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Sarah 🇳🇿🏳️‍⚧️
@itamer.bsky.social
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Overlanding Northern America with breaks back home in NZ with my kids. Techie from way back.
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I endorse your nomination.
A capybara in Brazil in an urban park. Quite happy to have us around. One rolled over for a belly rub - a request as clear as if it was the family dog.
November 8, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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A screenshot from the original image showing 3 rows of flags with one circled. This flag is navy blue with a union jack in the top left corner, two white stars on the right and a smudged image below.
November 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Merida, Mexico, March 2025
A sign taped to a tree with a US flag with an X across it and "Go home gringos!! Stay away from Mexico".
October 31, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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And it seems tiny, impoverished and now storm battered Cuba is the one.

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October 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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On a Facebook thread about a Route 66 anniversary.
I was stirring but I genuinely didn't expect the complete blindness to ICE’s scale of operation.
NZ has not been exempt from the crackdown. A lesser impact, definitely, but we're staying away too.
Me: Not safe to enter the USA so we sold our bikes. We'll take our "home bikes" on other adventures. I wish I'd ridden in 3 years ago when we started out. Man 1: You will be coming from New Zealand. So why is it unsafe to enter the USA? Man 2: Why isn't it safe to enter the U.S. wtf are you talking about
October 30, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Just have to weigh in with some more Auntie info.

I'm not sure I'd be able to take a guy seriously if he called me Auntie while trying to flirt 😂
In Gold Coast dating slang, the term "aunty" can refer to a single, unattached woman. The slang was popularised by the 2012 reality TV series The GC, which depicted the lives of a group of young people on the Gold Coast, and incorporated Mãori-influenced colloquialisms. ® It's important to understand the specific context of this term, as the general use of "aunty" in Australia is quite different. Gold Coast slang for dating • Aunty: A single woman. • Mumsies: A girlfriend or a more serious partner. • Creep on: To try and "score girls" or pick up women. Terry Maher • 3 Years ago wrote about Aunties: In much of Australian culture it refers to female siblings or close relatives of one's parents. In indigenous culture it is a term of respect for older women, sometimes who are related by blood or socially to a person, or who has earned the right to be held to esteem through their wisdom, work, compassion. an " aunty" is powerful in the sense that they are listened to, respected and emulated. Aunties, plural are very powerful. They are the ones who make important decisions, keep things straight, and support and discipline the community in most respects. "No l am not doing that, the Aunties would shame me" "Aunty Daz told me I had to stop going to town when I have been having a sip". Aunties are community. Think of a combination of church elders, neighbourhood watch and loving parents. They rock!
October 29, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Trump drinks. Go to Getty and search. There are many photos of Trump drinking.
The results of a search on getty images showing three different events where Trump is raising a wine glass.
October 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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A pigeon sitting in a water feature outside an inner city office building in Wellington, New Zealand
October 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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This is brilliant 🤦‍♀️
From michaela okland, @MichaelaOkla Every woman I've ever talked to has been a bit embarrassed about who she dated when she was 19, like it was pretty much the lowest of her dating standards, so it's rly funny to see grown men be proud of dating 19 year olds
October 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Still can't wear a mask properly
Trump pictured as an aviator with a mask covering his mouth but not his nose.
October 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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October 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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He fired off a what?
The words "blackberry email" are highlighted. The full text reads: 'This Note is obviously rushed' The papers confirm New Zealand was given no advance warning before US President Donald Trump signed his executive order about 11am on Friday, August 1 (NZT). Six minutes later, NZ's top trade diplomat, Vangelis Vitalis, fired off a Blackberry email marked: "URGENT: US: Tariffs on NZ up to 15 per cent but others will stay on 10 per cent." Almost everything in the message is redacted, except his final sentence: "This Note is obviously rushed."
October 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Right up there with this and who knows what else!!!

www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...
US intelligence chief reveals Al was used to decide which JFK assassination files to release. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Artificial Intelligence was used to scan the JFK assassination files and decide which ones should be kept classified
October 17, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Thanks to the NYT I’ve discovered a great seal is not one of these guys 🤣
A great seal - the mammal kind!
October 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Look higher.

Has that ear ever been damaged?
October 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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And his ear!
October 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Im fascinated that the chose his left ear to feature so prominently. It looks… unscathed.
An enlarged section of the time magazine cover showing Trump’s ear with no scar tissue.
October 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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So many layers to this.
It was a normal day but he’s due to be sentenced?
There were no signs? Wilful blindness!
He’d tried to get mental health support and failed?
And then the ever present gun control

www.wxyz.com/news/family-...
Police said the suspect's wife and 19-year-old son Ayden managed to stop the attack. Loved ones said there were no signs something like this would happen. "He woke up, woke the kids up to go to school and ya know, it was a regular day and something just happened. It doesn't make sense," Frazer said. "He was an amazing man," she described. "He was happy, outgoing." However, they said Jeff Smerer had been having a hard time. "Jeff was a good father. He did everything, bent over backwards for the family. Started having issues, searched out for medical help, ya know, mental help and didn't get what he needed. Seemed like he needed more support and he didn't get it," Lank Green, the Smerer's brother-in-law, explained. This year, he plead guilty to an indecent exposure incident from 2020. He was supposed to be sentenced the morning of the shooting. His family didn't want to speak on it, but they say there is more to the story. Smerer is expected to be arraigned on the fatal attack next Tuesday.
October 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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I feel like this personal best might take some beating

www.bloomberg.com/games/alphad...
Alphadots solved in 15 seconds
October 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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No, no, you have it all wrong. The lowercase t is in support of transgender people. The ones with the semi-naked, ripped, man are in support of trans men specifically.
A necklace with a lowercase t pendant featuring a scantily clad male bodybuilder.
October 11, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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This might just be kiwi humour but who approved this ad copy?

Or was the goal to be risque & I just took the bait?
A product photo of a ring design called “everrooted” with the words “everroted in her”
October 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Apparently, this wasn't well-received in the family chat. Future SIL liked it though.
A reply to sharing this thread: This should be on the nerd chat wtf
October 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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They make great photo opportunities.
A lighthouse and its mini replica in Uruguay. A lighthouse blocking the sun in Taranaki, New Zealand A gloomy day at the Bonita lighthouse in California, USA.
October 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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I'm so grossed out by Rexona trying to boost their sales by telling girls and women that their WHOLE body is gross and needs deodorant.

In all my years of biking, running, hiking and working in crowded offices I've never encountered someone whose back, legs or forearms smell.
A tube of Rexona Women Whole Body Deodorant Cream
October 7, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Apparently it's ok to burn the flag.

With all that's happening it could be argued the flag is no longer the symbol of honour it was and therefore no longer “a fitting emblem of display”
An American flag should be burned only when it's in a worn-out condition and no longer a fitting emblem of display, and it must be done in a dignified manner. The U.S. Flag Code specifies this condition for disposal, preferring burning as a respectful method, although other options like donation, recycling, or burial are also acceptable.
October 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM