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A person's attractiveness increases by a minimum of 53% when they have a library card.

Whanganui streets

so unrefined smh

you have a son, make sure you buy him a note pad, a body camera, & a recording device. Get him a battery pack too so he can always protect himself with video evidence of every single encounter he has with a woman. Men aren't safe in America anymore. There is a war on men. Bill Prady @billprady I decided to just teach my son to respect women. Fewer things to buy.

Thank you, Bill

Rubio: “Let me tell you, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”

The team hopes enough chicks will survive this year to bring the world Kākāpō population to 300—a major milestone for a species that was teetering with just 51 individuals in 1995.

A massive bloom of rimu berries in New Zealand fueled a mating surge among the critically endangered Kākāpō. spklr.io/6044E87xp

📸: New Zealand Department of Conservation

The NYT style guide

Dearest people who don’t read or remember history:

The reason Iran is ruled by Ayatollahs now is because the U.S. overthrew the democratically-elected Iranian President in 1953 to help American oil interests.

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

The King is mad

@captmarkkelly.bsky.social

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Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait 1882
https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/24879

Where we are now.

For Ukraine, this winter is incredibly difficult. Russian attacks on our energy system have effectively amounted to genocide of many Ukrainian cities, not just Kyiv.

With the end of the cold, infrastructure will still remain destroyed/severely damaged.

Apple faces new tensions with Trump administration US regulator issues warning to iPhone maker about its News platform following controversy over Super Bowl half-time show

The FTC has sent a letter to Tim Cook because Apple News is too woke and needs to include more right wing content.

This would sound silly even for The Onion but it’s our current reality.

No lies detected.

Righto. I've read the papers released by MBIE on the LNG analysis. This will be a longish thread on my thoughts, which I'll add to progressively. Docs are here. 🧵 1/-

A kākāpō on a nest with two eggs. Credit: Andrew Digby

Three more #kakapo nests found on Pukenui/Anchor Island yesterday. Here's Konini with her two eggs. We have found nests for 26 out of the 36 adult females on the island, with more to come in the next few days. It's a big year! #conservation #kakapo2026 A

But wait! There's more!!

#nzpol

gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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Minneapolis now has daily deportation flights. One man has been documenting them A professional airplane enthusiast has been tracking the federally chartered deportation flights out of the Minneapolis airport as DHS sends immigration detainees to other states and, eventually, othe...

www.npr.org/2026/02/06/n...

Shot of a Facebook post from the National Council for Adoption. Photo of a young white woman sitting on a toilet. Caption: “Adoption *is* an Option”

a thread of (some of) my thoughts about the Super Bowl ad the National Council for #Adoption is touting. +

Absolute UNIT of a hornet beside an array of puny common wasps.

A guide for Aucklanders keeping watch for yellow-legged hornets:

1. “Hmm, is this stripy waspy thing a hornet?” = not a hornet

2. “JESUS EFFING C what the F is that MONSTER, that’s he biggest wasp I’ve ever SEEN, NO Jaden KEEP AWAY, shit I think it has yellow legs” = hornet

I shared some time with Colin McCahon's 'The care of small birds: Muriwai' at the Auckland Art Gallery and it was time well spent.

Two treasures combine for this eloquent anti-ICE monologue. Thank you William Shakespeare and Ian McKellen.

Cartoon. Title: “Mutuals” Two frames. The first frame shows Shane Jones with a jackhammer titled “Munter”, drilling into the earth, and saying, “MINE, BABY, MINE!” The 2nd frame shows US President Donald Trump sitting atop a pile of rare metals, saying, “MINE, BABY, MINE!”

NZ says it will explore “co-operation on critical minerals” with the United States, a day after NZ PM Christopher Luxon brushed off talk of any such co-operation.
My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Trump #USA #RareMetals #MineralDeals #ShaneJones

When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."

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Feel good news of the day. Go little kakapo!

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