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Aotearoa New Zealand
Profile Pic: "Out of Step" Donau Kanal (2016)
Career: Interrupted

"an actual real demented PhD" Health Geography and Health Services

"absolutely furious" about the NZ govt reversing pay equity legislation
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Today's new find in the garden - It's disappearing now though. Google says it's a pleated inkcap (Parasola plicatilis), but google has been wrong before...
White translucent mushroom in a bed of ground cover thyme with bright pink flowers.
November 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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A movie that takes place where you're from

Claim to fame for the most derided city in Aotearoa.

Basically, you could say, if the place wasn't so boring the script would never have been written.
Tim Curry and Richard O'Brien in character on a poster for Ricky Horror Picture Show
November 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Afternoon tea. The slice of carrot cake is biggest I've (That's a normal sized cup there).
Giant pice of cake on a table in a cafe
November 23, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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If you see this, post a bird
A brown duck sitting in grass with its ducklings
November 14, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Not a great start for beer o'clock tonight.
A bottle of beer with a cap caught in the cap. Beer is of course, ruined.
November 14, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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It's gonna rain, isn't it?
Loads of white cloud and a dark sky over a green hill
November 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Post someone who looks great in a hat
Msn sitting cross-leggef on grass. He had long curly hair, is dressed warmly, and is wearing a tall hat.
November 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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But where will they put them?

I don't know, however its would just take a trumpian law change under urgency to give them a bed that they can't refuse.
www.corrections.govt.nz/resources/st...
Since November 2023, Corrections has reopened almost 2,000 beds across the network, which has resulted in approximately 11,600 beds being available across the network as at 30 June 2025. We are also taking a longer-term view to our infrastructure needs. In October 2024, Cabinet endorsed our Long-Term Network Configuration Plan which sets out our expected key projects over the coming 20 years to ensure we have a fit-for-purpose prison network. This plan includes the addition of the 500-beds coming online at Waikeria Prison in the second half of 2025, along with the 810-bed expansion at Waikeria Prison announced last year and the redevelopment of Christchurch Men’s Prison which will see an additional 240 high-security beds being delivered by 2029.
November 8, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Knocked the flowers down with the hose. I hadn't thought to bring them inside before, but they're too cute to throw away.
A stalk of white aquilegia flowers with white petals and lilac sepals beside a rustic-looking black pear made from a steel drum by Metal MEtcalfe
November 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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All the way home.
Mountain at sundown behind green hills
November 2, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Halfway home.
Snow capped mountain behind a road, PowerPole and an old building. A bright blue sky with a smattering of cloud.
November 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Mōrena
Wellington waterfront sunny day
October 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Our 3, nestled in reeds against a bathroom window, left the nest yesterday. Now we watch them, like loving grandparents, following mama or papa and learning to fly 😍
cheeping, fledgling blackbird perched on the edge of a wooden deck.
October 27, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Share someone who looks stylish in a hat
B&W photo of man sitting beside a microphone on a small table. He has long, curly, dark hair and is wearing a striped jacket, scarf and top hat with a flower above the brim.
October 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Through the window - Mama Blackbird arrives back to feed chicks. Apparently, papa birds share nesting and feeding, but he must be out celebrating with his mates.
Bird nest with bird feeding feeding chicks. Several reeds standing tall beside the nest. Photo through frosted glass.
October 18, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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All prepared and ready for summer. Just waiting for fine weather and people (and a new leaseholder for the camp store - big shoes to fill, but).
3 photos of Cloudy skies 2 with harbour and trees. Onw with an old shop painted bright yellow with a picnic table in front and surrounded by grassy fields.
October 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Unsolicited Rick pic
A blonde woman behind a microphone, playing an acoustic guitar
October 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Newsroom is not letting go of finding out about the circumstances of Adrian Orr's exit from the Reserve Bank.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/07/o...
Confirming suspicions that the terms of his exit most resemble a non-disclosure agreement, the deal gags Orr from criticising the Quigley or Willis. In return for payment of six months worth of salary, it bars him from disparaging the bank, its board, individual members of the board, the Treasury, the Minister of Finance or the Government generally. ‘Adrian Orr had confidential information, but more to the point, he was a party to the unsavoury proceedings before his departure. There was such a heightened level of sensitivity around the circumstances of his departure, and what prompted it, that they tried to seal it off.’ Adjunct professor Dr Chris Eichbaum, former Reserve Bank director But there’s flexibility for it to be applied far more broadly – to stop him speaking to the media, to stop him giving speeches, to stop him publishing a memoir …
October 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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I know it's not real, but Ouch! I'll enjoy this moment.
Stuff poll at the end of the article
Political poll showing Labour 49%, Greens 18% and National 3rd on 13%
October 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Submitters deliver unanimous ‘no’ to Pae Ora amendment bill 
www.nzdoctor.co.nz/article/news...

- changes would weaken equity, silence clinicians, and strip away te Tiriti obligations.

- legislated targets risk gaming, perverse incentives and poorer outcomes.
‘Regressive on improving outcomes’ Chair of the Council of Medical Colleges and former RNZCGP president, Samantha Murton, delivered a stinging rebuke of the bill: “We considered an approach of amendments to the bill, but on the whole it’s too regressive on improving outcomes, particularly to Māori.” The council’s primary concerns were the abandonment of an equitable approach to healthcare and section 11, which on its face prevents clinicians from speaking out on behalf of patients, Dr Murton says. The council and the Medical Protection Society agree the clause is unnecessary and should be removed: “There is no legal reason to have it, and it could have a chilling effect on doctors’ advocacy.” Dr Murton says the bill was a surprise to the council, which comprises 36 clinicians representing 18 colleges who meet regularly, “and did not know anything about it before it went through. So, we were not providing advice [to the Government on the bill] and we’re not sure who did.”
September 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Spotted!! :-) How long until Christmas?

And that's an 11 km jog. Including The Hill done.

Yep. I think I can manage #Hamilton #AroundTheBridges all going well.
Red pohutukawa flowers. First I've seen this season.
August 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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I made a journal! With the help of the lovely people at Te Kete Aronui - Rototuna Library bookbinding workshop.

A few mistakes, but hey, I enjoyed it quite a lot. I think I'll make another.
Picture ova red journal with a fabric light patterned fabric on the bound edge
August 14, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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She is, of course, not telling the whole story, and former ministers have already provided substantial amounts of info, and will continue to do so.
www.covid19lessons.royalcommission.nz/news/public-...
This includes that former Ministers and senior officials have provided a significant amount of information via private interviews, and all have offered to provide further information if requested; the need to use efficient processes and to avoid unnecessary cost and delay; the impact on public confidence of a ‘decision-makers’ hearing proceeding without the attendance of key decision-makers; and the fact that the Inquiry has other mechanisms available to obtain necessary evidence and also to increase transparency and public confidence. “We are confident that the former Ministers declining to attend the hearing does not hamper us in our ability to obtain the information we need to be able to properly complete our task. Public hearings are only one mechanism of obtaining evidence, and their use is restricted under our terms of reference,” says Mr Illingworth.
August 13, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Yep, a good day for it.

8km 51mins

Not a bad increase in distance for a little old pudding. ☺️
All the colours of blue - cloudless sky and water with a tree in the foreground and hills in the background.
August 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Person jumping off a wharf
August 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM