The usual shared roadway in Auckland.
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The usual shared roadway in Auckland.
Statt wie angekündigt die Digital-Monopolisten wie Google mit einer Digitalsteuer zur Kasse zu bitten, greift der Kulturstaatsminister den Buchhandel an und setzt vor der Buchmesse in Leipzig ein „Zeichen gegen Bürokratie“ in dem er dort das Buch in der Nationalbibliothek generell in Frage stellt. 🤷♂️
I'm so over conservatives telling us they'll fix a problem they caused
And obviously not ever fixing it
#nzpol
This is the regular reminder that the Auckland Harbour Bridge was only built with two lanes each way - necessitating the clip-ons a decade later - because the very first National government couldn’t tell the difference between an expense and an investment. Nothing’s changed in 60 years
#nzpol #newzealand
Stupid voting is stupid.
Ways the govt could quickly help New Zealanders reduce fuel usage, but probably won’t 🤷, for reasons:
⚠️ Lower speed limits
🚌 Encourage PT (eg bring back half-priced fares)
🚲 Encourage active modes (eg pop-up bike paths)
🛤️ Move freight from road to rail (eg ramp up KiwiRail)
🏡 Support work-from-home
I'm glad we went through all that pain from austerity and cost-cutting for fucking nothing. Just like every other time it's been tried by every other government. At some point we're going to need a government that is going to invest in the people that live here.
TOP claiming that their neo nazi donor gives money to 'just about every party' when he only gave it to right wing parties
TOP tries to say that the neo nazi who gave them $100,000 gives '$ to just about every party'
NO - he ONLY gave it to right wing parties - LIKE TOP - NOTHING to Labour, Greens or TPM
PLEASE repost this so EVERYONE knows exactly who they really are - just a lying pack of shunts
#nzpol
Like all good journalists Matt's cynicism dial goes all the way up to 11
You can literally see where this government increased our exposure to oil price shock
There is no reason for this other than oil money funding politics
#nzpol
Thanks, English.
STRAIT and STRAIGHT are *not* etymologically related.
STRAIT is from French for "tight, narrow," ultimately from a form of Latin STRINGERE (to bind, draw tight).
Think STRICT, CONSTRICT.
STRAIGHT is from a form of Old English STRECCAN (stretch). It's literally "stretched."
Opinion: The real lesson of the second Covid-19 inquiry? We live in a post-truth world thespinoff.co.nz/politics/11-...
Nats hate the pandemic response because it didn’t kill enough of the elderly to lower superannuation bills.
Deserves a #nzpol tag
Cover story from The Lancet, one of the world's most prestigious and high-impact general medical journals, that says "The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm.
The Lancet spells out the case against RFK Jr so clearly.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... (1/4🧵)
Aided by the press.
In New Zealand English the third person plural is hardly ever used. The third person verb nearly always ends in s no matter what the number of the subject is.
No You’ve got it all wrong. The headlines in the AKL Tory propaganda rag told me this morning Labour got it all wrong
and they admit it. (Maybe the rag is just a NACT re-election pamphlet?)
Bizarre seeing the ghouls lambasting the apparently outrageous spending during the early 2020s. Turns out that it is not that easy to balance the books when you crash the economy. Austerity always backfires.
Can’t we add Waiheke to Whangarei Council?
Q: You said the war is 'very complete.' But your defense secretary says 'this is just the beginning.' So which is it?
TRUMP: You could say both
We could try boycotting Queen St until Viv Beck gets fired, but thanks to her perpetual anti-CBD campaign no one would notice.
While you may have heard Cr Fletcher blaming City Vision's Richard Northey for the postal voting system, there was a vote last term where we decided NOT to change from postal voting to booth voting. As the sole City Vision councillor I voted FOR booth voting, and Cr Fletcher voted AGAINST booths🤷♀️
Yeah there was a study showing that petrol prices go up quickly and down slowly. Usual capitalist thing.
Thank god we spent the last few years massively converting industry to renewables and incentivising household solar. We'd be in so much trouble right now.
Has anyone thought of reorganising the USA so that it’s not perpetually dysfunctional?
Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.
Bit rich for the country that is contributing zero $ to support Ukraine but now wants its help with anti-drone defence.
A bit rich from the country that turned up late for the two world wars
Anyone actually paid to market a city, you know like Heart of The City in Auckland- this is how you do it ->
www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...
