My observation of the Resistance in Minnesota is that ICE has underestimated the strength of a culture of hospitality that knows when to take a casserole to your neighbours. Survival is a team sport.

Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...

A procession of young women go past my window. As one of them was carrying a Columba College Choir tote bag, I think it is the last event pre-semester rather than the arrival of the first residents to the College.

Archivists consume paper clips for the nutitional value: mint, spearmint, pineapple, raspberry - nom nom nom!

The Japanese Women's Hockey Team are lined up in the quad at Knox College for their last team photo in the Summer of Hockey. I hope they headed for somewhere dryer than Dunedin has put on for this competition!

@slgd66.bsky.social Is that you?

The bollards are going back into our carpark. First Day at the College must be close.

Everytime I see this video appear on YouTube I have to stop and watch it even if by the end of it my eyes watering in sympathy. Men dancing bollywood in splintmail! Magnificent! Apparently it's a historical romance on the eve of the triumph of the East India Company. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_My...

Feels like it's riffing off a Mamdani vibe, without riffing off a Mamdani vibe. Who's going to do that in Aotearoa New Zealand?

This seems what parts of New Zealand is going through at the moment.

290 shopping days to go until Election Day.

Trump’s board of peace seems like a medieval institution, like the Order of the Round Table. It seems all about power in the hands of the head of the board and nothing to do with peace.

Hey the voter suppression laws mean you can only vote up to twelve days before November 7 and have to be registered thirteen days before that. Twelve days before Nov 7 is 26 October. THAT IS LABOUR DAY. THE ELECTION VOTING STARTS ON LABOUR DAY.

I plan to cast an early vote in October if there are no restrictions on early voting. Remember to confirm that you are eligible to vote in the General Election.

Reminder: regime voter suppression means you need to enrol early. vote.nz/enrolling/en...

CEO of New Zealand's Free Speech Union, in an interview with far-right newsfluencer, laid out what their targets would be over '26 (an election year). Would be foolish for initiatives, individuals, institutions, & identities here to not plan for significant harms, haranguing, & harassment. #nzpol

"Because you didn't order the committee for peace, that is independent of your government, to give me the gong that I wanted so I can go to heaven, I'm going to invade the island in the arctic ocean that isn't even a part of your kingdom!"

Chairs set up in the college quad. It looks like it could be a powhiri. Waiting to see how this develops.

They are ready to go.

This sounds like an international mission for the Lake Erie League, @neorsd.org

It only rained twice in Dunedin this week, once for three days and the second time for four days.

It's proving to be an inside summer, and we are getting a stream of enquiries to the archives.

I put it to you that arousing the ire of the Good Folk does not lead to peaceful protest.

Kalaallit Nunaat Kalaallit pigaat / Greenland belongs to the Greenlandish people 🇬🇱

I found this to be a really clear presentation of some of the political and social dynamics that have brought us to this moment with respect to the United States’s current international positioning

At the moment as the sabre-rattling gets warmer I think there is nothing to stop Trump ordering American troops in Europe, especially Germany, to capture European leaders, and then Putin can open a second front in Eastern Europe. A weakened Europe suits them fine.

We may be an ocean away, but there are many of us in Aotearoa quietly cheering on every one of you Americans who are standing up, speaking out & taking action today against your govt's latest acceleration towards full-on fascism & war. Solidarity & strength from the deep south of the planet. #nzpol

My local supermarket has started producing hot cross buns straight after Christmas, having taken a break of supplying them for one week. While they keep providing them I keep buying their spicy goodness. I think I have two packs stashed in the freezer 🏧 😋

1 death, 2 wounded - will the next ICE shooting be 4 injured or dead?

This, please.

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Second day back in the Archives office, it is like we never left.

Wave to the Earthlings! Hello!

I am listening to Aaron Copeland's A Lincoln Portrait, and Carl Sandberg's narration has begun. I consider it a rallying call in opposition to the time-line we find ourselves in.

Having listened to today's episode of Tea and Sanctuary, I conclude that @emmanewman.bsky.social is correct. Captain Picard's Ready Room does have its own en suite.

me from Christmas until Sunday 4th

As I’m reading Na Viro by Gina Cole, I don’t know how I ended up being a space academy navigator in a post-Water Wars Pacific but I’m enjoying being written that way.

I think I managed to visit it a couple of times in trips to Christchurch. Some of my collection of Teach Yourself Language books comes from there, and I once went back for a translation of the Homeric Hymns. Each floor was worth a browse.

Thor is definitely having it out with the Frost Giants this afternoon. He must be smarting after being caught in their hailstorm yesterday.

Thunder overhead in Dunedin; no rain yet.

It’s not really Christmas until you’ve heard the Horn of Gondor.

Interfaith Alignment Calendar of Light Day 25

That was a magnificent thunderstorm for Christmas day in Dunedin. Is there any more to come?

I’m not certain if there’s a big #nzpol community on here, but if there is: Last night I finally launched my web tool to track when this Parliament has gone into urgency, and which bills were affected by it. Takeaways: Urgency sessions: 19 Bills: 104 See the stats: nzpt.cjs.nz

🥲https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9XN1iOungs

No hot cross buns in the supermarket on Christmas Eve. I wonder if that is a sign?

I’ve been to the supermarket. My participation in the Christmas madness is complete. Time to hide away. Sanity Claus is coming.

14/20 quite a respectable result.

How much of this do you plan to catch, @dunedinjay.bsky.social ?