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First part of the video is a hilarious appraisal of freedom camping and wellness influencers.

Waka Kotahi monitoring Auckland Harbour bridge...

Stargazing in anticipation of Matariki

For those who don’t know, James Wallace is probably the most important supporter of visual arts in New Zealand. He sexually assaulted three men then tried to bribe one of them to not go to police....

I posted another story about this the other day....

Edit: Updated the link to page with RNZ live updates. This was the original post link.

I remember coverage of this after the Jody F Millennium ran aground in 2002, and during the Rena clean-up in 2011. Apparently they've been warning us for 33 years now. This is one of those things that gets ignored until it's too late, then everyone starts pointing fingers. Partly because anyone who does what we need to do now...

Took this a couple of weeks ago while I was waiting for some food in Raglan

This is a video I'd been wanting to make for a long time, the tides were right for me to paddle up the inlet at low tide, and walk around it at high tide before it got dark. The height difference is a few metres between low and high, the distance is over a kilometer.

This is from a few months ago but really interesting work from some university students that trained a popular machine learning model on data from iNaturalist.nz. The app is pretty good at identifying endemic species. The entire model is installed with the app which means that it works offline.

This is a cool website for tracking the blackout as it happens.

My wife was incredulous watching this.

I believe that bandwagon politics has ruined any chance of progress here in New Zealand....

Before all the normies heard of reddit, before the mods became ultra special etc etc etc. Feels the same again man! *Strive to teach and help each other fellow Kiwis who all live on these islands we call home. Peace