Startling Lady of Gore

Poll: would you use the fridge Connor found on the side of the road

Overheard in the quad today: “Yeah we got our fridge for free, Connor found it on the side of the road!”

Ok someone’s very proud of that byline aren’t they

One of my favourite midrash on Purim is the claim that everyone stopped taking the emperor’s edicts seriously after the one ordering women to obey their husbands.

There is an alternate universe where I am writing a Reform temple’s newsletter. I have accepted this.

A very stylish crab in a Purim costume made of green and brown seaweed. It mainly eats mussels and paua, but I dont know how crab kashrut works.

Did you know that crabs also celebrate Purim?
The hairy seaweed crab is NZ’s most common rock pool crab. It decorates its shell with sponges & seaweed every year. Smaller, unrelated crustaceans will sometimes cling to its back to get leftovers.
So far, no underwater graggers have been discovered.

NZ Herald, Audrey Young: "Christopher Luxon's Clare Curran moment - can he recover?"

I'm sorry, I can't believe NZME journalists are STILL using Labour MP Clare Curran as a synonym for fumbling to answer questions.

Do you know what she did? She used a personal Gmail account for Ministerial use in 2018.

Know who did that more recently? Current MP and media darling Erica Stanford.

I have a distinct memory of being like six and not knowing where babies came from but knowing about pregnancy and c-sections but how could that work in caveman times? And a then assuming a friendly lion cut the baby out

Solid 6/10, would bump it up one if it was shaped like some part of Haman’s anatomy

For religious reasons, I am currently eating Whittakers banana caramel chocolate.
Happy Purim!

Black and white photo of four uncanny masks. The one in front really does look like Muldoon.

Pupils from a third form art class at Hornby High School wearing papier-mache masks of Robert Muldoon.
From left, Diane McIIwrick, Angela Sweeney, Jason Radonovich, Aaron Hughes and Grant Downing.
Christchurch Star, 14 November 1983.

Small freckled boy surrounded by masks.

Paul Krauss, 12, of Bishopdale, with masks at the novelty stall at the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Show.
Christchurch Star, 12 November 1987.

Man and woman dressed in fowl grit bags, black and white photo. Quite styly.

Prize-winning couple dressed in fowl grit bags for Napier Mardi Gras competition, 1921.
Ref 655952, Hawkes Bay Knowledge Bank

Polaroid picture of three persons dressed as clowns.

Three Youths.
Ref 478456, Hawkes Bay Knowledge Bank.

Carterton Centennial Parade, 1957.
Ref 20-143/19, Wairarapa Archive.

My professor would be so proud

multiple brain abscess of dental origin

I do not like that brains can get all holey if you don't brush your teeth enough. Design flaw.

Hey man what the fuck

Child dressed as a superhero. Wearing shorts over his mums tights, a big S pinned to his jersey, a cape made out of a curtain, and a domino mask.

Child in fancy dress, undated (1960s?).
Ref 2407/2643/324484, Hawkes Bay Knowledge Bank.

Nine people in sort of camo pyjamas wearing giant papier mache heads. One is Mickey Mouse. The others might be other pop culture figures from 93 years ago, who is to say. Black and white.

Napier Mardi Gras, 1933. Photograph by Alexander Lavery.
Ref 656303, Hawkes Bay Knowledge Bank.

A man dressed as a clown wheeling a barrow. He is looking out of a mask made to look like an extremely long clown neck, with a clown head on top.

The most normal man in the Wairarapa.
Carterton Centennial Parade, 1957.
Ref 20-143/29, Wairarapa Archive.

A person in a multicoloured horned mask shrugs elaborately at the camera.

A Touch of the Sun, between 1967-1997.
Ref 311-13, Wellington City Council Archives.

Man in rubber mask and checked suit. Im not sure how much is costume and how much is the way people dressed in 1957 honestly.

Man in costume in Carterton Centennial Parade, 1957.
Ref 20-143/26, Masterton District Library.

Purim commemorates the deliverance of Persian Jewry from the annihilation planned by the king's vizier, Haman, in the 5th century BCE. His plot was foiled by the Persian queen, Esther, who was Jewish, and by her uncle, Mordecai. The story, told in the biblical Book of Esther, is recorded in scroll form. On Purim, during the reading of the Scroll of Esther in the synagogue, it is customary to rattle noisemakers or groggers, whenever the hated villain, Haman, is mentioned. Jewish tradition often links past and contemporary oppressors of the Jewish people, as seen in this grogger that associates Adolf Hitler with Haman.

A gragger from Poland, 1933. The hammer makes a noise when it strikes either Haman or Hitler.
Ref M 424
The Jewish Museum (United States)

A sweet bread called ‘Haman’s Eyes’

Haman’s fingers, a Moroccan Jewish dish

Image of Caveos de Aman, or ‘Haman’s hair’. It’s noodles with eggs and olives.

This Purim, think sustainably and eat your whole Haman, not just the ears!

It's the Purim story, you know the Purim story. I will point out that everyone is smiling, even Haman on the gallows.

A Purim wall hanging stitched by Sarah Eydl Weisberg, late 19th century. The expressions on everyone's faces make me think they already don't know Mordechai from Haman.
Ref S1337, The Jewish Museum (United States)

Gorgeous cup and saucer!

Checking on 1 day old #kakapo chick Waa-A3-2026 in Waa's nest on Pukenui/Anchor Island. We check the chicks twice in the first 4 days, and then less frequently as they get older. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots

The phrase “preemptive strike” is as insulting as when we were sold “humanitarian pauses” in the middle of a live-streamed genocide. The powerful looking you straight in the face and telling you your common sense simply doesn’t matter.

Lmao