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Sarah 🇳🇿🏳️‍⚧️
@itamer.bsky.social
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Overlanding Northern America with breaks back home in NZ with my kids. Techie from way back.
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Just remember to put your visor down 🤣
The writer on the unpaved Dempster Highway in Canada covered in dust after riding her motorcycle with the helmet visor up.
November 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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The thing I liked most about this cover was the clearly uninjured ear on display.
Time Magazines cover featuring Donald Trump Senior titled “his triumph”. The left side of Trumps face is clearly visible including the ear reported to have been injured in the Butler shooting that killed a rally attendee.
November 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Matador Network is a big travel site and some of the info is good but FFS stop centering the US on your articles.

2. You can use it no matter where you live

and then proceeds to only talk to readers who live in the US. There’s a lot of planet included in “no matter where you live”!
A screenshot from a Matador Network article titled “IPhone Users Can Now Use a Digital Passport in Airport Security. These Are the 5 Things to Know.” 2. You can use it no matter where you live Unlike Apple's digital drivers' licenses, any US passport holder with a compatible phone can take advantage of the program, regardless of what state they call home. So someone living in a state that doesn't participate in Apple Wallet's mobile drivers license app, like New York or Florida, can still generate a valid Digital ID passport. They could then use that digital passport as identity certification when passing through a participating TSA checkpoint, even for domestic flights. Apple says 250 airports throughout the US are currently able to accept passport-based digital IDs.
November 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Can't let the RV World flags beat the Whitehouse 🤦‍♀️

So insecure 🤣
Every location of the business “RV World” flies a massive US flag visible long before you can identify the business itself.
November 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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I know it wasn't a reply but cats are a good answer!
Two posts looking like a question and a reply. The first says “New York has pizza Maryland has crab cakes $ What does YOUR state have?” The second says “these boys” with a photo of two cats tucked up in bed and looking back at the camera.
November 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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People magazine have a second photo from the same photographer.
President Donald Trump walks past a flag pole on the South Lawn of the White House on Nov. 16. Credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty
November 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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The Aussie flag has the Union Jack in the top corner, and the stars are on the outside of the flag.

The flag in the photo isn't the US flag but it still should be treated with respect.
The Australian flag
November 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Coming from a more temperate climate it's hard to believe that the gorgeous, warm state we visited a few months ago is now cold, dark and snowy!
A couple standing with their motorbikes beside a “Welcome to Alaska” sign on the Top of the World Highway” on a sunny day.
November 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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I just learnt that US gallons are different from Canadian gallons.

So that's thrown me off understanding the only thing I know about gallons - the 44-gallon drum!
November 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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I endorse your nomination.
A capybara in Brazil in an urban park. Quite happy to have us around. One rolled over for a belly rub - a request as clear as if it was the family dog.
November 8, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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A screenshot from the original image showing 3 rows of flags with one circled. This flag is navy blue with a union jack in the top left corner, two white stars on the right and a smudged image below.
November 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Merida, Mexico, March 2025
A sign taped to a tree with a US flag with an X across it and "Go home gringos!! Stay away from Mexico".
October 31, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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And it seems tiny, impoverished and now storm battered Cuba is the one.

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October 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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On a Facebook thread about a Route 66 anniversary.
I was stirring but I genuinely didn't expect the complete blindness to ICE’s scale of operation.
NZ has not been exempt from the crackdown. A lesser impact, definitely, but we're staying away too.
Me: Not safe to enter the USA so we sold our bikes. We'll take our "home bikes" on other adventures. I wish I'd ridden in 3 years ago when we started out. Man 1: You will be coming from New Zealand. So why is it unsafe to enter the USA? Man 2: Why isn't it safe to enter the U.S. wtf are you talking about
October 30, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Just have to weigh in with some more Auntie info.

I'm not sure I'd be able to take a guy seriously if he called me Auntie while trying to flirt 😂
In Gold Coast dating slang, the term "aunty" can refer to a single, unattached woman. The slang was popularised by the 2012 reality TV series The GC, which depicted the lives of a group of young people on the Gold Coast, and incorporated Mãori-influenced colloquialisms. ® It's important to understand the specific context of this term, as the general use of "aunty" in Australia is quite different. Gold Coast slang for dating • Aunty: A single woman. • Mumsies: A girlfriend or a more serious partner. • Creep on: To try and "score girls" or pick up women. Terry Maher • 3 Years ago wrote about Aunties: In much of Australian culture it refers to female siblings or close relatives of one's parents. In indigenous culture it is a term of respect for older women, sometimes who are related by blood or socially to a person, or who has earned the right to be held to esteem through their wisdom, work, compassion. an " aunty" is powerful in the sense that they are listened to, respected and emulated. Aunties, plural are very powerful. They are the ones who make important decisions, keep things straight, and support and discipline the community in most respects. "No l am not doing that, the Aunties would shame me" "Aunty Daz told me I had to stop going to town when I have been having a sip". Aunties are community. Think of a combination of church elders, neighbourhood watch and loving parents. They rock!
October 29, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Trump drinks. Go to Getty and search. There are many photos of Trump drinking.
The results of a search on getty images showing three different events where Trump is raising a wine glass.
October 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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A pigeon sitting in a water feature outside an inner city office building in Wellington, New Zealand
October 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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This is brilliant 🤦‍♀️
From michaela okland, @MichaelaOkla Every woman I've ever talked to has been a bit embarrassed about who she dated when she was 19, like it was pretty much the lowest of her dating standards, so it's rly funny to see grown men be proud of dating 19 year olds
October 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Still can't wear a mask properly
Trump pictured as an aviator with a mask covering his mouth but not his nose.
October 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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October 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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He fired off a what?
The words "blackberry email" are highlighted. The full text reads: 'This Note is obviously rushed' The papers confirm New Zealand was given no advance warning before US President Donald Trump signed his executive order about 11am on Friday, August 1 (NZT). Six minutes later, NZ's top trade diplomat, Vangelis Vitalis, fired off a Blackberry email marked: "URGENT: US: Tariffs on NZ up to 15 per cent but others will stay on 10 per cent." Almost everything in the message is redacted, except his final sentence: "This Note is obviously rushed."
October 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Right up there with this and who knows what else!!!

www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...
US intelligence chief reveals Al was used to decide which JFK assassination files to release. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Artificial Intelligence was used to scan the JFK assassination files and decide which ones should be kept classified
October 17, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Thanks to the NYT I’ve discovered a great seal is not one of these guys 🤣
A great seal - the mammal kind!
October 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Look higher.

Has that ear ever been damaged?
October 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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And his ear!
October 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM