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@jhblackrose.bsky.social
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🇳🇿 Aotearoa New Zealand She/her. Web developer. A house with seven rescue animals. Book lover.

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Jan @jhblackrose.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Third day going to the gym for a silly little workout for my silly health. Is it helping? No. Sleep is shit. Mood is shit. Stress level also shit.
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Jan @jhblackrose.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thanks to those suffering through the leaders’ debate and posting about it for the rest of us. I can’t standing seeing or hearing Luxon. You’re the MVPs.
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Jan @jhblackrose.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Follow my lead - pre-order your t-shirt!
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Dr Michelle LaRue @drmichellelarue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Come to University of Canterbury to do a PhD on penguin genetics with Sarah Flanagan and me! Everything you need to know is in the link below, check it out and please spread the word 🧪🦑🌍🦉🐧 www.canterbury.ac.nz/study/uc-gra...
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Leveraging lessons in international conservation from Antarctica to build adaptive management plans for taonga species in Aotearoa | UC
This project focuses on the conservation of two iconic penguin species, who live in two extremes: emperor penguins, the largest penguins who breed on the extreme cold, isolated ice in Antarctica; and ...
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Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @te-ara-paerangi.community · 05/10/2026
How many Masters and PhD researchers on a living wage would 1 km of this road pay for per year? *1,173* There are 11 km of the road. On average it takes 4 years to do a PhD in Aotearoa and about 2 years to do a Masters. So, 2,346 PhDs and 1,173 Masters degrees properly paid while doing research.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Jan @jhblackrose.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Spending my lunch break getting some steps in on the treadmill, since it’s supposed to help my mental health, or some bullshit like that.
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Jan @jhblackrose.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Well this is disturbing 😳 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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We asked a cybersecurity expert to remotely access a BYD. It was too easy
To test the risks of surveillance and sabotage, Four Corners asked a hacker to show what China's top EV brand could see and do remotely.
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 20/09/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "if you don't want me to judge you, maybe stop doing stupid shit"
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
4. Within seconds, we're onto the old favourite... Govt interest bill is $10bn a year. Obviously, this is a gross figure - including the interest that Govt pays itself!!! Weird how quickly we flipped from net to gross. Govt is still receiving more interest and dividend income than they pay out [5/n]
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 13/09/2026
Another year full of climate extremes... Did you know the last 100 days have all set new daily records for global sea surface temperatures? Learn more about our rapidly warming oceans in our webinar this week, & bring your questions! 📣 Register in advance: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Jan @jhblackrose.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
When your teenager emerges from his cave, ands asks to do something as a family (in this case, go out for lunch), for the first time in ages, you drop everything and go.
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The news none of us wanted www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Breaking: SA records first bird flu case in sea lion
The sea lion was found at Seal Bay on Kangaroo Island.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The title for the first two panels is "Young Me".
In panel one we see a young version of Sarah, the protagonist. She says, "I want to achieve great things".
In panel two we zoom in a little on young Sarah's face. She continues, "An astounding career! An amazing house! World peace!"
The title for the last two panels is "Adult Me".
In panel three we see adult Sarah, looking down.
In panel four we zoom out and see she is in front of a basil plant. She simply says "I want to grow a basil plant".
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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 04/09/2026
The developer behind a controversial solar project in the Mackenzie Basin has stopped paying fast-track fees to buy time, after concern over the risk it poses to one of the country’s rarest birds.
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Mackenzie Basin solar farm stops paying fast-track fees to buy time over bird threat
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
MOST EXTREME EVENT EVER SEEN WORLDWIDE Monthly records broken by 7/8C in SOUTH AFRICA Records for early September broken by up to 15C margins ! Never happened anywhere in the world. We are witnessing something beyond any imagination. Weeks >40C in winter in dozens of stations
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Jan @jhblackrose.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Sheesh, the Alpine Fault is busy tonight.
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Jan @jhblackrose.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Jimmy Barnes The Eagles Tadpole Fur Patrol Neil Finn R.E.M. Shihad Foo Fighters Goo Goo Dolls & Matchbox 20 (same concert) Linkin Park
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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
In December 2023 the Secretary of Education emailed the Director-General of Health asking her to "soften" the stay-home-if-sick messaging. Not a doctor. Acting for a Minister who is also not a doctor. I have the email, via OIA. #nzpol 🧵 1/
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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Nat are the ones who put it up to 12% in the first place. Then took away a year’s fees free. Then tanked the economy and made unemployment rise. Then took away young adult benefits. Now they are yelling at people who go overseas for jobs.
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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Does anyone I know happen to be somewhere near Auckland Showgrounds and have access to a printer? All my IT issues last week had some consequences… and I need a few docs printed, but I’m here alone. Am happy to pay if someone can pick up a USB, print them for me, and deliver back. 🙏
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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 29/08/2026
Life is like driving a State Highway in Northland the day after heavy rain: do your best to avoid the pot holes.
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f*male b*tch 🇵🇸 @ahhmandah.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
can we please give fire fighters a huge fucking payrise? 30 of them on site and 4 of them physically kicked down the fence on my driveway so they could get close to the fatal fire to save my house. they were breathing in horrendous smoke and facing roaring flames to save me and my home
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This election should be a youthquake. Kids: enrol to vote, then vote like your lives depend on it, because they do.✊ Everyone else: vote like those young people (who’ll be picking up after *all this mess*, including you in your vulnerable old age) plan to ask you how YOU voted…because they should.
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Jan @jhblackrose.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Currently working in a cafe, and there’s a right wing retiree telling a woman at the table next to him that there is no such thing as poverty in NZ, and you never see a skinny child walking around with no shoes *eye twitch* 😠
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New Zealand Professional Firefighters' Union @nzpfu.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
$60,000,000 WASTED. 💸 The $60M FENZ flushed on a scrapped payroll system could have bought 24 of these exact ladder trucks. Instead, this brand-new NZ-built appliance is heading to Australia while Auckland didn’t even have a working aerial for a building fire last week. #NZPol
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, in bed. A speech bubble coming from her days “sigh”.
The second panel again shows Sarah in bed with a speech bubble reading “the only thing I have the capacity to do today is rot”.
The third panel shows the same scene, but depicts a speech panel coming from out of frame. It says “nice”.
The fourth panel shows a cat, holding a pillow, coming into the frame. A speech bubble from the cat reads, “I am so in.”
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
Panel one shows a bone. The bone says, "I make stem cells!"
Panel two shows a pancreas. The pancreas says, "I make insulin!"
Panel three shows the bone and pancreas and now a brain. The brain says "I make scenarios!"
Panel four shows the bone, pancreas, and brain. The brain is on fire.
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Jan @jhblackrose.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The first redundancy happened at hubby’s work today. I’m surprised the boss held out this long. I’m sure more will be coming if things don’t change soon.
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Tania Roxborogh @taniaroxborogh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I suspect few of my pocket pals on here are landlords but I thought I would ask: my 82 year old mum is in desperate need of a house - no luck with applications. She currently lives in Torbay. She can pay up to 650 per week. At least 2 bedrooms needed. She's a keen gardener. She has a mini poodle.
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Jan @jhblackrose.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Ordered a couple of items online from a national business that has a store 40 mins away in one direction, and another 50 mins away in the other. Both items are in stock at both. I’m still recovering from the flu & don’t have the energy to go anywhere, so thought I’d get them delivered.
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
HARSHEST HEAT WAVE IN HISTORY 52c DAY/39c NIGHT World climatic history is being rewritten in Middle East 52C KUWAIT CITY all time record after a MIN. of 38C Crazy MIN 38.7C Delhoran IRAN 35.0 Makkah,SAUDI ARABIA (August record) Record also in The Sahel Min 29.5 Nguigmi,NIGER
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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
💥🤮Listening to Qiulae Wong on TVNZ this morning. She confirmed that TOP will sit round the table with NZF and would support him as a Minister in any coalition they are in. Please, please.... if you are a Labour or Green voter who is considering voting for TOP, this would be a real possibility
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(not another) Chris @chriscosmas.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The final version of the Social Sciences curriculum was released yesterday. It probably won't surprise people to learn it presents a highly sanitised view of New Zealand history. 🧵
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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The philosophical foundations of Standford’s reshaping of education has essentially been; don’t trust professionals, ‘how hard could it be?’, just get AI to do it, and is there a business we can outsource to? This is not someone you want as PM.
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Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Chef's kiss Damien O'Connor.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is how you know we need a wealth tax
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Sharp contrast in SOUTH AMERICA "sliced" in two with full wintry conditions (but no cold records) and exceptional record heat in the tropics COLOMBIA smashed records everywhere (previous post) ECUADOR 37.5 El Coca- August national record tied BRAZIL 41.4 Goias -Monthly record.
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Jan @jhblackrose.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
@kats-garden.nz must be a really good batch of nip in your balls this time around! Just received my latest order, and the cat that normally doesn’t go for catnip, or play with toys, is having the time of her life 🤣. As usual, my two boys were delighted to get new balls.
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Jan @jhblackrose.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This year’s flu vaccine has proven to be ineffective 🤧🤒
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f*male b*tch 🇵🇸 @ahhmandah.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
VOTE
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Jan @jhblackrose.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I got the flu vaccine last month. Guess who got the flu from her son and husband? FML. Hopefully it’s more mild than what my husband is experiencing 💀
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Jan @jhblackrose.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
How good are weekly attendance reports for schools? As a consequence of students being at school when they shouldn’t be, my son got Influenza A. He has passed it on to his father, who is very sick, and looks rather grey. What a winning school policy to put in place, Stupid Seymour 😒
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
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Jan @jhblackrose.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Get fucked, Rocket Lab.
Screenshot of the start of the RNZ article titled, “Rocket Lab wins record contract with US Military.”
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GreenLeft Network 🍉 @nzgreenleft.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
idk what's more painful to swallow National's campaign chair happily pushing misinformation to his target audience with no pushback or Aotearoa needing to rely on Australian fact-checkers because National, ACT and NZ First are halting scrutiny of harmful broadcasting and advertising. #nzpol
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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 13/07/2026
Look at how people react to Sam Neill's passing. Look at how people react to Lindsay Graham's passing. It's a pretty easy object lesson. Live your life in a way that leads people to talk about you the way they're talking about Sam Neill right now. So much love. So much shared joy.
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Continue Sam Neill's work by making Shane Jones mad as shit.
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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Looking for an appropriate way to honour Sam Neill? He hated NZ First opening up the country to mine it. Vote them out in November in his honour!
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