Kylie

Championing the North Auckland worm for Bug of the Year A Bug of the Year campaign has combined passions for invertebrates, bioluminescence, te ao Māori, mātauranga Māori, and outreach and engagement.

You can read about how we ended up commissioning Pete (thanks to the lovely folks at @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social for supporting us!) and listen to Pete talk about his painting at the link attached, and the TLDR in this thread 2/n
www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/posts/champi...

Painting by Pete Amato. In the centre of the top half of the painting, is the head and shoulders of a feminine figure with longish purple silver hair splaying out around her. Her eyes are entirely white and she has a green moko kauae on her lips and chin. Her shoulders are covered with a cloak (korowai), decorated with spirals (koru) and saw-edged triangle (niho taniwha), representing new beginnings and strength. To her left are blue green waves, above them darkness, stars and a moon in shadow. Directly above her sits a full moon. To her right float little islands with a tree above them, their roots dangling. Above them sits another half moon, this one sitting in a purple wispy sky. The bottom half of the painting is dominated by a stepped motif symbolising the gain on knowledge (poutama) in the background and a crescent shaped motif (kape) that represents the glow of the moon in the foreground. Long earthworms twist around a fish hook (hei matau). To the bottom and left, twists a dark purple eel. The painting's dominant colours are purple, grey, blue and green.

Not voted in the #BugoftheYear2026 competition? We commissioned Wairoa artist Pete Amato (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa) to show why we think the North Auckland Worm deserves your vote. Check out his amazing painting - Hīnātore! It's only a little smaller than the worm itself :) 1/n

House passes SAVE America Act, sending Trump-backed election bill to the Senate The legislation would overhaul federal election laws in all 50 states by imposing new voter ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements. But it faces a daunting path in the Senate.

Terrible. The bill now goes to the Senate. Make those calls. 202-224-3121
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

The framing of transgender existence as ideology is unscientific and bigoted.

Just because it is widely used by the GOP and broader political right does not mean media and pollsters need to use the bigoted framing to be neutral.

They shouldn’t. They should only ever note the scientific consensus.

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.

The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people.

1. JK Rowling
2. Maya Forstater
3. Helen Joyce
4. Graham Linehan
5. Kathleen Stock
6. Posie Parker
7. Wes Streeting
8. Rosie Duffield

www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

I made an upscrolled acc last week and the first person it showed me was Nick Fuentes. I haven't looked at it since 🤣😭

Screenshot of an article in which Anthony Albanese is quoted as saying Isaac Herzog is the Jewish head of state

This is disgusting antisemitic language from the Australian PM - Herzog is the head of state of a genocidal regime, not the head of state of all Jews.

We are not Israel, and the only people who win when Jews and Israel are conflated are antisemites and Zionists.

exactly. even if he does likely have dementia, that's only ON TOP of an entire lifetime of being the worst person he could possibly be. this is just who he is.

Keynote: The Atlas of Social Complexity

Join us at the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium to hear Brian Castellani distil the traits needed for social complexity research to stay open, reflexive, transdisciplinary and disruptive → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/conferences/...

omg the How To Dad guy has made jandals that have a bread tag shaped plug. brilliant.

heresgolden.com/products/gol...

Aotearoa Renter's Survey 2026 This is about gathering stories and information about what it's like being a renter in Aotearoa in 2026 - to support you, your flatmates and your neighbours to advocate, organise and campaign for dece...

Renting in Aotearoa NZ? Please fill in the survey; if nothing else the results will help me with council decision-making!

Own your home? Please share it widely to get max responses.

I have once again committed to a financial plan for my future (the lotto ticket I buy twice a year in the belief that I will absolutely win).

Dear my focus,
Please come back, there is so SO much to do.

Sincerely,
Me.

If you have recs for an alternative (please not slack. for the love of god. LOL) i'm all ears

they already did this in australia. seems like if you don't have any age restrictions on your server you don't have to tell them shit so for now my merry band of reprobates are conducting adult conversations in a closed server with no age restrictions. I CAN'T LOSE ANOTHER CONNECTION I JUST CAN'T.

Have you considered knowing things BEFORE you make social media posts?

So today I spilled my drink over my work station (twice) set fire to a tea towel (once) and had the wrong setting open on the chilli flakes which resulted in me having to do the task I was doing when I set fire to the tea towel again so I could double the reciepe. I am an adult.

yeah and fb

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The advertising during the game stood out for a high number of celebrity cameos and advertisements for futuristic technology, particularly for products like electric vehicles, virtual reality and cryptocurrency.[136][137][138][139] There were many cryptocurrency-related ads drawing comparisons to dot-com commercials during Super Bowl XXXIV in 2000,[140][141] leading some to refer to the game as the "Crypto Bowl".[142][143]

does anyone else remember when the 2022 Super Bowl had so many crypto ads people were calling it the Crypto Bowl and then crypto just absolutely fucking tanked?

anyway

I deleted my post because it's not fyi.

This was my favourite bit. "God bless America" then making sure you know what he meant.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

This timelapse of the set of the half time show being set up is unreal. THE PRECISION. So many people. www.youtube.com/shorts/Lk5Ud...

I’ve seen this film before…

Omg 😭😭😭

That was totally Pedro right?

a man wearing a white t-shirt that says togetherness on it Alt: Bad Bunny dances wearing a white t-shirt that says togetherness on it

Can we have a second set of that please?

I missed Green Day somehow?