James Macbeth Dann

Rates increases are out of control says man who put rates increases up to pay for a covered stadium

When I was a newborn I saved up and bought my own basket. We all did. This generation just wants a handout

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Managed to find a few million to subsidise private schools a bit more.

We pay taxes to support public schools so we have an educated pop via compulsory schooling. If you want to privately educate your kid, fine. But leave the crowns money out of it.

Think about how this budget would have looked if they hadn't gutted pay equity. You are now imagining what this govts management actually looks like.

They had to gut the promised pay equity to deliver, this.

@mrbarnabyb.bsky.social ran past your old place on riverlaw today. Up for auction! As is where is. Time to move the crew back? It’ll probably be underwater soon

The stadium myth: new grounds won’t rescue your club – or your city From the Premier League to MLS and the NFL, huge stadiums with gargantuan costs are a symptom of elite sport’s unrealistic promises

The stadium myth: new grounds won’t rescue your club – or your city

Room full of people at Tūranga for a warriors event

Warriors league in libraries logo

In case you need any more examples of the success of the Warriors brand off field, it is standing room only here at Tūranga for an event where some of the Wahs will read books to kids on a Thursday morning

Had a lovely, wet walk around Te Kuru wetlands today. Interesting to see that efforts have been made to un-straighten the course of the river, which had been altered by Cracroft Wilson in the 19th century

maybe for every 5 think pieces about the effect of social media on the youths we should get 1 on what is happening with the olds who are feeding like hogs on deranged conspiracies, AI slop they don't recognise as fake, and algorithm spoonfed bigotry they think is old time front page news of the day

Riverside Market is great; you can walk past dozens of vendors with literally hundreds of different food options, then you get Dimitri’s

Yup, yesterday about 10am

Uh. Here’s a picture yesterday I took of a guy outside the church that is now in the centre of the bomb threat cordon in Somerfield. Dunno if they’re related but some pretty weird goings on down by the local

Khruangbin at Chch town hall, Feb 20, 2025

Khruangbin at Chch town hall, Feb 20, 2025

Khruangbin at Chch town hall, Feb 20, 2025: close up on Town Hall pipe organ

Khruangbin at the Christchurch Town Hall, Feb 20. Someone came up to me and thanked me for saving the Town Hall! It was Jess and Barnaby and Lianne and others mainly, but I had kind of forgot that we had to fight for it. Imagine if we’d knocked it down … for what? The perfect venue

I miss having the energy to be this angry all the time

Luxon excited to spend Waitangi Day on the Auckland Islands, as is tradition for Prime Ministers avoiding the consequences of their own actions

Did Luxon just say “I want agriculture pumping, absolutely on fire”.

Crane on waterfront at Akaroa tipped over into the harbour about five minutes ago

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@morgangodfery.bsky.social at your fringe labour event thing. Sorry you can’t be here. Get well soon etc

Double rainbow (all the way)

It is!

Centennial was in 1975; this is a book from 1989, when the board was merged into the CCC and ceased to exist

4. For those that don’t know, these are some of the areas that were worst hit in the 2010 and 2011 quakes. Houses red zoned, land deemed too shit to rebuild on

Same area of the Avon, in photo from Apple Maps. All the houses that were there are gone, red zoned after the quakes.

3. The board felt pretty clever about this. Sold a bunch of previously “useless” land at a pretty profit. Here’s what that area looks like now

2. The board had purchased the land, which wasn’t suitable for subdivision as it was too low. But they topped it up with the silt from the river and then took it to the market. Here’s the before and after pics

1. Reading a book from 1989 about the Christchurch Drainage Board (voluntarily!). Amongst other things, the board would keep the rivers clear by dredging them regularly. On the Avon, they would put the silt on to some adjacent land they had bought.

The Greens expelling Darleen Tana is a victory of politics over principle. They claim it is justified by the merits of her conduct. But that's special pleading.

Their position against waka-jumping was an implicit view that there were no possible merits sufficient to support such action.