Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland
@patrickreynolds.bsky.social
urbanism, governance, photography. Director Greater Auckland AKL city centre advisory panel @greaterauckland.bsky.social www.patrickreynolds.co.nz
One of the ways we can know democracy is real and cannot be bought in meaningful ways is when the relationship between who gets and spends massive donations and who gets votes is very very far from linear, as it reliably is in NZ
Sassy Little Hobbit@sassypolitico.bsky.social · 17h agoIf you are disheartened by the first image, then look at the second image and then tell your mates to enroll to vote and then bully them into voting for greens ✌🏽
This is absolutely terrific, really great. Both from Jack Tame and Professor Marco te Brömmelstroet. Just don't read the comments, as they really speak to the vocal shutting-down minority that te Brömmelstroet mentions. youtu.be/yPIjaWFrC5Q?...
Most people want fewer cars, Dutch academic says
YouTube video by Q+A with Jack Tame
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Was a great watch. 👏 conversations.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/events/movem...
Auckland Conversations
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Jo Johnson@jojohnson.bsky.social · yesterdayHe was inspiring at the Auckland Conversations event last night too! 😍 #activemodes #streets4people @aucklandcouncil.bsky.social
Dear Govt: www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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Raybon is a national treasure, perhaps even a New Zealand first treasure: www.nzherald.co.nz/business/ive...
Raybon Kan: I've never talked about it, but Winston Peters also told me to go back to my own country
OPINION: Could it be a Chinese thing not to want to cry racism? To be stoic?
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Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
Developing countries can have a "rapid uptake" of solar, thanks to rooftop/small solar systems at homes and businesses. 29 nations have deployed 10 GW or more of solar. 82 countries have 1 GW or more. Small solar answers monopoly/grid failure. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #energysky
Schools close roads to make drop-offs safer: 'It felt very chaotic'
Schools close roads to make drop-offs safer: 'It felt very chaotic'
Primary schools say a pilot programme that allows them to close nearby roads during drop off and pick up times is helping to curb dangerous driver's behaviour.
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There’s “off the charts” and there’s France’s absolutely bonkers June & July 2026 temperatures (see black line below). Bad things are happening. Fast.
'Children only get one chance at childhood. A baby hospitalised this winter cannot wait for a stronger economy. A child growing up in poverty cannot pause their development until political consensus emerges.' - Claire Achmad. #NzPol
The plight of our children can't wait for politics
Children can't vote but inherit the consequences of government and societal failures for the longest time, writes outgoing Children's Commissioner Claire Achmad in a final plea
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From the party of Tim Jago a plan to increase other forms of child abuse. These creeps want to make Oliver Twist standards OK again. Absolutely sick in the head.
ACT candidate Paul Henry unveils plan to let teachers use 'reasonable force' on students
ACT wants to give teachers the legal power to remove "seriously or persistently disruptive" students from a classroom.
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'Oh no' Anyway, perhaps provide something usefull that we want or need next time before you spend $100,000,000,000?
Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social · 4d agoThreaten me not wyth a goode tyme www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
"30 years ago, Winston Peters and New Zealand First were campaigning against the “Asian Invasion” in the 1996 elections. That same year, my family and I moved to Aotearoa. According to him, my family were part of this invasion." e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-... Crossposted with @openvibe.social
Why we call Winston Peters ‘Lao Pi’ | E-Tangata
“Mandarin-speaking communities are so familiar with Winston, we have nicknamed him 'Lao Pi'. Lao Pi is like that grumpy neighbour everyone knows is a problem. Except he’s not a random neighbour. He is the foreign affairs minister and former deputy prime minister.” — Mengzhu Fu.
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Am feeling a Twilight of the Dinosaurs approaching in #nzpol and beyond.
Clacton bin day leaflet, make sure the local Facebook and tiktok groups have a copy
My opinion piece in the Sunday Star Times today on the opportunity cost of RoNS and Warkworth to Te Hana: www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
Northern expressway poor use of public money
OPINION: Of all the candidates for worst intersection in New Zealand, Warkworth’s notorious Hill St is right up there. A chaotic tangle of local and regional roads, for decades, it’s been a congested ...
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Analysis: A multi-billion-dollar public-private partnership will build the most expensive road ever built in NZ but low benefit-cost ratios raise questions over value.
$3.65b Northland expressway promises minutes saved but could deliver thin returns
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“Watching Winston Peters shout at Lawrence, his face seemed like the face of every person who has yelled the same words at migrants of colour, repeating the same racist imperative. It is the face of a society that has enabled and normalised racism. It is old skin that refuses to shed.” #nzpol
Why we call Winston Peters ‘Lao Pi’ | E-Tangata
“Mandarin-speaking communities are so familiar with Winston, we have nicknamed him 'Lao Pi'. Lao Pi is like that grumpy neighbour everyone knows is a problem. Except he’s not a random neighbour. He is...
e-tangata.co.nz
Lessons for NZ - apparently datacentres in Ireland draw =23% of the country's power and household power bills have gone up 600 Euros in the last year as a result. Use urged from 5% of national electricity demand in 2015 to 23% in 2025. Forecast to exceed 30%
🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
Every additional tonne of fossil fuel burned irreversibly ratchets up the temperature of the Earth. If we have control over some of that fossil fuel, and decide to keep it in the ground, that is a quantifiable palpable reduction in how warm it can get. We need to do that. Think of each
"Taxing the rich doesn't work." Tell that to Massachusetts. Their millionaire tax has raised $3.1 BILLION so far. It's funding bridges, buses, teachers, free community college, and free school meals. This isn't theory. It's working. We've got the receipts.