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Animals. Conservation. Nature. Space. Cheese scones for the win. She/her. Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland Aotearoa New Zealand
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Talented people abound. This is so clever. www.laurastatham.com/product-page...

Accurate. #TaxWealthMore #TaxWorkLess #FightOligarchy #HumanityFirst #Geopolitics #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #PeopleOverProfit #VoteSmarter

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Not a single international cargo ship at the Port of Seattle. The port is dead. The last ship from China will dock at a West coast port on the 29th, and the last Chinese ship will dock on the East coast around May 10th. After that, there will be no more shipments arriving from China. We’re screwed.

From time to time, I rejoice in the fact that I didn’t grow up in a Lockwood. Look at them, just looking at us, all the time …

In honour of Eddie's new #AotearoaBirds feed (or any bird emoji + 🇳🇿) here's a curious kea at Moturau Hut who couldn't work out if my electric toothbrush was friend or foe!

I learnt something today. 🧵 What we think of as a swastika... isnt. It's a hakenkreuz. Similar symbol but very different meanings. Swastika: Ancient symbol used for thousands of years in many cultures. In Sanskrit means "conducive to well-being" or "good fortune". .../2

This is horrific. There will be nothing left except greedy old men counting their coin, in the end.

Tamaki Makaurau, if you are anywhere near that fire, you can also run indoor air filters and put on an N95 respirator along with staying inside, shutting your windows, turning off any air intake like air conditioning.

There it is. The clam before the storm.

If you know, you know

Regulations are the scar tissue from previous abuses of workers, preventable accidents, and inequities as a consequence of corporate negligence, profit extraction or big state paternalism. We mustn’t fall for the distorted think tank narratives against workers having a say in how these systems run.

The profit margin on electricity prices can be as high as 92% That means for every $1 you spend on your power, the company is paying 8c in electricity and making 92c profits. Thanks John Key for partly privatising our electricity sector.

NZ Food safety wants increase the amount of glyphosate (Roundup) allowed in our grains and peas 😳 it’s banned in many countries but hey give us more in our bread! www.farmersweekly.co.nz/news/nz-food....

Posting this back in here for background reminder after YIMBYism amongst other things killed High Speed Rail in Texas Bring North Island, rail up to scratch in stages allowing trains to eventually hit 160km/h on our tracks voakl.net/2024/01/30/e...

#BHN Surgeons have offered a way to clear the waiting list and also inject capital into the public health sector. National said 'No'...then funnelled money to the private sector

The Ghost of Easter Present

Keiran slaying... #nzpol

Now here's something to get behind newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/15/g...

If you don't understand cyber security stuff, just imagine if DOGE staff demanded the master keys to a bank, then came in and unplugged the security cameras and alarms, and then a bank security staffer saw box trucks backing up to the loading dock and driving away.

Aussie tv shows are always so good. Rarely a dud amongst them.

World's most stylish bird. #razorbill

Project Jonah New Zealand stranding updates. Over the last 24 hours, we've been responding to multiple common dolphin strandings across the Whangārei region. At one point this morning, three separate events were happening simultaneously.

Sweet looking boy ☺️ Anyone out there have a happy gentle welcoming home for him?

A man who knows, investigates what's behind him getting a massive crush on someone while being happily married (and living to tell the tale) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The shark doctor is in- ask me anything! Do you have questions about sharks? About marine biology? About ocean conservation? About me? About…anything? Ask me anything, for the next hour or so! Please share and tag friends who might have questions. 🧪🌎🦑🐠 #SciComm

“Restoring trust, between the American people, of the government, and to our foreign allies… means big changes have to be made. It means that we cannot try to cobble together a repair job on a government that is no longer trusted by anyone.” www.mind-war.com/p/trust-and-...