#for non-kiwis who are looking for more info than what is linked here this is a brief summary of nz news sources:

[mushroomofficial]

The Spinoff has a pretty good debunking of the supposed “rationale” behind the bill in this opinion piece by Carwyn Jones, the academic quoted in that Guardian article above:

There’s also this newsletter from this morning that explains the current situation pretty well:

I know most of tumblr is thinking about the USA right now. but fuck the nz government right now too. tomorrow, the treaty principles bill, the 'worst, most comprehensive breach of Te Tiriti in modern times' is being introduced to parliament early, because there were activations planned country wide and the cowards decided to pull it forwards. fuck this government. a friend of mine had to go home early, crying. I've been in shock all day since it came out.

check on your Māori friends, e hoa mā. see what they need. see how you can help. everyday, we see and experience racism. from people around us, up to our government. community care will save us.

[moreaulover]

Some law of talos facts and info off the top of my head (by someone who's very hyper fixated and wants people to know more about it!!!!)

Apparently some people just didn't know that law of talos was an oc tournament 😭??? I thought that was basic info but I guess not! I'm not counting it being a tournament as a fact but more people not knowing (also some people didn't know unknown person had comics for before and after each animation??? There's literally YouTube videos with both idk what to tell you guys 💀)

Unknown persons entries are the most popular, but the 5th animation is non canon! The canon ending was by the winner Blacklillian but it's currently lost media :( there's a description of it on the lost media page, a few meantions of plot points on the tv tropes (example)

An ask + drawing related to what happened to Karl after on unknown person's tumblr (unknownpsn) we can also gather a tiny bit from the winner announcement post comments, the main point I've noticed is people talking about their disappointment in the lack of action and badly done Karl but praising the more satisfying ending. There was also apparently an epilogue by Blacklillian but that is also currently lost :(

Blacklillians entrees (along with the majority of others) are lost media! Some info can be gathered/interpreted from the lost media page and the tv tropes page (both linked at the bottom along with the intro/winner post for the contest and the wiki) A few entries are up although it's few and far between but I do encourage you to look for them on competitors' deviant art pages (I'll edit this and add list who's is up in a little while) here's a chart of the tournament though!

Here's chimbley's reference page which is the only known piece for his portion at the moment (please lmk if more has been found) *update you can buy the official chimbley archive on the artist Iris Jay's patreon for just 5 dollars :3 !!!!!

Chimbley's creator does have Twitter+tumblr but no longer makes content for him so savor what we have. We do know from the tv tropes page that chimbley was more flight than fight and all his competitors were disqualified rather than beaten in a combat (makes me giggle really hard ngl 😭)

Climber and Karl (and Rachel + Clarice obviously) are both part of the unreleased.... comic? Series? (Whatever it was going to be!) Called Castle of nations by unknown person (ofc)! There's not a ton known about it as the actual media was never released/finished and unknown person stopped posting in 2016 but there's lots asks + content on his tumblr if you want to look into it some

Karl was not going to wish for Rachel back despite common misconception! According to unknown person he was actually going to wish for an unlimited power supply to escape the amusement park permanently

There's a silly joke cosplay video called "law of talos chimbley vs Karl live action" that's available on the internet archive but someone uploaded the whole thing on tik tok (linked here) chimbley does a heel click at 8:22 i feel it's important everyone see it.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRgK62j8/

People have also been uploading the voice actors singing various Christmas songs in character I haven't seen them all but I know Karl's video (What's this- the nightmare before Christmas) is pretty available and a clip of Chimbley's (little drummer boy) as also recently been uploaded. I think I saw Steffi's at one point but I don't remember it like at all sorry (EDJT I FOUND IT GUYS I'LL LINK IT BECAUSE IT'S HARDER TO FIND THAN THE OTHER TWO I MENTIONED)

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRgw7FhS/

Speaking of Steffi!!!!! She stars in her very own webcomic "Kiwi Blitz"!!! I'll link it here :3

That's all I can think of for rn I'll make another post if I get more info on the lost media or if I think/learn anything else!!! Here are the links to the law of talos intro/winner post, lost media page, wiki, and TV tropes!!! Once again I encourage you to look through them if you haven't!!!

[bidaubadeadieu]

what a creature! this post sent me down a bird taxonomy rabbit-hole (bird hole) that I feel compelled to share! forewarning that I am not a biologist, this info is just from Wikipedia, which I'm sure is out-of-date relative to the latest genetic research. I won't be using words like "class", "order", and "family" here, because it sounds like those remain contested, and aren't always that useful. Real biologists seem to debate what counts as an infraclass and what's a superorder etc.

So. I saw these birds and wondered who the hell their closest cousins are, since they look like nothing I had ever seen before. "Owls, maybe?" I thought.

Let's start at the top. The two basic groups of birds are "the big flightless ones", (think ostrich, emu, also kiwi) and "everything else". Already interesting that those are their own thing! The next groups to break off from the "everything else" pack are landfowl (turkey, chicken, quail) and waterfowl (ducks, geese... screamers?? what are screamers? we don't have time for this) which are more closely related to one another than they are to all other birds (and conversely, if I understand correctly, all other birds are more closely related to one another than they are to the fowl).

Now left in the "everything else" bucket, things start to split off of the tree rapidly. There's the flamingoes/grebes group. There's the pigeons/doves group. There are a couple genetic one-offs, like the hoatzin, which is the only living member of its order (like the gingko tree), so it doesn't appear to have any cousins closer to it than like, most birds are to it.

We go down a couple levels. There's a vultures/owls/parrots/woodpeckers group. There's a pelicans/penguins/loons (wait, loons aren't ducks??) group.

There is a clade called Strisores. Strisores contains mostly birds I've never heard of, and some you almost certainly have!

Nightjars (pictured above)

Potoos, tropical South and Central America (this one's great)

Oilbird, lives in caves in the Northen Andes and is the only species of its family, like the hoatzin.

Frogmouths, south Asia, Melanesia

Owlet-Nightjars (confusingly, neither owlets nor true nightjars), New Guinea, Australia

and uh...

hummingbirds? You know what a hummingbird looks like. Swifts are also here. Hummingbirds are native to the Americas and swifts are found on all non-Antarctica continents, so you are likely to have seen one. The evidence linking hummingbirds/swifts to their closest living cousins, the owlet-nightjars, is described as "osteological", so I think they have similar skulls. Who'd have thought!

Great eared nightjar