Diane Hanfelt

They are indeed marvellous

A bunch of intricate tiny chairs and a beer can

The winning chair and the can type it was crafted from

My favourite tiney chair with tiny woven metal straps

As seen in the Nelson airport, a contest to make the best tiny chair out of a beercan. My cold hard heart softens

Photo of Daniel Grassl

Photo of Daniel Grassl

Photo of Daniel Grassl

Photo of Daniel Grassl

My favorite photos from the Olympics are of this Italian figure skater Daniel Grassl. He looks absolutely insane in so many of them. It's great.

Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

xkcd.com/3204/

MAGNETIC Charisma!

Just downloaded on kobo.

I’ll take it

At night. A car completely covered in lit up, multicoloured christmas lights

How we do it, Aotearoa style. Seen on the street. Miri kirihemete

A bead board with a pair of beaded fringe earrings on it surrounded by beadwork supplies and tools. The earrings ombre from black on the top and bottom, to grey, silver, and white in the middle of the fringe. The tops feature white crescent moon shapes.

Really need more sales before the end of the month! Bills are due soon. Boosts also super appreciated <3

Check out my work → cvkvlv.com

Earrings pictured → cvkvlv.com/products/hvr...

Goal for December: $937/$3500

Mvto!! (Thank you!)

#Beadwork #Art #Jewelry #Mvskoke #Indigenous #IndigenousArt

Your mask should be worn over the nose.

Graph showing excess mortality for the period 2020-2024 in 40 selected countries across the globe.

Worldwide mortality experience since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2024) shows excess deaths over that period in almost every country measured. Australia (+6%) was below average, and New Zealand (+0.1%) the lowest we measured.

A dark brown loaf of banana bread with crispy sugar crust, fresh and very hot from the oven.

I have been reliably informed by An Expert In The Field that the concept of “too hot to eat” does not apply to baked goods. Possibly applies only to microwaved Hot pockets and Macca’s apple pies. Definitely not to banana bread with cinnamon sugar crust.

No

I can’t believe the “moon landing was fake” nonsense is going around again, but here is another debunking. Also see Phil Plait’s classic debunking

Mob THRILLER dance!!

WOW!!

Day 2, different clouds. A brilliant red, gold and purple sunset on a bay, with a silhouetted tree

For the second day in a row, the grey and gloomy evening suddenly exploded into a light show. Shot with my iPhone

A digital flatlay of two Karearea t-shirts, white with red ink, featuring a swooping falcon snapping an arrow in half above rising flames. It says Nature Reigns Eternal

A digital artwork featuring a swooping falcon snapping an arrow in half above rising flames.

A mockup of a unisex Karearea t-shirt, white with red ink, featuring a swooping falcon snapping an arrow in half above rising flames. It says Nature Reigns Eternal

Artwork of a Karearea, white with red ink, featuring a swooping falcon snapping an arrow in half above rising flames. It says Nature Reigns Eternal

KĀREAREA WINS BIRD OF THE YEAR!
(and I fortunately had a design of this beauty already cooking...)

Now available for pre-order, this fierce tee for the defenders of nature, non-tolerators of bullshit, and friends of the forest.

Pre-order at pepperraccoon.com

I am craving that blue fridge😍

I remember hiking with those heavy shoulder-destroying backpacks!

Hamsters with long COVID present distinct transcriptomic profiles associated with neurodegenerative processes in brainstem - Nature Communications SARS-CoV-2 persists in the brainstem long after the initial infection has passed. Infected animals exhibit symptoms of anxiety, depression, and memory impairment as well as changes in the brain that c...

🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠

Hamster version.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are the mRNA vaccines incredible? YES!

Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No.

Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES!

Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES!

Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES!

Fund mRNA research!

Education Minister cut Māori words from future junior books, documents reveal The near-total ban was driven by concern it would be confusing for children learning to read English, documents show.

This is assimilation era pedagogy.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Respect

A glowy orange sunset through trees by an ocean channel

An amazingly beautiful full moon rising over an island, glowing orange from the sunset

From my walk last night, a lovely sunset and amazing glowing moonrise beaming down.

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

Having Ms Kowal there is enough to tempt me over halfway around the globe, winging in
from Aotearoa NewZealand

Just ordered The Pariah, looks interesting

With the storm surge and high tides, we already are having some of the biggest waves I’ve ever seen. This area is an entrance to the Bay and is normally quite placid. Those are huuuge