I’m going to a board meeting in person this morning so instead of my hermit-writer-goblin clothes I put on a nice frock. open.spotify.com/track/624kbg...

Fossil fuel companies were given confidential drafts of legislation during their (successful) two-year campaign to weaken oil and gas regulation and overturn the offshore exploration ban - new reporting from me via the OIA www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Ha ha! Past me said, I shall write a novel without chapters and that is composed of fragments that are layered non-chronologically nor linearly. Which is all well and good until present me is looking for where I last left off and am now lost in the manuscript, having lost the ball of thread ages ago

This *was* a good reminder! Booster booked, ngā mihi @writagal.bsky.social

Film, documentary maker Costa Botes dies after nearly a decade with cancer

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

What I've been noticing lately in convos with students is that they *despise* the AI-slopification of everything as much or even more than I do. And yet our universities & their admin seem to believe that students for some reason want it integrated into everything. THEY DON'T.

That every comment in this article is supportive of trans kids right to access puberty blockers tells you everything you need to know. In the medical community, this isn’t even a debate. No one thinks a ban is right.

Amazing! More than 1000 schools have now said they will continue giving effect to Te Tiriti, despite the government removing Treaty obligations from the Education and Training Act. #ToitūTeTiriti #nzpol ‪

What do you mean, phone, that you don’t recognize my face when I’m shoving pain au chocolat in me gob? It’s me at my *most* recognisable?

I’m going to make some boxer shorts to sleep in, so I went through my stash to find something to make a wearable toile and found some silk charmeuse and now I have Rizzo in my head. open.spotify.com/track/7kvW5s...

“Trust us! Marginalising these communities more will absolutely bring down the cost of a KG of Mince and get your job back!”

Every time I walk past the fridge, I misread my shopping list and think that I’m fresh out of “Spite”.

Autocorrect has become our worst enema.

Just got back from the doctor's. The bad news is that tests have revealed I have Onomatopoeia. Naturally concerned, I asked, 'What's that?' 'I'm afraid,' he replied, looking up from his notes with a serious expression. 'It's exactly what it sounds like.'

I’m sitting on the floor because it was too hot to sit in my armchair and Ralph seems delighted about it. He too is on the floor because the furniture is too hot.

The thing that makes me possibly the maddest is when adults have their bullshit moral panic bigotry about whatever issue and they start going after children first. They do it with fat kids, and brown kids, and trans kids. You exploitative harmful assholes, pick on someone your own size

If you have a young trans person in your life waiting for care in NZ... please please do what you can to lift them up. Shits going to get dark. (And check on their caregivers. They're probably not in a good way right about now)

Elvira is the Shadow the Hedgehog of Dolly Partons.

Lately I have been getting emails from bots who have “read” and “loved” my novel Legacy and want to share it with their 70K bot community for the low, low price of my soul. Jokes on them I already sold that on the crossroads so I can play my fiddle real good.

I’m watching “The Twelve” and Marlon Williams plays Sam Neil’s son and in the episode they play a Marlon Williams song so in that universe Marlon Williams exists and his doppelgänger is getting stoned with his estranged dad drinking wine (from Two Paddocks?) open.spotify.com/track/2IQotX...

Every now and then, I see Rascal the cat next door walking with his owner to their letterbox and back and I think it is SO CUTE. And then I wonder if the neighbour sees me walking with Ralph in my garden and thinks the same.

A milestone: I have arranged all the fragments from my first draft into my second draft! There is a(n ever shifting) shape/pattern which is working for me — who knows if it will work for readers (but that is future-Whiti-fighting-with-her-editor’s problem 😅)

My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul

3) Drop off at the Southern Landfill, let the team know you have an item that may contain asbestos and they'll direct you More on the contamination/recall 👇 www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/asbestos-...

Leaving aside ridiculous failure that this could occur with a childrens product, here is the immediate guidance from WCC: 1) Place in a plastic bag, put that plastic bag in another plastic bag & tape shut 2) Label 'Contains Asbestos'

Contaminated sand ⚠️ I've had several emails asking about where/how to dispose of the Anko kinetic sand sold by Kmart which is potentially contaminated with asbestos. Kmart's guidance thus far is just to "contact your local council for disposal".

I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke history is a fucking joke lmao

You been hit by a smooth hymnal

It's lovely when people ask to buy multiple copies of your book to give away at an event they want you to speak at. It's less nice when they do that instead of offering a fee. Peeps. An author might get ~NZ$2 per copy. And they won't receive it til their next royalty cheque. PAY YOUR SPEAKERS.

Ngāti Hikairo ki Tongariro has placed two significant rāhui (prohibitions/restrictions) on Tongariro maunga following a massive fire that scorched nearly 3,000 hectares of land.

Enquire now about joining us in 2026! We're excited to be working with the Publishers Association of New Zealand / Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) to deliver our courses next year. 🎉 More information available at www.whitireiapublishing.co.nz

I’ve just checked a copy-edit of the piece the Humboldt Forum commissioned me to write and had the pleasant feeling of reading my work and thinking: “oh that’s not too bad”* * As a NZer the highest praise I can give myself 😅

If you see this (and wish to) post four female characters you love

Aotearoa: disaster occurs --> local marae opens its doors to the victims. Every. Single. Time.

Describe your cat’s personality with one photo

Wore some shorts, took my very white legs to the beach and inflicted them on everyone.

. My World War I Poem Inside each trench, the sound of prayer. Inside each prayer, the sound of digging. .

This is what they took from you

Renowned filmmaker Lee Tamahori, whose work helped define Māori storytelling on screen and propelled New Zealand cinema onto the world stage, has died.

I've been seeing a lot of people describe being nauseous after reading articles discussing people being driven to suicide by ChatGPT, or being unable to stop thinking about it: That sounds to me like possible symptoms of exposure to traumatising media, and this has tools for looking after yourself.

Auckland Theatre Company presents ‘Tiri: Te Araroa Woman Far Walking’ the play by Witi Ihimaera, brought into the 21st Century so ably with Katie Wolfe directing, magnificent performances by Miriama McDowell and Nī Dekkers-Reihana. An eerie opening, a must see!

For some reason the earthquake shook this earworm out of me brain. open.spotify.com/track/3TO7bb...