Red Cross Levin is looking for FIVE sewing machines for former refugees. If you're in the lower North Island, could you please put out some feelers ? We can help with transport and checking machines, so please make any offers to us at [email protected] Thank you! Please share!

I don’t ever talk about work on here, but it’s been a genuine privilege to have worked on Te Kahu and Te Rua Archives New Zealand, & for this incredible new space to be open to the public in Pōneke. With Te Matapihi’s recent opening, it’s awesome to celebrate some cultural institutions in the city

It's a specific new global far-right target, from what I can tell mainly radiating out from US trends.

The current strategy appears to be a classic combo of we’ll show up to your events so we can get your vote, but say absolutely nothing when people are racist on our pages or Coalition partners say racist things, because we need their votes too

My friend and colleague Vinod Bal has just published their amazing research on LGBTQIA rights in NZ. The first of its kind! A significant resource for those interested in law and rights, with important recommendations. #nzpol www.adhikaaraotearoa.co.nz/lgbti-rights...

Probably not the best time to spend a billion dollars on LNG being our dry weather backup

Countdown to a half-arse apology from the government of the day in about 40 years, for the misuse of this power

Pōneke, where we need an ambulance at a library opening in case people get crushed

Trans and queer writers review thirteen essential queer books (that weren’t covered by the New York Times Book Review during Pamela Paul’s reign).

Well, looks like I’ll be in Ōtautahi on 21 May 13thfloor.co.nz/sparks-annou...

What if King Lear was not a tragedy, but the blackest comic horror

It’s a shame Maureen Pugh is retiring, she’d be a flash of inspiration, and lighten the nation’s thunderous mood

It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”

Incidentally, there will be a screening of GUT INSTINCT in Auckland later in March, and it's available for worldwide rental on AroVision. Maybe I'll do a small run of Blurays in cool packages one day if there's demand or it seems like fun. ondemand.arovideo.co.nz/film/gut-ins...

*Just in the LAST WEEK*: - Prisons are experimenting on trans prisoners to "cure" them - Kansas revoked every trans Kansan's driver's license - Scouts agreed to ban trans kids - Texas declared all health services stop helping trans kids - SCOTUS declared it legal to out trans kids to abusive parents

White House tweets out Rubio’s statement seeming to say that basically Bibi maneuvered Trump into attacking Iran.

Don’t worry, the world’s stupidest people have got this

Today, US & Israeli forces bombed the Gandhi Children’s Hospital in Iran’s capital of Tehran. Nurses supposedly risked their lives carrying newborns to safety from the rubble. I’m having trouble finding more reporting about this, but here is at least a blurb from Reuters:

not everything needs to be viewed as a meta political story on polling. humans are dying.

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

This is not liberation. This is brutality, brought to you by those responsible for the genocide on Gaza.

If NZ First can learn from Northern Hemisphere counterparts to carry on their decades-long grift for electoral success, the least our media could do is learn how not play into the grifters’ hands like their Northern Hemisphere counterparts

We gotta study the Disgrasian trajectory, like, someone needs to do a full longitudinal cohort study in the context of the global far-right shift, whose PhD is this

My contribution to the discourse: rice cookers are inferior, but we’re too busy making too many curries on our stovetops that we have to resort to rice cookers so we can save face timing-wise

This is a stupid and cruel change, not to mention that telling police, "You can tell people they have to leave an area with minimal justification and get to decide for yourself how large that area is" is not the sort of thing most democracies allow.

PULP! YES!!

RIP Frederick Wiseman (1930—2026)

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

Will NZ stand up against the illegal annexation of the West Bank?

Post a banger that isn’t in English youtu.be/yxcqbpZe5p8?...

Rights groups have raised concerns over conditions at the mine, which supplies about 15 percent of the world's coltan.

Wrong fucking Home Alone 2 actor goddammit.

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Disgrasian alert

I’m doing an AMA on Reddit (r/bookclub Kurangaituku) on Tuesday 27 Jan 10am NZ time (26 Jan 9pm GMT, 4pm EST) So if you have some questions about Kurangaituku, or what my current favourite cheese is head on over there. Here’s me mugshot with the info.

The tragic loss of lives in NZ flooding events this week are climate change deaths. Media and govt are avoiding the topic. Leaders and commentators must acknowledge the emerging reality of ordinary summer rainstorms carrying volumes of water akin to tropical cyclones of previous decades.

This phenomenon - this experience - is best articulated in @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social's Paradise Built in Hell. When you are there, and you see an entire city of goddamn heroes around you, it is nothing short of a transcendent experience.

We should stand by Iran's protesters as they fight a repressive theocracy. We should also oppose yet another catastrophic Western intervention. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

take a second to really wrap your head around this.

The thing that always gets me about this kind of stuff is like, are we seriously expecting Palestinians to remain either neutral or positive towards Israel despite it literally killing them, destroying their culture and making it unsafe to live on their own land, at risk of being forced out of...

One of the greats, RIP

Every Trait Disqualifying ICE Agent From Previous Jobs Ideal For Current One https://theonion.com/every-trait-disqualifying-ice-agent-from-previous-jobs-ideal-for-current-one/

for real

the administration wants to frame this (bizarrely) as law enforcement. but if law enforcement conducted a raid for a suspect and killed 40 people, including an unknown number of unarmed civilians, it would be treated as a clear disaster like Waco.

I want Aotearoa to at a minimum suspend 5-eyes and all other military connections to the US. Australia Canada and the Uk should do so too.

We're going to need a bigger Hague.