Andrew W (aw@mastodon.nz, aw_nz@twitter.com)

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IT sys eng. Tweets on transport/infra/IT/politics Blended family🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇵🇫🇰🇷 (he/him)

Screenshot from ASB online banking presented when logging in, the title reads "Stronger security, same experience", the body reads: "We're now collecting information about behaviour through our new layer of security, like the way you use your device here to type, swipe, press and scroll. This helps us to protect you from fraud and scams. If you don't want us to collect this information, log out now. You'll still be able to bank with us by phone or at your local branch."
Two small grey and yellow birds on a branch. Rail lines and a platform in the background, out of focus. The birds are snuggling together, facing away from the camera.
View of Auckland city centre across the harbour. In the foreground is tidal mud and a boat is on a 45 degree angle. Two people are standing off to its right. A speech marker has been added to one of the people with the text "Can't park there, mate"
Golden Auckland city sunset shot, taken from the top of Forrest Hill towards the city centre from 10km distance. Dark shadows of suburbia and trees in the lower past of the photo already in the shadow of hills off-camera to the right/west, the city centre in the middle in soft focus due to atmospheric blur, Maungawhau behind the Skytower, other city centre buildings visible including the still-incomplete Seascape and its crane, all lit on their right hand side from the setting sun. Further left, a tiny Maungakiekie and its obelisk are just visible. The sky is an orangey-brown.
Map screenshot of route 147 from AnyTrip.com.au with a rough sketch of an idea for an extention from Waitakere Township, up to Taupaki, and then east to Westgate.
Screenshot of part of Auckland's present day (2026, pre-CRL) schematic network map with an arrow pointed at the airport.
The same shot as the previous post, with hue, contrast, white balance and colours mostly corrected, but still noisy and looking faded.
A photo taken by the SP-500UZ camera described in the previous post. Shows some bush and houses in the foreground, with the Auckland city centre buildings behind. The image and colours are terrible - washed out blue, hazy, and noisy.
Foreground of this photo shows a 2007-era Olympus SP-550UZ camera mounted on a miniature tripod with the strap dangling around it. In mid-shot is lawn, and in distance downhill is suburbia followed by a somewhat hazy and very small view of the Auckland city centre 10km distant. The shot was taken from Greville Reserve in Forrest Hill on the North Shore, but the topography means you cannot see any of Waitemata Harbour. The camera that took this photo is an even older Olympus Camedia C-70Z from 2004.
Photo of a black Dell Latitude E4300 laptop from 2009, on a shelf in front of a white wall. Bits of cables and one other white piece of equipment at the edge of a photo (unidentifable, but those who read the alt text would find out it's a Mikrotik router). Photo taken with an even older digital camera.
The phone from the previous images out of its box, flipped open and just powered on. The bottom half has a white T9 physical keypad which has twelve buttons - numbers 1-9, star, 0, and hash. Above that the colour changes from white to black with a small panel with some more buttons, then the flip hinge, and above that the display showing a clock that is not set yet, showing 00:00 as the time.
A photo of a semitransparent plastic box with a black rectangular object inside. What the object is is unclear due to the plastic only being semitransparent.
Framegrab from Arcane season 1 Episode 3, Vi with pink hair to the left, back to the audience, putting her hand to her younger sister Powder's cheek lovingly, but with a sense of foreboding that something terrible is about to happen
Looking diagaonally from the footpath into a shop. In the foreground, a street sign for a shop called "AllAbout". The text is in a child's writing and has an image of what we are 80% sure is our cat wearing a birthday hat with a pompom. In the background, a diagonal view of a bit of the inside of the shop with a table with a pot plant on it, and some lighting. An out-of-place folded up shade umbrella sits inside because we forgot to move it. A table and two seats is visible outside the front window.
Inside of the former Avenue 47 Cafe. Dismantled benches are propped up against the left wall, gaps in the flooring showing where part of them previously were. Cafe and kitchen items piled up in the background, people standing around.
Screenshot of today's council Transport, Resilience and Infrastructure Committee meeting with Maurice Williamson in centre shot and speaking, with his middle finger extended in a horizontal position
Screenshot of emails in my inbox from Freeletics, offering differing discount amounts of 50%, 60%, 70% off. The 70% email is highlighted.
Cropped screensho of NZ Herald headlines - the cropped part of the one of the left starts with "Dangerous and stupid", the right side headline is "David Seymour swron in as Deputy PM, marking new Act milestone"
Screenshot of the Service Closures section from https://www.tehuiatrain.co.nz/timetables/ Lists four day closures for King's Bithday, Matariki and Labour Weekends, and two week closures for the July and September school holidays.
Screenshot of Google Street View on Auckland's Henderson Station overpass. Two people are looking at the person with the backpack-camera that's taking the street view images, one of them is in police uniform.
Someone's image of a silver late-model car in a bike/bus lane with a giant poster of someone giving the camera the finger on it. The number plate BLH727 is older than the vehicle so likely fake.
Daejeon station concourse a large area with a lot of people walking around. - a digital clock hanging from the roof showing 10:19:06, some departure boards in the distance.
AnyTrip screenshot of the western line, one westbound train between Sunnynook and Henderson, one at Baldwin, one at Grafton, and ... that's it.
Webcam view of the motorway at Redvale, obstructed by what is out of focus but looks a lot like a spider web
Text "Use the force, Harry" attributed to Gandalf, next to an image of Patrick Stewart
Looking under the deck, a work site for waterproofing repairs is flooded out with water quite high and work materials floating around.
Screenshot of dehumidifier controls and a humidity graph from my OpenHAB
Screenshot of the top of the linked article in case it becomes unavailable in future
A photo of the Northwestern Motorway looking citybound from the (old) Saint Lukes Road overbridge on 30 October 2014. There are three lanes each way and a sizeable gap in the centre as a worksite, that would be wide enough to take a centre-running bus or rail line. It was instead used to add just one more lane bro (each way).
Screenshot of the first three paragraphs of the linked article in case it becomes unavailable in the future
An old pencil sitting on a table surface (with some paint splashes visible). The pencil is white and has an old ANZ Bank logo in light blue in the centre.
Map view from anytrip.com.au showing a supposedly northbound Eastern line service (labelled "EAST to [sic] Manukau 1 to Brit 1 via Panmure") heading south towards Homai.
A view of sub-level 1 at the Waitematā Station eastern entrance beneath Takutai Square. To the right, a pair of escalators land on this level coming down from ground level. In the centre in the distance, the ticket gates are visible with a couple walking through them. Beyond them is stair and escalator access down to the platforms, just visible in the distance. To the left, a digital clock is visible, although it wrongly shows 19:24 as the time - the photo was taken around 13:30.
A photo of the sign board of the Orakei Park and Ride Conditions of use (taken from a Google Maps photo). Text relevant to the topic is: 1. This car park is reserved strictly for use by park & ride passenger users, unless signs permitting general public parking are displayed. 4. If required to do so by an authorized person you must provide evidence to show that you are a bona fide passenger. (none of the other numbered terms mention a time limit)
View down the walkway of the Albany Park and Ride in Auckland, looking down the central walkway, with the shelter overhead. Overcast weather, many cars parked either side of the walkway.
Screenshot of Hegseth quotes. Text: Now: “Nobody was texting war plans,” Hegseth told journalists traveling with him in Hawaii on Monday. He said of Goldberg, “You’re talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes.” Then: “Any security professional, military, government or otherwise, would be fired on the spot for this type of conduct and criminally prosecuted for being so reckless with this kind of information,” Hegseth, then a regular contributor for Fox News Channel, said of Clinton’s emails on the network in 2016. That same year, Hegseth asked on Fox News, “How damaging is it to your ability to recruit or build allies with others when they are worried that our leaders may be exposing them because of their gross negligence or their recklessness in handling information?” In another 2016 Fox News segment, Hegseth said, “If it was anyone other than Hillary Clinton, they would be in jail right now for what has been done. Because the assumption is, in the intelligence community, if you are using unclassified means, there is the potential for, and likelihood, that foreign governments are targeting those accounts and gathering intelligence from them.”
Screenshot from article. Text: On March 14, President Donald Trump quietly signed a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act—a 1798 law last used during World War II. The order declared that the United States is under invasion by Tren de Aragua. It is the first time in US history that the 18th-century statute, which gives the president extraordinary powers to detain and deport noncitizens, has been used absent a Congressional declaration of war. The administration then employed the wartime authority unlocked by the Alien Enemies Act to quickly load Venezuelans onto deportation flights from Texas to El Salvador.
View of two of the three lamps of Three Lamps (Ponsonby) taken in 2022. The leftmost lamp is missing but was restored later. Just to the right is the fake three lamps of Three Lamps (on the building verandah).
Close-up of my Fitbit in my hand as I move it around. The display is blank. The heart rate sensor LEDs flicker randomly before giving off a very bright burst of light, then the whole thing goes dead.
A group of five motorcycles travelling in convoy on the road seen from behind. The motorcyclists are all wearing fluorescent yellow jackets, labelled "Police"
Screenshot of the first part of the linked Guardian article, in case it becomes unavailable in future
Screenshot of a tweet from Senator Mark Kelly. Reads: "Just left Ukraine. What I saw proved to me we can’t give up on the Ukrainian people. Everyone wants this war to end, but any agreement has to protect Ukraine’s security and can’t be a giveaway to Putin. Let me tell you about my trip and why it’s important we stand with Ukraine." Beneath that a tweet from Elon Musk. Reads: "You are a traitor" (no punctuation)
Screenshot of the linked article in case it becomes unavailable in future. Headline "Trump Amplifies “No LGBTQ” Symbol Using Nazi-Era Imagery in Military Ad Post", itself has a screenshot of Donald Trump on his Truth Social account posting to a Washington Post article with a symbol of an upside down pink triangle with the "NO" circle symbol on top of it. Lower down, a diagram and key of all the Nazi concentration badges, including the pink triangle for "homosexueller".
Comic. Panel 1 is man 1 with a beard and in a red hat shaking a younger man 2's hand. In the background, three other people are bent over in handcuffs. Both men are smiling. Man 2 is wearing a T-shirt saying "LGB without the T" and holding a rainbow placard saying "Gays Against Drag Queens". Man 1 says "We did it! We finally outlawed all the trans people and drag queens! Thanks for your help!". Man 2, still smiling says "Happy to be of service!". Panel 2 has man 2 still smiling, asking "So who are we going after next?" Panel 3 has man 1 staring at man 2 with a small smile, no response. Panel 4 has man 2 same as panel 2, still smiling, saying "I said who's next?". Panel 5 is the same as panel 3, but man 1 now has a slightly larger smile. Panel 6 has man 2, saying "Who...", now with a worried expression. Panel 7 is the same as panel 5, but man 1's smile has gotten slightly larger again.
A screenshot from Plex. The tip row header is "Continue Watching", showing one series and one movie. The next row header is "Recently added in Family Movies", where you can see what DVDs and Blu-Rays I've recently found and bought from local op shops for the kids' local movie collection.
Image from an Audi ad, announcing "Audi Dynamic Black, arriving March 2025". The image has a visible car tail-light reflecting an Audi logo slightly above but is otherwise completely black. The car that the tail-light belongs to cannot be seen.
Standing ovation after a political speech. Could be North America, maybe North Korea, hard to tell
Screenshot of Carl Bildt tweet, reads: Today we see Trump 🇺🇸 disrupting the global order of the West by stopping military aid to 🇺🇦 - thus greatly boosting 🇷🇺 aggression - and initiating a major trade war with close neighbors 🇨🇦 🇲🇽. It could hardly be worse.
Screenshot of linked article in case it becomes unavailable in future
Screenshot of linked article in case it becomes unavailable in future
Screenshot (some elements removed) of the linked article, with the last six words of the third paragraph highlighted - "The letter, which was visible in Trump’s hand during a press conference, extended a personal invitation to visit Balmoral, the royal family’s Scottish retreat where Elizabeth II spent the final weeks of her life."
Screenshot of some of the linked article in case it becomes unavailable in future
Partially disassembled Milight bulb, showing internal components
TV screengrab of Brian Tamaki, showing some either painted or tattooed on eyebrows.
Letter with the title "A simple school lunch solution", with Gill Court of Howick saying that in her day, a sandwich wrapped in paper did the job, and if someone else didn't have enough, they just shared. "Problem? No, we just got on with it and we seem to have survived now in our 70s to not depend on handouts."
Screenshot of linked article body text in case it becomes unavailable in the future. Videos and images unnecessary to the story cut to make text fit. 1 of 2
Screenshot 1 of 2 of Newsweek article, in case it becomes unavailable in future. Note: a stock image of Trump and a video was deleted to save space to fit more text. Deletion was done using Firefox HTML inspector.
Copy of screenshotted tweet from article showing changed signing dates (2025-01-30 changed to 2022-06-29 amongst others) and a figure of exactly $8,000,000.00 changed to $8,000,000,000.00.