'A little short of a disaster': Little penguins mauled by dogs at Piha
10.03.2026 05:30
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'A little short of a disaster': Little penguins mauled by dogs at Piha
Ok real talk. The entitlement of dog owners is fucken unreal. Constantly asking people to put their dogs on lead on walks. "But Fluffy wouldn't hurt anyone" while fluffy is full on the lead snarling and bearing teeth at my dogs. It is hard to walk our dogs because we can't control other dogs.
National lamenting $60 billion Covid spend while they are on track to borrow $120 billion with no pandemic.
Labour saved 20,000 lives.
National are saving landlords and tobacco
Two ducks standing guard outside a building.
Guard ducks
Huge shoutout to @taniawaikatolawyer.bsky.social for raising awareness on this. Amazing use of her platform.
See the stats: nzpt.cjs.nz
#nzpol #onetermgovt
A black wave of water over-topping a coastal wall, carrying cars and boats inland. π· ε°ιθͺΏζ»η η©Άζ¨ι²ζ¬ι¨δΊεε±, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=136394929
March 11 marks the 15th anniversary of the 3rd-largest seismic event ever recorded, the magnitude 9.1 TΕhoku earthquake and tsunami. Recovery from this devastating event is still ongoing. Research into ways to make our society more resilient to nature's unpredictability continues.
The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded all JetBlue flights due to a request from the airline, the agency said in a notice on Tuesday. It was not clear why the airline requested the stop or how long it would last.
About a dozen pelicans hanging out on huge rocks. Blue sky above and some water in lower left corner of the frame.
Pelicanvention.
Just so people on bluesky are awareβ¦I was very early bluesky and I very much actively followed every dog account I could find that signed up and now when I open bluesky I basically am given pure dog content straight to the brain stream every time. I am proposing everyone else do this. The end.
Come together with researchers, iwi, kaitiaki, and communities at Rereteewhioi Marae to learn, share, and help shape the future of pekapeka conservation. 2026 National Bat Hui - March 25-27th - Waiuku - hosted by Finding Franklin Bats π¦
#bathui #nzbats #community #conservation
A bird with a yellow and black body and wings that give off a cool pattern as well as white on the tail flying up to eat a bug
Lackluster baby bird day, tho I got some hot leads. Even worse swallow day, tho I did get some good snaps of this yellow rumped warbler, who mostly has a black rump. πͺΆ
All good points. *Every single one of them* (& far, far more!) are those that The Disinformation Project, led by Kate Hannah, consistently, & in near real-time provided grounded, & gendered insights, & warnings around - incl. in our 1st public report. static1.squarespace.com/static/65c9c... #nzpol
Report notes that proliferating sources of false/inaccurate content targeted specific areas of Ardern govt's Covid-19 strategy. Anti-government narratives and conspiracy theories gained traction during the '21 lockdowns, which appears to have weakened social licence required for such measures.
Report notes a surge of inaccurate international information reached New Zealand, complicating an already volatile environment. This influx of disinformation exacerbated vaccine hesitancy and social division at critical junctures in the domestic responses.
The Phase 2 report's out www.covid19lessons.royalcommission.nz/reports-less... Inter alia, it flags how mis/disinfo significantly impacted NZ's pandemic response. Both undermined efficacy of vaxx campaign and implementation of lockdowns, contributing to a measurable decline in public trust. #nzpol
Wait, what?! Grammarly made an AI persona of me and all these other journalists?!!!!!
Thank you @caseynewton.bsky.social for shaming them into at least offering a paltry optoutβ although obviously that is not enough.
www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...
Kiwis think their lockdowns were harsh when it allowed you COVID FREE LIFE when I literally didnβt go to the hospital even when my GP told me to cause the hospitals were FULL and no one had PPE. Iβm just glad whatever was wrong with me didnβt get worse and got better. You know even know.
The absolute mind boggling thing about NZ covid response in 2020-2021 as someone who did the entire first level 4 and then went to Texas is that yβall were roaming around while many people were in *self imposed* lockdowns because their govt abandoned them.
Read our analysis of the video showing a US Tomahawk missile strike next to Girlsβ School in Iran on February 28 here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
The US is the only participant in the war that is known to have Tomahawk missiles. Israel is not known to have Tomahawk missiles.
A video released by Mehr News, and geolocated by Bellingcat, shows the missile hitting a building near the school. This image shows a comparison between the Tomahawk missile seen in the video and a Tomahawk missile flying over Tehran earlier in the conflict.
For an upcoming story, I'd like to hear from people who have had an encounter with a stranger recording them on Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses. If that's you or you can pass along this request to someone else who has experienced this, I'm at miles_klee@wired.com or millionbear.44 on Signal. Thanks!
holy shit
9wo ginger and white kitten sleeping on a woven foot stool
5 month old ginger and white kitten sleeping, stretched out hanging over the edges of the same woven foot stool as in previous picture
How it started. π₯°
How itβs going. π₯Ή
Iβm not a big curling guy, but I get the significance of this, and WOW itβs mind-blowing. Some are calling it the best shot in curling history! #TeamCanada at the #ParalympicGames.
A pink camellia and green leaves.
Today in the garden. These early bloomers (starts in January) usually get decimated by February ice or snow. Not this year!!
two pouwhenua at wai-titi landing, designed by ra vincent. from wikipedia: "The two pouwhenua are 6.3 m high and made of white cement and marble. They represent waka prows: traditionally waka were placed upright in the ground at the end of a journey. Carved onto the pouwhenua are figures representing the people of the land and a kΕwhai design representing the spirit of the land." the pouwhenua stand in the grass on either side of a cement walkway across a small park at molesworth st. a bright blue sky with a few wispy white clouds is overhead; yellow brick buildings with red roofs are seen in the distance across the street.
one of two bronze lions in front of the wellington cenotaph. the lion is in a pushed-back cat stretch, with a growly snarly face; the bronze is heavily weathered blue-green on the front paws and top of the head.
the supreme court of aotearoa new zealand, as seen kitty-corner across the intersection of whitmore and lambton quay. the low building is adorned with a recycled bronze and red glass screen along the upper half, inspired by the branches of pΕhutukawa and rΔtΔ trees. the sky overhead is bright blue, and a yellow city bus waits at the light on lambton quay.
the invisible city sculpture at the corner of lambton quay and grey street. two large, rectangular stainless steel rectangles, invoking book pages, stand slightly offset from each other, with a poem inscribed in braille upon them. a yellow-green high-viz is reflected in the right-hand block. the sculptures read: The word made flesh can bleed; are we bound or free? Embracing visual silence, alone I breed a virtual skin of words across the void but if the fault line ruptures, the word made flesh will bleed. By the unseen quay I plant this graven seed. Flayed by the wind, of permanence devoid, tethered sign to skin, weβre both bound and freed more information about the sculpture is online at https://www.sculpture.org.nz/the-sculptures/invisible-city
central welly morning
BREAKING: High Court has ruled that Mariameno Kapa-Kingi was unlawfully expelled from Te PΔti MΔori. The Judge has ordered that the party write to the speaker to advise that she is once again an MP for the party.
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were not applied in any way. To convene a meeting which would play a fundamental
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without giving any indication that a resolution to suspend her was on the table, without
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members of her electorate council, could not on any view be seen, for example, as
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Brutal par from the Judge
there is the $ price of oil, but then there is the cost
