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‘It’s devastating’: Generations-old eel population wiped out in Wairoa stream Hundreds of tuna, including breeding stock thought to be 40 to 50 years old, have been found dead in the Waiatai Stream.

I really hope this is quickly and conclusively investigated. Incredibly sad to lose a huge population of tuna like this

‘It’s devastating’: Generations-old eel population wiped out in Wairoa stream www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/584...

VLC Player app's Christmas icon: a road cone wearing a Santa hat

It's just a silly little thing, but seeing the VLC Player icon with its Santa hat on makes me smile for some reason. #ChristmasFun

In case anyone wants to watch it tonight, The Princess Bride is on TVNZ+

Taking a break from the sickening tragedy to focus on the beauty for a moment. Rob Reiner achieved something so rare and coveted that artists and entertainers dream of and rarely achieve: cultural permanence. How many times have you made a reference to something going to 11? Shouted "Inconceivable"?

I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.

Especially given the circumstances. So very awful.

Cheatscakes / cheesefakes:
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Help our MPs ‘find a spine’

Recognise Palestine
Sanction Israel

Pot Banging Rally
Wednesday 13 August
1.30-2.30pm
Parliament Lawn, Wellington
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This one's giving serious Goldfrapp vibes - I like!

What's interesting about the RNZ headline about the Seymour / UN conflict is the focus on UN conflict but not highlighting how the UN warned about the Regulatory Standards Bill.

RNZ has been shot after the $20m budget cut. Where is public interest journalism?

PS NZ Herald did this 2

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The only way David Seymour will be stopped is by putting him out of power in 2026. The media are spectacularly ill equipped to address his continued attempt to assert power he does not have, degrade civil society, and silence his opponents.

This ruru is all eyes. Its pupils are so dilated that only a thin ring of yellow is visible; any wider and there would be no iris left to admire. The eyes are very reflective, revealing the ceiling lights of the clinic. The owl is wrapped in what appears to be a tea towel, which has stripes in two shades of light blue and separated by thin lines of yellow. The light blue matches the scrubs of the examiner seen behind with a stethoscope draped around his neck.

Ruru owl during his pre-release exam. He spent some time at Wildbase hospital + rehabilitation centre before being successfully released.
Photo: TORI TURNER

Link to donate to Wildbase Recovery for those willing and able: wildbaserecovery.co.nz/help-us/dona...

Number 1 for 2024: New Zealand is under siege by the Atlas Network One of the key researchers into the Atlas Network, Lee Fang, observed that it has “reshaped political power in country after country.”

"The AIMN is an online platform that provides a space for citizen and public interest journalists to engage in and contribute to independent media, focusing on politics, democracy, environment, and identity."

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That is so cool. It gave me happy vibes too, to see that pattern again after all these years.

Residential Extra Heavy Duty & Stairs - 6 Star

Amazingly, it looks like they're still selling it - Feltex Riccarton 'Summer Bouquet' Axminster Carpet www.theflooringfoundation.co.nz/products/ric...

This is the exact carpet that was in my great-grandfather's house. When I was really little, I found that pattern fascinating and I used to sit and trace the outlines of the flowers with my fingers. That would have been in the 1960s, although I think that carpet was pretty old even then

For New Zealanders - this from Peter Dunne is critical and I can not stress it enough- #ToituTeTiriti #nzpol

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“The success of childhood vaccination has a perverse effect of making the benefits of these vaccines invisible.”

It’s a classic conundrum of preventative measures against disease:* success is when you see nothing when you otherwise would

Nice article from @sarahzhang.bsky.social

The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 61, “Queen of Seven Kingdoms” by Julie Dillon: a queen sits on her throne in the center facing the reader with a smile, wearing a crown with a golden crescent and a pink-purple dress. She is surrounded and being cuddled by seven men of a wide variety of skin tones and hair color, all shirtless and with toned bodies. They also wear simple coronet bands, and the quote says, "They said the grove was there before the city. Before people. They said, before the first houses that would, eventually, grow into the city of Ilmar, everything at the foot of the mountains had been forest. But, even when it had all been forest, the grove had been there, just trees amongst trees but different, separate."

Reading 2024 fiction? Try the short story "Woodmask" by Adrian Tchaikovsky! You can read it here! @aptshadow.bsky.social www.uncannymagazine.com/article/wood...

Date yourself by showing a picture of your first computer.

Photos of the hīkoi are also part of NZ’s history. If you’d like your photos to enter the historical record, the best way is to deposit them in a public open repository like Wikimedia Commons under an open licence so they can be freely shared. Happy to help with this.

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Not a scrap of rubbish on the ground. No violence. No arrests. No swastikas. No nooses. Fifty thousand people all uniting to voice their objection to the absurd, peacefully observing the kaupapa. That's a power you can't dismiss or switch off.

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Just one post today: Toitū Te Tiriti!

Applies to some NZ news media as well, but that would require them to develop some impartiality and integrity. I won't hold my breath.

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Tēnei te tangata It's the haka heard around the world but why does it resonate so much with people outside of Aotearoa New Zealand?

I want you all to know that I valiantly ignored vacuuming to write this piece about yesterday's haka, haka in general, and why I think it resonates so far. #kikorangi
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