Claire Lacey (they/them)

Learn a Gaelic waulking song | Lord Mungo Murray | Collection Highlights | Kelvingrove YouTube video by Glasgow Museums

For a purely European version of a work song, you can look into "Waulking Songs," songs used by groups of women "waulking" wool to organize the labor.

Partly painted Kākāpō

A partly painted car kakapo with a sideways trucker cap

Anyway here’s Kakabro

between this and horses running, the internet is on a roll.

a prompt that says draw frost, and in reponse is an ice cube with a face and blond hair labelled Emma Frost

okay, the people on youraislopboresme are my kind of nerds. this is rad.

i love the turn taking nature of it, too. you have to larp as ai if you want to submit prompts. genius.

I was introduced to this Anti-AI slop site by @kamkonek.bsky.social where your answers come from humans LARPing as AI and you in turn also pretend to be AI. youraislopbores.me

I hear that about the shops. And the heat! It's beautiful out and it makes me so tired...I want to go jump in the ocean, but I know getting there and back on the bus would do me in.

WHAT!? That's unreal...how old were you all??

I get like that with shops too. It's so much!

#ShareGoodNewsToo

AMAZING. A plentitude of (Dave) pigeons!

you tooo!

I was about to message to see if you might want a post work bevvie 😂

the softening blue / horizon blurred by cloud / i would paint this ocean / by sweeping white / over blue / over blue / my teacher said / use tape / make crisp lines / but nothing here / is straight

climate / gently queers / the edges

Same!

The Brighter Future What would this country look like in a decade or so if we actually did what so desperately needs doing?

Emily Writes @emilywrites.co.nz and I are starting a new series called The Brighter Future, where writers and artists and poets and so on imagine what a better future might look like, if we actually did some of the needful that's right in front of us: www.emilywrites.co.nz/the-brighter...

Covid hospitalisations climb as New Zealand enters new wave There’s been an increase in hospitalisations and in wastewater detections, and it’s expected to last another month or two.

There were 19 reported covid related deaths last week and a big uptick in hospitalizations. We're in a wave.

We haven't been hearing much about it, so I'm pleased to see this article on Stuff.

Don’t worry. I’m not even a person. Poetry | Jennifer LoveGrove | Issue 53

NEW @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social @themockler.bsky.social #SendMyLoveToAnyone #SMLTA #The TinderSonnets @bookhugpress.bsky.social

sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/dont-worry...

New Zealanders support more taxes on ultra-rich, new poll shows Half of New Zealanders also agreed that billionaires shouldn't exist while people still struggled with basic necessities like housing, food and healthcare.

Tūtira mai ngā iwi!!!

#nzpol

Great idea—not only for student flatters, but all Dunedin renters.

[pic of man in front of 100s of pill containers] older person: wait until you're old and have to take meds lol me: @patientsupremacy

Leonard and Hungry Paul is a sweet, short series that is ideal for being home sick. Pretry predictable, but lovely in its simplicity and low stakes.

Vale Jim Wilson: poster baron, poetry advocate and all-round colourful character Remembering the man behind Phantom Billstickers with a typically lively excerpt from his 2022 memoir.

Jim Wilson, founder of Phantom Billstickers and advocate for New Zealand poetry, has died: may his legacy linger on the walls and bollards of our cities
thespinoff.co.nz/books/03-03-...

Fish of the Year | Mountains to Sea Conservation Trust

Vote for Fish of the Year!
www.mountainstosea.org.nz/fish-of-the-...

Fish of the Year | Mountains to Sea Conservation Trust

Your link didn't work, hopefully this one does:
www.mountainstosea.org.nz/fish-of-the-...

That's so relatable 💜

Cornell Lab Bird Cams

the world might be a shitfest of assholery, but at least we have the birds. www.youtube.com/@CornellBird...

The latest Covid vaccine is available from today, for those who haven't had a booster for six months and who want protection from the latest variants. I had mine this morning. @ninjakitty.bsky.social

This is a flying lampshade.

This is excellent!

a woman with a scarf around her neck and a hat on Alt: a woman bundled up in woolen mittens, hat and scarf is shivering on a sofa

this is supposed to be summer