David Pattemore

@dpattemore.bsky.social

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Ecologist and entrepreneur, posts are my own opinions, likes not necessarily endorsements. He/Him 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 ally He tangata tiriti ahau

Picture shows a black EV truck in a driveway with an orange power cable coming out of the back to power the house.
LCD display from a weather station showing an outside temperature of 17.1 degrees celsius.
Selfie of a man (with beard and glasses) sitting in field with a young donkey resting his head on the top of the man’s heading, looking like a disembodied donkey head hat.
In short, even worse somehow
Weather forecast chart from Metvuw.co.nz for 7am Thursday morning showing a deep low (968 hPa!) off the south West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, with galeforce winds and torrential rain for most of the island.
Screen shot of NZ Herald news story showing big zoomed in picture of the moon, with the title “How to see tonight’s super moon”, and the header “You won’t need a telescope to catch a glimpse”
Grainy black and white image of kids escaping a sinking paper maché Loch Ness monster, with the movie title “The Strange Monster of Strawberry Cove”
Screen shot of stuff NZ headline stating “Damien Grant: I’ve got five traits of antisocial personality disorder”, with image art suggesting split personality between blue figure with no thoughts and grey figure with tangled thoughts.
Botanist David Bellamy, in his white-haired days, peers out from within a thicket of green plants
News headline showing picture of prison and text “Man killed in Auckland prison identified as 32-year-old charged with his murder”
Screen shot from the show “The Good Place”, showing the waiting room with large green writing on the wall: “Welcome! Everything is fine.”
Screenshot of Guardian Australia news article warning that petrol prices could exceed $2 per litre due to US attacking Iran.
Screen shot of my winning round of Redactle where I guessed the correct answer “David” on the first guess.
From Stuff.co.nz, headline that reads “Taranaki entrepreneur find gap in dog eat dog premium pet food market”
A wooden spa pool on the roof of a hotel, looking out over the roof of the adjacent warehouse next door with random industrial wasteland beyond that. Romantic, scenic.
John Grant, bearded red head grinning, from Sigma Eight Inc, modelling the totally awesome bucket hat made out of second hand business shirts, with the logo “Bushcast” embroidered on it.
Headline from RNZ on FB “People are still filling in from all entrances of Parliament screaming “toitū te tiriti, ake ake ake’. 😑
Screen shot of Gerry Brownlee sighing and saying “No don’t do that” as Hana Maipi-Clarke initiates a haka in the NZ parliament.
Louie the Irish setter lying on his side with one back leg in the air and one front leg curled over his snoot. Adorable.
Two dogs, one short and cute, the other long haired and goofy, loom over the lazy humans in bed with clear expressions of displeasure.
Screenshot of Radio NZ post on Facebook showing a photo of hurricane damage and the title: “Hurricane season: What is it, when is it and why is it so dangerous?”
Picture of my laptop open on my lap in bed with a large fluffy red do, Louie the Irish setter, flailing around in a blurry, hairy, toothy mess in the foreground over top of everything; completely preventing any work.
Tweet by Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_): “This might actually get him to do something about Grok lol”, showing two AI generated images of Elon Musk holding protest signs. The first reads “Trans Rights”, and the second reads “Gender Afforming Care Is Lifesaving”. But the really fun bit is in the background of the second image is a crowd holding up two other signs, proudly declaring “You Woth” and “Face Cup”!
Photo of the moment after Waltz makes the JD Vance couch joke at a campaign rally. Waltz’s face is scrunched up in an awkward grimace while Harris barely stifles a laugh behind him. In front of a crowd of people laughing and holding signs.
A macaque (monkey) sits on a rock in a park munching something delicious that looks like maybe it was a banana. Unfortunately he forgot his pants, so his bright red genitals are showing.
Thai street dog lying on the road
Headline on stuff “US reality TV contestant kills and eats weka on show shot in NZ”
Poster introducing the Indonesian short-finned eel: pla tuna
‘Map’ of Oceania, with Australia made out of multiple copies of the English word “whale”, while Aotearoa New Zealand is made out of “Tohora”.
Headline in Stuff.co.nz app: “Sex act joke about female physio in All Blacks game ‘harassment’”
Restaurant sign in Thailand: “Cheap Ass” steak house
View looking down a stream in Phuket, Thailand, showing long-tailed boats moored in the stream, with a view out past them to the ocean, framed by casuarina trees, with bright teal sea and golden sand against a backdrop of theatening greys of an approaching thunderstorm
Screenshot of meeting invite in my outlook calendar, with the topic “Execution Gates Controls”.
Derpy wallaby face (head of a taxidermied wallaby)
A brown parrot (North Island Kākā) stands on a perch in the foreground close to the camera within a large aviary, holding a walnut kernel in its right claw and with big curved beak half open in excitement.
Rishi Sunak, the now deposed PM of Great Britain, shares the stages with his fellow electoral candidates, including a person in a huge cartoon knight costume, a ventriloquist in bright red animal print suit and their puppet, and a super tall dude with shades holding a crumpled sheet of a4 with a large “L” on it.
Giant red long-haired Irish setter standing on a bench with his front paws, totally eclipsing me sitting on the bench behind him.
Gas guzzling vehicle parked in an ev charging spot. Dick.
Meme prompt states: “Write a horror story in six words or less”, which is quoted by David Bowman with his contribution “Something inside of me is wriggling…”, and Shambolika Compton with “God gave us dominion over nature”, and directly underneath, Samuel posts “new venom trailer looks good. Last one wasn’t very interesting, this one looks a lot better.”
Smol wee dog in deep fought, sitting on the rug and looking pensively out the window.
The same two dogs, now curled in mirror image balls.
Two dogs fast asleep, in nearly identical positions, on the concrete floor in dappled sunlight.
I am pakehĂŁ and I live in Aotearoa I honour the mana of Te Tiriti O Waitangi
Screenshot of my submission on the bill: Your Submission Submission of David Pattemore Local Government (Electoral Legislation and Mãori Wards and Mãori Constituencies) Amendment Bill My/our comments Mãori wards are a vital way to ensure the voice of tangata whenua in local decision making. While we may wish for a world where everyone has an equal chance to have a say; that is not the state of things at the moment. Providing pathways like Mãori wards helps to correct systemic biases against Mãori and need to be retained. Allowing for a public vote on Mãori wards also prioritises the whims of the majority over the needs of the minority. This bill is backwards and regressive and will entrench injustice; not relieve it. く My/our recommendations Reject this bill in its entirety.
On the small chair I’m sitting on, two dogs scramble up vying for attention and pats. It’s chaos as I try to take photos while not slowing down on the pats. The picture shows one dog with snout in the lens while I pat the second dog who’s stretching her head up in response, and there is a view out past my yellow chair to the icy brick patio outside the ranch slider.
Photo of deep magenta Aurora, with a base of greenish tinge, blanketing the horizon, with dark shapes of trees standing in the foreground.
In the forest, a hand holds up a pair of scaly talons with razor sharp claws to the camera.
Drake meme, with turning away and shunning “#notallmen”, but turning and pointing with delight at “#notonesinglebear”
Turtle the paradise shelduck wades around in a little ‘pond’ (copper basin) we made for her in our yard, with distant hills lit up in the morning light.
A cute wee North Island brown kiwi held lovingly in the arms of a volunteer. Because not all of us are assholes.
Hands in gloves carefully hold a precious Chevron skink with striking markings. This endangered species is one of our largest and is now restricted to offshore islands.
Oh god I can’t do this sorry folks, someone else needs to do alt text for me
Maverick the donkey sticking his head out of the window from inside the living room.
A view looking out our ranch slider to the tree lined paddock with sunlight hills behind, and standing in the doorway are three eager donkeys keen for pats, with a female paradise shelduck standing on the back of one of them, for unknown reasons.