AndrewPaulWood
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Cultural mercenary. Mostly harmless. 🇳🇿
https://www.masseypress.ac.nz/books/shadow-worlds/
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Dame Edith Sitwell - Face to Face Interview 1959
YouTube video by EckingtonParishTV
https://youtu.be/Q5l3UPlO60M?si=UCgXUURsIb-413lq
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Has Helen been at the cider? They're all still in print in various formats. Also, I bet she wasn't that sanguine about "Unseen Academicals" seeing as it was an incredibly warm and positive portrayal of trans people.
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Rachel Cunliffe
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Classicist here to inform you all that this is ancient Greek for summoning a cat
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🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧
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Anthony Head (1954 – 2026) R.I.P
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As I think anyone who has spent any substantial time in a large international city will no doubt point out, no city in New Zealand is truly cosmopolitan by the standards of London or New York, and skew specific demographics that don't interact much.
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Duncan Jones
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One of these snakes is missing a huge trick here! Just kick the chair and when a furious and rudely awokenTrump looks to see who did it, you could point at the weakest member of the pack and you’ll have whittled your competition down.
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Nick Lashmar
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Famously Adam and the Ants didn’t require roadies, as each band member could carry up to 10 times their own body weight
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Great to see NZ actor Mike Edward with a fairly major role in this new movie
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35432768/
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This is a deep cut for medievalists and musical theatre nerds
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Is it just me or is this giving cover of an Anne McCaffrey novel published in the 1990s by Del Rey?
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I get that this is hyperbole, but for context people have been talking about, and indeed publishing on stochastic far right terrorism since the mid-2010s. The police and intelligence agencies of most developed countries have highlighted the risk model as a concern and monitor those vectors.
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What Kate Roger thinks about the mechanics of Hollywood, is not, contrary to certain opinion, of great value or worth the time I spent reading this before I realised it was just someone interviewing Kate Roger.
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Y'all insisting on calling Hipkins "Chippy" is probably not attracting swing voters. Just sayin'
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele
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ELLEN OF GENEROUS
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Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must make images. Or possibly religions. Or both.
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Something something Seven Rules of Trust, Jimmy - you know, that book you didn't write...
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ASH TRAY The First, Popetato of Wülferhampton 📎
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Good morning Wülferhampton have a fantastic Friday you fabulous freckled fungus faced freaks
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#MedievalBluesky
If you're a medievalist who likes 12th century Grail narratives, Carolingian ivory plaques, the Utrecht Psalter, Crucifixion imagery, Bernard of Clairvaux, and batshit craziness, hit this classicist/late antiquity nerd up, cos I'm out of my depth.
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Look, I think she was an excellent PM during her first term, dealing with Covid. I was less impressed with her second term - losing control of the narrative and poorly framed legislation that went nowhere but come on. This is all getting a bit culty now.
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Ardern documentary 'Prime Minister' wins Emmy Award
The film, which features home footage shot by husband Clarke Gayford, has won the top prize for best documentary at the 2026 News & Documentary Emmy Awards.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/screens/movies/ardern-documentary-prime-minister-wins-emmy-award
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It suffices to say that would be BAD
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
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Peter Thiel is heading to his spiritual homeland of Argentina, following in the historical footsteps of thousands of other deeply problematic men with the exact same haircut.
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Call me old-fashioned, but I don't think translations should be reviewed by people who aren't familiar with the text in its original language.
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Art Herstory
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Mrinalini Mukherjee: Unbound Forms - Women Sculptors of India and Bangladesh The Hepworth Wakefield 23 May – 1 November 2026
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Does anyone have a link to the actual NZ budget 2026 document, not this "at a glance" bullshit?
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Am I missing something? This is an update, not an election year budget. I don't understand the media sometimes.
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Purcell - Funeral of Queen Mary (theme from the movie Clockwork Orange)
YouTube video by Geert Huinink
https://youtu.be/hIG-pWjwwxw?si=10BRDHTKxVZTrt1m
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The Fool, The Hanged Man, and The Magician, are not a triangle. It's a square. Everyone forgets about The Hermit.
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Because the racist cooker right-wing pseudo-libertarians who vote for him homeschool because they don't want their kids interacting with other points of view, or indeed, sane people.
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Apparently Seymour doesn't understand what triaging is for and why that should probably be left to the judgment of someone capable of ethical thought and dignity.
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Very this. Yes, there is great political wisdom in letting your competition dig their own grave with unpopular and stupid policy, but when people are suffering, if you want them to vote you, you'd better damned make sure they know you've noticed and hold out some fucking hope.
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If publications are serious about art, they should probably hire someone who knows about it to do the reviewing. Barely any of the works or artists are named, it's mostly "this is what the curator told me," and some relatability twaddle.
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Given our economy mainly evolved from colonial land speculation and primary resource extraction, while it may be painful, this is what decolonisation looks like.
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That's an appalling thing to say. The Finance Minister is clearly a horse-faced duck.
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Newsroom NZ
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Jo Cribb, the former head of the Ministry for Women, says the ministries most at risk in the public sector restructure are those that exist precisely because mainstream agencies failed to deliver for the people they represent.
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Ex-CEO’s warning: Fewer, larger silos won’t deliver better public service
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/25/ex-ceos-warning-fewer-larger-silos-wont-deliver-better-public-service/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1779735602-3
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The NZF definition of gender bill is absolute bullshit. Even if you leave aside that it's clearly an attack on trans and non-binary people, it runs contradictory to established science at the most technical level, indigenous understandings, NZBORA, UNUDHR, and introduces mass legal inconsistencies.
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Here's a thought. Irrespective of whether you love or hate Emily Wilson's translation of the Odyssey, unless you can read the original Homeric Greek with nothing more than LSJ for help, you should probably keep your worthless opinions to yourself.
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One nice surprise I had getting back to NZ from Italy was that I had a poem published in Landfall
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Squirrel Comedy
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Very sad to hear the news that musical comedian Jools Topp of The Topp Twins has died. RIP Dame Jools.
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
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Topp Twins star Dame Jools Topp dies at home surrounded by family and pets
A mighty totara has fallen': Topp Twins manager pays tribute after Dame Jools dies
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360983499/topp-twins-star-dame-jools-topp-dies-home-surrounded-family-and-pets
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Maybe instead of the public servants losing their jobs, the more salient narrative is the dumpster fire that will happen when you let AI do their work.
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Is it just me or does Willis look increasingly like she's struggling to hide the fact that she got bitten by a zombie from the rest of her survivor group?
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The human cost of governing by spreadsheet
A government that repeatedly destabilises workforces, reduces services and creates widespread insecurity will find the social contract beginning to erode.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/21-05-2026/the-human-cost-of-governing-by-spreadsheet
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I'm putting money on the children being estranged having not much to do with the epidemic.
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As someone who regularly travels by InterCity, someone is projecting waaaaay too much for the sake of a moralising op ed.
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