Battery full, exporting to the grid on a cold sunny day. Many of us can do this, but more coups with the right policy settings. #nzpol
Thomas Blair
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Building new things, fixing old things. Reader, runner, cyclist, occasional photographer. Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Meanwhile, we can’t even have a sensible national conversation about inequality and child poverty. And we seemingly can’t connect housing insecurity to control of our economy by private debt, Australian banks, monopoly entrenchment and ongoing austerity policy.
I'm just a vulnerable road user ranting about road safety and the need for lower speed limits. Let's see what the professionals at the International Transport Forum at the OECD say… Oh. www.itf-oecd.org/monitoring-p...
Something I'll never understand - if I want to make substantial enough changes to my house, it has to go through a neighbourhood consultation process, but someone on my block can buy a vehicle that significantly increases the chances one of my kids gets run over.
David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · 5d agoWhich vehicles most endanger the drivers of other cars? Giant pickup trucks — and the Dodge Charger Source: www.iihs.org/news/detail/...
He’s building Australia’s future work force.
henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 4d agoWinston Peters wants to pay people up to $45k, tax free, to have three kids. It’s a policy with a very nativist bent that will naturally draw comparisons to the “great replacement theory” conspiracy. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...
An infantile Johnny called Gianni Who was terribly partial to money In exploiting a FIFAdom Merely earned grief to come Cos footsy with footie’s not funny
Philippe Auclair@philippeauclair.bsky.social · 6d agoCONCACAF (41 federations) join Uefa to reject Gianni Infantino's proposal.
The 6 largest oil companies will collectively rake in $45B in profits in the second quarter of 2026 — nearly double what they made in the first quarter. Meanwhile, Canada, France, and Spain are battling record-breaking wildfires spurred by the climate crisis. Big Oil profits while the world burns.
So many curious related parties. This guy Michael Rubin has been all over FIFA and Infantino through his company Fanatics which FIFA dumped 60 year partner Panini for. His company just happens to have Trump son in law Jared Kushner’s brother and potential FIFA partner Joshua as a major investor
In NZ we’d have dairy farms lining those 600km of waterways. #nzpol
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · last wk.One city. 600 kilometres of waterways. A new vision to transform them. Our new Clean Rivers and Waterways Plan is one of the world’s most ambitious projects to make sure decades of damage is reversed over the next 10 years.
![Graphic of an image of high-rise residential buildings over the Thames, where sailing boats are on the water. Text reads “[MoL logo] We’re making waves. / London launches its first-ever plan to transform the capital’s rivers and waterways over the next decade”.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:axuvbckddrg7lwlpjs44o7rg/bafkreiazctrc2n4xk3cefnisc6yziwhnwyyxtgj3kwizmgysx5ve3et5vu)
Ātaahua. Thank you to the Tūpuna Maunga Authority, mana whenua, Stronghold Group, Prodigy Plumbing, Green by Nature and everyone involved with this awesome new community space up Takarunga - Mt Victoria. It looks great. Will share more images soon.
Benmore Dam would look good in solar panels. I know there is a solar farm planned nearby but that is a huge area on the front of the dam too. Possibly some of the other Waitaki dams too?
Ham der kammerat Bo@bo-stefan-nielsen.bsky.social · last mo.Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys ☀️
Double check you're enrolled because there's no more enrol to vote on the day if you find you aren't. Get in, people. There's a reason politicians want to make it tough for you to vote. It's the only handbrake we have.
Daniel Vernon@yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · last wk.Know the signs, enroll online: vote.nz
A closely watched gauge of risk in holding the debt of companies at the centre of the AI boom is rising rapidly, underscoring growing jitters over Big Tech’s vast spending on data centres, chips and computer memory. ft.trib.al/INz9FJ0
@doctorow.pluralistic.net When the AI bubble bursts, what will Australia do with the tools it built? One man thinks he has the answer www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
When the AI bubble bursts, what will Australia do with the tools it built? One man thinks he has the answer
Journalist and author Cory Doctorow is coming to Australia to spread his message – humans will take their jobs back
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Please can we have this here. Our cities and ‘burbs are plagued by intentionally loud and aggressive machines, is horrible:
Fietser@americanfietser.bsky.social · 2w agoA motorist in Amsterdam was pulled over for being a public noise nuisance with his car. Noise measurement tests were done and the car was found to be in violation. The driver had to continue his journey on foot and the car is not allowed on public infrastructure until the exhaust is properly muffled
NZ beware. Not great getting in late to the AI ponzi scheme! #nzpol
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w agoIn service to this bubble, AI firms have suborned regional governments into running roughshod over environmental and planning rules in order to build endless acres of data centers, many of which will likely end up casualties of the imminent bubble-pop, never to be switched on or even completed. 5/
#nzpol So, the OECD has released its 2026 Employment Outlook report & scanning it for NZ references I found this table. Just look at the disparity between our energy inflation & the OECD average & median, & the spike in Q1 this year. TL:DR We're being fleeced.🤬 www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
riding bikes is also vastly more pro social than driving a car. you pay so much more attention to the world around you and are so much better enmeshed in your community.
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2w agoRiding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social
Thanks to @henrycooke.bsky.social & @graemeedgeler.bsky.social for highlighting this-no NZ govt should be able to unilaterally change voting. Removing registration rights established since 1948 impacts 230,000+ people & undermines the legitimacy of election results www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...
