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“The case for Rejoin must be a case for Europe as our home: a continent…prepared to take on and defeat Russian imperialism, an economic union which can shelter countries from the storm of a global trade war” A team we want to belong to. Because it strengthens us all. www.arguably.uk/p/europe-is-...

Absolutely incredible bike tour of Sydney from Sara Stace. If you don’t know her she is a force for change. While I sit around complaining she is out there changing things from the inside that leads to real change on the ground.

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

#AtlasNetwork thinktanks funded by Big Oil/billionaires pushed privatisation of public assets in the '80s, then sold to Atlas insiders. They advocated for removal of taxation of fossil/polluting industry, undermine public support for climate policy & block clean energy with disinformation. #NZpol

Not only a vital defeat of the far right, but also a win of inestimable value for the planet.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Well he’s correct. That’s exactly what this is. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

The invention of the modern shipping container in the 1960s transformed freight transport. New Zealand relies on shipping for pretty much all imports. Auckland is a major (for NZ) container port. It would be a much more difficult exercise if shipping still used hawsers, hooks & pallets. #shipping

Just thank heavens for this. The Amazon rainforest gets a reprieve.

Does everyone realize how unbelievably important this is? His opponent is not only fascist, but he would have burned most of the Amazon Rainforest, often called the “lungs of the earth”. Serbia ✅ Brazil ✅ U.S. TBD France TBD (runoff key)

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva came from behind to win Brazil’s runoff election, halting a right-wing wave sweeping Latin America and defying predictions that the 80-year-old political veteran had finally reached the end of his extraordinary career. bloom.bg/4BsvV24 📷: Maira Erlich/Bloomberg

*** New blog post *** Yes. I have posted about floating bus stops again. Well, sort of. It's more complicated than that. therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2026/10/its-...

Enough said really. #nzpol

This is a brilliant article. “How to vote? In my view, if your electorate has a progressive candidate who could win, vote for them. But whatever else you do, party vote Green. It’s not just that there’s so much at stake, although there is. It’s that this is a moment of so much opportunity.” #nzpol

"Meet me at the café in Onehunga." "Which café??" "The café with a MiG-21 on the roof. Obvs." ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ #Onehunga is one of Auckland's oldest and most varied suburbs, with quirks that I like very much. This ex-Soviet fighter jet is certainly different to your common-or-garden Kiwiana.

#PartyVoteGreen✅+🖤💚❤️ 🍃🌹🌿The case for voting #Green I'm not a member of the Green Party, but they're getting my vote. Here's why. -SIMON WILSON #nzpol #WealthTax #PartyVoteGreen 💚✅+💚❤️🖤 open.substack.com/pub/simonwil...?

“But for all that, it’s the Greens, not Labour, who embody the progressive movement. The Greens will drive what progress we make. It’s the Greens, in cost of living, climate, housing and health, who embody hope.” #nzpol Couldn’t agree more. simonwilsonhopetown.substack.com/p/the-age-of...

🍃🌹🌿 Wondering who to #vote for? Care about the #environment, #conservation, #climate, #freshwater, #HumanRights, #jobs, #wages, #weekends, #sickleave, #food, #transport, #energy #housing, #TeTiriti #PartyVoteGreen✅+🖤💚❤️

For most of human history, a city was one walkable node. Public transport enables *many* walkable nodes to be part of a greater whole. This is because public transport and walking are highly space efficient. Driving isn't. Overreliance on cars and parking makes for a very unappealing city.

I keep hearing a podcast ad for ACT: "Think the government hasn't gone far or fast enough?...even vote for ACT is a vote for the Right. Party vote ACT" No! The only solace that I can gain from this is that the algorithms are completely out of whack with their listeners.

There's a long-established book library at 11 Ingram Road, Remuera. Leave a book. Take a book. See what's there. #neighbourly #books #Remuera

307,991 eligible voters not enrolled as of Friday. Almost half (43%) are 18-24. The least enrolled age group; now even more so than 2023. This govt KNEW this would happen—and did it anyway, with no mitigation plan. Such disdain for democracy, and for young people. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/election-...

TWO DAYS NZ registration cuts off in the midst of this holiday weekend (not after it) 300k+ missing voters elections.nz/stats-and-re... No it’s not more organised No it won’t speed up vote count Yes it is voter suppression Yes it unfairly advantages wealthy/older voters SO Get registered!

Marco Te Brömmelstroet and Ian Walker quoted in the new book written by former Rotterdam Chief Planner Martin Aarts from NAi010 Publishers: www.nai010.com/product/the-...

Since 2016, London’s cycling network has grown fivefold, from 90 to 450 kilometres. The results? 1.5 million daily cycle journeys—a 43% increase since 2019—twice as many bikes as cars on City of London streets during the day, and motor traffic in steady decline—having fallen 25% in the same period.

Made it back home to Etobicoke for another protest #biketo

My latest book review: 'Transit by Design' by @nicolas-reid.bsky.social is on @greaterauckland.bsky.social - have a read of Reid! It is full of cool transit diagrams 📖

"A dense-yet-handy primer that helps the reader to ask the right questions." In today's post, @georgeweeks2014.bsky.social reviews TRANSIT BY DESIGN, written by "one of New Zealand’s best-qualified transport planners" @nicolas-reid.bsky.social. www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/10/21/b...

Yes but if people think they need it to vote then they could be inclined to not vote. Any barrier at all is more barriers than we need. Voting should be so simple so that everyone can participate.

Between 2021 and 2025, around 2 million cyclists passed the floating bus stops on Leith Street, Edinburgh, and around 5 million bus passengers boarded or alighted here. No injuries have been recorded. Over the same period, drivers injured around 600 Edinburgh pedestrians, killing 16.

Ten academic posts on low-traffic neighbourhoods. Plenty of evidence out there. Go and read it. Then use it to create better streets. #LTN

I’m interviewing Nicky Hager about Dirty Work and stuff at an Akl Fabians event, Tues 6pm at Trades Hall on Great North Rd. Register to attend here or watch online www.fabians.org.nz/index.php?op... Here’s my piece in Dirty Work from last month simonwilsonhopetown.substack.com/p/dirty-work...

“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com

Hilma Af Klint - The Swan, 1915