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kaimatai.bsky.social

Conservationist, lover of nature and photography. Enjoys craft beer. Cyclist 🚴‍♂️. Vegan. Atheist. Likes secular liberal democracy. Ngāti Kahungunu. www.nznaturephotos.co.nz

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Two episodes into The Pitt, and I'm hooked

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"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

submitted 10 days ago • 578 comments

The food situation in Sudan is dire. The World Food Programme is running out of resources and needs donations. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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🌺 Ka maumahara tonu tātou ki a rātou 🌺 We will remember them

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#AnzacDay in New Zealand. I'm remembering Merlin Owen Pasco a fabulous entomologist and collector of type specimens sadly killed near the village of Corbie in France on the 6 August 1918 when he was just 25 years old. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_...

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Speculating about getting a Kobo eReader for reading books when traveling (and out and about). Kobo has the merits of not being Amazon, and I can borrow Library ebooks with it. Going off the iPad I've used for most of this time. Any thoughts.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Visa application for my next trip to China is submitted. Now I wait.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Snakes are better than people. Always have been. Great Basin Rattlesnake (Crotalus lutosus). Basin and Range Province.

submitted 166 days ago • 1 comment

Well, that Civil Defence alert on our phones was loud! More bad weather on the way

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

A good native plant purchasing expedition today. Got a couple of Rewarewa for our regenerating native forest, a Karaka (to keep the kererū happy), and more kōwhai and wharariki. The Easter plant sales are very attractive.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments