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Minneapolis now has daily deportation flights. One man has been documenting them A professional airplane enthusiast has been tracking the federally chartered deportation flights out of the Minneapolis airport as DHS sends immigration detainees to other states and, eventually, othe...

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Shot of a Facebook post from the National Council for Adoption. Photo of a young white woman sitting on a toilet. Caption: “Adoption *is* an Option”

a thread of (some of) my thoughts about the Super Bowl ad the National Council for #Adoption is touting. +

Absolute UNIT of a hornet beside an array of puny common wasps.

A guide for Aucklanders keeping watch for yellow-legged hornets:

1. “Hmm, is this stripy waspy thing a hornet?” = not a hornet

2. “JESUS EFFING C what the F is that MONSTER, that’s he biggest wasp I’ve ever SEEN, NO Jaden KEEP AWAY, shit I think it has yellow legs” = hornet

I shared some time with Colin McCahon's 'The care of small birds: Muriwai' at the Auckland Art Gallery and it was time well spent.

Two treasures combine for this eloquent anti-ICE monologue. Thank you William Shakespeare and Ian McKellen.

Cartoon. Title: “Mutuals” Two frames. The first frame shows Shane Jones with a jackhammer titled “Munter”, drilling into the earth, and saying, “MINE, BABY, MINE!” The 2nd frame shows US President Donald Trump sitting atop a pile of rare metals, saying, “MINE, BABY, MINE!”

NZ says it will explore “co-operation on critical minerals” with the United States, a day after NZ PM Christopher Luxon brushed off talk of any such co-operation.
My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Trump #USA #RareMetals #MineralDeals #ShaneJones

When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."

wordlove

Feel good news of the day. Go little kakapo!

💙 @elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social @thwupbooks.bsky.social

Humanity’s oldest known cave art has been discovered in Sulawesi People were creating cave art in Indonesia 67,800 years ago – before modern humans reached Australia.

Fantastic story. Wah, keren!

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Women just LOVE that yet again, there are more men named Chris in leadership roles than there are women.

‘Women are angry’ graffitied on a toilet block in a faded photo. Missing the word ‘still’, obviously.

Apropos of nothing. I am here sighing, and posting a picture I took some 40 years ago of a toilet block in Christchurch.

A chart showing the origins of each of the English alphabet letters, going back roughly 4000 years, from https://mymodernmet.com/history-of-the-alphabet-usefulcharts/

By chance the first book I picked up to read in 2026 was by someone with a surname starting with A, so in a pointless bit of self-constraint my plan is (aside from a couple of books I have to read for Special Projects™) to read 26 books in a row with each by an author chosen alphabetically in order.

While watching Macaws at the Tambopata Clay Lick in the Peruvian Amazon, part of the riverbank caved in. The Macaws all scattered, enabling me to get this shot of them in flight! ❤️💛💙 #Macaws #Amazon #Peru

David Byrne with a Maga message I'm happy with.

Archaeologists find largest-ever Viking ‘super ship’ longer than two school buses Archaeologists find largest-ever Viking ‘super ship’ longer than two school buses

Archaeologists find largest-ever Viking ‘super ship’ longer than two school buses

'We just couldn’t get out of the shop': Sea lion strolls into Dunedin fish and chip shop, trapping staff The sea lion wandered in from nearby St Kilda Beach at about 6pm.

A bucket of fish and hold the chips. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/dunedin-f...

Nice, Cath. Very niiice.

My dog, at daycare, getting loved by one of his daycare grownups.

Brian hopes that today, somebody put an arm around you and told you that you are good.

Feeling at one with the cosmos in this uplifting exhibition at Te Papa.

Feeling at one with the cosmos in this uplifting exhibition at Te Papa.

Manage My Health CEO: 'Trust us even though we've dropped the ball' The chief executive of beleaguered patient portal says he is open to standing down if required.

Pretty textbook on how not to do crisis communication for this type of attack. So here’s a little thread on what to do instead. 🧵

If you don’t know, I’m Hadyn Green, Principal Communications advisor at @first.org and my job is to go around the world teaching people how to do to cybersecurity comms

And just to cap it off, this fake lead story is "Funded by the Parliamentary Service". I hope anyone working for Stuff as a journalist is feeling deeply embarrassed by this.

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion.

Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.

This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

The Singapore That Wears Flip-Flops to Breakfast There are at least two Singapores, and they coexist with the politeness of people who have learned not to ask awkward questions in lifts.

There are two Singapores.

One requires a reservation and a small emotional loan.
The other wears a black T-shirt, eats breakfast for under five dollars, and knows exactly where the good curry puffs are.

I am increasingly loyal to the second one.

#Singapore #culture

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Shocking, even by America’s usual war mongering standards.

For progressives, centre-left and democratic socialists in Aotearoa who follow me and are enjoying Mandami, please go back and read that speech closely. Beneath the tone and symbolism is something very unfashionable but essential: executive and managerial governance.

In the car today with my son, age 20!, & he punched me on the shoulder & shouted ‘yellow car no return’, a game we hadn’t played in years

Got thinking about all the other stuff we used to notice & exclaim when they kids were younger

Reminded me of this. Don't stop noticing x

#poetry
#poemoftheday