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One of those Wordle days. Wordle 1,350 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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If you want to see the consequences of the governments speed rule in Auckland, AT have released an interactive map showing what the end result will be experience.arcgis.com/experience/9...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Ever wondered who sits at the Council table, and what they stand for? Allow me to shine a little bit of light on that for you. 1 Mayor, 16 Councillors, and what I hope is a fairly balanced take on all of them. Read here: foamerman.substack.com/p/local-poli...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.

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If you're mad and find yourself yelling that you want someone launched into the Sun, take a moment, calm yourself, and remember that it takes a lot less Delta v to launch them out of the Solar System instead. You can be mad, but that's no excuse to be inefficient with propellant.

submitted 25 days ago • 69 comments

So the government's new downscaled Dunedin hospital will have fewer beds than the current above-capacity hospital These are not serious people www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

submitted 29 days ago • 12 comments

So I assume the new Minister of Health will be lobbying the new Minister of Transport to undo the speed limit shenanigans of the previous Minister of Transport, right?

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

In case this is brand new information and also a huge relief to anyone else: type -ai after all of your google searches to stop getting an AI overview

submitted 45 days ago • 3 comments

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social

submitted 47 days ago • 66 comments

Holy cow. Over 300,000 submissions on the Treaty Principles Bill. With submissions re-opened for 5 days, has a good chance of beating the previous record for number of submissions on a New Zealand bill by 200,000. (For any of my international followers, NZ's total population is around 5.3 million).

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

That was one of the more spectacularly uninformative press conferences I've ever seen. We're going to spend money on ferries but we can't tell you how much. We're going to spend money on portside infrastructure but we can't tell you how much. It will be cheaper but we can't tell you how much.

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Anyone looking forward to the government buying a Toyota for the price of a Ferrari after turning down the opportunity to buy a Ferrari for the price of a Toyota?

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

NEW PUBLICATION: “Understanding the Drivers of Transit Construction Costs in Canada” The first from me, Balthazar Crane, @chittimarco.bsky.social, and Amer Shalaby. So why are transit projects so expensive in Canada? Here’s what we found: 1/🧵 stateofcitiessummit.ca/files/041224...

submitted 85 days ago • 18 comments

Ok who did this?

submitted 88 days ago • 14 comments