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Archaeology, banjos, Taitokerau, preschoolers and teens, lack of executive function, second chances, mental exhaustion, well-toasted bread, banjos. Not the real-life Indiana Jones, more a dwarfish sort of Evelyn O'Connell
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Yeah. I am gonna bail for a bit. Too much second hand fear and misery. My head hurts, anmlingnwith my heart and I canr get anytbing done. Ka kite ano. Faith. Hope. Love.

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

Leaving aside the noxious nature of privet, the comment by the Kerikeri Inlet Care guy that its only been around since the mid-20th century doesn't bear more than three seconds of scrutiny. Privet was introduced for acclimatisarion in 1845 and was for sale in Auckland for hedging as early as 1850 1/

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

"No disposable people" You should read the whole thing, work or whatever can wait.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Had never considered walk shorts, which my lovely father wore his whole adult life, as part of the facist aesthetic, but there we go. Spanish Legion it isn't, but not too far off, neh?

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

What if What if all those prophets knew what was coming because they were the ones who always looked backwards and remembered it had all come around before?

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Kipa is the loveliest, most mild-mannered guy. Former public servant, Mau Rakau practitioner and total GC. David Seymour on the other hand, is a wang.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I, too, am relieved I haven't been charged with crimes I did not commit. Daily.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Look, my ex mother in law is an ex-bank clerk. But she worked her way up to the manager of retail risk analysis for the BNZ in less than 20 years, before she retired. How far did Simeon get, again?

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Is there a political cartoon of Trump checking under the dress to ID the Statue of Liberty's junk? I know we got lots of him grabbing it last time around.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Wild to see the political censorship on Insta and Facebook from Day 1 of the Trump presidency. One nice thing is that you can download all your FB data for free, & consider deleting your account while keeping messenger to stay in touch with people, which is how most of my friends use it now anyway.

submitted 31 days ago • 8 comments

Dumbest thing about musk's salute is that media have settled on awkward as the adjective. It was many things but awkward is one thing it was not. He slammed his chest and banged that open hand salute out to his leader with none of the hesitancy or self consciousness awkward implies

submitted 31 days ago • 9 comments

Any Parkaeologists out there have a nice low impact design solution for securely fixing gun carriage wheels to the ground? Specifically into free draining friable soil in a non-staffed rural location?

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Feels familiar. Excepr Luxon probably isn't going to blood eagle the Gallery in six months time pour encourager

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Imagining a political cartoon. Trump as Uncle Sam, buttocks bared and spread, crapping out EOs. Arsenal of Democracy?

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Here's a little tip for dealing doom scroll brain: YouTube comments. Not kidding. Think of a song you used to like. Something from, say, your late teens or early twenties. Go to YouTube, play the song to yourself again, & scroll them comments

submitted 33 days ago • 13 comments

53 days.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Crazy that it turns out the Nazis won World War II and our Chinese and Russian allies ended up winning the Cold War, but waaaaay late.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments