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Jennifer Ashton @jenashton.bsky.social · 16h

Tests, ODIs, T20s

Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 2d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

Jennifer Ashton @jenashton.bsky.social · 1d

The previous line, of course, is cry ‘havoc’, which is a pretty strong clue about the meaning of the phrase. Where does she get this stuff from?

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d

'“There are people I don’t like, and I would like to put them on one of Musk’s spaceships and send them all off to the planet he’s sure he’s going to discover,” Goodall tells interviewer Brad Falchuk during the revelatory 55-minute special discussing her life, work and legacy.'

Jane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into space

Primatologist said in interview released after her death she would also put Putin, Xi and Netanyahu on that spaceship

www.theguardian.com

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 3d

What I'd say to the 65,000 unemployed young people in NZ is... move, and compete harder against the other 340,000 people wanting work or more work. Hell, there are 20,000 job vacancies out there! Nevermind that most of them are wholly unsuited to you. Try harder, bottom-feeders.

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Jennifer Ashton @jenashton.bsky.social · 3d

I’m still trying to get over the image of Keith Sinclair driving around in a muscle car.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 3d

199 years after the last one, way to string along your fanbase, Ms. Shelley

Becky @beckygracelea.bsky.social · 4d

She hath risen.

“Mary Shelley has released a new title!”

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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 3d

I have been back at The Spinoff for a while and once again I am doing very well thank you thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...

Hello, are you in the hospital? OK you are using government. But did you do a poo in the hospital toilet? That’s pipes. Council. Did you get driven to the hospital on a road? Probably council unless it was a motorway straight to the hospital door. Are you in school? Fine that’s government. But did you use a pedestrian crossing to get to school? Council. Did you go on a bus? Again, council.

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Historic Cricket Pictures @picturesporting.bsky.social · 4d

An unusual view of The Oval showing painters high on Gasometer No.1 during the 1931 New Zealand Test. Originally New Zealand has been given only one Test but "their good form and sportsmanship" led to extra games being added at The Oval and Old Trafford

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 5d

If you've never seen or not recently revisited Patricia Routledge as "Kitty" on Victoria Wood's "As Seen On TV" it is such a gem. I wish there were far more of them.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wisQ...

Kitty 2 - With Patricia Routledge - BBC

YouTube video by maxinebendix

www.youtube.com

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 6d

😭 If only NZ experienced wind, even offshore, and the light of the sun also

Pat Simons @patsimons.bsky.social · 6d

Spain's wholesale electricity prices were 32% lower than the European average in the first half of 2025 -- thanks to wind and solar reducing the influence of costly fossil fuels on prices. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Decoupled: how Spain cut the link between gas and power prices using renewables | Ember

Spain has some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices in Europe, largely owing to the country’s strong solar and wind growth which reduced the influence of expensive coal and gas power on the elec...

ember-energy.org

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Jennifer Ashton @jenashton.bsky.social · 6d

Do they know the difference between a polls result and an election result?

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 7d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7d

'In a tragic turn, Mākereti Papakura – believed to be the first woman from an Indigenous community to study at the university – died just weeks before completing her thesis, and in the decades since, her family has fought to have her degree recognised.'

Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured

Mākereti Papakura died weeks before handing in her thesis at Oxford university documenting the life and customs of her tribe, work that is still used by Māori today

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 7d

As Ken Clarke used to say, the trouble with feeding buns to crocodiles is that eventually you run out of buns and the crocodile eats you instead

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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 7d

‘F*** off’, Auckland mayor Wayne Brown tells Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance

An email screenshot sighted by RNZ showed Wayne Brown's "unambiguous" reply to the Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 7d

One of my all-time favorite photos.

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Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 7d

"We're forgetting that we are part of the natural world." Jane Goodall

www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

Wildlife advocate, primate expert Jane Goodall dies at 91

The scientist turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 8d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 8d

We’re grateful to DuckDuckGo for their $25,000 gift to Internet Archive! This support helps ensure the world’s knowledge is preserved & accessible to everyone. spreadprivacy.com/2025-duckduc...

2025 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations

DuckDuckGo is donating $1.1 million in 2025 to support organizations that share our vision of raising the standard of trust online.

spreadprivacy.com

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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 8d

(solemnly) You've had mail.

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Jennifer Ashton @jenashton.bsky.social · 10d

Look, I’m not a karearea exclusionist, but how is it possible we live in a country where the kaka has never been bird of the year?

Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · 10d

And now... 🏅A few words from our winner🏅

#BOTY2025 #BirdoftheYear2025 #BirdoftheYear #NZBirdoftheYear

@thomassainsbury

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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 10d

The AfD qualified for three mayoral run-offs in cities in North Rhine-Westphalia today, and lost all by big margins. The lesson is not that we have overdone the AfD's rise, but that we do perhaps sometimes underestimate the counter-mobilisation effects - including in east Germany, incidentally.

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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 11d

Personally think we should consider making this not just the way it is

If a wealthy sex offender donates a large amount of money to charity, should they be eligible for a reduced prison sentence?

A top King’s Counsel says it’s not unusual for a court to award a sentence discount for reparation or compensation.

Does that put a rich criminal in a better position at sentencing than someone with less money?

“Yes, and that’s just life. That is just the way it is,” Marie Dyhrberg, KC, told the Herald

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Richard Hills @richardhills.bsky.social · 12d

In a race to stand for nothing, we are increasingly heading for first place.

henry cooke @henrycooke.bsky.social · 12d

BREAKING: Winston Peters says is NZ is "not ready" to recognise Palestinian statehood.

"We do not think the time is now."

He says recognition at this time would be "open for political manipulation by both Hamas and Israel".

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