@tuffrings.bsky.social

@tuffrings.bsky.social

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AuDHD, interested in Covid, volcanoes, photography. He/they.

Screenshot of the email I received. It reads as follows: Kia ora, Thank you for getting in touch. The Social Services and Community Committee has not yet had the opportunity to review all submissions it received on the Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill. If there is an issue with your submission, we will contact you. Otherwise, if you made a submission, you can expect your submission to be published in due course. Committee Staff Social Services and Community Committee
Screenshot of preceding skeet. Photos are hidden behind an "Adult Content" warning.
Screenshot of the entire thread above this post. It reads as follows: Myles Thomas‬ ‪@mylest.bsky.social‬ · 4d If I was a NACTNZF party operative with $$$ I would pay people to infiltrate Bluesky w multiple fake accounts to sew doubt about Hipkins, and stir up discord among us lefties. Don't trust any account that preaches doubt about Hipkins and has no name attached @tuffrings.bsky.social ‪tuffrings.bsky.social‬ ‪@tuffrings.bsky.social‬ · 3d It'd be very easy to create accounts with fake names & AI-generated faces attached. If you trust accounts based only on that, you're a fool. I'm not making any money on Bluesky, quite the opposite with giving mutual aid. And if you have no doubts about Hipkins, you're a lot further right than me. ‪tuffrings.bsky.social‬ ‪@tuffrings.bsky.social‬ · 2d If anyone is wondering what got under this guy's skin, it seems to have been my disagreement with their "NZ leftists must unite behind Hipkins" drivel. What a snowflake. bsky.app/profile/tuff... ‪tuffrings.bsky.social‬ ‪@tuffrings.bsky.social‬ · 5d Hipkins is not on the left. And it's not too late to turf him out. Myles Thomas ‪@mylest.bsky.social‬ · 41m He he. And if anyone is wondering what caused @tuffrings.bsky.social to resort to name-calling it was this: If I was a NACTNZF party operative with $$$ I would pay people to infiltrate Bluesky w fake accounts... Don't trust any account that preaches doubt about Hipkins and has no name attached 11:39 PM · Jun 18, 2026i
Diagram of Southland electrical network (Figure 12 in linked report), showing planned upgrades and new facilities.
Chart contrasting media portrayal of NZ political parties, on a left to right scale, with the reality. For instance, Labour is portrayed as being between "leftish" and "radical", while in reality being between "conservative" and "reactionary".
Screenshot from article linked in post reposted by OP. Reads as follows: "Experiments using the human-oral-anatomy based “Vomiting Larry” simulator showed that fluorescently labeled vomitus droplets can travel up to 3 m, and infectious feline calicivirus (FCV) was likewise detected at this distance when used in place of dye."
"Careful mate ... That foreigner wants your cookie!" says a rich white man with many cookies, to a white man who has one cookie, while pointing at a black man who has none.
Screenshot of YouTube video with transcript, saying: "something deeper like a health anxiety. It could be a sign of social anxiety. It can also be a sign of uh pandemic related PTSD. In fact, some researchers call this emerging trend uh a part of uh what they call postpandemic safety behavior syndrome. It's not necessarily the"
Diagram showing an eyeball with an series of several long thin glands (meibomium glands), lined up perpendicular to the edge of the upper and lower eyelids. Blue arrows presumably show the direction of meibum flow, along the glands and out onto the eye & eyelashes at the edge of each eyelid.
The prescribed voting form for mixed-member proportional representation general elections in New Zealand. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_New_Zealand
A gap in the thick grey clouds lets sunlight fall onto glistening waters
Photo from RNZ news article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/591128/border-collie-found-one-week-after-owner-falls-down-waterfall-in-alpine-backcountry Caption: Wayne, who helped with the rescue, with his dog Bingo, and Molly. Photo: Supplied / Precision Helicopters
Cropped screenshot from Google's Maps app. Shows bold labels for Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon, with lighter labels for the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Fig. 1. from source article. This shows decreased life expectancy in those born 1970-1985 from around 2012-2018 (the dark area in the lower right corner). Their caption follows: Lexis diagram of percentage change in all-cause mortality, 1979 to 2019. Data are from the Multiple Cause-of-Death Mortality Data from the National Vital Statistics System of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and the Human Cause of Death Data Series, a component of the Human Mortality Database (HMD) project. Percentage change calculated across calendar years at a given age.
Obverse of US Mint semiquincentennial $1 coin candidate design, showing Trump's head in profile
Screenshot of social media buttons at the end of an RNZ news article. There are buttons for Facebook, X, YouTube, and Instagram, and another to sign for email newsletters.
A map of US and Israeli attacks on Iran, 6-7 March 2026. From https://understandingwar.org/research/middle-east/iran-update-evening-special-report-march-7-2026/
Bumblebee on blue flowers
Screenshot from an NPR article, showing a satellite image from after the attack on a girls' school in Minab, Iran that reportedly killed more than 150 people. It shows destroyed buildings within 3 adjacent outlined areas, labelled "Girls school", "Base", and "Clinic". The school and clinic were civilian facilities, reportedly walled off from the military base. Source: https://www.npr.org/2026/03/04/nx-s1-5735801/satellite-imagery-shows-strike-that-destroyed-iranian-school-was-more-extensive-than-first-reported
Spreadsheet showing the reported Covid hospital admissions in NZ from 18 Jan - 16 Feb 2026, with their total (184).
Ripples in black sand
Screenshot of a Google Trends chart, showing that interest in "breakthrough infection" peaked in the second half of 2021.
Screenshot of a Facebook post by the US Department of Homeland Security, saying: "The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world." The post includes an image of a car on a beach under palm trees. The following text is printed on the sky: "America After 100 Million Deportations'
A sculpture of a bird (probably a pukeko), made mainly from corrugated iron, sitting with legs crossed on the awning outside a craft supplies shop in Tirau, New Zealand. The bird has long eyelashes, and is wearing high heels, lipstick, and a "pearl" necklace and earrings.
A bumblebee visits a cluster of small blue flowers.
A car covered in many colourful little lights.
Chart showing percentage of UK adults reporting high anxiety, from 2016 to early 2024. This ranged from 18.9%-21.3% during the pre-pandemic years. It peaked above 25% early during the Covid pandemic, and has hovered around 23% since 2022.
Graph from the 2023-2024 Annual Report of Western Australia's Voluntary Assisted Dying Board, showing the proportion of patients giving each of various reasons for accessing voluntary assisted dying that year. Includes 35% saying "burden on family/friends/caregivers", 53% "inadequate pain control", 65% "losing autonomy"
Graph showing the number of working-age people out of work due to long-term illness and on NHS waiting lists (the latter indexed to 100 at its low point in 2009) over time, from 1993 to 2023. Both curves go up sharply from 2020 onwards. The chart has a two-tone background that seems to emphasize this.
A diagram from the Guardian's article, showing a well-fitted ear-loop FFP2 respirator. It includes the text "Tight fit over nose and mouth", with an arrow pointing from this phrase to the edge of the mask above the cheekbone. The screenshot also includes this text surrounding the graphic: "The FFP2 respirator is a tight-fitting mask, which creates a facial seal and filters both inflow and outflow of air Removes 94% of all particles that are 0.3 microns in diameter or larger Designed to protect the wearer up to the safety rating of the mask Guardian graphic"
Dark clouds above Auckland's Sky Tower, from Victoria Park
Plane tree limb, hosting a few small tufts of lichen where its bark has been slower to slough off
Graph showing payouts to shareholders of large US healthcare corporations from 2001 to 2022, split into dividends and share buybacks. Total payouts roughly tripled over those two decades, going from $54 billion to over $170 billion.
Graph from the 2023-2024 Annual Report of Western Australia's Voluntary Assisted Dying Board, showing the proportion of patients giving each of various reasons for accessing voluntary assisted dying that year. In particular, 35.2% mention "burden on family, friends/caregivers, or concern about it".
Screenshot of Bluesky reply pop-up, with the language selection list opened up
Screenshot of Bluesky app showing me replying to the original post, with a message from Bluesky saying: "The post you're replying to was marked as being written in Japanese by its author. Would you like to reply in Japanese?"
Screenshot for Post article: 'Labour leader Chris Hipkins said he agrees with the rates cap in principle, but questioned how councils would still be able to pay what's expected of them - their infrastructure, water, roads, parks, pools, libraries and so on - with it in place. He said the frustration and concern around projects such as Wellington City Council's $2.3 million "disco toilets" was disproportionate to their cost, as such "frivolous projects" only make up a "tiny proportion" of total council expenditure. "If you look at where the money's actually going, it's going into roads, it's going into rubbish, it's going into pipes, it's going into infrastructure," Hipkins said. "Where are the councils going to find that money now?" '
Gemstones sorted and displayed for sale. Crystal Mountain, Auckland, NZ.
Graph of estimated daily Covid infections in the US, from March 2020 to September 2025. Shows recurring waves of infection roughly once or twice a year, throughout this period. By X user @JPWeiland. https://x.com/JPWeiland/status/1972491584282497245
A small bird (a hihi/stitchbird) perches on a wooden ledge attached to a cage encased in two types of netting. The netting between the upper and lower ledges has gaps large enough to allow this bird to enter, and feed on sugar water (not shown), but small enough to exclude larger birds.
A partly curled up hedgehog
A shiny blue beetle (steelblue ladybird) walks along the edge of a leaf
Tweet by @TigressEllie on 12 Feb 2022: "Sadly 😢 DHSC/ Gov.uk report the death of another child with Covid on 5th February, a little girl 0-4 England 136 Scotland 7 Wales 3 NI 2 UK Child Covid Deaths 148 #coronavirus #COVID19 #SARSCoV2"
Tweet by @JBPritzker: "And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas." Responding to the following tweet by Aaron Rupar, quoting Ted Cruz: 'Ted Cruz: "I don't want to get between JB Pritzker and the Dominos Pizza line, but I'll tell you what I am willing to get between -- him and his open doors for every human trafficker ... " '
Screenshot from RNZ article, saying: 'Author and researcher of far-right book Fear, Byron Clark, told Midday Report he believed neither New Zealand nor Australia wanted Sewell in their country. "I'm not suprised that a lot of Australians don't want him there - the trouble is I don't think we really want him here either," he said.'
Two black birds (oystercatchers) on a beach, each on one leg. Farewell Spit, New Zealand.
Three soldiers in camo line up to place neatly folded American flags in an outdoor fire, while several others stand at attention facing and saluting them.
Several red spiky flowers on tall stalks
Sun reflects from wet sand as a wave glides in. Headland in the distance, blue sky above.
Ripples in grey sand
A mostly curled up hedgehog, with face just visible, in the grass
Sparrow on a wooden counter
Diagonally criss-crossing patterns in the sand.
Juvenile stick insect, on kawakawa leaf
Cloud with a silver lining
Two successive posts from my Bluesky feed, the first saying "What!?", followed by a separate post with this Health News headline: "Doctors are warning patients not to put spring rolls up their anus".
Chart from article, which compares psychometric assessment scores for HCWs with long Covid versus scores for HCWs without long Covid.