There is nothing quite like private, high quality conversations with people who have known you, and you them, forever.

Friendly reminder is an oxymoron.

Exited hospital with screws in my ankle and no care package. Care packages welcome lol. Just not for me. From ACC. I'll be getting a romiromi and then a mirimiri at least the maoris come thru. Plus my divine sleepy t shirt finally arrived. I'm never entering a hospital as a patient again lol

Mum used to joke that she had to hide me in my perma-tutu in our whare off Cuba St if the radical version of Jools was in town. youtu.be/iNLKAkmLzww?...

Read. So good.

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Not ashamed to admit that the homemade apricot jam from the foodbank is the best jam I have ever had. The tang!

. How Memory Works Come over here we say to the days that disappear. No, over here. .

Look at this perfect old lady

Don't

What does butter mean in your community...would you die for it?

Seven years ago X was already marking the spot.

Hm.

anything litty set in Dunedin please send it my way. I am Dunedin. Otepoti is me lol, but also, I really am Dunedin, I am also Otago, but I am definitely not Queenstown, the Ravensbourne of Central Otago. Anyhu my lit/MS services available to the writing public now includes Dunedin as a specialty.

ani o brien is a sneaky bitch with a vendetta, they be the worst kind, also if a pakeha called me a hangi pants or a hori for jest i would simply tell them they are a wyt c word that needs their head cut off, i have form in this area

lol i called myself hangi pants on facebook for five years but i upgraded to princess te hangi also i had to refriend my Nana after the name change

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my son does not know what day it is...gift another mutha lol buy.stripe.com/7sYcN5bQj32L...

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The best girl open.substack.com/pub/taliamar...

I suspect Lloyd Burr called Maiki a h*ri and also AniOBrien is a sneaky disingenous cow. Maiki was the one who was wise to what Kiri Tamihere was up to while everyone else was floundering about TPM, this feels like a loss. Grrr.

I think Alistair Te Ariki Campbell might be one of my favourite poets, not even my fav NZ poet, just one of my favourite poets

wrote about how cool my Mum is (and a few words about a very cool book) newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/07/o...

so rare to see a headline with a semicolon; let alone one using a semicolon correctly: BREAKING BREAKING, Trump says war on Iran ‘close to over’; Israel pounds Lebanon.

Turning up on the coast too late with cold kfc and then telling kuia they will have to relocate on rnz. Chopper him tbh. Shame.

My teina is studying for her second degree. In Law. She lives with Williams Syndrome. She is exquisite and rare and she knows right from wrong #patupaiarehe

Me: Imagine if I hung a Christmas Tree with Bic lighters as decorations and then on Christmas Day we could set the tree on fire Son:(Leaves room)

My son's father, fishing

Disastrous but hyper-focused day! open.substack.com/pub/taliamar...

I do arts journalism now. buy.stripe.com/bJe4gz4nRgTB...

One day surfer son, a teenager then (now in his 40’s) saw my car parked by the beach & popped this note under the windscreen wiper #thingsthatmatter #keepsake #objectscanbetheperson

Breathe nzpoetryshelf.com/2026/03/31/p...

#MultinlingualCritical "(TM's book) can partly be regarded as autobiography and is an essayistic mix of word, memory, place and persons." writes Aschlee KO / Auckland Libraries Author: @princesstehangi.bsky.social Publisher: @thwupbooks.bsky.social

For the flower open.substack.com/pub/taliamar...

Going to call my poetry book coming out this year Whaka. Marry. Kill. In that order.

Going to call my poetry book coming out this year Whaka. Marry. Kill. In that order.

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