Currently watching Never Let Go. Every time I see Halle Berry being great in something I'm reminded how they did her and Storm dirty in the X-Men films.
Storm, Toad, & Sabertooth.
Though I can forgive Sabertooth because Liev Schreiber did a fantastic job later in the Wolverine film.
My other main issue is that I always expect Aotearoa/NZ media to be traumatising (We Were Warriors, Spartacus, The Dead Lands), or very quirky (almost everything else), and Brokenwood is just... occasionally a little bit quirky. Mostly when Michael Hurst directs, because he can't help himself 😆
Started watching a "cozy" Aotearoan/NZ detective series on ITVx called The Brokenwood Mysteries. There are 11 seasons! It's like Lewis but instead of Lawrence Fox it's a bunch of lovely actors & crew from Xena, Spartacus, & The Almighty Johnsons.
Needs more Māori & Pacifika to join the regs tho.
Chicken tikka masala was invented in 1970’s Glasgow by Pakistani born chef Ali Ahmed which somehow makes this funnier to me
Obviously I won't, but the urge to go take a peek is strong 😭
Is it terrible to hope Doomsday bombs so the Russos don't get another look in?
Didn't know the Russo brothers were doing Doomsday.
Eugh. No thank you to all of it.
Hmmm. I have one unoccupied hedgehog box in the back garden. If I set up some new brush piles hopefully they'll make their way to my back garden and spread out from there slowly.
I'm so angry about the park.
The sparrows that lived there have gone. I doubt anything will flower to feed the pollinators, and then later the birds. The roses were phenomenal. There was hazel, hawthorn, honeysuckle, bramble. It was home to so many invertebrates.
I need to write and complain.
The only problem is that they'll be making a dash across open ground to the park, and the fucking council workers cut every bush in the park down to half a foot, so they can't set up home there and will have to then make a 300m dash across open paths to get to the woods.
It's actually such a good spot. It's in a corner where the building next door just put a couple of feet from our house, and then is under the bay and hawthorn. And I've put a straw bale in front of the bay.
Super sheltered from wind, rain, predators, the sun.
I took the chain saw to the upper part of the bay tree a few hours ago. I hope I didn't upset her too much 😬
I could hear distressed hedgehog noises coming from the large brush pile under our bay tree.
I stood still in the dark for a while, waiting to see if anyone would emerge.
And then I heard the tiniest little squeaks.
Babies! 🥰😯☺️
A 3D rendering of a juvenile Ankylosaurus. An armoured dinosaur, with a clubbed tail, that walked on all four legs. This particular one has beige legs and underside, green armoured plates, and ivory horns jutting out of the plates, as well as two sticking out of the top of its head kind of like cat ears. One head horn is smooth and round.
The little green Ankylosaurus all grown up, in Chaos Theory. She's the size of an extremely large hippo. Her ivory horns are now spikes. A young man, Ben, is hugging her head and she has lifted him off the ground.
A teeny tiny blue Ankylosaurus standing in snow. He is wearing a tiny blue knitted hat that has mouse ears, and ties under his chin. He appears to be yelling.
I would probably say the same, but mostly because of Bumpy and Smoothie from JP Camp Cretaceous and Chaos Theory...
Always been kinda fond of triceratops though.
TBF, peregrines do also build bigger nests, and I think return to the same nest every year. They're cliff nesters too.
A screen grab from a security camera looking down on a peregrine falcon nest. It's a slight depression in a box of pebbles, and contains 3 eggs.
Pigeons get such a bad rep, but no one ever makes fun of peregrines. And yet... 😆
Pigeons can build sturdy nests. They just don't normally need to, because they're cliff nesters. A few sticks is enough to stop eggs rolling. They also re-use nests, & top up the sticks every time.
Those may be old eggs, or duds that mama pushed away. Pigeons only lay and sit on two eggs at a time.
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The oak you’ve known for years, the patch of grass suddenly alive with bluebells, or the shortcut where traffic fades into birdsong...
Local nature brings everyday joy.
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It’s so important to know your bollard history.
#WorldBollardAssociaton
Over a thousand common swifts have been spotted flying across France today at key migration points … they’re flying home to us! Let’s hope their homes are waiting for them. Who has swifts sharing their homes?
Photo I took of these wonderful people (the faces of whom I’ve blacked out) singing happy Birthday to their lovely old dog at a bar I was at tonight in Portland
I was at a dog-friendly bar in NW Portland tonight and a table behind me started singing Happy Birthday and then I realized it wasn’t for a person but a really old dog who was wearing a crown and he was old and fucking adorable and I love this city
The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds.
Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.
The work printer generally refuses to talk to my phone. But sometimes for no reason, it will talk to my phone.
It usually also refuses to print in colour from my laptop. But sometimes, for no reason at all, it will print in colour.
Can they at least be consistently obstinate??
I think it's supposed to be a boy, and the ponytail is the mistake.
It took me way too long to spot the Savannah animal 🤦♀️
This is hilariously bad. The claw marks... just, guys... you live in bear country. How is your impersonation of a bear this bad??
Also, No idea what he said (sound off), but shout out to the young guy in an ELO shirt!
The gambling industry, which donates hundreds of thousands of pounds to the Labour Party, “brings joy to a lot of people,” according to the Labour Party.
Anne Hathaway bought the rights to a novel about a tradwife influencer who wakes up in 1855 and has to actually live the life she's been selling online. The book is called Yesteryear. It came out 3 days ago. The film rights were already sold to Hathaway, who will produce and star.
Holy shit, I have NEVER been more excited for a movie.
I saw someone on here arguing the other day that you don’t own a book, you only own a license to the book and the book itself is a token of the license. I assure you, I own my books. I can lend them out. I can read them aloud to my child. I can sell them to other people. I can hit you with them
