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Clearly a construction defect, completely outside the user's control
If, like me, you joined InternetNZ last year to ensure your point of view was not overwhelmed when it came to board election (thanks) and AGM voting, then it's coming up time to renew your membership to continue that mission.
If you didn't join last year, maybe you'd like to this year?
I was in a business leadership meeting fairly recently where the men argued βwe have some well-paid wΔhine MΔori leaders and we pay the 50 MΔori and Pasifika women in our lowest paid roles the same as the 5 white men in those roles, so no problemoβ and I just wanted to stab them all with a pencil.
If you're in town for this year's Wild Dunedin festival, come & check out our event on how palaeo & genetics can help inform evidence-based kaitiakitanga & conservation management of taonga species. We have some great speakers lined up with more to come wilddunedin.ssboxoffice.com/events/the-p...
I am gobsmacked by the level of arseholery required to go into a peaceful group of Iranians gathered in public and dance around among them taunting them with an American flag. WTAF?! Sort your shit out, Christchurch.
Made the mistake of getting more than an hour outside Wellington π
This is pretty much what we got served up at a cafe in the Wairarapa recently - three huge weak milky lattes in place of what we ordered (two flat whites and a cappuccino)
People talk about dunk quoting like itβs always a bad thing
Banana's Loose
Dire warning at the supermarket
A light-brown and white owl, eyes shut, sits on a wooden shelf between a chicken-shaped cookie bowl and an urn.
I can't provie a full timeline cleanse, but here, courtesy of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the Associated Press, is an eastern screech owl asleep in an antique store. (The owl was gently, and without incident, removed by NYSDEC and released into nearby woods.)
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed
The first βwhaeaβ is always a blow to the ego, no matter how politely meantβ¦
Even if itβs likely from the outset that it will be denied, departments still need to track down everything in scope, which can take awhile (especially if the numbers in the OIA team have been cut)
This mug is lovely teal colour--I developed the glaze myself.
Just to be crystal clear this is nothing to do with the laudable Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine. I do see NZ folks using archive.is to get around paywalls, so maybe we should stop that.
Theyβre also very tasty as well as noisy, just sayingβ¦ (they were the last thing our elderly cat still hunted)
βFor all intents and purposes, Forest & Bird waged a media and political war on NgΔi Tahu and the Crown during negotiations.β β Martin Fisher.
I remember attending a meeting about the NgΔi Tahu settlement and conservation and being shocked by the naked arrogance and racism of the greenies in attendance, even by 1990s standards it was bad. I continue to give the side-eye to some people in the Greens.
You might want to look up TaupΕ eruption. It is a very very very big hole in the ground now.
Please get him off LinkedIn...
Thatβs unfair to professional executives. They all have experience actually running and delivering things - Leggatt never has (politician and lobbyist)
Yes that makes sense to me (after all, 1:100 rainfall in some places is a typical Monday in Fiordland). I think thereβs a widespread misconception about the probabilities that make people more cynical about them than they should be. Yesterday- definitely had worse in the last 20 yrs where I live.
Without denying the increased frequency - doesnβt that depend on the scale you calculate 1:100? I had assumed it was 1:100 risk of happening in a given location, rather than 1:100 of happening anywhere in NZ. So then quite plausible to have β1/100β events every year.
So glad @shafimusaddique.bsky.social has told his story. This is an important read open.substack.com/pub/shafimus...
A photo of a cat under a bed with a rotisserie chicken with the caption: This is Beans. Beans stole a while rotisserie chicken off the counter. Not a piece. The whole chicken. Beans dragged it under the bed and growled at us for forty minutes. Beans is 9 pounds.
Become ungovernable
Can confirm that the new Hutt-Wellington cycle way will be exciting to ride in weather like todayβs π
Page of a volume showing a handwritten family tree. At the top of the page written in red capital letters is the family name of Gell. The rest of the page is covered in writing with lines linking family members. Next to some names are the relevant family coat of arms in the shape of shields with various colourful decorations, including stripes, rosettes and swords and crowns.
Lineage, inheritance, or simply knowing who was whoβpedigrees were once essential. Our #ArchiveOfTheWeek, this 1830 volume tracing the Gell family of Hopton Hall (and their connections) is packed with beautifully illustrated coats of arms. A striking window into family history.
#EYAConnections
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientistβbecause the person felt she did didnβt deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...