JavaScript is not available.

Nov 15, 2022

Rightio, dréacht a dó. Seolfaidh mé an litir seo chuig an Aire Aeráide, chuig an Aire Cultúr/Gaeltachta, chuig an Aire Airgeadais agus Coiste Oireachtas na Gaeilge, agus feckit, Oifig an Taoisigh chomh maith. Cuir teachtaireacht nó DM chugam más maith leat d'ainm a chur leis!

Sara Templeton

@SaraTempleton_

Okay- so this is very cool! Would love to have seen it - and not too far away from our place either. While kea aren't likely to become local residents, we are working on getting more native birds back into Ōtautahi.

Kea spotted in Christchurch for first time in recent history

Hours from the closest known population of kea, a lone bird was spotted dotting between trees in a city suburb.

Terrance A. Sullivan, J.D.

Emily in Welly...coming soon? #bikewellington

@patrickmorgan

Quote Tweet

@TASullivan

15h

Emily arrived on 2020. Do with that as you wish. #EmilyInParis twitter.com/brenttoderian/…

Feb 5

The $ savings from health benefits alone would cover the costs

The "economic argument" about climate change action has been settled for about 15 years (hugely in favour of action). One would imagine someone so across business matters would know this

Quote Tweet

Auckland Stuff

@StuffAuckland

OPINION: The cost of Auckland's floods is ugly, but it is a fraction of what we are imposing on ourselves in a futile effort to turn back the tides. dlvr.it/ShxBdB

Show this thread

Mark Anderson

@MarkKAnders

On it's 38 week, THE QUIET GIRL (AN CAÍLIN CÚIN) ended as the No 1 film in ROI Omniplex Cinemas. In addition, not only did it knock AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER out of our Top Spot, it also forced a new Stephen Spielberg film, THE FABLEMANS, into 2nd place! WOW! 👏

369

Remember, leopards travel free on the Luas, along with everyone else

Read this as "everyone with a leopard..."

Quote Tweet

ur homie

@imogenfalafel

Everyone with a leapcard can bring a friend onto transport for free this bank hol weekend so make sure if u tap ur leapcard to tell the bus driver to let the person on behind u on fo freeeee

Show this thread

RNZ Te Ao Māori

@RNZTeAoMaori

Reports highlighting racism and colonial legacy call for structural changes

Two reports out today from the Human Rights Commission detail the impacts of racism and colonisation on Māori. Both are calling for the government to commit to constitutional transformation and co-governance with tangata whenua.

rnz.co.nz

Two reports out today from the Human Rights Commission detail the impacts of racism and colonisation on Māori.

234

Top left, but with bollards...

Quote Tweet

Hayden Clarkin

@the_transit_guy

Now you might love the street network types highlighted as "good" and that's most certainly your right, but for density and transit, it makes productivity quite difficult. Look at the 5 min walkshed (blue) from a train stop (red) given different street patterns.

Show this thread

How the network affects how far one can walk in five minutes.

read image description

ALT

Replying to

gosh - if only there was an explanation...

213

Ted Mosby | Adjunct Professor: Columbia University

@nickhasthoughts

what a damning graphic, my god

Quote Tweet

Greg Shill

@greg_shill

Nice to see this writeup of my @uiowa colleague Jodie Plumert's great work. usa.streetsblog.org/2023/02/01/kid

1,012

3,746

So Brown is either incompetent or DGAF. Or both of course.

Quote Tweet

Tom Dillane

@tomdillane1

Exclusive in the Herald this morn: Discovered Wayne Brown and the Mayor’s office staff were excluded from email distribution list for vital updates being circulated to other council officials during last Fri’s fatal record-breaking downpour, via @nzherald nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-fl

UnicornsRock

@UnicornsRockUK

Trump Promises to Erase the Transgender Community

In case you missed this yesterday evening; Trump calls to erase trans people. Yes, as in genocide. No, it's not being reported in the mainstream news. Yes, he wants to ban trans people of ALL ages.

metroweekly.com

Donald Trump says he'll ban gender-affirming care and force schools to promote traditional families if elected president in 2024.

352

6,740

18.1K

Isn't it odd that the insurance industry takes climate change more seriously than

@NZNationalParty

and

@actparty

! I mean, who would you trust more?

Quote Tweet

Bex Stevenson

@bex_stevenson

The uninsurable. NZ cliff-top and cliff-bottom properties and those with repeat flooding face huge premium hikes or no insurance at all, insurance commentators say interest.co.nz/insurance/1195

Show this thread

Quote Tweet

Writing about Ordnance Survey, and the way in which Brian Friel's Translations is described on the official British OS website is ... really something

Jonathan Coppard

@Deutschkiwi

As a current Wellington bus driver: 1. I wouldn’t have signed up if someone tried to “aggressively” recruit me. 2. I’m not sure I’d keep driving if National undercuts NZ workers 3. Reorienting LGWM towards car-centric highway projects will make buses worse (it’s possible)

Quote Tweet

Nicola Willis

@NicolaWillisMP

Replying to @ParkerRowNZ

1. Aggressively recruit drivers 2. Fix the broken immigration system 3. Get “Let’s Get Wellington Moving” out of La-La Land and focus it on getting the basics right.

180

Have any of the

candidates for Chch been announced yet??

Nice article...but there seems to be an overwhelming glut of overly-hopped, over-strong beers that taste good for about 2 mouthfuls and rapidly become a stuggle to drink Wellington claims to be the craft beer capital of NZ - but is it?

Wellington claims to be the craft beer capital of NZ - but is it?

Which NZ city has the most craft beer brewers? And does it matter if corporates are undermining the meaning of the "craft beer" label?

Dry powder inhalers have a tiny fraction of the climate impact of propellant inhalers (and are first-line for asthma) Be a powder hero!

Bhí na bealaí rothar dubh le daoine ar maidin!

Linda Ervine MBE

@ErvineLinda

Linda Ervine: Ba mhaith le tuismitheoirí ón phobal aontachtach a bheith mar chuid de phobal na...

Naíscoil na Seolta, an integrated and Irish-medium nursery school in east Belfast is receiving increasing numbers of expressions of interests from parents who want their children to be educated together through Irish.

@NaiscoilSeolta

independent.ie

Tá tuismitheoirí ón phobal aontachtach ag aithint na mbuntáistí a bhaineann leis an dátheangachas agus ag iarraidh a bheith mar chuid de phobal na Gaeilge, a dúirt Linda Ervine an tseachtain seo.

300

Sara Templeton

@SaraTempleton_

More trees for Ōtautahi🌿🌳🌳 Please have your say on the CCC website if you support this mahi or have things to add/changes etc :) ://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/300798384/decline-in-christchurchs-tree-canopy-could-be-reversed-under-new-city-plan?cid=app-android

Tuairisc

@tuairiscnuacht

An cheist chéanna á cur orthu féin ag polaiteoirí ón Nua-Shéalainn go Caisleán na Mainge tuairisc.ie/an-cheist-chea

Doctors who support National or Act and then complain about being too busy...🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️

Let's do this for banknotes as well! And for everything else.

Quote Tweet

AFP News Agency

@AFP

#UPDATE Australia's central bank says it will erase the British monarch from its banknotes, replacing the late Queen Elizabeth II's image on its $5 note with a design honouring Indigenous culture. The decision means no British monarch will remain on Australia's paper currency

Show this thread

New Zealand FA ‘shocked’ by reports of Women’s World Cup Saudi sponsorship

Fuck it, we've already bought tickets. New Zealand FA ‘shocked’ by reports of Women’s World Cup Saudi sponsorship

theguardian.com

Saudi Arabia’s tourism authority will reportedly be an official sponsor at the 2023 Women’s World Cup, but the co-hosts claim they were ‘not consulted’

Pretty obvious this was a much closer thing than the reporting on the day made out... Abandon ship order floated as Cook Strait ferry drama unfolded

Abandon ship order floated as Cook Strait ferry drama unfolded

A call to Wellington's mayor on Saturday evening had a worrying warning – 864 people on the stricken Kaitaki may have to leave the ferry in stormy seas.

Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara

@Te_Taipo

Embrace the suck losers

Quote Tweet

Kōmerata

@komerata

Hope all the racists are triggered by their literal King using the name Aotearoa

355

It's not just the "off word here and there" though, is it. Auckland mayor Wayne Brown 'never going to be a smooth-talking politician'

Auckland mayor Wayne Brown 'never going to be a smooth-talking politician'

In a rare interview, Auckland's mayor says he needs to improve his communication and "probably" shouldn't have used the word drongo.

Cad a cheapann sibh? Má scríobhtar alt i nGaeilge d'iris (Éireannach) a fhoilsítear de ghnáth i mBéarla, an ceart aistriúchán Béarla a fhoilsiú leis??

All I'll add is that we should listen to our gut instincts a lot more, and I should definitely have listened to mine in 1999 (and multiple years after that!)

This is a good point. The new MoH can see the pressures in ED from her own personal experience.

Quote Tweet

Ayesha Verrall

@drayeshaverrall

Dr Andre Cromhout and Mark Hussey, my former colleagues, took me on through the ED. It was a pretty busy day, and even in February there were challenges admitting patients to ward beds. Everyone was working really hard and at closer quarters than when I previously worked here.

Show this thread

Aaron Hawkins

@A_G_Hawkins

TL;DR: Dilute / remove the input of iwi Māori #savedyouaclick

40% reduction in deaths and serious injuries. Paid by the Gvt. Why are Mauger and Keown so pro-death and pro-injury?

New 'raised' bump will make busy intersection safer, but the mayor isn't a fan

It could reduce deaths and serious injuries by 40%, but Christchurch mayor Phil Mauger isn't keen because it's attracted a lot of "negative press".

Double retweeting cos this looks awesome!

Quote Tweet

IrelandinNZ

@IrelandinNZ

Today marks Lá Fhéile Bríde - Brigid’s Day - Rā o Hato Brigid

To mark this day and the 130th anniversary of women being granted the right to vote in Aotearoa New Zealand, the Embassy of Ireland’s 2023 Summer School will reflect on women as agents of change!

Show this thread

IrelandinNZ

@IrelandinNZ