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Jolisa Gracewood@nzdodo.bsky.social |
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Freelance writer and editor, full-time silly sausage. Books, bikes, better places, beastly puns. She/ her/ the cats’ mother. Based in Tāmaki Makaurau, aka New Auck City.
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Credentials, Dan
@dancredentials.bsky.social
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I love that they had this reference art ready to go in case they needed a scene where ET runs into his ex and has to keep up a brave face when she tells him she's engaged now
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Jolisa Gracewood
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And yet, there are more actual voters in one category than the other…
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Jolisa Gracewood
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Fingers crossed! Local government solidarity on behalf of people (and the science) would be great - and Far North DC has been pretty staunch so far… www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/509... www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-adv...
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Jolisa Gracewood
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More great coverage of Auckland Council - which represents 1/3 of the population of Aotearoa - drawing a line in the tarmac, in favour of safe speeds on all our streets✊❤️
The accompanying video features a shout-out to Physics: love to see evidence-based governance! 🎓 www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3503...
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Jolisa Gracewood
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Full credit to Councillors @juliefairey.bsky.social and @hendowest.bsky.social for their amendment, beefing up support for protecting the tamariki and communities of Auckland from proposed blanket unsafe speeds. And to Councillor John Watson for his decisive casting vote: moral leadership in action!
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Jolisa Gracewood
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Irihapeta and you and a few others were so quick to catch on and share the fun on NZ Twitter - it became a great time, during a hard time. 🥰 I still remember the happy buzz in the family chat as we compared strategies and daily results. All kudos to Mr Wardle the original wordler, as well!
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Jolisa Gracewood
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@irihapeta.bsky.social is the Known Wordler, and very much wordle-famous in New Zealand! www.stuff.co.nz/national/127...
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Jolisa Gracewood
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Ha! Top tip: buy the gumboot version and slice them down with a hot knife? #costofliving
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Jolisa Gracewood
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They also look like they’d come off if you walk too fast; so I guess I’d you’d be a sort of two-toad sloth… 🙃
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Zander🚈🔰
@kohiwonomu.bsky.social
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Transit funding = antifascist praxis
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Effie Seiberg
@effies.bsky.social
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I misread "welcome" as "become" and I started feeling very cheerful about this election.
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Jolisa Gracewood
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"Butt out, Wellington" (said the Mayor of Auckland, to the Minister for Auckland, who lives in Auckland).
Also iconic: the moment when Councillor Alf Filipaina asked, “What is the problem the Government is trying to fix?” and basically the entire room shrugged. 🤷♀️ www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-...
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Jolisa Gracewood
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It made the headline! www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-...
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Jolisa Gracewood
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Yep, as in, opposing the blanket reversion to 100kmh? infocouncil.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/Open/2024/07...
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Jolisa Gracewood
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For! (He also, in discussion of the topic, used the phrase “Butt out, Wellington.” 😆)
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Jolisa Gracewood
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In great news: heroic scenes at Auckland Council, with a near-unanimous pushback against this indefensible government overreach on local streets. 🙌 Including a strengthened response on safe speeds around schools (carried by a casting vote!). Very very grateful for the integrity on display today. 🙏🥰
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Jolisa Gracewood
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That was certainly the impression they seemed to appear to be keen to give, eh!
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Jolisa Gracewood
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Of all the baffling ideas this govt is pursuing, this one’s a doozy *even by their own lights*: a cost-benefit review of safe speed zones around schools found they’re <checks notes> 45x better for the economy than Simeon Brown’s strictly-school-gate notion!
www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2024/07/04/s...
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Caleb Moses
@mathematiguy.bsky.social
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One of my favourite things to find in the old newspapers is neat examples of design or typography. Here's an example, an old calendar for the year 1899, titled "Maramataka".
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Jolisa Gracewood
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Flashback to a lovingly staged open home with wooden letters spelling out "HOME" and "LOVE"... who could resist the temptation to shuffle them to say "EMO HOVEL"? (cc @beckeleven.bsky.social!)
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Jolisa Gracewood
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A huge challenge confronting those in charge of finalising the ten-year transport plan for Tāmaki Makaurau:
"threading the needle between a) what Aucklanders tell them they actually want and need, and b) what Simeon Brown (also an Aucklander) is telling them they’re permitted to do." #nzpol
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Gemma Clark
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My letter in today’s Herald about the political establishment pandering to JK Rowling and her anti trans obsession while ignoring the majority of women and women’s issues www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2442...
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Jolisa Gracewood
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Back to your initial question tho: I think mainly they just do it to get xerox off?
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Unlikely Cyclists / Jenn
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“The problem is that the Government continues to ignore the first emissions reduction plan, which the Climate Change Response Act says covers New Zealand until the end of 2025.”
#nzpol
business.scoop.co.nz/2024/07/01/g...
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Jolisa Gracewood
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Just ass-king questions…
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Paul F. Tompkins
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It’s such a drag getting into arguments about a friend’s ugly bicycle and I’m sad to discover it happens all over the world
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Bill Manhire
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Hwæt! Sneaking admiration for ChatGPT. I asked it for a New Zealand version of Beowulf and the result was a hero named Broewulf.
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Anya Taylor-Ham
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stumbled onto this lynda Barry comic again which always makes me a little verklempt
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Bike Auckland
@bikeauckland.bsky.social
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Children prefer cycling and walking, but most of their travel time is in a car. They can’t drive, they can’t vote and they have most to lose. Here's why we need to listen to our kids and not increase speeds:
bikeauckland.org.nz/listen-to-au...
#urbanplanning
#futurethinking
#safespeed
#speedrule
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Jolisa Gracewood
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😍 Isn’t it good! (Norwegian wood?) Also, design props for a handle you don’t constantly have to wipe fingerprints off of!
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Greater Auckland
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This video was provided in response to one of our recent OIA requests and comes from 2018. It shows what we could have had if the previous govt hadn't been distracted by unaffordable metro schemes. More in an upcoming post.
youtu.be/4cHbrbFIsJw?...
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sam
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I love how vague early gender conceptions are, like 6yo just played with a new kid at the playground & nobody was clear on gender. "I think he was a girl. I THINK." some folk frown on this kind of ambiguity (often older ppl), rush to correct, etc i'm just like, lol, who cares
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Greater Auckland
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New post: "Matariki on K Road: the proof is in the people"
www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2024/07/01/m...
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Jolisa Gracewood
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So sorry this happened to you, Erin. It really shouldn’t have, and I really hope you’re doing okay. ❤️🩹
(Not sure about the design of your crossing, but this recent piece may be relevant… the current pushback on our minimal level of safety is indefensible: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2024/06/18/r... )
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Denis - The COVID info Guy
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Prof Baker: "Unfortunately COVID-19 the virus is not adopting a business-as-usual approach. It is still causing ongoing transmission at a high level in NZ, it's causing waves of infection and we are just coming out of our 6th big wave in about 18 months."
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Jolisa Gracewood
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Ha, appreciate the content warning - I know exactly who you mean! 🫣
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Jolisa Gracewood
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I love this; like bursting into tears upon meeting your idol.
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Abbie Jury 🌱
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"Unfortunately Health NZ - Taranaki has reduced the funding for the Covid Anti-Viral medicine to such an extent that we have been forced to stop this service. This is not a decision we've taken lightly, and we are very disappointed not to be able to continue providing it to our community."
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András Forgács W
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BREAKING NEWS
My new feature film titled the "The Whip" will debut in select UK cinemas from September 4th 2024, ahead of a global VOD release later this year.
youtu.be/fWKyRnPkksk?...
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Jolisa Gracewood
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😱 Which of you was more surprised??
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Jolisa Gracewood
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My secondhand wētā story comes via the Poor Knights Islands, where the extremely enormous ones live. How giant? Approximately the size of your face - as one fellow reportedly found out in a super-tactile way. (Both parties survived the encounter.)
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Jolisa Gracewood
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Wētā appreciation thread! 🚨 A highly relatable conversation about the spiky guys and gals we love to, uh, love but in a gingerly and respectful way, ideally at arm’s length if not even a little bit further thanks very much.
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Jolisa Gracewood
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Dawwww you guys!
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Jolisa Gracewood
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Her two sisters were up there with her, a little harder to spot. At one point she lay full length on the branch with her lanky legs dangling down either side. Big cats really are big cats! (A perfect view back into the playground, too.)
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Jolisa Gracewood
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Went for a late afternoon bike ride; a bit too late to go to the zoo, so we wandered around the park instead. And then! As we passed the playground, a flurry of excitement and a whole lot of pointing… …and there she was, a lioness! Way up high in the branches of a tree, watching us watching her.
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Jolisa Gracewood
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The gerontocracy is failing us all.
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Jolisa Gracewood
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The B12 might have just kicked in, but maybe too late.
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Jolisa Gracewood
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A posy from the midwinter garden. 🌱
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Protest and Survive
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25 July 1893 edition of Te Paki o Matariki, newspaper of the Kīngitanga. The masthead depicts Matariki & is an adaptation of the coat of arms of the Kīngitanga. ‘Te Paki o Matariki’ is also the name of a song associated with the Māori King Movement. Archives New Zealand.
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Mike Riversdale
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#Māori #Aotearoa #NZ #NewZealand #NewYear #Matariki
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