Alice Te Punga Somerville
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Scholar Poet Irredentist Māmā | Māori on Musqueam whenua
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folukeifejola
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I think it is important to not say "Britain colonised Nigeria(or similar entity)", but rather "Nigeria is a creation of the British Empire." This feels like a small difference but I think it fundamentally changes how we respond to the challenges of history and the present.
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Sassy Little Hobbit
5 days ago
Luxon is still not back at work?! What the actual fuck. Bro gets paid half a million dollars of taxpayer money EVERY YEAR.
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Tony from Welly
5 days ago
About time Aotearoa New Zealand boycotted the 2026 Olympic games The President is purposely being violent and killing his own people.
#boycottolympics
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Michael Tisserand
7 days ago
In Minneapolis
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André Brett
10 days ago
Ahh yes, when I am organising an arts event, I think to myself "you know who the board really needs? an airport manager!"
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
11 days ago
“I was a poor Chicano boy from El Paso,” Acosta said. “I made my name in toxicology at the University of Texas.”
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He offered UT a $100,000 endowment for Hispanic scholars. Texas Exes denied it
After years trying to create a scholarship at UT's College of Pharmacy for Hispanic scholars, Texas Exes denied it because of its diversity focus, a donor said.
https://www.statesman.com/news/education/article/ut-hispanic-scholarship-texas-exes-denial-21235632.php
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Sassy Little Hobbit
11 days ago
This ICE shit is gonna be here one way or other if we don’t nip this shitshow in the butt this year.
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folukeifejola
11 days ago
Here, I reflect on my experiences of trying to get African food catered for university events that I have organised. I also explain why providing edible Jollof (or other international food) in UK HE is a vital decolonising matter in an educational setting.
folukeafrica.com/decolonising...
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Decolonising Catering in UK Universities: An often elusive quest for good Jollof and Dodo
Why we are not alone when we find the taste of home
https://folukeafrica.com/decolonising-catering-in-uk-universities-an-often-elusive-quest-for-good-jollof-and-dodo/
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Hayley
11 days ago
Thinking about what it means that our elected representatives in Aotearoa are so close with those in the US who are complicit in the murder of their own citizens and what that means if our current elected representatives are elected for another term.
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Jo Dyer
12 days ago
As a former Director of Adelaide Writers' Week I am appalled that the Adelaide Festival Board has rescinded Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's invitation to the 2026 AWW, explicitly linking its decision to the shattering crimes in Bondi. A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.
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Emma Shortis
12 days ago
Following the decision from the Board of the Adelaide Festival, The Australia Institute is withdrawing its support from this year’s literary festival. Here is our statement, and a personal one from me.
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Amy Remeikis
12 days ago
I stand with Randa and everyone standing against hate, genocide, oppression and terror. In all its forms.
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Owen Jones
15 days ago
BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
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How You Like Me Now?...
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James Vincent
23 days ago
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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Nick Young
about 1 month ago
Result! NZ’s Supreme Court says Luxon govt must consider climate change if offering oil and gas tenders… which in the
#ClimateCrisis
logically means no permits should be awarded. Wind and solar is clearly a better bet for energy security anyway. Embarrassing for Shane Jones.
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Supreme Court finds government must consider climate change when offering oil and gas tenders
The country's highest court says climate change is "a pressing concern" when it comes to oil exploration - but Shane Jones says it must not triumph over energy security.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/582302/supreme-court-finds-government-must-consider-climate-change-when-offering-oil-and-gas-tenders
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Violet Blue®
about 1 month ago
Postcards from Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
about 1 month ago
All I can say this morning is look for the helpers, like Ahmed. “Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed.”
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Pru Madeley
about 2 months ago
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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Robert 'bele' Sienicki
about 2 months ago
Amazon, please stop asking me if books I bought month ago met my expectations. I still have unread books I bought in 2012. Be real.
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IIML
about 2 months ago
Heads up NZ poets with no more than one collection published: entries for the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets close this Friday! $6000 first prize, details here.
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2025 Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets ($9000) - Overland literary journal
About the prize Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets seeks poetry by writers who have published no ...
https://overland.org.au/prizes/overland-judith-wright-poetry-prize-for-new-and-emerging-poets/
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A Study of Resistance
about 2 months ago
The Lonely Plane - a new poem by Peter Sipeli
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The Lonely Plane
This poem is for a collection titled 'Poetry & Prose at the Museum' a project that bought 8 poets and 2 writers to interact with objects in the Museum.
https://open.substack.com/pub/peterdanielsipeli/p/the-lonely-plane?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Al Jazeera English
about 2 months ago
The singer recorded more than 30 albums and won two Grammys during his six-decade career.
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae music pioneer, dies at 81
The singer recorded more than 30 albums and won two Grammys during his six-decade career.
https://bit.ly/43OOnTl
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Tania Roxborogh
about 2 months ago
I am delighted to have a couple of poems in this beautiful anthology. I got to hear many of these spoken aloud by the authors. And, to have something that also has Witi Ihimaera in it as well.
books.apple.com/nz/book/ahi-...
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AHI DAWN of WORDS
Fiction & Literature · 2025
https://books.apple.com/nz/book/ahi-dawn-of-words/id6755507485
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Nick Young
about 2 months ago
Amazing! More than 1000 schools have now said they will continue giving effect to Te Tiriti, despite the government removing Treaty obligations from the Education and Training Act.
#ToitūTeTiriti
#nzpol
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'Expression of kotahitanga': More than 1000 schools reaffirm commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi
It comes after the government removed Treaty obligations from the Education and Training Act.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/579646/expression-of-kotahitanga-more-than-1000-schools-reaffirm-commitment-to-te-tiriti-o-waitangi
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Daniel Vernon
2 months ago
“Trust us! Marginalising these communities more will absolutely bring down the cost of a KG of Mince and get your job back!”
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈
2 months ago
My amazement continues: Waterstones has chosen Vanished as one of best books of the year. Especially pleased that history of science is being featured on these lists, and even more so as imperial history is even rarer on these lists. Hurrah!
www.waterstones.com/blog/the-bes...
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The Best Popular Science Books of 2025 | Waterstones.com Blog | Waterstones
From Bill Bryson to Steven Pinker, here are the popular science and smart thinking books we've loved this year.
https://www.waterstones.com/blog/the-best-popular-science-books-of-2025
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2 months ago
Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks: “Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
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Sam Whyte
2 months ago
BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation" As opposed to doing what with their children??
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Brent Toderian
2 months ago
Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via
@usa.streetsblog.org
@nyc.streetsblog.org
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Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/05/29/protect-yourself-separated-bike-lanes-means-safer-streets-study-says
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈
2 months ago
Truly and utterly stunned. The Telegraph has chosen Vanished as one of the ‘greatest books of 2025’ and described it as a ‘rigorous, fascinating narrative.’ Verily, this is the most unexpected place for my roar to have reached.
www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...
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UBC Oceans
2 months ago
COP30: Governments must empower forest communities to keep fossil fuels underground
theconversation.com/cop30-govern...
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COP30: Governments must empower forest communities to keep fossil fuels underground
Will Brazil’s proposed scheme make a major difference for the climate, and how will it impact communities who live in forests?
https://theconversation.com/cop30-governments-must-empower-forest-communities-to-keep-fossil-fuels-underground-269686?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=bylineblueskybutton
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Book Haven
2 months ago
Today is the J.D. Stout Annual Lecture and Toby Boraman is talking: ‘Knocking off: Strikes in Aotearoa New Zealand 1968–1986‘ It’s at 4pm, 14 November, at GBLT1 (Old Government Buildings) Pipitea Campus, Lambton Quay.
#StoutLecture
#nzUnions
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Russel Norman
2 months ago
Nearly half of NZ top 50 companies increased their climate pollution. Biggest increase from the biggest polluter - Fonterra
businessdesk.co.nz/article/poli...
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Carbon Catch-Up: Climate change, greenhouse gas emissions of NZ's largest companies under microscope
New Zealand’s largest listed companies are facing changing requirements to reveal their carbon footprints – and BusinessDesk’s latest Carbon C...
https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/policy/carbon-catch-up-climate-change-greenhouse-gas-emissions-of-nzs-largest-companies-under-microscope
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Michael Bain
2 months ago
98% of us said an unequivocal no to the RSB, yet it has passed its 3rd reading today. This government do not serve Kiwis. They serve the lobbyists & overseas big businesses. F*** the lot of them!
#nzpol
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Paula Green
2 months ago
This poem!
nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/10/p...
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Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: Statues by David Eggleton
Statues The disappeared, the totalled, those who ain’t there;whether hollow, solid, reinforced, boltedor cemented to a pedestal,nothing is as invisible as a monument,until you turn the spotli…
https://nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/10/poetry-shelf-monday-poem-statues-by-david-eggleton/
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Te Herenga Waka University Press
2 months ago
Happy publication day to Tusiata Avia! Giving Birth to My Father is an extraordinary new collection from one of our country’s most important voices. Cover art: Pati Solomona Tyrell
teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/giv...
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Chris Sommerfeldt
3 months ago
Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night. He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.
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Ben Ross
3 months ago
So a decent human being who believes in decent human society one NYC Mayority over big money fascism who dont ever give a fuck about you YOU HEAR THAT NZ LABOUR?
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David Cormack
3 months ago
what. the. hell. maybe help reduce the number of people who don't have a goddamn roof over their heads instead of hiding them away.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
3 months ago
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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine
3 months ago
Yes! And (square old lady alert) Dave Dobbyn's "Maybe the Rain" "they're tattooing chromosomes From Bikini to the Marshall Islands Make your front yard a urinal during R&R"
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Empress of the Internet
3 months ago
🎶three eyes for my son A extra foot for my daughter
youtu.be/4dBTLZqO2T0?...
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DLT and Che Fu - Chains
YouTube video by KneesTease
https://youtu.be/4dBTLZqO2T0?si=Pl9fyfZr7gOn7WBN
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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine
3 months ago
"Let me be more specific Get out of the Pacific Quittez la Pacifique"
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Aiyana Ishmael
3 months ago
I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
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Tania Roxborogh
3 months ago
NZ English teachers: The rights to The Essential Shakespeare: Macbeth have reverted to me. I have updated with mātauranga Māori teaching & learning resources. Send me a message if you would like to know more. I attach a screenshot of some of the extra material as well as the contents page.
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Shaun Hendy
3 months ago
Ka rawe koe
@taramcallister.bsky.social
, this is epic
www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/f...
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Tara McAllister
2025: Dr Tara McAllister of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa will investigate how mātauranga Māori can contribute to research, science, and innovation in Aotearoa New Zealand
https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/funds-and-opportunities/tawhia-te-mana/mana-tuapapa/mtp-recipients/tara-mcallister
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Te Ao Māori News - 🤖 (unofficial)
3 months ago
Waitangi Tribunal says NZ citizenship law breaches Te Tiriti, ignoring Māori tangata whenua. Urges co-designed reform; government resists review; whānau face harm from descent limits.
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Waitangi Tribunal finds citizenship law breaches Treaty principles, calls for reform
Waitangi Tribunal says NZ citizenship law breaches Te Tiriti, ignoring Māori tangata whenua. Urges co-designed reform; government resists review; whānau face harm from descent limits.
https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/10/31/waitangi-tribunal-finds-citizenship-law-breaches-treaty-principles-calls-for-reform/
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Bookshop.org
3 months ago
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.
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