Pāpango

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If I wasn't having fun, this would be intolerable.

HSI officer with his back turned next to a detainee with a speech bubble saying 'he asking for no pickles'
HSI agent facing the wall as the woman he detained says "he asked for no pickles".
"There's so many polls, I don't comment on polls. I was elected to do a job back in 2023, there'll be another election next year. As I said, I'm focused on what New Zealanders need to be focused on, and the message is pretty clear, it's about the economy." "I just don't- (sigh), I'm focused, ah, I was elected to do a job. And I know what my job is which is to clean up the mess, turn it around, and get it heading in the right direction and that's what I'm focused on. "And that's, I know that's, yeah. "There's so many different things coming- that's what I'm focused on from beginning to end. "If you seriously think I'm thinking about that stuff when we've got when we've got some serious issues to deal with in New Zealand and to get this economy moving so that people actually feel there's a more positive future for them - that's what I'm fixated on."
A very very fluffy grey cat blissfully stretched out on her back with her belly to the sky.
A fluffy grey cat rubbing her face on the corner of a paperback copy of Audition by Pip Adam.
A painting titled Three Cats by American painter Gertrude Abercrombie. It depicts a ginger, black and grey cat sitting behind empty bowls with clouds over their heads.
A grey domestic house cat stretched out with her paws in front of her completely asleep on a freshly washed duvet.
A screen shot from iNaturalist of a calico cat identified as a Domestic Guinea Pig.
View of a rocky coast with white crested waves.
A four panel cartoon of a dog barking, then bring confused at being asked why they're barking, then judgy and upset, and then barking louder than before.
A cat behind a curtain, silhouetted by the mid morning sun.
A small owl in a defensive posture with its wings held back and up to make it look bigger than it is.
The cover of a book titled 31 Ways to Punch Your Dick Off by Samuel Stephens.
A calico cat staring straight at the camera looking a little bit surprised and angry.
The menu for 'Tides and Terroir', a surf 'n turf long lunch event that's part of Wellington on a Plate.
Four paws and tail tip of an upside down calico cat.
A calico cat writhing blissfully on a pair of pyjama pants.
The setting sun seen through an acacia tree.
Convoy of guinea fowl crossing a dirt road.
Very fluffy grey cat sitting on a person covered by a duvet.
A large fluffy grey cat asleep on a pile of duvets.
A fluffy black cat sitting with a stuffed toy cat.
Monochrome photograph of Nazi Germans saluting, while burning books. Text reads "Ten years ago: The Nazis burned these books but free Americans can still read them".
Small person with 'my tummy hurts and I'm mad at the government' in rainbow font around them.
A cartoon where, having been told that the food on the kitchen bench is "not for puppies" a sly dog urges the people cooking to consider "what if it was for puppies".
A very fluffy grey cat stretched all the way out with her soft fully belly exposed.
A soft grey tabby cat in a crate. Furious.
A calico cat lying curled up resting her head on one of her paws. She's so sweet and innocent looking it's hard to believe she eats garbage off the floor.
A fat monarch caterpillar on a milkweed plant.
The feet and tip of a tail of a calico cat that has slide off the lap she was sitting on and decided to just be upside down.
The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space. - Italo Calvino
Image of two posts from Danielle. First says "I have three dogs and raised two smol humans to teen, I am quite familiar with the concept of Shit Retrieval" The second, posted just a minute later, says "OMG gitso, I missed your birthday"
A small creature with big eyes stands surrounded by the words "My tummy hurts and I'm mad at the government" in rainbow coloured text.
Front of Bay's Takeaway. A fish and chip shop that also does Chinese food and bubble tea.
Muppet Beaker, panicking.
Water leaking out of the asphalt. Just bubbling out where the road meets the gutter.
Very fluffy cat has just woken up and is having a moment about it. Little grumpy face and awkward position. She's two minutes into it and very clearly had enough of today.
Athena, a calico cat, is standing in a deck, sniffing at some plants.
An image from the 1700s showing a fish with a human face, smiling vacantly. It comes from a scientific work by Cotton Mather into what stories of mermaids might actually be about.