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‘These poets are reaching across time, across ways of seeing and remembering and supposing. Reading Manhire and Bornholdt is an uncomplicated pleasure in a complicated world. I am tremendously grateful for them.’ The launch day review for two of our favourite poets. thespinoff.co.nz/books/11-02-...

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

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Jonathan King's excellent BLACK SHEEP (2006) is having a screening at Auckland's Academy Cinema, on Thursday 26 February, 8.15pm. The sequel - BLACK SHEEPS - is due out in the not too distant future. www.academycinemas.co.nz/movie/film-t...

White supremacist bigots don’t actually care about any of the peoples or histories they claim to admire - they erase all cultural specificity in a racist attempt to divide the entire world into “white” and “not white”.

A giant loss: Robert Duvall is gone. An extraordinary artist who was fluent in every dialect of film acting, from ice-cold underplayer (The Godfather) to expert naturalist (Tender Mercies, The Apostle) to balls-to-the-wall maniac (Apocalypse Now). One of our all-timers. Plunge into that filmography.

The International right’s position on climate change is that it’s just gonna happen, and we can’t help or save every (any) one that can’t afford to save themselves. Chilling to see that position so starkly embodied by own govt – simply ignoring it, as catastrophe unfolds around the country.

"I'd tap that." ~Samuel Morse

What Trumpist malarkey is this? For Christopher Luxon?!?

Uh yes Stuff I do actually have a question, why did you start something called 'The Forever Project' in 2019 where you promised much more coverage of an issue that you yourselves labelled as 'existential' and now you don't give a shit and just rag on cycleways while the world burns? #nzpol

also I would be remiss if I did not reference @katebeaton.bsky.social’s legendary comic when discussing a book by one of the Brontës

On NRT: An empty suit - norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/02/an-e...

if you asked me to diagnose the western game industry's current problem it would start with "landlords have absorbed basically all disposable income"

Posts with minutes of each other... Unaware. Out of touch. Abject failure.

i think we should dig the beginning of the second mt vic tunnel then get all the politicians who supported it in there to do a ribbon-cutting ceremony and then collapse the entrance in on them and then build some actually useful infrastructure

I saw someone say, “Emerald Fennell is Greta Gerwig’s Wario,” and I haven’t stopped laughing 😭

This is a BRILLIANT watch but you need to pay attention - only knitting allowed - no phone scrolling cos you'll miss the visual clues www.imdb.com/title/tt3170...

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

At this point I just assume Chris Pratt made the same deal Guy Woodhouse did in “Rosemary’s Baby.”

I watched 10 versions of Wuthering Heights, ranging from awesome to lousy. Find out where Emerald Fennell's reimagining falls... time.com/7378467/wuth...

Kim Novak is 93. Her performance(s) as the object of Scotty Ferguson’s desire in Vertigo is/are endlessly rewatchable, complex & heartbreaking. The green filter was used when Madeleine ‘returns’ from the dead as Hitchcock said ghosts in Victorian theatre were shown in a green light.

"You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man." It was such a pleasure to write the essay for Criterion's director-approved 4K of BODY HEAT, exquisitely restored. Preorder now for May! www.criterion.com/films/32141-...

Under the previous govt the Wellington harbour would have 2 new purpose built ferries by now. Under luxon the Wellington harbour just has poo in it.

Hello! I see you've decided to conflate a human being being an evil fascist apologist committing crimes and perpetuating fraud with (checks notes) being a woman. Perhaps you would like to not do this.

More Pākehā are enrolling in Treaty education workshops and seeking out information about Te Tiriti o Waitangi, #nzpol

dynamic duo that is tough to beat

In case you missed it: the Washington Times just called AND THE MAN NEXT TO YOU a "literary gem"! As always, you can read it here.

Yes, we have received your AI drafted pitches and yes we can tell they are AI and no we won’t be replying to those, you are wasting your time friendo

Please check on the trans people in your life today. The anti trans rhetoric is everywhere. Those on the right are purposefully stoking fear and division in an attempt to destroy an entire marginalized group. We can’t let them get away with it. Trans rights are human rights.

Of course I studied the classics

Delete TikTok now.

for sale: baby shoes, never worn, didn't fit, no idea what i was doing, had a mad one in boots on five costas, same day i was arrested for kicking a mime

Yesterday I finished a book & today I got the bound proofs of another. 😅 So much of being a writer is about waiting, but I’ve worked out the trick is to have different things on the go at different stages. Anyhoo, 2025 was a big writing year and ‘26 will be a big publishing year. 📚 #kidlit #pukapuka

I just came from an early screening of MĀRAMA, a Māori gothic horror from an excellent team led by Taratoa Stappard. It’s a banger, moody asf, with an explosive ending I’ll never forget. It opens in Aotearoa tomorrow, and in the US in April. Go find it.

Turns out the greatest Australian film of all time is the 1983 noir pastiche Goodbye Paradise. Suck shit, Gallipoli.

One. Million. Times.

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There must be millions of US citizens dying of embarrassment with this level of stupid.

Ring seems like a real loser company filled with losers who sell products to losers who like helping other losers do some real loser shit.

*presses buzzer* Because they’re soulless fucks

Okay, I’ve heard all the criticisms. I agree now that my plan to create a Jonestown on Mars was foolish and dangerous. I will instead be building a much more achievable Jonestown on the Moon

I’ve seen this show / read this book … #UnderHisEye

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Man enough to say I was taken in by PYW. But the scales fell from my eyes with SALTBURN. Gonna pass on White Heathcliff.

Remember Garfield Minus Garfield? I feel like this version of Christianity is Bible Minus Jesus

Ahoy fantasy fans! Love Mortal Engines? 13th Feb is a red-letter day. Celebrating the book’s 25th anniversary, Ritzy Picturehouse hosts Philip Reeve for a Q&A +movie screening (link in comments) ...& watch our socials for another treat! #MortalEngines #PhilipReeve #bridgeofstorms #ritzypicturehouse

Some governments raise taxes to fund public health and education. Not Luxon. He is literally raising taxes to subsidise fossil fuels. He is putting a levy on our electricity bills to pay for his LNG import terminal.