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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

#Matariki reminds us that the sky is not merely the upper wallpaper of existence. It is orientation and memory. It is perspective and aspiration. This year I’ve been thinking about Matariki herenga waka and why looking up still matters. shinekelly.blogspot.com/2026/07/mata...

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Matariki Herenga Waka: Look Up, Everyone

Today is Matariki - Te Mātahi o te Tau, the Māori New Year - and this year’s theme is Matariki herenga waka - For Everyone . The phrase is...

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

“We are all made by people who were also making themselves as they went.” For Mother’s Day I wrote about my mum, the colours she sees, the roads she has travelled, and the art of doing your best with what you have. Blog post linked below. #Mother'sDay #Mum #reflections #art #motherhood #Blog

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They Do the Best with the Colours they have...

In our current world many traditional holidays have been grasped by consumerism and turned into something that can make money for some and t...

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Google added the animations btw.. not me!

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Generations of us learned to look at the natural world differently because of Sir David Attenborough. Happy 100th birthday to a genuine legend and hero to me🌿 #DavidAttenborough #Nature #Wildlife #Conservation #Earth

Screenshot of a Google search for David Attenborough featuring animated wildlife decorations and a celebratory “Thank you Sir David 100 years” message across the page.

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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Here's #kakapo Rimu's cliff-top entrance. It's a narrow ledge and a long way down, so a very precarious place for a chick to first venture outside! With the chick found inside this nest, the number of chicks alive increased to 93, out of 106 hatched. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds

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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Listen to the Kākāpō Files podcast to learn more about this year's record #kakapo breeding season, including the details of Rimu's cliff-top nest. #kakapo #kakapo2026 #conservation @ali-ballance.bsky.social

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

🎶 The birds are back in town… 🎶 #Kākāpō cam is back & everything feels right again 💚 Chicks had a full glow-up while we were gone…full feathers & knubby stump emerging tails! internet village, reporting for duty. #NewZealand #Conservation www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6vi...

Infrared webcam view inside a kākāpō nest cavity on Whenua Hou. Two well-feathered chicks sit close together against the right wall of the nest, facing slightly toward the camera. Their bodies appear rounded and densely feathered, with only small tail stubs visible. The foreground shows the bare, textured nest floor with scattered debris. A timestamp at the top right reads “2026-05-02 12:33:45,” and the top left label identifies “Rakiura Nest – doc.govt.nz.” The scene is dimly lit, consistent with night or low-light camera conditions.

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Rizo had a perfect win/win. If he stayed, great. If he’d gone out on MrBeast night, it would have been the perfect gift for his brother. And then Rick Devens got another idol because of course he did. The man is basically a walking #suvivor idol magnet. And Cirie kept Cirie-ing! #Survivor50

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

#ANZAC Day has held a place in my heart for as long as I can remember. This morning, standing at Dawn Service with my husband in the cold and dark, I found myself wondering: why do we go? That question became this year's annual ANZAC blog post... #ANZACDawnService #kikorangi #remembrance

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Why Do We Go? aka ANZAC Dawn Service 2026

ANZAC Day has held a place in my heart for as long as I can remember. This morning, standing at Dawn Service with my husband in the cold an...

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Excellent footage! On loop on my big screen now LOL! While you were working on the webcam.. does this mean it is Rakiura seeing what you are up to? 😍🤩

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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Bumped into an old friend on Whenua Hou the day before yesterday, while I was working on the webcam. #kakapo #kakapo2026 #conservation #wildlife

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Feeling grateful tonight, Nest CAM is back up PLUS we had digs.bsky.social do chick check AND he stayed after- generously sharing his #kākāpō knowledge with us. #NewZealand #Conservation & #kakapo benefit greatly from having people like him in our corner!

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Someone asked a simple Facebook question about #kākāpō fertility. I answered with what can only be described as an unsolicited mini-thesis. Have now escalated the situation further by turning the whole thing into a blog post. A normal response was available to me. (cam still down, can't you tell)

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Fertility ≠ Hatching Success ≠ Chick survival

When the kākāpō live nest cam goes down for the weekend these are the kind of things that happen... poor unsuspecting kākāpō fans who foll...

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

This is why it's great that rimu doesn't make a habit of fruiting every year so the birds can all recover some condition!

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Really appreciate you posting the fridge picture for us (it helps me update my chick log!). It's also good for the 'cold turkey' withdrawals from no livecam right now!

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Meanwhile, somewhere in a hollow tree on Whenua Hou, chunky feathered cam-hogging supervillians gather to hatch tonight's evil plan... #kakapo2026 #kākāpō #conservation #Wildlife #NestCam #NewZealand #kikorangi #birds

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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

This year's #kakapo breeding season has been the biggest on record: - 256 eggs (252 in 2019) - 148 fertile eggs (116 in 2019) - 105 eggs hatched (86 in 2019). It'll be 2+ months until we know how many chicks will fledge (73 in 2019). There are currently 95 alive. #conservation #kakapo2026 #birds

A female kakapo on a nest facing the camera, with a young chick in front of her. Credit: Andrew Digby

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

#Kākāpō perspective: #Artemis II astronauts emerge through the hatch. Crops empty. Following heath checks they will be fitted with backpack transmitters, given names, & be officially added to the total population. #kakapo #splashdown #NewZealand #conservation #science #crossoverhumour

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Sorry... I love Artemis II as well but I can't unsee this in my mind!

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

...or shiny bonsly (just to provide something a little different than your usual perspective). I see Conservation Biology - have you heard of kākāpō? If you miss your Artemis news, you may be interested in seeing the forefront of New Zealand conservation, 24/7 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDSW...

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Anyone else getting shiny Bonsly vibes? 🤩

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

#Artemis II splashdown has happened… anyone else getting shiny Bonsly vibes? #splashdown #Pokēmon #Bonsly #NASA #Space #uncanny

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

(yes, I know... motion sickness, disorientation and 'less than dignified moments' are expected and common place after such activity).

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Integrity reports 4 green crew members LOL.. hopefully not 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮 #Artemis #safe #success

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

perfect bullseye splashdown 🥳

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

three good looking parachutes :)

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

update! The spacecraft has already: Survived peak heating 🔥 Re-established comms 📡 Successfully deployed parachutes 🪂

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

You are now watching the transition from: Human-controlled mission to Physics-controlled descent Stay with it - we’re about to cross into, arguably(?) (visibly?!), the most intense phase! #NASA #Artemis #exploration #hope

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NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast)

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

💻 #WatchLive: Final stages of #Artemis II (NZ time 🇳🇿) 🧑‍🚀 10:00 Entry prep & final checks 🚀 11:33 Service Module separates 🌠 11:53 Reentry begins 🪂 12:03 Parachute deployment 💦 12:07 Splashdown Perfectly timed for a late morning of watching humans fall out of space ☕🌏 #kikorangi #Saturday #NASA

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NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast)

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

lol! I labelled my version of the same pic Emupō

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Co-best with #kākāpō livenestcam. Very different settings, same “watch discovery happen in real time” energy (with perhaps more of a “no idea what will happen next” possibility). If you like watching science unfold in real time, same kind of magic, just… feathered. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDSW...

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Kākāpō Cam: Rakiura the kākāpō – 2026 nest

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

@hankgreen.bsky.social walking thru #Artemis II photos & reflecting on #Apollo8 gives me #joy. Apollo gave us Earthrise “get me colour film!” Artemis also gave us an unplanned moment - a view so strange astronauts struggled to describe it.

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Explaining the Most Important Artemis II Photos

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Looking at this now, I am seeing this more as a butt bag.

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I may have missed out on FOTC tickets, but I did make it in time for whatever situation this is I choose to believe this is where I am meant to be. #HappyPlace #FOTC #kākāpō #chaoschicks #conservation #kikorangi

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I clicked the ❤️ on this post… but emotionally it is a broken heart because by the time I learned about the 30 minutes the tickets existed for, it was already not "business time" for me ... it was “need a time machine & a lot of luck” time

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

AMAZEAMAZEAMAZE love that for everyone who is not me 😭 I would like to formally file a complaint with the universe The real “business time” was the 30 minutes tickets existed and I was not part of it 😭😭😭😭😭 #FOTC #FlightOfTheConchords #HiphopopotamusVsTicketmaster #RhymenocerosWouldHaveGotTickets

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NASA | ESA Space Updates @nasaupdates.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

#Artemis II - Special guest Astronaut ‘Nutella’ getting involved in breaking the Apollo record with its own flyby 😂🚀🌕

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Flight Day 7 for #Artemis : Earthset. Far Side of the Moon. Long Solar Eclipse. Long distance call with #ISS The day for the #kākāpō chicks: had a nap. then another nap. then a brief moment of absolute nonsense. Progress comes in many forms. #conservation #kakapo #space #NASA

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Artemis Daily Wrap: Flight Day 7

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shineyk.bsky.social @shineyk.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The crater: carefully maintained, regularly renovated, clearly VERY important… The chicks: “yeah nah, we live out here now.” 🐣 #kākāpō #kakapo #conservation #RakiuraNestCam #chaos www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDSW...

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