Andrew Frame

You’re going to be real glad of those electric buses very very shortly same as Tasman

Kiwi cricketer makes history with five wickets in five balls Brett Randell is the first cricketer to take five in five in a first-class match.

Cricket: Kiwi Brett Randell makes history with five wickets in five balls for Central Districts

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Imagine if you were taking a nap and a bunch of sandwiches ran in your room, freaked out, and ran back out

And tell whoever keeps platforming Scotty Stevenson to GTFO...

'I want to sounds smart and inspirational': How ministers use AI Most ministers say they don't use AI – but those who do use it for speechwriting, research, drafting questions to officials and generating images. Marc Daalder reports.

Over summer, I OIA'd every minister for their AI chat logs.

Here's what I found:
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It never does, just like all the simulcast media, yet...
#AucklandAucklandAuckland

So he's ABSOLUTELY toast, then...

"Must be Auckland-based" = Out of touch with the rest of NZ?

Labour had six long years to fix Christopher Luxon's polling

Banana's Loose

Dire warning at the supermarket

IT IS NOT THE JOB OF A PUBLIC BROADCASTER IN A DEMOCRACY TO REPORT THE NEWS IN A WAY THE GOVERNMENT LIKES. IT IS ESPECIALLY NOT OKAY FOR MINISTERS AND POLITICALLY-APPOINTED BOARD MEMBERS TO DICATE INDIVIDUAL EDITORIAL DECISIONS. THIS SHOULD BE FUCKING OBVIOUS.

The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

A few years ago I made a Tamiya TT-02 RC version of that!

"Why are you crying? It's just a kids movie"

The movie:

(Hawke's Bay Regional) Council cutting jobs to achieve ‘long‑term financial sustainability’

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A literal Live Stream?!

Sounds like more local governnent jobs on the chopping block - HBRC this time...

Photograph of the body of a freshly painted silver-blue Jaguar XK 140 on a wooden support. Its chassis and drivetrain are behind it, as are more automotive parts and the body of an MGA in primer high on a lift. The setting is a very large garage with red concrete floors and high ceilings.

The Jaguar club lunch was at Lee Jacobsen’s garage and collection in Livonia. Lee has a great collection of MGs, Jaguars, and Packards.

Here’s a Jaguar XK140 being repainted.

February 28, 2026. Livonia, Michigan.

#photography #cars #ClassicCars #jaguar #weirdcarmastodon

Split Enz have reunited - two more shows for NZ On the back of their sold out get together at Electric Avenue, the iconic Kiwi band have announced sets for Auckland and Wellington this May.

No Split Enz at The Mission??!!

I thought it would be the perfect match!

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A bright red miniature railway engine standing at a station/ passenger shelter building with twin railway tracks surrounded by garden vegetation

Who needs a house when you could own your own fully-functional miniature railway?
#MadProps

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Stuff: "Stevenson is emphatic on what needs to be done. “The big thing you need to do is tax assets, and, in particular, the assets of the very rich,” he says." 'the assets of the very rich' is a hyperlink to Grant's story.

In the middle of this Stuff story with Gary Stevenson about how NZ needs to tax the assets of the very rich, it looks like they link to more information, but it's actually a Damien Grant opinion piece about how we shouldn't tax wealth lol

Tesco walked away from talks to take on supermarket duopoly, documents show Aldi and Lidl also declined to engage, leaving the supermarket duopoly intact.

So Willis' RFI to sound out potential competition in the supermarket industry was as much of a flop as the much touted Investment Summit

NOBODY bothered to even meet with her or participate in the RFI

Tesco, Aldi (who operate across the ditch) and Lidl all said no🤣🤣
#nzpol

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City Rail Link’s $3.4 million marketing and PR bill questioned Despite the millions spent on “communication”, the one thing Aucklanders remain none the wiser on is... when the CRL will actually open.

Why is spending a few million on advertising a $5.5b investment that is due to open this year a controversy...

...but spending ten times that on designing mega-roads that'll never get built is *never* questioned? 🤔

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Sigh

Government’s new science institute to lose 6% of staff less than a year after forming The Bioeconomy Science Institute is shedding 6% of its staff.

And people wonder why NZ’s R&D spend is way lower than the rest of the OECD & our productivity is in the toilet. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Someone get Olive to explain Napier's twin Woolworths stores, please?

Australian supermarket giant reins in AI assistant claiming to be human One person says Olive "kept claiming to be a real person and started talking about its memories of its mother and her angry voice".

"In a statement to local media, Woolworths said it had programmed Olive to respond this way." Is there *anyone* who actually wants to waste time with an AI chatbot inventing stories about its non-existent mother? What were these marketing clowns even thinking? www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

But bizness and board experience!

FFS. What a shambles!

Brownlee had this utter car-crash interview on Morning Report last year regarding Maori Wards....

Umming, ahhing, not knowing...
Sounds like the perfect match for our Mayor....

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'We can move on': Napier Mayor names his new deputy after sacking previous one Richard McGrath says he has no problem with his Deputy Mayor challenging his decisions.

Napier Mayor names new Deputy Mayor after standing down previous deputy

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