Simultaneously high and low

Gneiss!

Video shows exact moment Brazil dam collapsed YouTube video by The Hindu

Of *course* this is a good idea, despite being in a seismically active country, to have a 2km tailings dam right above the Clutha river
(2019 Brumadinho dam disaster)

Sam Neill has also spoken out following personal attacks by Shane Jones he’s been targeted by “supporters” of the project who have immediately escalated to threats of physical violence

NZF are the number 1 vector in this country for stochastic terrorism & there needs to be more coverage of that

Photo of three light skinned children in white shirts, sitting together and looking down adoringly at a grey tuxedo cat sitting in their laps.

Adoration of the Fluff Child. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Thanks for sharing your lovely pictures

Regime to restart tenure review; privatise the high country to its donors and cronies so they can make mega-profits

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

organic linen tea towel featuring NZ native Kakabeak

Organic linen teatowel in mauve featuring large red cabbage

Label for teatowels showing linen and made in India

I'm offering a very limited edition organic linen tea towel in two designs - bit of a test project. They have arrived after much wrangling and anticipation. If you're a linen tea towel addict you are welcome to bags one. I'm saving mine for the scones IKYK. $39+P7P jenniferduval-smith.com/shop

make sure you choose a password that contains capital letters, numbers, and special symbols so that someday the data broker who purchases your info can go "ooh good password" after your login details are inevitably leaked in a data breach you can do nothing to prevent

Funding falls short as father tries to get a lift for his disabled daughter Dinson Thomas said he carries his 13-year-old daughter, who has cerebral palsy, up several steps to get into their house.

"For some people just paying for it is their solution but not everyone can do that so it is an equity issue. It's not fair that some are asked to pay and others just wait and wait." - Laurie Hilsgen, Carers NZ chief executive

The hidden power keeping wages low For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave of research suggests it's everywhere, and a new book argues it's key to understanding today's inequality.

For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave of research suggests it's everywhere, and a new book argues it's key to understanding today's inequality. n.pr/4e0RHRi

Sorry but a lot of us have been here since this was just one big disaster queer house party and that's still how we exist here. This isn't high school speech and debate club. "Are you going to respond to my arguments?" Bitch, no. I'm hanging with my mates and we are goofing off and having fun.

#MillionsMissing 2026 Toolkit
Governments and healthcare systems around the world fail to classify myalgic encephalomyelitis (aka #ME/CFS) as a serious, complex medical condition, leading to significant neglect in medical care and social services. Over and over again, people with ME and Long COVID

What we lost when we lost Self magazine The almost 50-year-old publication was a lifeline for chronically ill readers.

What we lost when we lost Self magazine

AMERICA 250 EVERY ASTRONAUT ON ARTEMIS II WAS EDUCATED IN PUBLIC SCHOOL, AND THINKING OF THE TEACHERS WHO SHAPED REID WISEMAN, VICTOR GLOVER, CHRISTINA KOCH, AND JEREMY HANSEN, YOU HELPED SEND A KID TO THE MOON.

This 👇🔥🔥

Archaeologists Find Homer’s Iliad Papyrus Inside a Mummy in Egypt - GreekReporter.com Archaeologists found a rare Iliad papyrus inside a Roman-era mummy in Egypt, highlighting the spread of Greek culture.

“Inside one of the mummies, the team discovered a rare papyrus containing a passage from Book II of the Iliad by Homer. The text includes part of the “Catalogue of Ships,” which lists Greek forces involved in the campaign against Troy.”

greekreporter.com/2026/04/19/h...

Hagiography After Jay Hulme from 'Folkish' by Kym Deyn She spent her last years aflame, tired behind the eyes, palms bowls of ash. Radiance had her skin so frail it glowed through. Light was killing her slow. Rain steamed over her and she worked harder for it. Build that abbey, write those letters, let tansy grow tall in the beds. She shone in her lone hours, tried to bid it away, unafraid at her age, but the inconvenience of it, a thirst, she flaked upwards like old paint. Her feet stopped touching the floor so she let her robes out. Pretended she wasn't the awkwardness of it, the fuss she'd rather have left like a tomcat evaporating into the night, but the angels, the bells, her light - a pendulum's upward swing.

Hagiography
by Kym Deyn

"[...] she flaked upwards
like old paint. Her feet stopped
touching the floor so she let her
robes out. Pretended she wasn't
- the awkwardness of it, the fuss"

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

Israel's actions in Lebanon are "totally unacceptable," says Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot ahead of a meeting with EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg.

🔴 More on aljazeera.com

BRAAGSPAKE from 'Folkish' by Kym Deyn you could become a battlecry slung over the lawns I'm saying the screaming doesn't have to stop only start sure, consequences that old chestnut but there's nothing stopping you not really no bind no gag only this little veneer of civility I know a gal that liked to scream on top of neolithic tombs I kid but you could sitting in you thorned and roiling for nothing here just letting go into a sharp november wind she could kill ya her shriek the pitch to split a man's head like a pomelo open up this shuttered chest all your rage carried like a weekend bag your big stupid head carrying your big stupid neuroses in bouquets like tulips if it were up to me I'd do tours into a field this spot where you are now let go you know you blew it

BRAAGSPAKE
by Kym Deyn

"I'm saying the screaming doesn't have to stop only start
sure, consequences that old chestnut
but there's nothing stopping you not really"

Submission: Policing Amendment Bill The Council strongly objects to the Policing Amendment Bill. This bill removes all limits on Police powers to record people’s activities. This bill enables police to break up any gathering, remove peo...

The Policing Amendment Bill vastly expands Police surveillance powers and enables the use of body cams without any additional oversight. It also allows Police to designate no-go areas nearly anywhere and on the flimsiest of grounds.

Read our full submission: nzccl.org.nz/submission-p...

dodikshneyerson wrote: I saw an elderly man at the grocery store struggling to read a soup label because he forgot his glasses. A teenager in a hoodie stopped, pulled out his phone, used the magnifier app, and read the ingredients to him. They ended up chatting for ten minutes about the best chicken noodle recipes. Good people are everywhere.

Dear man.

this is such an interesting observation, especially when you put it in the context of how gaming has employed a similar approach to keeping casual players engaged - removing variance and feels bads, using skill based matchmaking etc to prioritize retention

First you go to a cute walk with your wife by the river and see some funny duck, and next thing you know 2 weeks later you're taking an online ornithology class and birding in the sleet beside 12 people who woke up at 6 AM to stand in the middle of a swamp to see a weird bird with a long neck.

Oh, Happy Birthday! Well done for having a good day in very difficult circumstances! ❤️

There are no words that adequately describe how much I miss being able to go line dancing, to festivals, spending hours a day at two gyms, power walking, and just having a basic normal social life.

Long Covid took all that from me, and it could take it from anyone.

Sound is essential for appreciating elephant seals

Would've thought it wasn't possible, and yet