Kārearea bird of the year. Didn’t see that coming. Well you wouldn’t, would you? #boty #kikorangi

Last Square Day for 91 years! Don’t forget to mark it! #squareday

Wearing my Tauhou lapel badge with pride! Vote Tauhou #1 then use your other votes to console birds without the Cleopatra eye makeup look. Thanks to @pepperraccoon.com for the badge! @karagod.bsky.social #boty #tauhou #waxeye

Thanks to everyone for a great discussion! AI in its current form is *not* inevitable! #ai #inevitabilism #criticalsignals #makeshittyart

I’ve been a professional software developer for 40 years, but only today did someone liken buggy code to dropped stitches in knitting. Very insightful, and yes I have seen programs unravel.

Wellington library now has poetry on its wall. “Brown Optimism” by J.C. Sturm #pukapuka #wellington #pōneke

My penultimate #squareday post. It’s still 9/9/2025 in much of the world, a date made up of three square numbers. My 93-year-old mother doesn’t recall any fuss the last time: 25/9/1936. If we miss it this month then that’s it for 91 years!

Today is 4/9/2025 (or 9/4/2025). 4 = 2 squared. 9 = 3 squared. And 2025 = 45 squared. This doesn’t happen often! A couple more times this month then that’s it until the year 2116. Extra bonus points if you’re reading this at 11 minutes to 5pm, ie 16:49! #squareday #math #maths

OK #math Bluesky. We have less than four weeks to tell everyone about #squareday 25/9/2025 (or 9/25/2025) which is our last date for day month and year to be perfect integer squares! Won’t happen again until 1/1/2116 … and I don’t expect to be there to see it. Let’s not miss this opportunity!

I missed the National Holiday celebrating bikes-back-on-buses. Good things come to those who wait, in this case in the form of the 200 bus to Masterton Hospital. #featherston #carterton #wairarapa

Spine alternatives for MPs #nzpol

Wellington Electorates To Come #nzpol

Public transport highlights from #Rotterdam #Hamburg and #London

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...

What’s there to envy in the city up north? #AucklandTransport #Wellington #Bus #Train #Ferry

Suspense, Threat and Danger, Wellington Style #kikorangi

A big change moving to Pōneke from London is how everyone’s up for a chat. So here’s a selection of the competitive types I’ve met. #wellington

1970s NZ fiction. Should I read Jean Watson? I love the cover drawing of the waterfront (extends beyond the Freyburg pool on the back). #pukapuka

Te Reo word of the day: AMARU = Dignity. @misswhanau.bsky.social #wellington #nzpol

Some of my favourite Wellington signs. #wellington #cartoon

The most international search on Bluesky is for #bus ... and the best content is returned! #bustoon

Waiohine Valley Road is another bit of paradise. A lovely, not too challenging, bike ride from Featherston Station, on a cycle path with its own suspension bridge! #wellington #cycleway #picnic

Bus or Beehive? Which is the better icon for #Wellington? #bus #cartoon

JVL for the intrepid cruise ship passenger. #cartoon #wellington #railways

Top 7 Sights from a Wellington double decker bus. #cartoon #wellington #bus

Wellington Driving Test : why do you do it to yourselves?

“Which Wellington buses are double deckers?” I asked Google, and got the AI response “Wellington doesn’t have double-decker buses on the regular bus network”. Illustrated with a picture of a double decker *in Metlink colours*. #bus #wellington #aisucks

The Ethical Dispose-Your-Car-O-Meter, inspired by a Facebook post from the Greytown Volunteer Fire Service. #greytown #fireservice #cartoon

A true story with two morals. #wellington #cartoon

The Ballad of Majoribanks Street - or - 7 Seconds to Change Your Life. Complete with a solution to make life better. #wellington #kikorangi #cartoon

You know how the Government want to attract Tech Bro types to Aotearoa New Zealand? Will they retrain as chefs before or after they get here? The fifth job listed was for Junior Hair Stylist - haven’t they seen how nerds wear their hair? #wellington #kikorangi

“I’m reading a good book, can’t remember the title, Eyes Watching … something. It was face out at the library”. Guerrilla librarians at Lower Hutt get Zora Neale Hurston out to a wider public. #pukapuka

“Four awe-inspiring night-time sights” cartoon for the good people of Masterton Carterton Matarawa Woodside and Featherston. #kikorangi

How to be illegal when driving. #cartoon #bustoon

You can learn a lot about a city from the buildings that have No Windows. #cartoon #parking #wellington

A good day in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. How many different cloud types can you get in one sky? Plus a waka in the foreground (forewater?) #wellington #kikorangi

If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery. This is the City to Sea Bridge in Wellington, which doesn’t feel like a bridge when you’re on it. Which is fabulous, so why would anyone want to demolish it?

Thursday before Anniversary Day. #wellington #traffic

Is the greatest luxury in life being able to choose between sunshine and shade? “Can’t beat it on a good day” #wellington

Here today, Begonia tomorrow! Petition is wellington.govt.nz/have-your-sa... #wellington

“A New Kind of Broken” Sometimes poetry is dense with what sound like, or become, book titles. See William Shakespeare, for instance. Reading Tusiata Avia’s poem “We talk about sex poems” I saw a title for someone writing about the world today: a new kind of broken”. #pukapuka

I have a Welly Vision cartoon

Is this a Native Bush Cockroach (Celattoblatta sp.) in my bathroom? I only have the Insects of New Zealand playing cards to help me! #cockroach #entomology #kikorangi

Use It or Lose It guide to the City to Sea Bridge. Drawn, photographed and published from the waterfront. #wellington #kikorangi

Christmas Day walk in Pae Tū Mōkai Featherston, and came across this stand of (I think) tōtara. Magnificent, and such a shame that they’re not commonplace. #kikorangi

Who’s heard of Mary Scott? Prolific and popular writer from 1930s to 1970s, librarian, mother and farmer, translated into multiple languages. My well read NZ wife has no knowledge. This first edition was $6 in Paetūmōkai Featherston. I’ll let you know how I get on with it. #pukapuka #kikorangi

From the 7:00 to Picton, for all those on the 7:00 to London Bridge #kikorangi

World Headquarters of the Verb! And today’s verbs are Protect, Preserve, Occupy! PS what a spot for a lunch break #kikorangi #wellington

Lunchtime at Frank Kitts Park, distant sound of the piper. #wellington

It's a funny old game, but I don't think it's *that* funny. #NZLvENG