What I also want to know is why proper reporting like this is behind a paywall while the lies these harmful arseholes spread get splashed everywhere. Well, we know why. It’s horrific that the media companies are so complicit in this.

Bit gutted about this, as it contains my best work to date. That said, I know its in good hands with Evil Hat. I can't wait for it to make its way into the world, however it will end up looking.

Im suddenly being followed by US atheist groups. How'd that happen?

ONE HOUR until #TheSprawl gets Shadowrunny! Actual play for #KiwiRPG

Approaching a new horizon. I start a new day job next month, a leap in responsibility and remuneration. At the same time my game design and consultation is busy too. I also wrap my long running Actual play series at the same time. Reluctant to start a new show alongside a new job

Rawiris speech in the house just now was fuckin fire whanau. 🤌

Bizarre! Nicole McKee in favour of loosening restrictions on real semi-automatic rifles but wants tighter restrictions on Te Pati Māori pointing finger guns🙄

Got more colourful last week. 11 hours on the table. Right arm is inspired by my Marae, Rangiahua, while the left is inspired by another of mine, Te Kuha Pa. Been years in the making, very glad to finally have my whakapapa on display

This. I worked at KO until recently and it's disgusting what's happening under this govt. We've gone from developing one of the most effective build programs in the world to this. We say we aspire to the northern euro states but in this field they were coming to us for guidance. Now it's gone

There is something to worry about when a major corporation and any number of third party partners like NZ Police have access to millions of unique transactions where your likeness and licence plate are captured. Intrusions come in many forms and this is just the start

Spotted in Te Whanganui a Tara, harsh but ultimately fair #nzpol #radicalgraffiti

I mean, contender to 2025 AoNZ headline of the year? #NZPol

@tedbushman.bsky.social Kia ora! Is there anywhere we can get a copy of the gorgeous last caravan map on pg 152 as a single image? Im keen to print it all big for my game table, but the PDF doesnt quite align well. Thanks in advance

Even though I have traveled to the states and spent time with native folk there, it still blows my mind how many cultural crossover moments I feel watching Reservation Dogs. Some of the smaller details may be different, but so often the show could just be set somewhere on highway 35 and it'd work

One thing I think about a lot since my trip to america is how common it is to be able to live peacefully within nature while still accessing job markets like cities, particularly along the oregon coast and the PNW. Compared to here in canterbury, where any kind of undisturbed bush is hours away

Meri Kirihimete whanau

I need to post something here, so lets do this

Two things that are now obvious in Aotearoa. 1, Māori are going to exercise tino rangatiratanga with or without the crown. Kotahitanga is here. We are our own liberation. And 2, Christopher Luxon is a spineless pathetic little man. Gutless coward who can't handle any modicun of heat.

Just blew into San Francisco, sipping on a cold one at the Hyatt. #bigbadcon let's go

Just wrapped up two weeks in a new job that I'm loving, and had lunch today with whanau I hadn't seen in over a decade. And tomorrow I fly out for 3 weeks stateside. What can I say, it was a good day

Three times now I have worked for the government. Every time I left I have said "Never again". Then end up back fooled into thinking it'll be different this time. Well today, on the final day of my third time, I'll stick to tradition. Never again. I now head to the Kaupapa Māori space. Bliss

I wont lie. I spend an unreasonable amount of time trying to find where Troy Kingi gets his ponchos from

I hit this up last year and loved it. If you're considering it, definitely go. You won't regret it! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Im doing a thing in a few hours from now www.bigbadcon.com/events/cultu...

I'm involved in a thing evilhat.com/tomb-raider-...

Cyberpunk gaming, PBTA style! Get the secrets of THE SPRAWL from creator @peregrinekiwi.bsky.social! #TTRPG youtu.be/jWFFW95VY3s

I have to say whānau, being a māori civil servant has always for me been about push pull. Balancing my obligations as Māori with my obligations as an employee, and actively trying to lessen the harm of the crown by being sympathetic to our people "from the inside" so to speak.

It's hard to confirm for sure but as far as I can tell, Hui aa Motu has been possibly the most attended "political" gathering in the history of Aotearoa nz. Warms the heart. The catalyst for this is sad, but the unity of our people is uplifting. Long may it last

If you are someone whos wondering where this current anti maori, anti te tiriti sentiment has come from you have to watch this. Fuck it, if you are here in Aotearoa you really should watch this. You're going to be manipulated so you may as well know whos doing it www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDS0...

In 1999, Gerry Brownlee, currently Speaker of the NZ Parliament, called for the Maori Language Commission to be abolished: "Just try walking down the street of any major city in the country. No one is speaking Maori." www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...

Good day to be in Ōtautahi

“An excessive number of items on the coalition’s list buy a culture war that Pākehā New Zealand isn’t ready for. Believe me when I say that te ao Māori is prepared.” — Deb Te Kawa.

Chur ngāpuhi

so, Aotearoa media establishment, do you think your industry effectively communicated what was at stake this election or

These announcements are a culture war wishlist.

I'm emotionally swinging from dispondent at the policy announcements taking direct aim at us Māori and mad at labour for dropping the ball so bad that NZ lurched so hard to the right. Fuck this shit.

I see some people, not many but some, are upset about John Olivers bird of the year shenanigans. It draws attention and, most importantly, raises funds for our Manu Taonga, then great stuff. Have at it. Thats what matters, not your fave bird losing Plus he looks fuckin hilarious in that suit

Bluesky is so similar to old twitter, I just accidently posted here instead of twitter. Ironically it was a post announcing Im done with twitter. I deleted the post out of shame, but I had a chuckle

Doing Te Manu Rongonui o Te Rautau is quite confronting. Seeing photographs, many recentish and in colour, of now extinct species really hammers home the reality of the threat to our native species, compared to how we tent to think of extinct to largely mean historic before our time We need this

Today's breakfast was smashed avo on toasted rēwena I take this whole urban Māori thing seriously people

Waiting on the plan from those who formented division by suggesting there is division now stepping up to heal said division

They take this shit seriously. People who roll their eyes at a haka or joke about grass skirts take this shit here seriously. Get out

Imperialist states support Israel because 1) they don't want to admit their meddling in the 40s caused this and 2) if they condemn colonial brutality in Israel we may start to look at their own colonial brutality. So instead they offer support, normality and blind eyes

If that rugby world cup final doesn't make you a league fan nothing will. What a shit match

I’ll never ever forget nor forgive how I’m as a Palestinian New Zealander watched official NZ not only stood by, but also explicitly gave Israel a free pass to exterminate Palestinians. Can’t explain how betrayed I feel. NZ learned nothing from its settler colonial reality.

You should back Death Match Island. Not only does it look great. But it is fun. And is made by cool people. And the stretch goals are made by pretty cool people too. Including me! A lot of kiwis on this one. Back it! www.backerkit.com/c/evil-hat/d...