Unlikely Cyclists 🚲 Jenn
@unlikelycyclists.bsky.social
Cargo biker. Op-shopper. Eco-Worrier. Mum.
My happy place is rock hunting and skipping by the river at Roaring Billy Falls on the Haast Pass (or really any river, but this is a real grand one)
January 3, 2026 at 12:58 AM
My happy place is rock hunting and skipping by the river at Roaring Billy Falls on the Haast Pass (or really any river, but this is a real grand one)
Today is such a "this fuckin' government" day 😡🙄😒
December 16, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Today is such a "this fuckin' government" day 😡🙄😒
$50k per year?!?! For valuable nationwide public health data!? It's a bargain, and scrapping it is a bad decision.
Now that it's public: RIP FluTracking, which I understand only cost $50k per year to administer, yet provided incredibly valuable and irreplaceable information on levels of influenza-like-illness.
What an utterly dim decision.
What an utterly dim decision.
December 16, 2025 at 4:40 AM
$50k per year?!?! For valuable nationwide public health data!? It's a bargain, and scrapping it is a bad decision.
I stupidly clicked a link to this bullshit misinformation from my browser feed, and now I'm being fed more of these awful articles, which prey on vulnerable people with false promises, fake quotes, and lies. 😡😡
Off to share some media literacy lessons with my daughter!
Off to share some media literacy lessons with my daughter!
December 8, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I stupidly clicked a link to this bullshit misinformation from my browser feed, and now I'm being fed more of these awful articles, which prey on vulnerable people with false promises, fake quotes, and lies. 😡😡
Off to share some media literacy lessons with my daughter!
Off to share some media literacy lessons with my daughter!
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TLDR: “the focus needs to shift away from the victim-blaming culture that mandatory helmet laws foster and towards dismantling the autonormative world we live in.”
Do mandatory #bicycle #helmet laws increase safety or discourage ridership? In our latest article, we examine global case studies from #Australia to the #US, separating evidence from #ideology in the heated #debate over helmets.
How Do Helmet Laws Impact Cycling Ridership?
PCC ‘25 student and previous Urban Cycling Institute intern, Sophia Wang examines how people are responding to helmet laws on a global scale
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
TLDR: “the focus needs to shift away from the victim-blaming culture that mandatory helmet laws foster and towards dismantling the autonormative world we live in.”
Our neighbours are doing works on their driveway/yard and this morning they decided to kick off at 5:15am. Someone yelled at them and they quieted for a bit, but I was wide awake already. Hmmph.
a little girl is standing next to a white poodle holding a brush in her hand .
ALT: a little girl is standing next to a white poodle holding a brush in her hand .
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Our neighbours are doing works on their driveway/yard and this morning they decided to kick off at 5:15am. Someone yelled at them and they quieted for a bit, but I was wide awake already. Hmmph.
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"When it came to Covid, we completely blew out what the value of a life was, completely, I've never seen such a high value on life.” - Brooke van Velden
"There are accidents that will happen. What I'm wanting to focus on is, how do I improve the overall economy and the situation that businesses and workers find themselves in?" - Van Velden. #PikeRiver
"She seemed to be focusing all the time on the employers and I sat and listened to it for a little while and then I just couldn't stand it" - Sonya Rockhouse. #PikeRiver
November 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
"When it came to Covid, we completely blew out what the value of a life was, completely, I've never seen such a high value on life.” - Brooke van Velden
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My homework for a leadership thing is watching a TED talk about cultural change and loss and the benefits of protecting diversity.
Yet the very same leadership thing has the fingerprints of AI, a diversity killer that creates endless sameness, alllll over it.
Yet the very same leadership thing has the fingerprints of AI, a diversity killer that creates endless sameness, alllll over it.
November 19, 2025 at 8:10 AM
My homework for a leadership thing is watching a TED talk about cultural change and loss and the benefits of protecting diversity.
Yet the very same leadership thing has the fingerprints of AI, a diversity killer that creates endless sameness, alllll over it.
Yet the very same leadership thing has the fingerprints of AI, a diversity killer that creates endless sameness, alllll over it.
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"nobody gets seconds until everybody's had firsts" but for transport infrastructure
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
"nobody gets seconds until everybody's had firsts" but for transport infrastructure
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These Anita Lester court drawings of Erin Patterson are incredible. I only remember seeing the first one at the time
November 14, 2025 at 3:31 AM
These Anita Lester court drawings of Erin Patterson are incredible. I only remember seeing the first one at the time
Fuck this fucking government.
Controversial Regulatory Standards Bill passes third reading
Controversial Regulatory Standards Bill passes third reading
The bill got the backing of the coalition parties
www.rnz.co.nz
November 13, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Fuck this fucking government.
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NZ First MPs keep proposing laws they have no intention of passing, and the media falls for it every time.
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...
The brilliant performative politics of NZ First’s fake members’ bills
NZ First MPs keep proposing laws they have no intention of passing, and the media falls for it every time.
thespinoff.co.nz
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
NZ First MPs keep proposing laws they have no intention of passing, and the media falls for it every time.
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...
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Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?
October 30, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?
We sold a house this year and made a larger than expected gain (though still modest, really). It felt like a weird loophole to receive it tax free when we pay tax on all other income... CGTs are normal and Aotearoa should introduce one as part of a broader move to make our tax system more equitable!
October 30, 2025 at 2:15 AM
We sold a house this year and made a larger than expected gain (though still modest, really). It felt like a weird loophole to receive it tax free when we pay tax on all other income... CGTs are normal and Aotearoa should introduce one as part of a broader move to make our tax system more equitable!
Seven meetings in a day is too many meetings in a day.
a pug dog is laying on a rug with its eyes closed and the caption uugghhhh
ALT: a pug dog is laying on a rug with its eyes closed and the caption uugghhhh
media.tenor.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Seven meetings in a day is too many meetings in a day.
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🧘🏽♀️ don’t rage quit don’t rage quit there’s no jobs there’s no jobs don’t rage quit 🧘🏽♀️
October 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
🧘🏽♀️ don’t rage quit don’t rage quit there’s no jobs there’s no jobs don’t rage quit 🧘🏽♀️
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The Luxon Govt’s bonkers plan to build 17 Big New Roads that we don’t really need will cost us at least $44 billion.
That’s enough to rebuild Dunedin Hospital 23 times over or to massively improve public transport and cycle infrastructure in all our cities. #nzpol
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/5...
That’s enough to rebuild Dunedin Hospital 23 times over or to massively improve public transport and cycle infrastructure in all our cities. #nzpol
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/5...
$5b-plus blowout for eight Roads of National Significance
The Government's 17 Roads of National Significance will cost it at least $44 billion – enough to rebuild Dunedin Hospital 23 times over. Marc Daalder reports.
newsroom.co.nz
October 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
The Luxon Govt’s bonkers plan to build 17 Big New Roads that we don’t really need will cost us at least $44 billion.
That’s enough to rebuild Dunedin Hospital 23 times over or to massively improve public transport and cycle infrastructure in all our cities. #nzpol
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/5...
That’s enough to rebuild Dunedin Hospital 23 times over or to massively improve public transport and cycle infrastructure in all our cities. #nzpol
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/5...
This government wank on about fiscal responsibility in local government at the very same time as they're doing shit like this 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻
National Party spending ~$4 billion on a Wellington tunnel so they can get to the airport faster. Meanwhile they cancelled ferries & two new ports for the North-South link which would have cost half of that.
Consultant fees to date: $700m #nzpol #kiwi
Consultant fees to date: $700m #nzpol #kiwi
Govt unveils $3.8b plan for second Mt Vic tunnel, Wellington roading upgrades
Work is expected to start in 2026 after consents are fast-tracked next year.
www.nzherald.co.nz
October 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This government wank on about fiscal responsibility in local government at the very same time as they're doing shit like this 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻
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Teachers, drs, nurses, etc are dealing with a government that has refused to listen and has steadily stripped away anything that is useful and makes it possible to do a great job.
The strike on the 23 Oct is 100% necessary.
The strike on the 23 Oct is 100% justified.
The strike on the 23 Oct is 100% necessary.
The strike on the 23 Oct is 100% justified.
October 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Teachers, drs, nurses, etc are dealing with a government that has refused to listen and has steadily stripped away anything that is useful and makes it possible to do a great job.
The strike on the 23 Oct is 100% necessary.
The strike on the 23 Oct is 100% justified.
The strike on the 23 Oct is 100% necessary.
The strike on the 23 Oct is 100% justified.
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Extraordinary weather events forecast for much of AoNZ tomorrow. NOT usual spring winds, but MEGA RED ALERT WARNING winds. This is climate change. This is climate change HERE NOW. This is why we MUST meet our agreed greenhouse gas emission reductions. It’s not politics - it’s SURVIVAL Mr. Luxon.
October 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Extraordinary weather events forecast for much of AoNZ tomorrow. NOT usual spring winds, but MEGA RED ALERT WARNING winds. This is climate change. This is climate change HERE NOW. This is why we MUST meet our agreed greenhouse gas emission reductions. It’s not politics - it’s SURVIVAL Mr. Luxon.
I'm watching the season of Below Deck that ends in March 2020, and honestly, watching all these people with no fucking idea of what's to come is pretty fucking anxiety inducing.
October 21, 2025 at 4:24 AM
I'm watching the season of Below Deck that ends in March 2020, and honestly, watching all these people with no fucking idea of what's to come is pretty fucking anxiety inducing.