Andrew W (aw@mastodon.nz, aw_nz@twitter.com)
@awnz.bsky.social
IT sys eng. Tweets on transport/infra/IT/politics
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I'm losing track of how many things are going on at once atm. Data erasure, trans erasure, DEI erasure and scapegoating, Musk installing lackeys (complete with fold-out beds, again) at OPM *and* GSA *and* Treasury, mass firings and replacement with yes-men at FBI, whatever happened to FAA…
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Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?
July 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?
In family news, my stepdaughter has bought the business that is the (former) Avenue 47 Cafe in Birkenhead!
She'll be turning it into a Korean street food shop - but first, there's a *lot* of work to do.
Found a 1991 Birkenhead Transport timetable during demolition last night
She'll be turning it into a Korean street food shop - but first, there's a *lot* of work to do.
Found a 1991 Birkenhead Transport timetable during demolition last night
July 17, 2025 at 10:23 PM
In family news, my stepdaughter has bought the business that is the (former) Avenue 47 Cafe in Birkenhead!
She'll be turning it into a Korean street food shop - but first, there's a *lot* of work to do.
Found a 1991 Birkenhead Transport timetable during demolition last night
She'll be turning it into a Korean street food shop - but first, there's a *lot* of work to do.
Found a 1991 Birkenhead Transport timetable during demolition last night
Who is Maurice subtly giving the finger to?
June 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Who is Maurice subtly giving the finger to?
Signing up multiple accounts to take advantage of A/B marketing.
I'll take the 70% one thanks
I'll take the 70% one thanks
May 31, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Signing up multiple accounts to take advantage of A/B marketing.
I'll take the 70% one thanks
I'll take the 70% one thanks
Headline juxtaposition
May 31, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Headline juxtaposition
This bit of science is fascinating on multiple levels inamongst the current geopolitcal environment
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV3d...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV3d...
The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History
YouTube video by Veritasium
www.youtube.com
May 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This bit of science is fascinating on multiple levels inamongst the current geopolitcal environment
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV3d...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV3d...
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This was today… Sotally tober… NYT clearly way off base…
May 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This was today… Sotally tober… NYT clearly way off base…
No Te Huia during *any* school holidays this year.
If I wanted to kill the service, after looking at its most popular times, this is what I'd do too.
If I wanted to kill the service, after looking at its most popular times, this is what I'd do too.
May 27, 2025 at 12:39 AM
No Te Huia during *any* school holidays this year.
If I wanted to kill the service, after looking at its most popular times, this is what I'd do too.
If I wanted to kill the service, after looking at its most popular times, this is what I'd do too.
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Nothing to add here tbh
May 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Nothing to add here tbh
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Oh God, I think I might be agreeing with Wayne Brown! thespinoff.co.nz/politics/26-...
We're on the cusp of a transformational change in Auckland and the lack of vision is so goddamn frustrating.
We're on the cusp of a transformational change in Auckland and the lack of vision is so goddamn frustrating.
Auckland Council keeps trying to sabotage its own multibillion-dollar rail upgrade
We’re spending $5.5bn on the City Rail Link. The council keeps trying to stop people accessing its stations or building things nearby.
thespinoff.co.nz
May 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Oh God, I think I might be agreeing with Wayne Brown! thespinoff.co.nz/politics/26-...
We're on the cusp of a transformational change in Auckland and the lack of vision is so goddamn frustrating.
We're on the cusp of a transformational change in Auckland and the lack of vision is so goddamn frustrating.
Street View of the Henderson Station concourse
May 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Street View of the Henderson Station concourse
@hendowest.bsky.social you just wanted to say "dog's bollocks" in an official meeting more than @richardhills.bsky.social got to didn't ya?
May 21, 2025 at 11:52 PM
@hendowest.bsky.social you just wanted to say "dog's bollocks" in an official meeting more than @richardhills.bsky.social got to didn't ya?
Memo to Hobsonville Point Secondary School:
This is not how to stand up to bullies on behalf of your vulnerable.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/lil-gay-o...
This is not how to stand up to bullies on behalf of your vulnerable.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/lil-gay-o...
'Disheartened, angry': Auckland high school cancels LGBTQ+ event after threats
“Events like Lil Gay Out are not just social gatherings—they are lifelines."
www.nzherald.co.nz
May 21, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Memo to Hobsonville Point Secondary School:
This is not how to stand up to bullies on behalf of your vulnerable.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/lil-gay-o...
This is not how to stand up to bullies on behalf of your vulnerable.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/lil-gay-o...
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Getting a ticket without reservation and traveling 259 miles in 2 hours (equal to SF to Pismo Beach) feels way more like freedom than driving that same distance for 3 hours and 40 mins in the US.
May 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Getting a ticket without reservation and traveling 259 miles in 2 hours (equal to SF to Pismo Beach) feels way more like freedom than driving that same distance for 3 hours and 40 mins in the US.
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Do you wonder if spending $140m on making the lunches delicious might be a better way to reduce truancy? Or add breakfast ?
May 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Do you wonder if spending $140m on making the lunches delicious might be a better way to reduce truancy? Or add breakfast ?
Who is this? Seen in the CarJam photo feed today.
Plate is fake by the way, BLH727 is registered to a 1994 RAV4 which this clearly is not.
Also been wrongly attributed to BLA727 (a 1995 Nissan Terrano) which this clearly isn't either.
Plate is fake by the way, BLH727 is registered to a 1994 RAV4 which this clearly is not.
Also been wrongly attributed to BLA727 (a 1995 Nissan Terrano) which this clearly isn't either.
May 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Who is this? Seen in the CarJam photo feed today.
Plate is fake by the way, BLH727 is registered to a 1994 RAV4 which this clearly is not.
Also been wrongly attributed to BLA727 (a 1995 Nissan Terrano) which this clearly isn't either.
Plate is fake by the way, BLH727 is registered to a 1994 RAV4 which this clearly is not.
Also been wrongly attributed to BLA727 (a 1995 Nissan Terrano) which this clearly isn't either.
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Internet sleuths have discovered that the "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" anti-piracy campaign pirated its font and did not pay for its commercial use.
(Read more: Sky News)
(Read more: Sky News)
April 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Internet sleuths have discovered that the "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" anti-piracy campaign pirated its font and did not pay for its commercial use.
(Read more: Sky News)
(Read more: Sky News)
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Threatening the Wikimedia Foundation’s non-profit status fundamentally misunderstands what Wikipedia is: a user-created project the WMF hosts and supports but doesn’t write, edit, censor, or sign off on. They couldn’t remove “propaganda” [sic] even if they wanted to.
Government Actually Threatens Wikipedia’s Editorial Freedom; Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warriors Suddenly Have Other Plans
When Trump officials want to censor speech, they don’t quite say “we want to censor speech” (after all, they pretend to be the party that “brought free speech back.”) Instead, the…
www.techdirt.com
April 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Threatening the Wikimedia Foundation’s non-profit status fundamentally misunderstands what Wikipedia is: a user-created project the WMF hosts and supports but doesn’t write, edit, censor, or sign off on. They couldn’t remove “propaganda” [sic] even if they wanted to.
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the responding account is a bot and/but also I'm genuinely unsure I've seen a better distillation of this website
April 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
the responding account is a bot and/but also I'm genuinely unsure I've seen a better distillation of this website
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We're pretty interested right now in 'The West' about the collapse of the Democratic Hegemon into authoritarianism, I would put it to you that we should take the time to learn from people with direct experience of authoritarian repression in their past and current lives, they might have tips for u
April 28, 2025 at 8:57 AM
We're pretty interested right now in 'The West' about the collapse of the Democratic Hegemon into authoritarianism, I would put it to you that we should take the time to learn from people with direct experience of authoritarian repression in their past and current lives, they might have tips for u
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Includes a pretty full-on case of INZ approving an emergency resettlement from UNHCR Bangkok of a PRC dissident, who'd had his door kicked in by Thai police & the *Jiangsu PSB* who wanted to drag him back to China. This is the guy who was assaulted in AKL by United Front group leaders last year.
#ChinaTargets phase one, a global investigation led by the @icij.org, is out.
Here's the first NZ contribution, from myself and @whljustin.bsky.social
Here's the first NZ contribution, from myself and @whljustin.bsky.social
China Targets: Global investigation reveals Beijing’s targeting of people in NZ
An international investigation uncovers the scope and tactics of Beijing’s campaign to target its critics, including in New Zealand.
www.stuff.co.nz
April 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Includes a pretty full-on case of INZ approving an emergency resettlement from UNHCR Bangkok of a PRC dissident, who'd had his door kicked in by Thai police & the *Jiangsu PSB* who wanted to drag him back to China. This is the guy who was assaulted in AKL by United Front group leaders last year.
April 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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“How Does Paris Stay Paris? By Pouring Billions Into Public Housing.”
“1/4 of residents in the French capital live in government-owned housing, part of an aggressive plan to keep lower-income Parisians— & their businesses— in the city.”
Paris innovation isn’t just about people-places & bike-lanes.
“1/4 of residents in the French capital live in government-owned housing, part of an aggressive plan to keep lower-income Parisians— & their businesses— in the city.”
Paris innovation isn’t just about people-places & bike-lanes.
How Does Paris Stay Paris? By Pouring Billions Into Public Housing (Published 2024)
One quarter of residents in the French capital live in government-owned housing, part of an aggressive plan to keep lower-income Parisians — and their businesses — in the city.
www.nytimes.com
April 27, 2025 at 5:12 AM
“How Does Paris Stay Paris? By Pouring Billions Into Public Housing.”
“1/4 of residents in the French capital live in government-owned housing, part of an aggressive plan to keep lower-income Parisians— & their businesses— in the city.”
Paris innovation isn’t just about people-places & bike-lanes.
“1/4 of residents in the French capital live in government-owned housing, part of an aggressive plan to keep lower-income Parisians— & their businesses— in the city.”
Paris innovation isn’t just about people-places & bike-lanes.
Curious about this - sabotage I can understand, but espionage? Wouldn't modern communications cryptography nix any chance of getting any useful information through tapping an undersea cable?
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
NZ submarine cables are 'attractive espionage targets', officials warn
The leading risk of damage is from accidents or natural disasters, but nothing in official online guidance allows for deliberate sabotage.
www.rnz.co.nz
April 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Curious about this - sabotage I can understand, but espionage? Wouldn't modern communications cryptography nix any chance of getting any useful information through tapping an undersea cable?
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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