When I lived in South Auckland I was amazed at the number of people who were "youth workers" or aspired to be "youth workers". But as soon as the youth organise anything for themselves, this kind of thing happens:

Our buddy Jay was kidnapped by the IOF thousands of miles away from Palestine. He's in the hospital now with a concussion and a possible broken rib. The abduction was condemned by Spain, Türkiye and Brazil, but the NZ government has been silent. #GlobalSumudFlotilla

And that, frankly, is bullshit. The PCRF is a legitimate charity that has been funding aid and relief and food and medical treatment in Palestine for 35 years The kids have set up a petition to change the school's mind, and you can sign it here: www.change.org/p/organize-a...

This is the most astonishing article on journalist ethics I've ever read. newlinesmag.com/reportage/th...

Lengthy, insightful read on Vijay Prashad’s campism at work in the Iranian context. Since I am more familiar when it comes to China, this is very helpful

Solidarity with everyone not sleeping in their own beds tonight

Wellington peeps, if you need one, this is your go home stay home warning.

Just going to the ATM, then buying a house in Pātea

Congrats to this weirdly prudish Greens committee for being less progressive than Helen Clark-era Labour.

Cool light installation

Interesting how quintessentially American the Lindy West disc horse is. The thing that tipped people over wasn't that the husband was a scumbag, but that he was a scumbag with no money.

vibrating with excitement because they have zines at the library now 🙂

One of the most embarrassing moments in the recent history of the world's coolest little capital (aside from every time we call ourselves that) was the turnout for the opening of Transmission Gully, a fucking road. Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui (re)opens this weekend. We can erase this historical stain.

Peace Action Wellington is calling a peace vigil on Monday, 2 March at 5:30pm meeting at the Cenotaph on the corner of Lambton Quay and Bowen Street. All people who oppose war are welcome.

One of the things this issue has exposed is how many NZers believe in collective punishment. Someone harrassed them on the street once and now they want other people detained for sleeping.

I'm surprised by the number of people who claim to be "intimidated" by people sleeping. Bin the ban.

I didn't even realise Mira Nair and Mahmood Mamdani knew each other.

One of the largest distributors of print books for libraries is shutting down causing major issues for libraries. 🔗 www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

Conversation in workroom about whether Elizabeth Knox works across genres, transcends genres, or demolishes genres.

I realise this sounds like a fever dream, but we just stopped at a pub in the middle of nowhere and the house band is Upper Hutt Posse featuring Jeff Henderson

"I knew that someday, years or perhaps decades down the line, when half of Gaza was still rubble and the other half Israeli skyscrapers, the magazine would offer a mea culpa. Maybe someone involved would end up considering it the biggest mistake of their career."

In other news, up at dawn for the tōhi tāngaengae for our beautiful brought back to life central library Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui. You are going to love it! In front of the amazing Darcy Nicholas rawa, with some of my fave colleagues Laurie Foon, John Apanowicz and @geordierogers.co.nz

Kpop fans will defeat fascism mekongreview.com/the-power-of...

Aotearoa - A variety of ropū are behind this #GrantTheVisas campaign, which is urgently calling on the Government to grant emergency humanitarian visas to Palestinians in Gaza who have family ties to NZ. They have heaps of resources to get on board here: grantthevisas.com

First time I've been part of an entire movie audience singing a waiata. (the Jafar Panahi film at #nziff) Don't get depressed by the bigots and the govt that panders to them.

This was one of my highlights too. You can see it for free on Beamafilm

It's weird that there's a NZIFF film still crowdfunding to complete it while NZIFF has started selling tickets. Never seen that happen before.

The streeties have been warned they'll be arrested if they stand outside Newtown Mall. Anyone know how legal this is? I've never seen anything like it

Watching Threads with 2 people from the post-Reykjavík Summit generation tonight.

Despite the horrific weather in Pōneke tonight and the hard-to-reach spot, we turned up in mass to tell the USS Blue Ridge to f*ck off out of Aotearoa and the South Pacific.

Opinion: The extraordinarily complex job of a librarian almost always requires a master’s degree. There isn’t a single male-dominated profession with comparable skills that requires the same, so why, asks librarian Mandy Henk, are librarians being repeatedly denigrated?

Hasbara 101

VISAS NOW! is #1 on the Unity Wellington Bestseller chart. Congrats @murdochstephens.bsky.social, Left of the Equator, and everyone else involved 🙌 thespinoff.co.nz/books/11-04-...

📢 Te Awe Library is trialling a new way of cataloguing its mātauranga Māori books.

Visas Now! is out from the great folks at Left of the Equator Press and is a handbook / first-hand accounts of why we urgently need to update our refugee policy

"Today’s overt politicization strips away that veneer, confirming what critical catalogers have long maintained: neutrality in classification simply doesn’t exist." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/25/g...

New video: The Indonesian government’s food estate programme aims to convert 1.6m hectares of land in Papua into rice and sugar cane plantations. Thousands of troops have been sent to support President Prabowo’s signature policy. We've investigated their role: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjVj...

I don't get why so many council managers feel the need to act on complaints from total bigots. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...

It's funny how the most quintessential British musicians; Spinal Tap, Scott Walker, and Ian Rubbish; are all Americans.

Food not bombs, hats not bombs, medical aid not bombs www.gofundme.com/f/relief-for...

Remember when Bidoun brazenly reprinted the entire thing, daring Vogue to sue them.

The release of prisoners from the infamous Palestine Branch in Damascus. "10 years!" shouts the man in a red shirt. "What's happened?" asks the man in the blue shirt. "The regime has fallen" is the response.

This thread is fucking bananas

Three years ago, a man on Texas death row asked a prison spokesman if I could be the reporter to witness his execution The man was John Ramirez. I'd never met or written him before – but that request eventually led to several stories and a 3-year film project that is finally out this week. Thread:

I used a video editor to analyse the video + estimated the size of the space using google maps Based on that, the lower bound of the number of people in the video is about 83,000 people. Plus the 4,000 already at Parliament house (according to @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social) that makes 87,000 people.