Greg O’Beirne

Yeah I love how species lookup is integrated into the iPhone photos app :)

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

So if we want to know why dialysis is being rationed, there's a clear answer: it's so the 311 richest families in the country can enjoy one of the lowest effective tax rates in the world. We're killing people in order to make the ultra-rich ultra-richer

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A number of months ago, many Americans online—myself included—began telling foreign nationals to stop coming to the United States (for now) for their own safety. The events described below are exactly why.

Stay away from America, friends. Don't come here.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.

We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

Yep, mostly good - you might have to carefully go onto the road from time to time to avoid excessive water on the bike path, but otherwise OK :)

View of the Ōpāwaho/Heathcote River from Tennyson St showing flooding across both Eastern Terrace and Palatine Terrace in Beckenham

Zoomed view of the Ōpāwaho/Heathcote River from Tennyson St showing flooding across Eastern Terrace towards Fisher Ave in Beckenham

Took these photos on my ride in to work, looking south from Tennyson St at flooding across both Palatine and Eastern Terraces.

Hipkins needs to say now this contract will be scrapped by December with no penalties.

National has no right just before an election to lock this country into a $2.7 billion shit sandwich policy not based on fact in order pay off its donors.

Just at the end of Kimbolton Lane - feels a bit weird walking all the way to the end but it’s totally worth it :) maps.app.goo.gl/PbUoxHC9TBFH...

Guy Menzies - Wikipedia

Just saw that a Wikipedia article I wrote (well, started) almost 20 years ago is on the main page today! Nice way to start the day :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Men...

Photo of a book called The Voyages of His Majesty’s New Zealand Hospital Ships “Marama” and “Mahano”

Happy new year Wendy! I saw this at Smiths on the weekend and thought of you, in case you wanted to grab it :)

uh holy SHIT?

Happy birthday! And happy new year from t̶h̶e̶ ̶f̶u̶t̶u̶r̶e̶ New Zealand :)

YouTube video by Henry Phillips Henry's Kitchen 64 - Eggs with Pine Nut Sauce

Brings flashbacks of Henry’s Kitchen :) youtu.be/HDcE2mbnx4Y

Officially finished on #Wikisource: James Cowan's "Maori Folk-Tales of the Port Hills", a guide to the proper names of all those volcanic peaks en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maori_F...

A triptych, nay, a tragedy in three parts, wherein an old man doll cruelly meets his fate (after having been placed in a microwave by a toddler), leaving a grieving widow doll to mourn his loss.

Our kids had those same dolls! Until the unfortunate microwave accident took out grandpa, that is.

Love a good breadboard :)

And this rather surreal one. Surname: Greatorix
First name: Contents Increase
www.freebmd2.org.uk/entry-inform...

Alphabetical list of names in an index of births, at the centre of which is BRODRIBB, Sexy Elizabeth, born in Clutton in Apr-Jun 1874.

Some years ago my partner found someone named "Sexy Elizabeth Brodribb", born in 1874! www.freebmd2.org.uk/entry-inform...

¡Vigga da muchísimo miedo en este dibujo! Y puedo distinguir perfectamente a cada personaje, incluyendo las múltiples encarnaciones del Barón Rikard.

#nzpol

For context: Total cost of all reparations paid to Māori for land confiscations to date = $2.7 billion

Total cost of the economic lunacy of this government reinstating mortgage interest deductions to landlords = $2.9 billion (over 4 yrs), plus $760 million every single year thereafter

$237 million per kilometre
$93,000 per inhabitant of Northland

It costs literally as much as a 76km high stack of $100 notes

our govt wants to spend 327 times more on a single road ($18b) than they are currently spending yearly on all of basic science in new zealand ($55m) #nzpol

The difference between $1m and $1bn is almost $1bn! My favourite comparison is that a million seconds is 11.5 days, and a billion seconds is around 31.7 years.

Open Letter to Winston Peters, Minister of Foreign Affairs: The New Zealand Government must recognise the State of Palestine As students, staff and alumni of the university community in Aotearoa (New Zealand), we express our profound dismay at the Government’s recent decision not to recognise the State of Palestine. Aotearo...

Open letter from staff, students, and alumni of the New Zealand community of universities.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It is completely unconscionable to require job losses for the economy to function (supposedly) and then to blame them for their own unemployment that they DID NOT CHOOSE.

From the transcript I was able to calculate that I was talking at 175 words per minute! The ear and hearing is just that exciting! 😂

YouTube video by Greg O'Beirne The Amazing Ear: The Science Behind Hearing

...and here's the recording! As well as podcast platforms, here's a fully-captioned YouTube version for our deaf and hard-of-hearing whanau: youtu.be/0eUXKdNVqrQ
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Soundcloud: on.soundcloud.com/ERk4SV5Fib6z...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7ts9...

I really like our paper published today. It is written directly for Māori and Pacific prospective and current PhD students in STEM www.journal.mai.ac.nz/10.20507/MAI...

Kamila Thompson, Aram Stith, Bonnie Prince Billy - Christchurch, Feb 11 2006

Mick Turner, Aram Stith, Kamila Thompson, Bonnie Prince Billy - Christchurch, Feb 11 2006

Poster advertising the Bonnie Prince Billy NZ Summer Tour 2006

Realised it's coming up to 20 years since @signifyingwolf.bsky.social Bonnie Prince Billy last played in New Zealand. Christchurch was an amazing show - the band was having a blast (e.g. an oompah-band version of Wolf Amongst Wolves). Hope he makes it back here someday soon!