Homes evacuated near Carterton due to rising river levels The homes, on Gladstone Road, were not far from the Tauweru River, an emergency operations spokesperson said.

Homes evacuated near Carterton due to rising river levels

Rental house. One ham-hands housemate used to slam the fridge door so hard that it broke off its hinges. I swapped to the intact side so it opened the other way. Next inspection, landlord asked why. I said "better feng shui." Got away with it.

Serhii "Flash", advisor to Ukrainian Defense Minister, showed the rubble Russia turned his home into by its attack.

He wrote:
"Like that, in one moment, I was left without anything I accumulated for 20 years. No home, no cars, no things.

My Finnish mother’s parents, grandparents and aunt were among those who had to abandon their home in Viipuri, Karelia. They had 3 days to grab what they could carry before leaving for good. Behind stayed everything deemed non-essential, such as my artist great-grand mother’s paintings and sculptures

3/4 of my grandparents came from Karelia, and in some way, I identify as Karelian, even though I have never even visited. I know the area and village where my family had lived for centuries, but I would not want to go back, as @jmkorhonen.fi writes.

It is the people, not the place.

40 years on from the disaster, why there are foxes, bears and bison again around Chernobyl Endangered species are making their home in a massive wild zone around the derelict Chernobyl nuclear plant.

40 years on from the disaster, why there are foxes, bears and bison again around Chernobyl
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Yes.

NSW Treasury staffer allegedly exfiltrated 5600 sensitive documents Charges laid.

NSW Treasury staffer allegedly exfiltrated 5600 sensitive documents www.itnews.com.au/news/nsw-tre...

Yeah there can only be one. Shall go and beat up Peter now.

Home

gudtrip.xyz Don't lie, you'd never have thought of this.

Wellington man 'dumbstruck' to find car on fence after flood David Fraser said it was like "some surreal artwork that's been placed there".

'Dumbstruck': Wellington man finds car on fence after flood www.rnz.co.nz/news/weather...

Future Zuck: Hey, agent? What are these items in the Zuckbot cadre budget for softbody robotics research?
Agent: Nothing to worry about?
FZ: And these appointments for me to get highly detailed 3D body scans?
Agent: Probably just a doctor thing?
FZ: Why am I donating stem cells again?
Agent: …

It does, albeit obliquely. My RudeGPT summarised the story as: "We're so fucked with climate change and there's no point in asking Metservice to predict the unpredictable."

Rare sighting of a column chart taking a dip at Hove Beach.

#dataviz

As coal chokes Johannesburg, South African scientists launch pollution warning app Scientists at the University ​of Witwatersrand have designed South Africa's first app to warn residents of pollution levels, as ‌Johannesburg suffers a spike in coal emissions in recent weeks, causing...

Burning coal, oil and gas is A-OK though, just ignore woke news stories like: www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

This I find interesting. Taiwan is big on wind power too, along with South Korea, and Japan; the rest of APAC including Australia and NZ are just "investigating". dbrs.morningstar.com/research/479...

Extreme weather scientists warn of impending funding drought 'Some nerd sitting in an office' doesn't seem like exciting research to fund but it's answering urgent questions about severe weather, a climate scientist says.

Just as the impacts of climate change are really starting to bite, AoNZ as a nation is busy 'deprioritising' research funding into it. You can probably tell from some of the quotes how chill I'm feeling about this.

No... no... Dan what have you done? Not Facebook please.

In pictures: The damage caused by flooding across the lower North Island Multiple parts of the North Island were hit by floods over the weekend.

In pictures: Flooding damage across the lower North Island www.rnz.co.nz/news/weather...

When ‘the birdman’ of St James tunnel died, Sydney commuters streamed past his body for days Exclusive: The strange and lonely death of Bikram Lama exposes a glaring gap in homelessness services. What hopes and dreams brought him to Australia, and what went wrong?

Homelessness should be a lot harder to ignore. A really sad but necessary investigation from Christopher Knaus
@caitkelly.bsky.social @gauravpokharel.bsky.social

#nzpol
It’s not just in Wellington e te whānau

Spinning meats are far more than a 3am feed Fired up, crispy, delicious meat rotating around, wrapped in bread and served with sides - the history of this mouth-watering culinary style in New Zealand.

www.rnz.co.nz/life/food/sp... Yeah look, I would definitely have used a term like "rotisserie meats" or similar because people have been on the Internet for a long time now...

Yeah but think of the shots you'll get with a 600 mm tele mounted on that!

Ivermectin claims are spreading "like herpes at a kissing booth" What the drug can and can't do.

"Claims that ivermectin is a cure-all are circulating like herpes at a kissing booth amongst Americans who never made it past high school biology -thanks to miraculous proclamations by celebrities, pundits, and most disturbingly… state legislators."

🚨 A state of emergency has been declared for the Wellington region. Here's the latest to keep ourselves and our region safe

how is this literally happening in real life

Amazon (yes I know) has lots of automatic coffee roasters. Might consider one if and when I feel rich.

Did I ask you already about how much smoke and chaff the popcorn roasting of beans produces?

Cloud deployment firm Vercel breached, advises secrets rotation [Updated] "Small, third-party AI tool" blamed for compromise.

Cloud deployment firm Vercel breached, advises secrets rotation www.itnews.com.au/news/cloud-d...