#Migrating To NZ

[iclegalnz]

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[flintandpyrite]

The person being like “I’m from New Zealand we didn’t wipe out our native megafauna the way the UK did”….like. Have you never heard of giant moa? Or haast’s eagle? The largest native predator is a tuatara…have you ever considered why that is? I’ll give you a hint, it’s not because NZ is an island paradise….

[immigrationz]

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[reality-detective]

The Māori History of the Patupaiarehe speak of how they were light skinned with red hair and green eyes. The people had migrated from the west to reach New Zealand.

These beings inhibited NZ prior to the arrival of the Polynesian people and were very rarely seen, residing deep in the forests and mountains.

It is suggested that the Maori adapted foraging and survival techniques from the Patupaiarehe. Some suggest that red-headed Maori’s are a result of unions between the Patupaiarehe and the Maori.

"Several of the skeletons have reddish fuzzy hair adhering to the skulls" The Argus Newspaper, October 13, 1934.

Unknown History 🤔

[mucking-faori]

Feel like saying this- if you ever see anyone bring up Moriori people out of the blue in a discussion about co governance or colonial reparations; it should be a HUGE red flag. It's a favorite talking point of racists to "prove" that maori deserved to be colonized and aren't indigenous.

Moriori are from the exact same roots as maori people and arrived here the EXACT SAME FUCKING TIME AS THE MIGRATIONS. The moriori genocide myth has been disproven since NINETEEN SEVENTY SIX.

Yes, many moriori were killed and enslaved by some specific maori. This is and was terrible. But this happened DURING pakeha colonisation, not upon maori arrival to nz. And also pakeha (you know, the people this argument is meant to imply were ushering in a better society for all they were colonising) did nothing to help them despite repeated pleas and having promised to do so in earlier agreements.

They were not a pre-maori group that we killed to make way for ourselves. It is important to acknowledge moriori, and i'm not saying any acknowledgement of them at all is dangerous, but the fact that their history has been appropriated to serve the interests of people who hate moriori just as much as they hate maori, and almost definitely would not be able to distinguish the two, is disgusting.

[ellipsistories]

Moana wing au ideas

So far anyways. Will maybe add more later, anyone feel free to jump in with their own

Moana - sooty shearwater. They're known to dive 60 to 70 meters (around 200-220 ft) deep, and they're also excellent fliers, with migration routes 64000 km (40000 miles) long, and the ability to stay on the wing for several days nonstop. Moana being Moana, I feel the diving depth and traveling are fitting.

Maui - some sort of flightless bird, because I can't fathom why one would turn into a giant hawk (no hands) if one could already fly (with hands).

Loto - kea. She's smart, she's chaotic, she can be a little destructive, and, icing on the cake, she happens to have a New Zealand accent, according to what I've read at least. (I've no personal experience with anyone from NZ.)

This does have a drawback in that keas are alpine birds - according to Wikipedia, while they do come down from the mountains, that's in winter. And according to the giant map on the wall, New Zealand itself is actually below the Tropic of Capricorn. Motunui, meanwhile, is very much tropical.

...This is not a fun combination, and one of the more sensible solutions to my thinking, dunking/soaking wings in the nearby ocean to cool off, comes with the issue of salt residue accumulating on feathers.

Chief Tui - tui (bird)

[lufyuu]

I HATE MY SOS TEACHER.

she expects me to finish a 10-slide assessment with 10 days, and she won't let us work on it during the holiday.

AKA, the only time im not busy. I cant even focus on writing my ocs lore, and you expect me to know everything about how Philippines migrated to NZ?? i CANTTT with my teacher.

My friend has the same assessment (diff teacher) and hes letting them work on it during the holidays.

mine wont because she thinks it cheating. "you need to get used to finishing things in limited time" OKAY MS B???

sigh..... Also, Ricky is from Indomitable Champion. It's pretty hardcore shit basically. like, i regretted reading that shit the minute i finished it. he gained a new fetish from having his eye pluked out, so that was awesome!

the author also said that he had a face of a kpop singer and the body of a bodybuilder.

-live laugh love, Spoonie & Frokie(wife)

NO CUZ TEACHERS WHO GIVES SHORT ASS TIME TO MAKE A PROJECT ARE U BELIEVABLE!!! Like sorry it takes time to give you good results😒 it's almost as if that's how it works

I js searched it up and...oh😦 its very nsfw (omw to read it)

[decispark]

Why Banning TikTok Is Concerning for the Future of the Internet

The banning of TikTok could just be the beginning.

Even if you hate TikTok, note that it isn't just about TikTok. It's about taking control of the Internet.  This may not just stop at TikTok.  This could expand to other non-US websites as well.  Keep in mind that Riot Games is owned by Tencent, as is Trovo Live.

A lot of people make a living off of TikTok.  They don't have much of an audience on other platforms, and may not retain a lot of their audience if they migrate to another site.

If you are concerned about the privacy concerns, note that many US-based sites collect data about you.

There are other bills out there that aim to take further control of the Internet, such as KOSA ans FISA.

If you are outside the US, other countries are also looking into banning TikTok. This includes, but is not limited to, Canada, UK, EU, NZ, and Australia.

[drhoz]

The Great ACT-NSW-NZ Trip, 2023-2024 - Taranaki Ringplain

After Pohokura we spent a couple of days on the west coast of North Island - specifically, in the vicinity of Taranaki/Mt. Egmont, a young stratovolcano that is the most recent volcano in a long sequence of slowly migrating volcanism in the area. The hills to the northwest, and the plugs at the coast at New Plymouth, are all that remain of its predecessors. In fact, the entire ring of flattish and highly fertile land in Taranaki is the result of the repeated catastrophic collapse of the volcanoes over the last 1.75 million years.

The photo below was taken from Cape Egmont 30 kilometers from the volcano. Even out here there are layers of fridge-sized boulders deposited by the giant volcanic landslides.

The plugs at New Plymouth, 1.75 myo.

Historically, the area consisted of a narrow coastal plain covered by bracken, tutu, rewarewa and karaka trees, with anywhere not close to the coast covered in dense forest.

From about 1823 the Māori began having contact with European whalers and flax traders. English settlers were first dropped here in 1841, and within a year were trying to deal with plagues of the rats they brought with them.

The stuff we saw on the volcano itself I'll cover seperately, but there was no shortage of species in New Plymouth, along the coast, at Lake Mangamahoe, and where we were staying.

[iclegalnz]

Can I Include My Partner and Children in My Skilled Migrant Residence Visa Application?

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[dustedmagazine]

Feeling Figures — Migration Magic (Perenniel/K)

Feeling Figures channel joy and angst through fuzzy, noise-bent pop tunes. Mixed gender energies bubble from jittery sweet songs, with founders Zakary Slax and Kay Moon alternating on vocals, his sardonic and half-tuned, hers gently melodic; together, in harmonies, the sound is like burnt rock candy, sugary and bitter and sharp at once. And it’s not just the tunes that flitter from hard to ingratiating. Flayed guitar anarchy flares in the interstices of these songs, while the drums gallop manically in double time. There’s certainly a thread of NZ lo-fi running through these cuts—especially track #3 “Don’t Ever Let Me Know”—but also the naïve knowing-ness of K’s historic roster, Beat Happening, especially.

The band is a four-piece hatched in New Brunswick but now based out of Montreal. The line-up includes Slax and Moon plus Thomas Molander and Joe Chamandy. A self-titled EP launched the band in 2021, and this live-recorded full-length is the sole follow-up to date. It bristles with aggression, soothes with melody and looks right down into the swirling void, all with a beat you can jump up and down to.

“Movement” is the album’s clear high point, with its thwacking one-two beat, its slurred, slacker verse, and its “kick it out” bouts of antic punk frenzy. The furor dies down periodically for the Figs’ most anthemic chorus, “Hang on tight/to paradise” sing the band’s two principals in harmonies as sloppy as a drunken kiss, yet the hook is indelible.

“Pour Un Instant” is nearly as good, a spiked sugar rush of Francophone garage punk that clatters frantically but also floats free. Strung-out, sleepy-eyed “Across the Line” hits home, too, with its jangling, ringing, wide horizon guitar clamor reminiscent of the Feelies, its dream fuzzed vocals like the Softies.

It’s not easy to write songs that sound like they’re falling out of bed, but that stick and sting and stay with you. Falling Figures takes careless licks and offhand lines and makes them memorable. Good stuff.

Jennifer Kelly

[ruleofbirds]

𝚍𝚎𝚟𝚕𝚘𝚐_𝟶𝟸.𝟷

Moa's Ark & Zealandia

https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/moas-ark-1990/series

Moa's Ark (1990s TV series) opening animation. It was during the 90's that scientists formulated the "Zealandia" protocontinent theory and complexity of how species migrated over time, putting the last nail in the coffin of the idea that everyone got a free ride over on a piece of Australia. Going through Aotearoa's natural history doco archives has been a lot of fun.

Hello again! I took a bit of a break in posting long- form updates, but I think there's enough on my mind for a second batch of posts this week. After that there will again just be small updates on the Instagram until May - when I may have some sort of concept media for the sim to show off. For now I'll aim for a focused peek into a couple of aspects of it as usual.

This post is going to be all about the Moa, the species that got me hooked on this project. It's also going to be about species variation, and the tension between scientific accuracy and visual accessibility.

Moa skeletal reconstitutions at Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand.

A couple of interesting facts about the moa;

-We currently classify them as nine species. Here is a full catalog of every time someone thought they'd found a new one:

-Within many species, female moa can be more than twice the size of males (yes, this is one reason so many moa "species" were identified)

-Moa are unique in that they had no wings (not even the kiwi's tiny t-rex stubs) and, thank goodness because so many NZ species can be traced back to evolving from Australian fauna, their closest past relatives are South American tinamous rather than the emu.

-They also got a bad wrap for their past perception as tall, emu- like, big dumb grass grazers. Actually, while they're nowhere near as smart as multi-sense-foraging kiwi, they could identify and feast on a whole variety of twigs, herbs, leaves and berries - most of which were found in the more common forest than grassland.

This is why they have a bulky build and head-forward posture (until kinda recently, museum curators tended to give them that tall, emu/giraffe like posture, even adding extra vertebrae for show.)

Whanganui Regional Museum (This isn't close to the worst examples)

So; how do I even begin to approach the scope, as well as potential uncertainty, of data we have on the Moa?

Here's one way: Oversimplification!

Screenshots from Godot editor & runtime previews for compatibility (web) mode and forward+ (basically more shaders) renderer. The camera is RTS- style; getting the runtime shots was a bit finnicky.

I've started to build low-poly models in Blender for the fauna, which in the future I'd love to rig for animation and get super technical with appearance variation. For now I'll focus on the system for placing them in the right biome and basic pathing behaviour, and the Moa will be a North Island giant moa based vaguely off this model for an AR national park exhibit: https://moaparkotorohanga.wordpress.com/2014/07/08/a-collection-of-moa-feedback-from-trevor-worthy-and-lizzy-perrett/

While I'm not working directly on the simulator for the next while, I am building this 2D tool to represent the moa's species variation; it is *incredibly* helpful to have just set up a system where I can add and edit instances of a broader Moa "class", and I'm looking forward to giving each species its visual character (the main creative liberty I'll be taking is colour coding from grey to brown to communicate which of New Zealand's islands each species populated, as well as their preferred biome (there's 3 main ones: subalpine mountain, wet podocarp forest, dry forest/ lowland)

Moa "collection" project at time of writing.

If this exercise has highlighted anything though, it's just how difficult it is to reduce life's complexities to a single shape that represents a single numeric value. Those who read my last posts may remember that any given moa species' size may have varied over time and with temperature, (generally bigger during ice ages and smaller out of them) along altitude, (generally bigger and bulkier higher up) and just within species based on how they adapted to any given place. Not to mention the relatively massive lady moa.

And since we're only working with what's left of them all - the only intact gizzard samples proving that whole diet theory, and most of the remains we have to work with, are those found in Pyramid Valley in Canterbury (a swamp with surrounding mosaic of vegetation and forest) - who knows how to truly depict what life was like tens of thousands of years ago.

From the Moa book by Quinn Berentson

A very cursed JavaScript "spreadsheet".

So, very long-winded post. I hope you found something interesting within! Something that made you think about nature's craziness maybe. I meant to get across just how much there is to scientific communication, and I barely touched on how I aim to keep the overall narrative in focus (or basically be aware of it.)

I can't wait to work on this more collaboratively, with folks who really know their stuff about ecology and the cultural aspects of Aotearoa - I think the potential for collaboration and education is what's keeping me going with this project.

Until next time ! - here's some of my highlights from a trip to the Zealandia ecosanctuary.

Kia hora te marino

Kia whakapapa pounamu te moana

Hei huarahi mā tātou i te rangi nei

Aroha atu, aroha mai

Tātou i a tātou katoa

Hui e! Tāiki e!

May peace be widespread

May the sea be like greenstone

A pathway for us all this day

Let us show respect for each other

For one another

Bind us all together!

[immigrationz]

Revisions in the Skilled Migrant Category (SMC) Resident Visa

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[teachinginnewzealand]

How to Confirm Your Eligibility for Nursing Teacher in NZ?

New Zealand is always open to highly skilled and talented workers. Every year, lots of people migrate here to accomplish their long-awaited dreams. Some come here for a job search, a few for higher studies, and many more.

[aminmigration]

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[miss-kitty-fantastic]

I've seen the humbacks go by as they migrate up the east coast of Australia. And I went swimming with Hector dolphins (smallest species of dolphin) in NZ, which was so much fun!

But by far the best experience I ever had, was on a scuba dive - when we couldn't actually see the humbacks, but we could hear them.

It. was. hypnotic.

Like, seriously mesmerising. We all started instinctively swimming towards the sound. Partly because we really wanted to see the whales, but also because we were just so drawn to it.

Usually on a dive there isn't a lot of external sound. Everything is muted. All you can hear is the sound of your own breathing (Darth Vader style) - as you draw air in through the regulator, and exhale out into the water. You're never more connected with your breathing than when you're on a dive.

But the sound of the humbacks singing was something else entirely. It completely envelopes you. You can sense the direction it's coming from but at the same time it's all around you. It pulses and vibrates through water, and it's like you can hear it in your bones.

I honestly think I would've just kept swimming towards that sound until my air ran out. Thankfully the dive leader pulled us back, with a sharp tap on his depth gauge. We'd been swimming out to sea, and going progressively deeper as we went. I wouldn't be surprised if whales are where the legend of the sirens song comes from.

It was one of the most singularly magical experiences I've ever had.

whale reference chart :)

pls reblog for sample size etc

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