Help Aotearoa for Gaza Mutual Aid raise money to buy tents for displaced Palestinians in Gaza. I'm supporting Duaa Madhoun and her family via Michelle Langstone's fundraiser chuffed.org/project/1503...

Better Wellington/independent Together not even managing to switch to the right Facebook account to claim they’re not the same organisation is some kind of performance art, right?

Went to my kid's school this morning to watch the junior production and wept copiously with the cuteness of it all - only weeping person - like a complete sooky mess. KIDS, THOUGH 😭

Breaking. "To count as genocide [under the 1948 UN genocide convention], at least one of five acts must have occurred. The UN commission found that Israel had committed four of them." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

BREAKING: UN inquiry finds Israel’s war on Gaza to be genocide aje.io/2h84g2

Just going to leave this here

People attack Rebecca because she actually gets shit done, she’s across all the issues and a formidable Councillor. Everyone should be telling their friends that live in the Western Ward that their only good option is #1 Rebecca Matthews

The times we are living in eh? Determined to do what I can to make things, including the divisiveness of politics, better not worse. Actually better, not “Better Wellington”.

I don't know about these newfangled watermelons that they're calling melonballs. Silly name if you ask me

Predator Free Wellington sent local body candidates a small survey asking their views on the role of biodiversity + whether they'd support ongoing funding of $540k. Like Living Wage, it's another good barometer of who to vote for. www.pfw.org.nz/our-project/...

Wow, piss country. I need to write another kids' book to force some hope back into me, coz this world -

Winston Peters should be ashamed of himself for putting Benjamin and their whanau at risk.

I'm in Fiji and my kid is loving it but perhaps his biggest excitement was just now when they played Golden from KPop Demon Hunters at the pool 🙄

Hello! My sixth book, and the second in the Violet and the Velvets series, illustrated by the talented Phoebe Morris, is out today in New Zealand and Australia in all good bookshops! It’s got punk rock, kids and ghosts. Who needs more? @allenandunwinnz.bsky.social #pukapuka #kidlit #middlegrade

Big moment in my house this morning: exactly one week before his 8th bday, my kid finally successfully tied his shoelaces

The Storylines tour I just did was one of the best things of my life. I visited 12 Te Tai Tokerau schools in one week, with rolls from 16 to 700+, along sealed roads and bumpy rural ones. Storylines is fundraising to take more authors & illustrators on the road: www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/proj...

I'm on tour this week in Te Tai Tokerau visiting schools as a writer with Storylines - it is SO great and heartwarming and special. Here are some of the best questions I've had from ākonga: - How many days did it take to write your novel? - Are your ears pierced? - I keep dreaming that I'm falling.

It’s not even really a conspiracy by this point; it just seems that we have ACT candidates under the National branding (which tracks; we seem to have National candidates under the Labour brand as well)

Ahhh my book won the Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children & Young Adults on Wednesday night! This is a huge honour, I’m so stoked! (Told my cats, they were slightly less stoked and more indifferent)

Some great audience questions from children yesterday: - What are you scared of? - Is that your real hair colour? - Can you sign this book? [not my book]

The book awards were very lovely last night, warm and supportive, celebratory and uplifting – but OH BOY i hated HATED the arts minister's so-called speech. What an embarrassment. Pathetic and ironic to say the least. I groaned and did not clap. Was all I could do.

I did events today for Books Alive! for the children's book awards, and a child came up and said they've read their school library's copy of my book THREE times 🥹 #NZCYA

By popular demand, we present the junior fiction finalists for the #NZCYA awards interviewing each other on their books & writing lives www.thesapling.co.nz/nzcya-2025-j... #BooksAlive @macdibble.bsky.social @exocomics.com @cravenjaney.bsky.social @rachaelking70.bsky.social @clairemabey.bsky.social

Chlöe Swarbrick just got kicked out of the house for a WEEK for asking the government to grow a spine and sanction Israel. Debbie Ngarewa-Packer now following on.

Important statement of concerns about the embrace of genAI by universities (mine? definitely! yours?) by Comms and Media scholars in Aotearoa NZ auckland.scoop.co.nz/2025/08/stat...

I was persuaded by online marketing to order a dress off the internet and it's what I'm wearing to the kids' book awards tomorrow and now I'm thinking hahaha what if everyone was persuaded by the same marketing!? Won't that be funny oh yes

Eboni Waitere (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rangitāne) has been appointed president of Te Rau o Tākupu - Publishers Association of NZ (PANZ).

Just remembered after my schools talk in Ōtautahi today, a kid came rushing up to me with a question, absolutely bursting to ask it: 'Does your cat beat up your dogs?'

The bus driver just praised my signaling! 😇😇😇😇😇😇😇

I'm doing 16 events about my kids' book this month - that is my kids' novel about a very very shy introverted girl, based on the personality of myself as a child - and holy bajingoes! SIXTEEN. Telling myself I'm giving visibility to shy introverted future writers, which is ... ironic.

I'm happy for everyone for whom the return to earnestness in art is a good and true thing, but pour one out for the silly buggers like me. The sarcastic silly sods. Please don't say our time is up 😭

Hate it. HATE IT.

Next week, I'll be joining some cool kids' book people in Ōtautahi for the Books Alive/Word Chch sessions for the 2025 NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults! #nzcya Schools can book here: www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-...

Just a thought but have we considered a wealth tax just putting it out there

Since June 2023 we have: - Cut the Minimum Wage twice in real terms - Removed the living wage from government contracts - Brought back 90 day trials - Ended Fair Pay Agreements - Cancelled 33 live Pay Equity Claims - Given $10bn tax cuts for landlords and businesses

PANZ is trying to continue the Wihitreia Publishing programme in 2026 and is looking for a space in Wgtn in which to deliver it. They need a space large enough for 20pax seated at tables, Mon - Fri 8.30am - 5pm. If you know of such a space, email [email protected] and we'll pass it on.

this coalition government has such whack priorities, jeez

Abuse and defamation of women and minorities online is out of control. We can change it and I’m committed to keeping the pressure on. Follow researchers @sanjanah.bsky.social and @legallyfeminist.bsky.social for their expertise if you’re interested. #nzpol

I'm happy for Word Chch that it's having the Charlotte Wood/Emily Perkins writing workshop but I also want it to happen in Wellington so I can go to it. Here I am ✨ manifesting ✨ pewpew sending manifests out pewpewpew

Gender Minorities Aotearoa have documented and archived the resources Sport NZ have now removed - which in fact looks to be the whole rainbow section of the website, because it mentioned "transgender", including a rainbow inclusion e-learning module. genderminorities.com/resources/sp...

Trans people belong in whatever goddamn bathroom they like, they deserve to do whatever goddamn sport gives them joy, they need healthcare and support and basic fucking dignity, they are being made a target to create division in our communities, and we're not fucking letting it happen, Aotearoa.

I volunteered myself to go to the local school and give an author talk - to practice talking - because I am a big girl, and it's happening today - two talks! - and I am FREAKING out like an absolute ninny. What if it all falls flat. What if I cry. OMG WHAT IF I CRY. What if I poop myself? halp

this again 🙄

What a shitshow School curriculum rewrite had serious problems, managers considered using AI to help www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

If I say 'I am a person' would that make ME sentient now? Feel like I need the help

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Complete and utter mystery: I treated my family to a hearty rendition of the chorus of 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' and there was no response whatsoever, as if I was invisible and silent. Am now questioning if I have form and substance

I've been thinking all day of the young woman crying to her very unbothered boyfriend outside the uni gym this morning. 'Do you even love me anymore?' she said. Hope she's doing better.

Ray Chung sux

Sue the living shit out of him @misswhanau.bsky.social