Delwyn

@delwynm

SF/F writer and LOTR lover. Likes a bit of sports, cool-as science and our weird NZ fauna. Koiwoi. (she/her)

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Delwyn@delwynm· 22d

Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride saying, "I will not fail".

Delwyn@delwynm· 24d

Damn, Tina Ngata takes no prisoners. #nzpol

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Because of course it’s not really about taxes, otherwise he would not be yearning for a time when taxes were higher, and there were more of them.

Of course it’s not really about “downsizing government” or he wouldn’t be nostalgic about a time when the public sector was significantly larger than it is now and the government owned all of its own assets.

It’s got nothing to do with welfare dependency because otherwise he would not be reminiscing about the golden era of the welfare state.

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He’s clearly demonstrated that it’s not about university, or businesses, or “all New Zealanders” or even his own sector of broadcasting. All of that was code-speak and white noise.

What Paul is yearning for, and interested in, is a pre-Waitangi Tribunal New Zealand. What he is actually nostalgic for is the white supremacy of the 60s, before Māori got all uppity about their land and human rights and language and the treaty. Back when you could ridicule brown people and everyone would just laugh along.

Delwyn@delwynm· Jun 25

I'll see your paschal candles and raise you supermarket chocolate in 30⁰C Taumarunui (NZ) in 2022:

Photo of blocks of Cadbury dairy milk chocolate melted and folded-over on the shelf of a supermarket.

Delwyn@delwynm· Jun 22

Larry the Cat sits in front of the door to Number 10 Downing Street. Caption: "Tell Starmer. I want him to know it was me."

Delwyn@delwynm· Jun 15

Going super-local for this one, but The Almighty Johnsons (Norse gods reborn in New Zealand). At least the third and final season was tied off well.

Four mean in casual grey/black jackets stand together in a forest, with the words 'The Almighty Johnsons' in text at the bottom of the image.

Delwyn@delwynm· May 26

Looks like Nasa took a bit of inspo from Space 1999. (Now just need to add uniforms with flares and knee-high boots.)

A black and white image from Nasa of a moonscape with astronauts and vaguely futurists-looking living pods, with the Earth in a half-crescent in the bakground.

A still from the '70s TV show Space 1999, showing a moonscape with a landing craft, the nose of which has a similar design to Nasa's planned moon-pod.

Delwyn@delwynm· May 26

How is late autumn looking around your bit of NZ? Here, I think Pukekura Park is hitting its peak colour.

A park's path diverges: on the right are concrete steps, littered with fallen leaves, heading up a hill between autumn-coloured trees, and on the left is a flat dirt path that disappears into greener foliage.

A tree with bright red and orange autumn leaves sits above a dirt pathway, with blues skies and white clouds above.

Delwyn@delwynm· May 20

*in fake Aussie accent* You call that a cloud? *This* is a cloud. 😁

Photo of Taranaki Maunga with a massive lenticular cloud, like a levitating beret, overhead.

Delwyn@delwynm· May 6

Well, we called it. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

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It would require time to discuss and work through the issues, Nixon said.

“Personally, I think that two councils would be a very good way to go – if we can have two unitary authorities in Taranaki, north and south, or urban and rural.

“Between us and Stratford, we have more community of interest, we are rural communities and obviously very different to urban New Plymouth."

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Stratford mayor Neil Volzke also favoured the idea of Stratford and South Taranaki forming a unitary authority separate from New Plymouth, although a single entity was also a possibility.

“South Taranaki and Stratford are similar, rural based, with small towns servicing a rural area.

“So we have similar councils and similar demographics and land use.”

Delwyn@delwynm· May 4

Photo of an old potato that has sent out at least 20 sprouts up and down a wall, with the text:
Normal vegetables: You must store us at the right temperature, in the right humidity, or we will spoil and rot in no time.
Potatoes: Where's the fucking soil.

Delwyn@delwynm· May 1

I mean...

Two leopards, one leaning into the other as if he's a drunk young man talking into the ear of a bored girl in a club.

A drunk young man talks into the ear of a bored girl in a club.

Delwyn@delwynm· Apr 30

It's not your imagination. NZ Police has just posted this on Facebook:

Black background with white and red text: "18 people have been killed on our roads in 10 days."

Text:
▪️16 of the 18 deaths occurred on open roads with 100km/h speed limits and no traffic safety barriers.
▪️Nine crashes involved the vehicle crossing the centre line and colliding with a vehicle travelling in the opposite direction. This resulted in 11 deaths.
▪️Six people killed on the roads over this period were not wearing seatbelts. Including one on a road with a 50km/h speed limit.
▪️Two of the fatal crashes involved motorcycles.

Delwyn@delwynm· Apr 21

Nice, I like that. It has echoes of this:

Black text on white background: "Best voting advice: Voting isn't marriage. It's public transport. You're not waiting for 'the one'. You're getting on the bus. And if there isn't one going exactly to your destination, you don't stay home and sulk. You take the one that's going closest to where you want to be."

Delwyn@delwynm· Apr 5

Reminds me of this lockdown-era cartoon:

Two big-eyed aliens are looking at a naked human man (from the chest-up) lying on a table.
Alien: "You're smiling? This adduction isn't terrifying?"
Man: "Honestly ... I'm just happy to get out of the house for a bit."

Delwyn@delwynm· Mar 23

Drop a movie that traumatised you as a kid. (The 1950s version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Mum and Dad left for the evening and told my older siblings to not let me watch it. They didn't listen.)

Black and white photo of two men and two women looking intense inside a greenhouse, surrounded by potted plants.

Black and white photo of a large plant-pod opening with something white coming out of it. Which I'm sure is nothing to worry about. At all.

Delwyn@delwynm· Mar 22

Not a bad view from the weekend. (Unfortunately not *my* view: a friend had a weekend in Mōkau and snapped this shot with Taranaki Maunga and the Pouākai and Kaitake ranges in the distance.) #kikorangi