curiouskiwi 🇳🇿
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Happy new year! Is my phone trying to warn me? :)
#kikorangi
#kikorangi
December 31, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Happy new year! Is my phone trying to warn me? :)
#kikorangi
#kikorangi
4 hours until 2026! Happy New Year's Eve everyone!
December 31, 2025 at 7:03 AM
4 hours until 2026! Happy New Year's Eve everyone!
In the 70's, saw Bob Denver in The Odd Couple at our local dinner theate. I wasn't really old enough to appreciate the play, but so excited to seem him. I asked him for his autograph, and he signed my program "Gilligan" :). Squeee from me.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
In the 70's, saw Bob Denver in The Odd Couple at our local dinner theate. I wasn't really old enough to appreciate the play, but so excited to seem him. I asked him for his autograph, and he signed my program "Gilligan" :). Squeee from me.
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The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
August 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
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📚 #NZ More Gen-AI booklist crap 😔
#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
December 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
📚 #NZ More Gen-AI booklist crap 😔
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Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.
December 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.
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Pope Leo XIV said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.
#NZpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
#NZpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
Denying help to the poor is rejection of God, Pope Leo says on Christmas Eve
"On Earth, there is no room for God if there is no room for the human person. To refuse one is to refuse the other," said the pope said, lamenting lack of care for children, the poor and immigrants.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Pope Leo XIV said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.
#NZpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
#NZpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
Wouldn't be Christmas Eve without Charlie Brown! #MerryChristmas
December 24, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Wouldn't be Christmas Eve without Charlie Brown! #MerryChristmas
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Not me crying a little bc this matters a lot to artists right now
Porsche reportedly created their new ad without using any AI.
December 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Not me crying a little bc this matters a lot to artists right now
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Happy holidays from Professor @davidjmalan.bsky.social and CS50’s whole team here in Cambridge. 🎁 Stay tuned for release of CS50x 2026 on January 1, 2026.
youtube.com/shorts/8XuW8...
youtube.com/shorts/8XuW8...
Happy Holidays from CS50 🎁
YouTube video by CS50
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December 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Happy holidays from Professor @davidjmalan.bsky.social and CS50’s whole team here in Cambridge. 🎁 Stay tuned for release of CS50x 2026 on January 1, 2026.
youtube.com/shorts/8XuW8...
youtube.com/shorts/8XuW8...
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this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member
December 20, 2025 at 6:35 AM
this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member
Guessing I'm not the only one who woke up to the "The Wait if Over! Boxing Day sale starts today! Up to 70% off" email from Briscoes.
But then I saw the "Business confidence at its highest level in 40 years" headline.
Funny way of dealing with confidence!
But then I saw the "Business confidence at its highest level in 40 years" headline.
Funny way of dealing with confidence!
Nothing screams the economy is in dire times like Boxing Day Sales a week before Christmas! Thanks, National. You killed it stone dead. #nzpol
And what are you doing about it? Sacking more civil servants.
And what are you doing about it? Sacking more civil servants.
December 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Guessing I'm not the only one who woke up to the "The Wait if Over! Boxing Day sale starts today! Up to 70% off" email from Briscoes.
But then I saw the "Business confidence at its highest level in 40 years" headline.
Funny way of dealing with confidence!
But then I saw the "Business confidence at its highest level in 40 years" headline.
Funny way of dealing with confidence!
December 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This does not surprise me. Every Friend I know shows kindness by default.
British Quakers are refusing room bookings from terfs as policy.
If you were waiting for an org to stand up for LGBTQIA+ rights, and unflinchingly withstand bullying and lawfare, here you go, friends.
Good luck to the raging bigots, they'll get nowhere with threats.
If you were waiting for an org to stand up for LGBTQIA+ rights, and unflinchingly withstand bullying and lawfare, here you go, friends.
Good luck to the raging bigots, they'll get nowhere with threats.
December 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This does not surprise me. Every Friend I know shows kindness by default.
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Here in Kansas people said about KS SB 180 "oh there is no way it'll pass"
It passed and now I am legally banned from ANY gendered restroom, so uh, at this point I might not trust people's assessments about which bills are "never going to pass"
It passed and now I am legally banned from ANY gendered restroom, so uh, at this point I might not trust people's assessments about which bills are "never going to pass"
This is possibly the most significant attack on trans rights in this country yet, and I can count the number of posts on my timeline about this on my hands.
If you're trying to dismiss this thinking "It'll die in the senate," DON'T! Sound the alarms now!
If you're trying to dismiss this thinking "It'll die in the senate," DON'T! Sound the alarms now!
Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.
December 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Here in Kansas people said about KS SB 180 "oh there is no way it'll pass"
It passed and now I am legally banned from ANY gendered restroom, so uh, at this point I might not trust people's assessments about which bills are "never going to pass"
It passed and now I am legally banned from ANY gendered restroom, so uh, at this point I might not trust people's assessments about which bills are "never going to pass"
This year on Bluesky I wrote 289 posts and 432 replies. I received 2,752 likes, whereas 312 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "aonz" and 🪶! (of course I do! I'm all in on NZ birds!) ;)
www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...
www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...
www.madebyolof.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This year on Bluesky I wrote 289 posts and 432 replies. I received 2,752 likes, whereas 312 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "aonz" and 🪶! (of course I do! I'm all in on NZ birds!) ;)
www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...
www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...
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I will NEVER vote for a politician who votes for anti-trans legislation. Never. I don't care who it is, it's a dead issue. Move on. If my vote is so important to the future of democracy they should have thought of that before they voted to exterminate my child.
December 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I will NEVER vote for a politician who votes for anti-trans legislation. Never. I don't care who it is, it's a dead issue. Move on. If my vote is so important to the future of democracy they should have thought of that before they voted to exterminate my child.
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BREAKING: The High Court of New Zealand has granted PATHA’s application for interim relief, declaring that the Crown should not take any steps to enforce the incoming ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers to transgender children and young people. More to come:
www.courtsofnz.govt.nz
December 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
BREAKING: The High Court of New Zealand has granted PATHA’s application for interim relief, declaring that the Crown should not take any steps to enforce the incoming ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers to transgender children and young people. More to come:
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This is Willi and Rigatoni. They were saying not-so-nice things behind your back, but then you turned around. Super awkward. 13/10 for both (IG: wildwildwilli)
December 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This is Willi and Rigatoni. They were saying not-so-nice things behind your back, but then you turned around. Super awkward. 13/10 for both (IG: wildwildwilli)
This might be an honest mistake, but it sounds like a scam. WOF last year failed on a rear tyre tread, so shop supplied/fitted a new tyre and passed the WOF. This year, they say WOF has failed because the tyre treads on the rear axle don't match. They're the ones who supplied it! #AoNZ
December 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
This might be an honest mistake, but it sounds like a scam. WOF last year failed on a rear tyre tread, so shop supplied/fitted a new tyre and passed the WOF. This year, they say WOF has failed because the tyre treads on the rear axle don't match. They're the ones who supplied it! #AoNZ
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When we said “trans kids are a tiny minority” we meant “so stop picking on them” but they heard it as “so you won’t lose that many votes by hurting them.”
This is why allies have to be loud. They have to hear we are united in protecting our trans brothers and sisters.
This is why allies have to be loud. They have to hear we are united in protecting our trans brothers and sisters.
We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
December 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
When we said “trans kids are a tiny minority” we meant “so stop picking on them” but they heard it as “so you won’t lose that many votes by hurting them.”
This is why allies have to be loud. They have to hear we are united in protecting our trans brothers and sisters.
This is why allies have to be loud. They have to hear we are united in protecting our trans brothers and sisters.
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I’m actually a bit gutted about FluTracking ending. It was an important part of the COVID response and made me feel part of a team; I dutifully did my survey every Monday morning. And now this excellent crowdsourced science tool has been casually axed, yesterday it turns out. info.flutracking.net
December 16, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I’m actually a bit gutted about FluTracking ending. It was an important part of the COVID response and made me feel part of a team; I dutifully did my survey every Monday morning. And now this excellent crowdsourced science tool has been casually axed, yesterday it turns out. info.flutracking.net
very apropos
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
very apropos
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At 11pm on Friday night, under the cover of darkness, the Luxon Government made it easier for foreign corporations to buy and exploit New Zealand’s most ecologically and culturally sensitive land - including conservation land, lakebeds and wāhi tapu sites. 🧵
December 15, 2025 at 4:00 AM
At 11pm on Friday night, under the cover of darkness, the Luxon Government made it easier for foreign corporations to buy and exploit New Zealand’s most ecologically and culturally sensitive land - including conservation land, lakebeds and wāhi tapu sites. 🧵