retro stereotypes about cultural elitism, it covered a wide range of topics. 30 full eps can be streamed 👇

www.nzonscreen.com/title/kaleid...

Jfc that was a very brief, very loud shake in Ōtautahi Chch #eqnz #kikorangi

my uncle runs a place in Anchorage that serves fish and chips, and he named the half portion the "Texas size" which is just an incredible troll

Government deciding whether US should get access to New Zealanders' biometric data Officials are in talks with the US about a new travel deal.

This NZ government doesn't value its people and is considering giving our private information, like passport details to the USA border services... so that we can travel there without visa! What a dodgy excuse! NO thanks.

#nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Mine in this week’s @newyorker.com

Neotrichozetes spinulosa, aka the Hellraiser Mite, a small big covered in urticating hairs that make it look like pinhead

in this picture of a hellraiser mite its blood red colour is more obvious

Voting for New Zealand Bug of the Year closes in a few short hours! You don't need to be local to vote. This year I'm team Hellraiser Mite, because every year I pick the freakiest l'il guy I can find and just look at him.

bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz/vote-here-20...

Ok, he just tooted and waved as we passed another bus. 😊

I desperately need you, the person reading this post, to know that this is happening at the senior leadership/executive levels of YOUR COMPANY TOO right now.

And I really do mean *you* even if I know you personally.

Hell, some of you ARE the executives.