Trying to take a break from being so wrapped up in politics for a couple of months and recover from a *big year*, but they're not making it easy. Just gutted. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

It's getting closer!🎄🎁 #SecretSantaAoNZ

So... compensation in the RM reforms. I have questions... 1. If 17 separate new bodies are writing the plans who pays the relief? The local council? 2. In Ōtautahi PC 12 is underway to restrict development in areas at high risk of coastal hazards - will CCC have to give relief to all affected?

Now this is an award recipient

Secondhand scores today: a new^ trifle bowl and great pannier basket, both from the EcoShop here in Ōtautahi. I've been hunting for the right bowl for a few weeks as I'm keen to make a 'fancy' trifle this Xmas.* ^ to me * hit me with ideas, recipes and inspiration pls! I'm well out of practice!

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

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I. Just. Can't.

So much joy in a dress with pockets!

Oo - trying to judge it - iron first, then sew, plus the tape insert. Maybe 8-10 an hour? A long evening maybe 40? They're beautiful!

Wow! So great to see Christchurch is the best cycling city in the Asia and Oceania! 38 overall is very good too! All this is only due to advocates and citizens pushing elected leaders! Let's keep up the good work! cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2025/11/30/a...

So many people I respect in TVNZ but how is it possible for one news tonight to describe Mcskimming as merely having had an affair with a junior staffer or to report on all the devastation in south east Asia as a natural disaster with not a single mention of climate change as an underlying driver?

Just finished The Impossible Fortune - #5 in The Thursday Murder Club series. So good that @christchurchlib.bsky.social has lots of copies and there're 195 holds! However, there are a few set aside as Best Sellers on the shelves at $3 for 7 days (no holds allowed), so biked to Spreydon yesterday 😃📚🚴🏿‍♀️

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The abuse Julie Fairey copped after being HIT BY A CAR is exactly what happens when we treat online harm as background noise. Women in politics bear the brunt, especially women of colour. Until NZ actually regulates platforms properly, this will keep happening #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

A lovely gathering in Hagley Park this evening for Trans Remembrance Day. Sadness, anger, fear - but also hope, resilience and pride. Heartfelt and heart-wrenching stories, including from a mum who now needs to tell her daughter she won't be able to get the care she needs. A lot of tears. 💙🤍🩷

What @witchnwords.bsky.social said! 👇 I've got some hints in my pinned post at the top of my page and will pop some more up in the next day or so. You can find out more about me by googling too as I've had a bit to do with calling out online harassment and was a Chch City Councillor for 9y 🚲🌳♻️

Trans kids deserve better #nzpol

Fyi: The Press is paywall free today if you're keen to catch up on any news from Ōtautahi 📰

PATHA's statement has been published: patha.nz/news

Goodness from my parents' garden this morning - yes, that's 20 good sized grapefruit 😋 Beautiful, expensive-tasting pulpy grapefruit juice in my future.

#MondayMotivation #MondayThoughts writingforwellbeing.co.uk

The Clean Car Standard requires importers to improve the average emissions of the imported fleet over time, or pay a penalty. Turns out there was a third option: do nothing and lobby the government to delete the penalty. Well spotted @robertmclachlan.bsky.social

Starting to think about shopping small and local for presents? I make all my products myself, mostly from fabrics I've designed myself. You can find my homewares at birdandbeach.co.nz, which is the business I run with my husband. (You can also follow us here at @birdandbeach.bsky.social.)

“Of the sexual assaults reported across New Zealand in 2022 that had progressed to a court hearing, 41% were still waiting for an outcome after two years, up from 30% in 2018.” It’s not just a few bad apples - the entire system is rotten. This status quo is being chosen - and misogyny is the choice.

I’m sure lots of my Ōtautahi Christchurch mutuals know about these but I’ve just completed the latest Life in Christchurch survey for the City Council. This one is about travelling within the city, it’s especially good! They want my feedback re:bike parking & safety while biking in Chch? WOO HOO!🙌🏼

"Questions to the IPCA at the time noted that it was understood the officer had been stood down pending an investigation into his alleged inappropriate behaviour with female officers." NOTE: female officerS, plural Yet the investigation has gone nowhere after THREE YEARS!!!

Petition for men to stop enabling predatory behaviour in every sphere of life and start calling their mates out and for our justice system to stop being sympathetic to perpetrators and for media to stop writing articles just asking questions about women daring to raise their voice - in every sphere.

Where are they going to? 58% of migrant departures of New Zealand citizens went to Australia. Going to a country with Fair Pay Agreements, a growing economy, low energy prices, and a capital gains taxation system. For some reason that doesn’t seem to so be unpopular.

The Minister (a former police officer) and Police Cmsnr's refusal to admit systemic failures is simply a continuation of the culture of 'groupthink' and 'tolerance of unethical behaviour' identified in the IPCC report.

All the systems that failed in the police’s non-systemic failure

Paywall lifted: At every turn, the Govt 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 Govt’s other priorities. The long retreat: newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...

Apropos... *gestures with sweeping hand. A frustrating but excellent read. @christchurchlib.bsky.social have it in paperback and audio book.

If the barrel keeps having rotten apples put in, or apples are turning rotten once inside, at what point do you accept there’s a system problem? Why are rotten apples put in? Why are they going rotten once in? And why aren’t (more) politicians asking this about police?

Mark Mitchell on RNZ Morning Report saying "just a few bad apples, rest of the Police are all goods". But the IPCA doesn't really seem to agree with this assessment?

The problem for women in NZ has always been cis men & the lack of consequences for them if they commit SA/DV/abuse - especially men in positions of power at work or in sports.Their prospects, potential, promotions, reputations, businesses come 1st - it’s said out loud, it’s not even a secret. #nzpol

This IPCA report on McSkimming and enabler/s needs a major systemic review of police command staff and systems to result.How deep does the rot go?Is just making up breathalysers results by lower level police a downstream reflection of the culture? New Zealand needs answers, not soundbites.

Disappointed to hear the new Police Commissioner say on RNZ this morning that it was a failure of leadership and not systematic. Those 'leaders' were created by the system. Women needed to hear recognition that it could be systematic and a determination to investigate and deal with that.

Not only keeping the lights on at the milking shed during a storm - keeping the irrigators going in the heat of summer when the grid is also struggling.👍 Solar kept milk flowing in Southland blackout #renewables #solarsystems #agsky #Solarfarming #energysky www.farmersweekly.co.nz/technology/s...

Did an interview with bFM on #climatechange and health - thanks Sara Mckoy and the bFM team! 95bfm.com/bcast/climat...

Over decades central govt has encouraged a stack of development in inappropriate areas and directed councils to enable it through the RMA etc and councils have acquiesced. To now leave home owners to fend for themselves is unconscionable.

Paywall removed as it's a really important read. 👉 And for all those who say 'but China'... let's just dwell on the fact that the West has outsourced a sh*tload of our production and emissions there, and we can't turn a blind eye to that 👈 newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...

Thanks to Susan at @christchurchlib.bsky.social for the 1 on 1 creative session this morning. We tried laser etching denim, but decided the best Scrabble board for tramping is this vinyl heat transfer. Looking forward to using it on the Routeburn in December 😀

Just signed up for #SecretSantaAoNz Will be opening on the Routeburn Track :)

Spending money on Judith's Space force rather than fire fighting equipment and planes on planet earth. Please make it make sense #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

The govt is considering banning homeless people and rough sleepers in city centres. My Stuff #cartoon today #homelessness #poverty #homeless

This 👇 sums it up perfectly. "A city’s success isn’t measured by how well the rich dine under Michelin stars but whether its rough sleepers have a roof, or even just a safe place to lie down, under the same sky."

It’s great to see this editorial highlight the impact of abuse against local body politicians. But we must acknowledge the role media plays in all this. Whether it’s publishing rumours as fact (RNZ) or hysterical op eds from Soper and Hosking etc, we can no longer let it slide #nzpol (paywalled)

Well said, Susan #NZpol