Andrew W (aw@mastodon.nz, aw_nz@twitter.com)

The phone from the previous images out of its box, flipped open and just powered on. The bottom half has a white T9 physical keypad which has twelve buttons - numbers 1-9, star, 0, and hash. Above that the colour changes from white to black with a small panel with some more buttons, then the flip hinge, and above that the display showing a clock that is not set yet, showing 00:00 as the time.

The same now flipped closed. The bottom half is white and shows the NOKIA logo, the top half is black and has a smaller screen showing 11:58 as the time.

Going for something simple - I'll be leaving the social media to devices that deliberately do *not* fit in my pocket.
Nice to have a phone with a bit of design style too, not just a glass box.

A photo of a semitransparent plastic box with a black rectangular object inside. What the object is is unclear due to the plastic only being semitransparent.

A photo of a box with cardboard and semitransparent sections. The right side has an image of a flipped-open flip phone with a sample image on the screen. The semitransparent plastic side reveals the side of the phone, flipped closed.

New fone, who dis?

This is actually brilliant

www.stuff.co.nz/society/3609...

Why is there a bus stop here? A small-town mystery with a surprisingly complex answer A mystery bus stop outside a Featherston shop has confused drivers for years.

My customers should be able to park right outside my shop. What, you expect them to walk a few metres? What even is walking?

Also: bus users can just walk to the next stop.

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

That comma 😅 - screams out "yeah, we know"

Framegrab from Arcane season 1 Episode 3, Vi with pink hair to the left, back to the audience, putting her hand to her younger sister Powder's cheek lovingly, but with a sense of foreboding that something terrible is about to happen

Finally watching Arcane, just got up to the end of S1E3 - my god I was not prepared for that. Really good - but also actually gut-wrenching and has me a little afraid to continue

Looking diagaonally from the footpath into a shop. In the foreground, a street sign for a shop called "AllAbout". The text is in a child's writing and has an image of what we are 80% sure is our cat wearing a birthday hat with a pompom. In the background, a diagonal view of a bit of the inside of the shop with a table with a pot plant on it, and some lighting. An out-of-place folded up shade umbrella sits inside because we forgot to move it. A table and two seats is visible outside the front window.

omg we finally made it! Not quite finished, but open.

Logo design by Ms 5 (done when she was 4)

Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?

Yep - but a lot of work to do first. Gonna be a real family effort to get this space ready

AI reply: You left them in the garage

Inside of the former Avenue 47 Cafe. Dismantled benches are propped up against the left wall, gaps in the flooring showing where part of them previously were. Cafe and kitchen items piled up in the background, people standing around.

Photo of an A4-sized Birkenhead Transport timetable from 1991. All black and white text, no imagery. Very plain.

Photo of the back of an A4-sized Birkenhead Transport timetable from 1991. All black and white text, no imagery. Very plain.

In family news, my stepdaughter has bought the business that is the (former) Avenue 47 Cafe in Birkenhead!

She'll be turning it into a Korean street food shop - but first, there's a *lot* of work to do.

Found a 1991 Birkenhead Transport timetable during demolition last night

Cue some other crisis to distract everybody in 3...2...1...

YouTube video by Auckland Council Live 05.06.25 - Transport, Resilience andInfrastructure Committee

But why is the Mayor wanting to have buses divert to go directly outside Maungawhau station? That'll add turns and slow the buses down.

22/24 buses pass directly by Kingsland Stn anyway, they don't need to be diverted to also directly serve Maungawhau. It's a double-up.

youtu.be/sZqP5knBoSo?...

YouTube video by Auckland Council Live 05.06.25 - Transport, Resilience andInfrastructure Committee

Ohh this is brilliant. @richardhills.bsky.social found the resolutions that Council did it during the meeting and was able to answer Williamson's question exactly.

youtu.be/sZqP5knBoSo?...

YouTube video by Auckland Council Live 05.06.25 - Transport, Resilience andInfrastructure Committee

He missed the "council" bit and kept asking how/why the lead agency was changed, getting visibly angry.

youtu.be/sZqP5knBoSo?...

This is when he was trying to find someone to tar and feather about the Maungawhau station precinct changes. He wanted to know who the lead agency was - he was told CRLL. Then for the Maungawhau precinct, the answer to his question was that *council* changed the lead agency to Eke Panuku.

Screenshot of today's council Transport, Resilience and Infrastructure Committee meeting with Maurice Williamson in centre shot and speaking, with his middle finger extended in a horizontal position

Who is Maurice subtly giving the finger to?

Plex done right has subs - mine is populated from physical media (yay op shops and trademe!) and I keep any available subtitles (in languages spoken at home) intact. Plus it can download additional ones altho quality varies.

Need to find someone with the DVD box set to borrow from.

Screenshot of emails in my inbox from Freeletics, offering differing discount amounts of 50%, 60%, 70% off. The 70% email is highlighted.

Signing up multiple accounts to take advantage of A/B marketing.

I'll take the 70% one thanks

Cropped screensho of NZ Herald headlines - the cropped part of the one of the left starts with "Dangerous and stupid", the right side headline is "David Seymour swron in as Deputy PM, marking new Act milestone"

Headline juxtaposition

YouTube video by Veritasium The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History

They really should be looking at lead instead. I just watched this one and, considered alongside RFK's autism hunt it's fascinating and much more plausible explanation for a number of health issues we're collectively experiencing.

TL;DW: Lead. Lots of lead.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV3d...

YouTube video by Veritasium The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History

This bit of science is fascinating on multiple levels inamongst the current geopolitcal environment

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV3d...

This was today… Sotally tober… NYT clearly way off base…

Hoping the recent Sunday train announcements gives us another option!

It's not even running Monday-Friday during school holidays!

Yep. My girls were looking forward to our regular school holiday Airbnb stay where we take the bikes down on the train and ride around to the gardens and zoo. Instead we won't be going at all.

Screenshot of the Service Closures section from https://www.tehuiatrain.co.nz/timetables/ Lists four day closures for King's Bithday, Matariki and Labour Weekends, and two week closures for the July and September school holidays.

No Te Huia during *any* school holidays this year.

If I wanted to kill the service, after looking at its most popular times, this is what I'd do too.

A Twitter conversation discussing the contrasting societal reactions to 9/11 and COVID-19. The first tweet critiques how collective grief is influenced by political agendas, while subsequent replies highlight frustrations over inconsistent safety measures in air travel and healthcare during the pandemic.

Nothing to add here tbh

Auckland Council keeps trying to sabotage its own multibillion-dollar rail upgrade We’re spending $5.5bn on the City Rail Link. The council keeps trying to stop people accessing its stations or building things nearby.

Oh God, I think I might be agreeing with Wayne Brown! thespinoff.co.nz/politics/26-...

We're on the cusp of a transformational change in Auckland and the lack of vision is so goddamn frustrating.