So lemme get this straight #nzpol. High school students who follow the rules of NCEA to best suit their learning are “gaming the system”, which must be thrown out. But MPs taking taxpayer money as a living allowance for properties they own outright is an entitlement they’re comfortable with. 🤔

Chapeau to Benno for producing a video that does a great job of showing how fulfilling, easy, and joyous cargo bike life can be. Well done.

the cargo bike

Our power is off 8am till 5pm today. We’ve got the internet running off an e-bike battery. Checkmate, petrolheads.

Me on my e-bike travelling freely in a bike lane, getting abused by angry car drivers stuck in traffic.

Is it a vest yet? 😆 🇳🇿🧶

Politicians should deliver their policies in person for week. Goldsmith on the streets moving on 14 year old homeless kids, Lousie Upston door to door cutting peoples accommodation supplements, and Nicola Willis walking Lambton Quay sacking public servants. Face to face with those affected. #nzpol

@apocalypseelf.bsky.social have you had your Wonky Box yet? What do you think? We just got ours (every fortnight) and it reminded me to ask you. 🥝🥕

Hard to part with this of Mum’s. But she’s gotta go, have to pay for the funeral somehow

Sharing John’s legendary letter-writing effort again for my friends outside New Zealand. Our govt has introduced transphobic, hateful legislation. Coalition parties have supported it through first reading. John is emailing every single one of our 121 MPs. Individual emails. It is glorious. 🏳️‍⚧️ ✊

Meanwhile, not in the classroom today and shit's a bit grim, so took a half day's leave to stomp around with trees and birds this afternoon. Was an excellent idea. Here's some of both for y'all.

Look if people want the state to make their home cheap to live in, they can put their hands up and get elected like everybody else

I made beef & spinach cannelloni for dinner with enough for another night. It’s always such a fiddly mess, no matter which way I go about filling the tubes. 2 new-to-me methods tonight that were winners. 1. Use an empty cereal liner as a piping bag. Thicker and stronger than a zip lock bag.

Email 52 - Christopher Luxon - National

BREAKING ‼️ My members bill has just been drawn from the biscuit tin that would draw a line in stopping any new mining on public Conservation land 🌳🦎🐧🐝🦋 ...with all the Government's attacks on nature, this could not come at a more critical time. Big ups to the original bill holder Eugenie Sage 🙌

Email 29 - Matt Doocey - National

Tautoko!

💯 "Qtopia encourages NZ media to report on this issue with sensitivity & consideration for the harm this rhetoric does to trans people...A quarter of transgender people are seeing negative messaging about themselves online & in the media on a daily basis." @jennifilm.nz qtopia.org.nz/news/qtopia-...

Ata mārie from Ōtautahi Christchurch. It is a big beautiful sunrise, colour and cloud everywhere

Email 1 to Steve Abel. Green.

"Everyone just wants a decent cost of living, secure home and their privacy. Today the Government has instead chosen to import another culture war to try confuse and divide us." Chlöe Swarbrick @greens.org.nz 20 May #nzpol

btw if anybody feels like telling me what queer-friendly things some of these MPs have said or done in the past, I frankly don't care They'll tell us who they are if they vote for this bill tonight, and we should believe them when they do.

Doing this now. Please email your MPs.

It’s deeply shameful for National and Act to vote for the NZF anti-trans bill tonight. Clearly they’d rather the limited resources of govt be used on this culture war nonsense that nobody wants rather than the things that New Zealanders actually need from them.

A busy morning of exciting event planning, dog walk, catch up with one of my oldest friends, a drop off of needed items to the teens’ school (which needs better bike parking!) and a stop at the local fish shop. We are officially in the season of fingerless-gloves-are-not-warm-enough-on-the-bike.

One of the reasons Stanford gives for ditching NCEA is the absolute bullshit about kids gaming the system by gathering credits from barista courses etc. We still don't have any evidence that students gaining credits outside of "subjects" is a major factor in NCEA. AND....

Have you noticed that the claimed ($2.4b) savings Nicola Willis is planning to extract from our public services is a similar amount to the ($2.9b) tax cuts she gave away to landlords?💩 #OneTernGovernment #nzpol

Go for it. I don't even care any more.

FFS Pukaki ward councillor Jan Spriggs agreed. “I would actually prefer to see something that’s actually going to help the locals to live better and enjoy their township more,” Spriggs said. So any local *kids* don’t count as locals who get to live better and enjoy their township more. GOT IT.

Pretty hilarious double standard. The most common behavior drivers do that puts me in danger is blocking the bike lane. Do other drivers "police" that behavior? No! In fact they punish me for it by honking, close passing or giving me the finger when I try to go around as safely as possible.

My usual paywall workarounds aren’t workin’ around. Can anyone please tell me which Christchurch Principal this headline is referring to?

Ōtautahi who’s got a rotary phone Jen can borrow for a school play?? ☎️

Te Tiriti: What the Crown promised, and what it's now walking back. I want to start where everything starts for me: the Treaty. As a promise. A set of obligations. A framework that says: we will share this country, and in sharing it, we will protect what matters to each other.

I don't know how else to get this message across BUT ERICA STANFORD DOESN'T KNOW WHAT SHE'S TALKING ABOUT: SHE'S SPOUTING WRONG INFORMATION. REDUCTIVE SHE'S MODELING ETHNOCENTRISM SHE'S SOUNDING WHITE SAVIOUR SHE'S SOUNDING TRUMPIAN. SHE'S FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG ABOUT NCEA, HOW KIDS LEARN PASS IT ON.

I never say (or even think!) I’m cheating on my e-bike, but this is a perfect and kind response to those who do!

This comment from Stanford to Jack Tame really irks me. My teens who are academically oriented are in NO WAY feeling aggrieved that a friend who struggles with academic learning is getting some of these kinds of credits. NCEA allows different paths for different kids, success isn’t 1 thing.

So ... The curriculum had to be rewritten because achievement wasn't high enough, but NCEA has be replaced because achievement is too high?

Minister of Education in New Zealand lies. she just LIES. in Parliament, with dramatic gesticulations coz her job haaard. ngā mihi nui Jessie Moss @the_lockemossmonster for bringing receipts 😤 🔥 [clip too long (4mins) so can't upload to BSky, but well worth watching] www.instagram.com/p/DX_zIBaJAXP/

If you value the work I’ve been doing on the curriculum and you are in a position to support me, there are two ways you can do so in here. My work will never be paywalled.

1. Aside from the fact that everyone in the govt embarrasses themselves by saying NCEA is hard to understand, Luxon doesn’t know wtf he’s talking about. “Gone is the ability to make up your overall qualification by choosing between thousands of different standards.” NO STUDENT IS DOING THIS.

This is my dad. Without revealing his age, he's proof that 8-80 infrastructure is life-changing. He lives in a car-dependent Memphis suburb. Last fall, the city extended the Greenline within 0.5 miles of his house. Now he rides 5 miles every day and could get all the way into midtown without a car.

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social

Woop woop! 🚲 💡 Light up your bikes Christchurch, June 21st is the Winter Solstice Ride!

This is SUCH great news! 🚲 🎉 It’s so important to get more parts of Ōtautahi Christchurch served with great cycle infrastructure.

Strange how so many will shame people on bikes for not wearing helmets yet don’t have much to say about bike lanes without protection. Via @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

The entire NZ govt is behaving strangely when it comes to America. I mean it’s not that weird we have always been America’s chamcha but whether it’s the illegal war or random detainment of our citizen they have 0 courage it’s really disgusting and out of step with what the general public wants.

Exactly right.

Kia ora @thepress.co.nz would any of your reporters care to ask Matthew Horncastle about this? He gets a lot of local media attention for his comments, so I don’t see why this should be any different.

Something tells me Dean is going to have a less-than-great day, and Simon is going to get everything he’s been asking for, and more.

THAT'S RIGHT, MOTHERFUCKERS, I WON A WEBBY AWARD. Here's my 5-word speech. #webbys