Even stupider: these tunnels would cost more than building the trams we were promised. Rebuild the tram network you cowards.

Might not be tomorrow, but it will happen. See: 3/3 ca.investing.com/news/stock-m...

The National Party collapsed the EV import market by cancelling the Clean Car Discount and now finds that there aren't enough EVs being imported to meet demand. Imagine that. Incredible.

Look. What I say to you is this. We're lazer focued on the cost of living. That's why we're gutting clean car standards (during COP) to get more struggling families into cars that'll cost them thousands more to run. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

And your sister's a dugong.

Flashback to Sept 6: www.nzherald.co.nz/business/ube...

Map of the United States if it were colonised by Britain

Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

We love to see it! Lee went to a bread factory where a worker was killed. The next week, they changed to 8-hour shifts from 12. Labour Ministry will fine companies up to 5% of operating profit if they have 3 three deaths in a year. New law: employers can get a 1-year jail term for a single death.

#nzpol The minimum wage increased by 1.5% this year. Data today from Stats NZ shows annual increases of: - Food prices up 4.7% - Fruit up 11% - Beef up 17.4%, Lamb up 32.2% - Bread up 11.4% - Cheese up 14.8% - Eggs up 16.2% - Electricity up 11.8% Laser-focused on the cost of living

If he has nothing to hide he doesn’t need a House vote. He can just release everything.

My top 5 movie genres: 1. J&B 2. Gothic 3. Noir 4. Space! 5. Roger Corman

I’m gonna disagree with this one. What we’re calling “AI” doesn’t replace cognition. It replaces pattern matching, but on its own has no idea which patterns are important or why. We are nowhere close to an actual thinking machine.

Remember that the $4billion road being rammed through Wellington is not for the benefit of Wellingtonians but instead for National Party ministers who hate this city and can't wait to leave it after a long term week at parliament destroying the economy and doing a bit of racism

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.)

And here is just Australasia, Wellington as the sole outlier. Sydney and Melbourne slightly more PT-y than the rest

Wasn't Uber supposed to be autonomous flying cabs by now?

With a sample size of 614, over 97% of detainees have NO CRIMINAL RECORD AT ALL? That's WILD. For comparison, 22% of American adults have a criminal record. 8% have a FELONY record. That's strong statistical evidence that working class immigrants are among the most law-abiding groups in Chicago!

🌧️Rain is heading the North Island's way Tuesday🌧️ While rainfall isn't forecast to reach warning amounts over the whole region, some spots in Northland and Auckland could see heavy falls, so stay weather aware and keep an eye on the radar tomorrow. www.metservice.com/maps-radar/r...

For a mere 3 billion I will build a beautiful monorail from the Wellington cbd to the airport, avoiding all the traffic. It will take 6 minutes and depart for the airport every half hour & v/v. #nzpol

But we can't afford to spend $4b on future proofing the connection between the islands. #nzpol

Bottom left of the backdrop knows what's up.

this is theranos-level fraud, but everyone with the power to do anything about it is on the take, apparently

The Frontline with Dr Gary Payinda Craig Renney talks to Gary Payinda about how unspent money budgeted for frontline healthcare is used as part of the smoke and mirrors economics that Nicola Willis and Simeon Brown are pretending is real increased health spending. #BHN #OneTermGovernment #nzpol

Kīoranga! It's Ta Wik' a Ta Rē Moriori - Moriori Language Week! Find resources about Moriori, Rēkohu/Chatham Islands and more. my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/moriori-lang... ^MT

*Literal* death threat. Not quoting song lyrics, no comedic exaggeration. Actionable threat, @safety.bsky.app. Is it in your backlog too?

Canadian artist Fluke's insanely beautiful mural for Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka University of Otago's Castle lecture theatres. The hongi, pressing noses together, is the traditional Māori greeting, in which the ha (breath of life) is exchanged in a symbolic show of unity. #Nikon Ōtepoti Dunedin NZ

Cutting head office jobs? Where the heck is my fainting couch when I need it!?

Anyone getting married at MAL is making their personal ideology very clear.

Far-Right: self-proclaimed Nazis are fighting with the people trying to protect pedophiles. Far-Left: people fighting for universal healthcare to protect people from the Republicans’ healthcare cuts. Centrists: These are equally bad and offensive to me.

I'm sure they all just stopped abusing children once he went to jail.

“People aren’t building networks offline because I can’t see evidence of them here on social media”

Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

the Eucharitz

Government performance rating hits new low in survey

16 Nov 2025 -- As US Bishops overwhelmingly vote to cut off all affirming care for trans patients getting medical treated in Catholic hospitals Pope Leo XIV meets and dines with trans Catholic activists during annual Church Jubilee of the Poor. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

oh my God

Using Golden Ticket to describe people who have fled war and destitution to legally seek asylum. An internationally recognized legal right that the UK is treaty bound to recognize is pure cruelty and evil. It is the language of Nazis, of deportations, of camps and life unworthy of life. Evil.

Oh my

Ah, that time of the year when the sun starts creeping in the south-facing windows. (In this part of the southern hemisphere)

Scanning the crowd at that Pope Leo film thing at the Vatican. Spike Lee and Cate Blanchett sure, but front row seat for Dario Argento 💥...

Maybe there is merit in this whole solar power thing 🤔 63.7kW system on the cowshed roof, $80k installed. No batteries Export rate 12c/kWh

Ruby Bridges, in 2025, is still only 71(!) years old. She’s younger than Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders. She’s younger than Cyndi Lauper. She’s younger than Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth.

SST describing landlords as an *industry*. Soooo what do landlords produce? Nothing. They produce nothing. They do not convert labour or goods to something else and add value. They are nothing more than middlemen who inflate the cost of housing and skim yields from a human need.

Nazis sticking up for Nazis no way

65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

What I want to say about Alice is this: we have not decided as a society that we want people like her to live as human beings. Currently, the regime under which she lived & died is closing off the elements that made her extraordinary life possible. Her work is literally being erased.