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if you live here you should get a say in how things are run

This is from April but only today did I see his name on ACT sign in Tāmaki. I find it hilarious and a little bit difficult to believe that Christmas spent 25+ years as a National supporter before suddenly deciding ACT is the 'obvious' ideological choice for him thespinoff.co.nz/politics/21-...

First nighttime NX1 in a while 🌃🚌

I worry for what it indicates (NZ First's growing position etc) but it is funny that NZF is accumulating rejected politicians.

@drdrehistorian.bsky.social I was thinking about railway electrification and wondered about the counterfactual where Akl/Wlg/Chch were electrified pre-war at 1500 V DC as Merz & McLellan. Where might electrification have gone from there/would we have a 1500 V DC network rather than 25 kV AC + Wlg

Today I have become fascinated about the reasons why the Kawerau borough was not amalgamated into the Whakatāne district in 1989. All attempts at finding reasoning from the time have failed and so I turn to bluesky for any recommendations.

Listening to Dark Side of the Moon with genuine moon mission audio behind it is absolutely peak

bike brain is feeling like walking downhill is a chore because normally I'd just let gravity take me

One of my favourite bad habits is suddenly remembering all the important things I need to talk to someone about after a long conversation talking about relatively unimportant things when I'm saying goodbye because I start thinking about future reasons I'll see them.

imo a huge strength with the current train timetable is that (at least during the peak) we run trains as frequently as we can in both directions, as equally spaced apart as we can and they stop at every station. What if that was the goal for the CRL timetable?

Today's Greater Auckland post really gets at the core of the problem with every official post-CRL running pattern I've seen. Full quote in the reply but I think the problem boils down to drawing with crayons on a map rather than understanding how people use trains.

Desiring a single year long timezone and mindful of disagreements about whether permant daylight time or permanent standard time is better, I offer the following compromise: the entire country adopts Chatham Islands standard time (UTC+12:45) year round.

What suggestions do people have for ebikes for commuting? Ideal price circa $3k but I could be talked into spending more if strongly recommended. And not in a hurry to buy anything/don't mind waiting for something to come from overseas.

Took until the end of the day but I've just looked at the date. 15 years ago I was sitting outside the bowling club in Sunnybrae waiting for the bus to take us back to school when someone came outside to tell us that there had been another big earthquake in Christchurch.

Found a strange thing while out and about today, anyone know what it's for?

If speeding up election results was the goal and not just the cover story maybe they'd have worked out something with the electoral commission first instead of passing their legislation and getting mad when the electoral commission says "actually that didn't make it any easier for us"

in a new not at all unexpected low, studylink now has ads in its hold music

I don't object to the idea of email receipts but it would nice if they weren't just a pretext to send you promotional emails.

hijacking my own thread with a diversion: this is what gets me about proposals for lines that are faster/deeper/fewer stations/etc. You always need to have an eye on what the journeys people are making look like. Station-station time isn't as important as how long it takes to reach your destination

Thinking about how much of a superpower rapid transit under city centres can be. I'm cycling from Sandringham to the North Shore today and the 6km to K Rd took 15 mins, then the next 2km down to the NX1 took another 10 mins.

I appreciate the value of being able to do stuff online and frequently benefit from it but sometimes I would prefer to just talk to a human or come in and do a test on a piece of paper instead of having to deal with the whole circus that doing all this online involves

after a walk on the beach I think my everyday shoes may have finally graduated to "very good second best shoes" which means it's time to see how long I can put off buying a new pair

I'll throw in mine which is the teddy bears and other stuffed animals that appeared in front windows and especially along the path in the reserve near my house.

of all of earth's technologies, I think sunblock might be a top 5

I don't think any of this is really a surprise but it really does reveal how much the government doesn't give a shit about the consequences of what they do They didn't do it to pad out their benefit numbers target, just to save a tiny bit of money in the short term and who cares about the effects.

I won't share what I think about Winston Peters but I despise fireworks about as much and I absolutely think we should ban them.

dirty chopping board theory: owning more of a kitchen implement will never mean you have more of them available to use, it'll just mean you have more of them dirty

Weirdly, Wayne Brown's 52.8% is both the highest percentage any Auckland mayoral candidate has got and also the second fewest votes any winning candidate has won. Obviously the reason for this is turnout.

I'm singing in another concert this Friday! The Auckland University Student Choir is putting on its final concert for the year. I've been quite involved in making this happen as Vice President of the choir this semester. So if you like singing or you just have nothing on, come along!

I'm singing in another concert this Friday! The Auckland University Student Choir is putting on its final concert for the year. I've been quite involved in making this happen as Vice President of the choir this semester. So if you like singing or you just have nothing on, come along!

I think this is founded on cruelty rather than logic but... Having the guarantee of jobseeker surely makes it much more viable to move to where the jobs are, whereas being reliant on parents for support pretty much guarantees you're stuck living at home. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

As much as the bike bus trial sucks it really has enabled new journeys for me and has definitely prevented some car trips. I hope it leads to better things and its limited use doesn't discourage us from better bike infrastructure to the North Shore.

I don't know anything about building regulations but it's difficult to believe that anything that's saving $8 billion is making things safer overall. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

We watch a people go through an attempted genocide, and we sit back and say you are no people. You have no state. For you see, we are friends with both you and your murderer.

Main conclusion is that counting votes in NZ is not particularly slow even by Luxon's metric, and where counting votes is significantly faster (like the UK) it's enabled by simpler voting systems and restricted access to voting. But I also think that it doesn't matter if it takes a while to count.

Might be a near perfect bullshit Luxo quote. "Go look at other Western economies around the world and how fast they count their vote. We must be the slowest folk on the planet." 'western economies'? Confident exaggeration. And he's definitely wrong www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

tall buildings are really cool

I let my phone con me into finally letting it update and now everything is wrong and I hate it

got to go down to Wellington next week and the train works out to be comparable to flying in cost (at such short notice), I can work on the train so the time commitment doesn't matter but... the train runs in the opposite directions on the days I need...

welcome discovery as I prepare for an impulsive trip out hoping to get to the shops before they close

some of the alternatives to the new EW and OW naming scheme considered internally... suggestions of colours, birds, reo, and also just borrowing sydney's system

waking up in the morning and deciding whether I want to take the ew! or the ow! to work

Had an idea to do a thing and decided to do it on a spreadsheet that had some of the data I wanted to use. Found a mostly empty page with enough information to figure out what I was doing and in the middle of it a cell that says 'there's an easier way of doing this'. Desire to do the thing cured.

Making it to a train I shouldn't have because it's a couple of minutes late might just be the best feeling

I think the intention here is good and maybe there's some things we could do (covered walkway if we're worried about the rain?) but I'm not sure the missed/poor connection here is a big deal. 22/24 have a much better connection at Kingsland and all the routes are heading into the city centre anyway.

Awesome video from Greater Auckland about the City Rail Link opening and goes into it.

the late PT followed by fast food combo cannot be beaten

I'm much too young to have stories from the 70s-90s (I was born in '99) but I still had plenty of freedom from a fairly young age. My mum did the walking school bus but I quickly got bored walking at such a slow pace and was allowed to go off on my own.

If you like music you should come along to this concert I'm in. The Auckland University Student Choir is putting on its first solo concert next Friday. I've been part of the committee organising the choir for the last two years and this will be a great concert events.humanitix.com/ausc-present...