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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 56m
Ooh, that's exciting. The only question is where will we put them all? (A nice problem to have!)
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 1h
So tiny and fluffy!
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 1h
Whaaaat?!
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Pity. They were good the couple of times I bought from them. Oh well, I needed to stop buying books anyway. Need finish my TBR pile!
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yay!
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Showed this to my mum and she also thought these are wonderful and “such a great way to give you a real feel of how big they are”. Her favourites were the flyswatter and the woman running away in the bottom corner. She was very impressed :)
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I hope he is bitterly disappointed. We don’t need any more of this bigoted nonsense. NZ deserves better.
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What a fantastic way to do it! Impossible to pick favorites, but special mention to the flyswatter, the cat with its hair on end, and the graceful swimmer. So cool!
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Pliny the Elder (who loved to be wrong)” is possibly the best mention of anyone ever 😂
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I did not see ”eels were one of the reasons the English invaded Ireland” coming at all. Fascinating, thank you!
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Lovely!
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Gorgeous! And a really cool style.
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Oli - something or other @olimnz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What has this government been up to? Brad knows. Brad's been keeping a list (over on FB)... #nzpol
Over the last three years, I’ve been keeping a list of the rubbish this Government has done. 
Stopped work on Auckland light rail.
Stopped all work on the Lake Onslow renewable battery project.
Disestablish the Ministry for the Environment.
Scrapped the smoke-free law to fund tax cuts.
Scrapped Fair Pay Agreements.
Gave $3 billion in tax cuts to landlords. 
Tired to paid himself $52,000 to live in one of his own many properties, on top of his half a million dollar salary.
The so-called party of infrastructure ... cut Cook Strait ferry deal, then paid $8 million for consultants to tell them they need new ships. $700 million wasted in total. Still no ships.
Stopped the Clean Car Discount, after Luxon took an $8,000 discount himself.
Blocked statistical reporting on who does and doesn’t pay their share of tax. Think about that!
Broke its election promise and didn’t scrap the app tax.
Scrapped Three Waters, pushing costs onto ratepayers and increasing rates.
Used $4,150 of taxpayers’ money to pay for his te reo Māori classes after saying, “People in the real world should pay for it themselves.”
Halved the crayfish take for locals, but cut the commercial take by only one-fifth.
Gutted freshwater protections so cruel intensive winter grazing could continue to pollute water ways. 
Took $80 million from hospitals.
Cut DOC funding by $125 million.
Scrapped the First Home Grant.
Gave half a million dollars of taxpayers’ money to their mate Bill English to do a "review".
Blew $8 million on consultants for a proposed tunnel under Wellington.
Wasted $4 million on a six-person advisory group to talk about crime and reduce youth offending. They achieved nothing.  
Gave big tobacco a $216 million tax cut.
Refused to reinstate Jobs for Nature while unemployment soared.
Reduced the qualifications needed for relief teachers.
Introduced new road tolls.
Deprioritised police responses to mental health and family violence call-outs.
Slashed $107 million a year from school lunches, costing…
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh, I see... At first I thought it was meaning "very aggressively" as in some serious self defence moves. Like a high-stepping variety of "knee to groin".
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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I liked some #nzpol posts about the Greens' train proposal and posted one (1) photo of a Lego train in support and now my Discover feed is full of train photos. Honestly, not seeing a downside 🚂
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Fantastic shots! I particularly like the kereru peeping through the blossoms and the grumpy tuatara (I think?) in hiding, but they are all great. Zelandia is on my wishlist. One day!
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If this is a major election talking point for them, wouldn’t you, y’know, have your talking points prepared? Seriously?
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Jordan Rivers @jordanriversnz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Quick reminder of Nationals biggest promise to you in 2023. Nobody got this.
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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The magnificent flapflap 🫡🛸🥞 #southernstingray #stingraysofcoralcity #flapflap #ufo #coralcitycamera
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Choo choo choo! #nzpol
Lego train
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s taken them a while…
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Meanwhile an American referred to a goose population as “tiny” because it was under 10,000 individuals. I wish we could be so lucky!
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Recently I was listening to a British podcast talking about how sone bird of prey had gone extinct last century - but now they are reintroducing them from another part of Europe and getting them back. As a kiwi I nearly cried. If only it was that easy!
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sigh…
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good, hold 'em to account!
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good on both on them. (And yes, National, I did notice when you stopped the attempt at pay parity and I *remember* even if you thought we wouldn’t.)
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fans of #Asterix, want to know more about the people who write the comics? Check out this podcast open.spotify.com/episode/2572...
open.spotify.com
Episode 27: The history and cultural impact of Asterix the Gaul
The Untitled History Podcast · Episode
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Well, a big thank you to that idiot, I guess, because now I know the episode exists and can go listen to it! Looking forward to it :) (Weird he wants pictures with his podcasts when I’m desperately wishing Spotify would stop pushing video at me: seriously, it’s a podcast! I just want audio!)
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do you have a dark secret? Seems like a sweeping statement that "every person you know has a dark secret". I think mine are grubby grey at worst! 😆 From the hugely enjoyable "How to Die in Space" by Paul M Rutter. Currently learning about supermassive black holes.
Page from the book referenced.
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How about we go for renewables instead supporting a dying industry? Please? Relying on fossil fuels is why diesel is now at $3.
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My problem with nuclear power is no one seems to have a coherent plan on how to deal with the waste which is going to be still hazardous for 100,000 years. To me it sounds like the “we’ll pump CO2 into the atmosphere now and deal with the problems later” idea, only worse. Vide Sellafield, UK.
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When I was a kid I asked my mum what that strange moving star was because I'd never seen anything like it. Now I just glance up and I see three different satellites immediately ☹️
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I went into this election planning on not voting *for* anyone, just voting *against* National/Act/NZFirst. The Greens are changing my mind.
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
😂
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nice size comparison!
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I am learning things today! Thank you!
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Kākāpō numbers pass 300 for the first time in 75 years. New Zealand’s flightless, nocturnal parrot now totals 325 birds, after a record 90 chicks fledged this season, built on the Department of Conservation’s recovery programme, which started with just 51 birds in 1995. DOC buff.ly/7YIOBd9
doc.govt.nz
Kākāpō population reaches new milestone
The official population of the critically endangered kākāpō has reached a recovery-era high of 325 birds.
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cool, thank you!
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Please please please!
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And for adults, Rebecca Struthers’ “Hands of Time” is excellent too.
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 19/09/2026
"Colours of the Medieval Kitchen The surprising range of natural food dyes available to the medieval cook" medievalfoodwithjennie.substack.com/p/colours-of...
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Are those copics? I tried doing this with a waterproof marker, left it overnight to make sure it was dry, and still the paint immediately wiped half of my drawing away… I went back to pencil.
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Absolutely!
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Especially when the initial mission was planned for just two years. Amazing work!
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this.
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This isn’t one of my usual subjects to read, but I bought it because you mentioned it on your podcast and I enjoyed it a lot.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I keep seeing this (youtu.be/u5kEbkeX_94?...) channel recommended to me on YouTube and it is just so frustrating because its purporting to use history to advise worldbuilders but it is just...off. Relentless autodidact problems where things are misinterpreted or misunderstood.
youtu.be
The Ocean Is Not a Road: Fix Your Fantasy Map
YouTube video by The Grainbound
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Act and NZF both just hate ordinary New Zealanders? Only answer I can come up with based on their election promises.
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puckenator.bsky.social @puckenator.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Just learning this exists. What a fantastic idea! NZ critters in d&d is a perfect idea.
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