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hey so there are so many waterfalls here, have another ...

2026-10-06T06:11:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…j3vn
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hey so there are so many waterfalls here, have another

this is more real than anything ...

2026-10-06T06:11:07Z

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this is more real than anything

stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to..... ...

2026-10-06T06:10:38Z

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stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to.....

nothing changed since 1993. ...

2026-10-06T06:09:19Z

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nothing changed since 1993.

Papakorito falls ...

2026-10-06T06:08:50Z

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Papakorito falls

The waterfalls look the same as they have for 2,000 years. (yeah, ...

2026-10-06T06:08:20Z

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The waterfalls look the same as they have for 2,000 years.

(yeah, only 2,000, that's when the landslide/quake created this landscape)

I think honourable mention to the quality of the track built by ...

2026-10-06T06:05:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…yjj4
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I think honourable mention to the quality of the track built by DOC, that this has survived with zero maintenance for the last 12 years.

Te Urewera was returned to Tuhoe in 2014, after more than a ...

2026-10-06T06:04:35Z

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Te Urewera was returned to Tuhoe in 2014, after more than a century of disposession.

since then the old department of conservation signs have been removed, so you just gotta know where you are, and where you're going (and modern people who rely on phones will be shit out of luck without data).

i took this photo becuase it was remarkable to see a sign that survived.

note the bullet holes. everything has bullet holes.

and we had coffee by the lake every morning. this is my dad. ...

2026-10-06T06:02:28Z

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and we had coffee by the lake every morning. this is my dad.

Here's a nighttime photo of the gates of the lake. ...

2026-10-06T06:01:45Z

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Here's a nighttime photo of the gates of the lake. There's a counterweight (filled with water) to control it, causing a significant overflow when needed, instead of an open-close-open-close-open-close or a dribble.

It's glorious physics.

just spotted the "no swimming" "no boating" sign ...

2026-10-06T05:59:48Z

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just spotted the "no swimming" "no boating" sign because yes you will be sucked into the power station penstock here too.

we walked around the powerstation lake, and I took a photo at ...

2026-10-06T05:58:50Z

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we walked around the powerstation lake, and I took a photo at night.

There's a canal nearby that we used to walk along many evenings as a kid, and it gave me nightmares for years, as it's 'the intake to the next power station (through a pipe).. a death trap. .. but i didn't pass on this trauma to the next generation because there are now a big "No ACCESS" signs because YES, THAT'S NOT SAFE.

arriving at our old village. everything is exactly how we left it ...

2026-10-06T05:56:21Z

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arriving at our old village. everything is exactly how we left it in the 90s.

and after 3 hours, this part feels like an eight-lane motorway ...

2026-10-06T05:55:00Z

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and after 3 hours, this part feels like an eight-lane motorway

just to communicate how fast we go around these corners, because ...

2026-10-06T05:52:36Z

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just to communicate how fast we go around these corners, because you dunno what's on the other side. it's more likley to be horses or pigs, than cars

okay, I let my dad drive from here. ...

2026-10-06T05:51:37Z

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okay, I let my dad drive from here.

more road, because why not ...

2026-10-06T05:51:03Z

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more road, because why not

this road was a main character in my childhood ...

2026-10-06T05:50:27Z

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this road was a main character in my childhood

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te_Urewera

2026-10-06T05:48:53Z

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te_Urewera

This is Te Urewera, which is a legal person under the law. ...

2026-10-06T05:48:35Z

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This is Te Urewera, which is a legal person under the law. It's the first place in the world to granted legal personhood.

It's Tuhoe's country, and we are guests.

i just want to get out of this modern world and got back there. ...

2026-10-06T05:45:49Z

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i just want to get out of this modern world and got back there. before i get so old that i need hospitals etc.

i made a panoramic. this is where i'd rather be. where humans ...

2026-10-06T05:45:19Z

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i made a panoramic. this is where i'd rather be. where humans only made this little dirt track but otherwise it's all trees and late and birds and untamed

one small arm of the lake, before you get to the larger part ...

2026-10-06T05:43:50Z

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one small arm of the lake, before you get to the larger part

This is the "bluffs", which is about 3 hours into the ...

2026-10-06T05:42:30Z

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This is the "bluffs", which is about 3 hours into the bush, and the first glimpse of the lake. It looks like a huge lake when you arrive, but this is only one tiny arm of it. It's the second largest lake in Aotearoa, and yet so many people of NZ have no idea it's here

gonna be honest about the country.... pretty much every public ...

2026-10-06T05:40:31Z

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gonna be honest about the country.... pretty much every public building has bullet holes. but don't get the wrong idea. it's not fucking USA, it's New Zealand. i can't unpack this in a short message and it would take decades for an outsider to understand.

the forest, it was never felled. the Tuhoe were absolutely ...

2026-10-06T05:38:58Z

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the forest, it was never felled. the Tuhoe were absolutely attacked by invasion after invasion, but they held back. they were killed and raped and invaded again, but Te Urewera endured.

so the roads there, they look like this. there's no room. it ...

2026-10-06T05:37:37Z

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so the roads there, they look like this. there's no room. it was like driving down a bush walk. you gotta back up a long way if you meet another person, but you really almost never meet another person.

this was taken during the bit where i let my kid drive. cos why not have your first ever driving lesson in the rain forest.

i went ""home"" by which i went back to a town i ...

2026-10-06T05:35:46Z

i went ""home"" by which i went back to a town i lived in as a child and actually rented the exact house we lived in ... and i really wanted to just stay there forever.

it was 4 hours down a dirt road through rainforest that have never been felled. there was no internet. no cellphones. no shops. no petrol. just forest and people who live in the forest.

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2026-03-31T06:20:43Z

Why is gender?

@npub1fdr…lvhs You ever read that illegal toast one?

2026-03-02T19:30:15Z

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Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs)

You ever read that illegal toast one?

Can we have another lockdown? Just for fun. We all stop driving ...

2025-10-26T04:35:23Z

Can we have another lockdown? Just for fun. We all stop driving noisy cars, make sourdough and ask our neighbours if they are okay.

@npub1fqf…ajkk I think part of it is wanting to find local ...

2025-04-20T00:58:46Z

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Richard Rollinson (npub1fqf…ajkk)

I think part of it is wanting to find local people, or at least similar climates. I have followed a lot of gardening but they're plants we do have or couldn't grow here. And the seasons are swapped.

I drifted away from fedi because I found it demotivational... I ...

2025-04-20T00:34:57Z

I drifted away from fedi because I found it demotivational... I really want to find a crowd of people who make things and post photos and inspiration and wanna talk about it and encourage others. Where are my people?

Interesting idea that countries around the world should start ...

2025-03-07T05:51:09Z

Interesting idea that countries around the world should start dismantling all the IP laws we've all added at USA's insistence, now that usa no longer wants to be friends
https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/03/friedmanite/

Has anyone seen a good policy/procedure for when a person has ...

2025-01-16T04:36:14Z

Has anyone seen a good policy/procedure for when a person has been asked to leave a community (due to behavior) and now after years have passed, is looking for how to do reconciliation and returning.

there's lots of codes of conduct out there, but not finding things for how to do a well managed procedure for whether someone can return.

[bonus if there's kaupapa maori in this too]

Harvesting the coriander seeds #gardening ...

2025-01-10T08:10:51Z

Harvesting the coriander seeds

#gardening

could be people staying home when sick. Before 2020 is was all ...

2024-11-04T19:04:12Z

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could be people staying home when sick. Before 2020 is was all about soldiering on

fantastic photo in the ODT today, (taken yesterday) ...

2024-10-21T20:14:59Z

fantastic photo in the ODT today, (taken yesterday)

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/curious-sea-lion-centre-attention

Only 242 days until Matariki

2024-10-21T04:03:18Z

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Only 242 days until Matariki

a sun hat and a hoodie

2024-10-15T03:59:16Z

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a sun hat and a hoodie

would a wide brimmed hat do the job?

2024-10-15T03:57:24Z

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would a wide brimmed hat do the job?

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2024-10-14T20:31:25Z

A SOY VANILLA LATTE IS ACTUALLY A TYPE OF THREE BEAN SOUP

Nzd $70k stolen from #nz #python charity by Carlos Cordero ...

2024-10-06T20:34:01Z

Nzd $70k stolen from #nz #python charity by Carlos Cordero

https://www.interest.co.nz/technology/130074/carlos-cordero-treasurer-python-nz-stole-money-high-profile-society-over-several

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2024-09-14T04:06:48Z

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Hey #nz #NZTwits fedi friends. @npub1sxv…hny7 is needing ...

2024-08-30T23:38:31Z

Hey #nz #NZTwits fedi friends.

Nat (npub1sxv…hny7) is needing support from our community right now. If you have cash to spare, consider sending some to their givealitte.

https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/support-us-with-our-24-week-nicu-baby

Sorry to state the obvious, but you should be able to install ...

2024-08-21T12:35:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…kl9k
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Sorry to state the obvious, but you should be able to install more than one kernel on your machine.. Grub will then ask what u want at reboot

Boot an Ubuntu live CD with an older kernel and read it there?

2024-08-21T12:32:43Z

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Boot an Ubuntu live CD with an older kernel and read it there?

Fucking super yacht getting thousands of news stories while ...

2024-08-19T19:25:03Z

Fucking super yacht getting thousands of news stories while drowning refugees nearby get nothing.

When I was a kid, nobody we knew had cellphones, because it ...

2024-08-16T05:16:01Z

When I was a kid, nobody we knew had cellphones, because it hadn't been invented... Or if it had, it wasn't here

So my parents would just drive to their friend's place ane their friends would "put the kettle on" and have tea, and they'd find a toy box of toys for us kids. And we'd stay an hour or two then head home.

hello fellow soldiers fighting in the #NZ war on the ...

2024-08-08T22:34:50Z

hello fellow soldiers fighting in the #NZ war on the cost-of-living-crisis

you can get cleaning grade vinegar direct from DYC

https://www.dycvinegar.co.nz/shop/

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2024-06-16T07:33:16Z

https://edmondscooking.co.nz/recipes/breads-and-buns/he-paraoa-parai/

Ngā Kīnaki

Kia 2 ngā kapu o tā Edmonds puehu parāoa kounga
Kia 2 ngā kokonui huka
Kia 1 te pākete (8 karamu) o tā Edmonds īhi horo
Kia ¾ o te kokoiti tote
Kia 1 te kapu wai mahana
Kia 2 ngā kapu o te hinu huawhenua, kanōra rānei, me tētahi wāhi anō hei whakahinuhinu i te paenga

did they? I thought they failed to get the super majority (400 ...

2024-06-04T20:22:51Z

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did they? I thought they failed to get the super majority (400 seats) but they sitll have the highest numbers and will stay in office and form a government.

I have a theory that autistic people enjoy unfamiliar and ...

2024-06-01T22:26:02Z

I have a theory that autistic people enjoy unfamiliar and minority cultures because it's far more likely someone will explain the rules of these cultures,literally, at some point

When it's your own culture, or the dominant majority like in colonialism, it is assumed to be neutral and natural and inevitable and never explained literally. When really all cultural norms for manners and politeness and protocol are grown from history and power and sometimes a foreign environment, sometimes arbitrary

maybe we should stop filling the Internet with all the info a bot ...

2024-05-30T06:52:36Z

maybe we should stop filling the Internet with all the info a bot needs to impersonate us