A thread about skill, knowledge, pride..... And complete ignorance I'm proud of the 38 years my husband Sam has dedicated to his art (Whakairo) and the years he spent learning under my dad. Sam works hard. Te Ara Tupua could be seen to be his legacy piece. It will outlast him

A memorable 600m ride... (Yes, metres) www.robincapper.net/a-memorable-...

Prime Ministers’ Office unlawfully hides briefings from corporate polluters Fonterra and Z Energy. Briefings to change law to block climate litigation. 'A co-ordinated campaign of secret lobbying' - climate activist www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

A US-born woman born was confronted by sheriff deputies in Louisiana who were convinced her ID and social security card were fakes. They turned her over to ICE, who shackled her & took her an hour away. Even after a lawyer convinced ICE of the woman's citizenship the sheriff says they did no wrong

For 2 years NZ Govt sold a fossil gas fairytale. Today reality has bitten and they have announced a new scheme to support businesses to transition off gas (similar to the one they abolished in 2023). But 2 years have passed and huge damage has been done by their delay.

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

Stick this up your RONS BCR #nzpol

Simeon, Shane and Luxon now owe an apology to all those workers who lost their jobs due to high energy costs over the last 2 years. Instead of supporting them to transition off fossil gas, Luxon and co sold them culture war fairystories. Fossil gas is expensive, unreliable and unsustainable.

Whānau - keep clicking these links so this corruption doesn't fall off the radar: www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609... www.1news.co.nz/2026/05/24/a... www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/... www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

AT Level Crossing Survey & Glen Eden Level Crossing Closure? Just close Glenview Road, it will improve Glen Eden Village... (AT Survey open until May 31) #bikeakl www.robincapper.net/at-level-cro...

Holy shit. This is quite serious. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

'You cannot govern a society as though it were a failing business to be restructured.' - Rebecca Jayde. #NzPol

The study found clear benefits from cycling: 100% of studies measuring social wellbeing reported positive effects, while 67% showed improvements in psychological wellbeing.

In the shadow of world's largest per-capita car manufacturing industry, Bratislava has been steadily shaping itself into a cycling city. With a holistic approach to infrastructural, behavioural and institutional change, it has emerged as one of Central Europe's more compelling urban cycling models.🧵

And Lloyd Burr has never fronted about his role, with today's Stuff article still omitting the context of Sherman's comment, just as fringe blogger Ani O'Brien intentionally omitted it too

Definition of a Woman, NZ First - Someone who Shane Jones can enjoy watching on a hotel TV screen at taxpayer expense. ACT - Someone who is probably safe from Tim Jago. National - Someone who does not deserve pay equity.

Be kind to your trans and gender diverse family and friends in NZ today, everyone. This story is across the media, and it can be really tough to deal with — it certainly caused my anxiety to significantly spike at the moment.

relatable

Auckland Harbour Bridge vehicle tolls considered, but still no alternative. Just take a lane! #bikeakl www.robincapper.net/auckland-har...

Did he run?

Not only did two neo nazi teens attempt to copycat the Christchurch mass shooting, the world's richest man falsely blamed trans people for it. Not a single outlet covered that he spread that disinformation.

Jim has been to see the vet. As expected, he dealt with the episode with impressive equanimity. The overall conclusion of his check-up was that he is extremely orange.

Yes. That is exactly what 'free market capitalism' is to the people at the Economist: socialize the risk, privatize the profits.

There’s just short of 65000 adult people who identify as transgender in New Zealand. There is around 45000 people in the country for every one MP in parliament. We are probably owed some representation.

The same minister stealing support from our disabled community is taking $1000 per week off the poorest, as she personally sits on a salary of $327,000 per year? GET FUCKING MAD ABOUT IT, JFC. 🙄 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ

So Louise Upston owns a Wellington apartment but claims a $52,000 a year tax free accommodation allowance for the city But she wants accommodation allowance cut for the poorest Kiwis. This is the same Upston who relied on the benefit & now maligns beneficiaries www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

National MPs, with their six figure salaries, who claim accommodation supplements that are more than some state housing occupants earn in a year, stripping away accomm support for state housing tenants is some next level hypocritical cruelty. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... #nzpol

I cant stress enough that if any country wants to either “stick it to america” or more easily scoop up the soft power we’re hemmoraging, the best thing they could do is pass sweeping, comprehensive trans rights laws. nothing will own the great satan faster and for cheaper.

This was always a resilience project to stop the railway being washed into Wellington Harbour. That hasn't stopped the media narrative taking every opportunity hating cyclists and cycleways. NZTA should have taken the funding out of the RONS budget #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

So proud of husband Sam. The photos I've seen online of his carvings along Te Ara Tupua are stunning 😍

They're right you know

#NZ Paper roads...... So you buy a farm with an unbuilt road across it. The land for the road is owned by the public, but so far, the road has never been built, and you've affectively had use of it for decades... #NZPol Do these farms pay rent on the land in old "paper roads"? tinyurl.com/y9x24k34

MAGA'fuckation of Education continues

NZ govt really flooding the zone today 💀 Thank god Aotearoa is packed full of people who are dedicated to informing the public about it all and fighting every damn thing they throw at us, our kids, the whenua & Te Tiriti. may be tired af, but we are undaunted. @lawrence_xunan @greens.org.nz #nzpol

When John Key sold 1000 state homes, it made headlines & sparked debate Now Chris Bishop has cancelled 3500 builds & selling 900 #houses in what's been called a private developers' lolly scramble, it's hardly making a splash How #NZ has changed! #nzpol #homeless #poor newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/01/g...

We need this in long-form recipe format, with evocative text about the influences of rural Italy on English cuisine.

But the NZ Govt continues with the pretence it's all fine... #NZPOL

Signs of a human/door interface failure? www.robincapper.net/signs-of-a-h...

so uninspiring. he's been thrown sooooo many absolutely softballs and it's a constant swing and a miss from him. all he has is his 3 free GP visits and Medicard (which shouldn't be needed if you just funded public healthcare properly).

I'm the feminist/atheist blogger that originally wrote about Krauss when I was a grad student. He threatened to sue me & I was harassed out of blogging by a wave of rape and death threats Still can't believe Epstein is behind so much of my trauma I'm writing a response, so stay tuned I guess 🫠

Hey, look at this... #nzpol

“Read that again carefully. The Government already knows these reforms are likely to negatively impact the very learners who are currently benefiting from flexible, innovative and responsive approaches. That should be front-page news.” #nzpol aecnz.substack.com/p/new-senior...

#NZpol You don’t have to reduce debits using mad cuts & austerity politics. (Not my bailiwick, but if true, what a contrast to NZ’s current lot…)

Erica Stanford says she has done more for Māori than any Education Minister in NZ, and blames the "left" and "media" for her actions, and ignorance. She also didn't know school boards are crown entities, and boasts the MoE requires micro-managing Quite extraordinary stuff #nzpol #kiwi

Māori Counsel spending their weekends trawling through what happened on Friday... Goldsmith's precisely-timed dump of this cataclysmic proposed te Tiriti-ripping legislation at 11:35am + processing the Waitangi Truibunal report released at 12pm. all before the 4pm MON deadline for our WT Claim. FUCK

Shocked and ashamed that only 8,000 non-Māori have so far chosen to be part of history by adding their name to the Claim that Tania's talking about. Deadline is Monday. "Worse than the Treaty Principles Bill!" @taniawaikatolawyer.bsky.social #ToitūTeTiriti #nzpol 📝 forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

"They had a wide range of views"

Commuting by bicycle in Belgium pays off as employees earn compensation for every km they ride. 1 in 6 employees commute by bike and get a bicycle allowance of €0.28/km. People cycling to work in 2024 earned an average of around €460 net per year (some as high as €810), up 20% over the past year.

🧵Spotted On Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand: A dynamo of a small human (4?) is belting through the markets, long hair trailing behind her, pink dress flapping around her shins as she roars at the top of her voice: "IT'S CHEEEEEEESE TIME!" (1)