Headlines that are extremely different if you don't know anything about sport

Headlines that are extremely different if you don't know anything about sport

Larping as a law student for the day.

It also goes without saying, I think, that the motivation for the bill is more a dog whistle and wedge in the culture wars etc.

Wow, this is absolutely amazing and a great resource I had no idea existed until now. Amazing, thank you

If you're in a position to vote on this, do the South Pacific a solid and vote for Brisbane. The last time Worldcon was scheduled down here it was 2020 in Wellington and it didn't happen in person. Will have been 18 years by 2028 since we got an accessible in-person con. Put the World in Worldcon.

One of the easiest personal changes people can make is to vote for politicians who will implement the required structural / institutional policies, and then hold them to account for doing so.

This morning in (heart)breaking news: New Zealand: Multiple states of emergency, right now Prime Minister Christopher Luxon: State of Origin footy match, 2027 🎉 NZ: Wellington cut off, digging out from huge storm PM: Yeah gidday from Auckland, it’s raining here too ☂️ NZ: Help? Luxon: Catch! 🏈

A lot of our fellow travellers - especially the online Left - is prone to doomerism, because social media is geared towards amplifying negative emotions to generate engagement. But we can't build the foundation of a better world out of despair. #NZPOL

Fully need this hopium. As part of the generation that saw it was possible to close the ozone layer hole then saw big industry make it impossible to take the next round of climate action we needed, it's still worth keeping up the fight. Vote for the planet this Nov 7.

Sure would have been a lot easier to get this generation-spanning great undertaking going if he hadn't come straight in and gutted everything central Government had been doing to try and mitigate the impending climate apocalypse. #NZPOL

It's Valentine's Day, lads

Roses are red The Bible's a book Aloha Kānaka For shanking James Cook

He's running.

I am already thinking about Zizek on They Live all the time. But I am especially thinking about it right now.

Drop more "said by [blank]" in the comments 😂

Even Treasury has folded their typical 'fiscal conservative' analysis over the sad state of our hospitals that this coalition govt perpetuates. Govt shouldn't take on debt to privatise our public health services. Pay our nurses and doctors. And stop delaying on long-overdue repairs. #nzpol

Hoooo this new Bic Runga album sure is something! National taonga.

Oh man, six years ago today I started my job at Hansard. It's not that often you can point to an event and say "that's it, that's the day that changed my life" but getting that job is one of them. Now I've got a capital-c Career based on knowing shit about parliament, and it started there.

Hugo Noms have opened and I want to get in quick with this: there is a fabulous and vibrant contemporary SFF novella scene and the quality is *not* disproportionately located at tordotcom, which puts out brilliant work but does not have a monopoly on it. 5 titles for your consideration follow:

The Māori Seats in parliament are for Māori people. They are a Tiriti-based right not a race-based right. This is why at Rātana Pā we launched a member's bill to entrench Māori seats - the bare minimum for protect dedicated Māori voice in our parliament.

Every time a Government MP gives a speech at first (or any!) reading that lasts five seconds and consists of "this is a good bill and I commend it to the House", they're spitting in your face. It's their job to thoroughly explore every bill and explain why it is necessary to change the law. #NZPOL

NZ First and ACT racing to the bottom as they cannibalise anti-Māori votes. Now's the time to be having conversations with friends and family about why tino rangatiratanga can benefit us all and is nothing to be scared of.

Our society will not be safe until we close the Northern Club.

Did you know that you don't actually have to be Tangata Whenua to stand for a Māori electorate? If ACT actually believed their own lines, they'd put their money where their mouths are and participate in the ~marketplace of ideas~.

Kahurangi Carter doing a pretty solid pitch for moving to Ōtautahi | Christchurch in her PM's Statement speech right now. #NZPOL

Green Gamers Caucus Rise Up

Still plenty of time to bake bread, too

We have a film fundraiser on Sun 22nd March — pop it in your diaries and book now! Tickets are $25 and funds raised will go towards doing our part in the general election this year. We will also have a raffle on the night. Look forward to seeing you! 💚💚

fuck this news story is exactly how I think news stories should be presented. Te Ao is the only outlet I have push alerts for cos it delivers content like this. What's unfolding is real shit. www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/02/11/p...

A meeting with a client this afternoon marks the endpoint of my Long Summer Break. Or, at least, a turning point - it's not full-time work, so I've still got plenty of time to watch anime and rubberneck Parliament, but it's nice to have something to focus the mind.

Emails that are about three months late

On the one hand, the Ahsoka show was thoroughly mediocre. On the other, I would kill for a life-sized Loth-Cat Muppet, so who can say whether it was good or bad. (Photo from the Star Wars twitter account)

If you're a regular user of Parliament's website, I highly encourage you to go complete this survey — the engagement team is seeking feedback on how the website might be made more useful and user-friendly. www.parliament.nz/news/6b708cf... #nzpol

I'm not starting an award. But I am going on a perhaps quixotic months-long exercise in spotlighting great quality early 2020s queer SFF. The details, the thinking behind it, and a bonus cringeworthy pun are here! I look forward to shouting at y'all about great books over the next few months.

Happy 13th anniversary to this pair of matching news headlines.

If I may: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eyO...

STOP THE FUCKIN' PRESSES I have just come across NECRONOMIDOL, a lovecraftian metal/idol band who are extremely fuckin' good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j7m...

I was briefly surprised that I got so into all these different girls band anime, but then I realised it was an entire genre about sad girls with guitars and it all fell into place.

Be part of the first-ever book exploring transness in cyberpunk Your support is an act of resistance in a time of surveillance & censorship What’s more punk than that? Not-for-profit crowdfund runs until March Let’s chronicle the new cyberpunk canon together! 🔗 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Non-English Bangers: Anime Edition www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ-O...

Post a banger not in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMMh... (You all knew where this was going)

One of the more depressing things about National going all-in on AI slop attack ads is that they don't HAVE to. Everyone knows they've got money, but god forbid they give any of it back to New Zealanders. Just spewing out thought-free bile at the lowest possible cost and effort. #NZPOL

Liquified Natural Gaslighting

Hugo eligibility post! “The Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.

$?????? millions on a liquefied natural gas terminal that cuts against the actual economics of natural gas instead of just paying for everyone to switch to fucking electricity is probably peak Luxonism. Bad economics, bad infrastructure, bad decision.

This is a significant issue for democracy and trust in news media (already dismal, as we know). I'm so glad that Meta is taking action against this automated AI slop on their platforms by doing... *checks notes* nothing. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

In another universe Nick Cave is a tent revivalist preacher for his own cult in which I am a devoted parishioner.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, 6 Feb 2026. Probably the best Bad Seeds gig I've been to! The band was on fire, the vibes were immaculate, and all the songs sounded great, both the old and new. Plus I never thought I'd get to hear the Bad Seeds doing Shivers, so that's a new life highlight.