Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison. Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water. Our priorities are so fucked.

Join us to hear Mayor Sophie Barker talk about books which have influenced her life and vision for our city. Thanks to our Friends of the Library for organising this event. Thursday 5 March, 5.30pm – 6.30pm, 4th Floor, Dunedin City Library

Waitangi 2026. A government of Atlas Network slogans confronts a complex nation unwilling to be neoliberal roadkill. Toitū te Tiriti Toitū te Taiao

Yeah? Nah.

If I have to see another blurred image of a woman in a sexual pose or clearly naked alongside stories about deepfakes, I'm going to throw my phone into the ocean. Can you report on this stuff without implicitly replicating the content? Omg.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Comment: From 'a' for afflicting his ministers through to 'z' for Coke Zero, Jonathan Milne argues that this is a politician with an extraordinary ability to obscure the substance of his message – or the lack of substance.

We published Dimmer's AudioCulture profile in 2018; so much has happened since then, and Amanda Mills has given us a much-needed update. In that same year, Shayne Carter reformed Dimmer for the reissue of I Believe You Are a Star – the album had long been... www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/dim...

Enjoying watching the ebb and flow in Aparima

Perfectly put.....

It’s a bit #Bridgerton - a love letter and a fight to the death. Our exhibition celebrating the birth of AH Reed 150 years ago features treasure from his bequest including this letter from George Payne to Mary Payne, 5 September 1810. www.reedgallery.co.nz/exhibitions/...

Well, this is a great way to start the year! Thank you to the McKay family for this special donation of William Barker McEwan’s whiskey decanter that it brought with him from Edinburgh in 1906. Mr McEwan was Dunedin Public Libraries inaugural Librarian.

In today’s NZ Herald -

Old things and new things in ChCh eastern suburbs.

This is THE best card ever! #SecretSantaAoNZ

#booksky #books #library #librarians

RNZ Article - Hundreds of teens with a health condition, disability may be cut from Jobseeker benefit www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... My old image from last year still rings true. Even more so.

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Another way government austerity is failing healthcare and the NZ people. Underfunded Te Whatu Ora / Health NZ is cutting access to the Cochrane Library, a gold standard source of information to support health decision-making. NZers use it 246 times per day. #nzpol tinyurl.com/3jya8hkd

As many of you know, this week Disney suspended Jimmy Kimmel under pressure from Trump. That is censorship, plain and simple. And when corporations act like this, we all pay the price, because free speech is a pillar of our democracy.

📢 Thousands of people are gathering at rallies around the country to protest changes to pay equity laws. 👉 Report issues, make suggestions

I’m really looking forward to @lianza.bsky.social conference next week and am keen to catch up! Please get in touch here or through the conference app 🙂

The covid response in NZ was so good that there was NEGATIVE excess mortality in 2020-2022... Literally the best in the world.

This Sunday — join Wikimedians from across Aotearoa for an informal online catch up. All are welcome! These monthly meetings are a great chance to chat with other editors, get help with anything you’re stuck on, and be inspired! 📅 Sun 17 Aug ⌚ 12–2pm 🔗 w.wiki/F2Zv 📷 Brian Twitty, CC BY 4.0

The 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have given their top award to a book that helps young readers understand the complexities of the Treaty of Waitangi.

An important role at a critical time for our heritage in Aotearoa. amytea.co.nz/chief-execut...

I direct NZers attention to who was asking in the House if politicians had backbone in 2008

Education leaders and linguists are angered at the Ministry of Education’s decision to stop printing a primary school reader due to the ‘high’ number of te reo Māori words.

Honouring Dame Whina Cooper 50 years since the Māori land march

Antony Loewenstein: Israel has killed more journalists in the last 22 months than were killed in the US civil war, WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

More people want to be the mayor of Dunedin than anywhere else. So who are they?

This is not caused primarily by "screen time". It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

‘We need to support New Zealand authors’: Kirsten Le Harivel’s books confessional

The 2024/25 Living Wage rate is $27.80. The current Living Wage rate applies from 1 September 2024 – 31 August 2025. From 1 September 2025, the Living Wage hourly rate will be $28.95. Read more about 25/26 Living Wage hourly rate here: www.livingwage.org.nz/lw25

As conditions worsen in Middle East conflict, there is an increased willingness to overlook the UN in favour of independent action.

Did you know Te reo Māori was recognised as an official language of New Zealand on this day in 1987? Here at Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi (Christchurch City Libraries) we have many resources in te reo or to help you learn the language. 🧵 ^MT my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/te-ao-maori/...

Have you got collections of images that could improve Wikipedia content, but you’re not too sure where to start? 2025 Wikipedian at Large Mike Dickison has created The Commons Workflow – a step-by-step guide to help you get the right photos into the right places. w.wiki/EcJC

One might almost think that Long Covid is a public health crisis and we might want to actually listen to the experts and lived experience voices who have been asking NZ politicians for years to treat Long Covid as a public health crisis - who have then been deliberately ignored across the board 🤔🫠🙃

I do think not enough people know this - everything after a question mark in a URL is garbage. You can delete it all and the URL still works fine. Strip that shit out when sharing anything.

A Few Words #339 Ｅ Ｈ Ｐ Ｅ Ａ Ａ Ｉ Ｇ Ｌ Ｅ Ｍ Ａ Ｔ Ｒ Ｅ Ｒ I cleared the grid with 4 words 💯 Perfect! 🏅 Perfect, no back button used a-few-words.com

@thneed.bsky.social congratulations!! www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin...

Looking for a job at Akaroa Library? We have 2 vacancies! * Library Assistant, Permanent, Part-time, applications close 11.59pm Sun 29 June * Associate Team Leader, Akaroa Library, Fixed term, Part-time, applications close 11.59pm Mon 7 July Find out more: my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/jobs/ ^MT

Look. I posted this before. We need the good stuff more right now. So give me it all. Maybe it's a picture of a flower or a pet that made you happy. Maybe it was a meal. Maybe you hugged someone you love. GIVE ME ALL THE GOOD THINGS

A customer told me she couldn't believe this store would put up a Pride display, because what if children see it?? Anyway, it was my display, and I'm proud of it, and you (and your children) should all see it. #BookSky 📚💙

Across the motu there are New Zealanders contributing to the Wikimedia Movement in a variety of ways – from writing articles about their local history or favourite insects, to adding photos of historic landmarks, and even uploading data to better represent women's contributions to science 👩‍🔬🧬

@radionz.nzcow.com Census to be scrapped from 2030, replaced with administrative data and annual surveys www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... IMO, Collections of administrative data and annual surveys will not provide an adequate substitute, even when our latest census covered 88% of the population.