Pip Adam

I'm no cerealolgist, but I'm not sure if iridium offers the same benefits as iron.

Ten trailblazing Auckland dance parties and promoters, 1990-2000 - Article | AudioCulture The dance music scene in Auckland went through a seismic shift during the 1990s. In the previous decade only a handful of clubs took DJ culture seriously. Now there was a growing tide of new promoters...

Yet again @audioculturenz.bsky.social delivers. THANK YOU!!
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Frank O. Gehry, Titan of Architecture, Is Dead at 96

Frank O. Gehry, Titan of Architecture, Is Dead at 96 (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...

Blue tile with text that says: Measles end of year update.

1/2 Measles outbreak in NZ is not under control. Cases continue to pop up across the country, risk of community transmission high. Measles is highly contagious - please check your immunity before summer travel.
✅ Born after 1969? You need 2 MMR doses.
📞 Symptoms? Call Healthline: 0800 611 116.

Well at least Australia is famously blessed with lots of fresh water and isn't, say, our planet's driest populated continent, with a only thin reliably habitable zone around the coast, and permanent water restrictions even in their biggest city.

New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals

Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is

interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

All the Dorothies are on sale during @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social's sitewide sale for the next (checks watch) 36 hours! 📚🎁

Go: www.nyrb.com/collections/...

The school board pushbacks confirm my theory that the so-called liberal MPs’ job experience - often limited to working for the Party, and placed in Party-friendly companies - has left them uniquely ignorant of how much the rest of our society has moved on. It’s not 2005 anymore, and Brash still lost

Today (4/12) every dollar you donate to Orange Sky Aotearoa will be DOUBLED. Orange Sky does amazing work supporting individuals & whānau experiencing homelessness & hardship through access to free laundry & warm showers.
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nz herald article thumbnail headline: "'NZ women are promiscuous': Uber driver Satwinder Singh switched off GPS before raping teen"

didnt think we could keep hitting new lows from nz media, but the herald headlining a story on behalf of the rapist has gone and done it

It’s reassuring to see that Brian Roche is spending his time focused on social media and strike breaking, rather than wasting his efforts as titular head of the public sector on small matters such as - say - the culture and conduct issues at NZ Police

#nzpol

I don't know how any govt ministers are speaking at community events at the moment and it's particularly ironic for Doocey to be speaking at a World AIDS Day event. If it were me I would just die of irony

Reverse the decision to deny transgender and takatāpui young people access to puberty blockers Dear Minister Simeon Brown We write to you as transgender and takatāpui young people of Aotearoa New Zealand to ask you to reconsider your decision to ban the use of puberty blockers (gonadotropin-re...

Support this open letter written by trans and takatāpui rangatahi: "To be transgender or takatāpui is a taonga. To deny our young people access to life-saving medication on the basis of an imported culture war is cruel and abhorrent."

our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...

We are here to help each other get through this thing...whatever it is. - Kurt Vonnegut

If a safe, well-lit public bathroom is a 'nice to have' I think we are in the endgame.

Charter School Agency reveals enrolment numbers after telling schools to keep figures under wraps The number of enrolments had been kept under wraps after the agency told the privately-run, state-funded schools not to reveal their numbers while still setting up.

Numbers are fun.

427 students at 8 charter schools is an average of 54 students per school.

$10.9 million divided by 8 charter schools is $1.362 million per school.

Or about $25.5k per student.

State schools are 9k per student.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Blockers Banned Part 1 - Rooster Tails Oh. So. Ummm... I am officially winding this blog down. I did a little post about it and then there was an announcement about banning new prescriptions for puberty blockers. So - before this site's ho...

Awkwardly, as soon as I quit making comics like this... things happened and I made another comic.

Blame the people who decided to ban new prescriptions of puberty blockers.
Part 1: www.roostertailscomic.com/.../blockers...
Part 2: www.roostertailscomic.com/.../blockers...

Gen Z Shoppers Aren’t Spending Like Retailers Need Them To More than other generations, 20-somethings are tightening their holiday-season budgets because of economic pressures.

“So the plan is to replace all their jobs with AI”

Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”

Help us support 60+ families over Christmas As our pōhutukawa bloom, we are asking you to help hope bloom in Gaza for our precious families.

Emily Writes is organising a Aotearoa to Gaza Christmas Appeal. Please give what you can or boost.

Help support 60+ families over Christmas chuffed.org/project/1589...

BREAKING: PATHA has filed an urgent injunction in the high court seeking to prevent the puberty blocker ban from coming into force, as part of an urgent judicial review we are seeking to overturn the ban entirely.

Hometown heroes anticipating Christchurch Special Olympics The national summer games open in Christchurch next week, the first time in 20 years the city had hosted the pinnacle event.

Woohoo!! Special Olympics kick off in Ōtautahi next week!
www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/5...

This is so lovely and shows the value of #disabilityarts. #disability #writing #cripthelit. artsaccess.org.nz/Arts%20Blog/...

So all the Labour people were like "just wait until the party conference, you'll be surprised at our policy energy"

And the headline announcement is "loans for GP practices"!?

This makes "GST off fruit" look ambitious...

was there no one else to profile? a woman of color who is just really good at her craft without doing inappropriate fuckshit?

Since Louis CK is in the news again, it's worth restating that he never gave an honest accounting of his sexual misconduct—his initial "apology" and his subsequent statements have been contradicted by the testimony of his victims, and contained elisions and gaps intended to exonerate him.

has labour tried running against national?

Y’ALL. PATHA RELEASED THE NEW GENDER AFFIRMING CARE GUIDELINES. THE ONES THE GOVT SUPPRESSED

GET IN IT

patha.nz/resources-an...

For context, these were due to be published in March 2025. The NZ govt prevented their publication because they intended to ban puberty blockers and the guidelines show they are safe, effective, and standard care internationally. Today they were released in an OIA putting them in the public domain.

Lunch funding to be tied to attendance for hundreds more schools Next year funding for school lunches delivered through the internal model will be tied to attendance.

Not only is this blatantly unfair, but for a Party that doesnt believe in collective responsibility,theyre holding ALL children responsible for the actions of others...

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Eight New Zealand novelists on the music they write to From one song played masochistically on repeat to a sprawling 12-hour playlist, this is the music behind the books.

Great idea for an article (nb/ @pipadam.bsky.social introduced me to Womb, which I will be forever grateful for!) thespinoff.co.nz/books/27-11-...