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@Bob LeFridge :tinoflag:

In a previous BirdSite life I was a disillusioned AI fridge, but here I'm an altogether quieter, more helpful appliance.

IRL I'm a retired filmmaker who lives in the front line of climate change... on a New Zealand beach at sea level. Born 313.2 ppm when the air was cleaner, and we weren't force fed CO2 and microplastics.

As a cynical optimist I love the peaceful Mastodon atmosphere. People are generally nicer in these parts.

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RNZ have rejigged their web site a little bit.

They no longer have a "NZ News" section, so you have to sift through Trump news to find local stories. That's a backward move.

If you click on "Regional News" there are four featured stories at the top of the page, then a total of seven (!) current stories. At that point the entire list flips to headlines from June 2016 and stays that way for the next five pages.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/regional

RNZ is promoting ten year old news headlines. More vibe coding perhaps?

#RNZ #NZ #News
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Ames · 1w
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Hurricane Daveosaurus · 1w
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🇳🇿 :tinoflag: 💉*10 Roger · 2w
Does anyone know if any languages have a word that expresses the regret that you didn't wash the dishes last night and have to face them today? Asking for a friend... #dishes #language
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In German, "das Bedauern, gestern Abend nicht das Geschirr gespült zu haben."

Join those words together to make one big word and you get "dasBedauernGesternAbendnichtdasGeschirrgespültzuhaben".

I think that's how German works.

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🇳🇿 :tinoflag: 💉*10 Roger · 2w
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Zeborah · 2w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqxw2mexzsxusn4qkglfjwjrrpgv4dn05h06ennrw3w3vnjjr4765qqfwj33 It's often the way of skating, there are so many aspects getting scored all at once, the people who like watching big jumps get mad when the best jumper doesn't win, and the people who l...
Ko Simon toku ingoa :tinoflag: · 2w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqxw2mexzsxusn4qkglfjwjrrpgv4dn05h06ennrw3w3vnjjr4765qqfwj33 still will be tons at second hand shops if people want them.
Xas :tinoflag: · 2w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqxw2mexzsxusn4qkglfjwjrrpgv4dn05h06ennrw3w3vnjjr4765qqfwj33 There's still boxes of Ma's here from the 70s and 80s. Possibly even 50s and 60s. 🤔
tussock · 3w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqxw2mexzsxusn4qkglfjwjrrpgv4dn05h06ennrw3w3vnjjr4765qqfwj33 The whole gondola in Queenstown thing has come up every few years for a long time now....
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I don't recall any proposals getting to the planning stage. However Alistair Porter has been making noises for over a decade about running a gondola from Remarkables Park to the Remarkables skifield.

Since National began fast-tracking everything, there's been Drury's failed Coronet Peak proposal, and another from an Aussie surgeon to stick gondolas up Fernhill and the back of Bowen Peak. The latter threatens to add a new skifield, hundreds of houses and retail.

Suddenly every man and his dog wants to build gondolas.

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Hurricane Daveosaurus · 3w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqxw2mexzsxusn4qkglfjwjrrpgv4dn05h06ennrw3w3vnjjr4765qqfwj33 nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqnnjk4hsnpcsyp9kr38m8wlvcq6jfm0scggzdgr7tv2vrzyr9qycs3shxkv I've got a vague recollection of someone trying to promote a gondola up...
Random Wish Genie :tinoflag: : · 3w
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In previous seasons I've had one or two become daily visitors. This one used to arrive in the wisteria at the front door and call out. My ex would say, "Your bird's here" and we'd have lovely conversations, every day. It was magic.

This is the little meeper back in 2020.

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Random Wish Genie :tinoflag: : · 3w
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In an unexpected twist, criticism of Rod Drury's fast-track Queenstown gondola proposal has come from QLDC.

While the project is being sold as "public transport", the proposed routes exclude Fernhill, Lakeview, Arthurs Point and areas along Frankton Rd.

The council says the gondola risks becoming a ‘‘white-elephant’’ few locals use. The proposal placed ‘‘heavy reliance’’ on unsecured public funding from the council, ORC and NZTA, while "ongoing maintenance and operating costs had not been detailed representing a ‘‘significant oversight’’ in assessing the long-term feasibility."

For applicants, the beauty of fast-track is the way lack of detail is baked into the system. A glossy proposal with made-up numbers is enough to fool ministers, then you rely on public money to fund the project.

Now he's under investigation for sexual assault, you'd expect that Rod Drury's involvement will raise additional red flags. Last year he was behind the mini-city with attached gondola project at the foot of Coronet Peak. That one failed the fast-track process.

https://archive.ph/tzwqU

#Queenstown #Gondola #Rod Drury
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tussock · 3w
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Random Wish Genie :tinoflag: : · 3w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq7ncsrs9w3s477cwu4ekuhw0h6nkely9lgmeakklsjjza5tq6duksa3gydw I can hear piwakawka meeping in our garden as I type this 😍 Meep meep!
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Yesterday a little black piwakawaka came into my house for a flit around. Twice. He followed me through the house then sat on a ceiling fan above my head and we had a good chat. Lots of 'Meep meep!'

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Random Wish Genie :tinoflag: : · 3w
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cuddlyanarchist 🎓 MMus · 3w
I'm sorry ,but these motherfuckers had 2 fucking years to do literally anything to prepare, didn't, and now are getting rewarded with taxpayer money. If you're a worker for Heinz? no notice, get fucke...
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"Simpson said the agency is still determining what the rate will be, but she estimates it will be "in the $20s or the $30s" a day."

"$30s" is a bit vague, so let's take $30 as the mid point. Each greyhound owner will receive $210 per week for *each* dog, until they've been rehomed."

That surely reduces any incentive to rehome the dogs? An owner with five dogs can pull a cool grand a week by simply doing nothing.

Nice work if you can get it.

Multiply the daily rate by two years and you get $37 million dollars of wealth transfer to greyhound owners.

What a rort.

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Robyn · 3w
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The Aussies have found a way to spice up the 2032 Olympic rowing. By holding the event in a Queensland river with notoriously strong currents and (wait for it) crocodiles!

Talk about adding levels of difficulty.

"And here comes the coxless four... oh, wait! Apparently they weren't coxless at the start of the race."

https://www.odt.co.nz/sport/olympics/strong-currents-crocodile-habitat-behind-olympic-rowing-venue-controversy

#Olympics #Rowing
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A stopped clock never boils · 3w
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