Vibeke
@vibeke.bsky.social
AKA Kirsten Vibeke. Globally distracted. Bikes and birds and design and running downhill! I am as 🇳🇿 as I am 🇳🇱. Designer, creative pixel pusher, bike hub team leader on Waiheke. Love making a map. Have made a few maps. Please ask me to make you a map 🗺️
Appreciate this discussion of mindfulness with Mark Williams podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/t...
Faith, Depression, and Finding Calm in the Chaos (Professor Mark Williams)
Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 22/12/2025 · 1h 1m
podcasts.apple.com
December 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Appreciate this discussion of mindfulness with Mark Williams podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/t...
Lol at Chris Finlayson eviscerating Luxon’s tenure at Air NZ podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/c...
The Best, the Worst and the Terrible of 2025
Podcast Episode · Cross Party Lines · 29/12/2025 · 1h
podcasts.apple.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Lol at Chris Finlayson eviscerating Luxon’s tenure at Air NZ podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/c...
Another ai fail
#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
December 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Another ai fail
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We won! I won my judicial review!
![[101] I agree with the applicant that the declaration sought here would serve a real purpose in ensuring that future recommendations for the position of human rights commissioners proceed lawfully. When potential appointees for such positions occupy an important public office intended to help ensure the human rights of New Zealander’s are upheld and promoted, there is a clear and substantial public interest in having errors in their appointment publicly declared. Conclusion [102] The judicial review application is granted. [103] I make the declaration that the Decision was unlawful because: (a) (b) the Minister applied the incorrect legal test; and the Minister failed to take into account relevant considerations. [104] The issue of costs is reserved. I encourage the parties to agree on any issue of costs that might arise. If that is not possible, the applicant is to file a memorandum on costs no longer than five pages within 30 working days of the date of this judgment, with the respondent to file a memorandum in response within a further 10 working days of receipt of the applicant’s costs memorandum. The Court will then decide the costs issues.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:b7y7isv72z6ku7rtpu7zvfzy/bafkreiejxsssvwd7e3gbtjsrqinyh63jrn75ppz7t6cvqpxddb65nucel4@jpeg)
December 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
We won! I won my judicial review!
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This could have funded Flu Tracking for years.
December 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This could have funded Flu Tracking for years.
Marlon Williams Christmas album, when?
December 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Marlon Williams Christmas album, when?
Unconscionable
unbelievable. they really *are* using AI to create the new NZ curriculum
"analysing and synthesising information from international curricula and related educational frameworks," is just another way of saying "we're turning them all into untraceable hallucinations"
#NZpol #kikorangi
"analysing and synthesising information from international curricula and related educational frameworks," is just another way of saying "we're turning them all into untraceable hallucinations"
#NZpol #kikorangi
December 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Unconscionable
Oh gourd embarrassing I have the same Spotify wrapped listening age as bloody luxon
December 4, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Oh gourd embarrassing I have the same Spotify wrapped listening age as bloody luxon
After the hottest Auckland November day on record, blessed drizzle on Friday morning with Patti the puppy on Palm Beach
November 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
After the hottest Auckland November day on record, blessed drizzle on Friday morning with Patti the puppy on Palm Beach
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For anyone interested. It's in Norwegian though. Someone saw the solution from his apartment and went outside to solve it.
November 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
For anyone interested. It's in Norwegian though. Someone saw the solution from his apartment and went outside to solve it.
Welcome to #thewaroncars Waiheke Island! I adore the letter from Hekerua, explaining induced demand by way of cake.
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Welcome to #thewaroncars Waiheke Island! I adore the letter from Hekerua, explaining induced demand by way of cake.
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I literally have dozens upon dozens of random links to articles & studies that all say the same thing.
Cycling is good for:
You,
The Environment,
The Economy,
Traffic,
yet every fucking council in NZ is hell bent of ignoring the fact, or doing the bare minimum
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Cycling is good for:
You,
The Environment,
The Economy,
Traffic,
yet every fucking council in NZ is hell bent of ignoring the fact, or doing the bare minimum
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
November 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I literally have dozens upon dozens of random links to articles & studies that all say the same thing.
Cycling is good for:
You,
The Environment,
The Economy,
Traffic,
yet every fucking council in NZ is hell bent of ignoring the fact, or doing the bare minimum
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Cycling is good for:
You,
The Environment,
The Economy,
Traffic,
yet every fucking council in NZ is hell bent of ignoring the fact, or doing the bare minimum
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Since it’s the week of natural phenomena shall I record the cacaphony or lawnmowers/weed eaters outside my office in little old Surfdale Waiheke for you all. Three weed whackers and a guy who leaves his parked ute running while he sits & looks at his phone. All at once #soundofsummer #electrify
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Since it’s the week of natural phenomena shall I record the cacaphony or lawnmowers/weed eaters outside my office in little old Surfdale Waiheke for you all. Three weed whackers and a guy who leaves his parked ute running while he sits & looks at his phone. All at once #soundofsummer #electrify
Patti playing with puppy friend at Palm Beach Waiheke this morning #aotearoapets
November 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Patti playing with puppy friend at Palm Beach Waiheke this morning #aotearoapets
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This is grimly amusing. Bishop couldn't fulfil a campaign promise because of Simeon Brown's footpath fatwa, so he had to raid a Kāinga Ora fund. Maybe running transport policy as a culture war was a stupid and destructive thing to do in the first place, eh.
NEW: Chris Bishop used housing money to fund a bridge in his electorate his own Govt had killed off.
Officials were against the move and Labour say he shouldn’t have been anywhere near the decision.
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
Officials were against the move and Labour say he shouldn’t have been anywhere near the decision.
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
Chris Bishop diverts Kāinga Ora money to fund a bridge in his electorate
Officials warned against the use of housing funds for bridge building but Bishop says it was a “pragmatic choice”.
www.thepost.co.nz
November 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This is grimly amusing. Bishop couldn't fulfil a campaign promise because of Simeon Brown's footpath fatwa, so he had to raid a Kāinga Ora fund. Maybe running transport policy as a culture war was a stupid and destructive thing to do in the first place, eh.
Lessons for New Zealand that the current coalition is ignoring
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Lessons for New Zealand that the current coalition is ignoring
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#nzpol
The minimum wage increased by 1.5% this year. Data today from Stats NZ shows annual increases of:
- Food prices up 4.7%
- Fruit up 11%
- Beef up 17.4%, Lamb up 32.2%
- Bread up 11.4%
- Cheese up 14.8%
- Eggs up 16.2%
- Electricity up 11.8%
Laser-focused on the cost of living
The minimum wage increased by 1.5% this year. Data today from Stats NZ shows annual increases of:
- Food prices up 4.7%
- Fruit up 11%
- Beef up 17.4%, Lamb up 32.2%
- Bread up 11.4%
- Cheese up 14.8%
- Eggs up 16.2%
- Electricity up 11.8%
Laser-focused on the cost of living
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 AM
#nzpol
The minimum wage increased by 1.5% this year. Data today from Stats NZ shows annual increases of:
- Food prices up 4.7%
- Fruit up 11%
- Beef up 17.4%, Lamb up 32.2%
- Bread up 11.4%
- Cheese up 14.8%
- Eggs up 16.2%
- Electricity up 11.8%
Laser-focused on the cost of living
The minimum wage increased by 1.5% this year. Data today from Stats NZ shows annual increases of:
- Food prices up 4.7%
- Fruit up 11%
- Beef up 17.4%, Lamb up 32.2%
- Bread up 11.4%
- Cheese up 14.8%
- Eggs up 16.2%
- Electricity up 11.8%
Laser-focused on the cost of living
By golly the kēreru are chonky this year. (Photo doesn’t do it justice)
November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
By golly the kēreru are chonky this year. (Photo doesn’t do it justice)
Images from April this year in Tongariro National Park in the area where the fire raged this last week. Between Whakapapa Village and Mangatepopo Hut
November 12, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Images from April this year in Tongariro National Park in the area where the fire raged this last week. Between Whakapapa Village and Mangatepopo Hut
The bioluminescence on Palm Beach Waiheke Island has been insane the last two nights. Amazing atmosphere with many people swimming and splashing in the surf. Magical night. Never seen a traffic jam like it though on our sleepy little beach! Pics by Indy Bombuwala.
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The bioluminescence on Palm Beach Waiheke Island has been insane the last two nights. Amazing atmosphere with many people swimming and splashing in the surf. Magical night. Never seen a traffic jam like it though on our sleepy little beach! Pics by Indy Bombuwala.
We forgot about Guy Fawkes- running back home with the puppy on Palm Beach before the fireworks set in fully.
November 5, 2025 at 8:28 AM
We forgot about Guy Fawkes- running back home with the puppy on Palm Beach before the fireworks set in fully.