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GeorgeWeeks2014 @georgeweeks2014.bsky.social · 1h

In tribute to Diane Keaton (may she rest in peace) here is my favourite 📽 clip from 'Annie Hall', featuring Diane Keaton, Woody Allen and Marshall McLuhan.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpIY...

It's a wonderfully believable scene + characters, with a perfectly-timed lurch into fantasty.

#DianeKeaton

Annie Hall

YouTube video by TGTE

www.youtube.com

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 7h

Luxon “goes full Trump” with climate-denying methane backdown, via @Greenpeace.org.nz www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

Luxon “goes full Trump” with climate-denying methane backdown - Greenpeace Aotearoa

The NZ Government will rewrite NZ's once bipartisan climate change law to weaken methane targets and exclude agriculture from the ETS.

www.greenpeace.org

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 7h

Mind blowing.

The Luxon Government has confirmed it will rewrite NZ’s once bipartisan climate change law to dilute methane reduction targets and PERMANENTLY exclude dairy from the Emissions Trading Scheme – a move Greenpeace says amounts to full-blown climate denial.
#nzpol

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 9h

Leaving the ECHR is a fucking stupid idea. It's on a par with leaving the European Union. So we'll probably end up doing it.

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 1d

The “Eye of Seymour” 🤣 (Deputy PM) here is the #AtlasNetwork connection to #NZpol
The list of atrocious decisions logged are classic Atlas partner efforts to take from the public to fatten the mega rich’s (offshore) bank accounts.

Don’t vote LNP, Australia. The worst neoliberals are back. #auspol

the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 2d

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 2d

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

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GeorgeWeeks2014 @georgeweeks2014.bsky.social · 10h

You do! Come and visit in 2026 when Auckland's City Rail Link has opened and trains are zipping below the city centre 🚇

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder as it is clear most of the population doesn't understand this.

BNEF: Renewables Are Becoming Cheaper than Natural Gas in Southeast Asia

Despite the large number of benefits, many countries in Southeast Asia are planning to expand their use of natural gas.

energytracker.asia

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

“Britain is a nation of neighbours, not strangers — and it’s time we built a politics of hope that reflects that.”

Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.

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GeorgeWeeks2014 @georgeweeks2014.bsky.social · 1d

Sir Sadiq showing leadership. Again.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d

At least one senior Labour official seems to finally remember they aren't in Reform.
The changes won't just harm economy and country, they'll destroy families and force more people into becoming undocumented, leading to more deportations. They need scrapping not pausing.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sir Sadiq Khan calls for pause on new immigration rules

The mayor of London said the changes had "moved the goalposts".

www.bbc.com

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GeorgeWeeks2014 @georgeweeks2014.bsky.social · 1d

Lobbying combined with received wisdom??

Solar + Battery storage is already the cheapest energy that humanity has ever possessed. It's the way the world is going.

Building LNG facilities in 2025 is like investing in Chinese steam trains in 1990. Still in use but its relevance is quickly fading.

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Jennifer Ward @jenospeno.bsky.social · 2d

“…the proven merits of renewables and the work already underway to grow their contribution must be central to the continuing debate. “ theconversation.com/why-does-nzs...

Why does NZ’s new energy plan sideline renewables and ignore progress made already?

The government’s energy package is unnecessarily preoccupied with fossil fuels and ignores important reform work already underway.

theconversation.com

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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 1d

Auckland’s once paper of record, the Herald, senior local affairs reporter wrote 0 articles on the race, even taking an overseas holiday as the campaign reached its peak. ‘No-one cares about city politics’ no doubt is the excuse, well no one can if all they are feed is imported gossip, for clicks.

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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 1d

Well done media, you achieved this brilliantly, your campaign to nearly completely ignore AKL’s local elections has flowed on to its inevitable outcome. Accelerating your own irrelevance simultaneously -> www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Auckland records lowest turnout in local elections

“Vote today or let someone else choose Auckland's representatives for you,” Aucklanders are told, with local body elections entering the home straight.

www.thepost.co.nz

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GeorgeWeeks2014 @georgeweeks2014.bsky.social · 1d

This works...provided everyone has a similarly high-quality regime.

GeorgeWeeks2014 @georgeweeks2014.bsky.social · 1d

The lamp columns in Pitt Street have separate lighting units for the carriageway & footway/cycleway.

This makes the street usable day & night...which is important, particularly for Karangahape Road & environs.

It's a poor reflection on Auckland that dedicated footway lighting is vanishingly rare.

New lamp columns in Pitt Street, Auckland, with footway lighting unit highlighted.

New lamp columns in Pitt Street, Auckland, showing different height lighting units for carriageway and footway.

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GeorgeWeeks2014 @georgeweeks2014.bsky.social · 1d

More street trees 🌴 being planted in Pitt Street.

This work means that Pitt St will have a similar cross section and materiality to Karangahape Road.

Previously, Pitt St felt very arterial. A relic of its pre-motorway function.

Now it reflects the presence of a soon-to-open railway station 🚇

Roadworkers and lorries delivering nikau palm to Pitt St, Auckland.

Newly-planted nikau palms in Pitt St, Auckland.

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 2d

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 1d

The BBC is slowly but surely destroying Radio 4 as well. It’s the last bastion of intelligent debate in Britain, yet it’s increasingly becoming a vehicle for culture wars. When the history of the UK in this period is written, the BBC will have a lot to answer for when it comes to stirring division

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GeorgeWeeks2014 @georgeweeks2014.bsky.social · 1d

I used to love cycling through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, down Constitution Hill and past Buckingham Palace when I lived in London. Like a Richard Curtis film

The only downside was a total lack of cycle infrastructure between Shepherd's Bush Market and Notting Hill Gate.

Still true now :(

GeorgeWeeks2014 @georgeweeks2014.bsky.social · 5d

It's a tree alright :) 🌴

GeorgeWeeks2014 @georgeweeks2014.bsky.social · 5d

Looks like it :)

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GeorgeWeeks2014 @georgeweeks2014.bsky.social · 5d

You can't have Pitt Street without a tree pit in it.

(PITt sTREEt)

Great to see the new trees being planted last night...and in place this morning.

Every street is better with street trees 🌴

Particularly streets outside the entrance to a new underground rail station 🚇

#Auckland #UrbanDesign

Nikau palms being delivered on the back of a lorry late at night for planting in Pitt St, Auckland.

Newly-planted Nikau palm in Pitt St, Auckland.

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