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mrwatson.bsky.social
Northward drifter, Aotearoa
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Always wondered where the threshold lies for when an Auckland suburb gets described as ‘leafy’. I assume it’s actually not much to do with objective levels of vegetation coverage.

a private company with a horror track record gets to apply to vacuum up the seabed (for free) and sell it for millions and no-one gets a say — we should all be outraged, not just us locals www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...

I’m sorry, Africa isn’t even the best Toto song. It’s Rosanna

Weird article full of one random guy’s [highly disputable] reckons and not much evidence. I’d say politics play a bigger part in NZers consumption choices than Bruce thinks (especially when it comes to swasticars)

Shannon Pitman’s doing some great local journalism in Northland

The United States of Alan

This is great - there’s been a Neko sized hole in my life since 2018

When I get off of this mountain You know where I wanna go Straight down the Mississippi River To the Gulf of Mexico

Was a huge risk putting Sir Ed on the $5 while he was still alive

New idea: a podcast, but instead of audio it’s a written transcript

I don’t know who did this back in the day, but it lives rent free in my head