Chickengirl
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Chickengirl
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Oh hell no!
This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
December 10, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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One day, when people are living once again in leaky homes, or dying of botulism, someone might just link “red tape” to keeping people alive & not broke #nzpol
December 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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A survey of NZ pet owners’ opinions about free-roaming cats highlights the need for education & targeted policy to raise awareness of social/environmental issues and promote responsible cat ownership.

doi.org/10.1080/0048...

@tandfresearch.bsky.social #OpenAccess
📷 vozdvikhenskayadina, envato.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I feel like many leftie voters feel this way, whereas many on the right just want their tax cuts and feck the poors.
Or am I being unfair because I live in a leftie bubble?
Comfortably-well-off white guy here who has enough but still wants more.

The more I want: for everyone around me to be comfortable too. Safe, healthy, and free to pursue their happiness.

A society like that would enrich me a lot more than some extra dollars would.
December 9, 2025 at 3:53 AM
If you live in the Southern Hemisphere (where it is currently strawberry season) and you have a stand mixer, this is the best ratio of taste to effort you are ever going to get in a Christmas dessert - with the bonuses of make-ahead-ability plus pure magic

www.langbein.com/recipes/stra...
Strawberry Cloud Cake - Annabel Langbein – Recipes
Hundreds of quick and easy recipes created by Annabel and her online community.
www.langbein.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Ewww! 🤢
December 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Trialling a new noise-reducing restraint box in Australian abattoirs reduced the need for handling interventions, leading to better welfare for the cows and reduced stress for workers.

doi.org/10.1080/0048...

@tandfresearch.bsky.social #OpenAccess
📷 Keshavarzi et al. 2025
December 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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#SecretSantaAoNZ Which festive philosopher are you?

*Sorry, I am a terrible person with a very particular sense of humour.
December 8, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Oh ffs, it’s 2 fricking weeks for most people. We always go to Whitianga in the second week of Jan because it’s so much quieter - most of the tourist throng are back at work by then
December 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:
A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.

Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.

A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
December 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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A new study in the NZVJ tests whether delta-toxin from the canine skin bacterium Staphylococcus pseudintermedius can cause eczema in dogs by damaging mast cells.

doi.org/10.1080/0048... (free to read until 31 Jan 2026)

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📷 akportfolio24, envato.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
AI slop extends its tendrils into every nook and cranny of our lives 😫
December 6, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Land of the free, everyone
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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99% of complaints about things being better in the past boil down to "you miss not having adult responsibilities". The other 1% is that everything is manufactured to break after two years now.
Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.
December 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Kiwis who moan about Jacinda’s lockdowns don’t understand how lucky we were
Worldwide mortality experience since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2024) shows excess deaths over that period in almost every country measured. Australia (+6%) was below average, and New Zealand (+0.1%) the lowest we measured.
December 2, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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This about sums up my view. Peer review is imperfect. Science is provisional. Published work will contain errors of execution and interpretation—there is no implementable system to reduce the rate of such errors to zero. Replications, corrections, amendments, and critiques are how it ought to work!
I find the puritanism in the discipline about all this a bit frustrating. We cannot ensure perfection ex ante. That’s why we have the ex post possibility of critiquing published articles. People seem to want peer review to accomplish things it cannot.
November 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Synchronising the fertility of dairy cows by using hormones is common in NZ, but are dairy farmers and veterinarians on the same page in terms of its use and cost-effectiveness?
doi.org/10.1080/0048...

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#OpenAccess
📷 YuriArcursPeopleimages, envato.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Ok, so I’m not American so don’t really do the Thanksgiving canon (too much brown food), but this is the saddest feast I’ve ever seen 😞
Karoline Leavitt's Thanksgiving spread. Please dissect.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
November 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
🤭
Did you know it’s illegal to have a garden in New Zealand?
November 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”
One of my colleagues went to a seminar at Berkeley and when someone asked a question Derrida brushed it off saying ‘what you ask may be important but it is not interesting’.
This path leads to chaos.
November 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.

This is the power of vaccines.

The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.

Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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This is the best bit of advice I’ve seen on the internet 😂
November 23, 2023 at 1:04 PM
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the happiest I've ever seen my dog is when the cat ran up, tapped him on the shoulder, then leapt onto the table and ran behind him to tap him on the other side. he was like a child who has just seen his first magic trick.
my grandpa's dog is a little troll, they 100% have a sense of humor or something similar to it
as so often, the explanation is probably 'animals feel emotions that are similar to ours, and when we disregard the evidence to avoid 'anthromorphism' it's fundamentally ideological, not scientific'
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Here is the article line up ↓ of the January 2026 issue of the New Zealand Veterinary Journal, now online at www.tandfonline.com/toc/tnzv20/c...

Loads of new #OpenAccess and free-to-read content.

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November 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM