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Owls in Towels

@owls-in-towels.bsky.social

A Moist Owlette is freshly showered at Owl Park San Vigilio, a zoological park in northern Italy 🇮🇹 via fb.com/816647270688... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

Captured in bright indoor lighting before a hessian pin board, a Great Horned Owl with wide-eyes and wet-plumage is cloaked in a white cloth. Spiked feathers radiate from his head in all directions, like a hairy durian, accentuating his look of shock and indignation. We may have found the true paragon of Owls in Towels.

February 13, 2026 at 11:38 AM

Pōneke

@archivesrock.bsky.social

Chives are a herb, not a spice ffs

February 20, 2026 at 2:44 AM

Pōneke

@archivesrock.bsky.social

This is so accurate, it's giving me PTSD 😭

February 20, 2026 at 2:07 AM

Pōneke

@archivesrock.bsky.social

Give mothers full immunity
and an unredacted list.
We will take care of this ourselves.

February 20, 2026 at 1:26 AM

Pōneke

@archivesrock.bsky.social

Someone in Wellington really needs to get over themselves 😶

February 20, 2026 at 12:23 AM

Pōneke

@archivesrock.bsky.social

Connections
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February 19, 2026 at 11:50 AM

Pōneke

@archivesrock.bsky.social

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February 19, 2026 at 11:03 AM

Pōneke

@archivesrock.bsky.social

And the stinging epithet of the week goes to @davidslack.bsky.social, on Luxo:
"...a sorry little blancmange of a man ... who folds faster than a two dollar tent"

OOOSH 💥

February 19, 2026 at 4:30 AM

Pōneke

@archivesrock.bsky.social

Here we go - again 😞

Prices continue to rise at global dairy trade auction www.rnz.co.nz/news/country...

Prices continue to rise at global dairy trade auction

The average price rose 3.6 percent - the fourth consecutive increase of the year.

www.rnz.co.nz

February 18, 2026 at 11:26 PM

Pōneke

@archivesrock.bsky.social

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February 18, 2026 at 11:18 AM

Pōneke

@archivesrock.bsky.social

Connections
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February 18, 2026 at 8:49 AM

Pōneke

@archivesrock.bsky.social

Peak white fragility
#nzpol

The first page of a bill to make English a ln official language of New Zealand

February 18, 2026 at 4:25 AM

Pōneke

@archivesrock.bsky.social

I drove Kate Bush to the hardware store to buy a mallet for a music video we were making

Jennifer Crawford @ournewhomecoach.bsky.social · 3d

Ok Bluesky, what are your most low key celebrity interactions? I once shared a lift with Tim Finn and put drinks in Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward’s fridge. My husband sold cheese to John Cleese and my mum delivered groceries to Gough Whitlam. Go!!

February 18, 2026 at 4:13 AM

Pōneke

@archivesrock.bsky.social

Could we also include a local TV sports journo who's reporting nightly from the Winter Olympics in "luh-VUN-yo" ?

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 2d

Truly incredible moment just now from an RNZ newsreader who mentioned the Auckland neighbourhood Point Chevalier pronouncing it, like, how you'd think; she then stopped, apologized, and said "that's 'point chev-a-LEER' for the locals"

February 18, 2026 at 3:40 AM

Pōneke

@archivesrock.bsky.social

You too could work for Brad From The Flat 🫤

Job ad for an administrator for a right-wing reckonomist and media stand-up guy

February 18, 2026 at 2:41 AM

Pōneke

@archivesrock.bsky.social

Farmer bros showing how thoroughly ignorant and petty they are, yet again 🫤

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February 18, 2026 at 2:22 AM

Pōneke

@archivesrock.bsky.social

39 New Zealanders 😡

kaya wanu @kayawanu.bsky.social · 2d

www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/... for the first time we have the numbers of foriegn nationals that murdered famines in Gaza and destroyed thier towns cities ecology,they have even poisoned the soil so no vegetation grows. Over 500 australians

Thousands of Western nationals fought Israel’s war on Gaza: What to know

Thousands of Western citizens joined the Israeli military in its war on Gaza that killed over 72,000 Palestinians.

www.aljazeera.com

February 17, 2026 at 11:26 PM

Pōneke

@archivesrock.bsky.social

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February 17, 2026 at 11:04 AM

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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway

@legallyfeminist.bsky.social

We’ve published an Open Letter calling on NZ leaders to deliver risk-based AI regulation & a national oversight body. AI has huge potential, but harms (deepfakes, gendered abuse, bias) are real and rising. Read the Letter (and sign it if you agree!) #nzpol

regulateai.nz

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A call to the NZ Parliament to regulate AI

regulateai.nz

August 31, 2025 at 7:18 PM

Pōneke

@archivesrock.bsky.social

En route to Wellington to collect 7 Houses for his KFC tour of Canterbury?

An RNZAF Boeing 757 flying south from Base Ōhakea, as seen on Flight Radar 24

February 17, 2026 at 12:17 AM

Pōneke

@archivesrock.bsky.social

Well, guess who...
He'll probably be the first of many farmer bros with their hands out demanding taxpayer money, while wilfully disputing their significant contribution to extreme weather events 🫤
Privatise the profits
Socialise the losses

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Farmer Sir David Carter said more than 250mm of rain fell overnight at his property.
"The rain gauge was overflowing this morning. I've never seen so much rain and I've been farming here for 40 years."
Carter said paddocks were flooded and trees were are down, which left him stranded on the farm.
'We moved stock to higher ground last night because we knew this was coming, but a farm assistant had to swim nine sheep to safety at 6.30am.

February 16, 2026 at 11:52 PM

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jess banks

@profbanks.bsky.social

There are some really dirty mixes of street and festival drugs out there right now in AoNZ, and ODs are picking up at an alarming rate. #kikorangi folks, please spread this far and wide, even if you think you don’t know anyone who’d be at risk. www.highalert.org.nz/alerts-and-n...

www.highalert.org.nz

February 16, 2026 at 8:58 PM