#nz

Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿

@notjustdna.bsky.social

14 minutes ago

More work on treating birds infected by high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI).

In NZ, researchers will have been planning responses to an outbreak here.

#NZ #conservation

Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿

@notjustdna.bsky.social

24 minutes ago

Worth reading, esp. re #NZ regulations

There’s a lot said about genetic modification, most of it well meant, but many points are misdirected.

Some things to think about ⬇️

Jon Sullivan

@joncounts.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy

58 minutes ago

A photo of a car driving up a road with a blood red sunset sky behind it.

A photo of red sunset clouds. It was this red. Maybe even redder. It was nuts.

A zoomed in photo of some of the norwest arch clouds, thin and layered, all lit up orange and red at sunset.

A panorama photo of a bright red sunset with a tree and houses silhouetted in the foreground.

So. Much. Colour!!

Here's my pick of the sunset photos from this evening. When Ōtautahi-Christchurch turns on a sunset, it goes all in.

(My full-resolution photos, plus a few more, are at Flickr, eg https://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/55194998475/ […]

[Original post on mastodon.nz]

Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿

@notjustdna.bsky.social

1 hour ago

Moon & space oriented reading in a display of some of Tauranga’s collection near the Cathedral Square entrance.

📚 If #Christchurch #NZ people want more space-y reading, there’s a display of some of @christchurchlib.bsky.social Tauranga’s collection near the Cathedral Square entrance -

Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿

@notjustdna.bsky.social

1 hour ago

#NZ A blast from the past 😀

ShadowSICK66

@shadowsick66.bsky.social

1 hour ago

a close up of a sad cat with the words pleeeaasse written below it ALT: a close up of a sad cat with the words pleeeaasse written below it

Hey #shadows we are LIVE in 10mins! See y'all soon!

PLEASE NO DOUBLE DIGITS!

Twitch 😖 twitch.tv/shadowsick66/
YouTube 🎟️ youtube.com/@ShadowSICK66

#twitch #streaming #gaming #nz

Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿

@notjustdna.bsky.social

2 hours ago

A few minutes later in a nearby reserve.

#Christchurch #NZ

Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿

@notjustdna.bsky.social

2 hours ago

People were coming out of the supermarket to take photos on of the bright sunset.

#Christchurch #NZ

Renew Economy

@reneweconomy.com.au

4 hours ago

NZ orders networks to "buy back" rooftop solar during peaks, in suite of DER-boosting reforms No rebates has meant slow rooftop solar uptake in NZ. But a range of progressive electricity market reforms is seeking to unlock the full value of distributed energy for consumers and the grid.

No rebates has meant slow rooftop solar uptake in #NZ. But a range of progressive electricity market #reforms is seeking to unlock the full value of distributed #energy for consumers and the #grid.

Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿

@notjustdna.bsky.social

5 hours ago

#Christchurch #NZ ⬇️

Subscribers-only unfortunately

Kev Lucky -hates spammers.

@kev-lucky.bsky.social

8 hours ago

I made a mistake, Police Commissioner says of historic complaint After an 18-month battle to get hold of official information, it can be reported Police Commissioner Richard Chambers had a complaint upheld against him.

#NZPol #police #cannabislaw #Aotearoa #nz

It's a long read that seems to be more about self-praise for 1news than a major drama for Chambers.

2012/weed/WTF?

www.1news.co.nz/2026/04/08/i...

MissE

@shinierthanyou.bsky.social

9 hours ago

Classic Winston. #nz #newzealand #politics #nzfirst

@kiwingz.bsky.social

9 hours ago

branch meeting

📝 #shorts #birds #wildlife #aotearoa #nz #newzealand #backyard #birdwatching | @KiWingz on #Twitch

💜 twitch.tv/KiWingz 🐦

🎶 bg music used with license from: www.chillhop.com

😂 clipped by: @fannyslam.bsky.social

Jakob | TheLoyalOrder

@theloyalorder.bsky.social

10 hours ago

2023 New Zealand general election - vote margin % of plurality block by territorial authority area CC BY 4.0 TheLoyalOrder | Boundaries CC BY 4.0 StatsNZ

2023 New Zealand general election - vote margin % of plurality block by territorial authority area

#nzpol #electionmap #map #nz

Pamela Howard

@fannyslam.bsky.social

11 hours ago

i built my own home

📝 #shorts #stonehearth #gaming #funny #meme #clip #aotearoa #nz #newzealand

💜 twitch.tv/fannyslam 🧡

🎶 bg music used with license from: www.chillhop.com

x - Una mujer y dos gatos 🐈🐈‍⬛

@losgatos.bsky.social

12 hours ago

Key events: US President Donald Trump ramped up threats against Iran, posting that that "a whole civilization will die tonight", as his deadline approaches to open the Strait of Hormuz Trump has given Iran until midday (NZ time) to end its blockade of Gulf oil through the Strait Pakistan requested Trump make a two-week extension to the deadline to allow time for negotiation and diplomacy The White House said the president would respond to the proposal Foreign Minister Winston Peters has told US Secretary of State Marco Rubio of the impact of the Iran war on New Zealand and the Pacific What is America's 25th Amendment and how can it be used to remove a president?

Interesting inclusion.
From RNZ #nz #nzpol

Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿

@notjustdna.bsky.social

12 hours ago

'It's going to be 1975 again': Diesel prices face sharp jump Motorists using diesel are being warned to expect to see its price lift over $4 a litre this week.

#NZ Oil crisis: 'It's going to be 1975 again'

- From Susan Edmunds, Money Correspondent
- Price lift of diesel to over $4/l
- AA spokesperson Terry Collins said, "the cost of refining had lifted 600 percent. "Refining is now more than the cost of oil.""
- NZ dependent on Singapore & Korea

Raul (he/him)

@raulbview.bsky.social

16 hours ago

Unprocessed iPhone photograph of grassy hills under party cloudy skies, an old concrete bunker just visible on the far horizon.

Belmont Regional Park, 2026
#photography #ruins #nz #wellington

New Zealand Wine

@nzwine.bsky.social

17 hours ago

What does 2026 look like for the NZ wine industry?

Vintage conditions, market uncertainty, sustainability insights, innovation & the people behind the vines.

Read about that & more in the latest edition of the NZ Winegrower mag at the link 🔗
https://bit.ly/nzwinegrower-aprilmay

#nzwine #wine #nz

Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿

@notjustdna.bsky.social

1 day ago

What to make of new evidence in the notorious Bill Sutch spy case Analysis: RNZ is publishing new evidence in the case of alleged 'KGB agent' Bill Sutch. What does it tell us?

#NZ Two NZ spy stories,

One possible KGB agent: www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...

Paola

@paolina.bsky.social

1 day ago

Take a break from your doomscrolling to be stared at by an Aotearoa New Zealand native wood pigeon, the Kererū (see alt text for more info) who hung in our garden 🌱 today - it likes the berries in the Puriri tree
Kikorangi #NZ #nature

Jon Sullivan

@joncounts.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy

1 day ago

A photo of four young ducklings on the Avon river. (The fifth duckling is out of view.)

Also, I saw these ducklings on the Avon River, which is unusually late in the season. Then again, it's been an odd summer.

https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/347992843

#ducklings #AvonRiver #nz #Christchurch #birds

Jon Sullivan

@joncounts.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy

1 day ago

Someone's put this small sculpture high up on the side of this otherwise bland concrete wall of a building along Madras Street.

It looks like a kea mural might be on its way. My photo shows the partially completed black outlines of two kea (NZ alpine parrots) painted on the side of a building. This is on Durham Street South.

A photo of a circular drain under a road in bricks. The water level in the creek that flows through it is at just the right level for the reflection of the hole to look like a circle. This is Jacksons Creek as it flows under Huxley Street.

A photo of part of an old mural at Waltham Park, showing a stylised painting of a piwakawaka, NZ fantail bird, perched on a branch.

Here are four things I saw in Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ, yesterday.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/55192564303/

#Ōtautahi #Christchurch #nz #photography

Mark Baxter

@tartanperil.bsky.social

1 day ago

Collecting statistics: When the numbers don't add up Statistics are a vitally important tool to plan and inform government policy - but when they're wrong or misleading, trust is at risk.

Ex-govt statistician alarm over ditching NZ's 5-year census. And resulting f-ups will get worse: In the last few weeks, MBIE struggled with accurate fuel figures; MoH dealt with confusion over Covid death figures; and Stats NZ screwed up the Food Price Index...
#NZ
www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedeta...

Jon Sullivan

@joncounts.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy

1 day ago

A photo of a small dark black fly with an orange head and black eyes.

There's a new fly in town.

While out for a run yesterday, in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, I noticed this unusual orange-headed black fly. I uploaded my photos to #iNaturalist when I got home and learned that it's the Australian Soldier Fly, *Inopus rubriceps* […]

[Original post on mastodon.nz]

Bernard Hickey

@bernardchickey.bsky.social

1 day ago

The plan to double tourism exports is unfunded MBIE report finds infrastructure hole of up to $3.5b in Govt plan to bring in extra 1m tourists & double exports to $20b by 2034; Yet Govt reaps $10.5b/year in GST, PAYE & levies from tourism

Chorus out: MBIE report finds infrastructure hole of up to $3.5b in Govt plan to bring in extra 1m tourists & double exports to $20b by 2034; Yet Govt reaps $10.5b/year in GST, PAYE & levies from tourism #nzpol #nz #newzealand open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

Pamela Howard

@fannyslam.bsky.social

1 day ago

crafting and snacking

📝 #shorts #stonehearth #gaming #funny #meme #clip #aotearoa #nz #newzealand

💜 twitch.tv/fannyslam 🧡

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Rob Connolly 🇳🇿 🇬🇧

@rob.webworxshop.com.ap.brid.gy

1 day ago

Range anxiety: the reality of owning an EV Commuting? Amazing. Maintenance? A breeze. Road trips? Hmmmm.

Range anxiety: the reality of owning an EV - thespinoff.co.nz/society/04-04-2026/range...

#NZPol #NZ #NewZealand #transport #FuelCrisis

Rob Connolly 🇳🇿 🇬🇧

@rob.webworxshop.com.ap.brid.gy

1 day ago

thefutureisrail.org/addressing-truck-subsidi... - thefutureisrail.org/addressing-truck-subsidi...

#NZPol #NZ #NewZealand #transport #FuelCrisis

Rob Connolly 🇳🇿 🇬🇧

@rob.webworxshop.com.ap.brid.gy

1 day ago

The world’s fuel situation is becoming clear, and it’s beginning to feel a lot like early 2020, where an incoming crisis is looming on the horizon. America’s war in Iran has resulted in a drastic cut in fossil fuel supply from the Middle East. And even if everything opened up tomorrow, the supply disruption is so large that the ‘air pocket’ of delivery will still hit us. It’s perhaps best demonstrated by this map of analysis done by JP Morgan, which says our currently guaranteed deliveries stop by 20 April: Regardless of what happens with the war, significant damage to fossil-fuel infrastructure means that the disruption is going to last a lot longer – years and years. And the time to start dealing with it is **now**. Not when fuel supplies start to run out, but right now. The good news is Auckland Council already has the blueprint to reduce our fuel use in transport. It’s called the **Transport Emissions Reduction Pathway**. Because, lo and behold, it turns out what is required to rapidly reduce fossil fuel use in transport, is an exact mirror of the measures needed to rapidly reduce the emissions that cause climate change. * * * #### What is the Transport Emissions Reduction Pathway? The Transport Emissions Reduction Pathway, or TERP, is a plan of practical steps Auckland should take to rapidly reduce emissions, and therefore reduce fuel usage, of transport in our region. It was approved by Auckland Council in 2022. We covered it extensively here, but the thrust of the TERP is 11 key steps: 1. Supercharge walking and cycling 2. Massively increase public transport patronage 3. Prioritise and resource sustainable transport 4. Reduce travel where possible and appropriate 5. Safe, low-traffic neighbourhoods for people 6. Build up, not out 7. Electrify private vehicles 8. Enable new transport devices 9. Low-emissions public transport 10. Efficient freight and services 11. Empower Aucklanders to make sustainable transport choices Unfortunately, in the last few years, action on the TERP has been severely inadequate. * * * #### Sounds great. So what’s stopping us? Leadership. Both politically, and institutionally. **Central Government,** made up of National, NZ First, and ACT, has been following Simeon Brown’s extremely ideological 2024 Government Policy Statement on Land Transport, which slashed funding for walking and cycling and reduced funding for public transport, to funnel money into a few gold-plated state highways. Basically the opposite of TERP. Despite numerous opportunities to change course, including the current crisis, they have so far refused to do so. **Auckland Council,** led by Mayor Wayne Brown, has a wide spectrum of political views – some excellent, some ambivalent, and some who simply do not like the idea of prioritising walking, cycling, and public transport, even to bring them up to basic parity with the investment in driving. **Auckland Transport** has suffered from institutional stagnation, where a few senior decision-makers and middle managers (aka the ‘layer of clay’) have managed to ignore and/or delay well-supported strategies and plans designed to free Aucklanders from car dependency – and fossil fuels. The thing is, in a crisis, everything can change. No one can now claim it is too expensive, too difficult, or a ‘nice to have’ to reduce fossil fuel use in transport. Because this fuel crisis is a burning platform, and change is coming whether we like it or not. And people already appear to be seeking out other options, and they deserve support for doing their part. So we’re lucky we have positive options, in the form of an approved plan that lays out the way ahead. Now’s the time where we see the mettle of our leaders. And if they refuse to take action, then we must demand it. * * * #### What needs to happen now Many of the larger actions are beyond the power of Council to deliver rapidly. For example, electrification of the light vehicle fleet (aka cars) – we understand the demand for EVs has been so strong, many places are sold out and now waiting deliveries from overseas. But for true change, you would need central government resources and changes, such as bringing back the Clean Car Discount scheme. So what **_can_** we, as in Council and Auckland Transport, do urgently? The first three actions of TERP tell us. **1. Supercharge Walking and Cycling** Auckland Council and Auckland Transport can urgently initiate the delivery of “pop-up” cycleways, to complete the strategic cycleway network. They can do this at low cost, using the same measures as many cities around the world did directly in the early COVID response. As with 2020, the trick will be to focus on the routes that provide access for essential workers, to essential services, and that create access that doesn’t currently exist. Hospitals and medical services, the food distribution network, major factories, schools. The legal tools are there. Reshaping Streets legislation allows for ‘trials’ to pilot street changes and /or manage traffic. With four weeks notice, AT and Council can deliver significant changes that will give people safe options for replacing car trips with walking and cycling. A lane on the Harbour Bridge, and other motorway-adjacent access, is in the hands of Waka Kotahi/ NZTA, but is something Council can absolutely advocate for. Likewise with actions to reverse the blanket speed limit increases from Simeon Browns 2024 Speed Rule, to return to safer urban 30km/h limits. **2. Massively increase public transport patronage** Auckland’s bus network has seen enormous improvements over the last few decades. We have more than enough of a foundation to significantly ramp up the frequency of bus routes across our city, so it’s as simple to catch a bus as to jump in the car. And not just at peak times, but all day long – giving a real alternative to driving for _non_ -commuter trips, which make up the vast majority of trips that people currently use cars for. We need to see the frequency ramped up as soon as possible, and services expanded where gaps are found. Cutting the current cost of fares will increase patronage, and for certain groups where cost is a big barrier such as under 25s or Community Service Card holders, it makes sense for travel to be free. (Just as it currently is for Gold Card holders off-peak. Fair’s fair!) Auckland Transport and Auckland Council have the ability to manage this – but central government must provide the funding and resources, as it has far more capacity and ability to do so. **3. Prioritise and resource sustainable transport** To deliver both of the programmes above, sustainable transport needs to be _prioritised_ as well as resourced. The quickest, cheapest, and **only** way to realistically deliver this stuff, is to more effectively use street space that’s currently allocated to vehicles – whether as driving lanes, or for on-street parking. What does this mean? It means bus lanes can be rolled out on all arterials and along important bus routes, and should be 24/7 to ensure reliability of services at all times. And it means pop-up cycleways can quickly transform kerbside space into efficient lanes that can move people safely and easily without using petrol. (Note that police have already advised people to “park strategically“, storing their cars in driveways and garages to guard against fuel theft – so this is a logical win-win.) * * * #### Bring a vision and clarity Underpinning all of these moves, it’s time to actively **Empower Aucklanders to make sustainable transport choices.** This is the time for strong, clear narratives that outline and communicate the vision and the need to do this. Quick and creative change will be needed to deal what looks to be coming our way, and communities deserve to be on board. Just as we’ve risen to the challenge in previous emergencies, we should be actively supported to do so again. And then, as we look further ahead to the medium-to-long term, we can keep going and implement the other actions of the TERP. Electrification of our transport system will underpin our long-term resilience against fossil fuels, reduce our emissions to combat climate change, and create neighbourhoods that support us to live healthy lives no matter the global weather. * * * #### Take Action All of this is possible, and realistic, and doable. **And necessary.** We have the plan, the means, and the smarts to deal with the crisis ahead of us. It just requires our leaders to have courage in this moment – and if they are slow to find their voices, we must raise ours. Because if we don’t, we’ll get the alternative – a messy, hard, damaging and unjust transition. We will all suffer, and the most vulnerable people in our society will suffer the most. Conversely, if together we can take the steps to get off fossil fuels, not only will we get through this shock, but we will permanently reduce the cost of living, reduce our emissions to fight climate change, and create resilience to get us through the next crisis. If you want to help, reach out to your local MP and Councillor, and ask them to push for the urgent changes we need. * Find out who your MP is here. * And Councillors here. So let’s get on with it. Because action inspires hope! * * * **_Greater Auckland’s work is made possible by generous donations from our readers and fans.__We’re now a registered charity, so your donations are tax-deductible. If you’d like to support our work, you canjoin our circle of supporters here._** ##### **Share this**

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