Chance of Aurora tonight? (cdn.softservenews.com)
With much of Europe glowing pink will we get to see a good display here in NZ?
Shared pathway adjacent to the Õtaki River (aussie.zone)
Transcription: a photo of a shared pathway entrance with a series of steel pipes placed to create very narrow pathways to enter. The width is hard to tell from the angle of the photo, but far too narrow for a wheelchair or bicycle to fit.
Woolworths tells 79,000 they won a prize, then rescinds it (www.rnz.co.nz)
Woolworths has apologised to thousands of customers after mistakenly telling about 79,000 people they had won a competition....
Charts and Graphs of NZ Electricity (lemmy.nz)
There are a few dashboards around. I saw someone shared their own personal (next level!) grafana dashboard....
A definitive list of woke and non-woke foods (thespinoff.co.nz)
Please keep this handy for when Seymour starts coming after parents who feed their kids Quinoa and hummus charging them with child abuse....
joyous skittering of the least-bird (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/11902186...
Transpower warns of possible power shortages on Friday (www.rnz.co.nz)
The national electricity grid operator is warning of possible insufficient power generation to meet households’ demand on Friday....
What are we watching?
Having binged Fallout, 3 Body Problem and The Boys recently, I’ve moved onto Severance. It’s a quirky, slow burn with an intriguing setup. 7/10 jaffas so far....
Watch: Elderly woman knocked to the ground in unprovoked attack (www.rnz.co.nz)
A 43-year-old man has been arrested in Auckland after an elderly woman was viciously knocked to the ground in an unprovoked attack in broad daylight on Sunday....
Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 7/5/2024
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'Right in the firing line': New lab-grown milk substitute could threaten NZ's dairy sector (www.newshub.co.nz)
Can the Green Party’s holy mission survive its fallible disciples? (thespinoff.co.nz)
Fix & Fogg nut butter launched into space (www.rnz.co.nz)
One Wellington peanut butter company has gone where no Kiwi food company has gone before....
Kiwi cheerleading team win gold at world competition [International Open 5 division] (www.rnz.co.nz)
A New Zealand team has taken home gold at the Cheerleading World Championships in the US....
Man fights cancellation of 24-hour gym membership for ‘loitering’ after he stayed the night (www.rnz.co.nz)
How long is too long to spend in a 24-hour gym? Can you do too much squatting?...
Stratford-revered glockenspiel stops working (www.rnz.co.nz)
The Stratford-revered glockenspiel has stood proud in the main street, Broadway, since it officially opened in 1996, but it had stopped working over the weekend....
Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 29/4/2024
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Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone (gizmodo.com)
Are there any legal experts that want to weigh in on this....
Hydrogen trucks are coming (www.nzherald.co.nz)
Hiringa, with partners fuel supplier Waitomo Group and Australasia’s largest heavy vehicle fleet owner TR Group, on Tuesday opened three green hydrogen stations, with a fourth under way, within the North Island’s economic “golden triangle” of freight movement.
Someone tried to steal our Subaru in Christchurch (lemmy.nz)
We were away for a week and left it on the side of the road. Doesn’t look like they were particularly competent, as they ruined the ignition but didn’t manage to start it....
Cool short video about unique Archey's Frog (m.youtube.com)
Was just talking about how cool New Zealand’s rare frogs are and wanted to share. These frogs evolved to have no ears, so they also have no croaking noises (what’s the point if the mates you are trying to attract are deaf) which is unique!...
How to make bathroom switches smart? They currently have 4 manual switches.
In our two bathrooms we have a switch panel with 4 switches: one for a light, 2 for heat lamps, and 1 for a fan extractor. As we tend to forget the fan extractor I want to make this smart. Something like this...
Police confirm ram was in paddock where two found dead in rural Waitākere (www.rnz.co.nz)
A man and woman were found dead at the Anzac Valley Road address in Waitākere before 7.30am....
Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 19/4/2024
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