I'm producing this show if anyone has relevant expertise, contacts, or material and wants to get involved! #cult #NZ #exvangelical #comedy

Here's a lovely review from @jojoinabox.bsky.social on the Backstage Christchurch Facebook page (or I've pasted below some very kind bits about me). #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #theatre #review

Good news, I'm reviewing theatre again! The review is only available on FB, sadly, but if you still have an account you can read it here: www.facebook.com/share/p/1AXC... Tl;dr, Canterbury Repertory Theatre have just opened a BRILLIANT production of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Go see it!

We're opening! I would love to see some friends there tonight. This is the most technically ambitious production I've ever been in, and the most demanding on me personally. It's looking and sounding amazing and I can't wait to share it with our first audience. #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #theatre

There is more than enough to go around. We just need to organise that. This is how a matriarchal world order would arrange things: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800925003027

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

These past few weeks it's felt like everything is urgent, so I do the most urgent things and the others just have to wait.

Terrifying if literal: my feet are killing me.

In which I am a hand model www.odt.co.nz/star-news/st...

The only thing that billionaires have ever personally created is innovative ways to profit off of violations of the social contract which have been enabled by the explosion of democratized technology and to which our legal and social systems have yet to adequately adapt to. Fuck 'em.

I've grown my first ever moustache for this so you have to buy tickets. It's a privilege and a pleasure to be playing Dr Watson in this wonderfully creepy production under the directorship of Ross Gumbley. #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #theatre www.repertory.nz/show/the-hou...

The story you are about to see has been told before. A lot. And now we are going to tell it again. But different. This time, we're bringing Mastodon in for the fun. Sign-ups open on November 10th. Check out secretsanta.nz for more information

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n... My step Dad, my children’s Grandpa who has had an extraordinary career.

The countdown to sign-ups for #SecretSantaAoNZ is on! Will you be a day one signer-upper?

I've had over a decade of people telling me EVs are too big and too expensive Suddenly when we have a cheap and small one it's not big enough lol

Thank you to Andrew Cuomo for draining millions of dollars from New York billionaires into his hopeless campaign. Doing his best to help with wealth redistribution! 🙏🏼

Ahead of #COP30 a new article from me, unpacking whether New Zealand's 2035 Paris Agreement target (a 51-55% reduction) meets Paris Agreement criteria. TLDR lol no. (outside the paywall, thanks Carbon News!)

How your phone looks at you while it monitors your weekly screen time.

At every turn, the Government has opted for whatever would actually lead to more pollution and a warmer world – even if it costs more, jeopardises NZ’s reputation, overturns a campaign promise or clashes with the Government’s other priorities. The long retreat: newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...

Asked whether he’s sure technology will allow the Government to meet its climate goals, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts replies: ‘Can we be sure about anything in life?’ newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/g...

FYI this is what you do when your business is great and you are very liquid and creditworthy

Almost one billion children have died globally since 1950

Everyone is hope scrolling now

Years of consensus building up in smoke within 24 months. The next strategy for the climate movement should be rapid deployment to make it harder to burn it all up.

Reasons I’d like to go to New York: Musical Theatre Musical Theatre Musical Theatre The Mayor Musical theatre Musical Theatre Musical Theatre

Dare to be different

yes I’m talking to myself in public guess what it’s legal move along

Meanwhile, in South Korea: "Starting at the end of November, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This obligation applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones." cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...

With an exam yesterday, I finally finished my governance studies after two and a half years. I was originally under the impression I could get it done in a year. This is an exciting and welcome development. One less thing to burn me out, not that there's any shortage of others!

Elisabeth is just several shorter names in a trench coat.

I would like to protest against Christmas's illegal occupation of November.

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Morning peeps! I’ve written a piece for @thespinoff.bsky.social on why I ended up taking legal action against my employer and a little bit about how it played out. The whole story needs a book to tell but this is a good start 😂 thespinoff.co.nz/society/01-1... thespinoff.co.nz/society/01-1...

My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.

It's 1870 in Aotearoa, the economy is in trouble... The land wars faded out without much resolution except death and pain. The NZ gov was still called the colonial government. Māori had their own. The gold rush hype in Otago, the West Coast, and Coromandel was drying up fast.

They're calling him the most French man in history

A century of progress in access to primary education

“We cannot go back to anything approaching the old constitutional order, which already had been in a long, terminal decline.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...

Media everywhere.

The he politics of spite. Honestly - it THIS one thing that all the right wing parties share. Vengeful policy. Take New Zealand’s right wing govt - cancelled important infrastructure that the country needed and we still don’t have (ferries, state houses, hospitals) just to be spiteful.

I thought everyone could use some good news! My conservation friends' nesting box survived Wellington's wild storm perfectly and a Ruru (tiny owl) sheltered in it. Then one started making a nest! There's a camera inside now, too. The feeds aren't public but here's how they're doing.

the only walk of shame i’ve ever done was away from an all you can eat buffet

✅ Onboarding ✅ Auth (with 2FA support/switch account) ✅ In-app registration The new Loops app is almost ready for you ✨ joinloops.org #loops #loopsVideo #joinLoops

at the Internet Archive for their 1,000,000,000,000 pages archived celebration :)

We are doing a second round of research interviews with people who build feeds (or build tools to build feeds), this time focusing on questions of sustainability. - Is this a hobby for you, or something else? - What sustains it in your eyes? Please fill out the form below, and we'll reach out! 🙏🙏🙏

I don't know why Bluesky is trying so hard to be the algorithm that everyone is trying to escape. I prefer the Random From Follows and Popular With Friends feeds.

Voting in the local body elections isn’t exactly as easy as going to the supermarket, but the logistics of it literally is. Press reporter Sinead Gill explains how to vote in the local election. 🔗 Click the link in our bio to see the full story.

This afternoon when I posted a recent #cult awareness video for The Revival Fellowship, little did I know that the podcast I Was a Teenage Fundamentalist had just today put out this excellent new episode about speaking in tongues. #exvangelical

Typical #cult talk from The Revival Fellowship, which I was raised in: "It's good to ask questions if it brings you closer to God… but it's not good if it takes you away from God." If it takes you away from God or divides your relationships "then it's the wrong question and it's the wrong answer."

Word got around that I'm willing to write reviews. No posts for two years, then bang! – two reviews in two days. #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #Lyttelton #theatre #Shakespeare #QueenLear