The Civilian reports that the government directs Te Puni Kokiri to conduct Māori Language Week in English.
Satire: Keeping in line with the government’s policy to favour English in official communications, Māori Language Week will be in English this year.
Government directs Te Puni Kokiri to conduct Māori Language Week in English
Morena world. Despite the overnight weather forecast that wasn’t too good—although it’s a clear and sunny day now—our house is running at 85% self-sufficient on the solar system. That won’t last long once the upstairs heater goes on!
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How many bags?
After teasing me for years about how many bags and satchels I own, my wife has decided my old black messenger bag is her new favourite. I agree it’s a great bag and used to be my favourite. Now, I don’t think I’m ever going to get it back.
I’ve only just realised the little emojis we use to filter images in the Discover section of micro.blog are from the emoji selection built into the various keyboards on my phone! Talk about a slow learner.
I think she’s trying to convince us she comfortable there. I’m not buying it. 🐕
New iPhone iOS installation
I see a lot of people worried about updating their iPhones to the latest iOS version. Fortunately, my phone is an iPhone8+ and is up to date with iOS16. 7.10.
Either those of us with older phones are further down the queue or we can’t install the latest iOS on this old hardware. Gives time to see what other people’s experiences are.
Together Tuesday drop in morning teas
Locking more people in prison doesn’t make society safer
Who's responsible for solving the USA's toxic political culture and racism?
I’ve thought long and hard about posting this, and it will probably get me into trouble or come across as a ‘stop picking on us’ winge. Despite my reservations, here goes!
This is a question I often ask myself when I find myself in the uber-liberal technology corners of the internet and social media. I spend my time on the Fediverse, so I don’t get this from Facebook and Twitter/X (only because I rarely go there), but I assume it’s similar there.
Getting paid for surplus solar power
Good to have a local hospital
Morena world. Ours is cold rain today, so I hope yours is a more pleasant one.
Autogenerated image captions in micro.blog
A couple of weeks ago I posted about how micro.blog lets you use the FIGURE and FIGCAPTION tags as well as the IMG tags for images Figure and figcaption element for images in micro.blog.
Now I have discovered that micro.blog autogenerates a caption and hashtags for images that you put into the Uploads section.