Philip (Piripi) McKibbin
@piripi.net
Writer, PhD candidate (SEI/USyd), teacher. 🤓 All about the Politics of Love! 🥝 - Māori (Kāi Tahu), Pākehā - based in 🐊🦘🕸️ …for now. ❤️s colour! 🌈✨
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February 4, 2026 at 12:09 AM
"I know we’re British and we like a queue, but it’s ridiculous."
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‘It’s ridiculous’: publicans bemused by rise of single-file queues to get served
Bar owners say they struggle to dissuade people from forming a line as behavioural experts point to post-pandemic ‘new norms’
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January 31, 2026 at 8:38 PM
"I know we’re British and we like a queue, but it’s ridiculous."
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Vegan kakigōri. 🍓
January 30, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Vegan kakigōri. 🍓
Cake for breakfast!
January 26, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Cake for breakfast!
'"I felt visceral anger," [Jewish artist Nina Sanadze] added of her reaction to the shooting... "But working with the flowers softened me again and softened my heart. It helped me, in that way, to process my anger."'
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Three tons of mourners’ flowers will be transformed into art memorializing Bondi Beach shooting | CNN
With the help of over a hundred volunteers, artist Nina Sanadze is turning flowers left on Bondi Beach into artworks that will show at the Sydney Jewish Museum next year.
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January 24, 2026 at 7:31 AM
'"I felt visceral anger," [Jewish artist Nina Sanadze] added of her reaction to the shooting... "But working with the flowers softened me again and softened my heart. It helped me, in that way, to process my anger."'
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‘It could be said that Tuai, badly conflicted, was standing alone between the Māori and the Pākehā worlds.’
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Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds
In early 1817 Tuai, a young Ngare Raumati chief from th…
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January 22, 2026 at 11:45 AM
‘It could be said that Tuai, badly conflicted, was standing alone between the Māori and the Pākehā worlds.’
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'An agent had taken Liam out of the car, led the boy to his front door and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in, “in order to see if anyone else was home – essentially using a five-year-old as bait”, the superintendent said in a statement.'
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ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
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January 22, 2026 at 7:21 AM
'An agent had taken Liam out of the car, led the boy to his front door and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in, “in order to see if anyone else was home – essentially using a five-year-old as bait”, the superintendent said in a statement.'
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'The powerful have their power. But we have something, too – the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home and to act together.' - Mark Carney
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‘The powerful have their power. We have the capacity to stop pretending’: the Canadian PM’s call to action at Davos | Mark Carney
In a rousing speech, Mark Carney made the case for unity in the face of Donald Trump’s new world order. We reproduce it here
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January 22, 2026 at 2:01 AM
'The powerful have their power. But we have something, too – the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home and to act together.' - Mark Carney
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‘“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace,” he said.’
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Donald Trump links threats to seize Greenland to Nobel prize snub in letter
US president says he no longer feels the need to think ‘purely of peace’ in letter to Norwegian prime minister
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January 19, 2026 at 3:11 PM
‘“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace,” he said.’
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Everything, Everything
My disease is as rare as it is famous. It’s a form of S…
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January 19, 2026 at 10:07 AM
'“We often think about evolution as a slow process,” said Diamant, the study’s lead author... “So we were really surprised when we ran the data. When I did the year-by-year comparison, it was remarkable how stark the change was.”'
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The pandemic may have caused a songbird’s beak to change shape, scientists find | CNN
Songbirds on the UCLA campus changed beak shapes during the pandemic, according to a new study. Researchers suspect it might be a case of rapid evolution.
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January 13, 2026 at 3:13 AM
'“We often think about evolution as a slow process,” said Diamant, the study’s lead author... “So we were really surprised when we ran the data. When I did the year-by-year comparison, it was remarkable how stark the change was.”'
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