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The audiobook of Everything Will Swallow You is now available. I am so over the moon that Justin Avoth agreed to narrate this. He's the best in the business... www.audible.co.uk/pd/Everythin...

Equality isn’t radical. Exploitation is.

I want to do something positive to end what’s been a shit year. Change up the vibe etc. *lucky dip artwork* For $25 incl p&p I’ll send you a piece of art, many matted, no bigger than A4. Mixed media, mainly semi abstract landscape, signed. NZ only. DM me to order. Reposts appreciated.

This cat says every cat deserves Kat's Nip. He'll sing it from the rooftops (although prefers not to as is actually quite gravity-prone) and the depths of the sofa cushions (= ideal). Still time to order Kat's for Chistmas although, y'know, tick tock, motherfeltas. 😻 #SecretSantaAiNZ

What with all the #SecretSantaAoNZ lately, this has been my earworm for the last couple of days. "I just want to say thanks. So...thanks...Thanks for all the presents. Thanks for going all-out." "It's a sky-blue sky." youtu.be/UfOK0evCqZY?...

Doh! Forgot hashtag! #SecretSantaAoNZ Also we had to update our previous Silly Thing for opening day. Thanks again my Secret Santa, and Foxy and the elves, and everyone who joined in. Wishing everyone happiness, good health and fantastic holidays. youtu.be/WXnRUEk49Dk?...

Santa! Thank you very much for your wonderful card, voucher for treats, Kat's Nip (irresistible to the ginger guys, so far), and Margaret Atwood book! I'm delighted and you are kind. And you're right: no socks for Monkey. You're a gem, Santa. Merry Christmas to you and all.

#SecretSantaAoNZ Yes, Santa and elves, thank you for admin-ing us!

Dear my Secret Santa, I'm unaccountably detained by the inconvenience of being at work, so will look forward all day to opening your kind gifts. The intimidating crew (+ cactus) continue to stand watch. Great fun seeing everyone else's joy in the meantime! #SecretSantaAoNZ

I got visited by three ghosts last night, who were all experts in English grammar.

Thanks #SecretSantaAoNZ, my parcel arrived last night! So I made A Very Silly Thing as Small Tree unboxed it. (AKA It's beginning to look a lot like Cringemas. Please forgive.) And now we wait for Opening Day. youtu.be/hq2BICSARb4?...

You will be visited by three spirits.

It felt very festive going to the post office today but no, we haven't decorated the tree yet. Maybe Monkey will get some festive socks or something. (Would that be insensitive? He's already made of sock.) #SecretSantaAoNZ

#SecretSantaAoNZ Calling all Santas, secret or otherwise: Blackwell's DO send w/ free shipping, lickety-split! And in AoNZ, Unity send The Cat Operator's Manual with similar urgency. Delighted! Thanks @QueenOliviaiii.com and @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social and also Tom's Mum for the wonderful linocuts.

Santa, remember when I was 3 or 4 & Mum made me dictate a wishlist, & I sounded like a small, materialistic psychopath? Well, thanks for that carpentry set. Soz for so few hints recently. Wd still go a Machine Man. (See alt text for historic List of Demands.) #SecretSantaAoNZ #NotapsychopathIpromise

Yes. All. Esp birds (assorted), frogs, reptiles, lesser-known mammals, elephants. BEES!. Dogs, obvs. Favourite mythical creatures: my cats who don't need a bikkie top-up (this version of them doesn't exist). Or any Muppet esp Sam or Rolf, if they count. (Oh & The Count too, I guess.) SecretSantaAoNZ

He does! It's on my list of faves along with usual suspects (Bowie, Young, Nina Simone, Beatles, Radiohead, PJ Harvey, Cave et al) + Dunedin Sound, Low, Feist, Mark Lanegan, From Scratch, lately Khruangbin...too many to mention. Soz to be a tragic but love this: mikekay.bandcamp.com/album/waimarie

Not saying I was avoidant of organised activities (before Secret Santa), but this was my approach to piano practise as a kid.

There are worse things, on a grey Dunedin day, than buying NZ music for a library while listening to Shayne P Carter / Dimmer. Far farrrr worse things. dimmer-new-zealand.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...

#SecretSantaAoNZ Jewellery: I only wear a silver ring and a glass pendant, and have no piercings. Clothes: women's small (eg UK 5.5 feet). I wear (opshop) t-shirts and like wool (incl on my small noggin). Back to books: love non-fiction (history, science, language) as well as funny/quirky.

#SecretSantaAoNZ Dear Santa: no stress, anything will be great. I like snacks (must avoid the Tyranny of Gluten, but like everything else), love 2nd hand or vintage, funny books (Douglas Adams, Tom Robbins sorta styles), things with birds or trees on them, or donate to a charity - all good.

Colours? Working towards wearing less Ōtepoti black (but hate clothes shopping. Opshopping, can do). House is getting more orange/yellow/red these days. My brain...I struggle with the concept of 'favourites'. But ok blue.

I play music, garden (ok, I weed the garden to make space for new weeds, & just vacuumed whitefly off a houseplant). I cycle, potter, collect dust, stones, and (shamefully, but getting there) unread library books. I dabble in printing & love local, handmade art, esp nature-based. #SecretSantaAoNZ

Am unfashionably (as ever) late to the #SecretSantaAoNZ party: please brace for incoming me-spam. I work in a library so yes, I have cats and like tea (and coffee...and am not afraid to have 3 beverages on the go, 2 of which will get cold and be consumed hours later).

Happy birthday, Mr. Vonnegut

What I want is a TV documentary channel entirely devoted to documentaries with no quick-cut montages of everything about to happen, which don't give a fuck about keeping my attention, presented by extremely knowledgeable people in a terrible mood who have no interest in trying to make me like them.

#Onthisday in 1918, just days before end of #WW1, French poet Apollinaire (weakened by a shrapnel wound) died in the Spanish flu epidemic. Later that year Calligrammes: Poems of Peace & War was published, a collection of his concrete/visual poems publicdomainreview.org/collection/a... #OTD

Post you from a different era. Here I'm four and about to enter my miserable phase of actively avoiding having my photo taken. Forty something years later, I still dress like this but need to get back into stripes.

🗞️ October Newsletter Includes: 💻 OA Week webinars (recordings now available) 📰 Recent regional updates 🆕 What’s new in OA & scholarly publishing globally 🗓️ Upcoming events and conferences 🎙️ What we're reading, watching and listening too ... and all things #OpenAccess mailchi.mp/19cdcfa9bca1...

A bit about each month: Feb Tawharekiri Lakes, Haast Highway, South Westland. This ancient sand dune landscape is pure West Coast rainforest lagoon. The area receives 4300mm / 169in of rain a year. Stunning but a nightmare to find a composition in. I made friends with a Kea bird (I speak bird)

I have two - TWO - of these gorgeous original A4 meadow hare linoprints by my mum, Jo, to give away to a couple of lucky people here on Bluesky today. Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...

Speak up, mate www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...

My wife said what’s the date today and I said, Remember, remember….it’s the 8th of July, because I wrote this joke a few months ago.

Nephew's (10) 1 min minimalist epic on the futility of war (well, that's what I see in it, anyway)...Not much audio but sound up is funny: youtu.be/makN7HjpN3U?...

Darkly hilarious. youtu.be/hgVbo7d9_Hc?...

My nephew (10) has started making stop-animation and other vids and I'm a proud aunty. Kids these days (rule). youtube.com/shorts/Zn2Vg...

A human face can be hideous, but nothing is as scary as facelessness. It’s the same with pumpkins. That’s why I’m displaying a totally intact pumpkin in my window to terrify the kids. No, you’re lazy.

🧵Spotted at a Country Fair in Aotearoa New Zealand: A small human (4?) in bare feet, green shorts and an orange T-shirt with a fish on it is standing next to the "I'm Lost" stand. A grownup asks if he's lost and he says with absolute earnestness: "No, but my mum is." (1)

Not a pretty shot but: light, sans tunnel and oncoming train.

Correct, spidey. O is for Ocean and for Ōtepoti and for Oh wow, long weekends are the business.

Things are not always what they appear

Also when you're alive inside, or both, or neither.

Blimmin' sun's gone and had babies on the lawn again.

Man I love weekends.

I get stuff done. I am just not a slave to ridiculous constructs like "time" and "the calendar." I'm getting stuff done outside of the box, yo.