Sky tower and dead rat

I see @netflix.com are increasing their prices. If we all just cancelled our subscription for one month then that would help balance out the increase on an annual basis.

BYD Zhengzhou that’s getting bigger with new development v. Tesla Giga Factory
(credit: Taylor Ogan)

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #250,778!
Thanks to @kiwiroad.net for the invite code.

Was pleasantly surprised this morning while waiting for the bus to see and hear a Kākā fly southwards down the Devonport penisula.

Be interesting to see if this split holds once the clean car rebate / fee is gone next year.

Interesting TIL fact of the day #nzpol

The median New Zealander is almost twice as wealthy (US$193.1K) as a median person living in the U.S. of A. (US$107.7K)

What the actual f… Bill English is so out of step with reality, he obviously doesn’t know he’s on an overcooked planet Earth.
For corporates, sustainability is long-term thinking, risk management, and capitalism that also considers stakeholders not only shareholders.

Subaru NZ do not know the battery chemistry of the Solterra - it’s not like this should be as secret as KFC’s 11 herbs and spices.

Wrecking the Clean Vehicles Act means wrecking our climate plan.

www.linkedin.com/posts/robert...

CO2 emissions lowest since 1999, NZ finally on track to meet first carbon budget. But a change of government will kill this progress.
blog.planetaryecology.org/2023/10/09/n...

Following the terrorist attacks by Hamas against 🇮🇱, we have indications of X/Twitter being used to disseminate illegal content & disinformation in the EU.

Urgent letter to Elon Musk on DSA obligations ⤵️

China’s dominance of the battery supply chain is extraordinary.

Frustrating when you post - these are the emissions reductions you can achieve as an individual (with the actions being mostly transportation choices) and the reply guys say “not having kids is missing”.

Possum traps also catch rats. Bait was apple with cinnamon.

AT Travel tip: buying an inner ferry monthly pass gets you travel on buses even if you don’t take a ferry trip - guessing it works if the travel zone borders a ferry departure point.