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Large bowl of strawberries

Plate with sponge cake, strawberries, and topped with homemade whipped cream

Spring in Aotearoa 🇳🇿🍓
Fresh strawberries with homemade whipped cream

Post you from a different era

Early 80s; very proud of my Wonderful Woman Underoos. Walking around in my older sister’s marching band boots to complete the outfit.

Someone needs to open a Cat Cafe in Hawkes Bay.

“Currently thinking about how if Sabrina Carpenter didn’t film that music video [Feather] which lead to a church getting investigated which then led to Eric Adam’s getting indicted, Mamdani wouldn’t be mayor-elect right now” Below the text is a photo of Sabrina Carpenter next to a photo of Mamdani

I was 12 when I read IT. I should probably revisit it, as it’s been 36 years - but it made a hell of an impact on me!

Motorists use chainsaws to clear Portobello Rd Keith Dickson, of Dunedin, said two big lines of trees had come down on Portobello Rd about a 1km apart near Glenfalloch. He was at the front of a line of cars, he predicted hundreds were caught up on the road, that had to stop for fallen trees. He had praise for his fellow Dunedin citizens, who, he said, came together to clear one lane and let vehicles pass. A trailer unit blown onto its side in Otaki St, Dunedin. Photo: Victor Billot A trailer unit blown onto its side in Otaki St, Dunedin. Photo: Victor Billot About 15 people, three with chainsaws on hand, from different cars got out and started cutting off and pulling at branches to clear a path. "I'm just really proud of Dunedin people because everyone got out of their cars and, without complaint, worked like we were a team, I'm amazed." The road remained "extremely dangerous", he felt, and urged caution for anyone needing to drive there. "The cliffs there don't look great, it's bloody dangerous. "There's going to be a hell of a lot of work there to clean up and stabilise it all."

Only in Dunedin do 20% of motorists have a chainsaw at hand when driving.

Live Cattle Prices and Live Cattle Futures Prices - Barchart.com Today's Live Cattle prices with latest Live Cattle charts, news and Live Cattle futures quotes.

If it is so irrelevant, then why would Cattle Futures drop dramatically after the news?
The market knows this is bad for US producers.
www.barchart.com/futures/quot...

Kinda. There were 10,000 submissions for the flag referendum and it didn’t make it. It has since developed a cult following though.

The Laser Kiwi flag, originally titled Fire the Lazar, designed in 2015 by Lucy Gray as a proposed flag of New Zealand for the 2015–2016 New Zealand flag referendums. Black background with a brown silhouette of a kiwi shooting a green laser out of its eye. White Silver Fern leaf in the upper left hand corner.

Yet another reason Aotearoa NZ should have gone with the Laser Kiwi flag

The Union Jack in the corner contains the red cross of Saint George.

I am assuming that is the Christian reference.

I have yet to experience this coffee ice cream milkshake deliciousness you describe (iced coffee has always meant coffee with ice to me). Now I must find out where I can get this.

This is the best.

Working to rule is hard as a teacher. Let’s say you only have time to prepare for some lessons for the week.
What do you do with the students during the down time? Which lessons do you prepare the materials for, the lessons that will keep the kids busy the longest or those with the most academics?

Why not just go ahead with the ‘A’ instead of the ampersand and wholeheartedly commit to the acronym?

“Where is that student?”

If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies review – how AI could kill us all If machines become superintelligent we’re toast, say Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. Should we believe them?

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Hawke's Bay and nearby folk, the Hawke's Bay Readers & Writers Festival kicks off Friday 10th October! Here's one of our awesome Friday night sessions, Understanding Te Tiriti with Roimata Smail. Tickets only $15!

I really think a lot of New Zealanders don’t understand that US media isn’t just “polarised”; that there are huge swaths of seemingly reputable media sources that outright lie and omit facts that don’t match their narrative. If you don’t realise this it could be easy to be blindsided.

A digital flatlay of two Karearea t-shirts, white with red ink, featuring a swooping falcon snapping an arrow in half above rising flames. It says Nature Reigns Eternal

A digital artwork featuring a swooping falcon snapping an arrow in half above rising flames.

A mockup of a unisex Karearea t-shirt, white with red ink, featuring a swooping falcon snapping an arrow in half above rising flames. It says Nature Reigns Eternal

Artwork of a Karearea, white with red ink, featuring a swooping falcon snapping an arrow in half above rising flames. It says Nature Reigns Eternal

KĀREAREA WINS BIRD OF THE YEAR!
(and I fortunately had a design of this beauty already cooking...)

Now available for pre-order, this fierce tee for the defenders of nature, non-tolerators of bullshit, and friends of the forest.

Pre-order at pepperraccoon.com

Purdue broadens presence in nation’s capital to deepen service to the nation and advance strategic partnerships WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — With a growing strategic presence in the nation’s capital, Purdue University stands at the crossroads of education, research, innovation and industry collaboration with national...

www.purdue.edu/newsroom/202...

Purdue's plan to find Amelia Earhart's plane A research team is readying for a fall expedition to bring the adventurer's long-lost aircraft home.

I know the post is about the housing; but imo the Amelia Earhart thing is because Purdue University is licking the boots of the current administration and this is a bone getting thrown to them.

www.axios.com/local/indian...

Disney adapting its content for Trump 🤣

🤣🤣🤣

Wtf? The question is who at RNZ is interested in pushing the US right-wing narrative? Because there really is no other explanation.

What? You mean people who medically neglect their children have a much lower rate of their children receiving an autism diagnosis, which can only be done by the doctors that they refuse to take their children to see?

Who could possibly have predicted such a thing?

Six swans sitting on the ground, tied up inside blue IKEA bags

Apparently wildlife centres have discovered they are extremely useful for transporting large birds, like swans.

T-shirt with the text Do Not Perceive Me printed on it

Sunrise on a palm tree lined road

Aotearoa New Zealand

Democratic socialism
Beautiful weather

Not the US right now

Thanks! I do different colours all the time.