Those stickers are rad!
🚨 If anyone has contacts at Stuff to get this headline updated urgently please do so.
Expert advice is that getting Covid repeatedly is not like building immunity, it's more like accumulating damage. Each infection raises your risk of long Covid and serious complications.
This is unacceptable.
“Transport is both our largest consumer of fossil fuels, and also a space where there is immense short-term capability to reduce dependence.”
A handy list of things Aotearoa could do immediately to cushion the shock: www.linkedin.com/posts/tim-ad...
Ways the govt could quickly help New Zealanders reduce fuel usage, but probably won’t 🤷, for reasons:
⚠️ Lower speed limits
🚌 Encourage PT (eg bring back half-priced fares)
🚲 Encourage active modes (eg pop-up bike paths)
🛤️ Move freight from road to rail (eg ramp up KiwiRail)
🏡 Support work-from-home
My bunny ears succulent (Monilaria obconica) are waking up from dormancy 🐰
Going up: the price of fuel! 📈🛢️
...which may send other transport numbers skyward, e.g. public transport usage, bike paths, people switching from petrol cars to EVs. 👀⚡
Matt Lowrie has whipped up some handy charts to keep an eye on in coming weeks/months: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/03/12/c...
True that!
The lads gadding about at the other end of the beach added a soundtrack to tonight’s sunset, for extra vibes…
It was pretty great!
“I do like living on a planet with an atmosphere!”
(When you go sunset-watching with your favourite astrophysicist… 🤓🌅)
Someone had the paintbox out tonight… 🎨
Pretty dramatic sunset looking West towards the Waitakeres. #Auckland #NorthShore
Photo does not do justice to just how amazing the sky is tonight.
Two men who famously Understand Progressive Women come to shocking conclusion that progressive women vote for progressive things, also having material interests and ideological integrity is bad when girls do it
Cannot cross water on ghost ships
Cannot tie up ghost ships at ghost wharves
Cannot spend ghost savings
CAN vote out ghost government www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
Waiheke sunset
But my favorite pictures from Venice is not cats but this combination that I think of as “missed connections.”
Auckland sky has gone ridonkulous
Sunset from Ham East
This demonstrates the importance for time travellers of having a change purse with clearly marked compartments for different currencies. (Pick one up any year after 1893)
I do not understand how the ABSOLUTELY VOLUNTARY destruction of the original ferry replacement is not a massive political scandal?!
It was a reflexive ideological decision that has disadvantaged the country significantly.
Red sky at night, BlueSky delight
Literally incorrigible. As well as increasingly unintelligible.
I'm increasingly of the opinion that we're all in an abusive relationship with capitalism and that's why certain folks feel the need to become hyper-fixated on language and tone... because if you just get the messaging right your abuser will come to their senses and stop abusing you...
And always with the “gave” us the vote, oooooh so magnanimous - like we didn’t have to fight tooth and nail, and campaign the length of the country on foot and on bikes, and get officially knocked back twice before finally securing votes for women *and* wāhine!
Oh no, totally busted! It’s true, as a sworn Educated Progressive, every morning I get up & work my way thru the same old to-do list…
1. vote progressive values
2. volunteer my time & expertise for good causes (cos they sure need it, and there sure ain’t any actual paid work atm)
3. ??
4. profit
And to feel good about, and like, spiritually invested in, more good things happening for more people. That way madness lies!
… sez the pure and neutral man-shaped fellow running the profit ruler across absolutely every part of life.
Bugger it, if I had to read these two paragraphs then all of you do too
Having now read Bryce Edwards approvingly agreeing with Danyl McLauchlan about how educated women are just motivated by greed to believe in the power of the state to improve people's lives, I am so annoyed I don't know what to do with myself #nzpol www.democracyproject.org.nz/p/democracy-...
