if everyone alive today had the same ecological footprint as we in New Zealand, the planet would use more than it could replenish (aka: resource overshoot day) in mid-April of a figurative year based on data from 2026. more data, methodology, etc: overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/newsroom/cou...

*Delighted* that Mr Ward’s Map—a book I had the pleasure of designing for (and with) @bayheritage.bsky.social—has been shortlisted for *three* PANZ Book Design Awards, for best illustrated book, typography and cover 🎉📕 🎈😻 www.bookdesignawards.co.nz/mr-wards-map...

Mr Ward’s Map: Victorian Wellington street by street— Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2026 FINALIST

Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2026 Finalist Designer: Jo Bailey Title: Mr Ward’s Map: Victorian Wellington street by street Publisher: Massey University Press For…

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I ordered from #ModiBodi having read good reviews. BUT they’ve subsequently emailed me repeatedly with no unsubscribe option and their customer service email is handled by an AI bot (you can tell by the way it did the ChatGPT sycophantic ‘you’re right, that email should by law have had an opt out’)…

Wayne Rooney’s forehead is made of the same stuff as Barbie Ken’s crotch #realworldcupcommentary

Beaky looks shifty, but quite trim. If they really were a ‘greedy duck’ would they not be nudging 'absolute unit’ size? @themerl.bsky.social pick from the Ladybird Gallery

Renationalising British railways is so needed. The ticketing is incomprehensible, and rn on a GWR where the reserved seating system is borked so there are people sardined in on a baking hot day looking at standing for hours (luckily I’m only on for one stop and didn’t have a reservation anyway)

Eatshit

Alt: Sardine can full of the word shit

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Screeching emergency test alert! Even though I knew it was coming, still made me jump out my skin!

Interested to know who got the screeching alert five mins ago. I did on the Melrose side of Island Bay, friend in Oku street nearer the sea didn’t…

that's 160 years' worth of wellington cycle funding btw

RNZ News (Unofficial)@radionz.nzcow.com · 2mo ago

📢 The four-lane, 16-kilometre stretch will cost $1.8 billion

“Now is the time for intergenerational thinking… Now is the time for us to continue protecting nature over short-term gains. The costs of doing so today are far lower than the cost of repairing the damage later.” — Dr Danielle Shanahan, CEO Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/22/m...

Mining to the left, landfill to the right – Zealandia stuck in the middle

Opinion: Wellington has become a global model for urban ecological restoration, but it’s under threat, writes Danielle Shanahan

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I got a jury duty summons for July. I’ll be away. There’s no way to respond other than post. They want proof of my travel so I have to print a digital e-ticket and mail it?!

Enjoy this page-by-page flickthrough of the epic Mr Ward’s Map book, a street-by-street look at Victorian Wellington, now the @ockhamnzbookawards.bsky.social Bookhub Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction winner! Huge congrats @bayheritage.bsky.social #MasseyUniversityPress (designed by me!) #TheOckhams

Congratulations @bayheritage.bsky.social! What a huge privilege to design this book, and be generously acknowledged from the stage 📕😻 amazing work from the Massey University Press team #theockhams

Ockham New Zealand Book Awards@ockhamnzbookawards.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Huge congratulations to Elizabeth Cox, historian and winner of the Ockhams 2026 BookHub Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction! @bayheritage.bsky.social #theockhams

A great biking network delivers benefits to everyone in our community. In the middle of a fuel crisis, a climate crisis, and an affordability crisis; WCC is proposing to slam on the brakes on cycling projects. Have your say. Submissions close tmrw! www.cyclewellington.org.nz/annual_plan_...

I find the OneNews weather report incomprehensible—graphic overlays and words are quite a mush

here's an image of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa from the last 20 minutes. Aotearoa is in the lower left of Earth’s disc in this image (under cloud : ) Cyclone Vaianu is clearly visible to the north…

OMG SWYD ASAP, 2day I found this GR8 guide to communicating circa the millennium. HAND all, I hope U been LTWT, LOL

Is this a temporary error of have eligibility criteria been changed? Just tried booking a vaccine but Health NZ site says nope. I’m 49…

“New Zealand hopeful it’s not surrounded by ocean.” Good luck Port Waikato. We’re in this together. Or at least we would be, if the current government demonstrated any leadership. #nzpol

Ugh, gotta be British again. Haven’t had one of these since the maroon EU ones got the boot 😕

New ebike battery and mounts $1600 😬😬😬

Have you voted for your favourite 3 critters for Bug of the Year? If not, show some love for noke waiū, an enormously long hairy noodle that can glow in the dark! Head to bugoftheyear.ento.org.nz to vote by Feb 16th. @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social @siouxsiew.bsky.social

Weather’s good for a tv binge and I *highly* recommend The Newsreader—I absolutely hoovered it up and did all three seasons in a week or so. Some magical 80s set dressing and cracker acting www.imdb.com/title/tt1392... its showing on Netflix here

Laundry, Cuba Street, Wellington. Consistently great bar food including the best fries, cooked in the caravan out back. And many pints of Supercharger (pre-sale of Panhead to Lion). It hasn’t been five years yet but it left a big hole 😟 screw greedy landlords everywhere!

Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Sunday night timeline cleanse please tell me about your favorite lost restaurant (closed for at least 5 years, like I really want you to go back into the vault), why you loved it and what you ate there

Someone told me the other day that Gen-Z don’t use apostrophes. Not sure if that’s true, but if so it’s to cosmically balance this kind of excess…

Love me a brooch! interaction designer @tristam.bsky.social gets the button press one, non-huggy me gets the don’t touch one (though irl I’ll be wearing both all the time! 😂) fingers.co.nz/exhibitors/f...

The Manage My Health breach wasn’t a tech failure, it was a policy failure. This column traces how 30 years of privatisation, light-handed regulation and “high-trust” governance left NZ’s most sensitive health data in private hands, with no real oversight: www.democracyproject.org.nz/p/democracy-...

Democracy Briefing: How Privatisation built the MisManageMyHealth disaster

Why don’t we have a single, secure, government-run system for health records?

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Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts is offering scholarships to help you start (or continue) your explorations in art, design, music or screen arts… Apply today! … Or forward this to someone you think might benefit from a $1000 head start www.massey.ac.nz/study/schola... #redesignnz

Creative Kickstarter Scholarship

Make your Move - This is your chance to kickstart your creative journey at Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts — with a $1,000 fees scholarship to help you get here.

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Damnit the power cut is over which means the water is back on which means the dishes need doing 😃

West Coast’s gonna West Coast