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background is a photograph of a lush green bush covered valley with sunlight resting on distant hills. A person is walking a highline rope across the valley. In the foreground is a red banner strung out across the valley reading, TOO PRECIOUS TO MINE. Grey coloured text over the image reads, from top, A Line in the Sandstone. Underneath reads, A grassroots film for the Denniston Plateau. At the bottom of image text reads, Support the crowdfunder in the comments

💥 🎥 We’re making a film! Recently we teamed up with a group of climbers (with a special set of skills) to get a whole different point of view on #DennistonPlateau.

We’ve completed filming but we need your help to complete the project and get it out to communities across the motu!

#climate #nz

Mediawatch: Immigration amping up in election year Immigration is a wedge issue in many countries and political parties opposing it have been boosted. How are the media handling this - and the prospect of more to come?

In this incredibly long media roundup of 'immigration' views about Asian migrants, not a single Asian migrant opinion cited, man I thought we did all this work already in the 2000s i'm tired

My wife knits. Sometimes she knit very, very cute.
(for knitters - no seams, ?five needles). Don't ask, that's all I know).

These reports will be 20 years old next year, you know what we've done in that time to alleviate the hardship expressed in cold hard data during that time.

NOTHING

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

Someone uploaded a full video on IG (hat tip @toddfishernz) of Chappell Roan talking about feeling happy to see Pride stuff in AoNZ and the shit going down in the US. #thehorrors adjacent.

"I didn't quite realise how scared I was until I got here and realised how calm I was". I mean, Aotearoa ain't perfect by any measure but a moment's respite for a clearly very nice person is something to be proud of, I reckon.

🙏🏾👏🏾❤️🙂

A few posts pointing out they couldn't even get Bobson Dugnutt

We keep hearing about green shoots, but there is a big gap between business survey vibes and actual data... The numbers keeps on saying 'nah'.
Note that credit card spending is at an all time high as a % of card transactions but still trending down. Image 2 zooms in. Image 3 is rolling annual.

Just posted much the same. Tautoko

the comments on the Aotearoa news stories on the murder of Alex Pretti. I think we need to be very aware that there is a sizeable chunk of our population who would *love* to be part of a similar Waffle SS here - and a few of our currently selected govt who would happily facilitate it.
#nzpol

My wife has gotten hooked on The Traitors and has binged several series now. Our main take away is that even very well educated people *really* don't understand what "evidence" is.

Australia news live: Jacinda Ardern pulls out of Adelaide writers’ week as fallout from Randa Abdel-Fattah’s axing continues Follow the latest updates live

Still leading the way #nzpol #auspol

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I hope at least everyone can clearly see why the struggle to end fossil fuels is the struggle for democracy and self determination is the struggle against inequality is the struggle against Imperialism is the struggle for a liveable planet is the struggle against fascism etc

A different kind of leadership… #nzpol

Exactly! Cake with syrup poured over it is fine, apparently, trifle is not. Absolutely fine with various bread puddings but not with trifle. Seems awfully selective to me. She is visiting again in Feb and my plan is to serve a different sort of 'wet cake' each day and collect the resultant data.😉

I am 67 years old. My sis just 18 months younger. I have just discovered she doesn't like "wet cake".

🤣😂🤣😂

Great line in Attica Locke's Bluebird Bluebird:
"In the wake of Obama, America had told on itself."

Simon Wilson: The reason Chris Bishop seems so confused OPINION: Chris Bishop is the minister for almost everything, but he's not running things.

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/chris-bis...

MacManus isn't really this fckn dumb, is he?

"...just a bit of fun...".

ACT trying so hard to be racist, they misspelled their own name... #nzpol

First iteration of Xmas chocolate and fruit mince brownies a success!
#kikorangi

Ian Wishart whining on FB. Ya love to see it

..and why are they still referring to Bishop as "liberal"?

Sometimes the world just seems like a hopeless shitshow ...then you see something like this...
www.facebook.com/share/1KpQ2m...

#kikoranngi

Vindictive. If I've read right, it applies to schools who don't want to use his monopoly provider...