Dave

@dpdiver.bsky.social

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Diver, humanist. Follow with caution, I have no idea where I’m going! 📍Aotearoa I’m very anti LLM AI. Posting any AI generated slop into my feed will probably get you blocked

The bowsprit and bow of the wreck of the Rainbow Warrior, photographed 41 years and 1 day after the French government committed terrorism and murder in Aotearoa New Zealand
Within days of the opening of the festival, media reports began to suggest that it was faltering. During a heated radio interview, Wellington City Councillor Ruth Gotlieb maintained that it was "every Wellingtonian's civic duty to attend Sesqui." Pre-ticket sales had reached only 2.4% of targets, and after opening, the $12 entry fee to the festival soon dropped to $6 in a desperate bid to attract visitors.[1] The highest attendance figure was achieved during the final days of the event, when 32,000 visitors took advantage of a decision to waive all entry fees, which were widely regarded as being excessive. Although planned to run for six weeks, Sesqui 1990 closed after only 12 days, on 7 March 1990, with debts in excess of NZ$6.4 million.[3][4][5]
Neo looks across at other humans in the pod farm supplying power to the machines in The Matrix
A boat sits on a fog wreathed lake
Julie Andrews as Maria sits in a meadow playing guitar to the von Trap children
Blue Origin dildo aka New Shepard launching
I would really like to understand why, when something as viral and tragic as the accident in the Maldives happens, MAJOR media outlets often choose to improvise or speak to people only mildly connected to the event or the sport, instead of reaching out to the true experts. In this case, understanding the key differences between an open-water diver, a cave diver, and a technical cave diver matters deeply. In 2026, experts are easily reachable, and accurate information is not hard to find. Yes, we do not know exactly what happened. But we could at least know what not to say, especially when the information being shared is incorrect and dangerously misleading. The latest narrative about oxygen suddenly “transforming” at 50 meters is as absurd as it gets. It may come from a fraction of truth, but presented this way, it helps no one: not the families of the deceased, not non-divers, not the diving community, and not the locals. Journalism is a sacred thing. Or at least, it should be. We live in 2026. Ask the experts. They are everywhere, and I am sure many would be willing to help. Just my two cents. --------- Stratis Kas Editor-in-Chief, InDEPTH Magazine Author of Close Calls and Cave Diving Member, The Explorers Club – New York ---------
A pup wearing a black skirt enjoys a puppacino in a Melbourne laneway, held by her similarly attired human
Melbourne Airport arrivals board with origin cities in the language of the origin country, including Te Reo
Dulce et Decorum Est By Wilfred Owen Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots, But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of gas-shells dropping softly behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.— Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,— My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
Map of Aotearoa New Zealand overlaid on a map of the east coast of North America, showing that it stretches from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico.
AoNZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in parliament, grimacing
Flightradar24 screenshot showing a private helicopter approaching Te Arai golf course from the south
RNZ headline: PM Luxon takes the reins and risk on looming economic crisis
Radio NZ webpage headline alongside a photo of Chris Hipkins: "Tearful Hipkins speaks to media over ex-wife's allegations"
Radio NZ website headline “”We respect the guy”: National Party politicians rule out leadership bid
Kyle G. Carter 14h The poor man technically could buy the $5k boots, the problem is he spends his money on drugs, ding ding machines and any other nonsensical items, along with doing the bare minimum work style. Where as the rich man see the $5k boots as an investment that will get him ahead in the long run, the rich man is playing the long game and the poor man is playing the I want it right now can’t wait like a toddler game. The rich man doesn’t buy drugs nor plays ding ding machines, the rich man works 80-100 hrs a week. The poverty cycle is not one designed by politics, it is designed by the ignorance of the individual its self. The very system we have discourages the type of ignorance that leads to poverty cycle, if the system catered to the poverty cycle like many hope for, the poverty cycle would grow and run rampant and destroy all the opportunities for the rich man, really it should be called the wise man. The rich man is not rich by luck, the rich man grew rich from 10, 20, 30 or more years of out working, out investing, out educating, out value adding, out wisely spending, out sacrificing short term gratification than everyone else!
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was the Queen's rumoured favourite. Did she do too much to protect him?
The sun rises over the mirror like stillness of Tomorata Lake
Radio NZ headline “‘Stop being cautious’: Chief economist urges households as OCR unchanged “ with picture of RBNZ Governor Dr Angela Breman
Six divers stand in the water in their scuba gear smiling and giving an OK sign
RNZ headline "US federal agents fatally shoot second person in Minneapolis'
Tabby cat Harper sits on my thigh looking for a scritch
Picture of erstwhile National Party leader Todd Muller standing with his hands in his pockets alongside a bookshelf that holds a red MAGA baseball cap
Profile page of @realblucifer with the bio “just a giant glowing demonic horse in Denver minding my business …”
From a One NZ email The robots are coming Everyone’s talking about Artificial Intelligence, and One New Zealand is leading the way. Our goal is to become the most AI-enabled telco on the planet, and it’s already happening. Thousands of scans, machines, and digital team members are quietly working behind the scenes to keep you connected, help when you need it, and save you money. You’ll always know when you’re chatting with one of our AI team members, and there’ll always be a real Kiwi ready to step in whenever you need them (including me).
Quote from a Stuff article :Luxon joked that Hosking “only works, like, three hours a day for 35 weeks a year,” before offering his own perspective, as someone who spent 16 years working in the United States. There, he said, workers “maybe get two weeks’ annual leave”, Christmas is “a couple of days off”, and people generally return to work on January 3 or 4. He expects to do the same this year."
Alleged photo, probably AI edited, of Nicholas Maduro in custody sourced by an incredibly incompetent Stuff staffer from X
The word ‘Swampy’ from Merriam Webster
Word cloud visualization for 2025 showing your 50 most-used words, sized by frequency. Top 10: "aonz" (100×), "luxon" (99×), "labour" (70×), "aotearoa" (70×), "govt" (63×), "seems" (59×), "trump" (59×), "minister" (56×), "policy" (56×), "state" (51×) (from Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest)
Photo of Russian asset Tulsi Gabbard
Album cover of London Calling by The Clash, 1979
Cover of The Clash 1979 album London Calling
Headline from The NZ Herald “PM secures $8100 rates cut on luxury Waiheke holiday home” with a picture of Chris and Amanda Luxon grinning, dressed in casual black, sitting smugly on a couch.
The head of a doll, coated in silt, on the wreck of the Mikhail Lermontov, hardly looking at all creepy unless she winks at you.
Levels of competence model - Unconscious Incompetence, Conscious Incompetence, Conscious Competence, Unconscious competence.
Radio New Zealand headline "Trump tells Israel to stop bombing Gaza"
“AMERICA IS A GUN” by Brian Bilston England is a cup of tea. France, a wheel of ripened brie. Greece, a short, squat olive tree. America is a gun. Brazil is football on the sand. Argentina, Maradona’s hand. Germany, an oompah band. America is a gun. Holland is a wooden shoe. Hungary, a goulash stew. Australia, a kangaroo. America is a gun. Japan is a thermal spring. Scotland is a highland fling. Oh, better to be anything than America as a gun.
A cave i diver n a grey digital camouflage drysuit and black hood, with a white scuba cylinder attached climes out of a hatch in the ground
Radio NZ lead story on their website with the headline "Charlie Kirk's alleged killer - what we know"
A white SUV with the hatch up and dive gear visible in the back parked on the grass beside a concrete picnic table with a lake and trees in the background under a blue sky with a few clouds
A cave diver moves through crystal clear water in a cave in My Gambier, South Australia
A tabby cat sits on the lap of a man wearing blue jeans and a black T shirt
Stuff poll on liquor licensing changes showing 68% oppose the loosening of liquor laws
Harper, a tabby cat, is sitting looking content on Dave’s thigh clad in blue jeans, rendering him unable to move
Map from Geonet showing an earthquake report in the middle of the Hauraki Gulf
Book cover of Edwin Black's book "IBM and the Holocaust"
Photo of conspiracy theorist, defender of Jan 6 seditionists, and unqualified, toady Trump appointee as FBI Director Kash Patel between a US and NZ flag, with the text "When the Feds come to town: FBI Director Kash Patel's visit to New Zealand has been described as important, useful, and mutually beneficial - but it's also business as usual"
A new AoNZ passport with Uruwhenua Aotearoa first sits atop an old cancelled passport with New Zealand Passport on top
This would be achieved through creating regulation that: protected the health, safety, and wellbeing of children receiving early childhood education improved educational and developmental outcomes for those children provided access and choice for whānau provided information to families to improve knowledge about the quality of early childhood education implemented a licensing and certification system that provided certainty and clarity regarding the minimum standards for quality services
Phone lock screen showing a tabby cat looking into the camera
A chonky kererū sits in a tree on a winter’s day having a feed