Ōtepoti: Palestine solidarity GIG for GAZA & fundraiser Friday 15 MAY 8:30 PM at U-BAR Ammonita Dibs Liquid Lucy Monkey Do Zara Rose Cleos Speakers from Palestine Students for Palestine Student Exec Otago and student fundraiser for UNRWA Entry koha -$10 Poster by Flynn (same in image)

Waiting for the shuttle, flying to Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington for #DrupalSouth . Feels like the top of a roller coaster 😯 here we go

Since NZPT first went public, small changes to the Parliament website have rendered many civic-tech applications useless. I’ve written a blog post about this in order to air my frustrations and concerns, and I’m sharing here in case anyone is curious. #AoNZ #NZPol #NZPT

Deep thinking. #grickledoodle #thoughts #creativity #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

In every one of her short form videos she is literally making the most sense on the Internet hands-down youtube.com/shorts/jrjbP...

*slaps lid of laptop* this baby gets 1.5 hours to the gallon

The current AoNZ government

Solidarity with trans people continuing to fight for their human rights this week video description: Pākehā/white woman signing above message in NZSL, no captions, little sound. I'm wearing a black Stop Institutional Racism (STIR) t-shirt, crocheted watermelon badge, kuffiyeh on wall behind me

The idea that LLMs are bringing forth a new age of malleability, particularly through vibe coding, is a co-option of what malleability has historically meant. It achieves similar surface characteristics without the restructuring of power and literacy historically EUP advocates aimed to challenge.

the vibecoding playgroup will shut as soon as tokens stop being subsidized by hypergrowth, i'm afraid when does it make sense for the carpenter to rent their tools?

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

so much cool dance happenng around Ōtepoti today!

Chris Hipkins needs to take notice after saying he'd consider means testing superannuation #nzpol

What marketing team thought "New ways to stay caught up in Activity" would sound anything but deranged? Our must-look-and-feel-busy world is just fucking stupid. The tyranny of notification dots. The appearance of productivity.

Something instead of nothing

And that, frankly, is bullshit. The PCRF is a legitimate charity that has been funding aid and relief and food and medical treatment in Palestine for 35 years The kids have set up a petition to change the school's mind, and you can sign it here: www.change.org/p/organize-a...

So. Not to get political on this apolitical website for people having a nice time online, but my kid's friend is trying to organise a bake sale to raise $ at their high school, and the school says it's too political. Because the $ is going to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.

Declassified photos of Stasi agents modeling undercover disguises.

🚨 URGENT 🚨 The #ToitūTeTiriti ropu invite everyone to join in a new (tonite) Waitangi Claim*. It's simple, just enter your name + email. URGENT because every day counts - we're running agst the clock with plans #CoC / Goldsmith have in play. More detail on the form, can read before you sign. #nzpol

Not knowing what the worst people in the world were thinking every fucking day

My superpower is answering a reply then realising what it actually meant ten minutes later.

so I rip my name off the voting papers to put them in the envelope, they still get a handwriting sample from the votes AND a DNA sample from the envelope lick

My kingdom for a NZ mainstream media that ensures the public are provided with nuance and caution and intelligence like this, instead of regurgitating whatever handouts they’ve been fed by government. Especially when we’re told only 37% of the public trust the media.

Well good, anyone know where he’s going? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/592178/talk-of-relocation-after-string-of-weather-disasters-christopher-luxon-says

ahahaha that was confusing time to run those rpi-eeprom-updates i never ran https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/issues/4627 (HASS on Raspberry Pi 4B Rev 1.4) going strong

Delighted to re-unlock the factory Toyota stereo in my car, avoiding replacing it with a horrid Android head unit or whatever for another round.

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considering a switch from Android to iOS and wondering if there's equally good adblocking in Apple land? On Android, am using Firefox with uBlock and Privacy Badger (+ pihole when at home)

It’s time for my favorite cartoon of the year.

took a walk in the sun and neihgbour told me there's a print collective forming on the end of my street, fuck yeah a printer collection goin on upstairs

Cool, I think my android update has killed the phone's ability to make calls or texts ... "Must turn off Aeroplane mode to make a phone call" Thanks, Oppo / ColorOS / probably my fault right?

The Luxon Govt decided to hook NZ’s fate to that of Donald Trump. Now Trump has gone to war, crashed the global economy and told Luxon etc to go get their own oil. We need NZ (not US) peaceful foreign policy and NZ generated renewable energy.

RIP the plan (fuck!)

magnificent garden ornamentation https://www.haywards.co.nz/auctions/230/catalogue/0205

Student journalists at Salient, Critic and others might want to dig into similar issues here at their universities.

A HB farmer gets paid about 60c for 1kg of peas. McCain sell that 1kg of frozen peas in a supermarket for nearly $6. McCain still somehow loses millions and their workers lose their jobs. This isn't a HB problem, so why must HB growers & workers suffer? www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

If you live in Greater Wellington and are looking for a nudge into cycling to commute, Switched on Bikes give a good deal on hiring an ebike. You can trial that commute with their gear. I was a bit anxious about the hill climbs (I'm old...), but this proved I could do it! switchedonbikes.co.nz

THE FURRYFOLK ON HOLIDAY (1967): Created in 1953, Tufty the squirrel became a 70s icon thanks to his road safety PIFs. But six years prior to those, this cinema short, presented by William 'Butlins' Butlin, taught kids what not to do at the beach...

no rocks for war crimes pls

I would install bollards, and leave it closed, except for walking and cycling.

don't forget to straighten the tent pegs

What's your sign?

The Government has a responsibility to ensure that technologies launched from New Zealand soil are not being used to help other countries wage war. If Rocket Lab launches from Aotearoa are supporting the illegal war on Iran then the Government must be transparent about this.

I was browsing Written Questions and saw Francisco Hernandez had filed about 25 pages worth of questions asking each portfolio how much their relevant ministries had spent on "fixing database breaches" for 2022 - 2025. Mind you applications can have security holes unrelated to a database but anyway

Ōtepoti kikorangi folk not on fb: I'm falling behind on sharing events, here's my off fb sources (links will be in replies) Palestine: Dunedin Palestine newsletter Unions: Unions Otago mailing list notices Dunedin Pride: their website Disabled community: Livingwell newsletter

A bold strategy