Carol Green

Large poster in the Brompton facility with an image of a Brompton bike and the tagline “refuel cities”, designed like a sign at a gas station with the prices of unleaded, super, and diesel fuel all really high, and the cost of cycling and coffee both marked as free.

Meanwhile, at the @bromptonbicycle.bsky.social facility…

LIVESCIENCE TRENDING Health 'Rectal garlic insertion for immune support': Medical chatbots confidently give disastrously misguided advice, experts say

AI is out there telling people to put garlic in their buttholes. Just thought you'd want to know.

Bicycle troops in Aotearoa looking to enlist in the Home Guard, pending the arrival on our shores of the War on Cars – official uniforms available here…👇

When you're paying $3 a litre for petrol... Remember Luxon's govt crashed the EV market, slashed public transport & cycleway spending & cut fees for importing gas guzzlers by 80% - turning NZ into a dumping ground for the worlds dirtiest most oil hungry vehicles.
Credit @newsroom.co.nz for the graph

Fuel emergency level system: What happens at each stage, where are we now, are car bans included? There are four levels, similarly to the Covid alert system.

OH MY GOD THEY'RE DOING PANDEMIC LEVELS FOR FUEL

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Tooo truj

A perfect West Auckland vignette.

Lawd, Google is having a moment. This is nowhere near "Hello, hello" in Māori (kia ora, kia ora) and the Māori alphabet doesn't contain the letter J

A red t-shirt with a white design on the top left saying "Every day is my carless day" and a Bike Auckland logo above. It looks like the 1970's NZ carless days stickers. There's also an enlargement of the same design on a green background.

Carless days, you say? I might have just the thing. New merch just dropped on @bikeauckland.bsky.social's shop.
bikeauckland.digitees.co.nz/shop/categor...

Cartoon. Title: “Poked” Picture shows NZ First leader Winston Peters as a used car salesman. He’s leaning against a clapped out mini-van with a COVID sign on top. He’s saying, “Yep, there’s a bit of mileage in it yet!”

NZ First leader Winston Peters calls for another inquiry into Covid-19, this one to examine vaccine injuries.
My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Covid #PublicHealth

80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"

The 3 genders

The real lesson of the second Covid-19 inquiry? We live in a post-truth world Government ministers’ creative interpretations of the royal commission’s report took spin to scary new levels.

Essential read on this govt’s reckless gaslighting:

“It’s election year, I get it. But implying science & health advice was routinely being ignored fuels the distrust that erodes social cohesion—something the report is at pains to emphasise must be restored.” #nzpol
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/11-...

At 16 she came to NZ for a year. What happened in her host family’s home stayed hidden for years She expected adventure and independence. What happened inside her host family’s home would take more than a decade to confront.

Here’s part one of Rabea Santjer’a story. Massive respect to her for being willing to have her name suppression lifted so she could speak publicly.

The New Yorker
#BikeChi 🚲🚲🚲
@bikegridnow.org @chicagobikesox.com @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social @chicritmass.bsky.social

Many people reckon Simeon Brown should have asked more questions about the risks of his mandatory higher speed limits in neighbourhoods, around schools & on dangerous highways — evidence that was readily available to him at the time, and that continues to accumulate in the form of injuries & deaths.

bike technicians and customers look at a bike during a repair

A new Bike Hub is coming to Mt Eden. Could you be their technician?

https://www.bikeauckland.org.nz/news/a-new-bike-hub-is-coming-could-you-be-their-technician/

#cycling
#bikelife
#bikehappy
#TāmakiMakaurau
#Auckland
#bike
#cyclist
#cyclinglife
#outsideisfree
#lovecycling
#choosebike

While you may have heard Cr Fletcher blaming City Vision's Richard Northey for the postal voting system, there was a vote last term where we decided NOT to change from postal voting to booth voting. As the sole City Vision councillor I voted FOR booth voting, and Cr Fletcher voted AGAINST booths🤷‍♀️

November. Sorry.

gouache and watercolor sketchbook page of women

happy international wimmen day

Rude

It's such a perfect metaphor

Let's talk about what happens when oil prices go through the roof and stay there - because it really isn't pretty, it's going to hit our economy incredibly hard, and it's only peripherally about how much it costs to fill the tank.

A short 🧵

#nzpol

So if we want to know why dialysis is being rationed, there's a clear answer: it's so the 311 richest families in the country can enjoy one of the lowest effective tax rates in the world. We're killing people in order to make the ultra-rich ultra-richer

Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07] YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

WATCH: This is STILL one of the toughest truths for some to accept, but one of the most IMPORTANT — car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtowns and urban areas!

Watch this excellent video by #NotJustBikes with #Urban3 & @strongtowns.bsky.social.

PLEASE SHARE it as much as possible.

The Luxo doormat needs a tiny bumhole

RATIONING DIALYSIS

I have an IKEA hack: go in the evening. It’s quiet! Meatball dinner!

white painted bike lane Proposed bike lane cancelled after failing to get approval from every living and deceased resident within 25 km.

"Proposed bike lane cancelled after failing to get approval from every living and deceased resident within 25 km."

Oh I LOVE this!! Going to use this one a lot