

# Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: In a doctor's waiting room: A woman (70s?) is copying a recipe from a magazine into her notebook. Pen flying over paper. Her doctor calls her name and she says: "Won't be a minute! This is going to be my dinner tonight!" Her doctor laughs. Two men in plaid wool shirts, big sturdy boots and clay-smeared trousers are engaged in Serious Pottery Chat while sitting in a cafe. Munching on toasted cheese sandwiches. Talking of kiln building. A sheepdog laying at their feet, her paw twitching in a doggy dream. Two very large dogs (husky cross moose & Newfoundland cross hairy mammoth?) have managed to stick both of their heads out of the same open car window. Greeting people walking into a fruit and vege shop with tongue-lolling doggy grins. A two-headed Cerberus guarding an elderly Honda Jazz. (3) A surly small human (3?) is stomping along in the rain on Dad's heels in her neon pink gumboots. Very obviously trying to jump in puddles so they splo
"Age verification" means that everyone who does anything online will have to submit to fine-grained tracking and recording of all their online activities. This nightmare is the surveillance advertising industry's fondest dream, a world where it's literally *illegal* to avoid their tracking, all in the name of saving kids…from them! — @ pluralistic from https:// pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/des troy-the-village/#to