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@RedRobyn@mastodon.nz
mastodon 4.7.2Ōtepoti resident, Tāmaki Makaurau raised. Covid protection cult proselytiser. I like tramping, reading, cycling, crafting and cooking, but don't seem to get around to doing them a lot.
Very keen on plants.
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@golgaloth@writing.exchange
Is it an entrapment set-up for ticketing drivers who make dangerously close passes of cyclists that have to pull out to avoid obstacles?
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@BobLefridge@mastodon.nz
I'm not convinced he'll stick to that, or even that it was accidental.
Strikes me as a plausibly deniable ploy to discourage Nat inclined people from voting for them, and encourage left block people to desert Labour and Greens
@jeremy_pm@mastodon.nz
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@va2lam@mastodon.nz
Well there's clever and there's wise. I'm not sure Opportunity will get their land tax across the line with either party. There's also the hard ball Arden played with the Greens when it came to ruling out Stanton Turei as a minister, which seemed to work then. He may be emulating that
@BobLefridge@mastodon.nz @jeremy_pm@mastodon.nz
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@xurizaemon@toot.cafe @exlibrarykris@cloudisland.nz
We've turned on the good weather in honour of our fedi visitor. I'd prefer not to think about Friday though!
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@kete
That's not my ideal.
Ideally we would live in a community where I can share transport in comfort with a feeling of safety, and if there's someone there with me forgetting their social responsibilities there's also a driver I can trust to take action to remind them.
Nowhere in my ideal is a guy telling us that women need to do all the things to stay safe, so bad actors can blame their victim if we don't.
@AimeeMaroux
Help me Hivemind
I've been asked to come up with some bicycle themed snacks for an album release party
Ideally appealing to people from mid teens to twenties who go to loud bands and enjoy a mosh pit.
Not too time consuming or expensive please, I'm a poor and tired person. Vegan would be good (especially with the price of eggs and butter) Best I can come up with is round cookies with spokes, rim and hub piped on
#BikeTooter #FoodGloriousFood
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@jenzi
I've definitely heard people saying stuff like that. Both straight out and the even more invidious approach where it's possible for them to claim it's just a joke if one humourlessly calls them on it.
@QasimRashid
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@jeremy_pm@mastodon.nz
I have a pet theory that there was particular animosity towards the McGillicuddies amongst the Greens. (Bad blood from the 93 by-election) To the best of my knowledge there aren't any former McGillicuddies prominent in Opportunities.
@va2lam@mastodon.nz @BobLefridge@mastodon.nz
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@DavidM_yeg@beige.party
The introduced rats eating all the tree seeds was probably a bigger problem leading to deforestation of Rapanui
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@exlibrarykris@cloudisland.nz
All good here. Made the house creak a bit, mildest of juddering, the second rumble set some lights swinging but the first parts didn't
@Xas@mastodon.nz
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@fasnix@fe.disroot.org
Also affects MRI machines in healthcare. They use a lot of helium to set up in the first place then ongoing helium to keep em cold. It's tricksy stuff that escapes and drifts off into space
@chopsstephens@mastodon.nzoss.nz @Tatjna@moo.nz
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@markhburton
And micronesia and all the other divisions our geographers imposed on Te Moana Nui a Kiwa
@vik
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@pezmico@mastodon.nz to be fair the logic is the heavier trucks can carry more things per trip and make less trips.
I suspect 'fewer driver hours" is more important than "less diesel" to the transport industry.
I have an alternative idea for increasing load capacity per driver hour, but it is not popular with the road transport industry. It's also best combined with rail capable ferries, some of those sidings they hocked off to the developers of big box retail outlets and a whole heap.of catch up on modular transport solutions to make the station to destination more efficient
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@stephen@ephemera.vital.org.nz
Good point.
It's more the company he keeps.
Though if he believes that his transport policies are good for ordinary New Zealanders he must have been smoking something
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@rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz
The one they are going with costs us in road repairs. Which I can see the road transport industry not giving a fuck about, but surely it's less easy for a government to justify
@pezmico@mastodon.nz
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@BobLefridge
Or just let all the oldies have it whenever they first realise it's important? Sometimes this means going against the advice of their GP. Yeah, I know, if your GP says you don't need a vaccine that even stingy old Pharmac reckons has enough evidence of efficacy they are prepared to pay for it, then you need a new GP. But by the time you work it out the window has probably closed.
@thomasbeagle @thirzajane
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@BobLefridge
I get that most people don't need lifelong treatment after shingles, but for those that do surely it's much much cheaper to vaccinate. And just as we can't predict which of the 30% of us who've had chicken pox will develop shingles (and I bet that's going up, cos reasons), we can't predict which of those people are going to need expensive follow up
@thomasbeagle @thirzajane
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@irix@cloudisland.nz
Is yours a bikes on buses 'burb? It made it a bit easier to ride down into town knowing that if I really couldn't face cycling up I could wait until there was a bus with space on the front (2 bikes per bus, 1-2 buses per hour...)
I was a bit cynical.tnough that the council rolled it out over a number of years, in approximately inverse order to deprivation.
@fergycool@mastodon.social
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@jdmcg@mastodon.nz
They aren't gay enough?
(Yes I know "be gay, do crime" dates back to when just being gay was the crime, but I couldn't help myself)
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@Niall@mastodon.nz
The rough approximation for the increase in damage is the fourth power.
So if the axle is carrying twice the load it's causing 2x2x2x2 as much damage.
I get that that's oversimplified and our roading construction is different from where that work was done (I've heard they had to call off a similar trial on a test road constructed here because it got too dangerous. The road was degrading even quicker, so whatevs) and I know there's new developments in axle engineering that help. But the exponential approximation actually comes from the physics of how mass and energy relate, so I'm sceptical
@Iveyline@mastodon.nz @pezmico@mastodon.nz
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@IanDSmith@mastodonapp.uk
33 years ago in Aotearoa we had a similar situation - a populist sitting member (admittedly an MP for a party he did not lead) resigned to trigger a by-election he expected to be the only candidate for. The bi-election bivalve (a chap whose friends all knew him as Mollusc, though the returning officer insisted on Greg Pittams) stepped up, earning Mr Peter's enduring animosity Obviously as a member of the McGillicuddy Serious Party he was in no way a joke candidate. In the end an unfortunate ragtag of other candidates also joined the race, but Mollusc swept onto second place. So long as you don't count informal ballots, that is.
I'm seething.
There's always something, I know. But this is a sneaky, petty thing. DCC backtracking on opening the Caversham tunnel to cyclists and pedestrians so soon after finally agreeing to progress it. They have been dragging the chain on it for so many years.
Submit by Wednesday 29 April, info here:
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@matildalove@wetdry.world
Sometimes the fit is improved by getting a clip to convert the earloops to a head loop. Failing that If you have a local mask bloc they might make use of them?
@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@stephen@ephemera.vital.org.nz
Maybe it should be the version with the knives to show he's a bit of a cooker?
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@foxylad@mastodon.nz
Pretty sure Jones was seen as a lefty hippy type back in his Nga Tamatoa days.
Also Tim Shadbolt, back in his geodesic dome fact finding world tour days. My eldest has cleaned up after any number of selfish grifting lefty hippies on the festival scene (I carefully haven't said "told you so") Centrepoint community was seen as a group of lefty hippies.
I'm afraid the general.public perception of lefty hippies is probably not that they are entirely incorruptible
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz @futuresprog@mastodon.nzoss.nz
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@xurizaemon@toot.cafe
... I love that gentle light.
And all the stars so sharp and clear that shiver in the night
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@sunguramy@flipping.rocks
I recall going to a presentation of grad students work. She wanted to monitor water level remotely and set up a camera feed focused on an old fashioned stick in the water gauge. The audience (birding society) appreciated the missing data points where a kea was interfering with the camera. The field site was way out in the mountains so human vandals were not too much concern.
@Andbaker@aus.social
Anyone have any information about the bylaw that's the subject of this petition?
Growing up in Tamaki Makau Rau with the restrictions on going into entire catchments in the Waitakere ranges, I was surprised by the open access here (and the paths and shrubbery across the face of the earth dam at Ross creek) Nowadays Watercare up there have obviously had to be less fussy, because there's no way they can dictate what happens in the Waikato catchment.
Surely we already have some compromise in place of treating the silverstream water thoroughly enough to make it safe? Those tracks have been used recreationally by generations. I'll be super sad if those tracks are closed to day walkers
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@pezmico@mastodon.nz
Meanwhile our council is celebrating the early progress on the trail connections to out of the city by quietly putting working on opening the tunnel needed to connect the southern trail further away on the back burner that it's already been on for 21 years. So far away that it's actually fallen off.
Never mind though, the bits that are already open are pretty cool, you can always pop your bike on the back of your car and drive out to enjoy them
https://www.dttt.org.nz/news/annual-plan-submission-2026/
@Phil_Tanner@mastodon.philtanner.com @rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz
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@SimonCHulse@mastodon.nz
I seldom go to Facebook, but similar stuff here. Due to a councillor's untimely death we have a by-election. Which is running over the end of a trial facilitating recreational use of a bit of road though the town belt by excluding vehicles. Candidates are encouraging their supporters to flood the feedback portal. Some kind of vice-signalling that they hope will translate to votes?
@pezmico@mastodon.nz @Phil_Tanner@mastodon.philtanner.com @rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz
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@thomasbeagle
We absolutely shouldn't have to pay for these vaccines, but what's the alternative? I do get that by paying we are complicit both in letting the govt know they can get away with not funding stuff if the horror stories are bad enough; and accepting an unequal health system.
But not doing it seems more like cutting off our noses to spite our faces than sticking to higher ethical principles.
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@me_valentijn
Just letting you know that I can't see what the guys posting - my server has muted him and the post must be set to "mentioned people only" as it's not showing on his public timeline. If you are going to continue to engage please untag me. I feel like he's just looking for people to take the bait.
@PeachMcD
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@fasnix@fe.disroot.org
I think Helium free MRI is being developed. But there's a lot of hospitals that have helium cooled ones
@chopsstephens@mastodon.nzoss.nz @Tatjna@moo.nz
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@matildalove@wetdry.world
I think people were getting success with something more like a barrel of monkey length. Also preshaping nose wire. But I feel it's often not firm enough to hold it's shape on the KN95s
@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@lugh_clyde@mastodon.social
It's not naked eye though, it's a photograph. Astrophotography with long exposures gives you a whole heap more colour and detail than you see unaided. Though the sky in that part of the country is pretty good, an amazing place for skygazing. Better than my small coastal city, which I understand to be itself better than most places in Europe. My own "but that's not quite right" response is calling the Remarkables the Southern Alps. I always thought of the Alps as starting at the other side of the lake. However all the marketing people tell me I am wrong
@JulianOliver@mastodon.social
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@dunedinmouse
It is not historically known for left wing bias, so I can only presume the fact that it is independent is a problem.
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@xurizaemon@toot.cafe
Your photo made it appear in my head - a welcome ear worm. I should probably have referenced it, arohamai I was tired.
My Dad was fond of Sydney Carter and the album that Carol of the Creatures is on was in the family record cupboard. One of his more earnest Christian songs was apparently banned on the BBC. Can't encourage independent thought
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@tslumley
Pharmac presumably did not spend all the funding they had for every NZ resident 65 to 80 years to get the shingles vaccine when it first got funded. [Edited to correct age range] Maybe we could just accept that the rollout didn't reach everyone it needed to and come up with a reasonable way of managing the uncertainty. Just like they are managing the unexpected higher need for antivirals due to Covid (both for Covid and for the higher rates of shingles we are experiencing as s result)
@thirzajane @BobLefridge @thomasbeagle
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@Photo55@mastodon.social
The only sure way to tell the difference between a bad cold and the flu is to test. It's simply not true that influenza is always horrendously symptomatic with bad fever. It can be mildly symptomatic, or even asymptomatic, and still potentially contagious. This isn't an argument for continuous testing, a better response to the research is layering protection when people share air with good ventilation/filtration and quality masks.
@ravenbait@mastodon.scot @cstross@wandering.shop @quixoticgeek@social.v.st
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@Bronwyn@sfba.social
If the other fibres felt it would probably get dragged along with them. Does the band say "machine washable"? If so felting is out.
I think I would probably say I need to frog it to feel happy with the result and never get round to doing it. Your motivation and may differ. Only other option I can think of is hiding a seam somewhere to take in excess, but i would just be annoyed every time I noticed it.
If you want to try felting I would strongly recommend doing it with a sample first - both to see if you can achieve shrinkage and if you can to see if you like the appearance after
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@Bronwyn@sfba.social
Would threading elastic thread through the band help? Or is it overall positive ease that's the problem?
The hand sewing would also be pretty intense, for gentle tightening many rounds of elastic would be required, and it would still feel bodged to me, plus the rest of the garment would blouse out from the ribbing
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@cestfleuve@mastodon.nz
If I take this and slightly modify it it's not stealing, right? Or should I attribute it all academic style
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@Bronwyn@sfba.social
Not a super advanced knitter. However the only way I've done it involves felting. Which changes the texture a lit. Also depends entirely on the kind of wool - anything super wash or synthetic won't felt.
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@siege
Now imagine the eagle big enough to take out a Moa. They reckon it was an ambush predator, swooping down out of the trees to land on the Moa's back and punch its claws through its pelvis into its kidneys. I have held a bone from inside one if those claws. Rarest animal I've ever been close to.