We’re LIVE in under 10 minutes. I’ll be answering your questions about @urbantruth.bsky.social or anything else that isn’t a complete distraction! #UrbanTruth

If I had an ebike company I'd be aggressively marketing electric trikes with very sexy 30-50 year olds. It's a great time to encourage older drivers out of their cars, but balancing on a 2-wheel bike isn't for everyone. And "tricycle for seniors" is a real boner killer.

it's difficult to overstate how dramatically the scientific climate has changed in new zealand in the last 3-4 years I've previously referred publicly to our science policy as 'batshit' and to our prime minister as 'an idiot' for overseeing it this report is solid evidence for that word choice

So I can provide insight into why there was no succession planning for the 5 GI specialists who left over the past three years. Put simply, Health NZ just will not let clinical groups hire ahead of time to fill future gaps.

Call me a communist but I'm okay with ambulances and harvesters having more access to fuel than my station wagon.

A physics lesson from Dr Peng. The problem is not whether the pedestrian “made eye contact” at the zebra crossing. The problem is the car driver that drove into them.

Hamilton you lucky things, you!! Louise is incredible. ✅ ✅ #nzpol

Have you noticed that the government are more concerned with not looking like Labour handling a crisis than handling the crisis? #nzpol

I would add to this. If you’re unfamiliar with safe cycling routes where you live and find this a daunting task, I recommend contacting your local cycle advocacy group. They may* be able to help you plan the safest route for you to take. * even if this isn’t advertised, most groups will have

STOLEN E-BIKE Stolen from Vivian St tonight between 9 and 11:45pm. please let me know if you see it! this is my friend's means of transport please share

I’ve always understood that the feel or vibe of a campus is important, but hadn’t ever considered the weather on open day. It does make sense! Mind you I’m doubting we’ll be able to afford flights to take the twins to the open days in the North Island they/we want to attend over the next months.

Flu vaccine update: FLUAD adjuvanted influenza vaccine (unfunded) is now available in Ao NZ to anyone aged 50+ years. The MF59 adjuvant boosts immune response in older people and can lead to more durable immunity. 1/2

School Principals been advised to consider, for their situation, what would be involved for 4 day in-class attendance/ 1 day remote learning for schools in Term 2. Guessing some in Govt/Public service know a shit storm is coming but can't/won't/aren't being allowed to articluate that.

Two LED Safety flags headed to friends soon. I’m pretty happy with the attachment to open racks and cargo bike guard rails. Progress on seat rail/post is still ongoing. I’m happy to build you one!

The government is busy telling everyone about fuel shipments headed to NZ. I want to know about shipments of EVs, eBikes, eBuses, trains, and solar panels, so we don't need to worry about that other shit anymore.

Interesting hypothesis… To simplify, it may be that a part of children’s strong innate immune system, and exposure to other viruses that activate it, might be allowing a C19 variant to spread, where it otherwise might not have been able to?

the Met has acquired the "new" Rosso Fiorentino painting they found painted over obsessed with how renaissance artists had the same problem as silver age comic artists where you're trained rigorously to draw adults and you're like "what is a baby like"

This intersects with one of my favourite rants, the devaluing of admin/clerical skills. So many organisations have slashed admin roles over the decades because it's largely women's work and therefore invisible and that's why all your documents look like shit now and paperwork takes a million years

Achievement unlocked ✅ Took the kiddo cargo bike camping with another dad and managed to get through the whole night!

Can someone please ask Minister Potaka where those 3,000 children are now? And if he doesn’t know, why doesn’t he know? #NZPol

honestly this is an easy win for the oppositon: campaign to ban AI transcription indefinitely and re-employ medical transcriptionists who are much more reliable

@rebecca.ruins.party hmm, too much?? Look they have ZIP!

Take some time to escape *waves hands* all the terrible stuff going on and go for a walk, Ōtautahi! So many cool walks to explore. Check out the programme in the OP.

Final bike dressing and costume making today at The White Room Creative Space (180 Avonside Drive), 5-8pm! 🧶🧵 We are now full in all colours of the progress pride with intersex flag 🫶 Thank you to our sponsors & supporters 🙏 Thank you to our photographer Husk Productions 📷

Benno bikes hanging out at the grocery store. #cargobike #e-bike

Agree completely that we should be investing in reliable, robust PT networks (as opposed to the awful, opposite direction the NZ govt has taken). However for *short term relief* in current conditions, I do support the call for free PT as per the Greens, for example.

Red Cross Levin is looking for FIVE sewing machines for former refugees. If you're in the lower North Island, could you please put out some feelers ? We can help with transport and checking machines, so please make any offers to us at [email protected] Thank you! Please share!

“There's so many reasons why people get on a bike. There was a guy who lost 300 pounds, joined a bike group, and never gained the weight back. Another guy, who lost his wife, and said once he joined a bike group, his whole outlook changed, because he thought before that. . .” 🧵

So maybe a reporter could f'n put it to our purported Min of Social Welfare: EITHER: drop sanctions/YOUR obligations regime for JS particularly until this crisis is over OR: keep up this f'n performative nonsense which solves nothing *but be honest that obligations DO exist, and BUMP BENEFITS UP*.

Last chance! We ride Saturday 28th March, 9:30am! Register at rainbowride.org.nz

Primary Health Care Resource for Adults with Long COVID #LongCovid #MedSky

Look at this slick e-trike!

Would.

A lot of people who told me my $14k cargo e-bike was expensive and impractical really want me to have sympathy for them that they’re spending a lot on gas for their $50k SUV right now

I'm teaching people to crochet for Pride tomorrow evening! 6pm-7:30pm on the 3rd floor of Tūranga, come on down :D maps.app.goo.gl/Kf9yUPrWTaXi...

Unless, apparently, a woman is telling you she deserves pay equity. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

😁 Willis and Luxon will love how VV says she saved their budget #nzpol

For anyone who has views about legally allowing kids to ride bikes on footpaths, or actually requiring drivers to pass at a safe distance, or even making sure that your bus can run on time then this NZTA survey’s up until tomorrow 5pm (it’s pretty straightforward): nzta.govt.nz/about-us/pub...

Just got a call from the vet. 7 teeth in total coming out, 1 is preventative but we do not want to have to do this again next year. Luckily they are all skinny little ones at the front. But 😭

Pearl the greyhound is having some teeth out today. At least 3. She gets very stressed going to the v-e-t so has to take calming drugs beforehand. I always feel guilty about it & her recovery from a general anaesthetic is never great but it has to be done. The up is post-surgery roast chicken!

🤬 🤬 😭 😭 One of my favourite mugs, one of a pair.

She cut funding to buses trains cycle lanes electric vehicles. All she’s ever done is make the country more dependent on fossil fuels

If you’re after a gentle, heartwarming, really lovely tv show to watch, try Leonard and Hungry Paul on TVNZ+.

I’ve just made a donation. Every little bit helps.

In the end, we ran a live demonstration in a meeting with our boss - showing how even simple questions could result in the chatbot giving advice that was, in some situations, life-threatening. Once they saw that, the requests to make the chatbot accessible to the public disappeared.

The State of the Nation is that we have people sleeping in cars and in parks and we don’t care to fund the services that will support them. The State of the Nation is thousands of people choosing between heat or rent, food or fuel, and we don’t care to diversify our fuel sources or regulate markets.

@dqmcd.bsky.social I’ve sent you a message :)

Lie: Bike-lanes cause traffic congestion. Truth: Bike-lanes help solve traffic congestion. Lie: Bike-lanes hurt street shops if they replace parking. Truth: Bike-lanes help street shops more than street parking does. Lie: Bike-lanes cost us too much. Truth: Bike-lanes save us all public money.

Teens were reading about types of migraines for me today & came across this handy dandy tip: To reduce likelihood of migraines reduce alcohol (easy as I rarely drink), coffee (uh, i only have 2 coffees/day but don’t like this idea) and stress. LOL I do NOT know how to reduce this so coffee it is.