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Gir @edufk.bsky.social · Jan 13
Sig died today at 4:45pm. 29/10/10 - 13/01/26
Requiescat in pace old man
💔💔💔 #teorangawhaikurī
edufk.bsky.social
There's a bus stop at the top of Gemstone Drive in Birchville & every so often someone leaves a paper bag in the bus shelter with 5-6 empty wine bottles in it & I'd really like to know the story behind this behaviour #intrigued #BusDriverEd
A paper shopping bag with 5 empty wine bottles in it
February 14, 2026 at 1:59 AM
edufk.bsky.social
Gotta go, my ride is here
February 13, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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growfromhere.bsky.social
The fairys were up before dawn carefully using their eyeliner on the cosmos #flowers
February 13, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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taramcallister.bsky.social
I have absolutely loved my first summer of properly growing flowers

It brings me so much joy seeing the colourful blooms and sharing them with my friends and family
A dark red cosmos A striped rose A person holding a jar of flowers
February 13, 2026 at 7:23 AM
edufk.bsky.social
I don't wish to be proscriptive, but if you drive a vehicle in Aotearoa then there's a 50% chance you are not very good at it. The odds increase if you drive any of the following:
-Audi, Merc, BMW or Range Rover
-Suzuki Ignis
-any oversize ute, ESPECIALLY American imports
-tradie's van
#BusDriverEd
February 13, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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ichaber.bsky.social
Meanwhile in Australia:

"(It's) helping to drive downward pressure on power bills for consumers and businesses, with less reliance on
expensive gas
or unreliable coal to power our grid”

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

#nzpol
February 12, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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mellymeldubs.bsky.social
Best advertisement I’ve seen so far at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Picture of a gray haired woman wearing a shirt that reads on the back “come see my daughter’s film A Woman’s Work at Santa Barbara Film Festival 2/11 at 11:20am 2/12 6:20pm I am a Jewish mother seeking a girlfriend/future wife for my filmmaker daughter (she is multilingual and has an adorable dog). Please inquire with me”
February 12, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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nztransitbuzz.bsky.social
#TrainNews: Better Passenger Transport New Zealand has put together its wishlist for Hamilton’s Te Huia rail service, saying if it does get the green light to continue it could add a few extra options.

Via Waikato Times: www.waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
A wishlist for Te Huia’s timetable adds more options
Better Passenger Transport New Zealand says if Te Huia is granted an extension it would need to find more passengers, and give them more options.
www.waikatotimes.co.nz
February 12, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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jdeheij.bsky.social
Parents just send me this link. Headline is something else lol 😂

“A fat parrot that can’t fly is laying an egg live on camera and is making New Zealanders super excited”
Een dikke papegaai die niet kan vliegen legt live een ei en maakt Nieuw-Zeeland ‘dolenthousiast’
Biologie: Na vier jaar is de kakapo, een iconische Nieuw-Zeelandse loopvogel, eindelijk weer aan het broeden. Natuurbeschermers zijn uitgelaten, want de zwaarste papegaai ter wereld wordt ernstig bedr...
www.nrc.nl
February 12, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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teaonews.bsky.social
If you would like trusted news from a Māori lens on issues facing Māori and other Indigenous rōpū across the world, you can set Te Ao Māori News as one of your sources.
How to set Te Ao Māori News as one of your ‘preferred source’!
If you would like trusted news from a Māori lens on issues facing Māori and other Indigenous rōpū across the world, you can set Te Ao Māori News as one of your sources.
www.teaonews.co.nz
February 12, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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museum-of-twitter.bsky.social
Mason @realMasonMohon : 1h You have a pride flag in your bio. You obviously think marriage is a term with no actual content that can be applied to anything. No wonder we say you don’t understand marriage Ephraim Stone @TEStoneWrites - ih The rainbow in my bio is a reminder that G-D will never again bring destruction to creation, that His covenants are eternal, that his word is unfailing, and that His gifts to my foremothers and forefathers are everlasting. Mason @realMasonMohon - 23m Apologies for misunderstanding. As I’m sure you know, many others use it to represent something else Ephraim Stone @TEStoneWrites I also suck dick
February 12, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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greens.org.nz
The Māori Seats in parliament are for Māori people. They are a Tiriti-based right not a race-based right.

This is why at Rātana Pā we launched a member's bill to entrench Māori seats - the bare minimum for protect dedicated Māori voice in our parliament.
February 12, 2026 at 4:58 AM
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nztransitbuzz.bsky.social
#BusNews: Auckland Transport have opened consultation for a new Bus Route as well as infrastructure changes/improvements for Whenuapai.

*New 115 to follow 114 between Westgate & Whenuapai TC ONLY.
February 12, 2026 at 6:29 AM
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rnzrss.bsky.social
Police want to hear from anyone with information about disgraced ex-priest
Police want to hear from anyone with information about disgraced ex-priest
Rowan Donoghue is awaiting sentencing for sexual offending involving teenage boys.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 12, 2026 at 2:15 AM
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mycotae.bsky.social
Punkin Pie wishing you a great Wednesday!
A shaved blue persian cat with her fur regrowing sitting like a people on a greyish couch. She is looking up at the camera.
February 11, 2026 at 4:27 PM
edufk.bsky.social
Little boy got a new toy today 😍 #teorangawhaikurī [sound up]
February 11, 2026 at 6:24 AM
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pepperraccoon.com
First tee of 2026 and it's a BANGER: Trees Please, feat. seven Aotearoa native tree species in a three-colour screenprint of verdant greens, plus painstakingly hand-lettered text (nearly killed me ngl).

Pre-order open: please do pre-order to help gauge demand and secure your size: pepperraccoon.com
A digital flat lay of a femme and unisex white shirt with a three-colour green illustration of a tiny hiker disappearing into a giant forest of Aoteraoa native trees. It says trees please in a psychedelic font. A digital artwork of a three-colour green illustration of a tiny hiker disappearing into a giant forest of Aoteraoa native trees. It says trees please in a psychedelic font. A digital detail of a three-colour green illustration of a tiny hiker disappearing into a giant forest of Aoteraoa native trees. It says trees please in a psychedelic font.
February 11, 2026 at 1:57 AM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Increasing autism rates over the last 25 years may just be kids with mild forms getting diagnosed. Rates of moderate to severe impairment due to autism have actually fallen slightly.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The autistic community is a large, growing, and heterogeneous population, and there is a need for improved methods to describe their diverse needs. Measures of adaptive functioning collected through public health surveillance may provide valuable information on functioning and support needs at a population level. We aimed to use adaptive behavior and cognitive scores abstracted from health and educational records to describe trends over time in the population prevalence of autism by adaptive level and co-occurrence of intellectual disability (ID). Using data from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, years 2000 to 2016, we estimated the prevalence of autism per 1000 8-year-old children by four levels of adaptive challenges (moderate to profound, mild, borderline, or none) and by co-occurrence of ID. The prevalence of autism with mild, borderline, or no significant adaptive challenges increased between 2000 and 2016, from 5.1 per 1000 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 4.6–5.5) to 17.6 (95% CI: 17.1–18.1) while the prevalence of autism with moderate to profound challenges decreased slightly, from 1.5 (95% CI: 1.2–1.7) to 1.2 (95% CI: 1.1–1.4). The prevalence increase was greater for autism without co-occurring ID than for autism with co-occurring ID. The increase in autism prevalence between 2000 and 2016 was confined to autism with milder phenotypes. This trend could indicate improved identification of milder forms of autism over time. It is possible that increased access to therapies that improve intellectual and adaptive functioning of children diagnosed with autism also contributed to the trends.
February 10, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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bernardchickey.bsky.social
FYI I’ve opened this up for full public reading, listening & sharing after requests from paying subscribers. Their support allows me to do this kind of public interest journalism on Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate & poverty in public. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/why-not-sp...
Why not spend $2.7b on solar & batteries instead?
Govt to pay up to $180m/year or $2.7b over 15 years to lease LNG re-gasification plant, paid for by $15-$30 'levy' per household per year. That $2.7b would build four Benmore Dams worth of electricity
thekaka.substack.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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juliefairey.bsky.social
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.
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...
actionstation.typeform.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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siouxsiew.bsky.social
Not voted for #BugOfTheYear yet? Thanks to @thespinoff.bsky.social for letting me make the case for the North Auckland Worm. Vote now! thespinoff.co.nz/science/09-0...
Siouxsie Wiles: Why this giant worm should be crowned New Zealand’s best bug
It's more than a metre long and can expel glowing yellow ooze from its anus. Doesn't that sound like Bug of the Year material to you?
thespinoff.co.nz
February 9, 2026 at 3:25 AM
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teaonews.bsky.social
Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Kahu kaumātua Mike Smith says it’s “both tragic and absurd” that the time meant to honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi descended into a “public political squabble”.
Māori leaders reflect on political pōwhiri at Waitangi
Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Kahu kaumātua Mike Smith says it’s “both tragic and absurd” that the time meant to honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi descended into a “public political squabble”.
www.teaonews.co.nz
February 9, 2026 at 3:33 AM
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dreddieclark.bsky.social
Took a long long weekend burning off excess leave balance; of course I was back to Zealandia and it was an absolute day for it.
Pied shag asleep on a log over the water, mirrored along with the greenery in the lake below. Close-up of a male hihi poking his head out of a feeding box. Tieke with orange berry in beak. Korimako perched amongst the ferns in the sunlight.
February 9, 2026 at 3:35 AM
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stoneyboboney.bsky.social
Ha, yep!! bsky.app/profile/oldm...
oldmangrim.bsky.social OldManGrim @oldmangrim.bsky.social · 5d
time to remind everybody that the Super Bowl halftime show only exists in this grandiose fashion because a tv show called "In Living Color" stole the ratings from the NFL; the execs notoriously said, "get me Michael Jackson's agent" and thus began all the pomp

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘We stole the Super Bowl audience’: how In Living Color pulled off the greatest heist in US TV history
Turning Point USA is plotting its own half-time broadcast in defiance of Bad Bunny – but one of TV’s Blackest shows already perfected the alt-cast in 1992
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:58 AM
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runningwhio.bsky.social
Not an artefact, but an ancestor: why a German university is returning a Māori taonga www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...
Not an artefact, but an ancestor: why a German university is returning a Māori taonga
For Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, Te Pou o Hinematioro is an ancestor, not an object.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 8, 2026 at 1:29 AM