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Lilith Grace Toitū Te Tiriti

@lilithgrace.bsky.social
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Me again. What’s one more social medium? Chronically ill artist who also writes. Loves cats, jokes, social justice, clouds. She/her. Aotearoa. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ally.

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 7h
Located in the Taihaku Ward of Sendai, Japan, Akiu Great Falls is widely celebrated as one of Japan’s most majestic waterfalls and a designated Place of Scenic Beauty.
Framed by a delicate arbor of snow-draped branches glowing with cool indigo light, Akiu Great Falls (Akiu Ōtaki) cascades through a frozen gorge in Sendai's mountainous western rim. Heavy winter frost encases every twig and bough in pristine white yukisheshō ("snow makeup"), forming a crystalline lattice over the dark basalt cliffs. Below, the churning waters of the Natori River plunge into a deep, shadowed basin, captured in a silky, luminous blur that contrasts against the static, frozen landscape. The scene evokes an intimate winter sensory atmosphere: the biting, clear mountain air of Miyagi Prefecture, the muffled roar of rushing water echoing within the snow-insulated canyon, the clean scent of frozen hemlock and wet stone, and the deep stillness that settles over the valley during a heavy snowfall.
Plummeting 55 meters into the river canyon below, the falls serve as the natural crowning jewel of the Akiu region, famous for its historic hot springs (Akiu Onsen) which have drawn visitors—including the legendary feudal warlord Date Masamune—for over fifteen centuries. This wilderness landscape embodies Sendai’s enduring identity as Mori no Miyako ("The City of Trees"), where refined culture seamlessly yields to untamed forests and rugged mountain gorges.
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 7h
What? Abandoning the institutional infrastructure of a $3 billion industry to save … $1 million? This the guilds, the orgs representing different communities, Equity, Spada. www.rnz.co.nz/news/communi...
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'Significant change': NZ Film Commission scraps major source of funding for organisations
A major source of public funding for film and screen sector organisations is set to end after more than two decades of it being offered.
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JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social · 7h
Green Island is a beautiful scuba-diving destination off Taiwan's east coast. Just a few hours from my home by train and boat. This dive site is Youzihu Reef. #landscapephotography #landscape #seascapephotography #seascape #naturephotography #nature #ocean #marinelife #eastcoastkin #photography
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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 7h
Oooof this is some prime fodder for my hatred
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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 10h
Sure posting is great but so is spending the day hunting for cool rocks and interesting crabs on the beach with your kid.
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 20h
And another Wrensday Wednesday offering. A splendid fairywren at Gluepot Reserve. #wrensday
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 10h
I dunno man the Spinoff presenting a Curia poll about Mt Albert they had done, at this moment, really highlights exactly where that outlet is these days.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 10h
We're back, baby - this month's free newsletter features a reminder to get to the blackberries before the púca does, why black cats are useful for fungal infections, and Dublin's 17th century "bisexual witch" - for more of the nonsense below, sign up for the next one: www.ciaraioch.com/newsletter
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 16h
As path of her job, she had to carry a pager. Every time someone needed support — were disclosing an assault or abuse — her pager went off. It went off all. The. Time.
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 21h
how much is that doggy in the window. 🐶😂
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 17h
By Will McPhail
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 19h
Additionally, be aware of responsibility washing. See e.g. 📝 Amnesty International (2026). Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
Cover image of Amnesty International (2026). Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI. https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/
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Workers First Union @workersfirstunion.bsky.social · 14h
Our hearts go out to the 130 Wooolworths workers who are losing their jobs, which are being outsourced to Australia. Workers First will now work to ensure Woolworths lives up to its redundancy obligations, pursues redeployment wherever possible, and does right by every worker affected. #nzpol
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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 17h
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade thinks the reversal of the oil and gas exploration ban breached the EU Free Trade Agreement. How do we know? Because they accidentally leaked their own legal opinion in Sep 2024. newsroom.co.nz/2024/10/01/g... www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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Whiti Hereaka @whitihereaka.co.nz · 16h
Terri is awesome — you should read this article and her debut novel “The Valley of Unlikely Acquaintances”.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15h
Time for this classic again.
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Frank @fmacskasy.bsky.social · 22h
WE WERE WARNED THIS WOULD HAPPEN. This is on the heads of National/Act/NZF and all those who vote for those parties. Climate change denialism will cost us dearly,in more ways than one. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
rnz.co.nz
NZ accused of breaking climate change promise with EU, but Todd McClay rejects claim
A Dutch environmental group claims New Zealand has broken its climate change promises in the free trade agreement with the EU and is lodging the first complaint of its kind through the European Commis...
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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 21h
🤘 KICK IT 🤘 The Bird of the Year is the Black Robin/Karure, coming in like a tiny wrecking ball to smash the competition. Thread Project premium screenprinted tees in unisex and fitted sizes S-5XL. Pre-order this tee NOW: pepperraccoon.com #birds #boty #kikorangi
A detailed dark fantasy style illustration of a black robin on a branch, holding a tiny spiked mace. The words Black Robin are in high stylised handlettered text, and the border features Chatham Island forget-me-nots.A flatlay of green t-shirts, featuring a detailed dark fantasy style illustration of a black robin on a branch, holding a tiny spiked mace. The words Black Robin are in high stylised handlettered text, and the border features Chatham Island forget-me-nots.
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Rob✅✅ @robdickinson.bsky.social · 23h
81 tons of CO2 saved with this heavy hauling EV Thats about $60k's worth of diesel saved over the 45,000kms evsandbeyond.co.nz/foodstuffs-e...
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Foodstuffs’ electric truck avoids 81 tonnes of CO2 in six months | EVs and Beyond
Foodstuffs North Island's Deepway Star electric truck covered 44,524km in its first six months on the lower North Island run.
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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So we ourselves an extraordinary contrast. A charter school can build two days of home learning into its model. But a sick or disabled child at a state school can be doing teacher-set work at home and still enter the system as absent.
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Too Long Covid 💚 @toolongcovid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Read this and think of the kids with Long Covid or MECFS who are pressured into school.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Teach your son to wait. Teach him that other people are as important as he is. Teach him to apologize and go back to the end of the line if he made an entitled decision. Teach him that girls and women deserve respect in *all* scenarios—not just during sex.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 23h
*knocks door* Excuse me, do you have a moment to submit your invertebrate artwork to our periodical art book invertefest.com/#artbook
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InverteFest – Saimi Hanma
#InverteFest is a periodic online event where we invite you to celebrate the overlooked invertebrate fauna around you and share the joys of discovery online.
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Paul van Brakel @paulvanbrakel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Whatever nostalgic hope you may have had left for RNZ to turn a corner forget it It's doomed with the new appointment... #nzpol Jason Winstanley named as RNZ’s next chief executive www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
rnz.co.nz
Jason Winstanley named as RNZ’s next chief executive
Jason Winstanley has been named as RNZ's new chief executive and will take up the role in 2027.
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Smashshitupika @shambolika.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is why our monolingual Pākehā are are seen as a bit dim by visitors from places where most people speak 2 languages
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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Erica Stanford's Education Ministry banned "Aotearoa" from new education curriculum Same Minister banned books with 7 Māori words, like "kai", as too complex for kids to understand Insanity and notice how subdued the headlines are #nzpol #kiwi
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Māori words in curriculum shouldn't be controversial, principals say
Principals and a Māori language advocate are angry and disappointed by the Education Ministry's treatment of te reo Māori and the secrecy that has surrounded it.
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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There is something curiously bird-like about this gown, with a layered plumage cascading at the back. It is sumptuously described as being made from raspberry coloured lace, and is beautifully layered, crafted in 1958 by Jean Dessés #philamuseumart #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Back view of a layered strapless red lace dress. It has a fitted bodice and a flat front with an expanse of layered lace at the back like the tail of a birdFront view of the red lace strapless 1950s evening dress showing the flat front and the layered sculpted back
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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Opinion: No one is wasting more ratepayer cash than the government #nzpol
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No one is wasting more ratepayer cash than the government
The $9 million already spent on council amalgamation proposals is just the start.
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In its first 6 months on Meta, the Union launched 20 political adverts. In October 2021 alone, when Stop Three Waters began, it launched 309. Across 2021 and 2022, 392 adverts mentioned Three Waters and recorded more than 7.1 million impressions. Huge. This wasn't a side or hobby project. #nzpol
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026
"Against this backdrop, the widespread assumption of the field that polarization is inherently detrimental warrants re-examination. ... In the current moment of rising extremism, not all polarization is equivalent nor undesirable."
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026
"Normative appeals to civility and harmony, when applied indiscriminately, can obscure the moral distinction between domination and resistance—condemning confrontational opposition even in contexts where democratic survival or basic human dignity is at stake." 🎯
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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An addendum on the feast of Saint Michael: In Norwegian folk-belief, this was the day when mermaids - or rather a troll lady of the sea - would let their cattle graze on land. If people saw these troll-cows grazing at dawn, the fodder would turn bad during the winter.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Measuringe the value of educacioun by returne on ynvestment onlye ys lyke measuringe the value of a garden by the weight of the floweres
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An estimated one in eight cancer cases worldwide may be caused by infections—but there's an easy way to protect yourself.
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One in eight new cancers are likely caused by infections—there’s an easy way to protect yourself
Many cancers associated with infection are preventable
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The Press @thepress.co.nz · 29/09/2026
With just 61% of under 25s enrolled to vote, one expert says this would result in about 45% of 18-24-year-olds casting a vote in this year’s election.
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New Zealand on track for lowest youth vote ever
With just 61% of under 25s enrolled to vote, one expert says this would result in about 45% of 18-24-year-olds casting a vote in this year’s election.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 29/09/2026
Good morning owls, don't forget your pants in your burrows.
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Men, stop telling women you denounce sexual assault and start telling your male friends.
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Andy McKay @korimakoecology.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These are all bottom trawlers operating in AoNZ at the moment. Drastically different target species, areas of operation and impacts.
104m BATM trawler targeting bottom and midwater species such as Jack mackerel, squid, hoki, southern blue whiting and barracouta. A 65.7m deep water bottom trawler targeting orange roughy, hoki, oreo dory, squid, and southern blue whiting.A 16.8m inshore bottom trawler targeting squid, hoki, red cod, gurnard, tarakihi. An 11m inshore bottom trawler targeting gurnard, snapper, trevally, and flatfish.
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Michael @maikeer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Redundancy is code for politically unwelcome in times of elections. RNZ should be funded by and answerable to Parliament not any Government Minister. To let go such talent is so bad, it makes obvious the real reason
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/09/2026
What if the Seven Up! series started today? | Letter
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What if the Seven Up! series started today? | Letter
Letters: Gordon McDougall recalls finding the original children to feature in the documentary strand that started in 1964
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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#nzpol Well worth listening to this interview about the Finnish approach to tackling homelessness. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
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How Finland tackles homelessness
In 2017 the number of homeless in Finland was around 2000. However, since those record lows the number has spiked. We look at what worked, what went wrong - and what we can learn from it.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026
The ICJ decisively rebuked the Israeli argument that occupation of Gaza ended in 05 by establishing that the control test does not limit itself to the physical presence of troops on every street corner
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Israel’s continued occupation of Palestinian territory ‘unlawful’: UN world court
The UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday declared that Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory “is unlawful”, and that “all States are under an obligation not to...
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026
To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.
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Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I put mashed potatoes in the waffle maker
Some mashed potatoes recently placed in a small round waffle makerA crispy golden potato waffle
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Andrew Jull NZRN (he/him) @andrewjull.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Next up, the horse and cart.
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Jennifer Ward @jenospeno.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Many 18-24 year olds are still NOT enrolled to vote 😳. #nzpol . They’re the ones that will inherit the future, so it’s REALLY important their voice is heard. Enrol here vote.nz
vote.nz
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Kevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti) @krveale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dear Hipkins: How many policies have you publicly ruled out before anyone's voted for them, let alone before negotiation has started? It seems like a high number. Particularly high compared to the "0" you want in order for this current complaint not to be laughably hypocritical. #nzpol
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Hipkins slams Swarbrick for lining up jobs ‘before anyone has even voted’
Later today, the Treasury will reveal how the Government’s books are looking ahead of the election with the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update (PREFU).
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