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Really disappointed that this vote went through on a committee I am not a member of. Always open to making changes, but the Karori cycleway has only been complete for a few weeks. We should see how it works before making knee jerk rushed changes. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

⬇️ Cycleways only COST 1% of the entire transport budget and reap significant benefits economically, environmentally, and health wise. open.substack.com/pub/mountain...

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Nationalise the lot of them.

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This is despicable bullshit and Stephen Franks is an embarrassment to the profession of law. The sole intent of this empty-arsed stunt appears to be to intimidate health professionals. www.webworm.co/p/legalthrea...

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

A handful of shop owners might want a “beer” upgrade (presumably 2nd hand Corolla ferries too) - but they’ll be the chief whiners when their cut-price version falls to bits. PS. It’s what has been debated, consulted on, debated & consulted on again, & voted for. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

A poor proposal which reeks of ‘we [the wealthy & sorted] don’t use libraries & don’t want to pay rates to keep it open.’ Too bad that Other People have to fork out for a bus ride to Taradale. Maybe close some council offices and have everyone WFH to save the $? www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Pointing out - rightly - that the Emperor (should that be ‘King’?) has no clothes, & is effectivly a foreign asset would bring about the collapse of his government in most countries. Sadly, it will only lead to the collapse the country of the man saying it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

once again, this time for James Cameron

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

New Zealand’s ‘Everyone must go!’ tourism campaign ridiculed as emigration hits record high

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

“…called for security guards to be equipped with non-lethal weapons such as taser guns or pepper spray to serve as a deterrent.” These people are beyond parody, perhaps they should stick to pontificating about the weather or something. www.rnz.co.nz/news/indonz/...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

‘Everyone must go!’… “We’ve got a sale on of NZ! Every one of our assets must go in our latest sale! School meals! Hospitals! Roads! Ferries! Our environment! Our brightest people! You name it, it’s yours! No matter how low the bid, we’ll take it!” www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Dumbcunt that's not how roads work. The pipes go under the cycleways.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Anything, anything to avoid taxing wealth or capital gains. Impoverish education, healthcare, public services and infrastructure to fund Super now? Of course. Raise Super age? Sure. Cut Super payments in future? Why not. Tax the already wealthy? Not a chance. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Luxon dreams of development. Sadly, he has the wrong end of the stick. Development happens when you have a skilled & healthy workforce, and great public infrastructure. That doesn’t happen because you held a meeting with canapés for wealthy investors. craigrenney.substack.com/p/luxon-drea...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

"Failing often and failing early is the way to succeed ... failing early is a sign of success in and of itself," That’s… certainly a novel way of approaching medical things. But - more importantly - will the often failing IT fail safe (& how will that be guaranteed)? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

30° by 9.30am - bring on the cool change this afternoon. Nice detour for the ride home after doing school drop-off though.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Who can really afford the ever-increasing private premiums? Also, there are no private Emergency Depts or ICUs - guess it sucks if you’ve forfeited your right to public healthcare. As usual for Mr Seymour, a glib sound bite with zero substantive plans to back it up. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Dr Bex is right about the need for radical change, & the historical lens here is enlightening. I don’t believe that the current ambulance-at-the-bottom-of-the-cliff approach to health even succeeds in clearing its own low bar of maintaining economic productivity. open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

I think this is one of my favourite colourful climate chart type things, because it depicts two things at once: - Things are going to get worse, no matter what - The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org

submitted 42 days ago • 184 comments

Pretty sure my Privacy Act training module mentioned a thing or two about accessing personally-identifiable data, and not sharing it with any old Bob or Leo. The opaque, private system of surveillance & policing our corporate overlords use - leaks & all - seems ripe for a review. Apropos of nothing.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Everything that’s shitty about our economic system summed up: gleefully abdicating responsibility & kicking every challenge into the long weeds of the future, for another sugar hit now. These people won’t even think of their grandchildren’s need for a habitable planet, let alone for the rest of us

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

In the small category of a thing being simultaneously the best and worst thing, food banks are a rare unambiguous example. The best, because they’re people helping other people. The worst, because they must exist at all. Because those with power deliberately & spitefully created the need for them.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

I've thought quite hard about what I, as a pakeha public law theorist, can add to the submissions of my Treaty expert & Māori (& Māori Treaty expert!) colleagues on the TPB. & I think it's this: under very orthodox western constitutional theory, the Bill is illegitimate & v likely unconstitutional.

submitted 53 days ago • 5 comments

Rochester grain silos, Victoria.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

"The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created...a triangle-framed bike can easily carry 10x its own weight—capacity no automobile, airplane or bridge can match.” —Bill Strickland.

submitted 60 days ago • 6 comments

Imagine if our cities cared as much for the safety of pedestrians & cyclists as they do for these parking meters. cc. @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

For those worried about the cost of everything & the value of nothing (Conservatives), prepare to shit your y-fronts. Nearly $10 fucking Billion dollars a year - 4% of NZ GDP

submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

THIS. "None would stand for council next year" is about all you need to know about how profoundly unserious, and disdainful of democratic transparency and accountability, these people are. #nzpol

submitted 69 days ago • 6 comments

What’s the alternative - that we meekly shrug and accept crumbling, unsafe footpaths, etc? Maybe he’s over the top, but at least he’s being civic-minded. Banning him would be completely unfair. Unrelatedly: isn’t there a “Union” that routinely abuses the OIA process just to score political points?

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Finally saw a @thewaroncars.bsky.social sticker in the wild (Melbourne, Australia) today on our ride home from school. (And yes, the sky really was that colour, half an hour earlier it was bright blue & the sun was baking us to a hot 33°C).

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

All of these people can get in the sea, from James Cameron to Paddy Gower, but most especially the former mayors who kicked cans down the road and now have the fucking audacity to complain about the cans lying on the road www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

submitted 70 days ago • 5 comments

Oh please, will you and the other superannuated yesterday’s men & women please just, for once in your lives, enjoy being retired. If you must splash your cash, there are many, many people who cannot afford food or decent housing, whilst you have unimaginable wealth. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely get fucked with this "pipes before cycleways" framing. Have you _seen_ what roads cost to build and maintain? Getting people out of cars would save so much fucking money we could have gold water pipes that never corrode.

submitted 73 days ago • 13 comments

Is Winston’s price for keeping the coalition limping along going to be us ending up with 2 new, bigger, rail ferries and modern port infrastructure for a price tag suspiciously close to $3 billion?

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

sydney metro, melbourne’s new metro tunnel, brisbane’s cross-river rail, and perth’s metronet are stark and terrifying reminders of how far behind new zealand’s infrastructure and standard of living really are. generations of bad decisions and missed opportunities here. our cities are shit

submitted 189 days ago • 5 comments

True story: Most doctors become a dictator at least once, usually of a European Principality. It’s a stress-release mechanism for when we’re fed up of political meddling, homeopathic levels of funding, & patients missing their appointments. Grab the levers of power to make the clinics run on time!

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Careful what you wish for lads No more protected strikes potentially means no more partial strikes No more work-to-rule allowing workers & unions to make a point while maintaining baseline contracted productivity means lost prod'y & disruption from full strikes www.beehive.govt.nz/release/pay-...

submitted 81 days ago • 4 comments