Yeah I love how species lookup is integrated into the iPhone photos app :)
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Yeah I love how species lookup is integrated into the iPhone photos app :)
Cutting dialysis just to save a couple of dollars is truly toxic behaviour. But let's ask ourselves the question: where did the money that used to be available to keep people alive actually go?
A short thread.
#nzpol
So if we want to know why dialysis is being rationed, there's a clear answer: it's so the 311 richest families in the country can enjoy one of the lowest effective tax rates in the world. We're killing people in order to make the ultra-rich ultra-richer
A number of months ago, many Americans onlineโmyself includedโbegan telling foreign nationals to stop coming to the United States (for now) for their own safety. The events described below are exactly why.
Stay away from America, friends. Don't come here.
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." โJustice Louis Brandeis
Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.
We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.
Yep, mostly good - you might have to carefully go onto the road from time to time to avoid excessive water on the bike path, but otherwise OK :)
View of the ลpฤwaho/Heathcote River from Tennyson St showing flooding across both Eastern Terrace and Palatine Terrace in Beckenham
Zoomed view of the ลpฤwaho/Heathcote River from Tennyson St showing flooding across Eastern Terrace towards Fisher Ave in Beckenham
Took these photos on my ride in to work, looking south from Tennyson St at flooding across both Palatine and Eastern Terraces.
Hipkins needs to say now this contract will be scrapped by December with no penalties.
National has no right just before an election to lock this country into a $2.7 billion shit sandwich policy not based on fact in order pay off its donors.
Just at the end of Kimbolton Lane - feels a bit weird walking all the way to the end but itโs totally worth it :) maps.app.goo.gl/PbUoxHC9TBFH...
Just saw that a Wikipedia article I wrote (well, started) almost 20 years ago is on the main page today! Nice way to start the day :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Men...
Photo of a book called The Voyages of His Majestyโs New Zealand Hospital Ships โMaramaโ and โMahanoโ
Happy new year Wendy! I saw this at Smiths on the weekend and thought of you, in case you wanted to grab it :)
uh holy SHIT?
Happy birthday! And happy new year from tฬถhฬถeฬถ ฬถfฬถuฬถtฬถuฬถrฬถeฬถ New Zealand :)
Brings flashbacks of Henryโs Kitchen :) youtu.be/HDcE2mbnx4Y
Officially finished on #Wikisource: James Cowan's "Maori Folk-Tales of the Port Hills", a guide to the proper names of all those volcanic peaks en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maori_F...
A triptych, nay, a tragedy in three parts, wherein an old man doll cruelly meets his fate (after having been placed in a microwave by a toddler), leaving a grieving widow doll to mourn his loss.
Our kids had those same dolls! Until the unfortunate microwave accident took out grandpa, that is.
Love a good breadboard :)
And this rather surreal one. Surname: Greatorix
First name: Contents Increase
www.freebmd2.org.uk/entry-inform...
Alphabetical list of names in an index of births, at the centre of which is BRODRIBB, Sexy Elizabeth, born in Clutton in Apr-Jun 1874.
Some years ago my partner found someone named "Sexy Elizabeth Brodribb", born in 1874! www.freebmd2.org.uk/entry-inform...
ยกVigga da muchรญsimo miedo en este dibujo! Y puedo distinguir perfectamente a cada personaje, incluyendo las mรบltiples encarnaciones del Barรณn Rikard.
#nzpol
For context: Total cost of all reparations paid to Mฤori for land confiscations to date = $2.7 billion
Total cost of the economic lunacy of this government reinstating mortgage interest deductions to landlords =ย $2.9 billion (over 4 yrs), plus $760 million every single year thereafter
$237 million per kilometre
$93,000 per inhabitant of Northland
It costs literally as much as a 76km high stack of $100 notes
our govt wants to spend 327 times more on a single road ($18b) than they are currently spending yearly on all of basic science in new zealand ($55m) #nzpol
The difference between $1m and $1bn is almost $1bn! My favourite comparison is that a million seconds is 11.5 days, and a billion seconds is around 31.7 years.
Open letter from staff, students, and alumni of the New Zealand community of universities.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
It is completely unconscionable to require job losses for the economy to function (supposedly) and then to blame them for their own unemployment that they DID NOT CHOOSE.
From the transcript I was able to calculate that I was talking at 175 words per minute! The ear and hearing is just that exciting! ๐
...and here's the recording! As well as podcast platforms, here's a fully-captioned YouTube version for our deaf and hard-of-hearing whanau: youtu.be/0eUXKdNVqrQ
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Soundcloud: on.soundcloud.com/ERk4SV5Fib6z...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7ts9...
I really like our paper published today. It is written directly for Mฤori and Pacific prospective and current PhD students in STEM www.journal.mai.ac.nz/10.20507/MAI...
Kamila Thompson, Aram Stith, Bonnie Prince Billy - Christchurch, Feb 11 2006
Mick Turner, Aram Stith, Kamila Thompson, Bonnie Prince Billy - Christchurch, Feb 11 2006
Poster advertising the Bonnie Prince Billy NZ Summer Tour 2006
Realised it's coming up to 20 years since @signifyingwolf.bsky.social Bonnie Prince Billy last played in New Zealand. Christchurch was an amazing show - the band was having a blast (e.g. an oompah-band version of Wolf Amongst Wolves). Hope he makes it back here someday soon!