Gir
@edufk.bsky.social
Dog-lover, bus driver, tangata tiriti 🐶🇳🇿
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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.
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
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.
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.
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#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.
*New 115 to follow 114 between Westgate & Whenuapai TC ONLY.
February 12, 2026 at 6:29 AM
#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.
*New 115 to follow 114 between Westgate & Whenuapai TC ONLY.
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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
Police want to hear from anyone with information about disgraced ex-priest
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Punkin Pie wishing you a great Wednesday!
February 11, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Punkin Pie wishing you a great Wednesday!
Little boy got a new toy today 😍 #teorangawhaikurī [sound up]
February 11, 2026 at 6:24 AM
Little boy got a new toy today 😍 #teorangawhaikurī [sound up]
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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
Pre-order open: please do pre-order to help gauge demand and secure your size: pepperraccoon.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:57 AM
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
Pre-order open: please do pre-order to help gauge demand and secure your size: pepperraccoon.com
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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/...
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.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j76trmiofvaxxpvx2vnb2vwf/bafkreibeoudvh2b4ifuiqq7pmnzwg6y6n3caschubukvo6kzqcfn2kdf5i@jpeg)
February 10, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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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
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...
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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.
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...
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February 9, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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.
Own your home? Please share it widely to get max responses.
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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
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...
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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
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”.
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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.
February 9, 2026 at 3:35 AM
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.
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Ha, yep!! bsky.app/profile/oldm...
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...
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
Ha, yep!! bsky.app/profile/oldm...
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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
Not an artefact, but an ancestor: why a German university is returning a Māori taonga www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...
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Morning all! I recently did an interview with NBR about why I took legal action against my employer despite knowing I was going to lose money. They’ve just made the interview free to view so here’s the link if you are interested www.nbr.co.nz/toil-and-tro...
‘It was worth it’: Siouxsie Wiles on her employment stoush - NBR | Business news & analysis | Independent, ad-free reporting
Read premium business news, economic analysis, and market reporting from New Zealand’s most trusted business newsroom. Subscribe to support independent journalism.
www.nbr.co.nz
February 6, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Morning all! I recently did an interview with NBR about why I took legal action against my employer despite knowing I was going to lose money. They’ve just made the interview free to view so here’s the link if you are interested www.nbr.co.nz/toil-and-tro...
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The random wildflower seed mix packet did really well . Especially considering how poor the soil is in here after decades of agapanthus in this spot 🌱 living the random magenta snapdragon & all the poppies
February 7, 2026 at 3:57 AM
The random wildflower seed mix packet did really well . Especially considering how poor the soil is in here after decades of agapanthus in this spot 🌱 living the random magenta snapdragon & all the poppies
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This is the business practice known as what?
a. Circling back
b. Putting it in the pipeline
c. Rawdogging
d. Grabbing the low hanging fruit
a. Circling back
b. Putting it in the pipeline
c. Rawdogging
d. Grabbing the low hanging fruit
February 7, 2026 at 1:41 AM
This is the business practice known as what?
a. Circling back
b. Putting it in the pipeline
c. Rawdogging
d. Grabbing the low hanging fruit
a. Circling back
b. Putting it in the pipeline
c. Rawdogging
d. Grabbing the low hanging fruit
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🧵Spotted on a Very Hot Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A woman (60s?) suddenly stops and plucks at the seam of her undies through her shorts.
Her partner laughs, asking: "Ya right there?"
She nods. "Yep. We've all got bums. I just had my knickers riding up mine. Happens to the best of us." (1)
A woman (60s?) suddenly stops and plucks at the seam of her undies through her shorts.
Her partner laughs, asking: "Ya right there?"
She nods. "Yep. We've all got bums. I just had my knickers riding up mine. Happens to the best of us." (1)
February 7, 2026 at 1:17 AM
🧵Spotted on a Very Hot Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A woman (60s?) suddenly stops and plucks at the seam of her undies through her shorts.
Her partner laughs, asking: "Ya right there?"
She nods. "Yep. We've all got bums. I just had my knickers riding up mine. Happens to the best of us." (1)
A woman (60s?) suddenly stops and plucks at the seam of her undies through her shorts.
Her partner laughs, asking: "Ya right there?"
She nods. "Yep. We've all got bums. I just had my knickers riding up mine. Happens to the best of us." (1)
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Relax, bread department
February 6, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Relax, bread department
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Sunrise, WAITANGI DAY, 6 February, from Okitu Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand.
Toitū te tiriti
Toitū te tiriti
February 5, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Sunrise, WAITANGI DAY, 6 February, from Okitu Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand.
Toitū te tiriti
Toitū te tiriti
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Ata mārie e te Kikorangi whānau! Toitū te Tiriti!! ✊
February 5, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Ata mārie e te Kikorangi whānau! Toitū te Tiriti!! ✊
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
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BREAKING: Fast Track panel declines seabed mining bid.
"This is a victory for the moana, for all the people across Taranaki and Aotearoa, from Iwi and hapu and councils and everyone who loves our ocean," said KASM chairperson Cindy Baxter.
#nzpol
www.kasm.org.nz/post/breakin...
"This is a victory for the moana, for all the people across Taranaki and Aotearoa, from Iwi and hapu and councils and everyone who loves our ocean," said KASM chairperson Cindy Baxter.
#nzpol
www.kasm.org.nz/post/breakin...
BREAKING! Fast Track panel rejects seabed mining
PRESS RELEASE
Kiwis Against Seabed Mining are celebrating the Fast Track Panel's draft decision to decline Trans Tasman Resources' bid to mine the SouthTaranaki seabed. The draft decision was publis...
www.kasm.org.nz
February 5, 2026 at 6:42 AM
BREAKING: Fast Track panel declines seabed mining bid.
"This is a victory for the moana, for all the people across Taranaki and Aotearoa, from Iwi and hapu and councils and everyone who loves our ocean," said KASM chairperson Cindy Baxter.
#nzpol
www.kasm.org.nz/post/breakin...
"This is a victory for the moana, for all the people across Taranaki and Aotearoa, from Iwi and hapu and councils and everyone who loves our ocean," said KASM chairperson Cindy Baxter.
#nzpol
www.kasm.org.nz/post/breakin...
Day off & I've hung out the washing, taken the dogs for a big walk, taken my recycling to the depot & done my fortnightly big supermarket shop. Now to spend the rest of the day continually telling myself that I've got plenty of time left to get on to the gardening that I've been neglecting for AGES
February 4, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Day off & I've hung out the washing, taken the dogs for a big walk, taken my recycling to the depot & done my fortnightly big supermarket shop. Now to spend the rest of the day continually telling myself that I've got plenty of time left to get on to the gardening that I've been neglecting for AGES