These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

absolute genius maneuver from bari weiss spiking this story now an exponentially higher amount of people will care about this and watch it anyways

On of the many privations of the UK, and moral failings, is their maniacal commitment to semi skimmed milk.

lol. lmao, even

Mr. Beast, all my friends and I were saying how good at boxing you’d be

"It blows my mind that 2020 saw one of the greatest uprisings in modern history, and our novelists and short story writers are acting as though…we were all just inside talking about fruit ninja. Solely because they are afraid of being called didactic." countercraft.substack.com/p/processing...

Tech guy watching Planet Earth III and shaking his head the whole time to let everyone know he thinks it would be more efficient to burn down the forest, build a data center, and generate the documentary with GenAI.

wtf, again

wtf??

David Walliams. Wow. It’s always the ones you most suspect.

Every time there's a breaking story about a celeb's treatment of women, everyone in the book world asks, "Is it finally Walliams?" Well, it finally is.

Russell Brand will be baptising David Walliams before the end of 2026

lol

The Epstein Files, everybody!

Hitler was a failed painter. Vance is a failed writer. Trump is a failed film star. Levitt is a failed broadcaster. Miller is a failed Hitler.

Not getting less suspicious that a huge part of the problem here is a big increase in the purity of cocaine sold in London over the 2010s

'New Zealand literature is an active and passionate industry. It keeps on keeping on, and acts as opposition to stupidity as a way of life.' The Readingroom 'best of 2025' includes Damien Wilkins, Joanna Cho (MA20) and this year's Letteri Creative Nonfiction Prize winner Niamh Vaughan.

Antisemitism absolutely is on the rise from both the left and the right. The answer is to take it seriously in both places & combat the weaponization which undermines our efforts. We can’t limit immigration or shut down Palestinian resistance to genocide

Spent some time yesterday reading the Substack and the Twitter account of someone saying that the Left should spend more time on Twitter, and I came away thinking: "this is a mean-spirited individual with fixed opinions who is addicted to arguing online, where is the benefit of engaging with them?"

I would also say: every single cause I have advocated for in the last ten years has got demonstrably worse! So maybe my time is best spent not debating online but warning people about the state of things, and helping them build communities to deal with that. Preaching to the choir is underrated!

Miss me with the ”prove you have the correct political bonafides to be mourning murder” bullshit actually

I’ve gotten a few replies like this today and I just want to point out 1. None of them have come from Palestinians 2. Violent antisemitism predates the existence of a Zionist movement, which began in Europe in an colonialist environment 3. These comments themselves conflate Judaism with Zionism

lmao

Love love love Niamh and Will's incredible folios!!!!!

I wrote this in a fugue state immediately after handing in my MFA and somehow it actually got published, so please enjoy this piece of flash fiction entitled: Bev Eats His Entire Wife turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content...

Chuffed to have a story on Turbine: turbinekapohau.org.nz/2025-content... Also chuffed just to see Turbine. So much good work in there.

'One of the great things about the MA in general ... is it’s not some hierarchy up on the hill telling you what to do. The ethos is one of shared endeavour. Everyone’s grappling with the same questions.' Writer in Residence Anna Smaill remembers her MA year and talks about her career since then.

Mauatua Fa'ara-Reynolds is the winner of the Letteri Family Prize for Creative Nonfiction with her hybrid and poetic work Our Bark-Skinned Bodies, and Stephenjohn Holgate is the winner of this year's Modernletters Fiction Prize with his rich, poignant novel about three generations of Jamaican men

Niamh Vaughan is this year's winner of the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing with her 'hilarious and terrifying' memoir The World Reversed, and the winner of the Biggs Family Prize for Poetry is Will Salmon, with his 'deeply humane' poetry collection, Worm 🧵 www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...

Massive thanks and congratulations to the editors of this year's Turbine | Kapohau, which was launched last night during the Adam/Biggs awards ceremony. You can sample some of the work Stephenjohn Holgate, ada duffy and Isabella Smith have selected in this thread... Thanks also to Ash Davida Jane!💐

So I did a writing course this year and here's an excerpt for folks who's interested. Thank you @mistaholgate.bsky.social for your kind words 🫰🫶

Turbine|Kapohau magazine, which I’ve been lucky to edit alongside ada duffy and Isabella Smith, is live! Have a click. I’ll be linking to some of the pieces here in between moments frenetic travelling turbinekapohau.org.nz

*whispers* stop reposting AI images you guys

*shouts* EVEN AS A JOKE

Every day I come in Al Gore’s internet and see that, despite not being a woman, I should also choose the bear.

The poor dog

Fuck Keir Starmer's spokesman, and fuck the cowards running the Labour party.

“We are exiting the age of the public sphere and entering a time of magic, when signs and symbols have the power to reshape reality. “ www.artforum.com/features/yea...

Modern male influencers really watched the American Psycho movie and thought it was a piece of aspirational content.

Go write a book or draw or something or go play music

"It’s no longer necessary to suppress information. You just have to make the cost of sorting fact from fiction, in terms of time and effort, too high to pay for the ordinary person, who can’t spend all day online weighing up competing claims about robots or pedophilia or Iran."

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Watched 50 cent’s Puffy documentary. Blasting Hit ‘em up on the way to yoga

*block*

this is stalin shit