Meredith

Catching the bus in new places.

Today I also learnt (from their insta) that Nightengale body Corp collects funds that go to first nations every year. Incredible leadership for others in the land development property space.

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That's a great way to describe it! A feast for the eyes. 😍 I love the blend of old and new too

Just had a thought: the difference between a "food desert" and a "car dependent neighborhood" is the income of the residents.

Both are food deserts (there are no supermarkets, etc) one just has enough ppl with cars for it to not matter.

If you want some local art on your feed, follow Matt, a groovy gifted abstract painter based in Tāmaki Makaurau ✨⚡(and, also a lovely human!)

I've just arrived in Taipei and wow, so impressed with transit, how family friendly infrastructure is, and how generally pleasing the varied and eclectic buildings are.

So many dolphins in Pōneke harbour that I had to film in landscape and still couldn't capture em all

100% sure this will be awful for housing eh. It just doesn't stack up.

This visa policy will also be terrible for 🏡🏡housing in NZ and for New Zealanders - especially those based in popular areas/tourism hubs, already out priced and pushed out by Airbnb.

We need real investment from this government, not policy putting more pressure on housing.

Always was always will be 🖤💛❤️✊🏾

🏳️‍🌈PRIDE BUS 🏳️‍🌈PRIDE BUS 🏳️‍🌈PRIDE BUS 🏳️‍🌈

Welcome!

Every NZ friend (or stranger) that I have met in Australia admits they wished they had moved sooner. Better jobs, wages & quality of life higher, cost of living lower (mostly) and, unprompted, ppl mention the 12.5% employer cont.

NZ needs serious policy responses to boost the reasons to stay.

One of the wonderful things about cycling for transport is you can bump into friends, share a section of your journey together spinning yarns, then continue on separately with no effort

Wow. This article.

“…people sleep in doorways and alleys… & undeveloped public housing projects rot away... Every concession that NZ has made to the profits of private landlords pushed Scarlett Pavlovich into Gaiman’s arms. She had nowhere else to go. None of the women like her do.”

Secure and affordable housing for all.
Absolutely fundamental.

This puts it well & it’s a point I keep making about why using AI to write is so flattening. Writing is the process of working out & refining what you think. If I write an article, I’m not just generating 1000 plausible words. I’m trying to articulate ideas with precision, & challenging myself.

Goood to see. Hope it builds collective understanding of how buildings work.

There's a few other design details that help reduce overheating too, like the type of glass, ventilation, orientation and landscaping... And my fav, a general passive solar design approach which brings it all together!

Ok so… There’s a nice little park on a corner, and a path running directly to one edge of the park. That’s the first image, but there’s 12 other images here. In the second image, there is now a desire path running diagonally across the park. Next image, the path has been blocked by a park bench that the council has put in as a deterrent. Unfazed, in image 4 the path now deftly avoids the park bench. In images 5 and 6 the process is repeated, this time with a strategically placed bin which the desire path also avoids. Presumably in a fit of rage, the council plants an entire hedge to stop people creating new desire paths but eventually this too is defeated and a new path find a way. Finally, the council admits defeat and turns the desire path into a proper paved pathway. After a little while, a new desire path curving off this new paved pathway begins to emerge…

A little comic about desire paths.

I think we can change the world by having protected bike lanes and secure bike parking everywhere.

I'm in a coastal town in the Mornington Peninsula (VIC) at the moment, and cool to stumble across this on-demand bus service outside a retirement village. Unsure how much it is used though (!).

Timothée Chalamet arrives by bicycle to the London premiere of ‘A COMPLETE UNKNOWN’

Seeing Shit You Should Care About on the Spinoff bulletin today. Chefs kiss.

Love to see innovative local media platforms growing, and making an impact in how we receive & understand news ✨👌 @shityoushould.bsky.social @thespinoff.bsky.social

Amazing!! I'll DM you 😊

Which cities did you go to?!

After two months ish working remote and travelling around Australian cities (great time!), I'm planning the next leg through SE Asia. 🌏

I forgot how much effort travel planning takes, and short notice stress /$$ (the first leg was planned slowly over many months, well before I left Ao/NZ). 😅

Yay for gluten free tiramisu! As a gluten free person, I finally found gf fingers and made tiramisu for Christmas - so good!