Jo Bailey

front page of the waikato herald. lede story headline: “residents hopeful sea wall will protect homes”

“New Zealand hopeful it’s not surrounded by ocean.”

Good luck Port Waikato. We’re in this together. Or at least we would be, if the current government demonstrated any leadership.
#nzpol

A ticket reading METROPOLIS MUSIC presents PULP GREAT HALL EXETER UNIVERSITY Monday 16th October 1995 Doors 7:30 pm Tickets £8.50 Advance

I’m driving a hire car relocation up tomorrow and flying back Sunday! Saw them in 1995. Cost £8.50 😂 (I miss paper tickets)

My new British passport turned up today 😂 I’d probably have opted for the certificate in my kiwi one, cos Brexit means little added value having a uk one. Feel like I should get a discount on it of what I paid for the passport 😂

It wasn’t too much, but I was pretty happy post Brexit to not have a UK passport. @tristam.bsky.social was clever and renewed his before the EU versions were discontinued

I’d probably have gone for that, tbh

Bloody hell that will teach me for being organised 😬😬😬

Two passports one nz one British

Ugh, gotta be British again. Haven’t had one of these since the maroon EU ones got the boot 😕

Apropos not much, I just wrote a proposal doc collaborating over GoogleDocs and used a prog called DocsFlow to get it into InDesign *but with the text remaining editable in gdocs*. Can’t recommend highly enough.

What is this liter you speak of?! A bunch of baby kittens?

New ebike battery and mounts $1600 😬😬😬

Shitcoin. (Appearing right next to Wellington’s sewage woes in my feed)

Yeah, it’s still totally unacceptable. Also “There were also concerns the leak could contaminate a nearby marine reserve”—uh yeah the boundary is like one bay away, it’s HAS been contaminated

billionaire is off the cards for you specifically because you’d be spending your excess cash on those things…

Totally. Regardless of the economic impact it hurts because it’s our environment and our fellow inhabitants who are being poisoned (and that’s family, for mana whenua). The economic argument that *is* fair is that putting a profit-making entity in charge of managing wastewater is just wrong

At uni a housemate studying Russian had a phrase book that included the vital sentences “how many sausages did you steal?” and “that girl over there, she is a prostitute” 🤔

A very yelllow house

We went for yellow (did ask our neighbours first and they were enthusiastic)

That’s still something up with the form!

And if you drive into infrastructure and trash your car that’s incompetence and you shouldn’t be driving! Feel lucky you didn’t hit a person and are getting prosecuted for manslaughter!

A drawing of a green wheelie bin with a worm laid alongside to show how long it is

Have you voted for your favourite 3 critters for Bug of the Year? If not, show some love for noke waiū, an enormously long hairy noodle that can glow in the dark! Head to bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz to vote by Feb 16th. @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social @siouxsiew.bsky.social

“The majority of comments on the post endorsed the firefighter’s gesture” 😂

What the what

People still want goods delivered to their door! They have a relatively easy pivot, but nope, fail 😠

But if I had the opportunity to have all my research funded — even if the guy funding it was a convicted child sex offender — I might be tempted… said no woman ever (yeah yeah always bad exceptions etc, but not far off). Makes me v. angry too. Will institutions thoroughly condemn and penalise?

The multiple news sites I browse? (And I know you do too!). Muting terms might work to keep a social feed less heavy or distressing for a time. I tend to just scroll faster 🙃

Yes that’s right, it’s a complex of townhouses. Maybe 12, at a guess? Can’t quite see as there’s some on the road front but more behind. Walked past yesterday and thought that they looked well-designed and a good scale

The ones opposite the library that are going in now look great!

Nailed it

I get you're going for 'I didn't spend ratepayer's money on a flash video', but at least hold the camera level?

At least it wasn’t a school lunch?

Gotta wonder if his picks are the kiss of death given none of his illustrated faves made it on despite some being very good. (As I am🤞🙏 for Mr Ward’s Map I won’t object 😂)