“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

Sam Altman picked a hell of a day to basically urge the world to trust the morality and legal restraint of the Department of Defense

Hey the guy that makes the deepfake generator and suicide machine is gonna get into the murderbot business sounds great what could go wrong

NZ needs to quickly match this Aus policy, as we will now be the dumping ground for the worst vehicles from these manufacturers: www.interest.co.nz/public-polic...

Not just a strong Green victory but the first Green MP in the Nthn England, and the first time in a century that Gorton in Manchester has not been won by Labour. A neolib labour rejection & the cookers are crunched.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Quite rare to see a chart that says quite so overtly that no one involved has the slightest clue what’s happening here

As the chair of @nzccl.org.nz said, "We wouldn't give other countries like China or Russia full access into our police and biometrics databases, would we?" Absolutely disgusting that this is being contemplated, let alone that it might be decided without Parliament. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Where exactly are we going to “move-on” all the people in need of housing? Won’t be into the 3,500 cancelled new state home builds, or the 900 up for sale: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/where-exac...

Love this! Let's bring the small personal websites. Let's bring back art, connections, and funny content. And the comparison how we got sold the dream of the automobile 👌; "No longer a tool to serve our societies, our societies now serve the automobile." henry.codes/writing/a-we...

“I don’t take advice” I’m ignorant by design says PM Luxon. I demonstrate my inability to listen to experts and/or act on evidence everyday.

I'm non-binary on #AI, but mostly… popular hostility here is healthy: And getting legs… NVIDIA: "A lot of damage has been done by :ry well-respected people who have painted a doomer narrative, end-of-the-world narrative, science fiction narrative.” - well yeaaaah????? #pauseAI #AIsafety

Looking even worse than expected. While the TM/Akld centre status quo is 'suboptimal' for both homed & esp #homeless… this order persecutes ppl for as much as not having a home, sans enabling even the most rudamentry #housingfirst. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Yeah, break newly achieved liveability so elites can park their Bugattis outside #LouisVitton. Just. Fuck. Off. Already. "helping out…restoring car parking outside luxury stores … scaling back… the council’s pedestrian-friendly upgrades …". thespinoff.co.nz/politics/18-... #Auckland

Happening now on 50th Street in Minneapolis. Lined up over a ten block stretch.

Though Cory Doctorow is generous with the liberal interpretations of his supurbly descripitive term - imma kinda curious that I've not heard him personally apply it to neolib running down of state services. Enshittification it is nonetheless and this is a great, readworthy piece.

“Wellington's sewage spill is just one of many examples of public service and infrastructure enshittification, begun by Roger Douglas and Ruth Richardson, and continued by neoliberal factions across government, business, media, finance, and the public.” - Josh Drummond A must read folks #nzpol

More anti worker shitfuckery from the Princess of Darkness #nzpol

Y'know Waymo's fully autonomous vehicle 'breakthough'… it's kind of not a thing. futurism.com/advanced-tra...

I make sure that poetry is the first thing i read, most mornings, ahead of fiction, ahead of the dumpster fire that is daily news, and dare i say, that means also y'all, dearly beloved bluesky. But POETRY - it's great and these books will be great too - can't wait.

& with growing support for NZfirst, expect more foxes running hen houses. Oh #nzpol, as a wise woman once said, you don't know what you've got till it's gone. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

A reason to be cheerful! - its worth a gander

Last year China installed more than half of all wind and solar added globally. It's hard to grasp what that looks like, but photographer Weimin Chu has done just that e360.yale.edu/digest/china...

Progressives & media need to make clr the dumbfuckery here: Govt chose not to compare this LNG import option against investing same in solar panels and batteries to allow hydro lakes lake storage, only comparing LNG against new coal&diesel ‘peaker’ plants.

Can we just not put all these snow flake white fascists onto a World Ship and send them to an M Class Planet say 200 light years away Then the rest of us can get back in living in a Civilised World

Bonkers that we have to do this but please just do… www.guncontrol.nz/submission?s...

Jaysus

Action Alert ‼️ Luxon is doing secret deals with Trump to give US access to critical minerals in Aotearoa. Think out-of-control mining of the seabed, conservation land, mountains and beaches. Would anywhere be safe? Sign the petition and pass it on👇 action.greenpeace.org.nz/petition/no-...

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

The most car-addicted, car-intensive country on earth cannot manage to even spare its own, once beautiful, beaches. #Clutha councillors wouldn't know shame if it slapped them with a wet bus-ticket. #carbrain www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Confirmation of the fragility and non-universal nature of our health system. #NZpol

Dear ICE/DHS/CBP you have no idea what level of compassion and love for our neighbors you have opened up in Minnesota! 3,000+ cyclists in 20° weather biked seven miles for a man we loved, a city we love, and ALL of our neighbors that we love. Whose Streets? Our Streets!

Inspired by Silke's version, I have Double fixed it.

I feel the clearer air already with the reduction in cars in Tāmaka=i Makaurau city centre; though over Hopetown bridge, alas, all hope is lost. So, #auckland, more of this pls, further, sooner.

This summer sponsored by BP

The tragic loss of lives in NZ flooding events this week are climate change deaths. Media and govt are avoiding the topic. Leaders and commentators must acknowledge the emerging reality of ordinary summer rainstorms carrying volumes of water akin to tropical cyclones of previous decades.

Extraordinary polling from @yougov.co.uk today, showing the @greenparty.org.uk in first place across all working age people 🟢Grn - 20.5% 🔴Lab - 20.3% ⚫Ref - 20.1% 🔵Con - 15.5% baffling why 60% of pensioners are supporting Con/Ref who will slash public spending that mainly goes to pensioners

Canada starts preparing for guerilla warfare, just in case www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Nation Yearns For Relative Calm Of ‘President A Giant Pedophile’ News Cycle https://theonion.com/nation-yearns-for-relative-calm-of-president-a-giant-pedophile-news-cycle/

NEW: School students have staged a mass walk out all over America to protest ICE and Trump. Here’s just some of the thousands of young people who stood up for their community today. Phenomenal, inspiring effort today 👏

I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.

new zealand’s unspoken foreign and defence policy of relying on the australian landmass isn’t going to cut it much longer. unfortunately for the “independent foreign policy” guys, and the “abolish the military” ones too, probably exactly the opposite is needed

EnZed Energy have lodged an application for an offshore oil exploration permit off the Taranaki Bight. They are the only company to do so. I think most of us environmentally conscious people oppose any kind of oil exploration in Aotearoa ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Dr. Strange used the time stone to look at 14 million possible futures of Earth, and he found the only one where Donald Trump actually gets a Nobel Peace Prize. We are living in that one future. Lucky us. apnews.com/article/trum...

Submissions for this awful bill close tomorrow night. This is a good summary of what Stanford and Seymour are trying to push through. Your submission can just be a statement of opposition #nzpol