Digging Fork NZ

I preferred it when Prime Ministers believed things like every person deserved “someone to love, somewhere to live, something to do, and something to hope for”, and acted on those beliefs.

You know I watched this in fascination because I actually didn't know what Daniel Day Lewis sounds like. He's always so intensely doing accents & different characters that I legit had no idea what he spoke like.

Spider pronouns be like: it/ze/bit/xe

The bio of Aaron Stallard who is standing for Mayor in Nelson.

At a candidates meeting last week an older male candidate said that the way to improve well-being of workers is to encourage investment so that the wealth trickled down.

Aaron stood up & said he'd like to acknowledge the myth of trickle down economics & the crowd cheered.
This is the way ☑️
#whakatu

A golden colored loaf drizzled with white chocolate.

I made the blondie ginger loaf this weekend & OMG. 🫠😍

Recipes Our delicious Whittaker's chocolate is perfect for creating your own treats. We've collected our favourite recipes to share with our fellow chocolate lovers.

I know everything's terrible but did you know Whittaker's has a recipe section on their website & everything looks amazing?

Whatever the chocolate equivalent of doomscrolling is, this is where to do it.

www.whittakers.co.nz/en_NZ/recipes

Defying those who told him to "stick to football", Gary Lineker chooses to use his platform to speak up against Israel's genocide in Gaza and for the rights of refugees in the UK.

Congratulations to Gary Lineker for winning Best TV Presenter at the National Television Awards.

#Banksy has just paid a visit to the Royal Courts of Justice in London.

🎯

A bouquet of purple sprouting broccoli.

My annual purple sprouting broccoli promotion. What a pleasing & delicious thing. 🥦😍
#bloomscrolling
#gardensky

a lynch mob but it's just a bunch of people wearing david lynch masks asking where agent cooper is when you need him

Thomas Deininger uses plastic waste to create sculptures,or should I say,works of Genius!!!!!!

My job as a professor is not to create a serviceable worker. My job is to help foster thoughtful citizens or community members.

If that sounds fanciful it’s bc corporate interests have spent decades framing how we talk about education so they don’t take the heat for immiserating labor conditions.

Ten smooth river pebbles with painted designs on them, on a wooden bench. Designs include a hot air balloon, spaghetti, rainbow fish, a progress pride rainbow heart, a smiling sun, multi coloured little hearts.

Wooden stump with rock in the middle, painted with “please bring back Snifters” and a drawing of Snifters in the middle.

Snakes & Ladders playground.

Some wholesome Sunday content for you - while I’ve been housebound and spending a lot of time on the couch I’ve been painting rocks for hiding in parks and today I got a chance to release some into the world for others to find & rehide.

I’m going to keep saying this- You don’t fight fascism with fascism light. We don’t fight fascism by sacrificing Gaza, trans folks, unhoused people, migrants, etc. We fight fascism by building a strong coalition INCLUDING everyone and fighting for a better world for EVERYONE. There’s no other way

Here's what a no go zone in England *really* looks like.

It ain't going away, no it ain't going away....

My hobbies include smoking marijuana and hunting with my dog (A guy holding a shotgun next to his cat, and a pile of cucumbers)

From above everything looks grey or black. Smoke is seen rising from building ga at the top of the photo. In the foreground many buildings have collapsed entirely. Photo credit to Heidi Levine taken for the Washington Post.

Photo of the Day.

Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops.

This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people.

Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.

Hot tip - if you tune into a show half way through, you can slide the timeline bar thingy back to the start and still hear the whole show. 🤘🏼
#6music

Photo of a sketch of a Neanderthal. The headline reads: Scientists Growing Neanderthal 'Minibrains', Will Connect Them to Crab Robots

Go for it. I don't even care any more.

Yeah really odd. You'd think that if they have consent, any other sub projects within it, or add-ons that need consent wouldn't be significant enough to warrant a fast track. Interesting.

The quiet campaign: Inside the freedom movement’s bid for council influence Voices for Freedom and like-minded groups are campaigning for council seats, changing their rhetoric from the pandemic to potholes.

Once again, a number of Voices for Freedom affiliated candidates are running for local government, this time they are hiding their more conspiratorial views and focusing on bland populist issues like rates and road cones

www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

Please enjoy this turtle being given the gift of speed, and immediately using it to chase a kitty

Yeah, glimmers of hope there. In the one project I know about the panel was surprisingly diverse & seems quite conscientious. Will be interesting to see if it makes a difference to the outcomes.

Admittedly, if you're a dodgy multi national wanting to do something contentious & you've got $250k to spend on a consent & want to avoid spending years in the environment court, the fast track process will work for you. But that's actually not most developers.

Progress stalls on ‘fast-tracked’ North Canterbury projects | The Press share.google/B9CRJDzbVMmi...

So it turns out that the 'fast-track' to getting projects consented isn't so fast after all.

This is backed up by a planner I know who's been working flat out on a fast track application for months & reckons it would have been consented by now under the usual RMA process.
#nzpol

I applaud this post.

But also, aren't elephants among the most wonderful things on the planet? Look at the size of its ears 🤗❤️🥰
Absolutely amazing that we get to share our planet with creatures like this. It will never fail to amaze me that they are here & we get to know about them. ❤️🐘🌏🥹

A very good long piece on AoNZ & climate which details why (among other things) the oil & gas reversal is utterly batshit on so many levels including economic ones. As these decisions become more obviously irrational, the justifications are becoming equally insane.

drilled.media/news/new-zea...

Come on, "Royale with Breeze" was right there.