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sgchicken.bsky.social
Oh hell no!
clarajeffery.bsky.social Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d
This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
Travelers visiting the United States from countries like Britain, France, Germany and South Korea could soon have to undergo a review of up to five years of their social media history, according to a proposal filed on Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The change would affect visitors eligible for the visa waiver program, which allows people from 42 countries to travel to the United States for up to 90 days without a visa as long as they first obtain electronic travel authorization. In a document filed on Tuesday in the Federal Register, C.B.P. said it plans to ask applicants for a long list of personal data including social media, email addresses from the last decade, and the names, birth dates, places of residence and birthplaces of parents, spouses, siblings and children. Under the current system, applicants from visa waiver countries must enroll in the Electronic System for Travel Authorization program. They pay $40 and submit an email address, home address, phone number and emergency contact information. The authorization is good for two years.
December 10, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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ninjakitty.bsky.social
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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nzvj.bsky.social
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
Article title 'Surveying pet owners’ attitudes towards roaming cats in Aotearoa New Zealand' by Awawdeh et al in the New Zealand Veterinary Journal, with an image of a cat swiping an open, claws-out paw at a second cat, who is leaning back defensively. Image by vozdvikhenskayadina at envato.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
sgchicken.bsky.social
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?
bobg.whizbang.me Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 24d
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
sgchicken.bsky.social
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
sgchicken.bsky.social
Ewww! 🤢
December 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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nzvj.bsky.social
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
Article title 'Reducing noise associated with restraint box operation can facilitate animal handling in cattle abattoirs' by Keshavarzi et al in the New Zealand Veterinary Journal, with a graphic showing the path cows take through an abattoir (image (C) Keshavarzi et al 2025)
December 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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misspedagogue.bsky.social
#SecretSantaAoNZ Which festive philosopher are you?

*Sorry, I am a terrible person with a very particular sense of humour.
6 philosophers in a grid. Quotes below which kind of sound like their philosophy but Christmas/Santa themed. KANT "It is your duty to have a Merry Christmas" NIETZSCHE "God is dead and so is Santa" MARX "Christmas is a bourgeois conspiracy to oppress the proletariat" SMITH "The invisible hand will determine if Christmas is Merry" ARISTOTLE "What's Christmas?" DESCARTES "I think it's Christmas therefore I am Merry"
December 8, 2025 at 4:22 AM
sgchicken.bsky.social
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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gyro.bsky.social
I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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celestelabedz.bsky.social
You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:
c0nc0rdance.bsky.social c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 4d
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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nzvj.bsky.social
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
Article title 'Staphylococcus pseudintermedius isolated from atopic dogs with pyoderma induces mast cell degranulation' by Bell et al in the New Zealand Veterinary Journal, and an image of a light-coloured Retriever scratching its ear with its hind leg. Dog image by akportfolio24 from envato.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
sgchicken.bsky.social
AI slop extends its tendrils into every nook and cranny of our lives 😫
December 6, 2025 at 4:33 AM
sgchicken.bsky.social
Land of the free, everyone
premthakker.bsky.social Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7d
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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planetoffinks.bsky.social
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.
dirtdork.bsky.social Dirt Dork. @dirtdork.bsky.social · 7d
Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.
A screenshot of a post from r/nostalgia with a blurry picture of a Christmas tree (dated 11/23/2013) and the caption "Why doesn't Christmas feel like magic anymore? Do you remember the joy of baking cookies and decorating a Christmas tree with your family?"
December 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
sgchicken.bsky.social
Kiwis who moan about Jacinda’s lockdowns don’t understand how lucky we were
actuarialeye.bsky.social Jennifer Lang @actuarialeye.bsky.social · 9d
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.
Graph showing excess mortality for the period 2020-2024 in 40 selected countries across the globe.
December 2, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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tompepinsky.com
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!
benansell.bsky.social Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 10d
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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nzvj.bsky.social
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...

@tandfresearch.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
📷 YuriArcursPeopleimages, envato.com
Article title 'Use of hormones on New Zealand dairy farms: an analysis of the results from a survey of farmers and a survey of veterinarians' by Laven et al in the New Zealand Veterinary Journal, with an image of black and white cows standing in a group in a grassy field. Image by YuriArcursPeopleimages from envato.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
sgchicken.bsky.social
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 😞
jackiantonovich.bsky.social Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 11d
Karoline Leavitt's Thanksgiving spread. Please dissect.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
A Thanksgiving spread of foods.
November 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
sgchicken.bsky.social
🤭
dataandpolitics.net Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 13d
Did you know it’s illegal to have a garden in New Zealand?
November 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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tomhulme.bsky.social
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.”
plashingvole.bsky.social Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 13d
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’.
sanho.bsky.social Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 14d
This path leads to chaos.
November 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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philplait.bsky.social
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.
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14d
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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adriaandthepriors.bsky.social
This is the best bit of advice I’ve seen on the internet 😂
My younger brother is trans. My parents have been horrendous about deadnaming and misgendering him. At Thanksgiving, I used an air horn to correct them. I fixed a 2-3 year long problem in two seconds. 10/10 would recommend this training method.
November 23, 2023 at 1:04 PM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
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.
bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social mallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 14d
my grandpa's dog is a little troll, they 100% have a sense of humor or something similar to it
beijingpalmer.bsky.social BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14d
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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nzvj.bsky.social
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.

@tandfresearch.bsky.social
List of contents of the January 2026 issue of the New Zealand Veterinary Journal: Using generative AI responsibly in writing and publishing: the NZVJ's policy and recommendations, JE Dean et al. FREE TO READ Use of hormones on New Zealand dairy farms: an analysis of the results from a survey of farmers and a survey of veterinarians, RA Laven et al. OPEN ACCESS Staphylococcus pseudintermedius isolated from atopic dogs with pyoderma induces mast cell degranulation, A Bell et al. FREE TO READ UNTIL 31 JANUARY 2026 Surveying pet owner attitudes towards roaming cats in Aotearoa New Zealand, L Awawdeh et al. OPEN ACCESS Reducing noise associated with restraint box operation can facilitate animal handling in cattle abattoirs, H Keshavarzi et al. OPEN ACCESS Computed tomography versus radiography for assessment of canine humeral condylar fracture malreductions, GM Lukaszewicz et al. Biological and haematological reference intervals for 3–4-week-old kiwi chicks (Apteryx mantelli) reared in captivity, EM Scheltema et al. OPEN ACCESS Outbreak of post-parturient infectious pustular vulvovaginitis in a New Zealand dairy herd, JP O'Connell et al. OPEN ACCESS Ultrasonographic identification of a prostatic grass awn with abscess formation in a dog: diagnosis, treatment and cytologic findings, M Honarjoo et al.
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM