Please AoNZ labour people, give us some policies, give us some fire, give us some fucking hope. Its time now. You promised after the budget. Not wishy washy more of the same ism, be bold, get people excited, grow a fucking spine. Because if you lose this one by doing nothing, we are truly fucked.

Great article on the importance of illustration in children's books, and the delicate dance that has to take place between the text and the art. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

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Reform UK wants to shut this down. If it did so, it would throw a million people out of work. Why? because it is beholden to the fossil fuel industry. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is the dedication page for Punk Is Dead, because I can. I'm the author, but I would buy it just for this.

A short story from the book that won Ingrid Horrocks the $65,000 Acorn prize for fiction at the Ockhams this month

Labour won in 2017 because it's leadership offered hope and something different. It won in 2020 because it had DELIVERED MATERIAL SAFETY FOR THE COUNTRY. It lost in 2023 because it offered neither of those things. I have been saying this for 11 years now. publicaddress.net/speaker/hone...

First day of Sweat with Pride as well as the first day training with coach Taylor Neal’s ttrpg inspired workouts! I’m raising funds for our rainbow community and if you can spare some coins or a supportive message, it all helps. Link in bio for deets

Easy to say. But what kind of society would that get us? Huh?

I saw a guy doing moral outrage that women sometimes read smutty romance in public It's letters. It's 26 letters arranged on a screen that makes your imagination think of things. When people act like it's indecent I'm always like "oh no the witch letters have formed the horny configuration!"

there's an old sailor's rhyme: if Stephen Root be in your show give an episode a go

Really enjoying Widows Bay, mainly because “What if you tried to gentrify Innsmouth?” is the most accurate depiction of the North Shore of Massachusetts possible.

Guy Madden, looking for an actress to play his mother in 2007: “Someone like Ann Savage in Detour.” Casting Director: “What about Ann Savage?”

Don't let Harold Shipman's heroic service to the NHS be written out of history.

Now is the time to make your thing. Stop motion with LEGO, webcomic, walking sim game, weird Halloween costume, backyard water feature, container garden. This is your sign. Make your thing. Stop waiting. Do it.

Keep in mind that they haven’t even started to enshittify the AI yet.

The YouTube-to-Horror Feature Filmmaker pipeline is very real, but we must acknowledge who has access to it in the first place. YouTube is not a democratized platform, and we're doing the next generation of creatives a disservice by pretending it is www.slashfilm.com/2181604/back...

Proud to see my sister @rachaelking70.bsky.social competing in the new season of The Traitors NZ – not least for speaking out (“Rachael’s very outspoken!”) at the VERY gendered / abled first brawn-based challenge (where the burliest get immunity from elimination and the ‘weakest’ just don’t. Soz!).

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I think it’s cool that weird puppets scampering about in space is exclusively for the 40-and-up crowd now, while the kids are all into Chiwetel Ejiofor hanging out in empty office spaces

Steve Ditko knew when he was working on the Creepy and Eerie anthologies that he'd be rubbing shoulders with the likes of John Severin, Alex Toth and Wally Wood, so he rolled up his sleeves and brought his A-game. Damn! #comics #SteveDitko

A leaked letter signed by 400 female writers has criticised the corporation for what it calls the ‘silencing of women’s voices’ in women’s stories for commissioning a male writer for a drama about the Met police and the Sarah Everard murder. Read it in full here: www.thenerve.news/p/female-scr...

Our government is FULLY captured by the international right … they’re just working out the timing of when they make their moves. #VoteGreen

If you want to keep those BACKROOMS creepypasta vibes going, might I recommend you go see a Man about a Tape?* *MAN FINDS TAPE, on VOD wherever you get your liminal spaces and mini-DV horror and 📼📼📼 and 🪱🪱🪱 and 💀💀💀

Failure argument from Labour Labour are not a serious party Vote Greens

a new HISSandaROAR library just released SD085 SWISH WIND FLUTE www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjKA... #sounddesign #gameaudio hissandaroar.com/v3/soundlibr...

Jacinda Ardern could come back to New Zealand politics in 30 years – 2056 – and she'd still be younger than Winston Peters is now.

Fun fact: to keep production costs low, many Star Trek scenes were filmed on Earth.

Art is meant to either worry you by nailing an unexpressed or suppressed anxiety, or reassure you that you’re not alone in worrying, offering strength in numbers, don’t fuss, we’re all in this together. AI can’t do either.

the gaza genocide never ended, they just declared a ceasefire, the world's governments said "ok," and israel went right back to mass-slaughtering palestinians like nothing happened

Imagine handing over your nation's visual aesthetic to the most tasteless cunt that ever lived!

It is called investing in a sunset industry of yesterday rather than investing industry of tomorrow aka the New Zealand National Party way (and why our productivity and vulnerability to external and climatic shocks remains so extreme as it is now) theconversation.com/as-global-fu...

We moved spaceflight into the private sector and suddenly all the rockets are like 30% more explosive. Kinda seems like punting to the private sector isn't a fiscal cure-all.

the white house is currently a hate group (with no other meaningful objectives) and has been for some time

Marc Daalder. Nail. Head. "When he landed in Opposition, Hipkins promised Labour would not play the role of the dog barking at every passing car. But in the absence of its own vision of what it would do differently, Labour has been something of a ghost in Opposition."

The fundamental issue of our day is this: Who should our government actually work for? Should it work mainly for big corporations and billionaires — or for the rest of us? Kudos to Mayor Mamdani for reminding us that government can (and should) work for the people.

@nzdodo.bsky.social Not the same, but reminded me of that thing you happened upon … nymag.com/intelligence...

When Antifa submit their tax return this year, they are soooo screwed.

Quick, summarize America in one headline

DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Into All Women

The international right is determined to shape the world and undermine democracy everywhere.

Anyone else find it really patronising of the government to talk to us about the budget like we are kids? ‘Lolly scramble’, ‘tough love’, ‘adult’ budget.. there’s nothing childish about wanting a responsible budget where we care for our poorest and everyone has a secure home.

In ‘Clean Green New Zealand’, the government has just scrapped the Ministry for the Environment. A shameful abandonment of our values as a nation. www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

Impeach the president. For this. Do it today.

Our PM is either a lying liar who lies or someone so utterly clueless about what is going on that he joyfully contemplates laws based on industry lobbyist documents without once wondering about the source. Take your pick as to what type of prick he is. Spoiler, both is an acceptable answer.

Of course, it's a senior advisor with links to the Atlas-aligned NZ Initiative. That this was a senior advisor is a clear indication that Luxon knew & is now lying to the NZ public. This is corruption plain & simple situated inside Luxon's inner circle of staff. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

The Leftovers finale … but you have to watch the preceding three seasons for it to work.

A perfect summary of the world we live in by a brave and brilliant woman

These ‘resurrecting dead species from their DNA’ startups are just going too far.