Pō mārie Aotearoa

Exciting Saturday evening cleaning the cheek pads from my helmet.

Finally watching season 4 of The Witcher, which I loved the previous seasons of, and while I’m only in the first episode admittedly, I’m constantly wishing it were Henry Cavill.

This is the correct explanation of what happened tonight👇

I see James Watson has died. What did Watson discover? Rosalind Franklin's lab notes. Only we spell it 'S-T-E-A-L' these days.

Post you from a different era. Me, a wee femme thing, on the couch of my first long term girlfriend, around 1996 I think.

#30DayMapchallenge Day 8, Urban. People don't realise what a big deal it is for acceptance of place names to change in such a short time without wars/dictators/invasion/etc. Just people, within a generation, deciding it is the right thing to do. mapdata::NZHires baseman + Affinity Publisher.

Oh no that’s terrible somebody do something

In shorts for the first time since the end of last summer! Woohoo yay! So ready for warmth, so over winter so much.

Look, it's not even in the top thousand offenses of this administration, but I can't get over how fucking tacky and gaudy the Oval Office has become under this clown. I'm surprised he hasn't thrown up some LIVE LAUGH LOVE pictures to complete the look of "strip mall Italian restaurant"

Excellent from my law colleague up at Auckland. Legal AI is truth agnostic, often wrong, and time saved is often illusory. newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/l...

I will admit, it does boggle the mind that folks looked at M*sk and thought “You know what? What that man needs is more money”.

Idiots in shorts, hoodies, even singlets, with street trainers on, doing 100kph through the 80kph section of the motorway on their motorbikes … yeah, it’s hot today, but y’all are why we’re having our ACC levies increased.

Gotta say Auckland Transport is getting better. Clean carriages, more trains, loads of staff on the ground walking around offering help. I know I've moaned about it for years but credit where it's due, it seems to be on the up and up. 👍

Hey @lewsos.bsky.social @lcsnz.bsky.social @dimsie.bsky.social it apparently gets worse unbelievably ...

Regarding my point earlier about there needs to be some fundamental changes in motorcycling in the West, as if we keep going with how we are, it's going to die, have a watch of this. The argument here is basically to stop gatekeeping smaller electric motorcycles & similar: youtu.be/Yr07WOBtaQA?...

If we still had the clean car scheme this would be $22,500 If we had equal RUCs on all vehicles it would save you thousands vs a petrol city car

You either die a gyro Or live long enough to see yourself become the filling

Of course the guy got off. The case was sub standard.

Dammit, now I want Jimmy Johns, or like Potbelly.

Alternate framing - People learnt the impact of transmission during the pandemic and now are less likely to come in and get everyone else sick.

I'm just going to say ... that's a wrap :)

Today in electric motorcycle news … Zero Motorcycles just dropped a new teaser video for their Lompico Concept bike. They’re saying more detail in 2026. But if I had to guess, I’m thinking a 150cc (possibly a bit more) commuter bike. Pos removable batteries. Home charging. youtu.be/d-mKU7rBc58?...

A BA is always a good idea 😌

Don’t worry, I’m fairly sure Gorsuch doesn’t have that level of critical self awareness.

And “Guy Fawkes Night” is celebrated in Aotearoa/NZ, which shows how far English propaganda from several hundred years ago reaches. Most of my students have no idea why it’s “celebrated” and when I tell them we used to make effigies of Fawkes and throw them on a communal bonfire, they’re horrified.

Love this city … feels like summer is about to be here, finally

I'm sure it's totally coincidental that the AoNZ government's changes to the Marsden Fund have been followed by successful applications led by female investigators dropping from 55% to 33%, and successful applications led by Māori investigators dropping from 13% to 5%. 🫠 🧪

Good lord, when you're able to have Lina frigging Khan as the co-leader of your transition team? Dang, Zohran got support from the big guns.

This is really cool ... and gets to part of why Hobsonville is probably my favourite Auckland neighbourhood outside of the centre city.

This was excellent.

Copy Australia - no private sales, but public community events. One night would be ok - but it’s always now random fireworks at any time of night through the whole summer. Boring.

A New Yorker cover shouldn’t make me feel like this, but here it is, making me feel like this

we need Democratic Party candidates who make people as excited about being Americans and residents of their cities and states as Zohran made New Yorkers this entire campaign, tonight, and in the months and years to come.

This victory speech from Zohran Mamdani is the most profound Dem speech of its kind since Obama at the DNC in 2004.

Dang, this is A SPEECH.

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Mamdani: Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall—your struggle is ours too

Mamdani reiterates his support for trans folks, his determination to fight "the scourge of antisemitism," and his pledge to fight Islamophobia--and throws a punch at the billionaire-funded campaign of lies against him. "In a time of political darkness, New York will be the light." This is a SPEECH.

“In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light”. - Mamdani victory speech. What a speech. Cities are great.

SHADE.

Fight. Win.

Charlotte's transport referendum has won. 1% sales tax increase is expected to generate $19 billion/20 years, funding: —Transit (40%): Red Line commuter rail, Silver Line light rail, Gold Line extension, Blue Line extension —Road projects (40%) —Bus improvements, creating frequent bus network (20%)

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969

Boom.

This woman has been an absolutely epic organizer against her abuser (Cuomo) and on behalf of Mamdani. Thanks so much for all the hard work. Here we go.

New Yorkers have spoken and voted for change. Congrats Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social!

WOOHOO!!!! I can't believe I care this much about the mayoral election of a (albeit amazing) man in a city I don't live in, in a country I don't reside in ... but I do. Boy-howdy I do. I think we all needed this.

Cross-posting my general assessment from FB: www.facebook.com/brian.t.rice...