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Photo Friday! (lemmy.nz)
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Theme: cooler than expected

Rules: no NSFW and has to be a snap you took yourself.

I think we should make themes optional so if you have a pic you want to post that doesn't fit, you still can, what does everyone else think?

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Photo Friday! (lemmy.nz)
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Hi everyone, can we do a Photo Friday?

@[email protected] used to post them, but I haven't seen them for ages and @[email protected] said it'd be okay.

Theme: Something you like!

Rules: no NSFW and has to be a snap you took yourself.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sounds quite serious:

Of those leaving the country on a long-term basis, an estimated 81,200 were New Zealand citizens – a 41% increase on the previous year. The figure is a rise from the previous record of 72,400 departures in 2012.

With 24,800 New Zealand citizens arriving during the period, that put the net migration loss of citizens at 56,500 – exceeding the previous record of 44,400 in 2012.

They really do mean "record". I think if we adjust it for population growth since 2012, it's not as stark but it's still bad.

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Stumbled on this and thought it was worth a share. I had no idea you can eat gorse!

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

2/3 of these animals aren't in my country so I don't know about the logistics but this seems really cool!

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Was just talking about how cool New Zealand's rare frogs are and wanted to share. These frogs evolved to have no ears, so they also have no croaking noises (what's the point if the mates you are trying to attract are deaf) which is unique!

NB: There probably is a bit of "political" content insofar as some of the people are talking about threats to the frog and opposing its habatat destruction but I think this still belongs in general?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

As someone from neither place - I'm guessing it didn't strike a nerve, so much as it struck a funny bone.

There's just something ludicrous about the phrasing.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

It's such mealy mouthed nonsense.

They can't "put it right" vis a vis that woman, and they have no intention of actually putting it right for others by ending the weird face misrecognition trial.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

As she gave them three forms of ID, she said she saw an image on a phone they had been looking at that appeared to be of a Māori woman wearing a cap.

Ffs.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Nah you're actually both right there.

They were a bunch of punk activists and also British, so the song is about their (alcoholic) neighbour and how working class people will keep a) tubthumping - trying to effect political change and b) trying to drunkenly unlock the front door.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

Really wondering why you would think that.

Chumbawamba have a track record of being quite involved in rights issues, like the time they licensed a song to GM and used the money to campaign against GM.

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NZGeo: Batfly (www.nzgeo.com)
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These blind wingless flies are vegetarian and can only travel on a rare species of bat who prefers to walk.

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This is a really good read about one of my favourite weird animal facts!

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

I misread the title and came in thinking it was about cats. I think we have a high proportion of those as well.

Solved it. Cats cause cars.

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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

The kahukura red admiral butterfly has been named New Zealand's Bug of the Year today, after nearly 17,000 bug lovers voted for their favourite insect.

Twenty bugs were vying to be New Zealand's favourite, with 11 of the 20 nominees listed as at-risk, endangered or declining.

The competition - run by the Entomological Society of New Zealand - was created to give bugs the same kind publicity seen in the popular Bird of the Year race.

The winning insects receive research funding and promotion about their conservation.

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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

She received a reply that she had to pay the fine on time, or penalties would be added, and the courts were mentioned.

Sounds good. This is the moment you get in first and preemptively take them to the Disputes Tribunal (small claims). They don't have a leg to stand on, and as they are not allowed to use lawyers in there I think you'd get a fair result.

[-] [email protected] 106 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This story made me cry. I am disabled and not always mobile. There are loved ones in my family who are elderly, cannot walk far, and depend on medication.

I cannot even imagine what it must be like to try to evacuate at short notice, with nowhere to go.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

Totally unacceptable. Targeting an ethnicity for what a country on the other side of the world is doing.

Stuff understands the site was targeted because on Google it is listed as the Consulate of Israel, which it no longer is.

I hope it was just clueless teenagers or something.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Hello lovely people.

Even though I'm on the south side of the building, the sun seems to reflect off a neighbour's window or something, and shines in my window through a whole lot of leaves, making a really nice pattern on the wall.

Sorry, I know I'm the living embodiment of those "get better work stories" ads, but I'm trying to be part of things anyway!

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