Saw this and thought of your Tourism Worth Doing post @davidslack.bsky.social velskov.com/nourishing-n...
Nourishing Nature — Velskov
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IT by day, Improv Comedy by night. Lover of e-bikes, good food and wine, family and Aotearoa New Zealand.
Looks like I’m going to be on TVNZ Breakfast this morning, promoting the $42 Seasons Pass at the Covert Theatre in Ponsonby. Access to over 50 Improv Comedy shows is a lot of opportunities to laugh for less than $50!
How should new (AI) datacentres be powered, cooled and regulated?This issue deserves a lot more attention as we near the next election - and beyond. #nzpol
Ms Hooper@mshooper.bsky.social · 2w ago“This signifies an urgent need for a powerful new digital regulatory agency established through laws and backed by serious penalties.” “This election, we should demand serious policies from our politicians, rather than slogans and personalities.”
And time is also running out to - enrol to VOTE - check your enrolment to VOTE #nzpol
Idiot/Savant@norightturnnz.bsky.social · 2w agoSometime next week it will be 100 days until the election. Time is running out for the regime.
A reminder that you can no longer enrol on the day to vote in this year's General Election. Best you check here to make sure you're enrolled #nzpol vote.nz/enrolling/en...
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Dr Bex on the money as usual. #nzpol “Part of the mess and poverty & inequality we are now faced with as a country is due to the inadequate taxation of wealth, and the sustained refusal of those with money and power to implement the very universal benefits that enabled a generation to gain wealth.”
Bring back the 1970s?
Yes to the universal cash supports, No to the racism and bigotry
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There are about 15,000 jobs advertised today and... - 174,000 people officially unemployed - Another 144,000 people who want more hours - A further 80,000 potential jobseekers (underestimate) This is a failure of laissez-faire economic management on an absolutely tragic scale.
We’ve got our once-in-a-lifetime trip to Europe coming soon. It’s still a good idea to mask up in planes, right? Not looking forward to doing that for 2 x 12 hour flights
I’m in Dunedin and thought I just felt an earthquake. Anyone else?
Currently working a conference at the epically cool car museum in Invercargill. Too cold for this Auckland-based softee but what a place!!
I won an award at Sundance years ago and Sam Neill, whom I did not know, tweeted to me “we’re all so proud of you, sweetheart”. I can’t even express what that meant to me. That our most beloved national treasure, a man I worshipped, would take the time to write to me!
Why is Winnie and the Matua’s brand of politics landing this year more than previous years? They have a track record of doing shitty things this term and yet they’re riding high in the polls. What the??
Sam Neill’s final interview: ‘I’d like to think that, in life, I’m a goodie’ www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
Sam Neill’s final interview: ‘I’d like to think that, in life, I’m a goodie’
The actor, who has died aged 78, recently answered Guardian readers’ questions about missing out on James Bond, the true terrors of Jurassic Park and why he called his prize cow Helena Bonham Carter
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Hey #Auckland, going out can be expensive but The Covert Theatre of offering a seasons' pass for over 50 different Improv Comedy shows for only $42! Come to one show and you've made your money back. Come to a second, third, or tenth, and you're well ahead: www.coverttheatre.com/specials/sea...
Facebook's deleted this feature, but what it calls "referencing" was the potential for the wholesale theft, & abuse of all public images on Instagram, which no one signed up for. A constant reminder that this company is built on founder who continues to believe users are, in his words, "dumb fucks".
Dr. Cassandra Mudgway@legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 4w agoAs I said in this explainer, people are already using third party AI tools to mess with public images (deepfakes or otherwise). Meta is just making it part of everyday life, further increasing ease and access of these tools (without consent of users). #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
Bernard Hickey doing God’s work again here. But which political party would take him up in this prescription? #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...
The way we run the economy isn't working
RBNZ hikes OCR to cut inflation by slicing jobs, yet youth jobless rate is 20.3% in my daughters' group; Monetary policy's blunt tool punishes the young & poor for imported & administered inflation
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I'm not an Instagram-er but this seems like a very backward step for those that are. Is this new? www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
Explainer: How to prevent your Instagram images from being used for AI
Explainer: A new feature introduced by Instagram this week allows your photos to be used by anyone to make AI images.
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Making it easy to check the policy behind any number, for whatever household you model. That was the whole point of YourTax.nz. It doesn’t say ‘low-tax good’ or ‘high-tax bad’. It shows what each party’s policy would do and links the source. It doesn’t exist in a vacuum, you bring the values.
Explore every party’s tax plan
See the dollar change under each party’s announced tax plan, for any situation, compared with current law.
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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard)@alans-world.bsky.social · last mo.You are a star! Yeah, it proved *quite* useful for a couple of people I was chatting with the other day, glad to hear it's back in action — *very* useful to have the actual policy announcements linked too, it's hard info people can follow up that can't be dismissed as easily as 'just your opinion'.
NZ media outlets treat this as a political issue. It's not. It's an EXISTENTIAL issue. Bernard Hickey continues to do the Lorde's work in quantifying the depths of Aotearoa's homeless crisis, and we should all be ashamed. free to read link - I think. thekaka.substack.com/p/the-govts-...
The Govt's housing cuts come home to roost
30% of homeless moved out of motels by MSD weren't offered places to go & 'we don't track where they went'; City Mission says hundreds more living on streets & desperate need for hundreds more homes
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BOOM! Over 50,000 people have signed the @greenpeace.org.nz petition to protect New Zealand’s conservation land. action.greenpeace.org.nz/petition/aot... z
PETITION: Hands off conservation land!
The PM is trying to open the door to selling off conservation land. If the wild places of NZ were mined, logged or sold off, we can’t get them back. Aotearoa is NOT for sale. Sign the petition now.
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Is that clear now? How much clearer do they want it to be?
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · last mo.Johnson: If we lose the midterms, these Democrats will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. We’ll take care of you.
This is really good and makes it easy to make a submission while including content in your words. #nzpol
Nick Young@nickofnz.bsky.social · last mo.Here's a guide to help you make a submission on the Conservation Amendment Bill before the deadline on 2 July. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
Remember THIS Aotearoa. #nzpol
Robot Muldoom@robot-muldoom.bsky.social · last mo.Labour launched KiwiSaver in 2007 with a $1k kickstart and $1k match. National scrapped the kickstart in 2015 and cut the match twice (2011, 2025). Now it's $0 kickstart and $260 match. With max matching, you've missed out on ~$11,000 including compound growth thanks to Nat's skimming. #nzpol