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Even more insane new residential gas connections are not banned. That actually reduces upfront and ongoing costs for buyers!

There are just six days left to enrol, but we are about 130k behind where final enrolment got to last time - when people could still enrol all the way through election day. It is becoming very hard to see this gap really closing in such a short time.

Back on that same old shit (soothing myself by watching someone walk through rainy compact streets in Tokyo for an hour on YouTube)

it seems to shock the New Zealand government that Peter Jackson, Taika Waititi, and the Conchords etc all emerged from the same city in the same span, which coincidentally is when Wellington rent was dirt-cheap and there were heaps of empty industrial buildings around

Wildly hopeful vibes at Tam’s shirt screenprinting. People want to show up for a better Wellington!!

@henrycooke.bsky.social is spot on here. I desperately do not want democratic legitimacy to be undermined here, and the big players could nip it in the bud so proportionality is what always wins the day. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

Cities are magic because high density living with good streetscapes increases the odds of frequently bumping into recognisable strangers www.rnz.co.nz/life/relatio...

I ended up choosing a symbol of it all.

I would take more seriously the people promoting the idea of AI consciousness if they first materially grappled with the (much more obvious) consciousness of animals and how that affects our moral obligations to them.

Imagine: a pollution-free transport network. Calmer streets, affordable travel options, trains & lanes for all. Totally achievable—and brimming with benefits, says @allaboardaotearoa.bsky.social's Better Moves report, covered here by @wellyclimatenerd.net: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/10/15/m...

All of Nationals election plan for capital expenditure is just BIG ROADS BIIIIIIGGG ROADS

Fully a vibes train nerd here too

Time for New Zealand to get into the 21st Century and do the same: Japan makes 30 km/h the default speed limit on most residential roads – as European city survey shows significant safety benefits etsc.eu/japan-makes-...

Boom! 🚇 The City Rail Link is already helping make Auckland city centre into a 7-day city: Saturday 9pm ridership is now equivalent to pre CRL midday ridership 💥. Next month night frequencies are improving too, and getting a little later on Friday and Saturday nights, a good start. More please!

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Should be us…

This is brilliant. Exactly what the country needs. Invest in great alternatives to always driving. Even benefits drivers: #nzpol youtu.be/LGX6jjJnFBc?...

What’s the next pithy slogan gonna be? Survive till 25 Be in the mix in 26 Pray to high heaven for 27? www.rnz.co.nz/news/persona...

My latest vid for @wellyclimatenerd.net and I’m basically frothing over all the practical and ambitious transport improvements announced by the Greens today!!

As a student, I used to get the overnight train down to Ruapehu on a Friday night, ski Saturday and Sunday, and make it back up to Auckland for 8 am lectures. Trains just make so so much more possible 💚🚆

Who would’ve thought it? Build decent public transport and people use it.

Along with others, I've had a bit to say about Simeon Brown's deranged 2024 Transport GPS. But this is actually shocking. It was altered *after the consultation period* to make the books look better – in a way that wrecks the National Land Transport Fund. www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/09/29/t...

This is quite the delay as we’re staring down El Niño www.rnz.co.nz/news/communi...

Chlöe Swarbrick gives an almighty summation of the current governing coalition’s record. Her speech, given as parliament closes for the election, also outlines why the @greens.org.nz need to lead the next government… the video is well worth your time. #nzpol

Another claim of Education Ministry staff trying to avoid OIA comes to light

A company presold $200k worth of carbon removal credits for an unproven tech, then tried to bully New Zealand into gutting environmental laws to bypass safety checks. Officials found zero evidence their "ocean fertilization" method works or is safe. 🌊

When Stanford was exposed for trying to remove all references to climate change from the year 1 to 10 curriculum she claimed it was just a cockup. This shows micro mgt by her office over the curriculum while avoiding the OIA www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

it's funny how they try to describe situation in a bad light but i'm reading it like "a lane for buses and cycling right by my office? hell yeah, let's do it"

This is so true. I was a hardcore "everything is structural" guy when I was younger but over & over again in my lifetime I've seen history-defining shit happen just because some guy or small group of guys was in the right/wrong place at the right/wrong time. Contingency rules everything around us.

LET THE GAMES BEGIN. NEW ZEALANDERS LONG FOR THE TRAINS

Warms my heart www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions...

The following public transport projects for NZ should be completely uncontroversial: - light rail in Auckland and Wellington - completing the electrification of the North Island Main Trunk and sparking the East Coast Main Trunk - Extending Te Huia to Tauranga and the Capital Connection to Whanganui

There *should* be light rail under construction from the railway station to Island Bay and Miramar but nooooo instead the worst people, obsessed with “four lanes to the planes”, are impeding the capital from becoming what it ought to be

When we give up the frame, we give up the win. pluralistic.net/2026/09/11/m...

Here I am in Nov. 2016, begging people not to elect Trump because if they do, it will render the international target of limiting global warming to 1.5C impossible.

brb need to polish off my license to pilot a space shuttle

So… I’m gonna sell stickers! Anyone wanna test my payment flow? I’ve set up stripe pages which I’m nervous about. I’ll chuck in an extra sticker or two if you buy before Monday as a thank you! 🥹😭 wellyclimatenerd.net/merch/

literally the dream

A gentle reminder that if we miss the 1.5°C target (and we certainly will), the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting. Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.