Unlikely Cyclists 🚲 Jenn

And honestly, a festival celebrating cars has felt pretty shit for me for a good while anyway...

(AmeriCARna was in New Plymouth this weekend)

I've been hiding out all weekend with COVID (now -ve and feeling better, yay!) so I didn't come face to face with it... But it feels REALLLLL fuckkin' wrong to have a festival celebrating America(n cars) at this moment in time... And it bothers me how few in our community seem to feel that tension.

I ❤️ traffic Said no one ever More people biking, walking and using transit

benefits.

Via @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

Papakura student road patroller hit by car becomes fifth child run over since start of term

I mean, fuckin' Hwhat? #NZPol

Winning at Crossplay ❎✅

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Since it’s an election year I hope we can talk about how this government is responsible for deliberate withholding of healthcare to make some numbers on a piece of paper look good for their donors

Suuurely has to be Cabo Verde / Cape Verde?

This is horrific for our country. We are going down a terrible path and the opposition is so incredibly ill equipped.

Such a good hood! So tempting for a swim, but agree it could be a bad idea...

A blue river with a rocky shore and hills in the background.

My happy place is rock hunting and skipping by the river at Roaring Billy Falls on the Haast Pass (or really any river, but this is a real grand one)

Today is such a "this fuckin' government" day 😡🙄😒

$50k per year?!?! For valuable nationwide public health data!? It's a bargain, and scrapping it is a bad decision.

A misinformation article titled "NZ Govt Confirms New December Cost-of-Living Bonus - Payments Arrive Before Christmas"

I stupidly clicked a link to this bullshit misinformation from my browser feed, and now I'm being fed more of these awful articles, which prey on vulnerable people with false promises, fake quotes, and lies. 😡😡

Off to share some media literacy lessons with my daughter!

TLDR: “the focus needs to shift away from the victim-blaming culture that mandatory helmet laws foster and towards dismantling the autonormative world we live in.”

a little girl is standing next to a white poodle holding a brush in her hand . ALT: a little girl is standing next to a white poodle holding a brush in her hand .

Our neighbours are doing works on their driveway/yard and this morning they decided to kick off at 5:15am. Someone yelled at them and they quieted for a bit, but I was wide awake already. Hmmph.

"When it came to Covid, we completely blew out what the value of a life was, completely, I've never seen such a high value on life.” - Brooke van Velden

The ranking was so hard, especially when you had to rank something as "least important" when they're all very important, and none of them can stand alone.

photo of a man woman wearing a green dress with a large bike lane train. she’s standing outside in an actual bike lane

this rocks so hard

It's a small thing, on a global scale, but combined with organisational challenges and the general shittiness that surrounds us, it's made me feel quite hopeless about my ability to effect change or even just live my own values.

My homework for a leadership thing is watching a TED talk about cultural change and loss and the benefits of protecting diversity.

Yet the very same leadership thing has the fingerprints of AI, a diversity killer that creates endless sameness, alllll over it.

"nobody gets seconds until everybody's had firsts" but for transport infrastructure

These Anita Lester court drawings of Erin Patterson are incredible. I only remember seeing the first one at the time

Fuck this fucking government.

The brilliant performative politics of NZ First’s fake members’ bills NZ First MPs keep proposing laws they have no intention of passing, and the media falls for it every time.

NZ First MPs keep proposing laws they have no intention of passing, and the media falls for it every time.

thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...

Sign in a LIBRARY: Fuck social media. marry books. kill AI.

Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?

We sold a house this year and made a larger than expected gain (though still modest, really). It felt like a weird loophole to receive it tax free when we pay tax on all other income... CGTs are normal and Aotearoa should introduce one as part of a broader move to make our tax system more equitable!