Spending my lunch break getting some steps in on the treadmill, since it’s supposed to help my mental health, or some bullshit like that.
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🇳🇿 Aotearoa New Zealand She/her. Web developer. A house with seven rescue animals. Book lover.
4. Within seconds, we're onto the old favourite... Govt interest bill is $10bn a year. Obviously, this is a gross figure - including the interest that Govt pays itself!!! Weird how quickly we flipped from net to gross. Govt is still receiving more interest and dividend income than they pay out [5/n]
Another year full of climate extremes... Did you know the last 100 days have all set new daily records for global sea surface temperatures? Learn more about our rapidly warming oceans in our webinar this week, & bring your questions! 📣 Register in advance: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
When your teenager emerges from his cave, ands asks to do something as a family (in this case, go out for lunch), for the first time in ages, you drop everything and go.
The developer behind a controversial solar project in the Mackenzie Basin has stopped paying fast-track fees to buy time, after concern over the risk it poses to one of the country’s rarest birds.
Mackenzie Basin solar farm stops paying fast-track fees to buy time over bird threat
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MOST EXTREME EVENT EVER SEEN WORLDWIDE Monthly records broken by 7/8C in SOUTH AFRICA Records for early September broken by up to 15C margins ! Never happened anywhere in the world. We are witnessing something beyond any imagination. Weeks >40C in winter in dozens of stations
Extreme Temperatures Around the World@extremetemps.bsky.social · 3w agoEXTRAORDINARY MOST EXTREME EVENT IN HISTORY What s going on in South Africa is beyond any possible comprehnsion. Weeks and weeks with 40C even above 1000m/1500m asl in winter. After breaking every single record of June,July,August,September records are already being brutalized.
Jimmy Barnes The Eagles Tadpole Fur Patrol Neil Finn R.E.M. Shihad Foo Fighters Goo Goo Dolls & Matchbox 20 (same concert) Linkin Park
Te wookie o te tāngata@chewienz.bsky.social · 3w agoIntroduce yourself with 10 acts you’ve seen live Pearl jam Murder by death Propagandhi Red Fang Drop Kick Murphy's The Hives Shihad The Living End NoFX The Menzingers
In December 2023 the Secretary of Education emailed the Director-General of Health asking her to "soften" the stay-home-if-sick messaging. Not a doctor. Acting for a Minister who is also not a doctor. I have the email, via OIA. #nzpol 🧵 1/
Nat are the ones who put it up to 12% in the first place. Then took away a year’s fees free. Then tanked the economy and made unemployment rise. Then took away young adult benefits. Now they are yelling at people who go overseas for jobs.
Does anyone I know happen to be somewhere near Auckland Showgrounds and have access to a printer? All my IT issues last week had some consequences… and I need a few docs printed, but I’m here alone. Am happy to pay if someone can pick up a USB, print them for me, and deliver back. 🙏
Life is like driving a State Highway in Northland the day after heavy rain: do your best to avoid the pot holes.
can we please give fire fighters a huge fucking payrise? 30 of them on site and 4 of them physically kicked down the fence on my driveway so they could get close to the fatal fire to save my house. they were breathing in horrendous smoke and facing roaring flames to save me and my home
This election should be a youthquake. Kids: enrol to vote, then vote like your lives depend on it, because they do.✊ Everyone else: vote like those young people (who’ll be picking up after *all this mess*, including you in your vulnerable old age) plan to ask you how YOU voted…because they should.
Tze Ming Mok 莫志明@tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 4w agoUnemployment for this age group in Auckland is at 30%
Currently working in a cafe, and there’s a right wing retiree telling a woman at the table next to him that there is no such thing as poverty in NZ, and you never see a skinny child walking around with no shoes *eye twitch* 😠
$60,000,000 WASTED. 💸 The $60M FENZ flushed on a scrapped payroll system could have bought 24 of these exact ladder trucks. Instead, this brand-new NZ-built appliance is heading to Australia while Auckland didn’t even have a working aerial for a building fire last week. #NZPol
The first redundancy happened at hubby’s work today. I’m surprised the boss held out this long. I’m sure more will be coming if things don’t change soon.
I suspect few of my pocket pals on here are landlords but I thought I would ask: my 82 year old mum is in desperate need of a house - no luck with applications. She currently lives in Torbay. She can pay up to 650 per week. At least 2 bedrooms needed. She's a keen gardener. She has a mini poodle.
Ordered a couple of items online from a national business that has a store 40 mins away in one direction, and another 50 mins away in the other. Both items are in stock at both. I’m still recovering from the flu & don’t have the energy to go anywhere, so thought I’d get them delivered.
HARSHEST HEAT WAVE IN HISTORY 52c DAY/39c NIGHT World climatic history is being rewritten in Middle East 52C KUWAIT CITY all time record after a MIN. of 38C Crazy MIN 38.7C Delhoran IRAN 35.0 Makkah,SAUDI ARABIA (August record) Record also in The Sahel Min 29.5 Nguigmi,NIGER
💥🤮Listening to Qiulae Wong on TVNZ this morning. She confirmed that TOP will sit round the table with NZF and would support him as a Minister in any coalition they are in. Please, please.... if you are a Labour or Green voter who is considering voting for TOP, this would be a real possibility
The final version of the Social Sciences curriculum was released yesterday. It probably won't surprise people to learn it presents a highly sanitised view of New Zealand history. 🧵
The philosophical foundations of Standford’s reshaping of education has essentially been; don’t trust professionals, ‘how hard could it be?’, just get AI to do it, and is there a business we can outsource to? This is not someone you want as PM.
