In other transit news: the 666 bus to Hel has been reinstated

Home final!

In Pokemon GO there are Pokestops (corresponding to IRL locations). One of my favourite pokestops outside New Lynn station is a Gregor Kregar sculpture, "Transit Cloud"; locals have a different name. Game-name: "Phallacy of New Lynn" gregorkregar.com/portfolio/tr... #pokemonGO #pokestop #Auckland

Rising bollards in action at Karangahape Road/Mercury Lane 😍 The secret of civilised streets is to use bollards. @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social @ccrg.bsky.social #Auckland #CRL

📢 Edinburgh Castle on Symonds St is being turned into a new commercial entity by Finn.

He recorded 10,000 concerts on tape, now they’re streaming for free

Bit ominous

Yes it sounds like a delayed April Fool’s Day article, but it’s a true story

Forget about Soros - it's Big Bell supporting the lefties now

just one man’s opinion: more birds should have comically large feet like the pūkeko.

Last week I almost blinded myself while weeding the garden. If you grow swan plant/milkweed for the butterflies, you should maybe be more careful with it than I was.

Sure seems like an urgent corporate tax to stop price-gouging, as suggested by the Greens, would come in handy right about now 🤔

Excellent historical thread on naval tolls and the impact of shipping on political power

Imagine saying this like it's a bad thing 🤷 "The area of Mt Albert chosen had few international offerings apart from Domino’s and Pizza Hut. Instead, it was dominated by ethnic food outlets, including those serving Asian and Mexican-style foods." www.nzherald.co.nz/property/mcd...

A guide for Aucklanders keeping watch for yellow-legged hornets: 1. “Hmm, is this stripy waspy thing a hornet?” = not a hornet 2. “JESUS EFFING C what the F is that MONSTER, that’s he biggest wasp I’ve ever SEEN, NO Jaden KEEP AWAY, shit I think it has yellow legs” = hornet

New renders of this development by Precinct Properties, now called DOVA 121 apartments 106 car parks 6 retail spaces 960 sqm of shared landscaped green space

There it is. Always, always follow the money. When insurers say they can't cover you because of climate change impacts you can finally understand it is real and is causing harm today. Yes, this is a sub-tweet. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

They've updated the Community Roadwatch Report form so your car registration is a required field, meaning pedestrians are no longer able to lodge complaints 🫠

I trust all newspapers will be running with the headline “FIFA Peace Prize recipient invades Venezuela to steal oil”

We're being treated to some house-shakers there geez

A perfect 90's album that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains

First #climate migrants arrive in Australia from sinking #Tuvalu in South Pacific #SYDNEY, Dec 11 (Reuters) - The first climate migrants to leave the remote Pacific island nation of Tuvalu have arrived in #Australia, foreign affairs officials said on Thursday www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

I like big buds and I cannot lie...

Today's a good day for it, good ol' Belgian wheat beer with a slice of lemon from the garden

Hello newcomers to Auckland! Please do as Aucklanders do and just make up your own road rules

Contacted Auckland Transport about missing broken yellow lines at a pedestrian refuge kerb ramp. Their answer was: nope, not necessary. Is this right? Are we really allowing people to park and block kerb ramps at a pedestrian refuge?

Future Fund you say? youtu.be/Cmu-2sxkPYM?...

The New Disney

By 'teenagers' they mean anyone under 50, right?

Listening to Luxon defending the voting registration changes that his own Attorney General warns against, and it has me pondering if we've ever had a Prime Minister more disinterested in engaging with facts, evidence, and official advice. #nzpol

Some West Auckland bus stop wisdom for the ages

We are spending $5.5 billion on a transformational rail project, only for Auckland Transport to bring back cars and traffic right outside stations, by last minute redesigning a well supported project. Something needs to change. www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2025/04/09/g...

So many people reporting a strong earthquake in Bangkok, but it actually hit near Mandalay in Myanmar, can't imagine that didn't do any damage

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

"come to America where we *probably* won't lock you up in an ICE prison for six weeks" is not going to be a winning tourism message

A bit of Western planning dogma that Tokyo will disabuse you of is the idea that all residential density should be concentrated on major corridors. No! People want to live on quiet, low-traffic, clean air side streets. The major corridors are for commercial uses.

'China warship'. Pretty sure they're not made of china ?!

The New Plymouth mayor has described compulsory changes to speed limits outside schools as "ideologically-driven nonsense"

Remember, Change dot org petitions are basically only good for generating social media buzz and harvesting your email details. If you want to sign a petition that requires Parliament to respond,sign one on the Parliament website. For example, one might "Remove charitable status from Destiny Church".

So, the little red monkey returned to its web. It was then I realised that I didn't *own* the monkey, so it would be the people who hired me who'd bear the responsibility of the collateral damage the explosion would cause. The web was in a bush, but the bush was in a densely populated area 1/3

Pumped Up Kicks, bardcore version translated into old english m.youtube.com/watch?v=JcKq...

Oh buddy

"Soon to be parking lots for American tourists and fascist cops, yeah"