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facebook post from Regent Book Sale Dunedin: "Our incredible volunteers have been working hard all week to set up the sale and now they've gone home to rest up for the big day. We can't wait to see you all tomorrow at 10am! Friday 20th & Saturday 21st February 10am - 10pm each day Breeze Arena, Edgar Centre Dunedin NZ (116 Portsmouth Dr) Free Parking & Free Entry"

Ōtepoti: Regent Book Sale is on!

Friday 20th & Saturday 21st February
10am - 10pm each day

Breeze Arena, Edgar Centre Dunedin NZ (116 Portsmouth Dr)

free parking & free entry

image: screengrab of their facebook post, full info in alt text, summary above

"...of kaimoana/seafood and recreational activities.
Please network to the public, your whānau/family, friends and contacts"

"...respectfully advise that Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou has now placed a rāhui (a temporary closure) in respect for the mate/drowning at St Clair beach earlier today.
The rāhui covers an area of Saint Clair and St Kilda beach for 3 days lifting at midday 21st February it applies to the gathering...

source: Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou facebook page

full text of image (a screengrab of the post) follows:

"Kia hiwa rā, kia hiwa rā!
Kua taki te koukou o te ruru.
Kua riro atu rā tētahi i te rika kaha o aituā.
Ka tū te rāhui, ā, ka rere kā tai o aroha ki te whānau i tēnei wā pōuri.

This is to...

facebook post from Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou: "Kia hiwa rā, kia hiwa rā! Kua taki te koukou o te ruru. Kua riro atu rā tētahi i te rika kaha o aituā. Ka tū te rāhui, ā, ka rere kā tai o aroha ki te whānau i tēnei wā pōuri. This is to respectfully advise that Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou has now placed a rāhui (a temporary closure) in respect for the mate/ drowning at St Clair beach earlier today. The rāhui covers an area of Saint Clair and St Kilda beach for 3 days lifting at midday 21st February. It applies to the gathering of kaimoana/seafood and recreational activities. Please network to the public, your whānau/family, friends and contacts"

CW: death

Ōtepoti: Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou has placed a rāhui in respect for the mate/ drowning at St Clair beach earlier today

The rāhui covers an area of Saint Clair & St Kilda beach for 3 days lifting at midday 21st Feb

it applies to the gathering of kaimoana/seafood and recreational activities.

A medium-shot portrait of Marty Davies, who has curly, shoulder-length ginger hair and wears gold-rimmed cat-eye glasses and a white button-down shirt. They are standing next to a rectangular 3D collage housed in a clear acrylic case. The artwork is densely packed with hundreds of vibrant children’s erasers in various shapes and figures, predominantly organized into fields of bright pink and blue.

After the last 24 hours we’ve had it fees appropriate to share this.

I’m currently exhibiting a new solo work at Brixton (Tate) Library in an exhibition curated by @rockxaviergb.bsky.social called Under Our Skin.

I have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow to hopefully get a formal diagnosis for both POTS & EDS, along with potentially MCAS.

Does anyone who has gone through this have any advice or resource recommendations? I’m worried I won’t be taken seriously about my symptoms.

Reposts appreciated, thanks.

Software Engineer Job in Auckland CBD, Auckland - SEEK Full-stack engineer. Small team, big ownership, modern practices, most Fridays off. Ship code that lands on real construction sites.

So uh, if anyone knows a good intermediate software engineer or high junior ready for that next step.....

We're a small team, which means lots of autonomy and you can learn a bunch of stuff.

Also working with me, maybe that's a bonus.

Ōtepoti: just been reflecting on bus fares over the past 6 years because $10 top up doesn't seem to be lasting long these days

After lockdown fares were $1, 10 trips from $10!

then got 5 trips for same price

now 4 trips

= every couple days needing to top up

That "tax cut" = gone (twice over)

3) Jones says immigrants “have to adapt and accept the host culture”, yet his govt's culture is based on opposing environmental stewardship.
And all NZ govts & the monied class that backs them have used white supremacist views to tread on the values, resources & host culture of tangata whenua.

Dunedin Pride calendar for month of March 2026

Ōtepoti: Dunedin Pride have released their Pride Month calendar

March 2026 has a range of fabulous events listed!

dunedinpride.org.nz/pages/dunedi...

image: poster of calendar (all info is accessible via the website linked above)

Ōtepoti: heads up for rain warning tomorrow

Ever since I came back to the UK I have been appalled and disappointed by the real lack of desire for anything like real inclusion in society. Rare are folk who want to sit uncomfortably .

And I’m going to say it again: real inclusion cannot be led by white straight able people. It cannot.

If you bought a nice bathroom vanity lately in Aotearoa drop ur recs. Bonus points if it isn't white, black, grey, or beige.

I don't currently have the words for my anger and frustration seeing climate events happen all over the motu and knowing - we could have been better prepared. We could have made different choices. People don't have to die.

I'm trying terribly hard to not be bitter.

reminds me of the wee dog in Labyrinth 😊

🫣😳

It should be noted that the YouTube livestream of Seymour’s speech only had 178 viewers, and the audience in Christchurch sounded small from the applause.

It is likely Seymour will be relying on media dissemination of the speech - also why it’s vital talking points are not just relayed verbatim.

Merge NZ are hosting NZSL Club in Waihōpai Invercargill, great opportunity to use & practice NZSL

Dates: Wednesday, 6.30pm - 8.00pm
11, 25 February & 11, 25 March, and 8 April

Address: South Alive, 262 Ness Street, Appleby, Invercargill

Everyone is welcome, Deaf and hearing alike

poster from Merge NZ: "NZSL CLUB IS BACK NZSL Club gatherings will be held every two weeks in South Island: Invercargill: Wednesday, 6.30pm - 8.00pm Dates: 11, 25 February & 11, 25 March, and 8 April Address: South Alive, 262 Ness Street, Appleby, Invercargill Dunedin: Tuesday, 6.30pm - 8.00pm Dates: 24 February, & 10, 24 March and 7, 21 April Address: St David Complex Seminar (Room C G.03), Otago University The St David Complex is located in the north-west region on the corner of St David and Cumberland Streets. Saint David Street, Dunedin North Join us for NZSL Club - a fun and relaxed way to practise NZSL with others!" www.mergenz.co.nz/nzslclub illustrated with Merge NZ logo and photos of people signing

Merge NZ are hosting NZSL Club here in Ōtepoti - great opportunity to use and practice NZSL

Dates: Tuesday, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
24 Feb, 10 & 24 March, 7 & 21 April

Address: St David Complex Seminar (Room C G.03)

Everyone welcome - Deaf and hearing alike.

image is poster, full info in alt text

An Indigenous diplomacy is possible | E-Tangata “The alternative rules-based order could be crafted to open political spaces for substantive participation by Indigenous peoples as peoples of inherent agency. They could participate as shareholders i...

“The alternative rules-based order could be crafted to open political spaces for substantive participation by Indigenous peoples as peoples of inherent agency. They could participate as shareholders in public authority, not as stakeholders to be consulted.” — Dominic O’Sullivan.

What the PM said at Waitangi was wrong | E-Tangata “When the prime minister spoke at Waitangi he set out a terribly distorted view of the country’s founding document.” — Carwyn Jones.

“When the prime minister spoke at Waitangi he set out a terribly distorted view of the country’s founding document.” — Carwyn Jones.

Did this several days ago. Please consider adding your voice. We all can see the issues overseas...

Between Dreams: Resistance and Representation in Asian Aotearoa | Te Papa This landmark collection presents fresh, progressive perspectives on what it means to be ‘Asian’ in Aotearoa.

The book is in press! HK Lennon Wall cover fuck yeah ✊ @keithng.bsky.social , harking back to Te Papa's first round of Asian activist materials collections. I wrote the intro & a few other bits & bobs. Can't wait to see how Grace has let our history speak through objects in the national collection.

Wairarapa friends: the Red Cross has six families keen to have sewing machines and we are out of stock there.

Could you please ask your neighbours, aunties, sports buddies etc ? Email any offers to sewingmachinedonations@gmail.com please 🧵💚

Please share!

Please help Khalil and his family if you can, his children are going days at a time without food

The Human Rights Commission has made a submission, find it here:

tikatangata.org.nz/news

I've just found Local Government NZ submission & they make point that rates capping will constrain the effort to strengthen emergency management

kā mihi nui!

Emergency Management Subs

NZ Greens have good points here and they're trying to make it as easy as possible for you to make your own submission too

action.greens.org.nz/emergency_ma...