Carol Green

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🤷‍♀️

November. Sorry.

gouache and watercolor sketchbook page of women

happy international wimmen day

Rude

It's such a perfect metaphor

Let's talk about what happens when oil prices go through the roof and stay there - because it really isn't pretty, it's going to hit our economy incredibly hard, and it's only peripherally about how much it costs to fill the tank.

A short 🧵

#nzpol

So if we want to know why dialysis is being rationed, there's a clear answer: it's so the 311 richest families in the country can enjoy one of the lowest effective tax rates in the world. We're killing people in order to make the ultra-rich ultra-richer

Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07] YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

WATCH: This is STILL one of the toughest truths for some to accept, but one of the most IMPORTANT — car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtowns and urban areas!

Watch this excellent video by #NotJustBikes with #Urban3 & @strongtowns.bsky.social.

PLEASE SHARE it as much as possible.

The Luxo doormat needs a tiny bumhole

RATIONING DIALYSIS

I have an IKEA hack: go in the evening. It’s quiet! Meatball dinner!

white painted bike lane Proposed bike lane cancelled after failing to get approval from every living and deceased resident within 25 km.

"Proposed bike lane cancelled after failing to get approval from every living and deceased resident within 25 km."

Oh I LOVE this!! Going to use this one a lot

We squandered so much opportunity 😔

Common Peephole     She came from Greece, she had a faulty socket. Her eye fell out, she couldn’t stop it.   That’s when I caught her eye. Brian Bilston

Pulp poetry.

Are we sure we can't run the country on whatever it is that comes out of middle aged white men when Jacinda Ardern is mentioned? #NZPol

The school term only started at the end of January, so that's at least one incident a week.
All on Simeon Brown's head.
#nzpol

Heightism What I tell parents of abnormally short children

A great read
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"It seems the left hand has no idea what the right hand is doing, leaving Aucklanders stranded in the middle."

In which I attempt to tease out why AT shelved a plan that supports new housing AND solves a key part of the 'Bike Bermuda Triangle'. 👽💀💡

I reckon they can dust it off again though, eh?

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I've taken the paywall off this piece I wrote about the wonderful art my mum and dad have been making in their 60s and 70s, which is also about the general (underacknowledged) concept of late-blooming creativity. I hope a few of you might find a moment to read it: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...

Honestly it looks like AI.

The National Library still hasn’t paid hundreds of authors. It has ‘no definitive timeframe’ for a fix In what's being referred to as ‘a fucking saga’, 318 writers have been told they won’t receive public lending right money, even though they were told they'd successfully registered for the annual payment....

The National Library still hasn’t paid hundreds of authors. It has ‘no definitive timeframe’ for a fix

[bows and reverses stage left]

Quick reminder that The Dawn Raids only targeted brown people at a time when our largest group of overstayers came from England.

Cartoon. Title: “All Business” Three frames. Police Minister Mark Mitchell, wearing a headset, and sitting at a computer, answering calls to an Emergency Services phone line. In the first frame he’s looking slightly bored, saying. “Emergency, which service do you require? Police, fire or ambulance?” Then he says, “Police?” 2nd frame he’s looking up ands saying, “Someone who has mental health problems? No, sorry, the police no longer respond to mental health call-outs” 3rd frame, looking considerably more lively, he’s saying, “Cluttering up a business’ doorway??!! Well, that puts a different complexion on it!”

All Business. The government’s new focus on a the homeless, beggars, and street people. “Move on” orders, fines and prison sentences. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Homes #Homeless #Poverty #prison #MentalHealth #Police

I just finished watching Riot Women on TVNZ and it really is bloody great. Sally Wainwright is a genius at writing complicated people.

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Paul Goldsmith tried to get rough sleepers & beggars criminalised 18 years ago The Epsom List MP who authored a biography for ACT Party "Godfather" Alan Gibbs finally succeeded in his senior leadership role in the National Party. Video post

Shameful

Visibly impoverished people, begging for basics like food, are a tangible reminder that this government is failing its people.