There's two cool sets of awards for New Zealand fantasy and science fiction going on, and you should get involved in both, and look out for the winners later in the year! The nomination shortlists are always fantastic too. 🇳🇿📚💙📚🪐

Somehow over the seasons Stranger Things evolved from a show about children but aimed at adults who were kids in the 80s, to a show about teens aimed at teens, to a show about teens written by children.

This is your sign that you need to write and make art in 2026 that is weird, gorgeous, impossible, and uniquely you. That’s my plan. Who’s with me?

I was going to choose Navigating the Stars by Witi Ihimaera, but I recently realised he wrote a whole big arse book about Māori atua/gods without one mention of Hineputehue. WTF Witi!? She's my favourite one. This is cucurbit erasure

Reskeet with the most recent pic of your pet. Deets in alttxt

Introduce yourself with what almost killed you. Hi, we're the Behaviour twins, first names: Novelty Seeking and Risk Taking, our affiliations are with ADHD and being a teenager. Although we have a cousin called Over-sharing, that's all Aaron wants us to say, here, now, about this time in his life

Woe is me! Heading south out of Auckland, stopped at that Autobahn place to get food and to check oil... coolant hose snapped off. Like, the spigot the hose goes onto, snapped clean off. Waiting for tow truck. This will be spendy but yay for insurance

Becoming prime Minister just to repeal something

Playing a great artist just to steal something

Now we have these poor zoomer kids doing bad imitations of Stephen Spielberg’s memories of fifth grade

I think the thing that irritates me about Stranger Things is that it’s a couple of millennials staging reenactments of their childhoods in the mode of Stand by Me and The Goonies, which are boomer-made movies that are totally devoid of contemporary ideas or modes of speech in favor of nostalgic ones

Nominations for 2026 Sir Julius Vogel Awards now open! sffanz.nz/blog/2025/12...

First 24hours of 2026 underway, and so far I haven’t stopped giggling. 🤭😂 #nzpol

fucking calendared

The best music video show wasn't on MTV youtu.be/JU2h9y0bqws?...

Fritz Lang's 1927 sci-fi film, Metropolis, was set in 2026.

MTV shuts down music channels that started in 1991. BBC radio, which started in 1922, is still broadcasting

Pangolin Photo by Scott Hurd www.h4urd.co.uk I wonder if blueskys amazingly accurate moderation service will flag this...

review of my book suitable for children www.read-nz.org/school-libra...

Selfie of me at Kokoawaani just before midnight. Happy new yeah

Israel becomes the first country in the world to ban the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders. Let that sink in. File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"...

Naw dog, it’s white people. Period. Collect your brethren.

And guess what showed up in the post today??

Boy's auntie looked me dead in the eye on Christmas Day and said we've all been through some shit ay but we've never got on the pipe, and god almighty I felt that to be some true recognition.

Winston

On Tūranganui/Gisborne Facebook there's a shocker of an entrepreneur offering personalised ice cream containers of uncooked rice for RnV festival goers to put their wet phones in. Only $20

I have indeed read this, and also, "AI" as an instrument to displace human work through the theft of human work has some obvious general parallels to colonialism.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

(christmas mince) Pie floater (in custard)

Had a session with Dean Ween on Mt Eden, slid down the crater on our arses. Weeks later he was talking about it in a Rip it up interview

as I often say: imagine how much the 20th-best drummer in your city makes, and then compare that to what the 200th-best marketing manager makes

"Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws."

if your product can induce suicides, I think it's not sufficient to put a label on it saying, "warning, don't use this for suicides."

"Welcome to the era of only Spotify Plays matter - let's take a look at the underbelly of streaming scams affecting independent artists." www.youtube.com/watch?v=plle...

“If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.”

They'll react with some short sighted macho bollocks about being tough on crime and do nothing about the main driver of criminality. Which, as our own Dunedin study proved, is poverty.

Spellcheck? Transcription software? We had that! Brief summaries of technical info? Wikipedia! Data analysis? A whole existing field of expertise! And NONE OF IT INVOLVED THE PLANET-BOILING LIE MACHINE Half the "uses" are just what search engines did twenty years ago! aaaaaaaaaaah

Those people who say "what did they expect hanging around people like that" seem to have a blind spot for the biggest gang in the land

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

I was thinking about what gifts people used to give to readers (besides gift editions of famous poets' work and illustrated histories of wars and such), and while I was thinking about it, somebody brought a book to the counter.... (1/10)

Turns out it's not the mall I hate, just the people in it. The museum is also an intensely uncomfortable place for me, right now. So many people. What is a museum but a mall of culture?

How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Talk about a waste of money, Nick Mowbray makes his “friends” (who he pays) watch him gargle horse semen (which he buys off the books from stud farms) only to spit it out. Doesn’t even drink it.

WHY DOES NZ HAVE MORE CHARITIES PER CAPITA, NICKY RICH? WHY, MOTHERFUCKER? #TaxTheRich #taxReform We paid for the solution already. www.taxpolicy.ird.govt.nz/publications...