Looking for a new Grimdark book to to read? I highly recommend P D Ashton's debut novel, Blades Forged www.goodreads.com/book/show/24... (It was almost a 5 star read for me) #Fantasy #Grimdark #debut #self-published #MilitaryFantasy

The NZ Govt has announced that it will be reducing support for the Total Mobility scheme that subsidises travel for some disabled people That money being taken from disabled people is 25% of the tax rebates that were introduced for a tobacco company #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

FFS! Luxon just said "We've got rid of emergency housing." without even realising he was saying the quiet bit out loud.💩🥚 #OneTermGovernment #nzpol

Luxon’s reply on last night’s TVNZ interview with Maliki Sherman to her question on whether he would be at Waitangi in 2026. ‘Waitangi ? It’s all drama, soap box stuff.’ Fu¢king racist POS #nzpol

Fantasy-Fantasy-Faction's @fantasyfaction.bsky.social final review in the #SPFBO Champions League is for Orconomics by J. Zachary Pike. This comes in 6th place in our ratings. fantasy-faction.com/2025/spfbo-1... #SPFBO #Self-published #Fantasy #Booksky💙📚 #pukapuka 📚🇳🇿

Meanwhile Luxon gets a $8500 pay rise this year.. #nzpol

I read 100% of Artificial Selection by Marianne Pickles as a judge in #TeamSpaceGirls for #SPSFC5 Giving this a Y to go forward. See my review at www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... #SPSFC #Self-published #Sci-fi 🪐📚 #Mystery 🔍 #Booksky💙📚 #Pukapuka📚🇳🇿

“New Zealand women start working for nothing from this week.” “for every $1 earned by a Pakeha man, a Pacific woman would earn 79c, a Maori woman 82c, an Asian woman 84c and a Pakehā woman 93c.” “This would be the week all women started working for nothing for four weeks.” #nzpol

Read Animus Paradox by Adam Basset as a judge for #SPSFC5. I enjoyed this & before I knew it, I'd read the whole book. Check out my initial thoughts here www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... #SPSFC #TeamSpaceGirls #Self-published #Sci-fi 🪐📚 #Booksky 💙📚 #pukapuka 📚🇳🇿

Read 20% as a judge for #SPSFC5 (team Space Girls). This is my initial thoughts and is not a reflection on the views of other team members. This will be a No from me. My initial thoughts can be found here www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

Interference and Disruption- expect more, it's official now. So much for isolationist MAGA. (They have already asked their embassies to collect data.) #auspol #cdnpol #ukpol #nzpol #uspol #eupol www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...

Read a percantage of this as a judge (team #SpaceGirls) for #SPSFC5. I will be giving this an N to moving forward. My initial thoughts can be found on Goodreads www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... #SPSFC #SPSFC #Self-published #sci-fi #dystopia #Booksky💙 #pukapuka📚🇳🇿

#nzpol This government is fast tracking the giant hole our country will be buried in. They MUST be roundly defeated next year and their evil policy platform needs to be taught in all civics lessons to prevent future repeats. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

‘Like science fiction’: How smart cars are being weaponised by violent men against women #auspol #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...

Fantasy-Fantasy-Faction's @fantasyfaction.bsky.social latest review for #SPFBO Champions League is for Reign and Ruin by J.D. Evans – Review fantasy-faction.com/2025/spfbo-1... This will currently sit at #8 on our leader-board #SPFBO #Booksky 💙 #self-published #magic&romance #pukapuka 📚🇳🇿

NZ Government cruelty and tolerance / inaction on cruelty encourages others to take out frustrations on politicians, particularly women and people of colour serving on local councils. Only trickle down that works (nastiness and abuse) #NZpol 😢 www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

US State Department has ordered US embassy in Wellington NZ to collect info on migration data and “migrant-related crimes and human rights abuses”. Will that include visitors like FBI's Kash Patel who broke law when in NZ? Or US migrants like Peter Thiel? 🤔 #NZpol www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/25/t...

"The more gas we add, the cheaper your groceries get!" #nzpol

Doctors speak out against proposed restriction on healthcare for gender minority young people aka a ban on puberty blockers. Shocking overreach! #NZpol www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

The Government is banning new patients from being prescribed the most common form of puberty blocker and is explicitly aligning NZ's future policy on this matter to the UK's. PR below.

Government's appalling track record in health just got international recognition. NZ delegation at the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control meeting in Geneva received the Dirty Ashtray award. www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroo...

More reputational decline for Aotearoa NZ after ongoing #BrokenPromises by NZ Govt. This time it's from #ClimateInaction. What's NZ Minister Nicola Willis doing about this? Or NZ PM Luzon or Climate Minister Simon Watts? Or #DrillBabyDrill Jones? 🙄 #NZpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Initial response from Gender Minorities Aotearoa, to NZ Government proposal to restrict access for gender minority patients to medical treatment approved by their own doctors. Ban would be by Regulation with a likely start date of 19 December 2025. #NZpol genderminorities.com/2025/11/19/a...

FUCKING HELL. 🤬 NZ Govt is banning puberty blockers for trans people bc "it's unsafe" but will continue prescribing to cis people. They decided to do this during Trans Awareness Week. Arseholes! www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-...

Fantasy-Faction's @fantasyfaction.bsky.social latest review for the #SPFBO Champions League is The Sword of Kaigen by M.L Wang fantasy-faction.com/2025/the-swo... #selfpublished #booksky 💙 #pukapuka 📚🇳🇿 #SPFBO

#israHELL ''ceasefire''

Fantasy-Faction's @fantasyfaction.bsky.social latest review for #SPFBO 10 Champions League: The Lost War by Justin Lee Anderson @justinleeanderson.com – fantasy-faction.com/2025/the-los... #SPFBO #self-published #epicfantasy #booksky #pukapuka📚🇳🇿

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... #nzpol @chrishipkins.bsky.social

Coming out of a 35yr recession 🙄 wonder how many hours Luxon stand in front of a mirror rehearsing his lies www.facebook.com/share/v/17ZE... #nzpol #OneTermGovernment

Fantasy-Faction's @fantasyfaction.bsky.social latest review for #SPFBO #SPFBOChampions is for The Grey Bastards by Jonathan French fantasy-faction.com/2025/spfbo-1... This comes in at 5th spot on our ratings board

Liveable Incomes for All - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ta...

Yesterday I learnt that the father of Yvonne De Carlo (known for her role as Lily Munster) was born in #Aotearoa/NZ. William Middleton went abroad as young man, was a travelling salesman, met & married Maria De Carlo. (anecdotal evidence suggests he may have been part Māori) #AoNZhistory #🖤munsters

What would Simeon Brown know about ethics? He has none All the healthcare unions also have minimum staffing levels they still provide during strikes so they don't risk patient safety He's such a cunt #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

From THE WATERMELON re NZ Media: "SILENCE IS A SPECIES OF VIOLENCE" "Because the audience creates the message. And it's not neutral" www.facebook.com/share/p/1SoC... #nzpol #nzmedia #biasmedia #mediaechochambers

BURNING TRUTH 🔥🌏- "We’re going backwards. And the farming community are the ones who are going to be impacted as much as anybody — probably more — because of droughts, floods and the impacts on their crops, cattle and pasture. It’s not a good scene at the moment.” 🐃💨🐂💨 #nzpol

Have you written and #self-published a Sci-fi book (or have one due to be released)? Then you may want to enter it in the Self Published Sci-fi Competition #SPSFC. Entries are open now so head to spsfc.space/2025/10/13/h... and enter your book. #booksky #sci-fiwriters

This past week, i discovered the author Andrea K Höst @autumnwriter.bsky.social (yay for Kobo plus for finding & suggesting authors whom I've never heard of 🥰). The 2 books I've read so far impressed me with the strong female MCs & eclectic WB. Will b reading more #selfpublished #booksky

Have owned the Penguin copy of Jack Kerouac's ON THE ROAD for quite a number of years, and yesterday scored its twin in this book/pencil case. Totally stoked, only a few dozen more to find 😂 #penguinbooks #JackKerouac #bookrelated

FantasygFactions @fantasyfaction.bsky.social latest review for #SPFBO Champions League: By Blood, By Salt by J. L. Odom fantasy-faction.com/2025/spfbo-1... This is coming in at 2nd place on our leader board #booksky #selfpublished #fantasy #pukapuka 📚🇳🇿

Do you enjoy reading Science Fiction and have some time on your hands? #SPSFC needs judges for the 5th Self Published Science Fiction competition

Vote YES to Māori Wards. What am I voting for and Why? www.emilywrites.co.nz/explainer-ma... #nzpol #localelections #māoriwards

Just finished Josiah Bancroft's, A Tangle of Time. I enjoyed it, but for some reason, not as much as book 1. (Still gave it 4 stars 7.75/10) www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... #booksky #fantasy #Pukapuka📚🇳🇿

Detoxing off methadone (after 26 years + being a opiate addiction for almost 20 b4 that) at age 59 is absolute hell. It's like going through menopause on steroids. Every bit of grief and toxic rage that that chemical blocked for years is coming to the fore as well as sweating out of every pore

I wish people on the centre left could understand that giving ground to the far right does not placate them. It encourages and empowers them. That's not me supporting murder, because I absolutely don't, but it's me objecting to bowing down to the violent far right who are pushing fascism.

Fantasy-Faction's @fantasyfaction.bsky.social third review for #SPFBO Champions League: Small Miracles by Olivia Atwater – Review fantasy-faction.com/2025/spfbo-1... Small Miracles currently takes 2nd place on our leaderboard. #SPFBO #selfpublished #fantasy #booksky #pukapuka📚🇳🇿

Israel has assassinated the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza, Netanyahu's government carried out the assassination after the team of journalists spent months reporting on Israeli war crimes, collecting daily evidence of ongoing atrocities.

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3607... Shane Jones says ‘bold ideas’ in demand, citing Trump’s 'success'... Yes, you read that right. A sad indictment of times we're living through. #NzPol #Trump #ShaneJones #NzFirst #Wannabe #Cartoon #Caricature

“I lose hope but I find it too” open.substack.com/pub/emilywri...

Pulled lifeless from a commercial fishing net off the Otago coast, the adult female yellow-eyed penguin had drowned in a silent, unseen death. She was the last known breeding-age female Hoiho from the Sandfly Bay colony. #NZOverFishing