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Kiaorana! Happy Cook Islands Māori Language Week

Te ata ātaahua! First ever Matariki hautapu here in Naarm Melbourne - Saturday morning

Talofa lava! Manuia le vaiaso o le gagana Samoa

Happy Samoan language week 🇼🇸 🗣️ 🎉

Although…

Waka hourua hou me te waka hourua tawhito kei Ōhinehou, Whakaraupo (Whangaraupo) Lyttelton

Freedom of speech is the only important thing

Unless you disagree with me 😮🥺😡🔥

Plus Auckland, where there's Maungawhao (Mt Eden) and Maungakiekie (One Tree Hill)

I love an old map! These beautiful 1859 geological charts (4yrs prior to the Waikato Invasion) show placenames in use at the time, like Whaingaroa (renamed Raglan soon after) and Kirikiriroa (renamed Hamilton 5yrs later), and over in the EBOP Putauaki ("Mt Edgecumbe" in brackets)

Kiaora @troybaisden.bsky.social Sorry, was super-slow spotting your response to my last TwitterX post, but would love to band together on this. Could someone/someorg create a sharable, *findable* AoNZ science list in Bluesky? (starterpacks aren't findable, lists not particularly findable either)

A fun little rabbithole: 'ngutu' = 'lip' / 'beak', so you'd think 'parore' might be 'turned', but it's not—at least not in modern Māori (instead, it's a 🐟). But the Marquesan verb 'parore' means 'to turn'. I guess when early Māori named the bird they still spoke the language of the Marquesan islands

This is a great 🌈 themed explainer using ⚡🧲 physics, optics, and geometry to explain various aspects of a rainbow.

If you want to get your head around the geometry of rainbows, you might want to build yourself one of these:
Maunder & Hunt’s Very Fabulous Rainbow Locator
fleet.org.au/rainbow/