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IT by day, Improv Comedy by night. Lover of e-bikes, good food and wine, family and Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So good. m.youtube.com/watch?v=h-yj...
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Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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Scarlet @scarletblade.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
*Stares at CRL from train-deprived North Shore*
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
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Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level
Cycling has been a part of that good life in Copenhagen for decades. In recent years, it has enjoyed yet another unfathomable surge in popularity — taken to the next level thanks to constantly improvi...
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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
An interesting idea for ensuring that AI datacentres actually provide the value promised, once the bubble bursts #nzpol substack.com/@justindesch...
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Justin Deschamps (@justindeschamps)
I haven’t heard this take before about data centers. It’s spot on.
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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Some really smart analysis from Dr Andrew Dickson. Can anyone get this in front of Labour Party decision makers before it’s too late for this election? substack.com/@carlblatro/...
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Carl B Latro (@carlblatro)
“The example Mazzucato provides for this is the iPhone. If you strip out the parts that were publicly funded then you have an attractive 3D rectangle. The internet came our of DARPA, GPS was first a m...
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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fat Freddy's Mop
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Good piece on Helen Clark Foundation's site, by Paula Southgate. Incivility is hurting local government democracy www.helenclark.foundation/news/incivil... #nzpol
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 07/09/2026
Completed in late 2025 at a cost of €14 million, Tallinn's Lastekodu Street has been rebuilt around slower traffic and safer cycling, and more pedestrian space and greenery. It now features raised intersections, cycle tracks, benches and planting, while the design speed has been reduced to 30 km/h.🧵
Photos of a street transformation in Tallinn that features red asphalt cycle tracks, vegetation and seating, and a two-tier sheltered bike parking structure.
Photos of a street transformation in Tallinn that features red asphalt cycle tracks, vegetation and seating, and a two-tier sheltered bike parking structure.
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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Currently in Ljubljana which has had the same mayor for the past 20 years and he remains very popular. It was his decision to block cars from entering the old town area. This has massively increased tourist and local numbers to the city and created a thriving retail and restaurant scene #nzpol
Market stalls set up in a cobblestone square. There are pedestrians walking around freely as there are no cars allowedA line of bikes parked in front of a cobblestone street with tourists and shoppers walking between 3-5 story buildings Tourists and locals meandering around a cobblestone square. A row of bikes parked to the right of the picture
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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If’n you happen to be in Europe any time soon, I can strongly recommend Ljubljana and district. What a place!
Building in downtown Ljubljana with hand-painted decorations A market in a cobbled piazza in Ljubijana. The sun is shining and the food is amazing. The Ljubljana Library was designed by a local (Italian-trained) architect and built from local materials brick and concrete. The windows are fashioned to look like open books The view from Pranjama Castle 
showing a lush green valley
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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Solution - make individuals pay for them, along with the added shareholder profit.
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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My Dad was stationed in Trieste in the early ‘50’s and today I got to visit the barracks that he stayed in. I was never that close to Dad but it was a surprisingly emotional experience to essentially walk in his footsteps from 70-odd years ago.
Soldiers guarding the arched gate of the Lazzarotto headquarters of the British Army in the early 1950’s. There are 8 of them lined up, each with rifles in their shoulders A picture from September 2026 of a man (me) standing at the arched gate of the former Lazzarotto headquarters of the British Army.
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"the largest capital cycle in the history of technology is underwritten, to the tune of roughly one trillion dollars, by two private companies that do not make money" Seems dangerous! www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-teaser...
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The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall
Trillions in compute commitments come due in 2027–2028. The Reset Wall reveals how the AI boom breaks, and when.
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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Currently on holiday in northern Italy and after a weeks’ research have come to the conclusion that it’s impossible to get a bad meal in this country.
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Happy Baby Eating: Good Food, Good Mood
Alt: Happy Baby Eating: Good Food, Good Mood
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Michael Plank @michaelplanknz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Better late than never: In response to very high influenza levels, FROM TODAY free flu vaccines are available for all children aged 6 mo to 5 years immune.org.nz/news/free-fl... (Next year thankfully they'll be eligible from the beginning of the season in April)
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Free flu vaccines for all children aged 6 months to under 5 years available from today (1 Sept) - Immunisation Advisory Centre
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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“We promise to not do anything, just in case we get voted out and it gets reversed. SNS to those who would have benefited in the meantime”. FFS 🙄
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I knew this would be bad, but it's awful. Malpractice even. I'll limit my criticism to 9 posts. The Herald have added together the gross debt of NZ public & private sectors and called this debt 'we collectively owe the world'. Pure unadulterated nonsense. Literally untrue. [🧵1/n]
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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Arrived in Rome 5 hours too early to check in so had 5 hours walking around in 33c heat. No sunscreen, fair skin BUT NO SUNBURN! Wouldn’t have gotten away with that in Auckland!
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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Ciao from Rome where it’s 33c (feels like 37 apparently), at 6pm. After 36 hours of travel from Auckland, we had to kill 6 hours today before our accommodation was ready for us. 13,000 steps later we’re weary now, but what a privilege to be here!
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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Heading off to Europe tomorrow. Rome first, then on to Slovenia and Croatia, before heading back to Italy for an 8 day #e-bike ride from the Dolomites to Venice. It's a trip that's been 2 years in the planning and it's FINALLY here. Feeling a weird mix of excitment and nervousness.
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Muppet's Excited Yell
Alt: A muppet has his mouth wide open and is flailing his arms. He looks very excited.
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gregor (defenestrate billionaires, ride bikes) fallis @gregfallis.com · 21/08/2026
THIS is what you get when you take cycling-as-transportation seriously. Bike infrastructure includes thoughtful, secure bicycle parking.
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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Here’s what REALLY happened to the Reflecting Pool substack.com/@scottmonty/...
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Scott Monty (@scottmonty)
This is not only a perfect explainer for those who haven’t been following the Reflecting Pool saga, but it’s a brilliant parody of the genre.
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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Delighted to see lots of people at newly opened (?) Contra on Featherston St last night. Can recommend the Steak Frites. A bit noisy for this guy but cool, none-the-less. #Wellington
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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I would pay money to see the impact of a concrete bollard in amongst all of those plastic ones. @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social
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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Reposting this for the morning crew (good morning!)
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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Just been alerted by my ParkMate app that I’ve got an active parking session in Auckland being charged against my credit card - except I’m out of town for work. Turns out it’s a car I rented once and forgot to remove from the app. PM says they’ll credit my account. What a goof! 🤪
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Are the UK media waking up? This past week, there appears to have been a marked change in how the press covers both heatwaves and the cretinous pronouncements of senior Reform figures. 1/5
A Sky News headline showing children on a dried-up lake bed. The headline reads "UK weather: New hosepipe ban begins - after Reform's Tice says changing climate will mean better wine"
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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Ha! I didn't realise the Southland datacentre had already been approved. Did we resolve the energy and water requirements issue and I missed it???? www.reseller.co.nz/article/4210... 🤔
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Works start on Datagrid’s Southland AI data centre campus
Southland-based data centre firm Datagrid New Zealand has announced that horizontal works have started on its AI data centre campus in Makarewa, north of Invercargill.
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Rob✅✅ @robdickinson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Competition is essential which is why we have a gov controlled cartel exploiting the market for massive profits :/
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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Taking this as a good omen for my business trip today
A view across the wing of a plane towards another Air NZ jet that appears to have a rainbow terminating in its fuselage
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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Nothing like boarding a flight to Wellington while hearing an announcement saying weather may impact flights into Wellington. #prayforme
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Helge Hailaga @helgehailaga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
#artwelve5826 #politicartoon Rod Emmerson (b.1955), “Commander in Chef’s”. Multiple award winning Australian artist, based in Auckland, NZ. Since 2003 has been editorial cartoonist for The New Zealand Herald. 5 times New Zealand cartoonist of the year, worked with AP, TNYT,others. Today’s for TNZH👇
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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
He didn’t change. They did.
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Joanne Roulston, MSW, JD @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Joanne Roulston, MSW, JD @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Introduce yourself as what almost killed you: “Kia Ora, I’m the burst tyre on the back of a car towing a caravan”.
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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Are there any NZ educators on here who can help my thinking on this? The changes outlined are genuinely worrying, but it’s also true that too many kids come out of school poorly equipped for work or further study. So if not this crap, what change WOULD be effective? e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
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The imported ideology behind education reform | E-Tangata
“If a ‘knowledge-rich’ curriculum isn’t grounded in te ao Māori and the very people and things that make Aotearoa unique, who is determining the knowledge and where does it come from?” — Jessie Moss o...
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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Erica Stamford, one of the main contenders for Luxon's job yesterday, and re-writer of school curriculums without the input from actual educators, has presided over the removal of climate change altogether from the new syllabus. Get these clowns out of here! #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/14/c...
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Climate change omitted from new science and social science curriculums
The Ministry of Education drops all mentions of climate change and fossil fuels from new school curriculums, sparking alarm from an academic and educator
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Get vaccinated if you can as soon as you can. Extended family members got busy, forgot and they are very ill. #kikorangi Flu-related hospitalisations in Auckland double in space of a week www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/...
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Flu-related hospitalisations in Auckland double in space of a week
Flu-related hospitalisations in Auckland have doubled in the space of a week, as the country's flu season begins to bite slightly later than usual.
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Defenestra Andropov The Fall of the new Rome is in the air...🗽🍂 @defenestraandropov.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
@mark-carney.bsky.social :Trump is invading Greenland by proxy via his drilling company. What is #Canada going to do to prevent being a launch point? "The company has since said a vessel carrying three hundred containers in total will depart Canada on 12 September" www.jonknowles.com/2026/08/not-...
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A Texas company lands drilling equipment in Greenland without permission, then explains at length why none of this means what it looks like.
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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Saw this and thought of your Tourism Worth Doing post @davidslack.bsky.social velskov.com/nourishing-n...
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Nourishing Nature — Velskov
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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
#Seymour’sSlop - you cannot tell me this is a $3 value meal #nzpol
Super Cheesy Pasta is comprised of overcooked pasta, mixed vege from a budget brand and some sort of nondescript white congealed paste.This is truly revolting.
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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Looks like I’m going to be on TVNZ Breakfast this morning, promoting the $42 Seasons Pass at the Covert Theatre in Ponsonby. Access to over 50 Improv Comedy shows is a lot of opportunities to laugh for less than $50!
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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
How should new (AI) datacentres be powered, cooled and regulated?This issue deserves a lot more attention as we near the next election - and beyond. #nzpol
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Jjengar @jjengar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
And time is also running out to - enrol to VOTE - check your enrolment to VOTE #nzpol
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Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
In today’s NZ Herald - the great Matua
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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A reminder that you can no longer enrol on the day to vote in this year's General Election. Best you check here to make sure you're enrolled #nzpol vote.nz/enrolling/en...
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Dr Bex on the money as usual. #nzpol “Part of the mess and poverty & inequality we are now faced with as a country is due to the inadequate taxation of wealth, and the sustained refusal of those with money and power to implement the very universal benefits that enabled a generation to gain wealth.”
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Bring back the 1970s?
Yes to the universal cash supports, No to the racism and bigotry
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Bad Guitar Player @nzstever.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I walk away for ONE MINUTE and they score 🙄
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