Kevin Pluck

Daniel Craig introducting The Weekend on SNL, with the text: E rangatira mā... te mutunga wiki

YouTube video by Hannah Fry The Amazing Apollo

This is what we want AI to do so we can write poetry and paint pictures.

I did the artwork for this piece in @wired.com !

A takahē chick and an egg in a nest. Credit: Lisa van Beek, DOC

The Whakatipu #takahe breeding season is off to a good start, with approx 6 nests in the Greenstone and several from the new population in the Rees. www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-r... Great pic by takahē ranger Lisa van Beek. #conservation #rails #birds

So much of my day is taken up playing calendar tetris.

In Germany the only source of electricity that keeps growing and growing: renewable energy.

Solar and wind keep expanding and even though nuclear is no more coal generation has already shrunk significantly and keeps falling.

Richard Prebble: If the Govt will not sell ‘assets’, who pays for safer roads and bridges? OPINION: The Government now faces a structural deficit as climate costs loom.

Rich people, with a WEALTH TAX
#nzpol

Comic. [Two people walking together as inverted catenary curves fall around them.] PERSON: Oh wow, the first inverted catenary fall of the year! Time to swap out my all-season tires for square ones.

Inverted Catenaries

xkcd.com/3176/

Me, when I find out my annual time off during Christmas is affecting our GDP.

A dead straight 24 metre long 1 metre high wall in the middle of a meadow surrounded by mountains covered in forest.

View looking straight down the wall showing it is indeed dead straight.

It's amazing how this wall built across Aotearoa New Zealand's Alpine Fault in the 1960's has successfully halted any movement since! We should show our appreciation for such amazing engineering and forethought.

This is the case for a majority of people in New Zealand due to the response in 2020 and 2021 which could explain why our excess mortality continue to be lower than other countries. Lockdown gets proven to be the right decision (at the time).

A dead straight 24 metre long 1 metre high wall in the middle of a meadow surrounded by mountains covered in forest.

View looking straight down the wall showing it is indeed dead straight.

It's amazing how this wall built across Aotearoa New Zealand's Alpine Fault in the 1960's has successfully halted any movement since! We should show our appreciation for such amazing engineering and forethought.

YouTube video by TopPop Lieutenant Pigeon - Mouldy Old Dough • TopPop

Hey AoNZ look what I found!

YouTube video by Edison Motors You’ll own NOTHING and like it

Best rant on right to repair.

What our missing ocean float revealed about Antartica’s melting glaciers Our ocean float spent years adrift in the Antarctic ocean and beneath massive ice shelves. What it found will help us estimate global sea-level rise.

🌊 Serendipity often drives science forward.

A “lost” Argo float drifted under Antarctica’s ice shelves and resurfaced with a warning: warm water is creeping under major glaciers like Denman and Totten.

What’s at risk? Up to 5 m of global sea-level rise.

theconversation.com/what-our-mis...

Heron and Cranes

YouTube video by Edison Motors You’ll own NOTHING and like it

Best rant on right to repair.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Former Prime Minister Dame Jacinda Ardern has discussed on the Graham Norton Show the time she wanted to “punch” Simon Bridges in the face. Ardern appeared on the episode, which aired in the United Kingdom early this afternoon (NZT) as part of a promotional run for her documentary Prime Minister, which drew on hundreds of hours of footage, including personal home videos taken by her partner Clarke Gayford. It was Ardern’s first appearance on Norton’s show, and he called the documentary - released today in the UK - “truly extraordinary”. During the episode, he played a clip from the documentary where former National Party leader Bridges yelled “she doesn’t do the economy” during Question Time in Parliament. The clip then cut to Ardern saying “Simon Bridges yelled across the house, ‘she doesn’t do the economy’, I wanted to punch him in the face.”

She remains my number one hero

Breaking News!
Code UFB!!!

Extent, volume and thickness are three ways to measure Arctic sea-ice. Extent is currently at a record low for the day. Volume hit a record monthly low in each of the last two months.

And "thickness" just set an all-time record low in October.

'No political agenda': Principal says CCTV proves mouldy meals weren't last week's leftovers The authority says it's more than likely that some lunches provided last week remained at the school and were not refrigerated.

DARVO from Seymour in full effect, classic abuser tactics.

Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.

I'm so tired of measles.

I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.

Show what measles looks like.

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

I hate him

David Seymour goes on the radio to belittler & call names at the Principal of the school his govt has just poisoned kids.

The 'frequent flyer' is a vocal advocate for the kids, that's Peggy Burrows only motivation.

Same guy who belittled largest ever public submissions against him.

Abhorrent

“Puberty blocker legislation is not based on politics,” he said, in a statement. Although, the “puberty blocker” ban was not primary “legislation”. Instead of putting it to a vote in Parliament, the ban was enacted as an order in council, following a directive from ministers. Peters said that order was “based on letting kids be kids and stopping turning our society into a plaything for extremist lefty losers”.

How to completely undermine your entire argument within a few sentences.

"It's not about politics"

"stopping turning our society into a playground for extremist lefty losers"

This should help with the court case, thanks Winston.

⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ We are happy to identify your rocks & minerals, but… We regularly have people come into the shop with bags of minerals, fossils and gemstones, politely requesting that we identify them. This is a service that we will happily render, as it is integral to who we are as a business… and we are happy to help. However, please approach with caution, as you might receive more information than you needed, wanted… or in some situations… can even cognitively process. Politely understand that the man behind the counter is a spectacular nerd, and talking about rocks and minerals does a lot of heavy lifting for what would otherwise be a socially awkward manner that he camouflages behind endless monologues about meteorites, metamorphism and magnetite magnetism. Understand that we do not charge for mineral identification, but after the first 45 minutes has elapsed, you might feel compelled to literally throw pocket change at Luke, simply to get him to shut up. So be prepared for this both emotionally and financially before entering with stones you want us to identify. Note: Don’t take offence if we tell you your stones are fake (Don’t ask a question and resent the answer).

You have been warned

Second lowest November global sea ice extent on record.

Food poisoning warning after Christchurch students eat contaminated school lunches The possibility that students may have eaten contaminated lunches "fills me with horror", says a Christchurch school principal.

A restraunt that served mouldy food would have its certification pulled. So what happens to Compass? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings

No kidding!

"Displaying the probability of a specific home flooding this year or within the next five years can have a significant impact on the perceived desirability of that property”

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

Big Wet Wipe's donation being effective.