When the Business Association tells you to BACK AWAY from removing those bike lanes, and is fully armed with data and evidence you better pay attention!

This is more easily executable with a three-wish genie, but it's good to be prepared for all circumstances. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fish-3 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

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At every turn, the Government has opted for whatever would actually lead to more pollution and a warmer world – even if it costs more, jeopardises NZ’s reputation, overturns a campaign promise or clashes with the Government’s other priorities. The long retreat: newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...

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Dien Bien Phu. Last stand of the French in Indochina. Fascinating city, and of huge significance in the liberation of Vietnam.

The coalition government in a nutshell. ‘They fear the future, they dream of a world that never was and never could be, they’re exclusionary, they’re humourless – they’re this coalition.‘ - Chris Finlayson #nzpol

"The New Zealand government is now basically a road-building authority with bits tacked on." thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-...

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

Quick, somebody tell David Seymour. A US state not that much bigger than New Zealand has voted to tax high earners to fully fund school meals for ALL students. #nzpol

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Every now and then Winston hits the nail on the head. Credit where it’s due!! 'Enough is enough' - New Zealand First wants to ban private fireworks

We Are Love The new album by The Charlatans Out now! Get yours here linktr.ee/thecharlatans

Stopping sprawl and turning Auckland into an efficient, green city? Sign us up, Mayor Wayne Brown! A standoff is shaping up between the Mayor & the Minister on the question of sprawl. Matt Lowrie looks at how this (along with the 2026 election + CRL opening) may play into the hoped-for "city deal".

One of the best British bands ever, and I know The Beatles existed.

I'm often very critical of Christopher Luxon as PM, so I try to make it a point to say when I think he's doing something well. And while it seems like a low bar, his being this assertive and direct here is something he could easily have avoided.

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If this were a bunch of Pakeha farmers having to go back to court to relitigate an award of water rights because the government had changed allocation rules the media, business and legal establishments would be united in decrying it as the death of the rule of law.

Memo to Minister for Changing the Climate NZ.

Make this a minimum requirement for all charter schools before they get a penny of public money.

I don't have premium access and don't care enough to pay to read reckons like these, but if DC KC can explain why a CGT is "punishing thrift" while taxing the interest paid on a term deposit isn't then she's probably worth whatever hourly rate she charges.

I wish you could impose silence on people the way others impose obscene amounts of noise. Ban fireworks.

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Think I'm working on my best story since Citizen Thiel. So good I don't even mind writing on the weekend. 3000 words in and it feels like I might be half-way? Just 200 more pages of OIAs, three hours of interview transcripts, and several dense pages of legalese to sythenise and I'm g2g.

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We see our job as transit planners as being at least half storytelling. The great Todd Litman explains why. www.planetizen.com/blogs/136153...

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The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

My four favourite facts about the cockchafer beetle: 1. It's called a cockchafer beetle. 2. It’s also sometimes known as a “billywitch”. 3. It’s unusually loud and clumsy by beetle standards and bangs into lots of things when it flies into your house by mistake. 4. It looks like this, close up.

I used to work at a small shop that made little plastic vampires. There were only 2 of us working there, so I had to make every second count.

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Our country in the south Pacific has been battered by high winds, the kind of weather events that climate change makes worse, yet still the NZ Govt is part of the climate obstruction team. Subsidies to fossil fuels in a climate crisis - madness. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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What was not said in the article is that the $18b highway only returns a Benefit Cost Ratio of around 0.7 aka waste of money What the article also fails to say that the supposed benefits in time and lives saved can be delivered for 33% of the cost by doing a 2+1 road for the entire leg

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Have seen this before, but like to repost. #WritingCommunity #Publishing #Ageism 📚💙

"Come on in, the water is beautiful & your autism will be cured," says Robert Kennedy Jr, as he swims with his family in a sewage plant. It is at this point that I see a tiny worm swimming frantically to shore. "I quit!" says the worm. "I'm finding another brain. This guy is nuts enough without me."

US can never beat China at the long game

Everywhere it’s the same story. Wind power is lowering the electricity prices, whereas gas power is increasing them. Here in New Zealand, expensive fossil gas generation keeps our electricity prices unnecessarily high. #nzpol

“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.

The chief executive officer of the USA is raising revenue through import duties without consulting the representatives of the people; exactly 250 years on from the start of the American Revolution. Sing it, Alanis.

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Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America