Jolisa Gracewood

She ooze, she snooze, but most importantly, she muse.

*and mews

The small shiny black cat seen from above, snoozing sluggishly on what passes for a lawn in summer, her little face smooshed into the ground.

Seen sideways on, her slug like profile lit up by grass green eyes

Face on, her round little chin and cheeks mushed comfortably into the dry earth.

Upright, having reassumed proper feline form, staring into the late afternoon sun and doing a little solar-charging ahead of the cooler evening.

Found a shiny slug in the garden. Seems friendly tho. #nzpets

Covid-19 vaccines still protect us: How do we get the best out of them? International evidence shows that even during the Omicron era, Covid-19 vaccines continue to provide protection against infection, hospitalisation, death, and Long Covid, as well as improving outcomes...

The Public Health Communication Centre Aotearoa recommended in *2024* to extend eligibility for additional doses to younger age groups, especially those at occupational risk.

Could NZ media please follow up on why public health expert recommendations are not being followed, as a new wave ramps up 🫠

It’s a good time to chuck on a respirator mask, esp in health care settings, public transport & busy places (indoors and out). @covidactionnz.bsky.social have set up a couple of mask blocs around the country if you’re close to one and need some masks.

When you’ve lost the sentient utes…

Ninth wave of Covid-19 suggests wane in immunity, expert says everyone must 'act to reduce impact' The latest figures show 50 hospitalisations and 19 deaths with the virus in the past week.

"As well as topping up antibodies, Baker said getting regular boosters reduced the risk of Long Covid.

The "disabling illness" was not being monitored at all in New Zealand which Baker said was a "gap" in tracking the virus."

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Ā fluffy baby albatross practicing flapping its stubby little wings

The world is a big and scary place, but this fluffy baby albatross is practicing flapping its wings on a sunny Dunedin afternoon.

@alistaircoleman.bsky.social
Reminded by FB.
NZ headlines 6 years ago

Every cost cutting decision related to transport, health, energy and education that this government has made is going to cost everyone so much more than their supposed savings.

I won’t be satisfied until a Tom Holland challenges Timothée Chamalet to a dance off and ballets him into the Shadow Realm.

Paper bag of feijoas from an Eastern Suburbs aunty via Roskill distribution hub

Socialist fruit season has begun

He is having a crisis after I said I need to wash his fave blankie
“Hello darkness my old friend..”

Cutting dialysis just to save a couple of dollars is truly toxic behaviour. But let's ask ourselves the question: where did the money that used to be available to keep people alive actually go?

A short thread.

#nzpol

Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh

Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

Liam Dann: Iran conflict could sink economic recovery ... and Luxon A badly timed supply shock threatens to spike inflation and sink our fragile recovery.

Imagine Liam, if this govt had accelerated, even just continued, energy transition, getting NZ off the oil&gas addiction, liberating our economy from this vulnerability they would have something real to offer. But no, they chose the exact opposite, for reasons.
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/ira...

Magical and inspiring! So happy-making.

A black and white still image of a large parrot in a burrow, sitting on a nest. At least one fluffy chick is visible under her as they're starting to get too big to contain even under her voluminous girth, and the parrot has her head tilted, her gaze seemingly fixed on the ground. One can imagine a blue hooded robe enveloping her, the symbol of the Virgin in medieval religious art.

Madonna and Child, Duccio, c.1300

What a lovely opportunity for you both!

Partly painted Kākāpō

A partly painted car kakapo with a sideways trucker cap

Anyway here’s Kakabro

They seem to think that being reactionary on climate policy will only have political upsides, when the whole purpose of being bought by the fossil fuel industry is that the material upsides accrue to the fossil fuel industry. Which has political downsides. People gonna be mad bro.

I'm just annoyed that I feel like all the knowledge and the technology we have means we could all be having a really nice time and scientists could be doing science and everyone could have enough food and shelter and everything they need but instead *gestures at everything*

Hey, congrats! All up, I’d say those trenches are a good place to snuggle into right now.

Just envision that a Government came to power and cancelled a whole raft of essential programmes which would reduce the country's dependence on fossil fuels, only for there to be a once in a century oil crisis.

A little pied shag airing its wings out on a branch, reflected in the shiny waters of Te Wai Ōrea /Western Springs Lake, on a brilliantly blue afternoon in late summer. There were also baby black swans, and teenage pūkeko, and beaky wee coots, and writhing eels, and human families galore. Life goes on…

What a day! Even the birds were like 🙌

Other nice adjectives for this approach, if say any opposition parties were looking to fortify their appeal at the moment: sensible, prudent, thrifty, versatile, creative, self-sufficient, adaptable, organised, strategic, ready, provident, collaborative, cooperative, united, and dare I say, popular.

Ok, hear me out here. A govt enabled acceleration to renewables, effective alternatives to always driving, + EVs, is essentially the lowest cost, most resilient, independence supporting, job creating, and actually ‘conservative’ option ahead.

As you can see here, right from the very first day he entered our house, Jim found great difficulty in getting settled and making the environment his own.

THREAD.

3 & 1/4 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he'd been living, in rural Cornwall, & decided he wanted to live with us instead.

We decided to call him Jim.

This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st 2022

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

When people say National are good at managing "the economy" but trust Labour more on environment, housing, safety, taxes, education, inflation, poverty and health...exactly what part of "the economy" do they think National are good at managing?