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From Facebook and on point

Donald Trump is like a slinky. He doesn't really have a great purpose in this world, but if you saw him tumbling down a set of stairs it would make you smile.

So proud to be the @greens.org.nz candidate for the new electorate of Kapiti, stretching from Whitby and Paremata in the south through to Ōtaki in the north.

Really excited to help elect a new Government this year with not only a compassionate Green heart, but also a strong Green spine.

Nothing sweetens up our baking like donated ingredients!

From ripe bananas to chopped nuts, to the apples in this cake from Community Fruit Harvest Ōtepoti, we appreciate it all 🍏

Dunedin GB Julie used the donated apples for this delicious apple and walnut cake for the dialysis unit 😍

As of today 70 kākāpō chicks have hatched, though 3 of those have died. 67 remaining with somewhere around 30 fertile eggs still to hatch.

ruckus event poster, at pepper raccoon HQ, feat order up, waves, zante, and open decks, march 14 3pm onwards

Realised I absolutely forgot to promo this on here, but tomorrow at the warehouse, we're having an afternoon kickback with some sick local D&B DJs and immaculate vibes. DM me for info or just reply and I'll hit you back. All are welcome!

I've organised to take pretty much all of October off work to settle Sig's replacement into the pack, so pretty excited that I'm going to be getting a puppy for my birthday this year! 😍🐶 #teorangawhaikurī

Relived my late teens/twenties on the dog walk this evening, musically speaking, by listening to Black Sunday and then Ten, two of the most pivotal albums of my musical life, both of which I first heard at my first year at uni in '94 #nostalgia

This is Summit. He is a friend to pretty much everyone he meets. But has a special soft spot for the little critters who stop long enough for him to say hello. 13/10 (IG: bakerbarnes)

A large black dog lies on a blanket covered couch, surrounded by various chew toys. A hand is holding a partially shredded plant punnet in the foreground.

Surrounded by toys that I've spent a not inconsiderable amount of money on and he decides that the empty plant punnet he found in the garden is what he wants to play with. Why do I even bother? 😂😍 #teorangawhaikurī

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You know that you may have a slightly odd choice in music when your playlist goes from Future Starts Slow by The Kills to Mozart's Requiem Lacrimosa 😂

I can neither confirm nor deny any speculation that I'm playing music stupidly loud and dancing around the house

Who's got two thumbs and the rest of the week off work? #BusDriverEd

No, but there must be at least one there somewhere 😂

Somewhere in the Scandinavian fjords

BREAKING: Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been named as Iran’s new Supreme Leader, state media report.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/hzgzfq

Does anyone have experience overwintering baby lemon trees inside? I have questions

Huh, look at that ... investing in green tech as a niche has economic growth benefits. Who knew?

Iwi opens houses to raise whānau at home Ngāti Mutunga has opened five new houses in Urenui to help whānau get into home ownership and grow their family connections on tribal ground.

Ngāti Mutunga has opened five new houses in Urenui to help whānau get into home ownership and grow their family connections on tribal ground.

I just hit YES on donating 28 native trees via Trees That Count, we've sold almost 100 of these tees :3! Total trees planted by Pepper Raccoon sales has passed the 300 mark.

The pre-order has ended, they're in production, but you can buy from the remaining extras I've ordered at the link below <3

My first day off since the autumnal temperatures hit seems like a good day for my customary childhood breakfast. Soft-boiled eggs on toast with lashings of marmite (not vegemite!) and a hot mug of milo made entirely with milk (because any other way of making milo is a crime against nature) 😍

“It’s very simple Brian.
We proactively predicted with perfect precision a perception of punitive perniciousness by a third party that would in all probability precipitate peril so we preemptively attacked the first party to put in place a permanent peace”

a man wearing glasses and a lab coat says " weeell actually " ALT: a man wearing glasses and a lab coat says " weeell actually "

Sorry for being one of "those" guys

And, AND, key parts of the Old Testament (another keystone of Western civilisation) were written by Jewish communities living in exile in Babylon and were heavily influenced by ancient Sumerian and Babylonian culture.

I realise that I'm harping on a bit here, but one other thing. The European Renaissance, which is widely recognised as the inception of Western civilisation, was largely made possible by the efforts of the translation movement of Islamic scholars in places like Babylon, Alexandria & Cordoba.

....when the ancestors of the West were essentially grubbing around in the dirt and living in grass huts. And yet today the vast majority of the West looks down on the Middle East and decrys them as being backward and uncivilised. 2/2

Another bugbear when it comes to the modern day relationship between the West and the Middle East is that the Middle East is the foundation stone of what we describe as civilisation. There were cities, bureaucracy, education, etc, all the elements of civilisation there 1000s of years ago... 1/2

Also why I was so irritated when Trump said this latest war was about regime change. Because, obviously, western imposed regime change in the Middle East (& everywhere else they've done it) has always worked so well in the past.