Really nice hearing Seymour on RNZ explaining that we can’t cut fuel taxes because it would cost more in the longrun. Following the Nats’ messaging on this sounds like it causes him physical pain.

Mercedes literally green shelling other teams #F1

Snap election please. Luxon’s “act confident and pretend like everything is fine” strategy has never worked and I’m glad he’s finally beginning to figure it out. Same for the whole party actually.

This is what happens within a few hours of saying “trans rights are human rights” on Facebook

Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland has a Wikimedia meetup on this weekend! New attendees are always welcome. 📅 Sunday 1 March, 12pm 📍 New Lynn War Memorial Library 🔗 w.wiki/H$Az 📷 New Lynn Library by Prosperosity, CC BY-SA 4.0

A real thing seen at a uni clubs day

Great thread

Don't worry Aotearoa, I am updating Wikipedia for us

A child has died and two others have been injured in three separate incidents involving vehicles across Greater Christchurch in the last 30 hours.

Highly highly recommend reading the replies to this skeet

Just got an email telling me my Easy Crypto account is being converted to a Swyftx account. Apparently easy crypto folded and sold out to the aussies. The email says you can contact support if you don’t want your data transferred to oz. Let’s see how this goes.

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

The cicadas have *finally* emerged in Ōtautahi. I was starting to get a bit worried about them. Now they’re here though I wish they’d shut the hell up already.

The days look numbered for one of the most insane listcruft articles I have ever seen on Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Disappointed to hear Judith Collins will be Law Commission president. Can’t think of anyone more qualified to completely retire from public office (except Winston).

A new article by @cloventt.net about Kaikōura's Takahanga Marae is appearing today on Wikipedia’s home page. That page gets about 6.7 million views a day. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahan...

Bro wtf www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Wikipedia is 25! I'm going to celebrate with some backend patrolling.

Worth a watch youtu.be/G5_uaLKpoRQ

"You there, boy! [slurpy inhale sound] What day is it?"

Just got a spam call saying Visa had blocked suspicious transactions buying iTunes cards, and asking if I wanted to cancel the purchase. The nice man had no idea what to do when I said I *had* bought those gift cards and wanted to proceed with the purchase.

Today’s Wikipedia DYK section has been taken over for Trans Day of Remembrance. 🏳️‍⚧️

Better headline: "Luxon raids $6.5m from fund intended for infrastructure upgrades to support tourism, buys some French guys dinner" www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

"Positive discrimination" doesn't sound so positive when Jones is describing it.

Ali Jones got absolutely schooled by Albany English teacher Philippa Wintle on RNZ The Panel this evening. The importance of te ao Māori in our education system should not be diminished. Transcript attached for those that can't listen. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Credit where it’s due. I’m glad Winston wants to ban personal firework sales.

Zohran climbing on a citibike. > Some random lady: “Communist!” > Zohran: “It’s pronounced 'cyclist'!”

PSA: just saw my GP and he went out of his way to check that I’d had a measles vaccine. He reckons most New Zealanders that aren’t up to date on MMR will have measles in the next few months. Sounds like the epidemic is going to reach Ōtautahi soon.

Heard a very upset blackbird this morning. Looked around for a while and found an empty nest on the ground, and nearby huddled in the grass were two babies.

@otautahimike.bsky.social being elected to community board AND being an MP has really wound up the hornets nest in letters to The Star James reckons that Innes residents want a "dedicated, non-partisan representative". Well, we asked the residents, and they voted for Mike. End of story.

Phew! Took a bit of work, but I finally got the Wikipedia article about pōwhiri up to the standard where it could be accepted as a "good article" under our article assessment criteria.

Neat! So NZTA confirms that Tesla have no special approval to release "full self-driving" in New Zealand, and that there has been no advice sought or provided regarding whether the product is safe to deploy in New Zealand. Good luck if you're sharing the road with these things.

Anyone know how Andrew Bayly is doing lately? Last I heard he was climbing Mt Everest

"and the [winds] were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left."

bit windy innit

This is a 3.6 roentgen election in Ōtautahi

Huge congrats to @ashleykiwi.bsky.social !

Come join me in Lyttelton for some editing this Saturday!

Ōtautahi I’m sure you don’t need the reminder, but GO VOTE. Chuck your ballot in an orange bin at supermarkets or city council facilities. And make sure you tick @sarainchch.bsky.social for mayor!

Highly recommend watching this morning’s Q+A debate between the Ōtautahi mayoral candidates. @sarainchch.bsky.social once again demonstrated that she’s got the guts and the knowledge to lead this city into the future. Phil’s a nice guy but he’s absolutely floundering as mayor.

Greater Ōtautahi has invited @studonovan.bsky.social to give a talk about Urban Economics on October 20th. Get along! Tickets are free: events.humanitix.com/stu-donovan-...

The orange voting golem knows where you live. Voting packs should be landing in letterboxes across Ōtautahi right now. You can either mail them back, or drop them in the orange bins at council service centres and some supermarkets. Vote!

Seriously, why is Mark Mitchell still allowed to front press conferences?

Oh good god I hope this rumour is not true.

Mark Mitchell needs to be fired as Police minister. He just blurted out that the Phillips kids are with extended family in a press conference, but that was clearly not supposed to be public info. This isn't the first time he has cocked up like this either.

Back to the future in Papanui! I have fond memories of renting videos here back in the day. Some renovations have revealed the original hoarding!