Screengrab of RNZ news feed. At the top: LIVE: AUCKLAND HOUSE SET ALIIGHT BY LIGHTNING STRIKE. Next headline: 'Electrify everything we can': Greens isdue warning in State of the Planet' address

Awkward news feed juxtaposition of the day

10.8v, 19Ah, 205.2 Wh lithium ion battery inside an opened Flock camera case

A helpfull teardown of Flock camera internals and parts by The Center for Human Rights and Privacy. There's some good stuff in here!

“'Head down, bum up': Chris Bishop brushes off leadership bid questions” screen shot from stuff

Not the best phrasing #NZPol

Absolutely.

#BookSky

I think Jack Dorsey is a well known introspector? 2 hours of meditation each morning.

I was told by someone who visited him that his house contains a kitchen table and chairs and single house plant. That’s it.

I don’t want to become a billionaire so am happily lying on a sofa 🛋️

Also the other kinds look like hard work or even worse, introspection 😂

Just realising I need a hobby for each of those quadrants 🤔

I’m definitely too much on the top left

Coming to terms with how your state might not be as exceptional and irreplaceable as you think can actually be quite a healthy trend for a society.

Yeah, interestingly because it can be be flexible a week long writing retreat should probably fall under the sovereign hobby’ but feel more like a ‘restorative hobby’.

Maybe because for the writers I know, it’s more of a mental health exercise than anything else 😅

MacBay’s resident Sea Lion & goose just chilling

#WildDunedin Ōtepoti Dunedin

and to not miss anything while she is gone, and to be ready to answer any questions even during her time off, and then to resume or even pick up the mess that was created while she was away."

"Where men get to compartmentalize their time and carve out a clear delineation of “hobby time”, women can only do so when she can prove that she has fulfilled her responsibilities...

The undertow Women don't avoid sovereign hobbies by accident; they get pulled back before they ever reach the water

Great analysis of unspoken patriarchal pressures on women and the gendered view of hobbies in western society on Astrid's substack.

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Noticed the other day the staff at Woolworths were clearing all the expired stock and there was a lot of it.
I wonder if shoppers have realised that the meat is processed and packaged in Wiri and shipped all around the country wasting fuel
Thats what happens when you get rid on the inhouse butchers

One for the history books, by Ugly Ink.

We all need to stand up, like Georgina Beyer did, and call this disgusting behaviour out!

It’s a disgrace that this bill has been pulled, when nearly 30 years ago we were being praised for electing the first Transgender as an MP

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Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪

It’s just for one day, he’ll be unverified on the 2nd of April

I am speaking tomorrow at 8am on the proposed Merger of NZ The Ministry for the Environment with cities and transport and regions- a merger proposed by a coalition government that, if I can be frank, seems to be barely holding itself together right now let alone embarking on reckless restructuring

Leaders lead.

Non-leaders waffle about looking waiting for someone else to tell them what to do.

Not just yet, they’re still applying the lube

The best takes, though not always the right takes

can u imagine the bluesky discourse that’s gonna happen when people find out about attie.ai?

Invite please 🙏

When Covid first happened my friend and I started zoom cooking where we would pick a recipe and cook together on video call and chat. We were both in America in different states and we still do it. Making a chicken dish tomorrow morning with her in Virginia. Wild to think we are entering year 7.

SA1 UAS | Unmanned Aerial Systems | SYOS SA1 Interceptor UAS: Fast-reaction, cost effective interceptor for hostile UAS.

Maybe drones from Syos made just over in Tauranga?

syos-aerospace.com/sa1-uas/

I entered “the password” but sadly no luck 😂

Would be cool to do a multiplayer community vibe game, where you’ve got a little village and you’ve got to setup a scavenging system to get off planet before something bad happens.

You get to choose a ship to fix from a bunch of ancient crashed relics etc…

Distant conflict, local crisis: is this oil shock the wake-up call NZ needed? As prices surge, the Middle East crisis highlights New Zealand’s exposure to global oil – and the need to accelerate more resilient alternatives.

Fresh fruit and vegetables are particularly vulnerable: their short shelf life leaves no slack to absorb sudden increases in freight costs. Treasury has modelled a scenario in which inflation hits 3.2% by June.

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