The speed and scale of the recent floods in Queensland. Coming to a city near you.

Finally! Been wanting this for over 10 years, insane that it’s taken this long. Please use it, I’ll be doing my part.

I can talk about stormwater infrastructure for days, but to save yourself that fate, you can simply read this fantastic thread:

Obligatory “Why is it dark at 6.30pm, what is this shit?” tweet.

Saving this for next time Auckland Transport tells me that they can’t protect pedestrians, cyclists or our public spaces with bollards because of reasons.

☀️ 384 solar panels, 1 year, and 184,000kWh of power. We're looking back at our first year as a (partly) solar powered business. sitehost.nz/blog/2022/firs…

Something big(ish) being filmed in Auckland city centre this weekend? That looks lot a lot of gear and a few trailers for people.

Looking around the world over the past week and then re-reading this thespinoff.co.nz/politics/14-07… is rage inducing and heartbreaking all in one. Lost faith in Auckland Transport a long time ago but had some hope for Auckland Council. Now I just want to tear it all down.

Terrifying fact: we figured this out at Google and it was part of why we stopped the program. The folks who left the program to start Starlink knew all this.

Put NFT and possibly Web3 on this list too.

The mismanagement here by KiwiRail and Auckland Transport is mind blowing. In Kyiv, Ukraine they are apologising for 10 min trains during war (our best frequency) and we are shutting entire lines in our network for months/years. Less than two years after the last mess.

What an incredibly beautiful game.

I mean just look at it. Can't imagine how much love and care went into it. Bravo @guerrilla

Awesome dumplings and sun are the perfect excuse for a quick lunch ride.

Don’t worry though, when the trains are effectively shutdown next year there will be reliable bus replacement options 🤦‍♂️. Oh and AT are thinking about walking and cycling even less under their new “direction”. We are so screwed.

We're now at the pointy end of what Simon Evans called "the ski slope of missed opportunity". 1.5C is still technically feasible, in that we know what's required of us and how to do it. But we're fast approaching - maybe already past - the point where it's no longer realistic.

Credit where credit is due, rode Te Ara Ki Uta Ki Tai (the path of land and sea) to get to rock climbing today and it’s awesome. Nice work Auckland Transport, much more of this please. 12.5km on the bike each way in around 30-35 mins.

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Austerity economics do not work - this has been proven repeatedly. Yet that's what Auckland Council, Mr Brown and Hon. Maurice Williamson 🇳🇿🐶🐈 are planning. But perhaps worse public services, actually slowing down the economy and widening inequality are exactly what they want to do?

After 16 years I'm saying goodbye to Twitter. Hopefully one day it's run by a reasonable human being again, rather than a meglomaniac karen. Until then, thanks, ya'll were great! I'm @[email protected] over there, but not sure I'll use it. Less social media can only be good.