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This is an important thread. I'm relieved "whoa" is still more common because "woah" sets my teeth on edge.

Also I think someone should create a "whoa bot" that corrects people who get it wrong. Could get annoying, but you've gotta admit the name is funny as hell.

Can be confronting but it's a good idea to talk to your loved ones about your end of life wishes. #thread

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Spam. And I am not ashamed.

This is the way.

Worked really well for me!

View looking upstream of the spring, with plants & trees lining both sides of the water edge. Overhead clouds are reflected by the water's surface. There are ripples on the water's surface caused by falling raindrops.

Zoomed in on a Little Black Shag on the far side of the spring

View across the spring where on the far edge, the blueness of the water is obvious.

Zooming in on the far shore of the stream where the blue water is obvious.

Taupo weekend excursion: Blue Spring (Te Puna) near Putāruru. The water looks blue from certain angles because of its purity. Also seen: Little Black Shag. www.southwaikato.govt.nz/our-district... #somethingBeautiful #Aotearoa #NewZealand

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Happy Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節)! 🥮

Huka Prawn Park - Taupo’s Prawn themed family fun adventure park. The ultimate prawn themed adventure park for all ages, Taupo’s only riverside restaurant, and the only geothermally-heated prawn breeding park in the world.

Outside of Taupo (~275km/ 3.5 hour drive from Auckland). They use the local geothermal energy to heat water for prawn farming. The prawns are not cheap (touristy) but tasted good. Disclaimer on the menu: "Not all prawns are grown on site" hukaprawnpark.co.nz

Lunch as described laid out on a wooden dining table.

Taupo weekend excursion: Lunch at Huka Prawn Park: 1kg of garlic butter prawns, green salad, chips with aioli & tomato sauce, garlic pita bread. #TaupoEats #kai #food🍜 🍽️

So an 18 year old has only been allowed to use social media for two years and needs their parents to support them financially, but is also completely equipped to move across the country on their own to do manual labour.

Dinner as described served on a round white plate.

The separate cooked ingredients, a dish of scalloped potatoes at top left, a pot with leek cooked with butter at top right, and at bottom a roast chicken marinated with harissa butterflied on a roasting pan.

Leftovers for dinner. Yesterday I made an oven roasted chicken with homemade harissa, scalloped potatoes, leek cooked with a bit of butter. #cookingDiary #kai #food🍜 🍽️

YouTube video by DeadKennedysVEVO Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off (In Studio)

youtu.be/PzHLPnGuVSQ?...
#art #nazisfuckoff #punchanazi #ice #iceholes

Thank you to the Alaska Raptor Center for telling the truth that birders already knew: every bald eagle cry you hear in an advertisement is a red-tailed hawk.

After a spring snow storm, tributary creeks were over flowing as seen here in this panorama of a range of Mountains with a sprinkling of spring snow on it, under a thick heavy cloudy sky. Lots of yellow & brown tussocks

Panorama of The Hawkdun Range, Central Otago, from the upper Manuherekia.

Spring snow & tussock highlands = my spiritual place. Spread my ashes in these landscapes.

#Nikon #GreatNZRoadie

YouTube video by Rick Beato Hiromi: The Most Electrifying Pianist Alive

Absolutely delightful conversation with Hiromi Uehara. The messing around on the piano starts at the 55 minute mark, then segueing into enthralling improv around Blackbird from ~56:30. But you should listen to the whole thing.

youtu.be/xcKd9OkMPcc?...

We can do hard things when we work together.

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Via @thenaturewolf.bsky.social (IG)

I tried to live off Super. I failed on day one “Until now, I’d blithely assumed that it kept retirees just comfy enough,” says Verity Johnson.

I tried to live off Super. I failed on day one

www.stuff.co.nz/money/360842...
#nzpol

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The big cherry tree in Albert Park in full, growing on grass-covered ground.

Close-up of cherry blossom.

The big cherry tree in Albert Park is flowering now. Go see it if you're in the neighbourhood. #flower #cherryBlossom #somethingBeautiful #TamakiMakaurau #Auckland

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It hurt when I crashed my bike into a pothole – and it taught me the true price of austerity | George Monbiot Fixing that hole could have cost under £100; the cost of not doing so is limitless. My prang highlights the neoliberal folly of false economies, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury.
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Arguably worse than the TVNZ...

Have you tried the ThreeNow app...

Someone asked me yesterday for data comparing jobseeker recipients to job vacancies across the country. There are limitations to the job ad data (from trademe), but as a rough estimate, here you go...
Our Hunger Games labour market has crazy odds in some places ay? A few more reckons... [🧵 1/n]

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Roughly this nationally (image 1)... Whanganui not looking too pretty (image 2).

how are most RPG DMs better able to deal with obnoxious rules lawyering than CEOs who would perhaps like to earn money for their website