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#Journalling games....
#SoloRPGs....
I have just discovered these are a thing and I am intrigued.

Please hivemind share your knowledge with me.

Are there any NZ creators?
Image of the solo journalling game Koriko with all of it's components laid out
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Facts #NZ Dita De Boni doing good work in The Post today
Big Business needs to do more
But the last business giving figures we have – from 2018 – show that out of profits of $85.6 billion, charitable giving by business amounted to about $143m in cash and $429m in social good initiatives. In other words, if this pattern has held, far less than 1% of profits. Or as others may have it, sweet Fanny Adams’ worth. Not only is the percentage likely small, but most charitable giving from companies and individuals alike goes to the big charities – the likes of the Salvation Army, St John, the Cancer Society, Barnardos, and KidsCan. Small charities doing vital, and yet largely hidden work, do not get their slice of that small pie.
October 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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People are understandably Fuming, Upset, Critically Kicking back and Extremely Displeased OF Fasttracking Bendigo-Ophir gold mine in Central Otago. 
9 NZ artists have gifted works to raise funds for the No-Go-Bendigo campaign. And you can buy them now at https://nogobendigo.substack.com/
Elizabeth Thomson's Purehua replica piece in cast bronze and resin. The South Island lichen moth Moths are very much integral to our fragile/vulnerable ecosystem although their significance is often underestimated. Moths are often connected with dreams and realms of the otherworldly. In Māori lore, they are associated with the passing of the soul to the spirit-world
October 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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What's that line by Lil Wayne? I see beef as dead meat... And what the hell does that have to do with Chris Knox? These are the weird ways my mind works reading Gary Steel's bloody good review of Knox's new bio-tome #kikorangi tinyurl.com/cwb39dpf
October 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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I have spent the weekend devouring the new Homegrown Fruit Trees book by Kath Irvine & Jason Ross and it is unbelievably good solid, non-consumerist advice #nzbooks #nzgarden #gardening 100% recommend
WOnderful illustrations in a book full of such much how to knowledge on fruit trees Cover of Homegrown Fruit a practical Guide by Kath Irvine and Jason Ross a NZ book perfect for any NZ gardener or wannabe
October 5, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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#NZHistory On this day 1951 the Māori Women’s Welfare League was formed.

74 years and 1000s of volunteer hours later they've built clinics, pushed te reo in schools, revived traditional crafts, led kōhanga reo, fought health inequities, backed wāhine in business and leadership
The first committee of the Maori Women Welfare League with Whina Cooper and Mira Szazy 1951.
September 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Found this handy comprehensive public access map for NZ  https://www.herengaanuku.govt.nz/outdoor-access-map
September 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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If you're planning on a big weekend - plan accordingly
September 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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The doco Prime Minister will launch in cinemas nationwide on Thursday, 25 September.
This is your early warning system that haters are gonna be hating hard....again.
September 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Last night's full moon rising shot
September 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Reminder today thanks to @EmilyWrites
September 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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#TodayInHistory: September 8, 1906, New Zealand's first fatal car accident. Janet Meikle was killied when her 8-hp De Dion Bouton went over a bank on her family farm near Timaru. Just 8 years after the colony's first cars arrived. #NZHistory Img of a jaunty little 1903 De Dion Bouton
September 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Just saw this list of 40 jobs that Microsoft says are at most at risk from AI. Only AI could have written it.
It has no understanding of the required softskills. 2nd on the list - Historians
Interpreters and Translators Historians Passenger Attendants Sales Representatives of Services Writers and Authors Customer Service Representatives CNC Tool Programmers Telephone Operators Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks Broadcast Announcers and Radio DJs Brokerage Clerks Farm and Home Management Educators Telemarketers Concierges Political Scientists News Analysts, Reporters, Journalists Mathematicians Technical Writers Proofreaders and Copy Markers Hosts and Hostesses Editors Business Teachers, Postsecondary Public Relations Specialists Demonstrators and Product Promoters Advertising Sales Agents New Accounts Clerks Statistical Assistants Counter and Rental Clerks Data Scientists Personal Financial Advisors Archivists Economics Teachers, Postsecondary Web Developers Management Analysts Geographers Models Market Research Analysts Public Safety Telecommunicators Switchboard Operators Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary
August 1, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Beautiful and delicate! My larger, much bulkier crocheted number
mosaic crocheted woollen blanket
July 9, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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I'll go first - Margaret Mahy's The Word Witch.
July 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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What's New Zealand book have you always wanted to own - but never been able to find?
THe great NZ bookshelf full of kiwi literature by Maurice Gee, Whiti Hereaka, Witi Ihimaera, Keri Hulme, Ingrid Horrocks et al
July 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Good watery morning to you.
I have water on the brain. Also in my hair and before my eyes. It is all over the land and sky.
None in my tap.
And I'm prepping a submission on Freshwater policy for MfE.
July 3, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Bill Hammond's Traffic Cop Bay. Because all this fowl weather just got me in the mood
#NZArt #kikorangi
July 3, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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July 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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55 years ago this week, six young Pacific Islanders formed the Polynesian Panther Party. They fought racism with action: food banks, people's loans, ESOL, youth work, legal aid, prison support, even counter-Dawn Raids.

Protest through mahi, not just marching.

Real heroes.
Photo of Polynesian Panther members Auckland 1970s
June 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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My stack for the weekend...
Paddy the Wandering Dog
Maddignas Quest Margaret Mahy
Amma Saraid De Silva
Vintners Luck @elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social

No more news please
#booktok
June 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Not celebrating....just had enough of the news this week....
June 13, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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To add ...
Digital govt minister Judith Collins launches AI training programs for public servants reported
May 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Anyone else just casually noticing an increase in pressure on public service again? I suspect we are in for a new round of layoffs..... Because hey, they haven't been beaten up enough by this govt #nzpol #kikorangi
Sharon Murdoch cartoon - Greens rekon there may be a hole of millions of dollars in increased Kiwisaver contributions for public sector worker in Govts budget Warning public service leaks must stop revealed in leaked email reported by RNZ today How many public sector jobs have really been axed? explainer by RNZ
May 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Been quite of late visiting provincial NZ and I have to say.... everyone's just really goddamn tired
May 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM